Yeah, this... doesn't really make sense, unless the goal is to get Steam to adopt a policy of delisting the specific offending games in the UK.
I am not a lawyer, but... this seems spurrious?
I don't know, I can't find a single example of a platform or 'retransmitter' being successfully ruled against, in cases where the content itself already had worked out a rights/royalties agreement with the rights holders... unless it can basically be proven that the platform operators / retailers knew that the content itself was not properly liscensed, and sold it anyway.
So basically they would have to prove that Rockstar and EA never had the proper liscensing, and also that Valve knew that.
I am going to go out on a limb and say that Rockstar and EA probably did/do have the proper liscensing.
That being said, the UK leaving the EU... makes all of this exceptionally confusing to my layman self, as to the exact current standards and precedents that are currently in play and relevant.
God, don't get me started on orbital data centers.
Either you cause kessler syndrome by launching a million microsats, or, you just I guess invent scifi level orbital engineering, and come up with a scifi solution for thermal regulation.
Also like, server data centers require, you know, on site maintenance.
No rocket development program since the 1970s has blown up or lost as many rockets as Starship/HeavyBooster's development cycle has, proportional to how many rockets they built, flights they attempted.
And the entire fundamental design concept to be reliant on mass orbital fuel transfer, which has never been done, and will require a hell of a lot more development than drawings on napkins and CG renders... that's Elon's idea.
How many rockets has BlueOrigin lost?
Elon spent decades telling people he is an engineer.
When he roleplays as one, billions of dollars go up in smoke.
US Police will break your window... but they typically won't drag you through the now broken window, they'll open the door, unbuckle you or cut the straps.
You're just explaining why we are cucks to pedophiles, doesn't change that every permaonline political slacktivist in the US is still a cuck to the pedophile class.
Either do something actually useful, or remain a cuck as the horrors only get worse.
... They're not wrong, you are misunderstanding what they are saying.
Conservative MAGAs hate liberals, they actively want them to die.
Leftists also hate liberals, and either also actively want them to die, or don't care if they die.
Thus... if a bunch of liberals get drafted and die in a war... the conservatives will be thinking "good, force them to do our bidding", and the leftists will be thinking "if these clowns aren't going to revolt against their 'sacred institutions' at this point, they never will, fuck em."
They are agreeing with the comment they're replying to, that the internal political management strat that Putin uses in Russia would also work in the US.
Also, for anyone confused: A US liberal is a centrist.
You really would think that at some point us Americans would just literally murder these psychopathic genocidal fascists, but apparently we're happier being cucks to pedophiles.
In fairness, the Falcon 9 / Dragon capsule systems are solid and reliable, with good track records.
So its not literally all SpaceX stuff.
But... yeah, the Starship/HeavyBooster is what happens when Elon is in charge, utter shit show.
And also, the Falcon 9 family never actually got close to the cost reductions Elon initially said would be delivered by the re-usability paradigm.
It would have to be roughly an order of magnitude less expensive, for a ton to orbit, than what it currently is, to match what he said it would achieve.
as 18107 says, yeah, at various Musk companies, their have been people whose main job was primarily to distract him from getting involved very directly, but this has apparently stopped being a thing.
Just go find the conversation he had with some of the high ups on the Twitter team, when he took it over.
He just knows buzzwords, beyond that, probably most of the people in this thread are more intelligent than he is, on literally any subject... he has no idea how anything works beyond a very big picture / conceptual level.
Musk said the production version will be revealed later this year ahead of the start of production in 2025 and that it will have the previously announced SpaceX package, which will use cold gas thrusters to help the car accelerate and also “fly”— or hover for short distances.
“I think it has a shot at being the most mind-blowing product demo of all time,” Musk said.
Its almost like this guy just fucking says shit, snd idiots believe him, for some reason, even though he's got a well established track record of lying about things that make basically no sense to lie about....
"I'm a world class Diablo player."
... as well as an entire solid decade of making grandiose business / product promises, and then delivering basically 1% of what he promised.
AutoPilot/Full Self Drive is totally real guys, it'll be perfect in a year or two... for a fucking decade.
Dude's blown up or otherwise destroyed about half as many heavy lift launch vehicles as the entire Apollo program, and so far hasn't even achieved orbit, much less with a payload, muchless tested the orbital refueling that his entire Starship system totally fails without.
Remember how we were gonna have rockets replace private jets?
Remember how the Boring company was gonna pay for itself by selling the dirt it dug up as bricks?
So, in order for the unexpected number to be caused by a Black Swan event, the event has to be unaccounted for in modelling. If the number has a 0.1% chance of happening but is caused by variables that were accounted for, it doesn't count. Is this correct?
You've basically got it, yeah.
Its... admittedly complex to grasp, or explain in detail without me getting a cup of coffee and then giving a whole ass intermediate/advanced level statistics crash course.
The core idea is that... you are not as smart as you think you are, not matter how much your hedge fund or whatever pays you, no matter your pedigree, or what not.
Things can happen that you literally are not capable of conceiving as possible, untill they happen.
Thats a real Black Swan.
But, thats not the same things as things you can concieve of, but think are unlikely, think can be easily hedged against, or aren't worth hedging against.
Thats just your own hubris.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy back-tested, multi-variable stochastic model.
And now with BlackRock utterly collapsing, we're all about to find out our pensions and 401ks were ... essentially mostly theoretical.
Yeah, this... doesn't really make sense, unless the goal is to get Steam to adopt a policy of delisting the specific offending games in the UK.
I am not a lawyer, but... this seems spurrious?
I don't know, I can't find a single example of a platform or 'retransmitter' being successfully ruled against, in cases where the content itself already had worked out a rights/royalties agreement with the rights holders... unless it can basically be proven that the platform operators / retailers knew that the content itself was not properly liscensed, and sold it anyway.
So basically they would have to prove that Rockstar and EA never had the proper liscensing, and also that Valve knew that.
I am going to go out on a limb and say that Rockstar and EA probably did/do have the proper liscensing.
That being said, the UK leaving the EU... makes all of this exceptionally confusing to my layman self, as to the exact current standards and precedents that are currently in play and relevant.