Yao Ming (an NBA basketball player) has, nearly single-handedly, saved the lives of tens of millions of sharks by simply asking citizens of China to stop eating shark fin soup. Since he started doing this, the price of shark fins has tanked, and 90+ percent of people surveyed in China support a ban on selling shark fins.
wordman
joined 2 years ago
All of that may be true, but it bears little resemblance to the case the US actually filed against Apple. If you haven’t read the charges, you really should. They are filled with reaches that have long been rejected in similar cases, and a desire for government to broadly micromanage. One type of charge, for example, could easily be brought against any company that makes a videogame for just a single platform.
I sold a bunch of 70’s and 80’s tabletop roleplaying stuff when I went to college. A few years ago, I reacquired many of those titles at collector’s prices. Not my most brilliant financial move.
An actual AI working for Forbes would have managed to get in a dig at Apple in the headline.
I’ll take “new life form designed to eat plastic evolves to produce waste products worse for the ocean than plastic” for 200.
For decoration a basement, these would do:
- Action/Adventure: Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Comedy: Airplane!
- Drama: The Seven Samurai
- 3D Animation: The Incredibles
- 2D Animation: The Iron Giant
- Science Fiction: Blade Runner
- Mystery/Thriller: The Third Man
- Fantasy: The Princess Bride
While most of the states with zero are searching for both equally, I get the feeling that Wyoming is zero because no one searches for either.
Geezer Butler is the most important member of Black Sabbath.