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The house organ of Qatar’s famously left-wing absolute monarchy

It’s good that the Tories were too incompetent to sell the safeguarded land to their donors/old school chums at a pittance before the clock ran out. And as such, reinstating the line is a no-brainer. Not building it will result in most of the money still being spent, with only a marginally useful shuttle service between London and Birmingham to show for it.

Sexcreep pays tribute to racist

Same reason the press report what Elon Musk thinks about the state of society. If you’re rich, you must be smart, therefore your every brainfart is golden

King who believes in homeopathy also believes in other woo

It is not clear that the Voynich Manuscript is a hoax/fantasy book. The plant illustrations, whilst ambiguous, do look like plausible real plants (though some have features of multiple species), and while nobody has decoded the text, the letter and word frequencies are consistent with it being natural language rather than gibberish.

Perhaps you’re thinking of the Codex Seraphinianus?

Nairobi and Kampala are seen as the same conurbation? That’s like talking about LA and Las Vegas as one metro area.

Not if the discs are mass manufactured. To manufacture them, they produce a master image containing the content, make a glass master from that, and use that to press large numbers of identical copies. To have individually watermarked streams would require making a unique master for each copy.

The best they could theoretically do is to have a write-once area on each disc that has a serial number inscribed onto it in the factory, and have the Blu-Ray spec require that all players read this and then add a watermark to the video they just decrypted from the mass-manufactured disc before passing it on to be displayed, though that would be more fragile, and soon enough noncompliant players would appear, and it would be common knowledge that this exists.

As for why they don’t write the whole disc the way they could write a serial number, that’s much like why they don’t make the whole airplane out of black-box flight recorder material: it would take a lot more time (both in writing and in creating a unique image for each copy) and be a lot more expensive. I understand that they do this for screeners sent out to Academy Awards jury members (which would be just on artisanally burned BD-R discs), though it wouldn’t scale to the mass market.

Of course, engaging with the emulation community is out of the question, as Sony regard the community as criminal pirates, and acknowledging it would be legitimising its existence and that of unapproved, non-DRM-enforcing emulators.

He’s getting around to it; be patient

Given that Serbia is allied with Russia, that might not be the best choice.

Orff’s Carmina Burana