You want there to be no internal friction? You want no-one who can later recall what’s been broken and where the parts have been scattered?

He lucked out that a bit of creative accounting “saved” the city a couple of billion this year, but that’s a one-time deal. Next year he’ll actually have to put the work in.

The red card was not rescinded, however the accompanying 1-match ban was suspended for 12 months. Wholly unprecedented in the history of the World Cup.

The big clubs don’t benefit at all. Their prized players are taken away from their training regime, and teams are not paid for the use of the players or compensated should they become injured.

Lets put it this way, in the history of the world cup, only one other red card has not resulted in the suspension of the player, and that was in the 1960s before suspensions were handed out for red cards.

So it’s incredible. As in there is no credible justification for the decision.

You’re doing the “torture” here. A constitution is a set of rules or precedents which establish the legal basis for a state. It can be a set of rules in a document like the French constitution, or it can be the sum total of legal precedent and convention like the British constitution. Historically, most constitutions have been the latter.

No, DADC is not a part of the home entertainment business. And TCL wouldn’t have a use for it anyway. It’s a precision optical engineering business, and micro lenses use a similar manufacturing process to optical discs so transition is fairly straightforward and has been underway for a few years already.

Sony is handing over its home entertainment hardware business over to TCL, meaning PlayStation would be their only product with an optical drive.

The market for optical disk manufacturing has contracted greatly, and DADC is down to one plant from around a dozen in 2010.

Disc authoring and duplication requires the game to go gold earlier, and this time allows for leaks and bad word of mouth.

There’s simply more money to be made with SAAS.

Yes, slavery was very widespread in pre-columbian america, though not as industrialised as the Atlantic trade. There were many systems, some as a prize of war, some as chattel, and some as taxation.

Later on, native tribes became participants in the Atlantic slave trade.

Pre-planned. Sony doesn’t make this sort of decision on a whim. They announced a staged exit of optical media in 2024, and closed their BR recorder lines in February.

Next year, Sony will exit home entertainment, handing its TV and media player business to TCL. This would have left Sony Interactive as the last subsidiary still pursuing optical hardware.

Sony DADC in Germany is the last Sony manufacturer, and it’s being transitioned towards lens manufacturing.

This person tries to get on flights with their clothes stuffed into buckets.

Egg on face time. Ecclesiastical courts are very much a thing, particularly in Catholic, Anglican, Mormon and Orthodox denominations.

No. Copyright doesn’t need to be registered to be valid. In the US specifically, registration only allows the copyright holder to pursue the case through the federal courts, which can award punitive damages as well as costs.

BR is 25/50G, 4K BR is 66/100G

Few houses have compatible windows.

We have windows that open out.

AC hasn’t been a thing here.

We have them, they just don’t carry lethal diseases so people aren’t vigilant. You probably don’t notice them.

We have mosquitoes, but have eradicated malaria so it’s not a standard thing to have nets.