As were a great many in the party at the time.

Dealing leniently with their predecessor just gave him time to write his manifesto.

The red card was not rescinded, however the accompanying 1-match ban was suspended for 12 months.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.

No, she’ll be under house arrest for the next 7 months.

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.

They already did! They brought the trophy to a launch event at the White House last year and he decided to keep it. The one they’re using at the tournament is a replica.

Convene the Hound Un-American Activities Commission. Name those bad dogs.

Amongst some west coast tribes, a quarter of the population were slaves. Pre-colombian slavery was widespread, and could be war prizes, traded goods or a form of taxation.

Later, many tribes engaged in the Atlantic slave trade.

Sony DADC’s last plant is already transitioning to make micro lenses.

That’s why NASA had Wehrner von Braun and all the other soup nazis.

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.

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.

Over 100x the rate of fire at the Battle of the Somme

17,000 pyrotechnics per minute, for nearly an hour.

Fix the shitty server first though.