they will have another buyer lined up probably in South America or Africa, where the sanctions aren’t as common

Probably for storing large training data libraries. Takes vast storage, but only need to be periodically accessed during training run on that specific part of library. Once the training is done, there is no need to have online access to the data.

Plus with tape drive library robots, it’s not like they have to be manually handling the tapes often.

I will always remember him from Guardian organized sketch “what has European Convention on Human Rights ever done for us”.

Their decades long usage of consulting companies to be a sycophantic permission giver, since they don’t want to bother making well founded good business decisions. “Don’t blame me, I hired a consult and they said to do this. If decision was the wrong one, it is the consults fault. Then we hire a consult to figure out what the last consult did wrong. Then consult to consult on the consultation of the second consult on the first consults consultation”. Please pay me millions and millions of dollar to be a consult hiring person. Oh and please a golden parachute promise also, in case I need to get fired pronto.

If one was able to do good decisions on ones own, is confident on those decisions and able to make the arguments to back up the decision, one wouldn’t need to hire the consults to be the professional fall guys.

edit: Oh and I don’t know is it really needed, but well it is evidence point that also exists. So they simply changed “consult” to “AI agent”

Yeah. I was confused for moment. Wait they found third field in addition to the electric and magnetic fields? Like that would be “throw Einstein out the window” level change.

Investigators are now determining whether the fence was damaged deliberately or as a result of a traffic accident.

So how about we hold our horses until police investigates and it doesn’t turn out the cluedo culprit was “drunk Horst on the way back from pub to home, crashed the fence, backed out, fled the scene due to being drunk as a skunk and doesn’t want to get breathalyzed”.

Now I fully admit the another possibility is Russian sabotage and nuisance making. However we don’t know which it is before investigations are carried out.

Not every happen stance in the world is Russian SVR or GRU operation. Assuming so gives Russia more power via fear of omnipotence. Attribute it to Russia, when investigation gives reason and evidence to strongly suspect so. Beyond doubt is kinda out of window, since they go to lengths to make proving that really hard.

I just find it personally highly irritating designers make concepts, that has no basis on reality. Why bother putting in the seat belts, but not the head supports. Since concept car needs no seat belts either. Specially 3 point ones. Like did the designer just like what a 3 point belt line hanging down the B pillar looks like?

So they signal “we know safety is a thing, that exists and must be a concern”, but then half ass it.

In practical, overly fancy, with way too much design flair than general public will tolerate I can get. Those are matters of taste mostly. Showing artistic license and maybe looking at feed back of… hey maybe one of our crazy concepts is so popular we make it to production.

But “not at all workable in the first place in reality” is another thing. It tells public nothing of the future and nor is it a good design study, since everyone knows “this whole interior is a whole redo, since it’s center pieces, the seats people sit in are just a full no-go”.

Those front headlights are a “well thats concept cars being concept cars, those get simplified. It would be way too much engineering and production cost to make those work. One could, but they won’t”.

That interior is “this is not even a concept of a passenger vehicle, since those seats can not carry road traffic passengers in”. It is a vaguely passenger vehicle shaped nostalgic kinetic sculpture.

Oh and all this specially since, I would like to see what their actual take is on how to make a modern working front passenger bench seat. How they marry the old 2CV bench with modern safety design requirements. Atleast on concept. At this stage it doesn’t need to be mechanically engineered to actually pass whiplash track without snapping in half. However I would like to see a concept of a design how to make it work on ergonomic and base interior volume packaging level.

Well that interior for certain won’t survive contact with reality. Those seats have zero head and neck support. Won’t pass minimum safety features list. Those seats are way too low back and no head restraint/support. Plus even if it was legal, 0 stars from Euro-NCAP, when they rear end that car in crash test and the test dummy neck snaps back.