Even if they could float, and reach the coast, they'd have immediately gone extinct due to not being adapted to having predators and being outcompeted by their flying relatives.
It evolved to be flightless because it was useless on an island with no predators, it drowned when the sea levels rose and covered the island, its closest relative (from whose ancestor it had evolved) flew back to the island once the sea levels fell, it evolved to be flightless because it was useless on an island with no predators.
How about not replacing search engines with this evidently non-functional scam, for instance..?
It's user error
No. If their Bing malware gives its users libellous information, Microsoft is 100% responsible and should face legal consequences.
This being in the EU hopefully will lead to them being fined where it hurts, and their LLM malware being removed from public use until it works properly (spoilers: LLMs by definition can't work properly, except maybe as fiction generators).
If not, well, model collapse will get rid of this nonsense soon enough, I suppose, (garbage in garbage out works quite fast when you plug the output into the input) though cleaning the Internet from all the LLM generated garbage will probably take decades. Hopefully the idiots responsible will be fined to pay for the costs.
So people need to be bound by EULAs that they don’t click to agree?
People..? No. And whether they clicked to agree or not should be irrelevant; EULAs should be unenforceable.
Journalists and their employers..? Neither... but then developers don't have any obligation to provide them with review copies in the future either.
In an industry that depends on mutual goodwill, trust, and agreement, bypassing the implied NDA was completely legal... but profoundly stupid, disingenuous, and unprofessional.
The Verge decided to burn bridges it had probably taken decades to build, for the sake of one single article. It was their right and prerogative to do it, nothing illegal about it, they had no obligation to follow the EULA.
But Valve has no obligation to let them play their invite-only beta either, or to provide them with review copies in the future, and neither has any other developer.
We'll see how it works out for the Verge in the future.
Cats (which are what all this nonsense is about) are obligated carnivores, so they'd either find meat elsewhere (and probably move to another home were they weren't mistreated, if able) or die.
That isn't always as effective as you'd think, especially with SSDs...
microwave them for 10 minutes
Yeah, that'd probably do it (though I'm not sure what it'd do to your microwave.
Thermite is guaranteed to destroy your data (and probably the floor, or the floor and the table if you're dumb enough to do it on a table, and anything too close to your data... but that's besides the point, the data will be unrecoverable, that's the point).
Something from Iain M. Banks The Culture. The best books, like Excession would probably be hard to adapt due to the protagonists being mostly ships, but others like Consider Phlebas or The Player of Games could probably make great films or miniseries (and Use of Weapons would probably be great as the later).
Probably excessively expensive in the CGI department if done well, but one can dream.
English ain't my first language, but I've often seen “cleaning” being used without a direct object, either because it's implied (“put away after cleaning”) or because the action is meant to be generic and not limited to a specific object (“I'm going to do some cleaning”)... in this case it could be both (specific: the cat itself, or specific parts thereof, generic: the cat itself, the other cat, the coach, anything within reach; cats can often get carried away, when cleaning).
Ears forward, eyes half closed, relaxed position... that cat is loving it, and probably purring like a lawnmower.