Eh. They had options. With something as crazy as the Saints Row franchise they dissolve basically done anything.

For example, have the Saints go back in time to prevent the destruction of Earth, overshoot and end up preventing their own founding. The test of the game consists of them trying to prevent themselves from being erased from existence a la Back to the Future.

Or, if you want to dial back the craziness, declare the plot of IV to be a movie the Saints produced, which flopped and somehow ended up bankrupting Ultor.

They had options.

Because most banana varieties aren't very transport stable.

If the perceived threat is a model going rogue, nobody pays attention to the model operating as intended.

"...you see, it was actually considerably worse and I refuse to keep getting undersold by her like that."

At least the hard drives can be plausibly used. SAS controllers aren't exactly cheap but might be worth it for a home server if a slew of used datacenter HDDs show up on the market.

Those GPUs are going to be useless, though.

1983. The video game industry effectively collapsed entirely.

There were something like 14 major console systems on the market, all incompatible with each other. None had decent quality control for the games. At the same time home computers were starting to be a thing so the hobby money started going in that direction.

In sum that caused an effectively total collapse of the industry in the USA. It took until the late 80s for the market to start to recover when Nintendo released a new console. Notably, this console was not marketed as a game console – it was the Family Computer in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System (with a shell deliberately styled like a VCR) in the West.

Several major companies left the market (like Magnavox or Coleco) or were unable to compete when the market recovered (Atari).

You can see the Rust they added to the kernel.

But hat would require them to put in actual effort instead of just pushing out a minimum viable product and calling it the next evolutionary stage of computing.

Schon mal gut so. Wenn jetzt mal das Gericht die Klage der AfD gegen das BfV abgewickelt kriegt, damit die auch auf Bundesebene wieder gesichert rechtsextrem sind...

I mean, I can see a case for not wanting to play dragnet at a mere request. You don't want any random guy and/or agency to be able to have you to help them track down someone they only have a picture of, no matter how much they pinkie swear they're doing it to protect that person.

That's getting awfully close to sharing PII. You generally want to see a subpoena for this stuff and with good reason. Meta are, oddly enough, not being actively scummy here. (One can of course argue about all the other times when they don't give a shit; the bigger picture is definitely super scummy. But for this in isolation they actually have a valid reason for their behavior.)

What might work would be a standardized, streamlined process where the police can ask the company and if the company says the request is reasonable they can apply for an expedited subpoena to allow legal access to the information. Agreement by both would be necessary to give more opportunities for due diligence. This process would also have to have a very limited scope in order to make abuse harder.

Things like this made the news several times when Interpol (or was it Europol?) showed pictures on social media and asked if anyone could turn them into information (things like "in which country is this backpack sold").

When international law enforcement agencies are already openly crowdsourcing image details, an article about a group doing background detail analysis isn't much of a revelation.

Of course it's political. If Caligula hadn't chickened out they wouldn't be in this mess today where water can just airdrop in and demolish the landscape at will. Is that water the sea? No, but conquering the sea would've sent a clear message to water in general.