"Region" would have to be extremely small around here to not include someone who speaks almost any (natural) language a typical person could think of.
I'll just go ahead and answer a different question: If I could instantly learn any language and my SO could instantly learn it also, I'd pick ASL, because it would be very nice to have a way to communicate that works where talking either doesn't work (loud places, for example) or would disturb others, or just across a large room.
Clearly the directors are either making bad choices or choices that only make sense in an actual theater. (In my opinion it's that first thing)
However this is implemented, it wouldn't be the default volume control on the remote - that would stay as-is. I'm thinking an on-screen menu with clear labels or something.
Depending on how pedantic one wants to be, this ranges from "It's already happened, twice!" to "It's already happened, hundreds of times (47 in the US alone)!"
Also cats have been mayors of small towns already.
I guess I'm not understanding your concerns. People with artistic skill can already do anything they want to any audio they want. (Note: that was Way before all this AI junk existed) And I don't really see how this affects that much.
As for settings, I'm thinking three/four sliders. Much less than a graphic equalizer. It's just volume control.
Here is my preferred solution that will never happen:
Divide all media audio into separate tracks for dialogue, music, sfx, etc., and let the users control the volume of each separately. To avoid having an easily ripped pure music track, perhaps premix the other tracks in at 10% or so (in a logarithmic scale) and make that the minimum volume of any track other than music.
I've had good luck with rubbing alcohol to remove the gooey mess. You'll end up with bare plastic instead of the rubber grip, but that's an improvement over sticky.
Things don't actually have purposes. That's a human invention. (Adaptations can improve the chances of spreading, so we say "it does this" or "it's for that", but it's not intentional on the part of the genes, proteins, etc.)
Anyway, about your first question, it seems there are three main ideas about how viruses originate.
I'm guessing it's because they can't compete with store brands and other cheap competition. My family buys this stuff, and we never pay the premium for the brand name.
The local PBS station carried a science show called Newton's Apple. Not only was the content amazing to a nerdy kid, the theme song was way too cool for a PBS show.
It is very clearly written so individuals won't be able to buy a printer without this junk in the firmware. Afterwards maybe they can fix it, but according to the article it includes a provision that 3D printers (or CNC, etc) can't even be bought online in NY.
"Region" would have to be extremely small around here to not include someone who speaks almost any (natural) language a typical person could think of.
I'll just go ahead and answer a different question: If I could instantly learn any language and my SO could instantly learn it also, I'd pick ASL, because it would be very nice to have a way to communicate that works where talking either doesn't work (loud places, for example) or would disturb others, or just across a large room.