'Greed is good' is technically a principle I guess...
In his statement to The Post, Ton-That said: “Our principles reflect the current uses of our technology. If those uses change, the principles will be updated, as needed.”
If your principles change based upon what gets you the most money at any given time then I can safely say that you never had any to begin with other than 'money above all else'.
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Eh, I might be more impressed if his cons didn't rely almost entirely on people being so gorram stupid. It's one thing to trick people because you're smarter than them or managed to find some tricky way to do it, another to just bank on spite and stupidity to get someone that you are actively urinating on to believe you when you say that it's nothing but a refreshing bit of rain and anyone who says otherwise is part of a grand conspiracy to keep the rain from you.
Re: Re: Some AI generated works shouldn't be public domain.
"But I have a hard time looking at something that should be free as in freedom and then looking at all the rules that are attached to that."
Because, I suspect, that you don't understand the problem. If code is released public domain without restriction, then it will be quickly taken and locked up by proprietary corporate giants who have no incentive to collaborate or give back to the project, With the current licences, they have to do such things.
That is, paradoxically, by releasing the code totally free, you pretty much guarantee that it won't remain so, at least under the current copyright system.
Lol, of course you'd side with the corporate monopolies instead of the public.
"This is private property after all. Single entity ownership."
The whole building?
"Should renting an apartment for 1 month give you more rights than renting a hotel room for a month"
Is that a common thing in the US? I've never known a rental contract to be less than 6 months, and they're usually for 1 year, renewed annually where I live. But, what do I know - you also don't lose all rights just because you're renting and be forced in to a monopoly contract since no local monopolies exist where I live. For some reason, the owners of the both the building and the apartment I currently rent had no problem with me choosing my ISP from the several options available.
Yes, every president has issued executive orders, although Trump seems to have relied on them more than most modern presidents (he issued 220 in one term, while both W and Obama issued less than 300 in 2 terms).
So, what's your point here? EOs are bad, they're bad when a Democrat does something Trump wouldn't have liked, or something ese?
How deep into loving the taste of jackboot leather do you have to be to not think that flashbang grenades are not a military weapon that cause actual harm?
"How much do they actually rely on copyright to make money?"
Directly or indirectly? By directly enforcing them right now they probably don't. But, without copyright, major labels would certainly have no qualms about dipping into the public domain and taking songs wholesale, and the mainstream would never know that the song originate elsewhere. They could be on the hook for plagiarism if the originator wasn't credited, but without copyright there's no need for the labels to pay one cent to songwriters of any successful song they take.
Given that most of the public barely even understand that most pop artists don't write their own songs, let alone research who actually wrote them, that seems to me like a lot of musicians would be screwed - after all, if they think that new Rihanna song is the original, why would they buy the version from the guy they don't know wrote it?
It's not even just vaccines - the US got fairly lucky in a number of ways, ranging from the fact that a lot of vaccines had been administered before Delta took hold, and that when Omicron became rampant that its higher rate of contagion seems to have been coupled with milder symptoms, especially among the vaccinated. Combine with the fact that there seems to be a lot of people trying to fight on the side of the virus over there, and history could have turned a few of their deliberate superspreader events into a bloodbath.
Had Delta hit 6 months earlier, Omicron had been as deadly as it was transmissible, or if Trump had been re-elected, I have no doubt that 2 million would be a low ball estimate by this point
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Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 24 Feb 2022 @ 2:07am
Re: Ah gross hypocrisy, we meet again
Well, you do sort of have to admire the sheer unadulterated Chutzpah of the guy; The only use for 'Truth Social' is to get investors to stuff his pockets with money so it doesn't really harm him if the principle which would allow the damn thing to operate is overturned.
It's as if he's torpedoing a leaky canoe he floated in preparation to whine that the evil libruls sank his aircraft carrier.
"My factual observation was it was Hollywood that created the digital format."
That's not the observation I was responding to, but whatever. I'm tired of this argument, which as usual has you changing the subject and making yet more easily disproven claims when cornered with facts. Hell, the above statement alone requires at least 3 questions to clarify what the hell you're on about so that I can present the evidence as to how you're factually wrong, but I really can't be arsed with this shit any longer.
...and, sorry, very limited runs on a small number of titles is a sales gimmick, whether you like it or not, and your feeble attempts to compare them to things like vinyl and hardback books are really missing the point of what's being said. Again.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 24 Feb 2022 @ 2:03am
Blast from the past?
"Your kettlebells will never see a bungled firmware update or struggle to connect to the cloud. "
Reminds me of something I once read on an old BBS dedicated to long-suffering sysadmins way back. Dawn of time stuff from the 90's.
"I work for an investment bank. I have dealt with code written by stock exchanges. I have seen how the computer systems that store your money are run. If I ever make a fortune, I will store it in gold bullion under my bed. "
Matthew Crosby
It should be comforting to see that some things never change.
Why am I not comforted?
I work a desk job and take home several thousand dollars a month like my colleagues. You take back an alleged $48 over eight years while whining that people don't spend time and money to suck your cock. There's a lazy bastard and it's not me, genius.
"Most companies use third party radios that are secondary systems."
Yes, but again, modern central consoles often have a lot more functionality than simple playing the radio. How much they tie into the other safety features I don't know, but it should be the case that such features operate even if that console panel is not present, you just won't have as much detail on them. Although, this is not the time or place to start doing in depth research on exactly how Mazda design their systems.
"What surprises me is this requires parts replacement. And not an OTA update to the OS."
It depend on what actually broke. It's claimed that the part was "partially bricked", which suggests to me that either the OTA update function no longer works (or the OS doesn't start at all), or that it's designed to require physical intervention in the case of catastrophic failure. In the case of physical intervention, it's prudent to replace the unit, rather then just do a local fix and discover in 6 months that it caused another problem that wasn't identified before.
It's like if you discover that your server has been compromised by a rootkit or ransomware - you don't just remove the files you know were infected, you do at minimum a complete wipe and reinstall, and preferably replace the discs completely. Anything short of that leave you open to further infection by what you missed.
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Re: Re: Rights vs Bears
Still, if you don't want bears in your car, keep your windows rolled up.
Remember, even friends snitch.
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'Greed is good' is technically a principle I guess...
In his statement to The Post, Ton-That said: “Our principles reflect the current uses of our technology. If those uses change, the principles will be updated, as needed.”
If your principles change based upon what gets you the most money at any given time then I can safely say that you never had any to begin with other than 'money above all else'.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
So you're a fraud who ripoffs his employer too?
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Re: Re: Ah gross hypocrisy, we meet again
Eh, I might be more impressed if his cons didn't rely almost entirely on people being so gorram stupid. It's one thing to trick people because you're smarter than them or managed to find some tricky way to do it, another to just bank on spite and stupidity to get someone that you are actively urinating on to believe you when you say that it's nothing but a refreshing bit of rain and anyone who says otherwise is part of a grand conspiracy to keep the rain from you.
On the post: US Copyright Office Gets It Right (Again): AI-Generated Works Do Not Get A Copyright Monopoly
Re: Re: Some AI generated works shouldn't be public domain.
"But I have a hard time looking at something that should be free as in freedom and then looking at all the rules that are attached to that."
Because, I suspect, that you don't understand the problem. If code is released public domain without restriction, then it will be quickly taken and locked up by proprietary corporate giants who have no incentive to collaborate or give back to the project, With the current licences, they have to do such things.
That is, paradoxically, by releasing the code totally free, you pretty much guarantee that it won't remain so, at least under the current copyright system.
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Re: Is this actually a good thing?
Lol, of course you'd side with the corporate monopolies instead of the public.
"This is private property after all. Single entity ownership."
The whole building?
"Should renting an apartment for 1 month give you more rights than renting a hotel room for a month"
Is that a common thing in the US? I've never known a rental contract to be less than 6 months, and they're usually for 1 year, renewed annually where I live. But, what do I know - you also don't lose all rights just because you're renting and be forced in to a monopoly contract since no local monopolies exist where I live. For some reason, the owners of the both the building and the apartment I currently rent had no problem with me choosing my ISP from the several options available.
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Re: Re: Facepalm
Yes, every president has issued executive orders, although Trump seems to have relied on them more than most modern presidents (he issued 220 in one term, while both W and Obama issued less than 300 in 2 terms).
So, what's your point here? EOs are bad, they're bad when a Democrat does something Trump wouldn't have liked, or something ese?
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Re: Re: Re:
How deep into loving the taste of jackboot leather do you have to be to not think that flashbang grenades are not a military weapon that cause actual harm?
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Re: Re: Re:
"I have no evidence either way. And don’t care enough to go looking."
Yet, your self-proclaimed ignorance never stops you from have an opinion, does it?
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Re: Re: There might be a strawman there.
"How much do they actually rely on copyright to make money?"
Directly or indirectly? By directly enforcing them right now they probably don't. But, without copyright, major labels would certainly have no qualms about dipping into the public domain and taking songs wholesale, and the mainstream would never know that the song originate elsewhere. They could be on the hook for plagiarism if the originator wasn't credited, but without copyright there's no need for the labels to pay one cent to songwriters of any successful song they take.
Given that most of the public barely even understand that most pop artists don't write their own songs, let alone research who actually wrote them, that seems to me like a lot of musicians would be screwed - after all, if they think that new Rihanna song is the original, why would they buy the version from the guy they don't know wrote it?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Future
It's not even just vaccines - the US got fairly lucky in a number of ways, ranging from the fact that a lot of vaccines had been administered before Delta took hold, and that when Omicron became rampant that its higher rate of contagion seems to have been coupled with milder symptoms, especially among the vaccinated. Combine with the fact that there seems to be a lot of people trying to fight on the side of the virus over there, and history could have turned a few of their deliberate superspreader events into a bloodbath.
Had Delta hit 6 months earlier, Omicron had been as deadly as it was transmissible, or if Trump had been re-elected, I have no doubt that 2 million would be a low ball estimate by this point
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Emojis were more "representative" when they were simply emoticons (aka the "idea").
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Re: Ah gross hypocrisy, we meet again
Well, you do sort of have to admire the sheer unadulterated Chutzpah of the guy; The only use for 'Truth Social' is to get investors to stuff his pockets with money so it doesn't really harm him if the principle which would allow the damn thing to operate is overturned.
It's as if he's torpedoing a leaky canoe he floated in preparation to whine that the evil libruls sank his aircraft carrier.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Don’t know
"My factual observation was it was Hollywood that created the digital format."
That's not the observation I was responding to, but whatever. I'm tired of this argument, which as usual has you changing the subject and making yet more easily disproven claims when cornered with facts. Hell, the above statement alone requires at least 3 questions to clarify what the hell you're on about so that I can present the evidence as to how you're factually wrong, but I really can't be arsed with this shit any longer.
...and, sorry, very limited runs on a small number of titles is a sales gimmick, whether you like it or not, and your feeble attempts to compare them to things like vinyl and hardback books are really missing the point of what's being said. Again.
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Blast from the past?
"Your kettlebells will never see a bungled firmware update or struggle to connect to the cloud. "
Reminds me of something I once read on an old BBS dedicated to long-suffering sysadmins way back. Dawn of time stuff from the 90's.
"I work for an investment bank. I have dealt with code written by stock exchanges. I have seen how the computer systems that store your money are run. If I ever make a fortune, I will store it in gold bullion under my bed. "
It should be comforting to see that some things never change.
Why am I not comforted?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
I work a desk job and take home several thousand dollars a month like my colleagues. You take back an alleged $48 over eight years while whining that people don't spend time and money to suck your cock. There's a lazy bastard and it's not me, genius.
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
Russia is not invading the Ukraine due to copyright law, you copyright fanatic.
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Re: Re: Re: Weighted fault
"Most companies use third party radios that are secondary systems."
Yes, but again, modern central consoles often have a lot more functionality than simple playing the radio. How much they tie into the other safety features I don't know, but it should be the case that such features operate even if that console panel is not present, you just won't have as much detail on them. Although, this is not the time or place to start doing in depth research on exactly how Mazda design their systems.
"What surprises me is this requires parts replacement. And not an OTA update to the OS."
It depend on what actually broke. It's claimed that the part was "partially bricked", which suggests to me that either the OTA update function no longer works (or the OS doesn't start at all), or that it's designed to require physical intervention in the case of catastrophic failure. In the case of physical intervention, it's prudent to replace the unit, rather then just do a local fix and discover in 6 months that it caused another problem that wasn't identified before.
It's like if you discover that your server has been compromised by a rootkit or ransomware - you don't just remove the files you know were infected, you do at minimum a complete wipe and reinstall, and preferably replace the discs completely. Anything short of that leave you open to further infection by what you missed.
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