If someone were contributing to the campaign chests of these Republican representatives, they sure did waste their money because these bills are performative nonsense.
Not even the pre-crime program in Minority Report was led by Artificial Intelligence; it was predicted by psychic human beings, and as the movie foretold, [SPOILER]there were indeed problems with that[/SPOILER].
I'm tending to agree with Thad more so than That One Guy here. This article/blogpost seems like a hit piece. Here's what I mean:
Imagine yourself as a recent Ph.D. in economics from a hotshot university. You're 30 years old, and you just spent 6 years in graduate school, earning $20,000. Before that, you may have spent two years as a research assistant to a professor, earning just as little. You're a top student in your program and have lots of career options in front of you. You could go work at Amazon or Netflix and earn $200,000 a year, base salary. After living on a strict diet of research and Top Ramen in graduate school, that sounds pretty good.
Nowhere is it mentioned that University Tuition used to cost a lot less, if anything. Now it's an investment that many college-age kids are questioning if it's worth the ultra-steep price. I was lucky to get tuition remission at my alma mater, New York University, but not everybody has lucked out like I have. Far too many people struggle to pay the bills in college when it should be a right and not a privilege.
What does that have to do with anything? Also, FYI, Mike Masnick is Jewish and the most anti-Semitic thing I ever heard was directed at him in a hate email.
Great catch, Bloof! This history of MEMRI calls even further their motives into question. Now I too smell an ulterior motive not unlike what you sense out of them.
Moreover, should we pull racist books from Project Gutenberg (and there are lots!)? There are so many racist books in the public domain it's hard to keep track.
Methinks Stalinsky is just a hater of open access in general.
Okay, so he's going after the internet archive? Does he not know why archives exist to begin with? It's to document and archive stuff, even if those stuff happen to be war crimes. It's one thing if YouTube moderates it's algorithm, but trying to make a non-profit library like the internet archive less useful and more deleterious?
Steven Stalinsky has just made a new enemy, and it's neither a Nazi group nor a terrorist group; it's me, a citizen who loves archives, libraries, and the concept of open access in general!
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And the lockdown restrictions were gradually lifted once a sizable number of people got vaccinated (for instance, I no longer work from home). The same cannot be said about the USA PATRIOT Act.
the number of deaths from taking the vaccines? There is a casual link for the J&J vaccine causing blood-clots, and the amount of people that may have died from it is <0.0004% (of 7.98 million vaccinate
Remember how Dick Cheney had the 1% doctrine? These chaotiferous anti-vaxxers are even more extreme that they have the 0.0004% doctrine, and they think that's more risky than 2% or 3% (of unvaccinated people who died of COVID, that is).
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To be fair, I really liked the MST3K version of Manos.
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If someone were contributing to the campaign chests of these Republican representatives, they sure did waste their money because these bills are performative nonsense.
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Not even the pre-crime program in Minority Report was led by Artificial Intelligence; it was predicted by psychic human beings, and as the movie foretold, [SPOILER]there were indeed problems with that[/SPOILER].
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Hmmm…
From time to time, I shop on ebay because I don't like Amazon and how much they control.
Maybe I should rethink the "shopping on ebay" part given this information…
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I think that was clear, and I agree with you.
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Says-*checks notes*-"Anonymous Coward".
Okay.
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You're not wrong in your assessment.
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I'm tending to agree with Thad more so than That One Guy here. This article/blogpost seems like a hit piece. Here's what I mean:
Nowhere is it mentioned that University Tuition used to cost a lot less, if anything. Now it's an investment that many college-age kids are questioning if it's worth the ultra-steep price. I was lucky to get tuition remission at my alma mater, New York University, but not everybody has lucked out like I have. Far too many people struggle to pay the bills in college when it should be a right and not a privilege.
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What does that have to do with anything? Also, FYI, Mike Masnick is Jewish and the most anti-Semitic thing I ever heard was directed at him in a hate email.
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It was said by George Santayana.
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Great catch, Bloof! This history of MEMRI calls even further their motives into question. Now I too smell an ulterior motive not unlike what you sense out of them.
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The "poorly-sourced article" that you linked to smacked of copyright industry propaganda.
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I know that and I should've made that point, but I didn't. Thank you for making that point for me!
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Moreover, should we pull racist books from Project Gutenberg (and there are lots!)? There are so many racist books in the public domain it's hard to keep track.
Methinks Stalinsky is just a hater of open access in general.
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This means war!
Okay, so he's going after the internet archive? Does he not know why archives exist to begin with? It's to document and archive stuff, even if those stuff happen to be war crimes. It's one thing if YouTube moderates it's algorithm, but trying to make a non-profit library like the internet archive less useful and more deleterious?
Steven Stalinsky has just made a new enemy, and it's neither a Nazi group nor a terrorist group; it's me, a citizen who loves archives, libraries, and the concept of open access in general!
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And the lockdown restrictions were gradually lifted once a sizable number of people got vaccinated (for instance, I no longer work from home). The same cannot be said about the USA PATRIOT Act.
Care to make another terrible analogy?
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Thank you, that is some comfort. Still, the internet exists. Then again, broadband is indeed hobbled (which is also a priority; just ask Karl Bode)…
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I was going to ask you the same thing given that response.
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Remember how Dick Cheney had the 1% doctrine? These chaotiferous anti-vaxxers are even more extreme that they have the 0.0004% doctrine, and they think that's more risky than 2% or 3% (of unvaccinated people who died of COVID, that is).
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Please, they're not plague rats;
They're plague gerbils.
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