I guess the first retaliation would be to reduce the Kremlin to rubble, followed by Putin's Dacha. I would like to see a Vulcan bomber make a low pass of Moscow first, but I am not sure any can still fly.

As European, I suspect American companies of mistaking ethics for E-thick!

Americans seem proud of disgusting and abusive behaviour. Having a disgraceful image is probably not the best way to improve sales in Europe, and probably other parts of the world too.

"By using threats of violence and other coercive tactics, abusers prevent abusees from travelling, including to other states, and by various means of financial control, prevent them from engaging in free commerce. Therefore, per the Commerce Clause, we are implementing a national law....."

Same logic as "growing your own food disrupts inter-state trade."

Commerce Clause says whatever Congress wants it to say, including 'we get to limit how much produce a farmer can grow for personal consumption, as that potentially takes sales away from another farmer in another state, so Commerce Clause, baby! Hey, where's that hooker we're doing rails of cocaine off her ass? Get over here, toots!'

The providers always argue "our complex fee calculation system, and fees that vary per municipality/state/zip/street/block, makes complying with the advertising rule far too burdensome"

Except, you know, that it doesn't, because they already have the ability to do this at checkout, which means they have the ability to do it on the ticket selection page.

Dear America: If you put half of the effort into genuinely fixing problems as you did coming up for tortured, convoluted names for legislation just to have a fun acronym, you'd be a shining example of utopia to the entire planet.

Yes, because all human migration is foe across a border. It's a BORDER for a reason.

All borders should be solid with zero tolerance for crossing.

Yes, and so what if they do? What's it to you what they do with their political prisoners?

Don't live in the US, but still, that sort of a cash dump into the industry would have global implications and really boost the demand for people who have experience with AI.

Do you want RAM? Because that's how you get RAM.

Why do you think Britain spent all that time trying to sort out the middle east previous to giving up after World War 2? They needed oil, just like today, and undersea drilling in the North Sea wasn't an option yet.

That's a curious take, given that oil wasn't even discovered in Saudi Arabia until 1938, and anywhere in Arabia until 1932. It wasn't until long after WWII that its true potential was known. Saudi Arabia's most important field, Ghawar, wasn't discovered until 1948, and was initially thought to be far smaller than it ultimately turned out to be.

Western states seemed amazingly aloof about the potential for oil in the Middle East (early geologic consensus pre-WWI was that there was no oil there). In the Arabian peninsula, it was the newly crowed Ibn Saud who became convinced that there was oil, based on reports of oil seeps, and funded the exploration throughout the 1920s. It wasn't until the 1932 oil strike in Bahrain that interest became meaningful. They spent five years failing to find oil in Damman, Saudi Arabia, and there was a lot of pressure to abandon the search until they finally hit it in 1938 with their 7th well.

In Iraq, which was a British mandate, oil was found slightly earlier, 1927, but only in the north at Kirkuk (again, most people still weren't thinking that there was much if any oil further south). But British influence in Iraq had been in decline since the 1922 Anglo-Iraqi treaty, and this was just five years before Iraq became a fully independent state (the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq). By the time of Iraq's independence - right around the time of the first discovery in Arabia - its oil production was up to about 1% of the global total - a far cry from the 26% that the Middle East produces today.

On articles about AI, we're normally awash in ignorant comments. Yours are a breath of fresh air, someone who actually knows what they're talking about.

If Slashdot had follows, I'd be giving you one :)

Yeah. I've watched some of Ilya's talks; he's quite impressive. Altman just comes across as a VC tech bro who happened to get into the right field at the right time and has socially manipulated his way to the top.

What's the HDMI standard for Stereoscopic Video? OK, there is not one, but at least promise whole-life imprisonment for any member of the USB committee that says a single word in relation to any standard whatever.

I think you misunderstand the mission- every mobile lifeform crossing the border is a foe. Simple, no need for friend-or-foe determination, because *EVERYTHING* is a foe.