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Comment Re: Big labor is a state-sanctioned extortion rack (Score 0) 122

The system of rent seeking and ownership does what you describe, taking money from those who actually work and handing it to people whose name is on a deed

Wow. Just wow. You are a complete idiot.

Just because I have to spell it out: their name is on the deed because they paid to own the property. They paid for the building. They own it. They worked for it in advance.

My god, you communists are so stupid.

Comment Re:Anything else to do? (Score 2) 53

Or make a sarcastic post about Godwin's law. Nope, the AI has automatically decided you committed a hate crime. Your account has been suspended, you have no recourse and no appeal, and you must wait at your current location for the police to arrest you for your "crime".

This is already the case in the UK...

And before y'all butthurt chavs start downvoting, have a look at this very comprehensive list of people arrested for what everywhere else in the world would constitute free speech:

In October 2011, 28-year old Stephen Birrell was sentenced to eight months in jail for engaging in Scottish sectarianism. He made posts to a Facebook page called "Neil Lennon should be banned" which insulted Catholics and the Pope. Sheriff Bill Totten stated "the right-thinking people of Glasgow and Scotland will not allow any behaviour of this nature".

In May 2012, 21-year old Liam Stacey spent 56 days in jail for tweeting "LOL, Fuck Muamba. He's dead."

During the 2012 Olympics, diver Tom Daley retweeted a message that said "You let your dad down i hope you know that", insulting him for finishing fourth. Its 17-year old author was arrested on suspicion of "malicious communication"

In October 2012, 19-year old Matthew Woods was jailed for 12 weeks because of jokes he made about two abducted children April Jones and Madeleine McCann. The messages, including "Who in their right mind would abduct a ginger kid?" were copied from Sickipedia and posted to Facebook

In December 2014, 19-year old Ross Loraine was arrested and cited for making light of the 2014 Glasgow bin lorry crash on Twitter. The tweet, which he deleted shortly after posting, stated that after the driver's vehicle struck pedestrians, this was "the most trash it has picked up in one day"

In March 2015, 24-year old Scott Lamont was sentenced to spend four months in jail for singing Billy Boys at a Rangers FC game.

In January 2019, community cohesion officer Mansoor Gul questioned Lincolnshire ex-police officer Harry Miller over the fact that he had retweeted a poem that condemned gender transitions. While confirming that no crime had been committed, Gul stated that it qualified as a "hate incident" and told Miller that his employer might be displeased.

In July 2022, British army veteran Darren Brady, was arrested "on suspicion of sending by public communication network an offensive, indecent, obscene, menacing message" for allegedly retweeting an image of the "Progress Pride Flag" arranged into a swastika.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Even the press is not safe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:Big labor is a state-sanctioned extortion racke (Score 0) 122

some form of basic income

Which is another way of saying: "let's take money from people who worked for it and give it to people who didn't work for it".

"Oh, and if they don't agree, we'll arrest them and put them in jail."

Because that's what your "basic income" really is. Downvote all you want, you can't change fact with a downvote.

Comment Re:When police use 23andMe, I will not. (Score 5, Insightful) 35

Why would your DNA be of interest to police unless it was found at a crime scene?

Because it will also identify relatives. So, if your brother commits a murder and leaves his DNA, the police might come knocking on your door. And you might not want to get involved, but thanks to dumbasses like you, there is no choice in the matter

That's why.

Comment Re:Since they admitted to it, charge them. (Score 2) 82

Put clear Terms of Service on your website (or anywhere else you control the info, I'd suggest also adding a X-Terms-of-Service-Fees: header in all your webserver's HTTP responses pointing to a relevant link) that you charge a fee (just pull any number out of thin air, like $7500USD) for any info scraped for any sort of commercial purposes, and when they admit to it by cold-calling you (as they just did), inform them of the immediate charge, payable within 30 minutes, with by-the-minute accrual interest of 3% after that time.

I would love to see you argue for this in a court of law.

The judge will probably laugh harder at you than at a sovereign citizen.

Comment Re:Both remaining users are sad ⦠(Score 1) 42

Connecting to hobbes.nmsu.edu (hobbes.nmsu.edu)|128.123.88.139|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 19469445120 (18G) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: "hobbes_ftp_11Jan2024.tar"

hobbes_ftp_11Jan2024.tar 0%[ ] 83.10M 722KB/s eta 7h 48m

If only they had some bandwidth... That torrent option looks appealing now.

Comment Re:Also study is only looking at LLMs (Score 2) 47

The real disruption will be the massive automation boom we're about to see

Have you seen this? It just shouts "replace me with a computer". My local Mickey D's already has those ordering computers, all the workers do these days is flipping burgers.

At $20/hr, computers will become even more attractive.

Comment Re:3 Million (Score 1) 43

Let's do the math. Their revenue over 2020 was 10.27 billion USD (their 2022 was actually lower). That's 28,136,986 per day, or $1,172,374 per hour, so $293,093 every 15 minutes. Also, that's $325 every second.

Now, given that eBay's "take rate", meaning the money they make on transactions, is roughly 11%, that means that they handle over $3,300 in transactions per second.

They can pay a small fine of $3M.

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