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Comment Not New (Score 2) 115

There were surveys nearly 20 years ago that found that the most well-informed viewers of television news were people watching The Daily Show. If you can find a video of Jon Stewart's reaction, it's pretty great (basically "We make shit up" and "We air between South Park and fighting robots").

Comment Re:About damn time (Score 1) 65

No, it is different than Bitcoin. In this case, "gambling" means "receiving a specified amount of money if a specific event occurs" (for example, receiving $1000 if Team A wins today's game). Buying Bitcoin doesn't meet the "specified amount of money" part of the definition, and "the price goes up" generally wouldn't be considered a specific enough event.

Bitcoin would fit the common colloquial definition of gambling, but not this specific legal definition.

Comment Re:Except (Score 1) 36

by the way it's not even a children's charity. It's actually some religious organization masquerading as a children's charity to scam people into giving money to their church. That makes them extra-double-super loathsome.

If I remember correctly, it isn't quite that bad. I think it's for a religious school, so it is money being spent on children and not a scam by religious leaders to make money for themselves. It certainly isn't transparent in the ads, and I wouldn't blame anyone for not wanting to donate to them.

Comment Re:They bothered to ask Claude? (Score 2) 79

If it's a question of legality, then Claude is *not* the one to ask; the court should know the answer to that question without having to consult anybody but the current laws.

Of course the prosecutors and judge already knew the answer. That's why the prosecutors did it - to show that the defendant should have known (by simply asking, if he didn't already know) that an LLM is not an attorney and therefore not covered by any attorney privilege.

The prosecutors wouldn't have done the exercise if they didn't know what result they would get.

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