Whale oil works for Dunwall, but probably not so much for Singapore.

Given the usual inertia behind the EU decisions, the policies will be implemented anyway.

I used to play in a band with a mate who bought a Transit Van in the mid 1990's. Weirdly the van came with an 8 track player (rather than the usual radio and compact cassette player) and the only two 8 track tapes he had also came with the van. They were Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever" and a compilation featuring various British miltary marching bands.

We spent several years driving up and down the country to various gigs alternating the tapes. Absolutely tedious but also somehow fun. At some point someone did find a Neil Sedaka album on 8 track in a local charity shop but sadly the tape snapped after about the third play :(

Alas the van, and the 8 track player, are no longer with us but my mate still has the tapes !

Ever heard the song "I ain't gonna give nobody none of my Jelly Roll"?

Do you have any proof other than statistics which you decry in the case of AI that chemo works? What if my Dad just got weaker and weaker and the cancer didn't stop or slow down for long enough to get over the side effects?

What if medical diagnosis of depression and addiction led to a whole cocktail of antidepressants, and rehab, prescribed for my brother, yet he remained depressed and addicted till the end? What if instead of trying to treat him with AA homilies they'd legalized cocaine and taught him to manage it?

Am I free to talk about my own philosophy, or are my words alone so dangerous you must use censorship (and how well did that work on Trump, RFK Jr, etc.)?

Is that because I spent my youth trying to figure out how to do natural language processing, and now they solved it?

Do you realize how hard it was to get any AI to even understand your questions and generate natural language answers without grammatical mistakes, 100% of the time, before the Attention mechanism?

Remember Cost Of Living Adjustments? What if your income goes up with rent, etc. so that your real purchasing power is unaffected by nominal inflation? If you automatically convert prices to units of purchasing power can we remain unaffected even by nominal hyperinflation?

So why are so many slashdotters adopting the position that information should not be free and everyone should be punished instead of saying let everyone copy?

You debunked your own comment, there's nothing for me to do here :)

Is it because I'm unrepentedly troll-hearted, and people's feelings get hurt, so they just want to silence me? Do you get butthurt at my words on the internet because they bring up inconsistent things that cause painful cognitive dissonance which you'd rather ignore until it comes back in form like Troll Trump being elected president?

Do any of the Dems you named understand that money is not zero-sum and the Fed can create money faster than prices rise?

What if you index incomes to price rises so your food always costs the same in terms of your real purchasing power?

So is "information wants to be free" back, but now slashdot is against and corporations support it?