Fools keep making more things into felony crimes thinking it's being tough on crime.

One good side is the hack writers Hollywood uses are like Junior programmers; ripe for AI to replace. The bad side is people will eat shit with a 30% marketing budget... more with AI marketing bots...

But really the problem is producers and execs. They get too much say and control over the creatives. Those hacks then force the creatives to adapt to them. It's rare when things align and something great happens-- except places where all levels are functioning in balance... like Pixar had for a while and predictably declined as soon as the balance was undone and it would have been a miracle if Disney didn't screw it up. Even when trying not to; but they were trying to knock it down because they made everything else look bad.

YES! I read that Ellison is suing already!
He didn't hold his breath and bury his nose up trumps ass just to buy his kid one media empire! Expect CBS to become another FOX. Consider all those Oracle systems powering the government and how an AI could use them to help target enemies. Maybe he can find the Epstein tapes? No, not the files which are just the tip of the iceberg; but the video connected to those many internal "security" cameras found in just one of the guys houses. (Also, if there was a way, Epstein found a way to meet him. I'd think he'd be more into drinking the blood of children or sucking their souls like the Disney villains he's always looked like.) This is a guy who owns a huge island of Hawaii with only the pesky democracy holding him from further control.

Lots of windows apps were possible because of quicktime for windows. Adobe was built on top of it for a long time.

Long ago when Quicktime was dying because Apple abandoned it in the 2000s; the developer list had an email asking opinions about open sourcing quicktime. Apple should have open sourced most of it. MKV didn't need to happen. I certainly liked the ability to have reference movies that just worked and took no space.

The API wasn't easy. It was also a massive codebase. I don't think anything has matched it. They did more than codecs; conversion. It handled timecode and editing - the backbone to every video editor for decades was made of Quicktime. It wasn't just for playback and compression. It handled audio and images too. Maybe it didn't need to be so huge...and try to be everything A/V for everybody. They should have handed off most of it to open source and we'd all be better for it if they had.

Lying is a virtue in the USA. Hypocrisy and lack of shame are powerful leadership. Everything a supervillain monologue says about the hero wasting their gifts on others and self-limiting being weak -- that is the mantra of the USA.

The old superman shit is a farce; today's USA is Lex Luthor. Disagree? look at who represents them. Actually representative of the nation's character.

I didn't vote for this but the majority defines the country. us good people are a minority.

This. It is BAD but the Ellisons was just James Bond super villain scale.

The ONLY free market is the black market. That ends up with plenty of organically formed limitations even for the top crime lord - who still might suffer a while before Trump pardons them.

Government defines the rules of the market, the corporations are an extension of government, defines the currency needed to function, defines and enforces property rights...

American cars are subsidized and heavily protected; if not, they'd be gone years ago.

Free healthcare isn't subsidizing a company. A better power grid isn't. A pro-business power grid is somewhat a subsidy but nothing outside norms. Infrastructure like roads, communication, water, etc. isn't subsidizing. Indirectly, everything can be spun as subsided.

I know an old school Republican. They would pray for rain to suppress bad turn out. Since Nixon days (his time period) they always wanted lower turnout over all. They won't have a voting holiday, they didn't like laws forcing employers to let you out of work, they only liked mail in voting (before Trump) because more of their (old and poor lazy rural) people would use it; he heavily resented black churches being political by promoting voting (while his church did the same with color handouts of anti-abortion material.)

The suppression is almost entirely one sided. If you knew anything you'd realize. Furthermore, rank voting is superior and more republican states have it simply because it stopped vote splitting from harming them. Where vote splitting now harms the other side they fight like hell against rank voting; also rank voting increases turn out - which they don't like unless it turns out their voters. There is no fair fight; they lie about the other side then do the same feeling justified. Shocked when they finally realize they were the only one playing dirty. At least for the moment they realize this before going back to conspiracies that then justify their old hate pattern. Seen it play out multiple times.

Don't be sucker.

Our population was so fucking stupid Trump squeaked out a victory; the media and billionaires shouldn't have been able to put a gold polish on that turd.

Let me correct that for you:
"Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashingâ¦Simpletons can't grasp Nuance."

1. What AI does the summarizing? So some evil corp has all the medical data that is otherwise protected in a long list of laws except "non-retaining" middle-ware tools... who could just profile you etc.
2. These AI run within the country?
3. Are they searching since google sucks now? AI search will suck soon enough. Are they getting medical advice and not just searching references?

You do realize whenever you do login, they connect the unknown user tracking to your login. Maybe a weaker weighting but they'd be fools to not circumvent your feeble attempt to stop them. Oh, I mean gmail and other google properties. Why would they not?

More BS American Propaganda. I'm American and it doesn't work on me; boy does it work on my peers! Gullible idiots; should be obvious to foreigners by now.

BYD is not subsidized into beating American cars!

#1 cost for an American car is the healthcare of their employees! BYD? "Free" healthcare. We both get "free" roads. We both have government helping the power companies; they just do that better than we do too. We are screwing alternatives, they are #1; we are building super subsidized nuclear power which is the most expensive too. They treat more as infrastructure than we do and they don't need to fight for decades to finally pass an infrastructure law. Infrastructure is important and Americans probably don't even know what that is outside the bill Biden passed with that in the name. We are on track to privatize the post office, Medicare (already over half done) and just before the big collapse, we'll privatize social security. China subsidizes their postal service; like every sane nation did; in the USA it was subsidized for over 200 years... now we let them pay interest on debt and if you haven't noticed, there are a ton of tiny delivery companies working with them now as postage went up a lot... it's not inflation.

The free market would kill the American auto industry. Not that the cost of living wouldn't make labor impact prices; but right now, it's the worlds most expensive healthcare mess making them worse; as far as quality, China caught up - they just have less quality control, regulation, etc. but they probably can do better manufacturing than we remember how to do; if surpassed. or soon will.

Exon is making a move to expand plastics. Whatever that means. I suppose PLA will be banned next?