> It's impolite to ignore robots.txt, but it's not illegal.

Put something fake in your robots.txt and block the IP that accesses the fake URL.

AI people: "oh, that's where all the good stuff is!"

Not to mention chopped to pieces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This surprises you? The only way to 'force' values like that is to give government more power than it should ever have. We have seen throughout history what governments do when they can do anything, and it is not pretty.

I do not have a recommended solution, but I am glad that you brought the subject up.

Anti-trust doesn't work very well when a few pools of money own everything. Anti-pooling needs to become a thing, but that potentially breaks the freedom of association that we have all come to love and adore. It is messy; but, no matter the economic system proposed, this pooling of resources can break all/any version of any proposed economic system..

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

Which will cause rising prices, and they will have to create more money to compensate, which will create even more rising prices. You are calling for massive inflation.

"Africa" is a continent, not a nation, and the very first sentence of the summary says this is "after more than a decade of planning."

And I have noticed no benefit. WTF are they actually committing? More antisocial shit? More rearranging of the UI? More user hostile stuff? It may just be time to leave the fucking Internet forever. Everyone and everything just fucking sucks.

The summary says merchant fees will reduce "by an average of 0.1% over several years" so I'd say the chances of this making anything cheaper at point of sale is on par with the sun going supernova in the next several minutes.

Hey great. Wonderful news. Yes, I will admit that the Democrats are a MUCH better deal than the Republicans.... but

Your measurements are relative. I do consider the relative, but first and most important, I check the absolute. The absolute contains Democrats fully owned by wealthy people who vote for laws that further enslave the mind and body of humans.

Is it better to vote for a Democrat than a Republican? You betcha. Is it okay to vote for a Democrat because they are a Democrat? Absolutely not.

I will vote for absolutely zero people with an R next to their name. Unfortunately, I will be voting for absolutely zero people with a D next to their name either. I would vote for a few people with a D next to their name, but they are not eligible to receive my voted. I would love to vote for AOC or Jasmine Crockett. Are either really capable of running a competent government? Doubtful, but their voices are better than the rest of the Democrats... and FAR FAR superior to anything the Republicans have said. They have gone full genocidal maniac at this point. WTF is up with Trump begging the Supreme Court to not force his administration to make SNAP payments? Jesus fucking Christ on a pogo stick. The Supreme Court agreed in less than 24 hours. I am personally not affected yet, but I see a LOT of death in the near future as people start getting desperate.

Think about it for a minute: They are forgoing FREE work by humans, to PAY a machine to do it. Something doesn't add up here. Why are they willing to throw money away to make an inferior product?

Most importantly, why would anyone volunteer to help Mozilla ever again?

Truly psychopathic and sociopathic at the same time. Money has fucked up Mozilla.

Time to update yourself: now they're called Influenza`s.

ALERT: Unexploited enjoyment may be about to occur - send black helicopters to recover royalties.

tldr:
"we've noticed that there's pushback against letting us extract your soul and monetise it - consider this an appeal to your ego: it's a good thing for you to teach our AIs - in fact, you should pay us! Win-Win (both for us :-)"

I was with you until:

For that, we turn to PR people