You'd probably end up being an organ donor. China is way ahead on health care too, in that respect. 8^/

Heresy! Notepad was good enough for Grandpa and his woodburning computer, so it's good enough for me! I remember sitting around the fireplace with him, working up batch files. Good times!

I do agree with you about nano. damn that's awful.

Let's see if I can help. The hands down best text editor is Windows NotePad!

There are a lot of "interesting" gifts I see on places like Facebook. Geek gifts like Christmas sweaters that say things like "This is the exact thing for a spreadsheet, or "Chernobyl Safety Team 1986. Or incredibly cute cat cartoons selling T-Shirts. In a heavily battened down computer, the link won't be opened if you click on them. Most computers will open.

There's something extra in the images if you drag them to the desktop. Still looking into what.

Pisses me off, I would have liked a Chernobyl Safety team or spreadsheet sweater!

Sounds like she's a nice lady, doing all that.

I tried three times to watch it. Fell asleep each time. Boring. I suppose blue alien boobs was titillating for some, and it made a lot of money, but I never had any reason to watch the sequels.

The Overton window suffers from whoever is interpreting it. Perception. Narratives. Ground truth. I provide the following - not because I resent them. I think they are fine programs.

Free laptops for low income people: https://grantssupport.com/free....

Pay around 30 percent of your take home pay for rent. Uncle Sam covers the rest: https://www.usa.gov/housing-vo... Indeed, there are a lot of programs there for low income people. https://www.usa.gov/repairing-...

Free Cell phone service: https://www.accesswireless.com... Lifeline Plan: https://tagmobile.com/ Not the latest smartphone, but can't beat the price.

Heating assistance: https://acf.gov/ocs/programs/l...

So we even make for a shitty version of a fascist country with all these social programs. 8^) Sometimes narrative and facts collide, and altogether too many people choose narrative.

Are we further "right" than other countries? On the continuum, yes - in some places. But really, Finland, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany have all made immigration much tougher. Racism has never gone away https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://stop-racism.eu/europea... That's why I sometimes tell those who should suggest they are better than us that they are in a glass house, throwing bricks. Yes, the US has had issues in those places. But we seldom hear about the same issues in countries, supposedly countries better than us.

Final point - well a pointed question is, with these other countries being so much better, should we emulate them in toto? Kinda scattered all over the place, but something for people to think about, if they dare step away from their narrative based life.

I'm both an ideally and have no idea what far left means. Are you An AI hallucinating? IO see you have provided so many facts. I hope you are an AI hallucinating, because parsing your screed shows a lot of contradictions.

You are going to be disappointed, I shall not "Fuck off"

Why do people like you demand others not express an opinion, or to compel our speech, or just be gagged.

I'm not"right wing" I'm centered, and don't think there is not right wing extremism.

And don't think there isn't left wing extremism. Like you.

Rather than your hateful demand for my silence when I fuck off, Maybe a respectful "I disagree, then have a discussion. Are you capable? I can provide cites, But perhaps telling a person to shut off is the zenith of your ability?

Maybe we'll finally see a return to real film. I'll dig up my ole, trusty 500C/M from the basement just in case.

I dunno about you, but I still scan my film negatives out of my Hasselbland 500 CM.....so even with shooting on film, it ends up on the computer in the end....

So, what would be wrong with an actor or actress selling their scanned image WITH contractual obligations to be PAID whenever the image was used in a film or when used as source to generate a new digital actor?

Wouldn't continuing pay and residuals help make the argument here?

One of the interesting things that comes to mind, after the extreme far left lurch of Hollywood in recent years, is why the big stars that make millions per film, do not agitate for better pay for those that get paid only a pittance. I mean, they should be all about income equity, one would think.

Same as the rest of us, I suppose.

I think that these "stars" should be very concerned. Because already the ones that exist now, have a "last generation" vibe going on. Unless they somehow make it illegal to use AI actors at all, when they die out, so does the "star concept". They'll age out, and few if any new will come along.

I didn't make the claim, Shanghai Bill did.

He has a habit of helping out people who don't know how to use those newfangled search engines. 8^/