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Comment Re:MAGA was successful (Score 1) 153

The single voice on the right is Trump's voice, because every GOP elected politician is scared to death of him endorsing a primary challenger that is even more cowardly and depraved than they are.

The rest is noise. As soon as Trump gives them an opinion, they'll all change their tune and start singing 4-part harmony, just like with every other thing in the last 10 years.

Comment Re:MAGA was successful (Score 2) 153

Boy I sure am glad that people on the Internet are intellectually lazy and want to reach for "bothsides" as a way to not put accountability where it belongs.

Hint: While examples of "both sides" can be seen if you dig enough, and use powerful enough microscopes; one particular party doesn't involve any digging at all, and the only way you couldn't see it is if you were blind or willfully looking elsewhere.

TL;DR: while "both sides" may have some share of the blame, it's absolutely not an equal share. Stop pretending that it is.

Comment Re:haha good one (Score 1) 129

We're already starting to get deployments of 47kW per rack.

Please factor this into your "120MW data centre".

Given that the comparison is with a Small Modular Reactor, this isn't really relevant. If we end up with GW data centers then the comparison result may change, since it will be comparing a full-sized reactor against much larger renewable plants. I doubt the results will be much different, but they might be.

Comment Re:Good News, but Missed Opportunity (Score 1) 72

Boeing should have piggy backed on that redesign to make a narrow body, shorter range, version so it could fly into smaller regional airports, and operate with less crew.

Are you advocating that instead of Boeing making a replacement for the 757 and 767, they should have focused their efforts to make a plane that that the exact same role as the 737? That's a false dichotomy argument.

Still, would have been a nice restart, rather than trying to keep the 737 alive for far longer than it should have just to keep pilots certified.

Again, a false dichotomy. Boeing retired the 757 in 2004 and the 767 is only being ordered as freighters. Boeing needed to replace them. Yes they should have tried to solve the 737 problem earlier but that does not mean they didn't need the 787.

Comment Re:Good News, but Missed Opportunity (Score 1) 72

A short, thin version of this plane with 100 fewer passengers and half the range would have been an ideal go-to for airlines in the regional markets.

A "thin" version of a 787 means redesigning the whole plan which would mean it is no longer a 787. Boeing already had that plane: it is called the 737.

Comment Re:Good News, but Missed Opportunity (Score 2) 72

2. When they were designing the 787 they shoud've done the same trick they did with the 757 / 767 - one central section, one flight deck, same engines on both. Fly one, you can fly the other. This would've avoided the pains of growing old the 737 is showing.

That would have created more problems than solve anything. The original reason for the 737 MAX problems was they had to use newer, larger but more efficient engines however to fit them they had to move the engines forward causing the lift problem. The 737 MAX uses CN-LEAP 1B (95 inches) while the 787 uses GE Genx (111 inches) or Trent 1000 (112 inches). Making the 787 use less efficient and less powerful engines only hurts the 787 and the 737 MAX could not have installed much larger engines.

18 months from paper to flying prototype for the 747. Almost 20 years for the 787. Something's very wrong.

What are you talking about? The 787 took about 6 years from announcement to first flight. Part of the longer development cycle was the introduction of new technologies like manufacturing composites at scale. The concept for the plane was done very quickly; the practicalities of manufacturing took years.

Comment Re:"Critics" (Score 2) 104

It needs to be transformative. The length isn't the issue, it's the transformative bit that's important.

No, the amount of material used is part of the four factors in determining Fair Use. Courts have normally ruled that using a small portion of copyrighted content like a movie generally favors Fair Use defenses. The factors are however not binary and all four factors must be considered. Sampling in music generally does not favor Fair Use due to the commercial nature of the use.

Comment Re:"Critics" (Score 1, Informative) 104

Fair use has been debated for a long time. Rush Limbaugh used to impose a time limit on clips he would air on his radio/tv show. At one point it was 7 seconds, or maybe 10, but sometimes longer. Just recently, a judge decided Meta's use of zlib and libgen was "fair use" so why not this?

One of the 4 factors in determining Fair Use is the amount of content used. In this case, Klein's "critics" streamed his whole content not a portion of it.

Not enough lobbyists? Not enough political donations to curry favor? Just launder it through AI, if its made by AI its legally cleaned and free from wrongdoing because anything AI does is ok under fair use apparently.

How about they streamed his entire content without adding to it? Why are you bringing up irrelevant topics like lobbyists? The question of whether AI can benefit from Fair Use has not been thoroughly settled; however using all of someone's content has been a factor against Fair Use claims.

Comment Re:"Critics" (Score 3, Interesting) 104

that's not what stream sniping is, and besides stream sniping isn't illegal afaik.

Streaming someone else’s content with transformative elements is considered copyright infringement. Fair use would have been to add to it in any way like verbally criticizing Klein.

they are mocking him, that can be understood as a form of criticism. in any case, that's how the defense has decided to frame it. similarly, his layers decided to frame it as copyright violation. both points seem stretched, from tfa harassment would seem more appropriate but with fewer chances of getting the subpoena.

When they added zero to his stream, how is that "criticism"? Fair use requires some sort of transformation. If they screamed curse words at him the entire stream, that would be criticism.

Comment Re: heroes we need but don't deserve (Score 1) 103

Would you similarly not insulate Snap-On Tools from responsibility if some fly-by-night hack in a disreputable mechanical garage "fixed" your car insufficiently with a Snap-On impact wrench?

Or is that toolbox somehow immune from your judgement where this toolbox isn't, because *reasons* ?

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