They have been selling a Google API that Google itself refuses to sell for years.

I've wondered how they hadn't been sued before.

That's exactly what everyone needs - Oracle's avarice buoyed by the UAE's psychotic oppression game, refined by China's carefully engineered oppression.

That's the GOP's vision for the country - From each according to their ability, to each according to my whim, and shut your fucking yap if you don't want to be dismembered, serf.

Oh, that explains why I didn't read it.

It is right there on the label. Their sympathy is always on the side of capital.

They're up-front about it, and if you're aware of the bias, they're probably the best national paper in terms of factual business reporting. Just skip the editorial page, it consists of almost entirely of indulging the resentments of the geriatric rich.

I agree that in theory it is entirely possible to reuse DC cooling water.

I also maintain that this will not, in fact, happen.

This is the same game politicians constantly play. Sure, passing this law means closing the factory which will will put thousands out of work. But we could offer retraining opportunities! We won't, but we could.

Unfortunately flattery doesn't feed the kids or pay the rent.

One of the more appalling things I've seen in the US on this stuff is people saying "Well actors are so well paid why should we care". The thing is theres a very very tiny number of actors that are paid well, the stars. But the vast majority, and the ones currently being sold by the AI firms as being replacable by AI, are background actors and bitpart actors and these are the guys who MIGHT be getting $30K a year if they are in regular work, and more likely far far less (The mean wage for actors is around $56K but its heavily skewed by a small number of very highly paid star actors so in reality its down around the $40K wage. Burger flipper wages.

And thats not even touching on the majority of workers in film, the crew, who have been getting fucked on ever since covid, worse in LA where large numbers of crew have been struggling with the fallout of the fires.

I TOO AM ANGRY AT EDUCATION.

My dude. You might be the first accout I've seen where almost every post is marked -1 TROLL

I'd suggest sitting with that fact for a while, but I know your not here to think are you champ?

Im actually not a fan of the AGPL at all. I think its intention is noble, but in practice it tends to get used as a shareware license instead of a free software license.

The GPL is very clear about its mandate. You can do whatever you want with this code, as long as you dont go distributing it, and if you do distribute it, here are your responsibilities.

The AGPL however violates GPLs freedom 0 , the right to USE the software however you wish (as long as you dont distribute it without source and a few other distribution requirements).

That means , for a start, its not compatible with GPL2 (GPL3 has a waiver for this). But to my mind the bigger issue is how its used. I have found very few examples of AGPL3 being used without an option of "dual licensing" (aka "shareware"), and since the AGPL3 pretty much prohibits almost any commercial useage as part of a web service, the end result is a license that effectively say "You cant test this, but if you use it for real, you must pay up".

Its a shareware license, not a free software license.

I can't tell if you're intentionally being dense or not.

Suppose that water headed for California almond farms instead was diverted to Arizona golf courses. What's the problem, right? Not like the water was destroyed or something.

You may as well ask, what's the problem with inflation? Not like money is destroyed when you spend it.

Similar to TV that way. Graphics are overblown.

When digital and hi-def TV came out, I was like "eh, seeing the actors' pores isn't going to improve anything. Good plots and characterization would." And so it is with games as well.

I'm not sure what age you think that is, but this semi-old guy won't be watching it because I don't want to. It's pointless and boring.

(And I'm not sure that I know of anyone, no matter how old, who "doesn't know how" to use YouTube.)

Tell Python programmers that white-space block delineation is dumb and braces are better. :-)

The reason people will roll their eyes at you over that is that its an incredibly boring debate that ended 30 years ago. Its pure surface level semantics and it just isn't interesting and tends to suggest people haven't actually spent much time understanding what they are complaining about.

Python has plenty of serious problems. But if what you get hung up on is whitespace, it means you dont know what the serious problems are.

"GitHub claims that 96 percent of its customers will see no change to their bill"

I always love this ploy. "You are part of a small percentage of users whining about this, but our price changes are actually good for everyone else", as if you're supposed to take one for the good of humanity. Or Microsoft.

The word "independent" in this context has specific legal meaning.

Arguing about plain-use definitions is a waste of time; intentionally trying to confuse people with bullshit is malicious.

Someone at the FCC was watching and modified the website right after that exchange.

For those of you playing stupid games centered around the word "independent", I will suspend disbelief and assume you are simply ignorant of what the word means in context.

In a narrower sense, the term refers only to those independent agencies that, while considered part of the executive branch, have regulatory or rulemaking authority and are insulated from presidential control, usually because the president's power to dismiss the agency head or a member is limited.