> Tax the billionaires out the wazoo. Tax all billion dollar companies doubly out the wazoo. Tax trillion-dollar companies into million dollar companies, And tax hedge funds and venture capital a minimum of 36%.,

Yes, that will drain the money supply but... we kinda need more resources, not more dollars and you're going to screw that over since most of their wealth is tied up in big companies that employ tons of people. So great, you've confiscated Amazon and Bezos is an asshole anyway so he had it coming, but now nobody is getting their deliveries and a ton of people have no jobs. Congrats, you've just made things worse.

> Where do you *think* the debts going?

I mean we can just look it up.

> Listen, the debt is not tied to expenditure. The US government at least can just spend whatever it wants without consideration for tax receipts or incurred debt. In fact, the incurring of debt is not directly related to expenditure at all. It's a mathematical fantasy. The USG never defaults. Who is going to enforce that?

Ask Brazil, Zimbabwe, etc. about that. It's true that we can print endless currency and "pay off" our "debt" because it's not tied to any actual resources. But we can't print actual resources like food, energy, etc. to buy with the play money and that's why when we handed out gobs of cash a few years back, all the prices went up. You can keep selling for the same prices if you want, but people will just buy out your stock and you won't be able to resupply to make more, so prices kind of have to go up. Literally everyone should have seen that over the past 5 years or so.

The US has a privileged position because our currency is used by more people which spreads out some of the pain to everyone else using US dollars, but there are still limits to how much you can get away with printing. And there's not really another USD to peg our money to like Brazil once did to stabilize things.

So if you wanna ignore it and just print so much money that it floods the economy with worthless paper, we're going to end up with $1 trillion dollar bills that can't even buy a cup of coffee, like Zimbabwe already actually did. I think more people need to read the actual history of how this crap plays out, because politicians love being able to print their way out of problems and to blame inflation on anything but their own actions and will happily gaslight you about the causes and consequences which have been observed many times already.

Just for the record, it's Nintendo suing this time, not Sony. Sony is only responsible for the precedent, which says that emulation is legal.

Nintendo may be repeating their strategy here, though.

I mean, that's fair, but you can still bankrupt the devs and it's not always easy to replace them, nor will a lot of people be eager to step up if they think they might be next.

> Nothing illegal was done.

The main precedents in emulation legality are Sony v. Connectix and Sony v. Bleem, where Sony lost both cases, but drove the defendant out of business via the lawsuit. Make of that what you will.

Windows 11 is a lot worse than Windows 10 at handling headphones, from what I've seen. You plug some in and instead of just working, some apps don't get the memo and sometimes the system doesn't figure out that you did anything at all.

They were supposedly just poisoning the prompts. You'd say "show me vikings" and they'd change it to "show me vikings black" or such, including a random ethnic heritage on the end. Some people exposed this by asking for comic book style images, which got words from the prompt in the text boxes, or by adding "and a sign which says" to the end of their prompts.

I guess later they might add the words to the start, but similar creative prompting would likely help expose this as well.

You just pointed out there's precedent for hopeless billionaires tilting at windmills.

I never said he'd win, though precedent implies that maybe he could get American Samoa on board.

Give it a few years and that will just sound like complaining that a candy bar costs a whole quarter dollar now.

What interests me more here is whether this implies that Bezos will try running for President soon.

> You don't need to register a work, although it helps should there be a dispute.

While true, you're leaving out the part where you have to register it before suing and a timely registration gives a presumption of validity. So if you actually expect to assert it in court, you should be registering it immediately, not the day after you find someone infringing upon it.

> You can churn out 'works', publish them somewhere, then go trolling when your trawling detects a match between a legitimate work and your collection of AI junk.

I mean, this has already happened without AI, see Prenda Law for one example. Thing is, it didn't work very well even with exact copies and the whole publishing them online thing hurt Prenda, since they were fishing for violations.

While someone could maybe do that with something like YouTube's content ID by making AI songs, they're just as likely to get bogus flags themselves if they're just churning out tons of works that all sound like remixes of existing things.

> Photographs are composed by the photographer. They make choices about framing, lighting, focus, where and when to shoot. This requires talent, expertise, and effort. You can't say the same for telling a computer to make a picture.

What you said reads like someone told a photographer "all you have to do is push a button on the camera, that's not creative!" Now imagine explaining why that's wrong to someone who doesn't even know what the f-stop is.

Because there actually is a lot of skill that goes into choosing prompts, selecting results, etc. It's maybe more apparent when techniques are used like in-painting, where you create the actual composition by rearranging elements (e.g. put the fence here, a tree there, etc.) and have the AI fill in the blanks in a consistent style, but what the experts are doing with it has evolved far, far beyond the simple prompts that most people have seen.

A ton of work goes into it when you want works in a consistent style, you want to avoid crazy artifacts, and you want to keep the same characters/elements beyond the generation of a single picture.

It's just an ohmmeter, to be specific.

> The red octagon is just a free expression of my artistic creativity.

You're responsible for foreseeable consequences of your actions. Everyone here is telling you the obvious, foreseeable consequences of this: someone will get hurt in an accident because you did something stupid. It's also foreseeable that one of these "coners" will get someone hurt.

I can only hope that the prosecutor prints out this post to support the proposition that not only was this foreseeable in theory, someone did, in fact, explicitly point this out ahead of time to all of the stupid assholes out there who might later claim "it's not my fault" so that the jury can send them to prison, where they belong.

I get spam from both parties and I want neither, but it still dumped the Democrat garbage into my inbox until I wrote a filter specifically to trash it.

> But the third-party research does seem to suggest that doping with copper sulfate significantly reduces resistivity. That might be worth something.

They actually answer that and say that it's due to a phase transition.