And it is common practice. And has been for a long time. If you want to do business with the government and you can't certify that your suppliers comply with applicable rules and regulations, you either stop using them. Or give up the business opportunity. Welcome to the Federal Procurement Process.

It's a hostage situation because Anthropic is trying to insert its TOS as a poison pill into others supply chains. The Pentagon doesn't have to comply with them. But as a potential vendor, you may be exposed to tortious action. Anthropic is setting you up as a blackmail victim. Something, by the way, that counterintelligence is VERY interested in.

I've been living in the DoD (now the DoW) supplier business for decades. And yes, it's bizarro land. But it's the law. Federal contracts are not some sort of UBI for crybaby companies.

Not 'punishment'. But 'not fit for use'. That is, in fact, what Anthropic says.

OK. Then you don't win the bid. Assuming that the DoW worded their acquisition RFQ properly. Also, if a third party uses Claude and wishes to bid on a DoW supply contract, Anthropic's resistance to being involved in such business may put that potential third party supplier in legal risk. The DoW has a right to proactively warn future partners about such a conflict. Hence the "supply chain risk".

Anthropic is taking potentially unwilling parties hostage. Anthropic has no right to impose its desires on these parties. That's restraint of trade. A violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and a felony.

Plz post more of those "deer in headlights" photos of Patel.

Because our corporate overlords spend too much of their time at places like the Bohemian Grove. Throw in some twink porn and they will be suitably distracted.

Evidently, you have never seen a mechanic screaming at his socket wrench for rounding the head of a bolt off.

I am struggling to understand the distinction.

The best move would have been to not know, retaining some plausible deniability. But Apple has to have that yummy, yummy revenue.

... they have a "People of Walmart" stream.

Ow! My balls! It is as the prophecy foretold.

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Then just rescan the OTA channnels.

Just take a boat to Taiwan.

Porch pirates. They steal the box, open it up and go 'poof'.

Eventually. Due to gravitational time dilation, you cannot reach the event horizon until some time after the heat death of the universe. Of course, to you it will appear as thought you are just coasting in. To the rest of the universe, you'll never quite make it.

Except that the mechanism of Hawking radiation will appear to intensify from your point of view. What we see many light years away may appear to be a very weak energy flux. But compress that into your frame of reference and billions of years of photons will appear to illuminate you in a few minutes (your time). You will fry.

... Leni Riefenstahl wasn't available.

... no longer meets the minimum system requirements for the current version of Android Automotive. Please upgrade before attempting to drive.

The word you are looking for is metastasizing.