I like to think the delay is justified by the fact that IF you think in terms of 1800s tech, America is huge and it can take a while for horses to pull a wagon from sea to shining sea.

It's November 1860 and you just won your election to be the new Senator from Oregon. You have two months to get to DC. Can you do it? (Yes, you can do it in a "mere" 3-4 weeks thanks to rail. But before rail? No way two months is enough.)

The first thing will probably be to do something think of the children bullshit to ban local AI instances.

Are you seeing a lot of support for the "people should be forced to use a data center to run AIs, instead of being allowed to do it at home using solar power" position?

What I saw last week, is that "think of the children" means that no one should ever fucking ever let a Republican anywhere within ten feet of a child, rather than it meaning we need to give data centers a monopoly on running AI.

The RAM crisis is it. This is the high-water mark on suppressing competition. It was a clever move, but the consumer market isn't going to tolerate electronic gizmos and video games being expensive forever. As soon as someone decides they want money and opens another RAM factory, the AI companies are in trouble. They have this brief pre-Personal-Computer-Revolution situation going on like 1960s IBM, and the 1970s are coming to fuck their shit up.

Yo dawg, I heard you like DMCA, so I sent you a DMCA notice (Title 17 Section 512) about DMCA-prohibited circumvention (Title 17 Section 1201).

Both States just turned blue and a big part of that besides orange pedophile screwing up the economy is the Republicans welcoming data centers.

How the hell is Arizona supposed to have all these data centers given the Colorado River is cutting off water to it. Remembered data centers don't have to use all that water but they do anyway because it's slightly cheaper and then they lie about how much water they use in public.

And that's before we talk about the electricity usage. Texas' is grid can't take it. It's another reason the Republican party lost and the state turned blue. When you want shit fixed you elect a Democrat when you want to fun spectacle you go with the Republican and hope it's your neighbor that gets fired during the inevitable recession. It's been that way since the '90s when newt Gingrich started that contract with America bullshit.

Against the living impaired.

So there's no contradiction. Your reading shit into places it doesn't exist. Like the meme about that little bitch eating a cracker like she owns the place...

What I'm talking about here is an intractable problem. Like how automation is devouring jobs faster than our society can adapt and we're about to have a shitload of unemployable people but we're not willing to just let them sit around all day. It's a problem that nobody has a solution too

That's why you're getting angry at me. I'm stating the problem bluntly and you don't have a solution either.

Also as a libertarian what right do you have to Levy taxes? Taxation is theft after all.

Honestly I doubt the two are related. Nintendo has always made good money off their back catalog and it's hardly a surprise that they want preservation. The catch is that like how Disney has their vault Nintendo wants to drip feed it out.

One of the things that worries these companies is that if there's too much out there and too many games it's going to become impossible to heavily monetize their games like they want to. If you're being charitable to the companies that may even become difficult to be profitable at the scale they need to be at, although blood sucking large shareholders are a constant problem there since it drives companies to be unreasonably profitable or get slaughtered for parts by private equity...

Public ownership sounds great until you realize that it's not really public ownership it's a handful of people that own everything and they let us give them some of our money for a while... And if we are really lucky we can make money selling a little piece of the company they let us pretend to own to somebody else who's going to pretend to own it. But good luck exercising any of that ownership...

AI is going to fuck up gaming in so many ways and this is one of them.

Basically you can take a little bit of AI code and somebody else's project from when they did the hard stuff and combine the two and the AI will take the work that person did for a single project and generalize it so that it can be applied to basically any game in existence.

This means that you get stuff like bloodborne being ported to PC which is harmless enough because it's an old game but then the code from that can be adopted and patched and updated by AI to the point where script kiddies can make PS5 games run on PC natively...

Whatever else you think about the topic there's no way Sony and Nintendo and Microsoft can let that slide. Never mind what Adobe is eventually going to do.

The first thing will probably be to do something think of the children bullshit to ban local AI instances. I'm sure they'll say something about pedophilia or guns or something. And honestly they probably will find some gun toting pedos just like how Ronald Reagan used Willie Horton to win an election. Fun fact the guy's name isn't Willie it's William.

I don't know what the fuck you do about any of this but we are going to have to figure out some kind of Middle ground between every single console game can be pirated with ease on your PC and none of us were allowed to own hobbyist PCS anymore.

I mean we don't have to the corporations can just take our toys away. Although the last election shows they're not 110% in charge of everything. I mean they spent like $2 billion dollars trying to get the Republican party here in America elected and surprisingly that didn't work. Christ Mississippi elected a black man to the senate for the first time since before reconstruction...

Clearly the internet should move to Slashcode. It was a mistake to use anything else. Screw Unicode!

We do not spill the blood of Kings

A sitting US president is a pedo. Nobody cares

He got fired because he was likely to keep leaking secrets because guys like this who can't keep it in their pants keep doing it.

Luxury!

When I was growing up nobody had a pot to piss in! We just had to hold it until the economy improved!

Or too poor for your kid to do their homework.

Even 10 years ago when my kid was in high school (Christ I'm old) it was impossible to do your homework without internet. You couldn't just do it at school they would kick you out after closing because nobody wanted to pay for teachers to hang around and watch the kids and there was too much legal liability otherwise.

There are libraries of course but never mind the fact that there isn't wanted biking distance most of the time let alone walking and we often don't have anywhere the kids can bike safely on our roads anywho. Before I got old and sore and tired with a bad back (again, Christ I'm old) I used to cycle a lot and it's a fucking mess out there for an adult much less a kid. Plenty of places that you just cannot cycle without getting creamed by a car.

Point is internet is a necessity in our modern economy and society. It is up there with water and electricity. It didn't have to be but it is.

"Here's a good reason to never inconvenience Rich assholes" -article written by, some rich asshole.

Any evidence obtained wouldn't be admissible in court and the attack from the orange pedophile would fizzle out. It would still be financially devastating of course because of course it would but it would be useless for putting somebody in prison. We are always off from president pedo being able to order his enemies jailed and or killed. He can of course attack them financially though