That doesn't make much sense either, the further back, the difference in the very way English is spoken/written.

Honestly this, again, means I get to raise a point that I never got a good reply to at the beginning of this LLM BS: what is the incentive for creating new, clean, correct, works at this point? Because "People always want to argue about shit on Reddit" isn't going to get us new information on the majority of topics with the possible exception of politics. And let's be honest, that's not a thing where you can guarantee accuracy by training on it either.

Literally the only people right now with an active incentive in setting up new websites are those trying to sell you something. Amazon will survive this. The (real) news sites... not so much.

And if you asked me in 2006, when the Internet jumped the shark, whether I'd prefer to have Amazon or the news sites in 20 years, I'd have said the second. Not that there was ever a realistic way Amazon like websites would disappear. But given the choice, I'd prefer to keep the stuff AI is killing.

WB is more than just studios, and Netflix might even benefit from a pared down set of studios to rent out to production companies anyway.

Whoever buys WB ends up with quite a large infrastructure of franchise rights, connections, and cable/internet/streaming stuff. It's not just a company that makes Bugs Bunny cartoons.

Sounds a good reason to require they break out their landline and wireless assets into separate companies then, if there's such a clear conflict of interest.

I feel like if they're going to route fiber anyway, which is relatively difficult to route, adding some cheap copper cabling to it that powers the relatively low power digital modem + POTS convertor (ATA/FXS) from a central battery-backed up unit wouldn't be that expensive - save for the fact they haven't bothered to do it yet so retrofitting it would be more expensive (but wouldn't be necessary for that handful that they're desperately wanting to move to fiber.)

They have the infrastructure, the pipes to route this to, junction boxes close by that can contain the batteries. They even have old buried copper, capable of taking more than the power needed (old analog phones with bells had those bells powered by power from that copper) in some cases they can repurpose for this.

I think the bigger problem is they want all of the money and none of the responsibility. But that's why we have regulators.

"Hell yeah, a credit card!" - people I don't get

I'm finding the idea that something that speeds up your heart like some 1990s 31337 h4x0r overclocking their Athlon is "healthy" just implausible. I have to assume, that given these are peer reviewed studies etc, that there's a germ of truth to them, but I just don't understand it.

Plus too much caffeine for me puts me in a foul mood, increasing my anxiety 200% and making me more prone to frustration. I assume it can't be like that for everyone (or maybe it is? Maybe that explains all this *gestures everywhere*) but... come on. What's the mechanism here to make caffeine "healthy"?

> OP argues that immigrants move to UK to have an easier time finding an employer willing to hire them. I am unsure if this is the main motive. It seems to me people divide themselves by language they can speak due to the colonial history. E.g. people from Mali, Ivory Coast, etc. have friends and family connections in France and do not speak English, are uninterested to move to the UK. In the same way, people from Nigeria have connections in UK and can't speak French, so will always move to the UK.

Still doesn't make any sense and the OP is basically arguing that the UK should become more totalitarian to prevent something that's actually positive rather than negative. People coming into the UK who actually work and support themselves cause no harm to anyone else in Britain, and add to the economy.

But the OP has been drenched in propaganda for... well, decades, Enoch Powell and the National Front were arguing that immigrants bad without giving any logical reason back in the 1970s, so instead of blaming people with actual power who have that power and are abusing it for their own benefit for his problems, he's blaming immigrants and demanding the UK take steps towards totalitarianism and risking the liberty of everyone if a truly fascist party is put in charge - and right now, the second most popular party in the UK is very obviously fascist.

And, no coincidence, is promoting the same "It's the "illegal" immigrants, not the people with actual power, who are causing you harm" rhetoric.

> We actually need this in the UK because we donâ(TM)t have any other means of recognising who is allowed to work and who is not.

Uh-hum.

> This is why so many migrants are attracted to the UK from safe countries like France.

Damn those Frenchies taking all of your jobs!

What about letting people work if they're qualified to do the job? They'll generate wealth and create even more jobs in the process. A win-win situation, if you're not looking for excuses to hate immigrants.

If you are, then you're probably going to buy the logic that somehow people working reduces jobs. Odd how the same people who argue this have no problems with those citizens who are actively hoarding wealth. Is it because they want to believe the worst of immigrants, or is it that the wealth hoarders own a media that's all too happy to point the finger at scapegoats to draw attention from themselves?

Why do you so easily believe, despite no economists backing you up, that the most powerless people on Earth are the ones who are harming you?

Walmart?

Just did a search, indicated I wanted stuff that's in stock at my local Walmart, and they sell a whole bunch of ONN (their house electronics brand) CD radio combos. Two even have cassette players which I find interesting. Prices are about $30.

> elections every two years for the oldest serving member

I should clarify this, even though the "like the Senate" thing probably makes it clear what I meant. I meant "oldest serving term" or something like that. Basically everyone gets a six year term, and the terms are staggered.

Although some might argue age ought to be a factor too. That's just not my proposal.

I don't read the GP as asking for centralization.

I think there are multiple approaches that can be made to make it less of an issue:

1. Split the presidency into a triumvirate, with elections every two years for the oldest serving member (like the Senate) - this way you reduce the power of those elected, making it easier to get rid of them in the event of a corruption scandal. Right now, for understandable reasons, the President is considered above the law because of the sheer logistics of having the country have unbroken governance in the event of an arrest. I'm not suggesting members of the triumvirate should be arrestable for unpaid parking tickets, but making it easier for Congress to deal with corruption without feeling there'd be a "constitutional crisis" or that they'd lose a figurehead they've based their entire identity around if they did would be a massive improvement.

(As an aside, a triumvirate would reduce the attraction of the presidency for those not interested in public service.)

2. Create an absolute code of ethics. Have Congress mandate the IRS release tax returns of all candidates for Federal elected office. Require all elected officials place their estates in the hands of independent groups for while they're in office. (Don't like it? Don't run for f---ing office! You're supposed to be making the people rich, not yourself.) Make this a requirement before anyone is even presented to them as "elected to office" - ie if you don't do it the date you'd normally be sworn in, you're treated as someone who already resigned from office.

3. Give all elected officials a salary that's high enough to sustain a comfortable DC residence and a local residence, and an expenses system that allows them to travel, have a reasonable level of staffing, and so on, so they have zero need for outside income for anything other than campaigning. The fewer excuses an elected official can have for receiving and spending money, the easier it is to catch them when they're caught.

These three changes would be unpopular in some quarters, but I've yet to hear a coherent argument as to why an investor who plans to continue running investment companies for another 40 years is somehow a better politician than a community organizer.

I wouldn't say pragmatic, no. He's tried it, found it works, and now won't listen to the people pointing out the numerous problems with it.

The slopped Linux kernel may well be a violation of the copyrights of several unknowns in Europe, for example. If you're not planning to build a Linux-based product in Europe, not a big issue I guess. Not an issue in the US. But it's amazing how many people think US copyright law is the only type of copyright law.

And that's before we get to changing the entire nature of Linux so it's no longer a project understood by human beings.

This is Bitkeeper all over again. That was the last time Torvalds made a "pragmatic" decision, effectively locking out a large number of kernel devs from kernel development, until he was forced to build Git to replace it.

Oh, until I read the last word I thought you were talking about the US.

These platforms are starting to let people bet on wildfire activity. What a fun way of incentivizing arsonists.

I used to be largely anti-piracy. The fact the corps have decided to abuse copyright at a level I never thought was possible means I don't give a stuff any more. Especially about movies, where the participants were paid already.

Pass the rum.

If they want to continue this "Digital downloads" shit, they can find a way to make it absolutely impossible for anyone to remove something from a library that was sold as being there indefinitely. Maybe allow people to download an encrypted version and put the key in escrow.

I'm not expecting that to happen, Joe Smartphone would never understand it, and the big corps very, very, clearly hate their customers now, I'm just listing it as what would be needed for me to buy them, and why I'll be buying the occasional DVD and downloading the matching HD rip in future (DVD is so I can have the 5.1 soundtrack.)