I promise you that this default would not stand if he were actually going to respond to it in a timely fashion, say 90 days or so. 5 years from now would be too late.

There is no precedent here at all. This is a default judgement like a zillion others issued against people who don't pay their credit card bills and such and don't respond to the summons and complaint.

Probably didn't show up for the PPO hearing in WV either, and whether the mail went to the right address depends on how well this guy keeps his records up to date say, with the state DMV. He may not even know this is going on.

The dude didn't respond. There was no hearing or trial. They'll have to get a bailiff in WV (assuming they could find him) to take action to enforce the judgement.

The defendant could, if he desired, get this default vacated pretty easily. That said, I don't think the dude has two pennies to rub together and this is going to be an unpaid judgement. Trumpeting this as some kind of justice is kind of silly under the circumstances. Nothing actually happened other than lawyers drafting papers and waiting for the guy not to respond.

Come on man, believing that is silly. Nothing changed. They were calling Bush Hitler too. Literally nothing changed. Even the propaganda is the same.

I'm against the oligarchic and monopolistic nature of our current crony capitalism, and an organization like the FTC seems just the antidote to a lot of that. It's just the work of the FTC's internal team hasn't exactly been exemplary. Some of these cases they are arguing about were definitely winnable. I mean poor performance amongst government employees is not exactly unknown, but perhaps she should be focusing on that.

Maybe hire some private law firms/paralegals as trainers/consultants or something. Just a thought.

That said there are lots of people in government who are against what I just said above, and perhaps this is wilful incompetence.

By that argument I may place a sign in front of my door "Entering these premises may result in disembowelment" and evade liability for chopping people up when they enter.

No go. Doesn't work. It's simply a speed bump on the way to being held liable. Disclaimers are intended to *attempt* to skirt liability, not protections.

They're going to ask where the information came from and how it ended up on a user's screen. What is OpenAI going to blame, the training data?

The liability is somewhere between OpenAI and the website owner.

Ukraine isn't going to get into NATO - ever - because no one wants to end up at war on day 1 with a power with a huge nuclear arsenal. There is a situation where they would use that, it seems an article of faith for the (very foolish people) today to attempt to push the situation to the point where that arsenal gets used.

You (very foolish people) discounting that since the beginning is the problem here. Also the consistent attrition of the Ukrainian people through battle casualties isn't doing the country any favors in the long term, especially since they'll have to accept a humiliating peace under all imaginable circumstances.

Amateur prognostication is fun, otherwise.

Everyone at the executive level is a crook. Some haven't been caught yet.

Expect lots of anti-change advocacy anyway. These people are still fighting a rear guard action against the repeal of Prohibition. Anything they could do to make it difficult to drink in public places is something they are interested in.

The obvious is not going to be so obvious here.

I suspect it was about turn signal *controls*, not the signals themselves.

Congress would have done what Congress does, and the uniparty would have gone marching along in lockstep. Even a Republican can't afford to reduce standard of living for wide swathes of the population via economic disolocation.

Really, who we vote for has very little in the way of repercussions. Playing rah-rah like it's a football game and/or a tournament is all well and good, as long as you don't expect much difference.

Only the last one has merit. The training software has nothing to do with operations and isn't taken seriously by soldiers themselves.

The last one...maybe. I think the real problem with remotely piloted drones is the lag time on the comm links. Keep that in mind, and remotely piloted drones are very limited, actually. I think the operations of same are going to have to change because of that kind of logistics and it won't be from some rear echelon center, and all the considerations I bring to attention above become important again.

Attempts to militarize gaming technology are uniform (ha) failures. I've been a military contractor working in communications and electronics for the last 25 years. I've watched initiative after initiative crash into the rocks. The two mindsets are completely alien to each other. Getting people who work in FAANG companies - or Microsoft to talk to actual soldiers is laughable. And smaller firms don't have the technology you are talking about, or the gravitas to get their way with the military.

I'll give a brief example. It occurred to someone that Microsoft's edge stacks - with a local implementation of Azure - would be great stuff for forward deployed units. The demand from the MSFT side (and in essence the hardware provider) was that only their staff handle basic maintenance, like replacing drives. This then breaks on the rocks of "who is going to go to Kabul or whatever other shithole we happen to be operating in to replace this hardware". Then, the military's clear reluctance to be dependent on a commercial entity for the actual logistics of fighting a war. They'll hire consultants to consult and train their people, but not to be dependent upon, even though an honest conversation with officers will result in them admitting they _are_ utterly dependent on the external support. They have to pretend otherwise for leadership consumption.

Another example is the Google rebellion over sharing AI with the DoD. Are they really going to get in bed with organizations that would do that with them? Fuck no.

Lastly, the people that work in those companies have no relationship to military imperatives of mission, 24x7 operations regardless of circumstance, that kind of thing. Two different languages. The problem has gotten _worse_ rather than better over time. Embedding say, MSFT people in with a unit does bridge the gap a little, but only a little.

There is no unfucking a process where the Overton window defines the two alternatives, and both result in a corporatist government whose policies don't vary all that much. This is why people like me call it a uniparty.

But the case they brought to court was a shit case. I'd have dismissed it myself.

There was ample material to construct a much stronger one.