Whenever I set up a new account with them, I go buy a sim, plug it in , do the verification and then days later that sim runs out, etc....
Americans had better take steps to preserve their democracy before it is too late.
The US is a Constitutional Republic....people/representatives are democratically elected to represent our states/people.
That being said....I dunno where the fuck all this "losing our democracy " shit is coming from....more was being done to destroy the US and suppress speech under Biden and the Democrats than anything going on now.
The "democracy" is working just fine here...in fact it's doing very well....I'm quite happy with it....
How many American companies have ties to the U.S. military-industrial complex?
Well those companies are not a risk to the US govt.....China is an enemy of the US, and all companies in China have 1st allegiance to China govt and are required to aid in any way.
US companies, not so much.
Everyone in the US needs to get it through their thick heads...People's Republic of China is not our friends in fact it is an active, antagonistic enemy that is actively pushing for the US's downfall.
Always treat them as such.
I, for one, am glad someone is finally cracking down on explicit images. If you have words to say, post them as actual text! Don't just throw text onto an image and call it a "meme," because that's totally lame.
So, there's no problems with any of the Apple "security" hardware on the Mac boxes with respect to installing Linux and having full access to SDD, memory and other fun hardware stuff for computing?
And here I thought that the way to appease Trump was with a Golden Shower...
Ah...the Russian Hoax documents generated by the Clinton campaign still run STRONG with this one....
Can one put Linux on those? I ask due to all the Apple hardware "security" chips I understand are in there....
Seems it would be nice if I could eventually repurpose it with Linux, maybe throw in a couple of NVIDIA cards to be a local host for some larger AI models...?
Oh sure they'll be outdated in some aspects, but largely, roads and highways don't just get up and move themselves....
And they laughed when I said I don't wanna throw them all out....
I would expect that our backward-ass leaders will instead get all nationalistic and prideful of the "homegrown" Microsoft monopoly
Then we must lead them down a better path.
"It takes four hundred thirty people to man a starship. With this, you don't need anyone. One machine can do all those things they send men out to do now. Men no longer need die in space, or on some alien world. Men can live, and go on to achieve greater things than fact-finding and dying for galactic space, which is neither ours to give or to take. You can't understand. We don't want to destroy life, we want to save it!" -- Blacula
In other words, the "gap" you describe is considered to be good news for the humans who have to do those jobs.
I say this jokingly, but I really did drink the Kool Aide, and I think it's just Kool Aide without any additional harmful ingredients. I'm seriously all for us at least striving to live a completely hedonistic lifestyle, where we never toil because our robots slaves do everything tedious for us.
I want to die in an Orion whorehouse, looking like a character from WALL-E. Only in my final moments do I want to learn the awful truth, when one of the green-skinned ladies' faceplate falls off, revealing a robot.
Ok, maybe it wasn't pure Kool Aide.
The premise is that you would understand how it works. Once we've glossed over the story of finding that holy grail, then you can build minds with different amounts of spite. (e.g. doubly-infinite for a TortureBot, or decreased for most other uses.)
Wait, are you suggesting I can simply hire humans, to design and manufacture these intelligent computers for me?!
Oh, duh, I get it! You're taking Bezos' own point of view, rather than the point of view of his engineers.
But how do the engineers create the intelligent computer? It's not hiring-people all the way down, is it?
This creates a covert listening device, which a crime to operate it in many places and a crime to own in some. That includes the US under 18 U.S.C. 2511. But rest easy, the maximum penalty is only 5 years in federal prison and a $250'000 fine. Nothing to worry about.
You are missing a nuance here in the Federal law.
This is with reference to INTERCEPTING conversation / communication. Federally, it is considered a one-party consent rule situation....as long as one person in the conversation knows, it's ok....so if YOU are recording it is presumed YOU know you are and consent is satisfied.
This law is primarily considered for wiretaps, bugging places, etc.
Legal to do covert, hidden recording? I doubt that.
Happens all the time in the US my friend...please do research this, it isn't like in EU.
Many if not most states in the US have the one party consent laws....so if one person in the conversation knows it's being recorded, no problem.
How do you think all these undercover news stories and blogs get these undercover footage and audio to back up their stories of corruption, etc?
Anyone can do this...and no, there is not a "special carve out" for being a news reporter. There's no special "news reporter license" over here in the US, anyone can report what they want.
For a simple example...how do you think all these undercover footage citizens over here get away with ring cameras and the other myriad of cameras set up to record their property and anything within view of their property?
Please believe that is is true, that in the US, you are largely able to record anything almost anywhere in public without consequences.
Where are the calculations that go with a calculated risk?
