Comment Re:Buy Chinese EVs? (Score 1) 23
Zero emissions or Human Rights. You have to pick one, in your scenario. Where do you fall?
Comment Re:Holup (Score 1) 128
Are they still a thing?
Yes, for people over 80 and some businesses.
Yes, for people over 80 and some businesses.
Comment Good for her! (Score 2, Insightful) 141
That's what everyone feels like they want to do with people who wear these glasses but doesn't have the courage for follow through themselves.
Comment Re:Like His Fat Ass Can Fit In One (Score 3, Funny) 199
That would be unconstitutional.
Comment Meanwhile (Score 0, Troll) 91
Human-driven cars passed school busses 40,000 times in the same time period.
Submission + - Republicans Drop Trump-Ordered Block On State AI Laws From Defense Bill (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A Donald Trump-backed push has failed to wedge a federal measure that would block states from passing AI laws for a decade into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) told reporters Tuesday that a sect of Republicans is now “looking at other places” to potentially pass the measure. Other Republicans opposed including the AI preemption in the defense bill, The Hill reported, joining critics who see value in allowing states to quickly regulate AI risks as they arise.
For months, Trump has pressured the Republican-led Congress to block state AI laws that the president claims could bog down innovation as AI firms waste time and resources complying with a patchwork of state laws. But Republicans have continually failed to unite behind Trump’s command, first voting against including a similar measure in the “Big Beautiful” budget bill and then this week failing to negotiate a solution to pass the NDAA measure. [...]
“We MUST have one Federal Standard instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes,” Trump wrote on Truth Social last month. “If we don’t, then China will easily catch us in the AI race. Put it in the NDAA, or pass a separate Bill, and nobody will ever be able to compete with America.” If Congress bombs the assignment to find another way to pass the measure, Trump will likely release an executive order to enforce the policy. Republicans in Congress had dissuaded Trump from releasing a draft of that order, requesting time to find legislation where they believed an AI moratorium could pass.
For months, Trump has pressured the Republican-led Congress to block state AI laws that the president claims could bog down innovation as AI firms waste time and resources complying with a patchwork of state laws. But Republicans have continually failed to unite behind Trump’s command, first voting against including a similar measure in the “Big Beautiful” budget bill and then this week failing to negotiate a solution to pass the NDAA measure. [...]
“We MUST have one Federal Standard instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes,” Trump wrote on Truth Social last month. “If we don’t, then China will easily catch us in the AI race. Put it in the NDAA, or pass a separate Bill, and nobody will ever be able to compete with America.” If Congress bombs the assignment to find another way to pass the measure, Trump will likely release an executive order to enforce the policy. Republicans in Congress had dissuaded Trump from releasing a draft of that order, requesting time to find legislation where they believed an AI moratorium could pass.
Comment Re:no thanks (Score 1) 155
Comment Re:no thanks (Score 1) 155
I think that was Seinfeld reference - there was an observation made Subarus were mainly driven by lesbians.
Comment Re:os/2 failure fallacy? (Score 1) 44
I'm struggling to see what fallacy there
The "OS/2 fallacy" is based on the idea the product failed because of Windows compatibility - mainly that developers were disinclined to develop native OS/2 programs and that tanked the OS. This is provably false (it was a popular feature), and the success of Steam is the rebuttal to this. OS/2 failed for a variety of reasons unrelated to this, mainly poor management, poor marketing and an "IBM culture" that wasn't conducive to developing a consumer-friendly product.
The "OS/2 fallacy" is based on the idea the product failed because of Windows compatibility - mainly that developers were disinclined to develop native OS/2 programs and that tanked the OS. This is provably false (it was a popular feature), and the success of Steam is the rebuttal to this. OS/2 failed for a variety of reasons unrelated to this, mainly poor management, poor marketing and an "IBM culture" that wasn't conducive to developing a consumer-friendly product.
Comment Re:Say no to emulation, bridges, etc. (Score 4, Insightful) 44
That worked so well for Loki (do you remember them?). What Valve is doing is bringing Windows APIs to Linux, and this strategy is succeeding where native-or-go-home has failed. Your argument sounds like the OS/2 failure fallacy.
Comment Re: Unleashed animal runs into street? (Score 1) 169
Streets are for motor vehicles. Sidewalks are for pedestrians.
Comment Re: Unleashed animal runs into street? (Score 2) 169
Signs at the beach stating "Swim at your own risk" are for the lawyers when someone drowns and sues the city. No reasonable person is going to see these signs and change their behavior.
Submission + - US President Donald Trump Pushes for Abolition of Income Tax (foxbusiness.com)
An anonymous reader writes: US President Donald Trump suggested Americans may not have to pay income tax in the near future due to tariff-driven revenue.
President Trump stated "at some point in the not too distant future you won’t even have income tax to pay".
If enacted, abolishing income tax would mark the most ambitious overhaul of the American tax system in more than a century. Trump’s repeated public support for replacing income tax with tariffs makes this the most explicit endorsement yet.
President Trump stated "at some point in the not too distant future you won’t even have income tax to pay".
If enacted, abolishing income tax would mark the most ambitious overhaul of the American tax system in more than a century. Trump’s repeated public support for replacing income tax with tariffs makes this the most explicit endorsement yet.
Comment Re:You're thinking about this wrong. (Score 1) 199
Imagine the conspiracy theories.
Comment Re: Unleashed animal runs into street? (Score 3, Interesting) 169
Anyone falling into subway tracks is the fault of someone besides the person who fell in, because it is insanely idiotic in this day and age from a safety point of view for there to be no wall between the train and the platform.
Sorry, what's idiotic is this point of view. Taken to it's logical conclusion, we should have walls around the beach because someone might walk into the ocean and drown.
Sorry, what's idiotic is this point of view. Taken to it's logical conclusion, we should have walls around the beach because someone might walk into the ocean and drown.
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