So heâ(TM)s going to sue because he doesnâ(TM)t like the *editorial* recommendations?

Iâ(TM)m glad the self proclaimed defender of free speech is defending free speech.

The whole âoeitâ(TM)s super dangerousâ thing served two purposes. First, it hyped the product. It must be earth shattering if itâ(TM)s super dangerous. Second, it was a naked play for government regulation to protect them from competition.

The irony of course is that they played up Skynet, the real societal danger was never going be stopped through regulation. The danger I speak of is that of generated content being taken as truth, whether itâ(TM)s propaganda or just lazy danger like putting glue on pizzas or misidentifying mushrooms.

But of course theyâ(TM)re not concerned with that. That makes money, and anyway, it will get better⦠eventually.

Itâ(TM)s âoequid pro quoâ not âoequid pre quoâ. ;)
If you get the money after the act, then itâ(TM)s not a bribe, but merely a thank you gift!

So does this mean that pressing play on my keyboard will now launch Spotify instead of Apple Music, or what?

Fair use is for everyone.

This really isnâ(TM)t that hard. Fair use is not â" nor was it ever intended to be â" a backdoor âoepay what you can affordâ.

Undoubtedly there are many in the antigenai and antioligarch crowd are going to be cheering this ruling, but I canâ(TM)t help but think this is going to absolutely gut fair use and just make rent seeking by megacorps become even more pervasive.

Information wants to be free, and we scraping is not a crime.

Years ago, my parents that live in rural Illinois had Verizon landline service. Verizon wanted to get out of the rural landline business and sold it to Frontier. Frontier at the time boasted about their rural service. Now Verizon has bought Frontier.

This doesnâ(TM)t exactly bode well for rural landlines.

And when these inputs are ignored?

You can't make blanket statements about how some group "should" behave, when you don't know what's going on.

To follow up on your concerns about " damaging your employer's reputation" and "disrupting your colleagues". If this is disrupting them, then they are bad at their jobs and should be fired. If someone's reputation is being damaged by simpily having their actions known, then that person shouldn't be doing things that damage their reputation. The alternative is "Snitches get stitches."

You aren't being paid to post opinions on social media either, so shut your mouth and know your role. Be drone.

That's how it works right?

Get punched fascist.

Very clever finding notorious hack Bill Saffire commenting on his own column, and painting it as some sort of third party endorsement of his original column that history has shown is a pack of fail. Lest we forget The Starr Report. Lest we forget the final Travelgate report. Lest we forget the transparently political climate.

You need to troll much harder kid. I remember this shit.

T9.

Don't try and be an amateur linguistic historian, when people are alive today that sent SMS messages in the mid 1990s. Also, the history of emoji is in Wikipedia.

So what's the real story? Someone at NTT Docomo wanted prettier emoticons. Then once they had that, they decided to shove all their icons into this new dingbat font for ease of use. Softbank wanted feature parity, so they did the same. Then later the two fonts were shoved together, and so we have the unholy union that gives us ðY"' and ðY--, âoe'ï and ðY-, and my favorite ðY" and ðY"Z.

Pfft, just the corners off. That way you'll be prepared when the robots come to kill you.

True, but it's unlikely that even after The Great Cataclysm(tm), that you'll ever have to build everything from scratch again. There's instruction manuals.

Foxfire has been doing this the mid 1960s. How to raise and slaughter animals. How to grow crops. How to bootstrap iron working, including gunsmithing. Everything you need, and with all the mammy-pamby crap from "urban homesteaders" and preppers. Practical knowledge from people that were doing it daily.