I am sure there are already other companies ready to jump in, to do the same thing. And in a few years, things will be right where they were before- perhaps worse.

The fight shouldn't be against Flock. It should be against the concept of blanket surveillance, data retention/sharing, and using/searching that data without warrants. And that requires changing government legislation, budgets, and mindsets.

Why would Al Lewis be able to fire generals?

The question is ultimately if you would have been better served with doing your own investigation rather than relying on AI, did you retain the knowledge, and was the information complete/accurate.

Yeah, that's my experience too. I haven't seen anyone flip the T'birds the bird.

Back when Top Gun owned Miramar, I'd go down to a relative's house for the yearly airshow. The Angels had a rendezvous point nearby, and we'd see them go by at perhaps a 60 degree angle right over the house. It seemed like they were at 200' as we could clearly see the pilot looking out. Then we'd go to the nighttime show afterwards. Good times.

All good points. Somewhat OT, I remember aircrews hating the Balanced Budget Reconciliation (2012 or so?), where the grownups in the Capitol decided to live within a budget, and each side gave up certain things. Training funds for the military was one of the losers.

Both sides hated it. Hated! And that was the last time the government tried to live within a budget, regardless of administration.

Well said.

Sounds more like a Hegseth thing.

We didn't fire a bunch of competent generals or run them out of office for various political reasons. I'm also extremely at ease because we didn't put a secretary of defense in, excuse me Secretary of war, solely because he was the only candidate who would not rule out ordering the US army to fire on American citizens.

We literally elected the king of debt. 1/4 of all US debt is Trump. That's 10 trillion dollars in debt.

And we did it twice. But I need did you hear how she laughs? And let's not forget, Trump low prices, Kamala high prices.

These days trust on the objectivity of anything news related is so low, that we are stuck with our own believes. Indeed, my first reflex was also... oh Ai doom story for someone to make the headlines. One day the boy will see a wolf and will try to warn all the villagers. Only to be met with shrugs. Can we somehow tax this behavior? Make something good out of it? Use the money to sponsor independent journalists? Yeah, too complicated... too bad.

How on earth can a company force anything on a school? I guess they could, lobby the government. Down here a lot of schools are not owned by the government. (but get their funds from them) It will be very hard to push that agenda. It will not be the first time they successfully fight the government pushing an agenda in court.

Well too bad you're going to get a regular old Nazi from planet Earth.

Apparently his family has actual ties to Nazis from his original country too. Can't say I'm surprised but here we are

They are talking about imaginary Doomsday scenarios to distract from actual major problems coming down the pike.

There's the obvious massive amounts of water and electricity being used at a time when we keep disrupting energy markets for stupid reasons and we're in a constant state of drought for well understood and equally stupid reasons.

But the big problem is AI is a massive automation push. In a world where if you don't work you don't eat we are doing everything we can to eliminate work.

Eventually it's going to erode the tax base and the spending base. There won't be enough money in the economy to sustain it. And it will start to collapse.

And remember no matter how good a shot you you're going to run out of ammo before the world runs out of desperate people with nothing to lose.

No one fed it to me I figured it out myself.

It wasn't hard. The isps are pretty open about wanting to do away with net neutrality and what they're going to do if they pull it off.

Companies have these things called industry groups where they get together and talk about all the nasty things they want to do to us. It is generally out in the open because a lot of folks, yourself included, don't like to think about all the nasty things that they would do to us if we didn't have a huge number of laws against that and a shitload of bureaucrats policing them.

Incidentally you have also been trained to hate bureaucrats. That is on purpose. White collar crime is not enforced by a gun and a badge it's enforced by a clipboard and notebook paper.

It is hardly a surprise that a criminal would put effort into undermining or bribing whoever is enforcing the law. It's really obvious when a cop is on the take it is less obvious when a revolving door makes a bureaucrat look the other way or worse and honest bureaucrat enforcing the law gets fired and replaced by a corrupt one by a political appointee...

>"Officers aren't supposed to get in front of cars and the person we all know you're alluding to"

I was not referring to any particular event. And pointing to just one would not discount the other 99.9+%.

>"Get fucked, Nazi maggot (but I repeat myself)"

You really are a nasty person. And that doesn't even need being repeated.