Donate. There are a myriad of clothing donation networks all over Europe.

On top of this there's the brain drain: getting an academic position in US used to be the holy grail. Now nobody wants or seeks that; and those who have it, want to go away for fear of not being to return to their families after their next international conference.

Tech innovation is not driven by "major" companies anymore. Everything that Google, Amazon or Microsoft is famous for is either Linux, or something Linux does betyer anyway.

What major companies have is good marketing and an early head start. That'sot something that will keep EU back.

Being abusive doesn't make you right.

Outlawing opposing parties was the mechanism of the day back then. Today we don't do that, we have different mechanisms. Still doesn't change the fact that you're defending a bunch of Nazis.

Nice try, but far off.

I had large parts of my education in Germany (though I wasn't born there), and went through all the social and educational post-processing of the guilt associated with being the nation that invented Nazism and systematic extermination of marginalized groups at scale. I didn't understand it back then why this was necessary, but I do now, and it worked: I'm part of the collective immune system that recognizes such threats faster than the rest. This is the reason, BTW, why Germany voted a piss-ass central-right party with overwhelming majority and a historically high election turnout of around 80%, 2 years ago -- although they knew it was the same party that had maneuvered Germany into a tar pit of economic situation for the past half century: because Trump had just gotten elected, and nobody wanted another right-wing party in power with AfD. So they strategically voted CDU/CSU, against all personal pain, although they must be one of the most hated mainstream parties by now.

We were looking at you in horror, because we understand what you don't.

And as far as I can tell, the only one thing that makes today's USA different from 1930's Nazi-imminent Germany is that you won't have the "but we didn't know..." excuse won't work for you.

We know you know. We're telling you right now. And specifically me telling you, personally, is public record.

Suit yourself. I'm not the one whose children will walk around in shame for a generation or two, like the Germans did after WW2.

Yes they are.

It's not the "execution" part that makes them Geatapo, it's the "...and then the perpetrator was protected from inquiry and lawful investigation."

Doesn't matter if it was only one (it was actually two that we know of), it could as well be 3, 4, 40, ... there's no consequence for the Gestapo doing it. Therefore it will soon.be more.

Right there with you. I understand emergency breaking, but don't EVER reach into my steering, unless you're going to fully take over (at which point I'll be happy to take the back seat and sleep until the truly self-driving car has reached my destination).

IPs have been challenged in court. And they're strongly dependent on the jurisdiction. And can be spoofed.

An official ID is a lot simpler.

And the reason is simple: the civilized world is preparing for breakdown. It's about controlling dissent by controlling flow of information and key peole.

I haven't read the standard (why bother?) but I'm guessing that while the platform won't know your true identity, authorities will be able to reconstruct it when they need to. Which is what this is all about.

...and would probably fuck up global climate for 30-odd years or so, until the seismic energy brought into the system dissipates. Either way, fun times :-D

Reducing infringement to civil offense still wouldn't let the AI companies off the hook. And regardless of how we may feel about AI displacing whatever, I think it's blatantly obvious that training AI with knowelane culture is the kind of (attempt at) advancement that should be allowed, not stiffled.

Copyright is obsolete. It was for a long time, but the whole AI issue shows it clear as day.

Whatever the original motives (apparently to foster knowledge and culture), we must find a different way to reach those goals than was did 300 years ago.

*copyright doesn't do that.

Part of becoming an adult is reaching a point usually in your mid-to-late teens where you discover you have a brain, and you wrongfully conclude that you must be "mature" now, since you can obviously follow a logical path from a question to an answer.

Some people get stuck there for a long time.

But when you're truly mature you realize that it's not about how logical or correct the answer is; it's about who gets to ask the question.

"How to live off it", or alternatively "how to pay the artist", is the wrong question. The right question is "how to foster and preserve knowledge and cultural heritage", and doesn't do that. On fact, quite the opposite.

Easy: you need to eat the skin care products, which are high fat. And at the same time drastically cut down on carbs... voila, a keto diet! :-D