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Comment I'm just glad (Score 1) 4

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.

Submission + - FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to foreign powers (arstechnica.com)

Local ID10T writes: The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved Paramount Skydance's plan to sell large equity stakes to the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.

Under US law, companies with licenses to run broadcast stations need FCC approval to have direct or indirect foreign ownership exceeding 25 percent of the company's stock. Paramount says its indirect foreign ownership will reach 49.5 percent after it receives investments from the sovereign wealth funds and filed a petition asking the FCC to waive the foreign ownership limit.

Paramount, the owner of CBS, holds FCC licenses for the 28 local CBS stations that it owns and operates. Paramount is buying Warner Bros. Discovery in a $111 billion deal that is being partially financed with foreign investment but hasn't completed the acquisition because US states filed a lawsuit that aims to block the merger. Trump's Department of Justice approved the merger.

The FCC is letting Paramount sell indirect ownership stakes to "some of the most repressive governments in the world," FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, the only Democrat on the commission, said yesterday. "An investment this large in one of America's biggest media companies doesn't just buy equity, it secures influence over what gets said and what gets made."

Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 1) 87

The fiscal conservatives at work again. What's the hourly cost to taxpayers for flying an F16?

The pilots of these machines need to log actual flight time in order to be good at it. We set minimum training hours to maintain their flight qualifications, and then struggle to find something for them to do while they are flying around. Airshows and flyovers are done as ways to occupy some of those hours of flight time.

It is not a waste of money. It is money that would be spent anyway.

Comment OpenAI and Anthropic both amazingly incompetent (Score 1) 37

You'd think they'd be concerned about security even if just to protect themselves from corporate espionage, yet they can't even secure their own systems.

Presumably (but who knows - they seem incompetent) they've tried using their own models to hack/secure themselves, and the fact that they've failed rather taints their whole "look what a powerful hacking tool we've built" story.

Comment Re: for mental constipation ... (Score 1) 127

What have I failed to show? Your premise that someone promised nukes to someone in 2030 is absurd.

Nobody promised nukes to anybody, and the JCPOA worked to prevent Iran from developing them.

Only you magat morons in your fantasy world spin stories about it.

Stories that never ever had a basis in reality.

MAGA == stupid as fuck and just about as gullible.

Comment Re:AI Doom Slop (Score 1) 87

You keep repeating the "nu nuckes" mantra as if it is true.

But there is no equivalence between a concrete, working solution that physically prevented a crisis (JCPOA) and a hypothetical nightmare scenario used to justify blowing up that very solution, which is what you MAGAt morons did, pushed a bit by the lies of an indicted war criminal who desperately needs wars to avoid going to prison.

You're pathetic, really.

Comment Re:Fair point (Score 1) 92

Probably "Mind your own business".

I don't agree with UK policy here, but the US telling other countries what they're allowed to legislate when it affects foreign entities is a little rich given its laws have literally impacted, for example, EU officials investigating Israeli government war crimes.

Comment Re:for mental constipation ... (Score 1) 127

Do tell, how is $5K per head giving workers ownership or control of the means of production?

Or are you another propagandized dick who's so used to misusing the term that you're another person who'll vote against things like socialized healthcare because sOcIaLiSm without knowing what the consequences of either are?

Word to the wise: either you're lying, or you've been lied to. A movement that embraces trade unions and the cooperative movement is not defined as "the government doing stuff".

You are why we can't have nice things.

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