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Comment So they're not after productivity (Score 0) 27

They're after low wages. You have to think about the labor market as a whole not just your slice of it. When you get to the c level that's what you're doing. You're hanging out with your other multi multi-millionaire or billionaire golf buddies talking about how you're going to lower wages in your industry so they can lower wages in their industry so that everybody's wages can be lower.

This is important because even if it costs you slightly more overall you get a lot more power out of it. And it's not about money at that level. It's about power. It's about the ability to tell you what to do and you have to do it or they take away your access to food and shelter and healthcare.

That's the difference between you and them. They think in a completely different way about everything.

Comment Re:Until it's Free as in Linux (Score 4, Interesting) 38

What has happened is that the distillers have made use of the frontier models in ways that violate the "Terms of Service".

The question at hand is whether the terms of service should even be allowed to contain those clauses. If you're paying for access to the model, it should be your business what you use the output for. If they don't want you using the data you got out of it, they can not sell you access to it in the first place.

Comment Jesus Fucking Christ (Score 1) 27

some workers who were paid below $50,000 per year will walk away with pay increases that are as much as 34%."

Anyone mad about this should note that $50,000 per year is what In-n-Out Burger pays a FT employee in California, and then they should fuck off to the farthest possible point to fuck off to, and then fuck off some more.

Comment Re:Knock it off already. (Score 1) 187

By your logic

You don't know shit about logic, son, you only know emphasis.

There are better ways to fight mass surveillance than to attack the one who had nothing to do with it. Thats how innocent workers end up dead in the streets.

There are no innocent workers installing surveillance equipment. Zero.

Comment Re:Actively stalking is a different behavior ... (Score 1) 187

The job of the police is not to protect, it is not to stop crime. They may from time to time do these things, but that is not their job. Their job is to enforce the will of the state on the citizentry. Nothing more. They are the tool to ensure the state gets what the state wants. If it is in the interest of the state to set a speed trap and use the police to fund the county, that's what the police do. If it is in the interest of the state to disenfranchise a populace, that's what the police do. If it is in the interest of the state to protect one area of town over another due to wealth, that's what the police do.

Comment Re:Same error often repeated (Score 1) 25

the person downloading such a component is responsible for "looking over it" before using it.

I'm sorry, but since when?

Since the license disclaimed responsibility.

You absolutely should not be tasking every single user of major projects with the responsibility of doing a code review on the whole thing before installing it.

And yet that is the current, prevailing situation. There is no warranty, so you are responsible, full stop. But this is true for closed commercial software as well. If they are exploited and consequently send you malware, it's your problem.

There needs to be a clear distinction between "fly-by-night thing that some rando uploaded" and "library that a million people depend on".

There hasn't been since we moved away from the cathedral model, but you couldn't trust the cathedrals either.

But now we have both (including the potential for "soundalikes") installed by the same means with no distinctions made by the install method.

The serious things get integrated into distributions and you can get them that way. If you choose to get them another way in order to get a newer version or a fork, you are taking an additional risk. Again, this is how the bazaar model has always worked. This is not new.

Comment Re:except they do not (Score 1) 119

rather it just outs you as being on the spectrum.

That I can look things up in a dictionary? Fine. I'd rather be on several spectra all day than be an ignorant prick who deludes himself through misuse of words that do not mean what they think they mean but invoke an emotional response that convinces me that I'm right, like a warm blanket of bullshit.

You're choosing to use words that don't mean what you claim they mean on purpose to try to make your argument sound legitimate, by ascribing things to a piece of software which flatly do not apply. It's not a metaphor, it's just moronic.

Comment Re:celebrities (Score 1) 187

I think this is how celebrities feel, stalked by cameras. It is what killed Princes Diana.

Riding around with an arms merchant is what killed Diana. Alternatively, some claim she was about to expose something about land mines, but there's really nothing to expose there since nobody doesn't know that people use them and in order for that to happen, someone has to make them and sell them. Nobody wants to know any of this shit because all of the allegedly civilized/developed nations are in on it. They are ALL massive arms dealers. Watch some videos from the UK tank museum sometime, they talk constantly about how these vehicles were sold to that regime and participated in such and such conflict, usually without mentioning that they were acts of oppression or whatnot. It's just all jerking off over military hardware all the time.

Comment Re: when reporting becomes stalking (Score 1) 187

It's now illegal to investigate fraud in California.

Every CWD (county welfare department) in California has a SIU (special investigations unit) made up of badge-and-gun-carryingcops. If you have evidence of fraud like trafficking of EBT cards, your CWD's SIU department would appreciate a call.

Comment Re: Kimmel Doesn't Want to give Republicans a Pla (Score 1) 269

Nope. Going broadcast for both creates fairness.

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA

You misunderstand. In a live broadcast Paxton may mentioned some inconvenient truth about Talarico. Some things he did or said. A live broadcast allows that to reach the public. In a YouTube based interview that can be edited out.

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

I triple-quaduple promise you that Paxton would WANT his video edited out to remove things which are true. But it will never happen because he is a) too much a coward and b) too busy doing securities frauds which you support because it goes along with your support for child rape.

Die in a fire, Child rape lover.

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