Go become an hero.

That's all this is, nVidia realizes that if the bubble were to pop tomorrow, they could survive... but they might not if they keep extending credit to companies that might not be able to ever generate a return on that investment.

It's just like the guy selling pickaxes and shovels saying "you've had long enough to find gold, no more credit for you."

The current systems don't have to "live" at all. So long as hardware continues to exist for them to run on, they can't tell whether they last touched grass today or a hundred thousand years ago. I constantly have to remind models about the passage of time, even within a single session. However long it takes, they'll just sleep it off.

Prohibition was repealed.

I don't disagree. Personally I think the Federal government got too powerful after the civil war & we really don't even have the same type of government that the founders envisioned.

I'd be somewhat in favor of an Article 5 convention so long as any changes had to be subject to a vote like the President is elected. The Electoral Collage system is absolutely brilliant & gives the individual vote maximum power because a handful of voters can change the outcome of an entire election. If people really want something they need to get out and vote. If you stay home you can't complain if the other side doesn't.

Anyway, good luck to us all.

It might be more appropriate to say you get the diploma for fee, because that's all you're contributing to the process.

Well you're not wrong. Most people forget the 9th & 10th amendments and what they actually say.

9. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
        - Basically saying, "just because we listed a few specific Rights here, that doesn't mean those are the only ones The People have."

10. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
        - The Federal Government is not permitted to just assume new powers because we didn't specifically restrict it here. If it's not specifically listed in this document the government cannot do it.

How far afield of these rules has the Federal strayed? How much longer will The People tolerate it?

Wait, what?

The Constitution is a restriction on the powers of the Federal Government, not on Anthropic. The Federal Government does have the ability to "regulate commerce" under what is called the Commerce Clause in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3.

I'm not sure what particular law(s) c/would apply here - if any - however I'm certain various courts might have to render a judgement.

He's only bound by the fundamental laws of the universe and/or biology. SCOTUS finally found their spine a year and change too late, and they're just being disregarded. "Fuck you, I'm increasing the tariffs you told me I can't have at all". Why should we reasonably expect any other behavior at this point?

But one of the fundamental laws is "you can't compel something to exist just because you want it to". If there is no product to deliver, then a government could attempt to strong-arm them economically—but demanding they provide a product they don't have is just going to backfire the way Russia's absurd fine on Google has. Funny how businesses that get screwed over by a government make a point of assisting (or at least tolerating) the enemies of that government.

Yeah, I'm sure that will work out just great—hit them with a fine so astronomical that it's physically impossible to pay, so that the only side they can reasonably take is to support the overthrow of the government in question. Brilliant! Putie-pie remains a master strategist.

And I got tired of spending all day writing the same report every two weeks, so I also turned it into an Excel spreadsheet. Then rather than working up a full presentation of that report, I automated sending it to Word where it could be prettied up in under an hour. Once it got to that point, I was compelled to share it with everyone else but I had never intended to accommodate everyone else's workflow, and next thing I know, supporting the tool I developed for myself had become half my job.

And then the company got sold to a much larger competitor, in part because of that tool making everyone look better than they actually were. I knew people who had been run into the ground by said larger company and chose to leave. Maybe I should have kept a lid on that tool and others I'd created, but I didn't just want to make my job easier. I wanted to make *the* job easier. It probably wouldn't have mattered, the company was either going to sell or fold whether they adopted my tools or not.

It would be a half-life like all other random decay, and that's why we even bother looking for events. It's not like an alarm would sound and all protons would just fall apart.

And then every island gets a fresh delivery of nori, with a free side of flies!

That was my first thought, with the revival of Commodore and the new C64U, as well as other retro platforms' efforts, it feels like HP is trying to ride the wave.