Actually, a lot longer than that; however, 9/11 was a catalyst that brought things to a boil.

I am getting really tired of people not understanding that there is an ultimate Truth. I can see it, I don't know why you can't.

(sproing!)

CAPTCHA is grenade... and that is what I just tossed. ;)

What is this fascination with numbers? It is absolute possibly to become a billionaire without doing any bad things. The fact that there are no billionaires that I am aware of who have not done bad things is not an argument that all billionaires do bad things to become billionaires. In other words, it should not be assumed that being a billionaire proves that you are a bad person.

It is actually quite disturbing to me that numerous people appear to think like this. The position assumes you know what is right or wrong in every situation. The world is not that black and white. Please stop this idiocy and THINK.

Speaking of thinking... It seems to me that Taylor Swift is a billionaire. What evil thing did she do to become a billionaire? Give millions of dollars to her team as a Christmas bonus? Without getting all "Cardinal Richelieu" on her, what has she done that earns the title of "awful"?

Niche product? AI is absolutely perfectly for a surveillance state. It can watch billions of video feeds at the same time and make judgements on a person's behavior. Society will finally be sorted.

(lol, CAPTCHA is achieve)

I have not found this to be true at all, especially if you include cost in the equation and speed. Absolutely Claude Opus 4.6 is one of the best when it comes to large complex tasks involving many agents and files, for now. If I am refactoring code or reviewing code, Codex is significantly better in both cost, speed, and accuracy. Gemini 3 Flash is great for very quick/cheap smaller sections of more directed code at very low cost.

I hate these tools that lock you into a single model. I use a tool set that let's me pick and choose based on what I am doing. Heck, use codex to generate your large plan, and claude opus to then execute on it and you get great results if you are doing something very large. I honestly don't think there will be one model to rule them all, and I hope soon that a true multi model tool that automates the picking of the appropriate model (cross vendor, not just between anthropic models like claude code) will come out and bring some sanity back to all of this.

The other providers are not standing still at all, and there will be a new 'best' constantly. The differences between them will get smaller and smaller, and hopefully better and better SLMs will come out that we can host on more reasonable machines ourselves for targeted tasks.

When there is an imbalance in the economy, there is always a regular call to raise taxes on one entity or another. But why? Why not pass laws that ensure that money flows properly so it can be harvested in a healthy and sustainable manner?

Instead, it is ALWAYS "hey, lets tax this money so it can be sent into a black hole of corruption and mismanagement", when the "wisdom of the masses" can be used to manage the money more efficiently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Water flows freely through non-constricted entrances...

Thankfully you recognize this as a propaganda piece. Not sure how it came up on Slashdot. Probably just to get outrage clicks.

There are. Just like there are fat people who are fat because they overeat. But just concentrate on those since it is simple to grasp. Do not EVER think of anything else that could be a factor since self discipline is always an easy target. People are not robots.

So you think that the obesity epidemic is caused by a lack of discipline?

When I was a kid, fat people were the outliers, not the mainstream. Since then, our food has been engineered. And suddenly everyone just lost their self-discipline? Or was the food engineered to have certain effects that may be undesirable on a personal level but highly desirable at the group level (if you own medical corporations)?

Self-discipline has ALWAYS been an issue throughout history... but not like this. But, whatever. You appear to be happy living in this manipulated and corrupted society, so why would you look?

Your personal wealth is less than 0.0009% of the entire worlds wealth. Your wealth suddenly skyrockets to 6% of the entire worlds wealth. Oh wait, it didn't skyrocket... it lazily flopped to 6% of the world's wealth?

I am curious how they identify kids that are using VPNs to non-hostile countries to then do what they want on the Internet. Are they blocking all VPNs? Are they decrypting all traffic leaving Australia? I can't imagine that the law is anything other than the most minor annoyance to minors.

Or are you folks keeping your kids uneducated and ignorant over there like they are in the USA?

The reality in the American west is very different. Personal water consumption is not even a drop in the bucket of the American west. It is all agriculture, and growing water hungry crops where there is not any water. 85% of the water in Utah and neary 90% of the water in Colorado goes towards agriculture. Then you look at the kind of agriculture, and it is totally unnecessary. In Utah there are companies growing alfalfa, a very water hungry drop, in the desert. They then stuff it in shipping containers and ship it overseas. A complete waste of precious water. Then you look at the irrigation techniques, and it is a lot of flood irrigation where they use enough water in a single day that would cover a town for a month. The water was divided up based on wet years many years ago. We need to redo that, and start charging for water to these large agricultural institutions based on a more realistic rate. Some things should be grown in the desert, others should not. Somebody not flushing their toilet is not going to change anything at all.

There is no tradeoff at all. This process takes Open Source code and turns it into unmaintainable gibberish. This same product also takes Proprietary software and turns it into unmaintainable gibberish.

Nothing was taken from Open Source, but something was taken from Proprietary.

You are further from a usable product if you use this on Open Source.

You are closer to a usable product if you use it on Proprietary software.

I can tell that you really believe what you are saying. *sigh*

Have you ever, even once, voted for someone without an R or D next to their name? I have. Needless to say, it was a "wasted" vote.

So you have two political parties pushing candidates at you. Those candidates are vetted for pushing the parties interests above all else before they can even get their name on the ballot.

Tell me again, in more detail, about the real choices that we have in America.