"applying the ban only to the use of personal data to set higher prices without establishing a baseline or standard price".
So you set very high baseline prices, then use personal data to offer varying discounts. That does look like a loophole.

How about "No dynamic prices or discounts based on personal or biometric data are allowed"? Put in an exemption to offer a discount to certain classes (student or vet discounts, discounts for seniors)
In the past dynamic prices (discounts) were used to increase turnover: get new customers in the door with offers, keep them coming back with loyalty programs, and have them buy more with volume discounts. Now, it is used to extract the maximum amount of cash from every customer. It seems that the MBAs who came up with this have fully embraced the first tenet of communism: from each according to their ability.
"How much is this item?"
- "How much do you have?"

Even on Xbox you can still buy the games. You only need the subscription if you want to play online, but you can buy the lowest tier service without all the games.

You don't need a subscription as every game offered is still available for purchase separately.

Or rather rent, since digital purchases are not quite purchases, just a long term rental.

I remember when Columbine happened. I also remembered when the Federal building in Oklahoma got blown up. Guess what WAS'T around back then? That's right: OpenAI wasn't a thing. But those events still happened.

Blaming a chatbot for a tragedy is like blaming McDonald's for your obesity: even if the restaurant didn't exist, you were going to end up in that condition because of your eating habits anyhow. The name of the restaurant might have changed but the song remains the same.

This guy had it in his head to shoot up the school, OpenAI or no OpenAI. Rounds were going to fly downrange even if AI didn't exist. This is some lazy logic.

>> "National service should be a universal duty"

In other words: "Service guarantees citizenship"

Next: the US annexes the Philippines, again.

BBC tends to be unbaised when they report on American news because they don't care about D and R.

When the BBC reports on British news, they are biased. (But compared to comedians they are extremely good).

If you look at $40 is having your pocket picked they just don't care about you anymore. You are no longer a worthwhile consumer to them.

Increasingly the focus of large corporations is on more affluent consumers that would see $40 as peanuts. Like if somebody picked your pocket and walks off with a nickel you just wouldn't care. You probably wouldn't even notice the missing nickel. That's the kind of consumer Disney wants.

It's always funny, any time you hear someone say that somebody else's job could easily be replaced with AI.
It's universally about a job they have never done a day in their lives. Programmers, Accountants, Customer Support staff, all supposedly very easy to replace by just plugging in ChatGPT according to 'experts'.

In reality this is just just a fundamental misunderstanding of what an accountant, CS staff or linguist does.

I just want to make sure I'm following what you're implying.

Your standpoint is that as long as the richest, most influential people in Europe... those with the greatest capacity to trade for any commodity or service that exists... as long as they can leverage their way into a fuel load, then reports of limited supply are false.

That's your position?

Just like with their former dependency on Russian energy only a few years ago, Europe once again finds itself incapable or unwilling to mitigate risk in the same sector. Shocking.

Well, you dumb fucktards voted in the failing "warfighters", who want to "take their oil", so it is you that's the problem.

By all accounts your new jezus is desperately trying to bring back the Obama agreement he himself destroyed.

How dumb is that on a scale from 0 to 10? Well, 11.

For the Brits perhaps, most Europeans have no clue about stones. SI has kilos. Rounded it's probably 100 kg.

Ireland and Italy and Spain have its share of people who see angels. Oddly the number of UFO sightings and angel sightings are highly concentrated around areas with geological pressure Peltier related electrical oddities. Oddly New England has ghost issues around the similar geology.

Some of the most popular 3D-printed guns were developed in Europe. Americans don't really need 3D-printed guns, because they can just buy real guns. Europeans do.

First, the gun problem is pretty much specific to the US. Other developed countries get along without "muh gunz" for the most part, and their societies haven't fallen prey to dictators. Yet ironically, the "land of the free" is now a Fascist dictatorship, in spite of all those armed citizens. So much for taking up arms to dethrone tyrants! Maybe the US should just re-think this whole "guns are sacred" thing?

Second, in a country which just this year has had 21 school shootings as of today, the real problem isn't printed guns. It's a whole set of cultural, social, political, and governance flaws which need to be fixed. Other developed countries have nothing even close to the gun problem that Americans put up with. Citizens of other nations don't feel a moment of panic and start scoping out shelter and escape routes when they hear some random loud bang while walking down the street.

Leave the 3D printers alone. That's a war that can't be won; those laws will make it more difficult and costly for individuals and businesses to print benign stuff, while doing almost nothing to prevent those serious about printing guns from doing so. Don't hobble your 3D printers - fix your social, political, cultural, and economic shit.