I've resorted to various blocks that last 30 minutes or so for certain web requests. My site is tiny, so I doubt anyone at AI central is going to notice. I expect more and more will start counter-measures against massive slurping. It is weird though how when people would download say a book or audio file it was grand theft and great effort was spent to find and punish them, but now the AI slurpers suck down the whole of humanity's works and it is just fine. Imagine if the AI co's had to cough up the 250 grand per movie they slurped up(each download of course). We could eliminate all taxes on the people.

It can get mandated. If I remember right, I had to sign up for ID.me in order to make the required payments to the IRS for with-holding for the company. At least I think it was that. Something with the gov required it though, and so I did as required.

254,000 ea. Buy em before they are gone!

So we should throw our hands up and accept that their will always be a "special" group that gets to trample on everyone else? I don't accept that. Capitalism/democracy does not have to accept that. Punishing wrong doers like musk would be a start. A nice start would have been voiding the purchase of twitter by musk with one caveat. Musk doesn't get his money back, not a penny, and the shares he purchased should be returned to twitter at 0 value to musk. Trifle with SEC rules that even I knew about and get burned.

Still hard to believe he prevailed in that defamation case. But hey, money and lawyers to trample the underclass. That event is when I went from disliking musk to despising him. To ruin a man because he did something better than you, well despicable.

I think it could be easily argued that the ultra-rich under capitalism got there thru corruption. Example, musk just settled with SEC for peanuts for gaming the twitter purchase, which was illegal. So first it was corruption that got him twitter, and then it was corruption that got him off with near zero cost. Progressive based penalties would be a start. Instead, for the ultra-rich, they are a mosquito bite, annoying maybe, but not a deterrence.

It is a bubble when A buys B's product in exchange for B buying A's product to inflate both sales figures, which is kind of what is happening. Now I know one sure fire way to stop it. Force them to pay sales tax on the purchase. For many jurisdictions, 6-9% is not uncommon. And if they had to pay that to inflate their bubble, watch the gas come out. Biz often gets a sales tax exemption, and almost certainly are finding a way to get it here.

In a world where regulators do their job, this should have been a giant flag that a thorough investigation into Amazon's practices were warranted. Because I'd expect for every nintendo, there were 100 others who bent over.

It is the whole the ends justifies the means argument. Not very persuasive. The reputational damage this has caused the US is incalculable. The world will be unrecognizable by trump's end. I expect China will be the big winner.

Agree, impeachment conviction by the R's. Makes me laugh. The prior times had plenty of good reasons to convict and I don't think even one R did. And you need 2/3rds. a very high bar. Even Paxton in TX didn't get convicted by his friends in the senate again 2/3rds. And he did everything from stealing gov money to cheating on his wife to financial crimes. Instead of crawling into a hole and disappearing he is running for US Senate, now in a runoff with Cornyn. I did read one strongly conservative republican mailer I got that they could not endorse Paxton even though they wanted to badly because of the cheating. I got the impression the author of the pub was friends with Paxton's now ex-wife, so I am thinking siding with the wife reluctantly.

I've gone the other way. I whitelist only the domains I want. Let em add all they want. I'll toss them by default. I can't imagine why I'd want to accept connections from any of these scam operators.

Something odd is going on though. Trump seems to be obeying the 60 day war power time limit. Frankly I'm stunned. Although it might be as silly as "I suspended ops in Iran Friday, so on Monday when I start again it starts a new 60 day clock." But really I just am stunned trump didn't just break the law again. It is odd. Really odd.

Hopefully the jury sees the crocodile tears and finds appropriately. Not that I like altman either, but the correct answer legally is musk loses. Hopefully with him stuck with court costs and altman's legal fees. It was always about musk not getting his way.

I think it depends as you say. Not completely crazy approach in TX, https://www.fox7austin.com/new... Basically breaks it into speed/power. Keeping a kid under 16 below 20 doesn't seem like a crazy thing to do.

Man if that is the highest level of backstabbing that occurred, I'd consider freshman level at best. I've seen far worse corporate behavior personally in my lifetime.