For hundreds of years, conservative is the label given to the political wing that desires maintaining social and political and economic hierarchies. It is a faction label given in the past to those who supports monarchy.
I effectively don't have the same level of free speech as the members of the board of directors at iHeartMedia. So I am not terribly sympathetic yhat corporate entities have to operate under restrictions and regulation. They still enjoy a power that us individuals cannot obtain.
The demographics that the media caters to are divided more by income than by political ideology. Poor white trash that thinks that investing in gold through some website they heard on the radio is one demographic. Rich white woman that is looking for an all natural facial scrub that will reverse aging while donating a portion of the profits to the whale. Take your pick how a talk show schedule is built around those ad markets.
The big underlying issue is why does Microsoft deliver software with so many flaws?
Because people kept buying their software.
Indiana is at the far end of a very large (too large) time zone, so the clocks always felt a bit off. I would have had the same problem when I was in western Michigan, but it was cloudy 6 months out of the year so who knew when noon really was. I always just assumed the noon whistle was noon and let the Sun do its own thing.
Great. I wonder how many members of Congress think this means we get more daylight.
I'm more of a Baby Ruth fan, but they renamed it and changes the recipe so it is basically extinct.
What's the point of blaming the previous administration when they can no longer do anything about it? I could blame Nixon for not doing something about climate change, for all the good it would do.
As for AGI and worse, ASI, the risk to human civilization is very real. The rest of us are in peril right now without regulation and an international framework to inspect and confiscate materials for dangerous AI projects. A failure of leadership to lead. A failure of governments to protect its citizenry. Treating AI as just another business is a massive blunder.
Change the laws and tax AI. Perhaps a per token fee, or a flat annual tax based on computational side. All on the assumption that copyright violation is just going to happen. Not unlike how some countries charge a tax on blank media.
Ideally it should be done by treaty and cut through every major economy in the world.
Some of us still cynically hang onto our Cold War experiences. Once we started realizing that border agents can search your phone if you travel within 100 miles of a border, we got a little paranoid about what the government would find in our profiles and on our devices.
With my text messages, there are quite a few conversations that end with "hang on, let's talk voice" or "let's meet up later". I'm not the only person that is distrustful of the power that the federal government has. And of course, anyone with a half a brain distrusts what private corporations are going to do with your data once they get their claws on it.
How are we supposed to sell ad space in children's loot box games if the government takes away all of our users?
Half my salary at my old job was paid in stock. I assure you, both the federal and state government consider it income. I pay taxes on the cost basis, same rate as any ordinary income on a W-2. The I pay taxes again when I have realized gains.
I'm wondering where the free services come rolling in from all this socialism. Everytime there's a petition to do something about rent, there are a bunch of ads put up to say "No on proposition __". It is almost like the landlords run our cities instead of socialists
Bingo. Seriously, how much of a worm does a person need to be to want a master?
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.
