>All it'd take is about half of you having the actual balls to march on washington and shut it down for a week

That was attempted. It took them two weeks to dilute, lie about, and refuse to report the message, another week to dilute it, and a fourth to make it yesterday's news.

History is full of examples of governments trying and failing to restrict technology. The Venetian Republic attempted to guard glassmaking secrets. European states tried to restrict textile machinery exports during the Industrial Revolution. The Soviet Union acquired Western technology despite extensive Cold War controls. Barriers sometimes slowed diffusion, but they cannot stop it. The advancement of knowledge depends on openness, criticism, and exchange. Scientific progress is cumulative. Every generation builds on discoveries made by others, often across political and cultural boundaries. Patents and copyright were designed to encourage innovation by TEMPORARILY rewarding the innovator, not by becoming a moat. They certainly weren't designed to protect massive global corporations from competition.

China has hundreds of thousands of engineers, world-class universities, substantial domestic semiconductor investment, and access to global scientific literature. America can lock down its own tech and lose in the long run or each side can learn from the other. Either way the American tech hegemony only lives in the imaginations of overindulged national chauvinists.

tldr: Information wants to be free. Screw your IP laws.

...the money and the power. Minute after minute, hour after hour. This is a thinly veiled attempt to give the government more power over AI companies, the end goal being an extra tool to take control of AI models, including open source.

I've seen enough of your posts to know you're an America Hating, Constitution Hating Inbred Cunt, "RigntwingNutJob" you Neonazi Shitbag.

The bigger problem is the number of old devices lying around with a ton of open vulnerabilities. Full disclosure to users of the EOL date, and preferably legislation that manufacturers HAVE to provide security updates for compromise vectors, would be a better set of fixes.

You're an Inbred Dumb Fucking Traitor to America, RightWingTreasonTrashBitchCuntbag.

Not what they did. You're a Lying Constitution Hating Cunt, RightWingTreasonShitbag.

Well, you Klansucking Sisterhumping America Hating ReCUNTlicans already packed the court to try to destroy our Constitutional rights. So I reject your claim that speaking out on matters of public importance as an equal citizen is "corporate sabotage," you neonazi inbred bitchtrash.

I'm wondering how big the market is for room temperature espresso, even if it were as good.

They missed their window of opportunity. A few months ago they could have just bribed Trump into giving them blanket immunity forever. Now that Trump is failing in so many ways that even Republicans are starting to balk at bowing to his every whim, Meta is actually going to have to play the game the old fashioned way and figure out how to bribe all of congress to get their immunity. Poor babies. They should have planned ahead. They could have saved themselves a lot of time and money.

In the middle ages Kings were publicly admitting they were marrying children. Though in "civilized" societies they supposedly waited to start the actual intercourse until they girl had her first period, which could range from twelve to fifteen or so. In not so civilized? It was whenever the husband/leader lost patience or got randy.

I want Starship human rated so we can load one up with Elon, Zuck, Bezos, maybe Branson and a smattering of others, launch them out past the moon somewhere, and just leave them with surveillance cameras on. Let them experience 24/7 surveillance as their supplies slowly dwindle and they are eventually forced to resort to eating each other to survive. Last one to be eaten wins! What do they win? The chance to starve to death instead of being butchered for Haitian Steaks!

They companies want it because they can use it to consume user data. Usage numbers are bullshit since it's forced into everything people use whether they want it or not. I guarantee you if there were an opt-in instead of an opt-out or an opt-fuck-you-take-it-bitch those usage numbers wouldn't be anywhere near what they are today.

Why don't the billionaires just shake the couch cushions on all their yachts, hand what falls out to the state, and stop whining about it?

Bernie's ideas, at least the way he articulates them, come across as well intentioned. This is 100% the reason none of them ever come to fruition on the national stage. You can not convince the owner class to penalize the owner class, and that's what it would take to make any of Bernie's ideas stick.

As much as I don't want to see him give up the fight he tries to put up, what a waste of a life. Always cutting against the grain and getting bucked back into place for it.