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Comment Re:Oh I got the evalator no go blues (Score 1) 159

Every decent song has ALWAYS been full of plagiarism. Liszt copied music from the Gypsies. Irish Bards used to be *forbidden* (by their guild) to create new tunes. They were only allowed to set new words to old tunes. Copyright law is an abomination in the realm of music. (In some other places I'd argue that it was just too long, but in music it just shouldn't exist at all.)

Comment Re:Just change your debit and credit card# (Score 1) 86

Better still, my credit card company can generate a new "virtual card" on demand for me with a new number, plus an expiration date that I specify and a spending limit.

Furthermore, never use a debit card if you can use a credit card. The protections on debit cards are all at the discretion of the bank, while credit cards have protections defined by law.

Comment Re:Hire a live musician? (Score 1) 159

Yes, I know that 4,500 annually is a lot less than hiring a live musician, but:

.. venues still need to pay PROs for live performances: the songwriters still need to be paid. And, even if the artist claims to perform only self-written music, the PROs will attempt to find a bar or two that can be heard in some commercially licensed music.

Comment Hire a live musician? (Score 2) 159

Yes, I know that 4,500 annually is a lot less than hiring a live musician, but:

1) Don't complain about how your attempt to avoid paying technology to do something much cheaper than a person is now costing your more money.

2) For a chain with say 100 hotels/bars, it is not unreasonable to hire 3 groups of live musicians for 8 hour shifts and broadcast it live at all locations.

Comment Duh. (Score 1) 71

Games that people understand the game rules have people that play logically.

Games that people do not understand the rules cannot be played logically and must instead be played using non-logical methodology.

Note, a lot of the theoretician's claims of 'illogical' behavior is caused by people's natural mistrust of other people. (I.E. those money now vs money later studies do not take into account the people not trusting the scientist to actually pay them later. The scientists think the pay later is 100% guaranteed, when the participant knows his uncle still hasn't payed him that $5 he promissed.)

Comment Should be an Executive order (Score 1) 52

Of all the crappy Executive Orders the President(s) have given, this is a simple thing that any President should have done:

"We will under no circumstances sign any purchase order that prevents or impairs our ability to repair the equipment we buy, rent, license or otherwise pay for use. Agreeing to such a contract is an act of sabotage against the United States and will be prosecuted by military tribunal."

Comment Volunteer for overtime? Yes. For unpaid? NO. (Score 1) 112

I am sure someone smart said instead of assigning people to overtime, ask for volunteers - meaning volunteer to be paid overtime.

Then some moron said "Oh, you mean volunteer for no pay? Sure, we can do that!"

That second guy should be fired for immense stupidity.

Companies like to pretend they are families. Families do not fire you.

Comment Re:So something I don't think anyone is asking (Score 1) 47

Your model of an AI is wrong. EVERYTHING an AI says is a "hallucination", it's just that a lot of those hallucinations match reality. Even "Stocastic Parrot" is closer to correct than "An AI just regurgitates what it finds in its data set".

(P.S.: Most of your memories are wrong. They're also "hallucinations" that sort of "match reality". One test of this is to list everything that's in a room you haven't been in for awhile (say at least 10 minutes) and where in the room it was located. Then go to the room and notice all the things you forgot, or added, or misplaced. No excuses allowed like "but that wasn't important".)

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