IMHO the fact that we have to, under criminal law, to testify against ourself is a violation of our Constitutional Rights, to not incriminate ourselves.
I'm sure there is some weird legal theory that the government uses to get around this.
Things of value are usually rare. The amount of "entertainment" is ever increasing, and thus becoming cheaper and cheaper. Creating MORE isn't going to help.
And with AI starting to be used in the Creation process, that will lower the costs of making it, and start making it widely available to more people in the creation process.
This ends in a death spiral of more and more "entertainment" with less and less perceived value, chasing diminishing returns. I suspect that places like OF will make quick end once AI girls are able to do everything by prompts on the fly for their "users".
"I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it further" -Darth Zuck
Maybe they can hire SpaceX to launch their satellites. Better than failing completely.
Leave politics out of this. Hate people on your own time. I'm looking for VIABLE options to get there. The other option is to cut losses before they just end up being space litter.
I am not a capitalist. I'm free enterprise, the free exchange of goods and services kind of guy. Subtle but distinct difference.
If one wants the protection of Patents (which I'm 100% okay with), one ought to pay for that privilege, in taxes. 100% completely voluntary with the benefits of patents expiring when nobody wants to pay the tax. Mutually beneficial Exchange being key component.
As a Libertarian, I don't suppose to support tax payer funded research. Mainly because such research leads to patents and other protections that are held not by the public for the public good, but rather commercial for profit corporations.
IMHO, the best case for solving THIS issue is tax patent holders for their patents they enforce, as a TAX. Make it steep. Stop paying the tax, the patent goes public domain. This solves a whole bunch of abuses. Make private research funded patents less taxed, and those discovery/inventions that had public funded (tax payer) at the highest rates. Tax the rich, but make it avoidable, just release to the public domain.
The protection of intellectual property ought to come at a cost.
Documenting Stuff? NO WAY!
That is the hardest part of IT for me, is making sure that NOT ME (and sometimes me) can figure out what I did.
We are migrating aways from proprietary to open source. Why?
Once bitten twice shy.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Stop feeding the Trolls.
I don't use BIOMETRICs, On Purpose.
I'm not going to either. Biometrics is not secure, and can be compelled.
They were in flight for how long?
10:21. (less than 11 minutes)
The fact that they are TRYING to claim "experiments" to side track from the Celebrity nature is
Tourists .
Tourists.
There are really two choices, that General Relativity is horribly wrong by a few orders of magnitude.
False Dichotomy. Newtonian Physics works pretty darn well for a lot of situations, is simple, so much so, we still use it because it is practical. But it is wrong.
For all we know, Einstein's equations may be suffering the same basic problem, we just haven't figured out why it isn't working where we see it not working as expected. But it works for a large number of scenarios that it is still usable.
That is my current working theory
The most simple solution to the problems faced here, is that we don't understand physics. In the same way Newton didn't understand the nature of gravity.
I bought an App, years ago. I would buy it again, but it is gone..
I didn't need it. It was just a cool display and tracked my mileage when I was on a trip. "speedometer" I'm sure there are others, but this one was one I liked.
Gone.
It is not every question that deserves an answer. -- Publilius Syrus
