No upbraiding. I'm not trying to vilify or exalt Disney, Tesla, or Elon, nor do I expect anyone else to do so.
I'm just saying the article headline is deceptive, perhaps amusingly so. And I'm a bit surprised that the discussion appears to be mostly about the movie, with little about the Tesla display-mode.
But I am wondering whose idea this was: Disney's (for the product placement) or Tesla's (for appropriation of coolness)? I'm guessing the latter.
It seems most people posting her are Tron fans talking about the movie.
I haven't seen anyone comment on the headline. No, Tron Ares Mode does not turn Teslas into glowing light-cycles. It changes the avatar for the vehicle displayed on the infotainment screen. At least TFS got that right.
We haven't been "at war" with anyone since WWII, although the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Somalia, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, etc. might disagree a little bit.
I was talking about a war declared by Congress. That's the only kind that matters when it comes to a charge of treason.
And yes, you're right, the last time that happened was World War II. Armed conflicts have occurred since then, but they're not the same.
The only current war we have is that of the current administration against the US Constitution.
FTFY.
Currently the USA is not at war with anyone. Therefore it is impossible for anyone to commit treason. They might be doing something else illegal, but you can't call it treason.
It's like the stupid minority, trans, and others that choose to fake hate crimes against themselves to prove how the attacks are common and how they are victims.
Those things do in fact happen. And they are common. No need to fake them, though some lunatics might.
What kind of fucking wingnut believes in AGW and then lights a forest fire?
Someone who is even more mentally unhinged than someone who would start a forest fire deliberately in the first place.
Sorry to drag out a cliché, but "both sides" have 'em. It's up to the rest of us to have a rational conversation without them.
I think we agree that tax-dodgers should be punished. But I don't think that punishment should be revocation of citizenship.
As for treason, at least in the USA, it is defined clearly in the Constitution as waging war against the USA or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. Not tax-dodging or leaving (even fleeing) the country.
I also agree that ill-gotten (i.e., illegal) gains should be "taxed" at 100%. There's a legal term for doing that. But again, it has nothing to do with treason or revocation of citizenship.
Make sure that they, and their families citizenship is revoked
Two things:
1. To have your citizenship revoked, you have to commit treason, obtain citizenship fraudulently, or commit some disqualifying crime within a certain period of obtaining conditional citizenship. Simply leaving the country doesn't qualify.
2. Back at least as far as biblical times, humanity has recognized the injustice of suffering the sins of the father on the son. So no, you can't revoke citizenships of families because of the acts of a single member.
In my experience it is, how effective it is is directly proportional to preexisting project complexity when the commands are run. The bigger the project, and the more parts that are interfacing together, the worse it performs. But for small, simple projects and creating frameworks, it can be amazing.
I'm not sure what "Building the Metaverse" is supposed to even mean anymore. Is he still obsessed with Ready Player One fantasies?
I mean, if he's just talking about generating 3d assets and the like, then maybe? AI 3d model generation is pretty useful if you don't care about every tiny detail matching up to some specific form. For example, I used an AI tool to make an image of an ancient mug with cave-art scrawled around its edges. It got the broad shapes of the model right, but had trouble with the fine engravings, making a lot of them part of the texture rather than the shape, but overall it was good enough that I just left off the engravings, had it generate a mug without them, then re-applied them with a displacement map. It got all the cracks and weathering and such on the mug really nice, and the print came out great after post-processing (cold-cast bronze + patina & polishing).
(I ended up switching from cave art to Linear A, because I also plan to at some point make a Linear B mug so that I can randomly offer guests one of the two mugs, have them rate it, and thus conduct Linear A-B Testing)
It's a cute "attack", but not practical in the real world. The "poison" stands out like a sore thumb on your loss graphs.
It's so easy to get tempted into feature bloat these days. You need a microcontroller for some simple set of features, like doing PWM control on a fan and handling a rotary switch, so you get something like a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 that's the size of a thumbnail and costs like $10, but then all of the sudden you have way more processing, memory capacity, pins, etc than you need, and oh hey, you now have USB, Bluetooth, and WiFi, and surely you should at least do SOMETHING with them, right? But the hey, for just a little bit of extra cost you could upgrade to a XIAO ESP32S3 Sense, and now you have a camera, microphone, and SD card, so you can do live video streaming, voice activation, gesture recognition...
The irony though is that nobody really seems to bundle together everything one needs. Like, could we maybe have such a controller that also has builtin MOSFETs, USB + USB PD charging, BMS (1S-6S) functionality, and maybe a couple thermocouple sensors? Because most small devices need all these basic features, and it's way more cost, space, weight and effort to integrate separate components for all of them. The best I've found is a (bit overbuilt) card that has USB + USB PD (actually 2 of each, and reverse charging support), BMS support (1-5S), one thermocouple sensor, and a small charging display - but no processor or MOSFETs.
If they just charged the advertised price, then we wouldn't need to this sort of regulation.For this reason, the problem isn't all the fees, but the fact that they are allowed to add on fees, outside of the advertised price. In addition to this, any price increase should be communicated in advance and before the minimum cancellation window.
The USA has two dominant political parties. Not a two-party "system."
This result was shaped from the consequences of the US polity, not by fiat.
The only person who died from direct violent action at the capitol on January 6th was Ashli Babbitt, when she was shot by capitol police. No law enforcement was killed there.
Officer Brian Sicknick was assaulted with a chemical spray and died one day later after suffering several strokes.
Other officers died by suicide in the months that followed.
Three other civilians died on Jan 6 besides Ashli Babbitt. Two from apparent natural causes and one from accidental acute amphetamine intoxication.
"Nature is very un-American. Nature never hurries." -- William George Jordan
