Can't disagree more with the penalty. $250 billion seems more in the right range for Zuckerburg to to get the message. $3.45 billion is a tax rideoff. $250 billion is a "Wow, we really fucked up. We need to permanently change our practices." Make it, intentionally, payable at a rate of about $25 billion per year so that every year there's a reminder to stop doing the psychopath things they've been doing to make money and make it honestly.

ChatGPT had a hard time understanding complimentary angles when I wanted to do a calculation for a cut I was going to do on a saw that maxed out at 45 degrees. Not sure how it didn't understand a basic math calculation.

Somebody has never heard of the Mississippi river.

Maybe, maybe not.

Uhm, wow. I generally think people may disagree with one another on this site, but usually for intelligent reasons. Go re-read what you just posted. You just posted in #2 that more rain is a bad thing for the Cascades, but then post about how more rain -- you know, water that powers hydroelectric reservoirs -- is bad. Make the connection before making a fool of yourself.

So we're gaining more rain forests and crop land? I'm no denier, but Some things might actually help us. And ignore California. They have seasonal droughts and seasonal wet seasons that make the news all of the time because a lot of people live there and a lot of people do stupid stuff like put bushes right up against their houses. They look nice until they cause your house to burn down.

You can buy all of Alabama if the settlement reaches $300 million.

I saw him once eating lunch at a mall in downtown Omaha. I probably could have gone up and talked with him. He seemed a bit anxious for attention, like hoping people would recognize him and talk to him. I didn't see anyone go up and talk to him the entire time I was there. Kind of the opposite of Steve Martin, who can't stand the attention his celebrity has created for himself. If you meet him, he'll likely hand you a business card that says, "I have met Steve Martin." That said, I've also heard of people who made a great splash with him and he'd invite them to join he and his wife to join them at the dinner table at the restaurant. He lives near where I live, so at some point I'm sure I'll encounter him.

Or gets them.

When I was in a place where there was constant 5G connectivity and it was rural enough that there wasn't a lot of cell traffic, I dumped my cable provider and exclusively used my cell phone as a tether for internet. It was fast enough for my purposes and faster than the 13mb connection I used to have years ago.

Update: confirmed, the cameras are gone.

AI programmers need to understand the difference between "rules" and "boundaries" and then apply that to their code. The former is specific to one specific case. AI is still permitted to do things that don't follow those specific rules. Boundaries are abstract instead. They can apply more universally. Ex: Don't do X specific thing vs Do what you want to gather information, but don't hack into sites to get it and don't browse by any means properties belonging to our restricted list. The former allows AI to go around that specific thing, like getting another system to perform the task. The latter indicates abstract principles: going to any restricted site, even with a bypass, is inappropriate.

Anybody else remember the Woke movement doing the same kinds of things? I'm an independent. I can't stand either party.

"This is true for ALL cars made in the last 10 years, unless you disassembled your car and destroyed the modem, which also voids your warranty and potentially cripples your car by disabling software updates and subscriptions which are becoming mandatory."

My 2013 car doesn't have a cell connection, but does have a Garmin GPS. That's why I'm liking older cars more and more: no tracking. Regardless, I actually have to retract my statement. I live next to a national forest. Unless I'm mistaken, notably missing yesterday were the cameras, as in even the poles had been removed. Either the law was changed, a court case was lost or I was looking in the wrong place. I'm pretty certain I was looking in the right place, though.

I've owned 5. Z Flip, Z Flip 3, Z Flip 4 (x2) and Z Flip 5. Every one prior to the 5 is great. The 5 and later are terrible because the external screen got too big, defeating the purpose of a folding phone: durability. My original only died about a month ago after years of use. It was subjected to countless drops by hospital staff during a 5 week hospital stay. Still worked until the screen shorted along the fold line. I've recommended phones prior to the 5 here multiple times. My original was replaced by a second 4.

Why are we loaning a company that makes billions per quarter money for this project?

People did complain and I'm one of them. Entrances and exits to National Parks and National Forests now have cameras at their entrances to record visitors entering and leaving via a vehicle on a road. The only private way to enter such parks now is by foot.