Comment Re: Ihre Papiere (Score 1) 259
Well, I'll have to admit, I didn't have "learning that someone on Slashdot believes that the Cold War was a myth" on my bingo card for today.
Well, I'll have to admit, I didn't have "learning that someone on Slashdot believes that the Cold War was a myth" on my bingo card for today.
You seem to be confusing "wanting to get rid of communists" with "wanting their countries to be poor and dangerous".
Wow, I had no idea you were dumb enough to fall for the Red Scare.
You seem to be confusing "wanting to get rid of communists" with "wanting their countries to be poor and dangerous".
The supremacy clause applies to LAWS. Congress declined to enact such a law.
Yes, it belongs to Congress, not the President. Executive orders are literally orders given by the President to the executive branch of the federal government.
So the effectiveness of an executive order is very questionable in this case. If a state passes a law, what's the executive order going to do? Send the Army to invade? What could go wrong?
It's quite amusing that some troll follows me around modding down any comments where I suggest humans should cooperate with one another. They are literally proving my point by moving things backwards with their solitary cowardice.
It's a competitive system, and you have to maintain certain level of merit and academic progress.
That it's a competitive system is the problem. The world advances through cooperation.
Yep. "I can take this $11 million, turn it into $17 million really quick, then pocket the extra and make that series.". Then when the $11 million becomes $4 million the spiral begins.
Good job doubling down when called out on your horrific and stupid "joke"
You seem to have forgotten we have read your comments.
Done here.
Good. Fuck off and don't come back, hypocrite.
What on Earth are you talking about? Nobody is trying to make other countries poor and dangerous.
I see that you are ignorant of the USA's entire history in Central and South America. This is my surprised face.
The risk is it could lead to shortages of critical skills that end up harming Switzerland's competitiveness.
The chance of someone capable of learning critical skills being born in switzerland is the same as anywhere else, if the swiss are not training their own citizens to perform these critical roles then that's already a failure on their part.
The Swiss aren't exactly an industrial powerhouse, nor scientific. The largest sectors employing more Swiss are the banking, finance, trading and insurance sectors. Chemicals and pharmacuticals are their main physical exports, which means they're pretty much competing with most of Europe. So local universities will not struggle to meet demand and there's a load of British/German/French institutions they could use as well, also remember that they're smack bang in the middle of western Europe with open borders, so already a lot of people work in Geneva but live in France. A commute from Germany to Zurich wouldn't be difficult either.
That being said, even though Switzerland is a very static country, it would still be a mistake.
"The biggest night on the video game calendar" was never going to be The Game Awards. There are very, very, very few industry awards ceremonies that people care enough about to watch unless they're personally involved in that industry and video games are not one of those industries.
Movie and TV awards are chock full of beautiful people, charismatic personalities, popular music, haute couture, comedy, and themes that span generations. Gaming, by comparison, is significantly more niche and (as widespread as game-play is) there isn't enough emotional investment for the people **who otherwise go completely unseen** to attract an significant and enduring audience.
In regards to the complaints about the lack of recognition of layoffs and other issues: "What the hell did you expect?" No one builds an awards ceremony around the airing of dirty laundry.
The only reason anyone knows about them is that the BBC had an article about them this morning.
I suspect it's very much a circle jerk like the British Sandwich Awards (called the Sammies, I'm not making it up) and at best a well paying job for a mid-level commedian-slash-light-entertainer to host.
Gaming in general has always struggled to get any kind of gaming centric event on the social map, E3 before it collapsed and maybe PAX but even that seems passe now so the best we can hope for is a mention in a TV and Film award ceremony suich as the games category in the BAFTAs.
FWIW, I think Clair Obscur cleaned up.
Disney is already licensing their content to OpenAI.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fbusiness%2Fm...
This isn't an AI vs Art showdown. This is just a licensing deal shakedown.
Yep, but the last thing Disney wants is for copyright to be weakened... They'll have everyone doing to them what they did to the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, et al. that were never copyrighted.
Bahahahahaha America is eating itself. Vote in a fascist, get fascist shit.
As much as I agree with the sentiment, I think we should be careful with too much crowing. European fascists like le Pen, Farage and AFD are trying as hard as Russia possibly can push to get voted into power over here.
but they can't do anything about AI?
They can. There's no order Trump can sign to stop them legally- which is why that's not what he did. The headline makes it seem like that, but it didn't.
What it does is much more insidious. It orders the Government to engage in lawfare and withholding of whatever funds are considered legal to withhold to any state that doesn't follow the Executive policy on AI.
i.e., he can't legally order them to stop "doing something about AI", but he can take their money away until they decide it's not worth it anymore.
You're making it sound like Trump cares about the law. The republicans are too scared to speak up against him, the tame SCOTUS won't do anything... Your country's legal systems are effectively toothless.
Trump gets to rule by fiat and the Republicans and their backers have spent much of the last 8 years ensuring that their loyalists are in key positions.
I mean there are military troops in several US cities which are there on very dubious grounds (read: obviously there to punish and intimidate those Trump perceives as enemies and by enemies I mean people who didn't vote for him) above the express wishes of state governments or the local population.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Feu.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2F...
So why do you think Trump will care about any other law? There's no-one to stop him.
The two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity. -- Harlan Ellison