And remember there is power in tend idea that if you convince a lot of people to hold the idea that voting in the US is corrupt if you lose, and fair and free is your party wins, and never ever ever conceded, who cares if there is absolutely no fraud? The paradigm just shifts.

And don't even deny that this has happened, and my bet if there is a shift in the midterms, it will happen again.

I live in a very liberal area. I go into the polling place, pull out my wallet and my voter registration and drivers license, they mark that I was voting on paper, and I fill out a paper ballot. How is that corrupt? And I mean it is those corrupt Democrats running the system.

What would a completely non corrupt 100 percent verifiable Republican system involve? And I hope you do know that the never-ending accusations of corruption is a wedge issue that is more valuable as a wedge issue than actually corrupt voting. You obviously is a Republican implements plan that no Republican will ever complain about. It's like abortion, rallying the faithful base is more important than actually eliminating it.

Looking forward to the infallible system you present, and it is a lot more than what you have said so far.

What I see as an issue however, is the apparent paradigm that Data Centers, need all of the generated power - not just available, but all of it. And then need more. Here in teh states we're talking bout restarting old nuc plants to service the Data Centers. I don't see much introspection, just "Build more DCs, we need more power!" More nuc plants - they are green, so nothing can go wrong!" What I've heard and seen so far is there appears to be no limit, to the need.

Don't forget as Datacenters store more data, that there will be more data, which means more datacenter, to store more data - seems like infinity is in that equation,

And you might have just hit the nail directly on the head. I'm not particularly frightened of AI, but I can't be the only one that sees the current models as unsustainable. In another post, I compared the present Datacenter concept with the original tube based computers. We're acting as if current AI and its needs are already finished product. Just like I'm sure that the makers of those behemoth tube computers were.

This need for more power, more centers smacks of that. And it is a weird bubble, and as I noted, a lot of people much smarter than I probably are seeing that too.

Much of the cheating has already been shown to be Republican. If we look at the Arizona recount process years ago, they simply refused to accept that it wasn't cheating even after shown there wasn't enough to mean anything. Took the Vice Governor (IIRC) to say, the madness stops now. And Republican standard bearer Mike Lindell, the man who represents Republican ethics, ended up showing lines of code to prove the corruption that meant absolutely nothing, and even their hand selected expert refuted it. But Lindell still refused to accept it. In present day Republican Party, Lindell tried running for Governor, lost and still reused to accept the voter results in the primaries - this shows the Republican paradigm was to never accept the results if you lose, but embrace them when you win.

One of the first things for you to know is I am an independent. I also believed there was a reason the Democrats lost in teh previous general election. I also believe that part of that was their own spinelessness. Here's where we are:

Republicans hold a majority in the House. Republicanshold a majority in the senate, Republicans hold the White House. Facts. Would you care to dispute those facts?

But okay - I'll accept your notions that elections in the USA are corrupt, and must be changed. Let's roll...

Illogical - I must then accept that the party that is the beneficiary of corrupt elections are in the majority, because otherwise, they would not be in the majority. They would be the plucky underdogs, making a valiant attempt to wrestle power away from the corrupt who are taking advantage of the process they implemented to keep them in power. The majority in power - and that tells us exactly who the corrupt are.Those in power. The people in power in a corrupt system are the prima facie evidence and hard to disprove the exact people that who use that corruption for their political power.

Unless you wish to argue that the corruption riddled US election system favors those not in power? That'd be pretty odd.

Do it - let's hear how the corruption is the Democrats, and it results in Republicans in power.

Schrödinger's Republican - Whenever a Republican candidate loses, it is prima facie proof that the elections are rigged and corrupt. When a Republican candidate wins, it is free and fair, and proof of the people's voice being heard through the democratic process.

It is not about the federal government. Like all these bans it is an easy way for Trump to block competition from companies that are surpassing US companies, declare them a national security risk and it effectively blocks commercial use in the US.

By far, the people most certain to the answer to that question are those convinced that it used to be so much better, the belief being particularly strong among those who weren't alive yet.

Are you going to mention how our own economy has changed as it has increasingly fallen under the sway of finance guys and MBAs? Because the claim is significantly more specific than "the US from 1950 to present sucks"(because the hyperfocus on finance and MBAs who think that all activities are fungible is significantly newer than the postwar US economy generally) and it's some of the trends you see in an exceptionally favorable economy as they displace other flavors of management that are most damning.

FTFY

It's just like the corrupt spineless Republicans always bitching about voter registration. I still have the fully identifiable registration from when I first registered in the medieval ages. I do have a new one they sent me this year. I guess the one on parchment was wearing out a bit.

And yes - we do paper here as well.

1960's Nuclear reactors, Neutron impinge pipes. What could go wrong?

There is a real problem with the Data Center model. It will always be "How much energy do we need? How much energy is available? Twice that amount." Then twice more, then to infinity, and beyond.

Have the Tech bros considered RBMK reactors? Maybe creating a star for direct fusion power? And what happens when the present data centers need new data centers for centering datasets data?

I'm not even fundamentally against AI. I do however feel that there is a real lack of vision. going on Remember early electronic computers? Behemoths of vacuum tubes, sucking up power, some needing constant tube replacement because with that many tubes, some will go bad in normal use.

That is where AI, and even the Data Centers are now. And the Data Center Bros are in a mindset that people who thought ENIAC and Goliath were going to be forever computers. Maybe some time should be taken to move from the infinity based model, to getting control over it.

Now, I could be wrong, but some idea of history and technology, and bubbles, tells me that at least my opinion is thought out, and the present paradigm is not sustainable.

Even aside from how unhappy site operators are about the egregious botherd scraping behavior; it's hard to see why vendors would be enthusiastic about this situation.

It's overwhelmingly the case that vendors hate returns and chargebacks; and generally try to avoid situations where those are more likely to arise. An error-prone mechanism that acts "on behalf of" in a way where it does have the user's credentials and payment information but may well not have their authorization in a legally binding way when it decides to order 100 of something seems like the last thing they would want to deal with.

Maybe someone will manage to ram through glorious-agentic-future and it will become de-facto mandatory to cater to people who have abandoned ordering from websites in favor of prompting bots to order for them; but until that happens it's hard to see merchants reputable enough that they are interested in keeping their ratings and relationships with payment processors in good order wanting to touch the situation. Now, scammers who already hop between expendable presences as soon as dissatisfaction catches up with them; those are probably quite interested in the future of prompt injection based advertising.

hi res video requires huge amounts of ram while editing, hence 64 bit comes into play, it also as you say helps with performance too

You better get real worried if you get caught up detained and charged in a case in which people think it is a superhero movie on screen instead of about whatever you are or are not guilty of, and people start talking about "unleashing stuff against Humanity."

completely clueless. windows is 64 bit and has been for a long time, it also defaults to IPv6. this same problem exists in linux and mac world, basically NAT means a lot of people didn't need to learn IPv6 so unless the tech is doing it for them by default (like windows or your phone) they are probably defaulting to Ipv4.

If the audience comes away with diverging opinions about the interpretations you saw in it, then lots of people will watch and discuss it. That's what it's really about right? Tech, sales, "innovation," gender wars.... not Elizabeth Holmes per se as more than a case study.