One, now ill, takes the train to see a doctor, but is slow getting on the train, risking a delay.

A conductor hoping to hurry things up shoves someone carrying an explosive, which goes off, and the change in air pressure from the shockwave causes a nearby tub of protein powder to burst open and...

Vivid af

I'm tapped into the bird scene. Been trying to get in good with the ravens. No luck yet.

They don't discount the guillotine. They give it away for free, ensuring the lever only works with their software, then sell subscriptions to businesses that have, since other cutting tools were squeezed out of the market by free guillotines, become dependent. Basic GaaS model.

Let's find out which hallucinations are advantageous!

And I'd admit to a high degree of pessimism, except that I know history is also filled with nice periods where people rediscover love and peace after the Fascist bullshit, or whatever authoritarian label you prefer, proves itself to be a losing model.

I don't just think those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it, I think we are doomed to watch history repeating, and those who know a little are cursed with awareness, and, you know, imprisonment, exile, torture, etc.

Yes and/but, I think we make the mistake of seeing them as warnings rather than just fictionalized descriptive works. It's not "Hey watch out for this," it's, "This is how it can be when you let this shit fester, and we often let this shit fester."

I think you could find some people that would accept $100 million if you looked really hard.

The original post is deleted. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point.

If you liked end to end encryption, you'll love end to end andthensomethinginthemiddledontworryaboutit to end to end encryption!

It's not just New York.

Taco Bell also uses this terminology, despite the fact that the burrito supreme is inferior to many other burritos.

My petition to rename SCOTUS to the Doritos Locos Court of the Federal Courts of the United States has yet to gain momentum.

I don't understand your point. Are you describing Grokster?

One major wildcard being Grokster, and an inducement theory. But the cases against Napster and Grokster didn't result in a prohibition in distributing tools, like torrent clients, that are (when not being used for their substantial non-infringing uses) used for piracy.

The short version being that services are not their users. Users can create infringing works, and that doesn't mean claims against the services have merit.

I don't expect the general public is aware of the significant differences between direct and secondary/vicarious liability. To be honest, with the precedent available (Sony v. Universal in particular) I've been struggling to understand the theory of infringement against any of these companies.

I'd say it's unlikely to be an attractive business model since the cloud made true (as in Scotsman) personal computing all but extinct, but if there's money in it (and you doubt there is, I know), companies could still make and distribute the tools.

I also say this while being, because I'm informed by my own low standards, not super skeptical.

Viewing the Turing test through the lens of Carlin's statements about the stupidity of the average person, this seems achievable. Maybe it's already accomplished. Artificial and generally intelligent.