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by zugi 3y ago
Did Michael Gerber, the Deputy Commissioner of Legal Matters, commit the crime of perjury by signing a document asserting he had authority which clearly he did not? It's also odd that the PDF redacted the name of Michael Gerber, the De
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by zugi 3y ago
> More precisely, our results show a cost of $4.15 billion if society had to replace these packages once (e.g., OSS still exists, but all of the most widely used packages were deleted and had to be rewritten) I realize estimating anythin
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by zugi 3y ago
Good point. I expected arguments would range from the dangers of ineffective counsel to "but think of the children". You are correct that I did not anticipate to hear "but think of the poor lawyers". That's because
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by zugi 3y ago
Lawyers control government, at least in the U.S. Expect laws banning or severely restricting the use of AI in the legal field soon. I expect arguments will range from the dangers of ineffective counsel to "but think of the children&quo
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by zugi 3y ago
"And by the way, if the PR works successfully, you won't be getting it back."
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by zugi 3y ago
I use Firefox with the NoScript addon and google.com still works just fine.
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by zugi 3y ago
I see, thanks for the clarification. A fixed 28-year duration would be shorter and simpler.
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by zugi 3y ago
Mostly agreed, but can you elaborate on the "exception"? Why should selling the copyright extend its total duration from 28 to 42 years? I'd be fine with just a fixed 28-year duration of all copyrights. That way you don'
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by zugi 3y ago
None of us have seen the letter so this may be off base, but I would expect people working at the world's most prominent AI research organization to have more skepticism about the ramifications of any one "breakthrough." Perh
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by zugi 3y ago
> The class-action "complaint alleges that the vehicle's system downloads all text messages and call logs from Plaintiffs' cellphones as soon as they are connected," the Ford ruling said. This doesn't match with
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by zugi 3y ago
> One argument is tacit collusion to “inflate salaries” which may be part of it, but if this accounts for all of the impact then it is a scandal and evidence of institutional corruption that should be paraded in the streets. The role of
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by zugi 3y ago
Have you seen the South Park episode "Band In China"? Or followed the NBA's treatment of a player who simply tweeted once in short of Taiwan? Not much surprises me about China and censorship any more.
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by zugi 3y ago
The teen should make a music video of the footage to help raise funds for their legal defense, as Afroman did with hits like Lemon Pound Cake ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xxK5yyecRo ) and Will You Help Me Repair My Doo
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by zugi 3y ago
Most of Qt ships under your choice of 3 different licenses: GPL, Commercial, and LGPL. Their sales people and marketing material like to pretend the LGPL version doesn't exist, and that you need a Commercial license to do any commercia
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by zugi 3y ago
This is a pretty small fine, for a case where the operator somehow failed to conserve enough fuel. So while they did vacate their prime GEO real estate, they could only get 40% of the way to the graveyard orbit. But it sets the precedent fo
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by zugi 3y ago
> The EU wants to protect me, an EU customer, from vendors who sell software or software support contract but don't take cybersecurity seriously No, the EU wants to make it illegal for you to buy what you want and instead force you
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by zugi 3y ago
$20k is likely the price for early adopters, while production rates are low. Within a year or three the price would likely fall to some stable long-term rate. $2k indeed sounds about right.
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by zugi 3y ago
So one government agency - the USPTO - grants temporary monopolies to inventors as patents. Then another government agency - the FDA - restricts the drugs people can take to those specifically prescribed by a doctor, and then restricts phar
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by zugi 3y ago
> “The Great Salt Lake belongs to the people of Utah and the state has a legal obligation to protect this resource” As this seems to be the core of the lawsuit, I'm curious whether this is accurate from a legal perspective. Not that
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by zugi 3y ago
I think I've spent too much time on reddit, because in comparison all the comments here seem quite reasoned, calm, and insightful. And then there's YouTube, and comments on news sites... I guess it's all relative.
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by zugi 3y ago
The U.S. Constitution authorizes copyright as a limited monopoly granted to authors and inventors, for a limited time, in order to promote progress in science and the useful arts. If copyright laws were still reasonable, like the original t
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by zugi 3y ago
If copyright laws were still reasonable, like the original term of 14 years - renewable once for 14 more if the author is still alive - none of these 70+-year-old recordings would still be under copyright. The U.S. Constitution authorizes c
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by zugi 3y ago
This article names the dentists who got it right, while leaving anonymous those dentists who conspired to commit physical assault by performing unnecessary medical procedures. A factual listing of what each dentist recommended should not in
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by zugi 3y ago
I don't think so, the whole point here is that the contract does not - and cannot - bar you from sharing the code. The GPL bars RedHat from imposing additional restrictions on your rights to the code. But RedHat is under no obligatio
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by zugi 3y ago
This is the answer. What RedHat is doing is legal but sneaky. So we can be legal but sneaky too. Start a consortium that creates a new LLC or non-profit organization with no ties back to the consortium. That new organization buys a license,
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by zugi 3y ago
I mean I do feel a little bad in retrospect, there was probably some gate agent announcing "last call for passenger 'zugi'", and then they finally closed the doors and took off. I was sitting at home by then. There are h
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by zugi 3y ago
> Plus, you can only book these one way because if you throw away anything other than the last flight in your itinerary the rest of the trip gets cancelled. I did the round trip once - well 3/4 trip anyway - back when I was a poor
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by zugi 3y ago
That's already the case, but x = z = 120 years (and y = 0 or 120, depending on who you ask...) The first U.S. copyright law set x = z = 14 years. That's why many people think copyright law is out of control.
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by zugi 3y ago
Exactly. The original copyright term was 14 years. Now Disney and the Intellectual Monopoly cartel have extended it 120 years, and convinced an unthinking population that anything less is "stealing."
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by zugi 3y ago
It is a contract but not necessarily the contract. The proposed written contract may have more terms and conditions. By buying and selling without a signed contract, you're agreeing to basic price and quantity without having to rea

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