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If your roommate blows up an airplane and you hide his copies of "Inspire" for him is anyone really under the impression this is not criminal in nature?
The desire to subsidize employment for Democratic constituencies by threatening legal action if they aren't given enough jobs.
Re:Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI on Sunday June 21, 2026 @09:09PM (#48624370)
Europeans who fetishize "compliance".
Re:My two-part desk setup on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:57PM (#48250270)
It's to stop the eunuchs from murdering you.
The word "or" grammatically indicates such a combination of conditions.
A WASP ethical framework cannot survive either the extirpation of WASPs from the student body or the transformation of the education system into a high stakes mandarin style death struggle.
Re:Incident with multple GitHub services on Thursday April 23, 2026 @03:20PM (#47880349)
Azure webapp deploys are also trash right now. Microsoft needs to stop slathering h1b copilot slop and get basic things like Windows patches working.
"You have to make a change either way" is not the standard. Of course legislation can be passed or a settlement signed that mandates whatever, but there is well established civil procedure around document retention in the context of discovery for ongoing litigation that does not extend to demands to start generating business records that are not currently created.
There is a legal distinction between document retention, which is what OpenAI was ordered to do, versus re architecting to generate documents for logless providers.
strongwall.ai is logless and supports anonymous payments including physical cash.
They're "tobacco products" in the same sense that Diet Coke is a "cocaine product".
Re:OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation on Friday February 27, 2026 @10:58AM (#47182030)
Or, their customers integrate with them directly.
Re:GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:36PM (#47007500)
That's not exactly true. Lorentz contraction is a clear antecedent to special relativity.
Re:Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:51PM (#46915924)
Patrick is too polite to mention it, but frauds work much better if the fraudsters are also fully integrated into the political machine of the people nominally investigating the fraud.
Re:FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @03:10PM (#46785755)
Coordinating roadblocks, "dearrests", warning the subjects of law enforcement operations, and intentionally causing the maximum amount of noise in neighborhoods neighborhood are not things you will be able to get a federal judge to characterize as "constitutionally protected speech".
That's all well and good, but he is literally at this moment attempting to export industrial capacity to China at a direct tradeoff to it's availability to the US, even when he could sell it at the same price.
The reason you "refloat" ships and continue the exercise is that determining the winner is only one part of the exercise. Training is the other component, and if you have multiple carriers out of commission immediately you lose that opportunity at vast expense.
Canada banned multiple firearms by name that only appear in video games.
REAL ID's are issued to non citizens with lawful status at time of issuance. Their presence in the country can subsequently become unlawful.
Re:Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole on Sunday December 28, 2025 @09:10AM (#46411174)
It's only a "loophole" if you believe psychopaths like Linda Khan should also be able to dictate whether companies can hire particular employees or purchase products.
Re:Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @11:59AM (#46302106)
Will be interesting to see what their quota is. Gemini 3.0 Pro only gives you 250 / day until you spam them with enough BS requests to increase your total spend > $250.
Every concern about "teens" is explicitly mirrored by a concern about low-capacity adults, which is why Australia et al are so concerned about "disinformation" and the need to control speech of all kinds. This effort should be seen in that light.
The German government will be the first ones to tell you that the German language and ancestry is totally unrelated to the idea of who gets to be German.
You absolutely can leave the country. You just aren't entitled to permanent residency as a result.
Re:UK intends to scrap jury trials for majority of court cases on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @03:10PM (#46050148)
The UK is best understood as a "managed democracy" where there are nominally elections, but the government decides who will constitute its voting population, what they are allowed to say, and now whether they will be allowed to acquit people the government decides it would prefer to punish.
Re:How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA on Friday November 21, 2025 @12:10PM (#46006374)
Must suck to be subjected to extraterritorial jurisdiction from a body you have never acknowledged the authority of.
Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor on Friday November 14, 2025 @04:02PM (#45932147)
This Dickensian pastiche ignores the difference between being "poor" and being part of a client population, which covers a substantial part of the same nominal income bracket.
If stocking a book is not speech then it is not a restriction on speech to decide not to stock a book.

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