I got food stamps benefits in the past, that reapplication process was incredibly stressful because something always goes wrong due to bureaucratic fuckups I had no control over, and then I would have to wait on hold on the phone for six hours on a weekday to fix it. Obviously these people know this and want it to be even worse for everyone on the program, fuck them. They know there's tons of people who qualify who don't bother because of how confusing and shitty the application is.
Maybe a little, but I think it fits pretty well, if you look at this from a "fuck copyright" angle. It's easy to see the problems with what Disney is doing here and in general.
Even if they are trying to hack me it's only polite. Plus on the very remote chance they somehow find this and care they would have slightly more info about me.
Barring civilians from using encryption and software deemed dangerous is a new level imo. These are the tools we have to fight this stuff, maintaining those rights is a big deal.
I have read some articles about this, and I can see how it makes sense in some contexts. Like iirc when this happened to Red Lobster, they were able to make money through a combination of ripping off a certain group of investors, and the significant value of the company's real estate holdings. That makes sense.
In the case of online magazine equivalents though I really don't get it. What is there to sell off? Shouldn't any potential long term profits be priced in at the point they get bought out? If the company has tangible assets like offices, couldn't they just sell those without firing anyone and have people work from home? The intangible assets are all directly tied to the publication's reputation and audience, which seems like it would die off fast without anything worthwhile on the site.
In many cases, the best decision for the firm is the one that directly undermines the company it controls.
How though? I don't doubt this is a real thing, but there isn't really a satisfying explanation being offered here. What the article is saying sounds like the process is, take profitable business, throw in garbage, somehow more profit. Where's the money coming from?
But representatives in a democracy can take a smaller percentage from each to pay their key supporters, because their educated, freer citizens are more productive than peasants. For rulers in a democracy, the more productivity the better. Which is why they build universities, and hospitals, and roads, and grant freedoms, not just out of the goodness of their hearts but because it increases citizen productiveness, which increases treasure for the ruler and their key supporters, even when a lower percentage is taken. Democracies are better places to live than dictatorships, not because representatives are better people, but because their needs happen to be aligned with a large portion of the population. The things that make citizens more productive also make their lives better. Representatives want everyone productive, so everyone gets highways. The worst dictators are those whose incentives are aligned with the fewest citizens, those who have the fewest keys to power. This explains why the worst dictatorships have something in common. Gold, or oil, or diamonds, or similar. If the wealth of a nation is mostly dug out of the ground, it's a terrible place to live because a gold mine can run with dying slaves, and still produce great treasure.
This is the biggest thing that is concerning to me about AI, and more generally the devaluation of labor. If the people have declining productive negotiating power (our skills becoming less relevant to the production of wealth), by these principles it could lead to a devolution away from democracy. This seems to fit with what has been happening in the USA lately.
The ruling came after the cities of Sedro Woolley and Stanwood sued Jose Rodriguez in civil court to block his records requests. Both cities have since turned off their Flock camera systems.
The FBI really wants people having discussions that are limited to just the headline I guess...
Even if legal attacks don't work, I've noticed a few sites I read articles from have paywalls that are no longer bypassable by archive.is, and so I'm kind of at a loss as to how to link them, except maybe by copying the text myself. But that has a number of disadvantages, such as, copied text is not an authoritative source because most people can't verify it wasn't altered. It's usually not a problem reading it myself because all the text shows up in the rss feed, but what's lacking is a way to share it.
This doesn't seem like much of a solution to me, they're still being raised by people using social media, and will be thrown into it at some point. The obligatory age checks are going to make the surveillance state way worse.
I hope it will be a situation of medical care being allowed to get somewhat worse, instead of the same standards and institutions being maintained despite not enough funding to keep hospitals open at that standard and so medicine is generally prohibited for the poor.
I got food stamps benefits in the past, that reapplication process was incredibly stressful because something always goes wrong due to bureaucratic fuckups I had no control over, and then I would have to wait on hold on the phone for six hours on a weekday to fix it. Obviously these people know this and want it to be even worse for everyone on the program, fuck them. They know there's tons of people who qualify who don't bother because of how confusing and shitty the application is.