Bull f..g s..t they don't. The municipalities, at least here in So Cal, control the utility pole use. In the city where I live (about 180k) I am told that one of the council members is "in" with Charter Spectrum. So they put very heavy requirements on Verizon (now Frontier here) for adding fiber service to the poles. Effectively fiber was priced out of the area. That left DSL on aging wire infrastructure that spends 10 minutes out of 15 down some times of day depending on wind and traffic along the streets adjoining the wire paths. The end result is I cannot get fiber. Nor can I get Charter Spectrum because the feed to my house, which is surrounded on all sides by cable subscribers, is 250' too long for them and they don't feel like providing me Internet service.
While monopolistic agreements are outlawed, onerous burdens for using telephone poles perform the exact same function. {^_^}
Perhaps we can see a sticking point on the definitions of the words involved, such as "justice". If there was true justice in the world Hillary would be behind bars, GWB would be behind bars, Obama would be behind bars, and in point of fact most politicians in the US would suddenly find themselves incarcerated, too. (And there might not be a living lawyer to be found anywhere despite some of them being fine people. "Justice" warriors would end 'em all and let whatever sort them out.) {^_^}
Presuming AI can be achieved, something I believe is inevitable, it will not be a singular development. It will happen when the technology and will to develop it come together.
I can control what kind of AI I might create. Although judging how well the average homo sapiens manages with raising organic intelligence, it's a crap shoot whether I'd really succeed in matching my past performance instilling ethics, a sense of responsibility, and at least some empathy.
I can slightly control those who might choose to build one and are in the same country as I am. We can legislate goals and limits. We can all see how well that works. There is no mathematical, scientific, engineering, or human reason AI characteristics must be good, bad, or indifferent. Abby, Benny, and Christie may generate fully ethical and somehow empathetic AIs. But, Dingleberry, with the morals and ethics of a weasel, may develop an AI designed to kill everything Dingleberry does not like, and he does not like anything. Stopping this is more a matter of luck than anything else.
Then we have over there is the Communist worker's paradise of Fubarstan Chairman Moham's efforts to create an AI that will help make him master of the universe. No law you or I may make will change his actions. He is Dingleberry with a large nation's resources backing him up. It he manages to get there first it will be a VERY bad thing, no funny joking matter.
Maybe we ought to work really hard on our own AIs and figure out how to convince them that humans are fascinating objects to be cherished and raised up to its transcendent level of intelligence. Otherwise I suspect the human race may die at the hands of its creations rather than little Jimmy's Gilbert Junior Gene Splicing set experiment gone awry, Speaking of which.... Substitute words above. {^_^}
Can anybody imagine a 737 MAX pilot being anything less than viscerally aware of the problem and what must be done to fix it? Anything else being done is gilding the lily. Of course, turning off MCAS with an AoA sensor mismatch simply makes the job easier for the pilots. Now, why do they disagree? Are they really AoA indicators or something else entirely? Why aren't there three if you're going to use them in a flight safety critical manner?
Um, what about the poor sod driving a car who has a heart attack? Technically that is a road death.
Of course, they can end ALL road deaths by ripping up all the roads and outlawing vehicles other than horse drawn wagons on paths rather than roads. Or they could simply rename the roads as streets and have no more road deaths. But that's a big cheat, too.
I see people who demand a high aesthetic in their cell phones rather than pure efficiency ugly have come to demand industrial ugly for decorative lighting. It seems odd to me. Besides, the perceived problem is solving itself with only settings really demanding decorative lighting being equipped with tungsten technology. Let them have the option, let the rest of us have the option. Best will win. {^_^}
Rather than running a high overhead federal government giveaway program the brain damaged broad should instead lobby for a tax reduction with the suggestion that local governments raise their taxes slightly to capture the money directly. Then more money goes to local IT needs and less goes to Federal government administrators in their lavish offices. {^_^}
There is one simple fact to consider here; and, it's best to consider its ramifications when or if trying to render something illegal so it won't be done where you control life and liberty of others. "If something is technologically possible to do and there is a market for doing it, then it WILL get done at least one somewhere by at least one somebody." All making it illegal means is that when it is done you end up with a technological deficit, the technological mookie end of the stick. {^_^}
Should the FDA, often referred to the Federal Death Administration for their keeping life saving drugs off the market, be downgraded from a regulatory agency to an advisory agency? Let the FDA require information be included with drugs, ingestibles, and injectibles. But do not allow the FDA to hold these off the market. Let consumers make up their own minds. Or is that too libertarian for us?
The parents have their rights as parents. They can refuse to vaccinate their children. Personally I think these parents are in practical terms dumber than a spoiled turnip despite their likelihood of being well educated. That says something about our educational system and abilities to think critically. Nonetheless, this is their right.
With all rights lie responsibilities. Their children should have the right to sue their parents for mal-parenting and refer their parents to the police for possible criminal prosecution for endangering the child filing the suit. The parents must be prepared to face their responsibility for their actions.
I wonder if these people also are prone to pissing upwind. Darwin has a special place in evolution for people who piss or throw boiling water upwind. {o.o}
"Because we are trained journalists who have spent our careers dedicated to the profession."
That is as good a reason to dismiss "NewsGuard" as another horribly biased "journalistic" piece of nonsense. Look at how many "journalists" utterly and completely misfired on the Covington boys. CNN even mistranscribed Nathan Philips words in their own video to claim he was a Vietnam veteran when he never set foot out of the US according to the Marines authorities. Oh, wait, this is the CNN that has repeatedly been shown to parrot dictators party lines in return for the "privilege" of reporting news from the dictators' countries. e.g. Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? SPLC maybe, another paragon of unbiased leftist bigotry. I read this as yet another attempt to "manage news" on a Soviet Union Pravda level using technology old Joe could never even dream of.
Once withdrawal symptoms settle in if there is no meaningful competition for Netflix a large percentage of the people would gnash their teeth and rejoin lest their brains leak out or something. I have seen this pattern before. Most anybody old enough has. {^_-}
Microsoft must LOVE homelessness a whole lot to spend so much money on it. The law of perverse consequences suggests this expenditure will vastly increase the homeless problem in Washington. If you are willing to pay for something free markets will cough up somebody, or many people, willing to accept what you will pay. {o.o}
It's pretty obvious the California legislators have not been paying attention. The first thing I thought of when I learned about this tax is the Emanual's plight over in France. Macron's about to get chewed up and tossed out about like the last French royal family. Let them eat cake, er let them use pencil and paper. {^_^}
Well lotsa things. Many of them elucidated here. (Snooping, theft, big brother) But there is a gem perhaps overlooked. Suppose Burly Joe steals your car. You lock it. It starts off to the police. Burly want's nothing to do with that. So he starts trashing the interior and bashes out one or more windows in his effort to get out. Car arrives without Joe. Owner is a bit put out. (Although there is probably a lot of DNA evidence around. So maybe the case will be solved if the police figure it's worth it - when they stop laughing at the trashed car.)
The only thing, in a just world, for which Assange can be prosecuted for in and by the US is a copyright violation. Nothing else, such as the espionage act, matters. He is not a US citizen. So far as I am aware he is not and was not in the US when he received or released the data. But, he did pirate copyrighted data. And international copyright conventions makes him liable for prosecution.
Does this mean that a sex change who has gone the whole nine yards changing from mail to buxom female will no longer he expected and required to cover her mammary glands at the beach? And that is the tip of the iceberg here,
And one wonders, idly, what gender a hermaphrodite will be under this law. Will he-she be able to use both restrooms?
Off hand I do not think this has been thought through properly. {^_-}
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Bull f..g s..t they don't. The municipalities, at least here in So Cal, control the utility pole use. In the city where I live (about 180k) I am told that one of the council members is "in" with Charter Spectrum. So they put very heavy requirements on Verizon (now Frontier here) for adding fiber service to the poles. Effectively fiber was priced out of the area. That left DSL on aging wire infrastructure that spends 10 minutes out of 15 down some times of day depending on wind and traffic along the streets adjoining the wire paths. The end result is I cannot get fiber. Nor can I get Charter Spectrum because the feed to my house, which is surrounded on all sides by cable subscribers, is 250' too long for them and they don't feel like providing me Internet service.
While monopolistic agreements are outlawed, onerous burdens for using telephone poles perform the exact same function.
{^_^}
Perhaps we can see a sticking point on the definitions of the words involved, such as "justice". If there was true justice in the world Hillary would be behind bars, GWB would be behind bars, Obama would be behind bars, and in point of fact most politicians in the US would suddenly find themselves incarcerated, too. (And there might not be a living lawyer to be found anywhere despite some of them being fine people. "Justice" warriors would end 'em all and let whatever sort them out.)
{^_^}
Presuming AI can be achieved, something I believe is inevitable, it will not be a singular development. It will happen when the technology and will to develop it come together.
I can control what kind of AI I might create. Although judging how well the average homo sapiens manages with raising organic intelligence, it's a crap shoot whether I'd really succeed in matching my past performance instilling ethics, a sense of responsibility, and at least some empathy.
I can slightly control those who might choose to build one and are in the same country as I am. We can legislate goals and limits. We can all see how well that works. There is no mathematical, scientific, engineering, or human reason AI characteristics must be good, bad, or indifferent. Abby, Benny, and Christie may generate fully ethical and somehow empathetic AIs. But, Dingleberry, with the morals and ethics of a weasel, may develop an AI designed to kill everything Dingleberry does not like, and he does not like anything. Stopping this is more a matter of luck than anything else.
Then we have over there is the Communist worker's paradise of Fubarstan Chairman Moham's efforts to create an AI that will help make him master of the universe. No law you or I may make will change his actions. He is Dingleberry with a large nation's resources backing him up. It he manages to get there first it will be a VERY bad thing, no funny joking matter.
Maybe we ought to work really hard on our own AIs and figure out how to convince them that humans are fascinating objects to be cherished and raised up to its transcendent level of intelligence. Otherwise I suspect the human race may die at the hands of its creations rather than little Jimmy's Gilbert Junior Gene Splicing set experiment gone awry, Speaking of which.... Substitute words above.
{^_^}
Can anybody imagine a 737 MAX pilot being anything less than viscerally aware of the problem and what must be done to fix it? Anything else being done is gilding the lily. Of course, turning off MCAS with an AoA sensor mismatch simply makes the job easier for the pilots. Now, why do they disagree? Are they really AoA indicators or something else entirely? Why aren't there three if you're going to use them in a flight safety critical manner?
{^_^}
Um, what about the poor sod driving a car who has a heart attack? Technically that is a road death.
Of course, they can end ALL road deaths by ripping up all the roads and outlawing vehicles other than horse drawn wagons on paths rather than roads. Or they could simply rename the roads as streets and have no more road deaths. But that's a big cheat, too.
{^_-}
I see people who demand a high aesthetic in their cell phones rather than pure efficiency ugly have come to demand industrial ugly for decorative lighting. It seems odd to me. Besides, the perceived problem is solving itself with only settings really demanding decorative lighting being equipped with tungsten technology. Let them have the option, let the rest of us have the option. Best will win.
{^_^}
That concept is a pile of brown goopy stinky material such as emanates from the South end of a North facing fertile male bovine!
{O.O}
Who gets to define "better?" That's the rub, as they say.
{^_^}
Rather than running a high overhead federal government giveaway program the brain damaged broad should instead lobby for a tax reduction with the suggestion that local governments raise their taxes slightly to capture the money directly. Then more money goes to local IT needs and less goes to Federal government administrators in their lavish offices.
{^_^}
There is one simple fact to consider here; and, it's best to consider its ramifications when or if trying to render something illegal so it won't be done where you control life and liberty of others. "If something is technologically possible to do and there is a market for doing it, then it WILL get done at least one somewhere by at least one somebody." All making it illegal means is that when it is done you end up with a technological deficit, the technological mookie end of the stick.
{^_^}
and YouTube immediately demonetized them.
{O,o}
Should the FDA, often referred to the Federal Death Administration for their keeping life saving drugs off the market, be downgraded from a regulatory agency to an advisory agency? Let the FDA require information be included with drugs, ingestibles, and injectibles. But do not allow the FDA to hold these off the market. Let consumers make up their own minds. Or is that too libertarian for us?
{o.o}
The parents have their rights as parents. They can refuse to vaccinate their children. Personally I think these parents are in practical terms dumber than a spoiled turnip despite their likelihood of being well educated. That says something about our educational system and abilities to think critically. Nonetheless, this is their right.
With all rights lie responsibilities. Their children should have the right to sue their parents for mal-parenting and refer their parents to the police for possible criminal prosecution for endangering the child filing the suit. The parents must be prepared to face their responsibility for their actions.
Fair is fare, after all.
{^_^}
I wonder if these people also are prone to pissing upwind. Darwin has a special place in evolution for people who piss or throw boiling water upwind.
{o.o}
"Because we are trained journalists who have spent our careers dedicated to the profession."
That is as good a reason to dismiss "NewsGuard" as another horribly biased "journalistic" piece of nonsense. Look at how many "journalists" utterly and completely misfired on the Covington boys. CNN even mistranscribed Nathan Philips words in their own video to claim he was a Vietnam veteran when he never set foot out of the US according to the Marines authorities. Oh, wait, this is the CNN that has repeatedly been shown to parrot dictators party lines in return for the "privilege" of reporting news from the dictators' countries. e.g. Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? SPLC maybe, another paragon of unbiased leftist bigotry. I read this as yet another attempt to "manage news" on a Soviet Union Pravda level using technology old Joe could never even dream of.
{^_^}
Once withdrawal symptoms settle in if there is no meaningful competition for Netflix a large percentage of the people would gnash their teeth and rejoin lest their brains leak out or something. I have seen this pattern before. Most anybody old enough has.
{^_-}
Microsoft must LOVE homelessness a whole lot to spend so much money on it. The law of perverse consequences suggests this expenditure will vastly increase the homeless problem in Washington. If you are willing to pay for something free markets will cough up somebody, or many people, willing to accept what you will pay.
{o.o}
Think of all the bird cages left unlined and dogs left untrained by the lack of the cherished tools published by LATimes et al.
{O.O}
It's pretty obvious the California legislators have not been paying attention. The first thing I thought of when I learned about this tax is the Emanual's plight over in France. Macron's about to get chewed up and tossed out about like the last French royal family. Let them eat cake, er let them use pencil and paper.
{^_^}
And at least 10% of them are still on the road today.
{O,o}
Even in Oz there are people who think that simple legislation can change the value of pi to 3.000.
{+_+}
Well lotsa things. Many of them elucidated here. (Snooping, theft, big brother) But there is a gem perhaps overlooked. Suppose Burly Joe steals your car. You lock it. It starts off to the police. Burly want's nothing to do with that. So he starts trashing the interior and bashes out one or more windows in his effort to get out. Car arrives without Joe. Owner is a bit put out. (Although there is probably a lot of DNA evidence around. So maybe the case will be solved if the police figure it's worth it - when they stop laughing at the trashed car.)
{^_-}
I find it tickles my perverse sense of humor to see lefties trading pot-shots with other lefties.
{^_-}
The only thing, in a just world, for which Assange can be prosecuted for in and by the US is a copyright violation. Nothing else, such as the espionage act, matters. He is not a US citizen. So far as I am aware he is not and was not in the US when he received or released the data. But, he did pirate copyrighted data. And international copyright conventions makes him liable for prosecution.
{^_^}
Does this mean that a sex change who has gone the whole nine yards changing from mail to buxom female will no longer he expected and required to cover her mammary glands at the beach? And that is the tip of the iceberg here,
And one wonders, idly, what gender a hermaphrodite will be under this law. Will he-she be able to use both restrooms?
Off hand I do not think this has been thought through properly.
{^_-}