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[Dartz]

The implication being that there is an appropriate amount of oppression required to keep things together, which varies depending on the stresses the system is expected to undergoe

Too much oppresion and the threads strip, the bolt snaps, or the system becomes too ridgid and uncompliant and finds another way to break - and everything falls apart.
Too little oppression and things work loose over time and just fall apart

People need to be just the right amount of screwed.

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[robkelk]

Whoever did that one forgot to colour in Puerto Rico. Yes, it's on the map (to the east of the Dominican Republic), and it's big enough to show whichever colour it should be.

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Maybe Puerto Rico got absorbed by Cuba or some other Caribbean nation? :p

[nemonowan]

Let's be honest here, what Clegg was saying is that under that specific law an AI company would have to individually negotiate the usage of every single piece of text in the internet with whoever its copyright holder happens to be, which IS clearly unworkable for any industry. He was instead pushing for a creator-side authorization mark that AI companies would be legally compelled to respect, unlike the current honor-based robots.txt system.



This has explicitly been their game plan for the last fifty years: run up the deficit (by cutting taxes) when they are in power and holler about the deficit having to be reduced (by cutting services) when they aren't. Look up "The Two Santas Strategy".

[robkelk]

Let's be honest here, what Clegg was saying is that under that specific law an AI company would have to individually negotiate the usage of every single piece of text in the internet with whoever its copyright holder happens to be, which IS clearly unworkable for any industry. He was instead pushing for a creator-side authorization mark that AI companies would be legally compelled to respect, unlike the current honor-based robots.txt system.

There already is such a mark, and it looks like this: ©
AI companies don't respect it.

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