peebee67

Nobody ever questions why the troll is living under a bridge.

I realise he was making comedy, but breaking that down further I'd argue that dumb people can fool smart people for a little while that they're smart.

My social acuity has developed slowly, only after being repeatedly pounded into shape from mistakes, and quickly reading people is something that does not happen intuitively for me. I've been misled multiple times by people who, overall, I would now describe as just not that bright, with horrible consequences as the relationship developed. What they had in common is that they were all good at mirroring. Eg, They hear me use a technical term in an early conversation, they drop one or two confidently not much later, and before I picked up on what they were doing, I mistook them for an intellectual peer and let that early impression colour later ones. These days I'm much more attuned to it and have caught people doing it, along with the little microexpressions they pull when they think they've successfully deceived me. It's fun now, but it certainly didn't start that way.

I remember the set of his shoulders and generally pained body language during that address. He knew it was bullshit, and knew that the world could tell that he was bullshitting. They sent him because out of the four (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, and Powell), he was the only one regarded as somewhat reliable.

He sold his soul that day and regretted it almost instantly. I agree that the people who put him up to it were also setting him up as they knew he already wasn't really with them on this thing. They were politicians, after all. I have no sympathy for the personal toll it took on him. He's a war criminal like the rest.

The E3 fleet is aging and difficult to keep airworthy. Of the 32 or so planes the US has, it sounds as though they struggle to keep the operational number above 16, and moving more to the gulf means they have to pull them from other theaters. In short, they simply don't have enough to provide coverage of all the areas they want them.

This was completely foreseeable and is a situation that appears to have arisen entirely due to vest interests stifling procurement of a suitable replacement in order to spruik up business for their own competing, but unfinished offering. Prior to the war in Iran, total cancellation of the procurement of E7's had been announced.

https://theaviationist.com/2026/04/01/e-3-awacs-loss-saudi-a...

Okay, so this is clearly corrupt, but is it illegal?

If not, add it to the United States Congress' many failings. If it is, since they spy on everything, it really shouldn't be hard to convict everyone who spilled the beans early. There's two halves to every transaction, and every trader probably told at least one other person, so there should be no shortage of people willing to rat on each other.

pfft, were you still working for a living or something, you leaner?

You must be young.

Nuremberg Defence for the 2020's will be "the Agent did it."

I also fell for it.

This is just elaborate trolling that you're all in on like Sopranos quotations, right?

Third amendment was tested in 2011 when Nevada police decided they wanted to occupy the house of a disinterested neighbour to a suspect and then when he refused, bashed down his door, shot him with pepper balls, pulled him out of his house and jailed him for obstruction. Then went across the street to his dad's house, tricked him out of the house, and arrested him too when he tried to go back home. Charges were dropped, and courts ultimately decided that police are not peacetime military, so 3A doesn't apply.

http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/in-rare-third-amend...

How is it double-speak? The "free" part doesn't mean "free beer"...

I've often had the mental image of Galileo trying to order a pizza and being very disappointed at the garlic bread that turned up.

"Privacy policy" is definitely one of the most prominent Newspeak terms around today. The full term should read "how we'll violate your privacy policy".

They've apparently had a corporate philosophy of obfuscating the underlying system from the end user and deliberately inhibiting their ability to learn how it fits together since at least the early 2000's.

I feel like the current ignorance of the average computer user was a deliberate outcome they've been working towards for more than 20 years. As someone who has been using computers since the late 80's, I find their current offerings harder to use than ever.

> In general, I don’t really understand educators hyperventilating about LLM use. If you can’t tell what your students are independently capable of and are merely asking them to spit back content at you, you’re not doing a good job.

Sounds as though you do understand it.

If they ignore a properly configured robots.txt and the licence also explicitly denies them use, then I'd guess they have a viable civil action to extract compensation. But that isn't the case here at all, and while there's reports of them doing so, they certainly claim to respect the convention.

As for bending over, if you serve files and they request files, then you send them files, what exactly is the problem? That you didn't implement any kind of rate limiting? It's a web-based company and these things are just the basics.

Greedy and relentless OpenAI's scraping may be, but that his web-based startup didn't have a rudimentary robots.txt in place seems inexcusably naive. Correctly configuring this file has been one of the most basic steps of web design for living memory and doesn't speak highly of the technical acumen of this company.

>“We’re in a business where the rights are kind of a serious issue, because we scan actual people,” he said. With laws like Europe’s GDPR, “they cannot just take a photo of anyone on the web and use it.”

Yes, and protecting that data was your responsibility, Tomchuck. You dropped the ball and are now trying to blame the other players.

You don't!

That's exactly what they're aspiring to here, following on from a well-established pedigree of Australian lawmakers and their dysfunctional relationship with the Internet.