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No absolutely not...

That would be the worst thing for the web. Blink is objectively bad in the first place, and we need more than just chromiumum skins in the market.

I wish they would finish and move to Servo.

I wish Brave or some of the other Chromium Skins would become Firefox based.

Everyone consolidating down to Blink and Chromium is about the worst thing that could happen to anyone that desires an open Web

Citing Wikipedia you already failed..

That is a General Article about Copyright world wide, I Specifically stated US Copyright, which is Authorized by Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution[1], implicitly for the promotion of the useful sciences. That is where congress derives its power to pass copyright laws, and to enforce copyright on the people of the United States. No other purpose is authorized by the US Constitution

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/intellectual_property_clause

None of which are copyrightable and infact has been the subject of DMCA abuse like when a Movie uses NASA footage and claims copyright on YouTube videos with the same footage.

Copyright is a complex subject, and not as vast as many believe, at the same time ironically it is more vast than i believe it should be. copyright should be much more limiting than it is. Which is at odds with people that believe copyright should be maximized.

Keeping in mind commercial success of a work, author or company is not why copyright exists. For the US, the only reason copyright can exist in our framework of law (i.e the constitution) is for the promotion of the useful sciences. No other purpose for copyright would be constitutional under the US Constitution

Largely because "news" aka facts is not and should not be copyrightable, so while the style, and exact format of the article may be copyrightable, the facts contained within are not.

This makes a news story copyright murky in the eyes of wider society unlike a clearly 100% creative work like a TV Show or Movie.

Further the news themselves self cannibalize, how many stories are just rewrites of stories from other outlets? why it is OK for the Washington Post to copy the NY times, but not ok for OpenAI or Archive.org?

>>That is why vaccines need FDA approval in the first place.

this is probably where the most of our different world view comes from, I believe the FDA is just a corrupt organization rubber stamping big Pharma, and serves no actual safety purpose. Given the revolving door between the major companies and top level positions in the FDA and the actions of the FDA during COVID I have lots of examples to prove my position.

>>Everything else you said is true for all kinds of appeal and not just for vaccines

Incorrect, the Vaccine process establishes an extra Judicial process where by a committee at the DHHS gets to choose if you were actually injured by the vaccine or not, skipping the jury process completely. if you are denied by the DHHS you have to jump right to the Expensive Appeals process, there is no way to fine a standard civil lawsuit and get a Jury of your peers.

Also there is no way to form a class if the FDA screws up and a vaccine causes harm to 100's. 1000's or 10'000s of people, each case has to go through the process individually

I understand that this point you believe the FDA is infallible organization that only cares for the individual, but the FDA has proven time and time again that to be false.

>>either I am in a social bubble so don't have exposure or writing software for Windows

you clearly are.... There are TONS of windows only software out there, and most INTERNAL systems that run companies, these internal LOB apps, often custom made for the companies, many many many of them (probally more than 50%) are windows server apps.

For example GE makes a Huge Industrial ecosystem of applications that runs a ton of factories, utilities, and other companies... Guess what all of that is windows based.

Many of the biggest ERP's run on MS SQL Server which until very recently was Windows Only, and most MS SQL Servers are still on windows server

To claim only 20% of all workloads are Windows shows an extreme bubble most likely in the realm of WEB BASED DEVELOPMENT, as highlighted by list of web technologies, php, node, etc..

there are all kinds of problems first and foremost is incentives if tax payers (i.e government) are paying for the losses why should they care if they injure anyone? removing product liability is universally a bad idea

Further there is all kinds of Due process issues that make filing a Vaccine claim problematic and very expensive to appeal, there are all kinds of horror stories out there about denied claims, and to appeal the denial is $$$$$$$$$$$$ and no lawyer will take it with out up front payment, and no class action is possible to spread the costs out...

I am aware of them, these also should not be called vaccines.

It is now, it has been expanded over the years most recently in response to covid as to include mRNA in the definition of what a vaccine is explicitly to shield these big pharma companies from liability for any harm adverse reactions to mRNA may have to individuals

It is shocking to me that soo many people that normally at against large companies, and against even capitalism do not see the huge danger in classifying these things as something that gives the companies creating them an almost complete liability shield from harms caused by their products.

Once something is a "vaccine" in the US you lose all ability to sue for most harms caused by said vaccine.

This further redefinition of the term "vaccine" is a huge problem

by definition a vaccine should NOT be a treatment, a vaccine has to be preventative, and further personally I believe only Sterilizing immunity should be considered a "vaccine"

This is very important, because a "vaccine" in the US has legal protections other medical drugs, treatments, etc do not get, which is why there is a push to include alot of these things under the definition of "vaccine" so now they get the legal shield

I have had it were devs could run locally, but their machine was not setup like production and they included some library, dll, or other dependency that was on their laptop into the project and then it blows up in prod....

fun times...

even more fun when that project is a GUI app installed on lots of computers and now you have a new dependency to roll out to every system because it would be too hard for the dev to revert and fix it where the code did not need that dependency...

Even more fun when that dependency comes from licensed software that you only have a limited number of licenses for

Another fine example of Judaical Activism granting authority to government contrary to the plain reading of the constitution

You mean a No Code Solution like PowerApps :)

Not Happened, it Happens every day with Tool and Outdoor Power Equipment....

This is still a common and ongoing process. Hell the same brand is manufactured by several companies, for example Brand X may have a pressure washer that is made by MTD, but a Lawn Mower that is made by someone else, and a chainsaw that is made by a 3rd company. All with different levels of quality.

Even if you see a list of who "owns" the brand, many of them contract with each other to make the tools and equipment so it hard to tell who is actually making the product.

As someone else said, in whole it is often a tax diversion, a purchase designed to fail to bundle other failures to write off in one go, or various other things

Could also be Patent Capture if the companies has alot of patents

If the company is large it will be sold in pieces to individual competitors of the different market segments.

If the price is right a large competitor will buy it just to shut it down, basically a marketing cost for customer acquisition..

There are plenty of "valid" reasons a failing company driven into the ground by management is still able to be sold...

I have been through it many times as a customer of tech companies, I would say the outline I posted above it the most common pattern I have experienced

So much so that today if one of my vendors gets bought out by PE we immediately start planning a migration of that technology

Most recent example is Broadcom who uses a PE-like playbook, we are now evaluating what can replace vSphere...

Being taken private does not mean Not being beholden to show growth every quarter, in fact often then private equity takes a Tech company private the impetus return value to the new owners is even higher than if it was still public

The pattern of Private Equity take over is clear

1. Buy out public stock

2. Extreme Cost Cutting to make the company profitable by sacrificing Engineering and Customer Service

3. Massive Increase in prices to make the company profitable by sacrificing long term market share for short term profits

4. Sell the company again (or in pieces) before it goes bankrupt due to 1 and 2.

This has happened time and time again.

No you can not just look at murders and declare that over all crime is down because murder is down.

Looking at cities that do not have the same reporting problem that these large cities with a certain political bent you can see that murder does not track with non-violent crime aka property crime and only has a loose correlation to other violent crimes.

it is entirely possible for Theft, robbery, Rape, etc to be increase while murder is decreasing.

Further according to U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics issued in March 2023, between 34% and 58% of violent crimes were reported to police. For property crimes, the percentage reported to police was between 28% and 44%.[1] It may seem add on only 34% of violent crime would be reported, but we have seen many reports in recent years of police treating victims like criminals in the first place so many people will just move on and never involve the police even with violent crime.

Then there is the reported 90,000+ package thefts [2] that occur that NYPD does not put on their comstat figures they release as these are considered minior offenses, but have a real impact on daily life (aka broken windows)

[1] https://www.westsiderag.com/2023/07/09/column-how-many-uws-c...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/nyregion/package-theft-ea...

Yea, the way big cities seem to want to resolve the crime problem is to simply stop responding to crime calls, if no one can report a crime the crime never happened right???

SanFran seems to have this policy when it comes to shoplifting, never mind your eyes, or the video, since the police dept has a policy to never respond to retail theft, retail theft crimes are dropping... it is like magic.

Yes because the phone companies do not allow the car makers to spy on me, which they should not be doing anyway..

Sorry that is not something i am going to cry for GM over

I cant remember the last time I got a GM Rental... Normally it is Chrysler or Toyota I see

Lets survey the membership, what is left of them, in a year or less and see if they still feel it was a "success"...

I have a feeling a large % of them will not be in WGA jobs in 18 mos

Unions like government prioritize what ever the vocal, loudest, and most organized minority of the group wants prioritized, this will not align with all members, and rarely even aligns with what the majority of members desire

Trade unions and Employment unions are very different.

That said, i suspect the parent story was from years ago, most likely late 90's or early 00's when that type of thing was common

Today most unions are very very very hard up to find anyone willing to work everyone that wants a job, and can actually follow instructions, and show up on time (harder than it sounds it seems) gets a job right now...

Simple. Did the management meet the various internal targets outlined by the board.. Those could be anything from profitability, to total cost structure, to anything really

Well Lying to the FBI and other federal agents is direct violation of the law

Lying to general police while not direct violation of the law, can be (and has been) prosecuted under several laws such as obstruction of justice, also several states have statues making false or misleading statements to police or public officials during in official investigation. Then there are also laws that prohibiting lying in specific context like your name, address, and other details.

I would not have a problem with police legally lying, if it was legal for me to lie in response.

The single biggest problem in modern society is a dual rules we have for government agents vs the population at large, this can not stand in a free society. We all either have the same rules or we have tyranny there is no 3rd option

Your optimism defies the historical record on how these advances tend to play out in reality

Hint, they almost never increase privacy

>>How are you ever going to know what happened there?

if only there was a recording device to record what actually happened....

>>You can assume the cop was corrupt and the citizen innocent in all those cases,

yes that is exactly how it should work, that is how the system is setup to work. We have some how flipped that in recent years. At all times you should assume the government is abusing you, unless they can prove they are not.

No video, I side with the people not the government

>>There has to be a fraction of cases where their rights were not being violated as claimed and footage is still unavailable. Whether that is 1/10 or 9/10

It would be an error rate far far far far far less than that, and when you factor in most calls have more than one officers, plus patrol cars that have their own recording devices, plus citizen witnesses, plus business surveillance I think we get to such an unlikely circumstance to be statically impossible

There one but 1 reform that will do the most... Putting an end to the moronic judicial created doctrine of "Qualified Immunity"

it is very sad that we had the opportunity to do so in 2020, with both Democrat and Republican Support, but that opportunity was wasted by using that political interia and capital on the moronic "De fund the police" mantra's where by the new status quo seems to be "Well if the police act like criminals lets to all be criminals and never arrest anyone for anything"....

"Qualified Immunity" is one of the Root Causes of the policing problem, and it needs to end