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If I remember correctly, India is manufacturing iPhones for export because the government would not let Apple expand sale of iPhones(or was it open Apple stores) in the country unless they produced the phones locally?

So Apple setup production in India starting with old model iPhones. Then expanded to today…

So what the copyright situation going to be in an ai generated movie?

My last recollection is recent case said AI generated didn’t have copyright?

Mercedes Drive-Pilot is level 3 and available now, apparently. Looks like recently updated to work up to 95km/h.

https://group.mercedes-benz.com/innovations/product-innovati...

:)

I’m legit trying to figure out who your calling the petty tyrant flexing their power: - The principal which let off with a warning - The other kid, popping circuit breakers - Or you, ‘corrupting’ other young minds :)

As a reluctant one unit landlord (was underwater when we had to buy a bigger place for growing family) I’ve seen my insurance costs triple, property taxes double, and association fees go up 50%.

Then there’s the repairs… And the property management company fees.

It’s not like the mortgage is the only expense a landlord has.

Went camping recently, and used one of those head mounted flashlights. Walking around there were glowing spots in the grasses. Thought at first it was some sort of firefly.

Upon inspection, it was the light reflecting off the eyes of spiders. Dozens and dozens of spiders everywhere in the grasses. Never could get a picture.

So light does reflect from compound eyes, but in ‘silver’.

I remember waiting for the sonic boom, that never came…

My jr high recollection was a teacher complaining about the bad grammar. “We don’t need no education…”

Democrats held all Presidency, House, and Senate in the first two years of the Biden administration. 2021-2022

I presume you mean some new technology to transfer the fetus?

As it is now, people ‘adopt’ babies before they’re born, all the time.

Mother wants to give baby up for adoption. Couple is matched up with the mother and they help the mother during the pregnancy, physically, emotionally and financially. I’ve known several people involved in adoption.

A perfect imitation of real life…

So only a human buys a large apartment complex, with all the associated liabilities and risks?

Does that exclude partnerships or just corps and llcs?

Off topic, but reminds me of the lost hunting dog whose tracking collar was found in a big gator, along with a lot of other collars.

Solved a long running ‘lost hunting dog’ mystery.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/aug/29/dogs-tracked-d...

Click on the dates. On my iPhone it moves the frame to show the correct month. Landscape looks better than portrait . I gather it’s a design exercise not a product.

Bifacial solar panels for the fence? Hmm... My state requires HOA's to approve solar projects. Hmm...

I'd much prefer a fence to rooftop solar.

They’re going to mess up your life.

“ The debate over the actions of Danielle and Alexander Meitiv, of Silver Spring, began in December when state authorities started investigating them for letting their children walk to school by themselves.

The Meitivs never thought letting their children, 10-year-old Rafi and 6-year-old Dvora, walk home from the park would spark a national discussion. The Silver Spring parents were interviewed when Montgomery County Child Protective Services began investigating them”

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/parents-debate-cps-decision-f...

Apparently cleared, eventually, but …

I’m on Cricket, which is a prepaid cell plan ‘subsidiary’ of AT&T, and calls/internet are work fine.

So not a network outage, but account related?

Watched the MKBHD video on this and couldn’t help but think about copyrights when he spoke of the impact on stock footage companies.

As I understand the current US situation, a straight prompt-to-generate-video cannot be copyrighted. https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf

But the copyright office is apparently considering the situation more thoroughly now.

Is that where it stands?

If it can’t be copyrighted, it seems that would tamper many uses.

If they did, we wouldn’t know…

>> that means, i think it is reasonable to demand that a political representative be neutral and not have any associations for which it could be argued that they represent a conflict of interest.>>

This statement directly contradicts your view that ‘none of this restricts freedom is association’

Define ‘demand’. Voters demand, like their opinion is they won’t vote for someone who has associations. Or government demands that candidates have no associations.

How would one abolish political parties? What does abolish mean?

Fundamentally, political parties are based on freedom of association.

Freedom of association allows people to form their own groups, for whatever reason. A group of hikers, model railroad enthusiasts, or a group seeking political ends.

Political parties also cross into advocacy, which is/can be petitioning government for redress. Another constitutionally protected thing.

Best option that I can see is having elections ignore party affiliation. Basically the jungle primary thing.

But in my experience, with nonpartisan elections, everybody still knows what ‘party’ the candidates are.

U.S. Navy too https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/27/no-diploma-no...

I’ve found some help with perfectionism and procrastination by using procrastination to overcome perfectionism.

Get a project to a “good enough” point, then tell myself “I’ll fix it next year”, when I really just want to rip it out and start over.

Of course ‘next year’ never comes as later I come to see that the project is totally fine and doesn’t need a re-do.

I took it as a Christmas sweater…

Is there some reason these institutions could not make direct student loans themselves to their students? That would give them some real ‘skin in the game’ ensuring a good education with good job prospects.

It would be telling if they ended up lending to students in some majors but not others.

Chemistry in earth certainly started with the formation of earth.

Are you suggesting that abiogenesis didn’t start on earth, but self-replicating molecules started evolving in earths protoplanetary disc?

Serious question, haven’t encountered that theory before. It’s kinda panspermia-lite.

Where did you get 10 billion years of random chemistry?

The articles I read assert that life began just 500 million to 1 billion years after formation of earth. 3.5-4.1 billion years ago with an earth age of 4.5 billion.

>>>I agree it’s an open question, but I think it’s highly likely with lots of circumstantial evidence that life is an evolutionary emergent phenomenon where inorganic material reactions create life. We already know that’s the case in highly controlled environments.

Did I miss some big announcements? Where has anyone created life from inorganic material reactions in a highly controlled environment?

Serious question, not trolling.

Seems to me that would be an insta-Nobel.

As a practical matter, it's all but impossible in most circumstances. (even setting aside getting the owners, some/many of whom are landlords, to approve a dissolution)

Usually the HOA legally owns the 'common property', such as retention ponds, club houses, pools, 'parks', etc. If it's a gated community, the HOA owns the roads.

The HOA is legally responsible for maintaining those common areas, mowing, cleaning, resurfacing, and even insuring.

So if the HOA is dissolved, who owns the common areas, and who pays for (and manages) maintaining them?

As I understand it, local government loves HOAs, as they reduce the work they have to do. That tot-lot 'park' is not maintained by the city/county. Those retention ponds are not the counties problem when they go stagnant and have fish-kills.

Some states have laws to restrict some of the things HOA's can restrict. Like solar panels, clotheslines, flag poles, and landscaping. Not enough though...

I wonder how homeless shelter housing intersects with FHA 'emotional support animal' requirements. Presumably, someone homeless with a dog, would use the dog as an emotional support animal, but not have any of the required documentation. https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/fair-housing-act-and...