[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

McCarthy knew that a government shutdown would have pissed off even more Republicans in Congress, including all of those in vulnerable districts.

For example, Boebert's district. Notice how for once she didn't vote alongside Gaetz? Behind closed doors, there were plenty of Congressional Republicans telling McCarthy that making make a deal with Democrats was preferable to a politically suicidal shutdown.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It might be constitutional, but "confidential" just means the state can punish any state employees who give the images to the general public.

Marking something "confidential" has no effect on the general public who receive the images, including any newspapers that ultimately publish them.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Most European countries allow the use of force in self defense.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Brandishing a firearm can be illegal even if you don't draw it.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can't copyright AI-generated art even if it was only trained with images in the public domain.

In fact, you can't copyright AI-generated art even it was only trained with images that you made.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

The copyright office has been pretty clear that if an artist is significantly involved in creating an image but then adjusts it with AI, or vice versa, then the work is still eligible for copyright.

In all of the cases where copyright was denied, the artist made no significant changes to AI output and/or provided the AI with nothing more than a prompt.

Photographers give commands to their camera just as a traditional artist gives commands in Photoshop. The results in both cases are completely predictable. This is where they diverge from AI-generated art.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

That depends on if they can keep their customer base.

If your local McDonald's left town and a place named Burgers-R-Us took its place, would the new restaurant sell as many burgers as the McDonalds did? I doubt it. McDonald's devotes vast resources to build its brand and get customers into their restaurants. Smaller companies don't have those resources.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Not all the knowledge is there. Some ingredients are imported, in order to protect trade secrets and ensure global consistency.

After Russia took over McDonald's, customers did notice a change in how the food tasted.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Two federal indictments, and one state (NY). Georgia will be the second state indictment.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Adobe is requiring customers to choose one of three different competing browsers, none of which are owned by Adobe.

There's no antitrust issue here.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Finland is also right next to Russia, in fact St Petersburg is only 100 miles from the border. And by "border", that now means "NATO border."

So maybe NATO doesn't really care what Putin thinks about its membership.

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