[-] [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] 7 points 2 years ago

Yes. An image in possession of a law enforcement officer is confidential. That means the law enforcement officer cannot share it.

Once the image is leaked, it is in possession of the newspaper. A newspaper can do whatever it wants with its images. Even if they are "confidential".

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There are two separate issues here. First, can you copyright art that is completely AI-generated? The answer is no. So openAI cannot claim a copyright for its output, no matter how it was trained.

The other issue is if openAI violated a copyright. It's true that if you write a book in the style of another author, then you aren't violating copyright. And the same is true of openAI.

But that's not really what the openAI lawsuit alleges. The issue is not what it produces today, but how it was originally trained. The authors point out that in the process of training openAI, the developers illegally download their works. You can't illegally download copyrighted material, period. It doesn't matter what you do with it afterwards. And AI developers don't get a free pass.

Illegally downloading copyrighted books for pleasure reading is illegal. Illegally downloading copyrighted books for training an AI is equally illegal.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sure, but the point is they have transponders. And pilots generally use them (because it's safer) unless they have a good reason not to.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pigs are in no danger of extinction.

And wanting to preserve natural ecosystems does not imply wanting to improve the treatment of livestock. Incidentally, the end of meat consumption would most likely lead to the extinction of multiple species of livestock.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't hope that aid is held up. It's going to Floridians in need, many of whom already hate DeSantis. And anyway it would set a terrible precedent for a President to try to punish people living in states where the governor is a political opponent.

On the other hand, I do hope that DeSantis is politically humiliated by the federal aid.

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

The commerce clause does not stop states from restricting the use and sale of medicines within that state. For example, different states have passed various laws restricting the use of opioids.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No.

A field is a value assigned at every point in space. It is not "made of waves". But if the field is perturbed by an acceleration, then the perturbation is propagated as a wave.

Simple analogy: every point in the sea has a "depth". That's like a field. If a motorboat creates a wake, the "depth" changes temporarily. You see that change as a wave.

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

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's not really true. The E Jean Carroll case found him liable for defamation in a civil case. The standard was lower than for a criminal conviction (just as OJ lost his civil case but was not convicted of murder).

Furthermore, Trump basically accepted that he was liable for defamation, but not necessarily guilty of rape. That was enough for the judge, so he did not have to "confirm" anything else.

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

Those charges aren't really about taking documents. They are about refusing to return them, lying about whether they had all been returned, and possibly showing them to unauthorized individuals. The documents were in Mar-a-lago when this was going on.

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

No.

She is on the Southern District of Florida, and the crimes of January 6 did not take place in Florida.

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