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• On the post: New Ohio Law Allows Cops To Charge $75/Hr. To Process Body Cam Footage

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2025 @ 09:50am

  What kind of morons are these people? You don't pull a 70 or 80k a year patrol officer to do this kind of search. You grab that 30 to 40k a year administrative assistant to do this kind of shit. I mean this is administrative paper work, get the people who's job is to deal with administrative paperwork to do it.

• On the post: Trump’s Anti-Deep State FBI Pick Kash Patel Got Swept Up By… Trump’s Deep State

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2024 @ 01:26pm

  What influence? My one vote that gets washed out in a sea of propagandized useful idiots and gerrymandering? I know, I’ll just make a multi-million dollar donation to the right politicians, as soon as I win the lottery…

  I was speaking of Patel using his influence to change the laws if he was upset about them being used as they were written.

• On the post: Trump’s Anti-Deep State FBI Pick Kash Patel Got Swept Up By… Trump’s Deep State

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2024 @ 01:25pm

  What influence? My one vote that gets washed out in a sea of propagandized useful idiots and gerrymandering? I know, I’ll just make a multi-million dollar donation to the right politicians, as soon as I win the lottery…

  I was speaking of Patel using his influence to change the laws if he was upset about them being used as they were written.

• On the post: Trump’s Anti-Deep State FBI Pick Kash Patel Got Swept Up By… Trump’s Deep State

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2024 @ 11:38am

  The FBI and local police routinely supeona Google for data about citizens and neither entity tell said citizen that their information was pulled and looked at. Why should Patel be any different? If you don't like that then use your influence to get the laws changed.

• On the post: Justices: Maybe The Takings Clause Doesn’t Cover Destroying An Innocent Person’s Home To Arrest A Suspect

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2024 @ 06:27pm

  We conclude that, as a matter of history and precedent, the Takings Clause does not require compensation for damaged or destroyed property when it was objectively necessary for officers to damage or destroy that property in an active emergency to prevent imminent harm to persons. They had the house surrounded, no other human besides the suspect was in said house. What other person was in imminent harm?

• On the post: Trump Tags Brendan Carr To Dismantle What’s Left Of Broadband Consumer Protection At FCC

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2024 @ 01:46pm

  Or my vote really doesn't matter that much because my state is so skewed to one party that the other has a snowballs chance in hell of winning, and then winner takes all for the EC votes.

• On the post: ChatGPT Dreams Up Fake Studies, Alaska Cites Them To Support School Phone Ban

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2024 @ 11:42am

  Why the hell are they using full up article citations for "placeholders" instead of something like "Nature article 1"? Something that someone doing an editor/proofing pass can easly spot as needing fixing?

• On the post: Comcast, Charter Sue FTC Over Efforts To Make Canceling Services Easier

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2024 @ 06:28am

  So what it sounds like is I need to get a couple of low limit credit cards and use those for subscription based services that make it a pain in the ass to cancel. Keep the same types of services grouped together like streaming services, news sites etc. Then when they give me grief about canceling or make it hard as hell, call the credit card company and cancel THAT specific card and when they send me a new one update the card information on the services I want to keep.

• On the post: Remove Your Tinfoil Hats, Everyone; Social Media Mishaps Aren’t Always Billionaire Election Stealing Plots

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2024 @ 09:46am

  Does X even still have people in its trust and safety department? I think it would be pretty demoralizing to set up all these rules only to have Musk go, "nah, they ok. Unblock them" on some of the worst offenders.

• On the post: Congress Wants To Let Private Companies Own The Law

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2024 @ 01:01pm

  Would the recent Chevron ruling not make these standards makers subject to possible court review?

• On the post: Fox News’ Desperate Attempts To Link Trump Shooter To Video Games Is Pathetic

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2024 @ 02:51pm

  Or better yet, Truth Social as that is where Trump is most visible and more likely to have caused the shooter to become disgruntled with Trump.

• On the post: Warner Bros. Takes Down LOTR Fan Film From 2009, Apologizes, Puts It Back Up

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 17 May, 2024 @ 08:40am

  Trusting any automated system do do its job perfectly and without supervision is a mistake that keeps costing them good will and reputation. I will not give WB a pass on this because they have the budget to put people to work reviewing these takedown notices before they go out.

• On the post: Sir, This Is A Supreme Court (Not A Wendy’s)

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2024 @ 12:19pm

  If a law is so very broad, vague, and filled with "does this apply" and touches on the Firsf Ammendment, how can that be considered "narrowingly crafted" and constitutional?

• On the post: Transport For London Adds AI To Its Cameras To Bust Fare Jumpers, Bike Riders

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2024 @ 11:13am

  Or.. they could actually take that money they spent on the AI and hire some people to actually stand there in person and watch over the turnstiles.

• On the post: If Creators Suing AI Companies Over Copyright Win, It Will Further Entrench Big Tech

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2023 @ 12:11pm

  I suspect it will be even worse in the end. If the AI creators have to go to the gatekeepers, what is the likely hood of them being able to get the kind of data they want to train their AI vs some kind of prepackaged low quality data? How vibrant of a marketplace will there be if all the training sets are the same?

• On the post: Publishing A Book Means No Longer Having Control Over How Others Feel About It, Or How They’re Inspired By It. And That Includes AI.

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2023 @ 11:23am

  If you are an author and look in the Book3 list and have a fit that your work is being used, would you have an issue with your work being used in a literature class for students to break down and interpret or learn a writing convention from? If you have no issue with people using your work to learn from, why do you have an issue when a LLM uses it to learn from?

• On the post: Politico’s Weird Celebration Of 1st Amendment Violations When It Comes To Adult Content

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2023 @ 09:51am

  Just for the record, Louisiana Governor John Bell Edwards is a Democrat.

• On the post: How Would The GOP Feel If Democrats In Congress Demanded Details Regarding How Fox News Or The NY Post Made Editorial Decisions?

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2023 @ 10:00am

  Evetyone please remeber that for Republicans it's "Rules for thee, but not for me."

• On the post: Council On Foreign Relations Burns EARN IT To The Ground In Powerful Post Criticizing Its Anti-Encryption Aims

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2023 @ 09:44am

  That apartment landlord analogy is proably a bad one. None of the politicians pushing this live in an apartment and are at risk of having one barge in uninvited. More likely THEY are the landlord, and them having more power over their tennets would be a good thing in their view.

• On the post: Google Nixes ‘Downloader’ App From Store After DMCA Says Its Browser Can Get To Piracy Sites

  

  Nathan F ( profile ), 30 May, 2023 @ 05:58pm

  Most likely, the scale. Google might get too many take down requests a day to feasibly review each one by hand.

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