they're lucky CEOs lack any semblance of self awareness, otherwise they'd be asking themselves a lot of questions right now...
(I hope someone is asking them, though; with luck this could end with some stock crashes, maybe even a bankruptcy or two, and any of these parasites losing power would be good news for the whole world...)
It isn't supposed to be funny, it's implicitly questioning, in light of the current situation with nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with an apparent Chinese (corporate?) spy, whether these might also be cases of state and/or corporate espionage / influence.
Cloudflare is a cancer upon the internet.
Still doesn't always work on Waterfox.
I don't know about horses, but, as ol' Ben Franklin said after a life of laborious research, all cats are gray in the dark, so the same probably applies to other mammals.
I learnt 3DS Max by myself, I'm sure I can learn Blender unless the interface is as obscure as Gimp's, which I don't think it is from what I've seen (only program I've needed a manual for was AutoCAD, and that was back when you had to type in the commands; helped me learn a bit of lisp too, before they switched to VBA — which I was already familiar with — for the macros).
Problem is finding the time and motivation, but knowing that an expert can pull this scene off in half an hour helps.
Surrealists didn't care about the limitations of reality.
I used to make stuff with 3DS Max back in the day.
Been wanting to learn Blender for quite a while.
This post might have motivated me to get off my fat arse and try it, we'll see.
Pratchett's Hogfather has an interesting take on that.
Spoilers...
The original Tooth Fairy (the whole thing is now a franchise started by him) is a bogeyman who realised milk teeth, being parts of the body, could be used to control the people they belonged to through sympathetic magic and, lacking a proper occupation due to people no longer believing in bogeymen, decided to collect them and keep them safe to prevent anyone from controlling their previous owners.
Also tooth fairies tend to carry a pair of pliers, in case they're short on change and need to take an extra tooth.
It's a fucking bell curve, and IQ is a rather vague measure.
Most people will be between 90 and 110, and 95 would be just as a about average as 105.
OK, so tax anyone with more wealth than that (exponentially proportionally to the difference) and invest in services and UBI and whatnot until it raises.
Nah, 105 is around average, and people are dumb as fuck.
Username checks out.
They're still financially obese parasites whose wealth should be taxed until it doesn't exceed a reasonable amount (say, ten times the median or 25 times the lowest, whichever comes first), though.
Correct (when it comes to billionaires; Sam Altman and his ilk intentionally caused the RAM shortage by buying RAM their companies are not using and should be held accountable).
Billionaires would be impossible in a properly civilised society, which would implement progressive taxes so that anyone with a wealth above, say, ten times the median wealth of the population or 25 times the wealth of the poorest person (citizen or not) in the nation (whichever's lowest at the time) are taxed to the point that their wealth can increase no further, with the resulting income being invested on public services so that personal wealth is irrelevant except for luxury items.
Dubya was mentally challenged. Trump is mentally challenged and senile.
You'd have to go back to Reagan (once the Alzheimer's set in) for that combination.
$3.50? Done!
Congratulations, you now owe $80 billion.
Who pays for the damage is also a civil matter. Fine everyone in the chain of responsibility, up to and including board members and stockholders, scaling the fines in proportion to their wealth.
Need to fine the parasites on top billions so that they'll feel it as much as the engineer who is fined hundreds? So be it, fuck them, they're just as responsible if not more, and should have been taxed to the point of not being able to accumulate those billions anyway.
No, fuck the company, assessing responsibility should be a public matter.
The law should be designed to make sure that no worker is more afraid of their boss than of breaking it, and to ensure that the executives, board members, and stackholders making the company's decisions (or implicitly endorsing them) are held responsible for their consequences.
Yeah, the actual purpose of the laws was to produce interesting (when involving Susan Calvin) or amusing (when involving Powell and Donovan) stories.
Still some form of protection for humans is needed.
If a robot (or any other corporate product or activity) causes injury everyone in the corporate chain of responsibility (especially board members and stockholders) should be criminally liable.