It was pretty clear, to both the government with access to the data, and also to a lot of average citizens. It was kind of obvious it was a pretext for a misguided retaliation for 9/11, a wounded Bush admin lashing out, trying to look strong.
The Iraq government prevented inspections in defiance of multiple UN resolutions for many years, during several admins, not just Bush admin. Note it was UN rules, not US. It just no country besides US wanted to enforce the UN resolutions.
It was even clear from the presentation to the UN that the claims were bullshit. "We don't have proof-proof, but we think it's because they are hiding their labs on trucks that they drive around, here's some lame computer-generated imagery..."
This is akin to "where there's smoke there's fire" (on the level of gossip and hearsay and rumors) except of course for the fact that a war was based on this information, many people died and a country fell into ruin as a result...
There was procedure to make it not gossip -- UN mandated inspections. Iraq blatantly prevented them, and intentionally made it look like they are stockpiling WMDs. Good play on their part to trick US and UK.
Look up "UN Security Council Resolution 678 and Resolution 1441".
or even better a PTM. i was battling high temps and stutter due to throttling on my lenovo legion with ryzen 7945hx. stock thermal compound, whatever it was, didn't cut it. regular thermal paste was slightly better. PTM finally fixed it even to a point when i can use unlimited power mode.
for half a year at least, until radiators get clogged with dust and thing requires total disassembly. i'm looking to add metal mesh as filter, see how that works
Yep, it’s a well-trod road. Typically, with this sort of business model, they cut all development, squeeze cost out and then milk it until all the customers leave. Interestingly, with Evernote, they’re doing development and investing. But they raised prices hugely, to the point where I’ll cancel this year and move to Obsidian.
In traditional regular investment you give companies money so they can make more money off them by creating value, and also you get some control of the company.
Note that commercial companies are obliged by law to maximize shareholders value, government can punish them if they don't.
Gambling, on the other hand, only redistributes capital around, without creating any value, which would be at least benign, if it didn't _attract_ all kinds of crime: drug abuse, human trafficking, fraud and violence.
But when I buy stock it doesn't give money to the company. It gives money to the previous stock holder that I bought the stock from. From the company's perspective all that happened is that a small share of the company has changed ownership.
You probably talking about publicly traded companies: If you buy stock at IPO, direct listing or any other follow-on offering -- it goes directly to the company.
And the price you pay then already accounts for your future ability to resell your stock to anyone else later, stocks would valued way less if you could only sell it back to the company.
But also don't forget that public trading is only one market, there's also a huge market for private companies stocks. Those go directly to the company for its operations.
Unpopular opinion, but I think that any website owner accepting uploads from strangers should bear responsibility for those uploads. You cannot just say "not mine, I just distributed it".
UPDATE: Unpopular because it means there's a lot of work for the owner to moderate the files. And large sites like facebook are notorious for very bad moderation. It's not like we mandate them to hire N moderators per M users.
I'd be fine if that were the law. What really frustrates me is the double standard where I can't host something that Microsoft or Wetransfer can without repercussions
When running an actually competent LLM is as cheap as a $10/mo cloud server (for the moderation), I'll actually agree with this sentiment. Probably wont be unpopular long beyond that point in time.
There's a middle ground for this though. Platforms like Youtube, Facebook, etc, have no excuse anymore. They can literally scan with these models they have available and handle it. So write the legislation based on their capacity so you don't screw the one dude just trying to support some indie game devs in a small community or something.
PS: Yes I mostly work from a laptop.
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