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  #3254378 29-Jun-2024 11:18
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Irish, Chinese, and (sometimes) Japanese have a nice way of getting around this and removing ambiguity. Just repeat the verb in the appropriate form.

 

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  #3254569 29-Jun-2024 20:11
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Gurezaemon: Irish, Chinese, and (sometimes) Japanese have a nice way of getting around this and removing ambiguity.

 

And then Italians and Spaniards have the opposite, they have double negatives as a fundamental part of the language, used to emphasise a negation rather than the English-style double-cancels-out: "Te llamo Nib?" -> "No, no me llamo Nib, pendejo!" ("Are you Nib?" -> "No, I'm not Nib").


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  #3254650 30-Jun-2024 11:32
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ROFL you left behind the translation for "pendejo".




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  #3254726 30-Jun-2024 14:21
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freitasm: ROFL you left behind the translation for "pendejo".

 

It was deliberate :-).


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  #3254934 30-Jun-2024 21:02
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This is about a week old, but caught some attention on the Internet, in particular TikTok

Yes, it's edible and it's supposed to be a cat ???

Otago Times: Would you eat this 'Shiny Fella'?

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  #3255024 1-Jul-2024 10:41
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People still believe recalling an email woks!

 

Received one from my Medical Practice for survey on my "drop in" visit recently!

 

I haven't been recently!

 

An hour later received a recall for the email! 

 

 


 
 
 
 

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The CEO of Microsoft AI stated publicly that anything published on the internet is "freeware" which anyone can use... so copyright is now a grey area, according to Microsoft. 

 

 

 

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/28/24188391/microsoft-ai-suleyman-social-contract-freeware

 

 

 

RIP Aaron Swartz. Breach copyright as an individual sharing scientific knowledge for free, get 35 years in prison. Breach copyright and make billions of dollars off it, get promoted to CEO. 





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  #3255093 1-Jul-2024 13:02
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We had a similar sort of thing from OpenAI about six months ago, where the claim was something like "but we had to pirate that content because our business model requires it!". It was a very strange thing to say.


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  #3255219 1-Jul-2024 17:33
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cddt:

The CEO of Microsoft AI stated publicly that anything published on the internet is "freeware" which anyone can use... so copyright is now a grey area, according to Microsoft.



“Rules for thee, but not for me.”

In 2018, Microsoft helped to get a computer recycler sentenced to 15 months in jail for “counterfeiting” Windows recovery discs that it gives away for free, and which is useless unless you have an official paid-for license from Microsoft.

The discs shipped with new computers in case you needed to reinstall Windows. You still needed your license to make them work.

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  #3255220 1-Jul-2024 17:36
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cddt:

 

The CEO of Microsoft AI stated publicly that anything published on the internet is "freeware" which anyone can use... so copyright is now a grey area, according to Microsoft. 

 

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/28/24188391/microsoft-ai-suleyman-social-contract-freeware

 

RIP Aaron Swartz. Breach copyright as an individual sharing scientific knowledge for free, get 35 years in prison. Breach copyright and make billions of dollars off it, get promoted to CEO. 

 

 

It's just like robbing a bank of $10k & going to prison, while robbing a bank of $1bn gets a state bailout.





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  #3255222 1-Jul-2024 17:53
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Funny looking rice...

 

 

 

(It does say "penne" off to the side, but you'd think it would be part of the actual product name.)


 
 
 
 

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  #3255240 1-Jul-2024 18:37
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msukiwi: People still believe recalling an email woks!

To be fair it actually does work on many internal email systems. It woks sizzling well.

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  #3255242 1-Jul-2024 18:43
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If I understand this video correctly, this Chinese clone of a SpaceX rocket was not supposed to get air-borne during its engine testing, but broke free from its restraints.

Perhaps the rocket should be renamed to “金刚” (Jīn Gāng) from the iconic movie “King Kong”. You'll remember that the titular character broke free from its restraints also.


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  #3255293 1-Jul-2024 18:59
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kingdragonfly: If I understand this video correctly, this Chinese clone of a SpaceX rocket was not supposed to get air-borne during its engine testing, but broke free from its restraints.

Perhaps the rocket should be renamed to “金刚” (Jīn Gāng) from the iconic movie “King Kong”. You'll remember that the titular character broke free from its restraints also.

 

The PRC seems to be good at reverse engineering, and that's about where it stops. They're possibly not going to ape the Japanese, South Koreans & Taiwanese just yet.





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  #3255300 1-Jul-2024 19:06
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kingdragonfly: If I understand this video correctly, this Chinese clone of a SpaceX rocket was not supposed to get air-borne during its engine testing, but broke free from its restraints.

Somewhat consistent with SpaceX early efforts and some of the later ones too. Probably they're on the right track.

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