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New comment by paradoxyl in "We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme"

paradoxyl — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:21:42 +0000

The racketeering statutes should be applied to the treasonous elites within business, government, and banking who conspire to use "private-public" partnerships to subvert the U.S. Constitution and our indiviudual rights. I further believe these individuals and groups need to be arrested, prosecuted, and punished to the full extent that the treason clause permits.

New comment by paradoxyl in "WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)"

paradoxyl — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:48:39 +0000

My point exactly; sci-fi you even more need to refer to accurate statistics whatever they may be.

New comment by paradoxyl in "PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts"

paradoxyl — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:00:39 +0000

I believe DVDs and Blu-Ray discs and players will increase in value over time, almost like samizdat printing presses -- underground video viewers that let us watch movies without the monolithic globalist corporate police state observing, penalizing, demanding identitification, and trying to extract an ounce of monopolist rentier blood.

New comment by paradoxyl in "We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme"

paradoxyl — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:55:26 +0000

If you have the resources, you could also serve her with papers. IANAL, but that arguably is libel, defamation, harassment and so incredibly insane that it deserves a severe legal smackdown.

New comment by paradoxyl in "WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)"

paradoxyl — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:52:58 +0000

These programs are great for sitting down and writing with no distractions, but if you have a setup with directories full of word docs, text files, various graphics, even excel sheets all related to what you are working on that you need to refer to and cross-reference, they are less useful than an older version of Word or OpenOffice/LibreOffice. And they are difficult to export, share... there's a reason we don't use typewriters anymore, or DOS programs whose output is confined within a single program.

New comment by paradoxyl in "The rise of South Korea’s weapons business"

paradoxyl — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:20:50 +0000

Gross incompetent Western elites, shoved full of garbage ideology, go and outsource all manufacturing and are astounded, astounded! that countries and peoples that dare to resist their tyranny can build cheaper than their corrupt, criminal networks of nepotism.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

paradoxyl — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:19:34 +0000

Supply and demand? Bubblists seem to think there's an infinite supply of chips, power, and water to make as many chat bots as possible; physics, as usual, dictates limits.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight"

paradoxyl — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:54:48 +0000

I'm sorry, this is just sententious bloviation. The sources are so thin, there's no reason to go around imputing all these fantastical ideas that somehow benefit your own beliefs. It's just boring and insipid to watch people fall into this trap over and over.

New comment by paradoxyl in "India's surprise baby bust"

paradoxyl — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:20:02 +0000

Totalitarian societies of the future will solve this with technology, with all the unfortunate side effects that will entail.

New comment by paradoxyl in "What Is a Dickover?"

paradoxyl — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:34:47 +0000

"Login with your Google or some other globalist public-private tyrannical spyware trash" is the most common "dickover" around.

New comment by paradoxyl in "The dead economy theory"

paradoxyl — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:32:29 +0000

Selective history marinated with ideological bias. Unreadable.

New comment by paradoxyl in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

paradoxyl — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:19:54 +0000

Its nickname since the 1970s has been Criminals in Action, when they were smuggling heroin out of the Golden Triangle to fund covert actions during the Vietnam War.

New comment by paradoxyl in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

paradoxyl — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:15:09 +0000

The cover of national security has allowed a certain type of organized crime to proliferate to the point it's breaking society.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Ask.com has closed"

paradoxyl — Sat, 02 May 2026 05:12:27 +0000

as I recall, they hired writers and freelancers who put together broad articles that got pointed too when you asked a question, instead of trying to answer questions individually... but my memory could be off, that was 20 years ago.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

paradoxyl — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:28:19 +0000

Creating productivity gain narrtives

New comment by paradoxyl in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

paradoxyl — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:38:24 +0000

What a dystopian, pro-tyranny ask. Horrifying.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

paradoxyl — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:23:47 +0000

That's a tad naive. CEOs can and have and often lied about everything:

Sam Bankman-Fried, Elizabeth Holmes, Kenneth Lay - and hundreds if not thousands more.

The SEC is a regulatory agency, not able to bring criminal charges. The above-named for the most part had to be prosecuted by the Department of Justice or sometimes state attorneys.

New comment by paradoxyl in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

paradoxyl — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:04:08 +0000

Just thinking out loud... why can't an algorithm be an artificial person in the legal sense that a corporation is? Why not legally incorporate the AI as a corporation so it can operate in the real world: have accounts, create and hold copyrights...

New comment by paradoxyl in "Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic"

paradoxyl — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:20:12 +0000

And maybe TSMC should make cellphones? If you're higher up the supply chain why go downstream into risk? It's financially irresponsible.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash"

paradoxyl — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 06:09:03 +0000

Maybe a subtle form of gaslighting with features of victim blaming and argument from authority? Microsoft treats its users and customers with utter contempt.

I hope Valve takes this opportunity to turn its toehold with Steam OS into a full-blown invasion of the desktop/laptop market and destroy Microsoft's monopoly while the latter is so focused on creating everything an actual user doesn't want:

- virulent data mining

- wanton privacy destruction

- worthless UIX changes

- clumsy, useless "agentic" integrations

- disgustingly overpriced "licenses"

- software as a service

- planned obsolescence

etc.