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  1. RIP. Solid character actor. And, "Zed's dead baby."
  2. So, is it your position that no humans are being smuggled under the Trump Administration? And that Biden was just waving trucks full of immigrants across the border? Bienvenidos! Are we at all concerned about the number of migrant deaths in ICE custody? Do we care about family separation?
  3. It is true that all the pro leagues are very aggressive about enforcing their trademarks. That doesn't mean that their positions aren't faulty or flat wrong. That Houston Oilers Trademark is very cancelable for abandonment, as would any others for basically a football team. Others may not be, which might prove a continued barrier. And you can bet that the league would litigate that to death, beyond all reason.
  4. The question really isn't whether UM can or will be held liable by a jury. The question is more what kind of damages can she allege and prove and what kind of immunity does a state institution have in Michigan. Those factors push the value of any suit way down, for UM, at least. As noted, Moore probably has substantial assets and his exposure might be pretty large. One thing, though. The law recognizes that unequal employment relationships compromise consent. But there is still an element of consent on her part and a jury is likely to take that into account, especially in awarding damages.
  5. That's kind of the definition of transitory.
  6. If she has damages, they are mostly of an "intangible" or "dignitary" sort, pain, suffering, humiliation. Although those are awarded in lawsuits, they are generally tied to actual economic damages. That is, I actually lost $5 in this deal, but it was so humiliating I ask you to award me $10. There are cases, such as defamation, where reputational damages are all there are, but even those tend to be tied to a number, as in "I'm going to need to spend $50k on a PR campaign to restore my reputation," and then you might get some multiple or fraction of that for the "dignitary" part. So, I'm not sure she would have any theory supporting large economic damages, so it tends to follow that the dignitary damages would be small also. One factor at work, though, is that UM would probably prefer to avoid exposing the sordid details and so might pay more than the case is economically worth to make her go away. And UM, as a state entity, might have some sovereign immunity protections.
  7. How do you pronounce "Poggi"? Is it pogey or pozhi or what?
  8. There were actually deaths at the southern border as a result of human trafficking? And the Biden administration denied this? Show your work. Also, if there was a lot of human trafficking occurring at the southern border (there probably was, but not simply "border crossers"), who are the undocumented immigrants remaining in the US? The victims or the perpetrators? Guess it doesn't matter, deport em all, just in case, right?
  9. Isn't the thinking something along these lines. Cubans in Miami hate all things SoCIaAlism because Castro. Far from all of them were landed gentry that were actually screwed over by Castro, but they all see themselves that way. And, I think a lot of Cubans view themselves as European white Spaniards, regardless of their actual ancestry. Texas Hispanics tend to see themselves as having "done it the right way" (whether they really did or not) and subsequent immigrants are making them look bad. There's probably also a good bit of contempt for the Central Americans by the Mexicans. Common to both of them is that machismo and the more conservative aspects of Catholicism.
  10. I am perhaps more familiar with the way textual output is generated, but I'm not sure it matters very much. There are two theories or ways that copyright is infringed by AI, both implicating the reproduction right. First, training a model almost inevitably requires making a copy of a work to feed it to the network. And, in many cases, the AI companies admit using pirated copies of works for training purposes. The second is the output of the network, which may be substantially similar to the original work on which it was trained, thus infringing the reproduction right. That is, it looks like say, Mickey Mouse, instead of some temu version. I'm guessing Disney's license gave them the right to train on Disney content and also to return substantially similar results to Disney works. So you can prompt it to do "Mickey cornholing Minnie" and get it. You can make a sort of metaphysical argument that somewhere between input and output, at least partial images or text fragments that may be infringing (substantially similar to a training input) are used as the pattern that is recognized, but that's getting pretty abstract and is probably likely to be found "transformative fair use." So, license or otherwise remove those infringing aspects of AI, and there's no copyright infringement. If there's some other theory, I'm interested to hear it.
  11. I know multiple MDs that pursued engineering degrees at UT. Two orthopedic surgeons, one a urologist. Both think it's excellent preparation for a doctor as the practice of evidence-based and other aspects of medicine line up pretty well with engineering analysis and thought. Chem E tends to line up best with the premed requirements, but probably the newer biomedical degrees also. Guess it depends on the school. It is, however, a pretty brutal way to do premed. Also, it's my opinion that a kid that's not actually interested in some type of engineering probably isn't going to like it or do well, no matter how good their math/science aptitude. By that I mean has some demonstrated curiosity as to how things work, how they're made, etc.
  12. Need to have engineering gin up a coal-burning module for something or other. No scrubbers.
  13. I mean, taxation of options on vesting is a screw-up of some sort, given that it results (if it did) in recognition of income. The point that paper billionaires can monetize without liquidating and recognizing gains still stands.
  14. Was even going to reference you on that, not sure why I didn't.
  15. Didn't they modify the double contact rule again? It's legal on first contact and (something else?).
  16. Yes they can change fast, but I think some things are going to prove anomalous. It's not a perfect analogy, but TTU-in-the-WCWS-final-because-of-one-player, TCU-in-the-CFP-final anomalous. And, no one seems to want to admit it, but there's a decent amount of plain luck involved: coaching hires, recruiting, portal takes, etc.
  17. Smell the glove!
  18. It probably makes good sense not to involve the legislature in pardons and criminal justice generally, other than the making of criminal laws. It's a power that just screams "this should be exercised by the executive." But when you have a corrupt executive and a corrupt/compromised congress that poses no impeachment threat, well, it all kind of goes to shit. Every scheme, at one level or another, is going to have to presume a degree of good faith.
  19. Gonna go ahead and leave out Oklahoma? Their own meat on the hoof scandal, basically Bud Wilkinson's entire tenure. Gordon Cross and the University the football team can be proud of? Switzer repeat scandals. Various and sundry acts of horrendous violence by players on innocents.
  20. Disney could be gambling that they'll be enjoined from infringing IP or will voluntarily stop. And, they may be gaining an advantage in that by licensing, OpenAI can return pure Mickey Mouse or Moana results or whatever, whereas most copyright infringement by AI is based on either a) less than identical similarity to copyright content or b) minimal no similarity, just the infringing act of training on and making unlawful reproductions of copyright content in the process.
  21. I dunno, man. I won't argue about BBQ, of course, but even the best CFS is inherently a bit dry. And the flavors tend not to be as subtle as a fine smoked brisket or other cut.
  22. Interesting that many if not most of the breaches occurred with SCADA controllers. Those way predate the internet, but I guess at some point remote control became a thing, without the robustness of more modern remote control via internet.
  23. WAG? I suppose their strategy is to be a "first adopter," that is to let AI freely use their content/characters to generate license revenue and/or promote the characters. It wouldn't surprise me if the investment is tied to some sort of SEO to return Disney characters more often than any other licensed property, and certainly over unlicensed and presumably infringing characters/IP. I'm not a big fan of AI and would probably prefer it if IP owners boycotted entirely and just kept suing. But that's probably not commercially realistic.
  24. Well, they're also licensing their IP to OpenAI for an undisclosed sum. This is, presumably, what all IP owners want from AI.
  25. I'm not trying to pick a fight, really. The notion that government charity (but why not private as well?) incents poverty and dependency is conservative orthodoxy. Much like trickle down. Maybe it does, but there are plenty of indicators that maybe it doesn't. And as a recovering conservative, I am skeptical of that orthodoxy.
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