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Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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It’s not nuts when you stop being intentionally obtuse and speak plainly: yes, child abuse material can be represented by a variety of mathematical means, but it’s abhorrent nature makes it morally correct for those laws to exist.

No child is being abused when someone play with weights on a model. "Abhorrent nature" is very subjective and relative.

"Every (bad) thing we do, makes the next one so much easier."

For a more than just relevant part of people who would play with weights on a model to create anything that compensates for "child abuse" with "fake child abuse", the risk of lowering the threshold is extremely high. VR, AR, fake news and the scripted nature of some world events that are driven by common subgoals of interest groups are decrementing the opaqueness of the line between reality and delusion/illusion. Loss of reality & dissociation from humanity are things, especially among people with a fanbase & influence, money, power.

Games & TV and their influence are obvious and they do erode the threshold as well but it's reversible because the player is not the creator of his reality while with gen ai, prompts & weights, the player becomes more and more capable of simulating his own reality based on his derived preferences & idiosyncrasies. Games and TV have constraints that are set by the devs and show runners and all the crews involved in the process. Gen AI doesn't have that.

Re: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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> (Seems to already be the case in the UK) [Citation needed]

I googled it and found it.

it would have been efficient to share what you found! please do, if you find time to spare.

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> Isn't it wiser to stop at some point, and find other stuff to do, even if all your nerves say otherwise? The problem is that government doesn’t have a line, that line is defined by the resistance it faces. Today it might be people sharing MP3s, tomorrow they will come after you for hosting a parody of mickey mouse. 10 years from now they’ll be busting down doors for sharing illegal memes (Seems to already be the ca…

To add: you know with the stable-diffusion function, there are ranges of vectors whereby technically just conjuring them is 15 years federal and possessing them is 5 each. That is 20-25% of a lifetime in one, 7.5% in the other! You know how nuts that sounds to me as a mathematician?!

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Re: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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I'm no "submarine warfare expert" but I believe the purpose/value of nuclear submarines is not defense of close coastal waters, but rather as a deterrence that can come "from anywhere". I don't believe shallow waters would hamper the operation of a submarine launching ICBMs or similar. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. I also know nothing of Australian politics but Paul Keating seems to have some curious views…

> I don't believe shallow waters would hamper the operation of a submarine launching ICBMs or similar. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. The AUKUS submarines are conventionally-armed , nuclear-powered submarines. ICBM's don't come into this.

Pretty sure conventionally-armed submarines launch ICBMS. Not nuclear tipped, but basically "big long range missiles". Regardless, I think my point stands: These subs are not for close water/shore patrol.

Re: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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I still don't understand how could he got an extradition to US. He doesn't have US nationality and he was living most of his life in Germany and New Zealand. We have copyright treaties signed by most nations. I think the copyright infringement crime shall be judged at the jurisdiction the suspect is living and committed the suspecting act.

More than 100 countries have extradition treaties with the US, and extraditions go both ways. (Sample https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57883892 )

Oh wow, very surprising to learn that US constitution allows extradition of US citizens abroad

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I appreciate Kim Dotcom for running MegaUpload and later Mega, in a time when the internet was younger and wilder. Also for his pirate spirit and "stick it to the man" attitude. But everything has a limit, specifically his resistance against the law, even if he hid it behind virtues. I think it's clear for everybody that one cannot get away with this kind of stuff, once governments get involved. Isn't it wiser to sto…

>I appreciate Kim Dotcom for running MegaUpload and later Mega, in a time when the internet was younger and wilder. I like this. Us internet boomers got to learn and get everything for free. The new kids coming in are paywalled to hell :)

only in the avenues you continue to inhabit. New aventues that you dont are flourishing with the same human spirit to work around paying for things that have persisted forever

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More than 100 countries have extradition treaties with the US, and extraditions go both ways. (Sample https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57883892 )

Oh wow, very surprising to learn that US constitution allows extradition of US citizens abroad

Why is that surprising?

Re: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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> 10 years from now they’ll be busting down doors for sharing illegal memes (Seems to already be the case in the UK). UK law does not prohibit memes. It prohibits incitement to riot, as does US law. It prohibits incitement to murder, as does US law. In fact, these acts are illegal in almost every democracy in the World, even the most progressive and liberal ones, because they are reasonable statutes to extend common…

That case of murder was not the only reason. And while it is based on misinformation (and I agree it was made on purpose), just one case would not cause the riots. It was just “the last drop”.

Some of the people that rioted were a motley assortment of right wing thugs following their warped ideology. Others were just yobs who were gullible enough to believe the misinformation, or just saw an opportunity for mayhem (one of the rioters has, IIRC, 170 previous convictions).

Yes, people are frustrated about many things in the UK (lack of affordable housing, dentists, decent jobs etc). But a most of these things are down to austerity, poor governance and the greed of the ruling classes. They aren't caused by relatively tiny numbers (29,437 in 2023) of desperate people coming across the channel in small boats. They are just a convenient scapegoat.

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I swim and my swimming headsets can only play MP3 as Bluetooth doesn't work at water. Tell me a legal streaming service that I can use while swimming and I'd consider using it. Until then, I'll stick to my MP3.

With Youtube Music you can download playlists. I have over 300 songs downloaded and they can play offline.

With a cable in the pool?
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