futatorius

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[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 10 points 10 hours ago

And hand Trump over to the Kurds so they can show him their appreciation for his betrayal when he was President.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I have only two questions:

  1. Who elected Elon Musk?

  2. What can we do to make him go away?

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

Show me where in the article it says he was arrested for a TOS violation.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

They got Robert Maxwell for it. He wasn't at all poor.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Gaining money from someone else by lying and/or deception. The legal term for that is fraud-- in this case, wire fraud.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Only if Guido developed Python with the specific and exclusive intent being that it should be used for that purpose, and even then it wouldn't be an open-and-shut case. And since it was developed over 25 years ago, that's more than a bit unlikely.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The "selling things online" idea had been tried repeatedly before Amazon, and always failed. What Bezos did was find a way to actually (eventually) make money at it. That was a business strategy tour de force that was quite impressively executed. That's not to say that Bezos is a good employer or a nice person. But it's often the case that it's not the originality of the idea that matters, as much as how it's executed.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

He also would have to make sure the distribution of song plays over time looks like what would be done by actual humans. Once every 5 minutes, 24/7 is easy to detect. And there should be abandonments, interrupted sessions, etc.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

And yet Xitter, Farcebook and similar platforms still publish their stats as if all their users are real human beings. So why isn't that fraud?

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe it is in the contract or EULA that you can’t do this sort of thing already though

Then that would be a civil matter and he wouldn't have been arrested for it.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Not all early Christians followed Paul. The church in Jerusalem under James was at odds with Paul on a number of subjects. There were also more radical groups outside Jerusalem that combined Christianity with Greek philosophy, having women preaching and leading congregations, and incorporating various mystical beliefs that didn't originate in Judaism or the teachings of Jesus.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The Muslims have never had a big, convoluted End Times mythos like the Christians, at least not in the Qur'an. At some point in the indefinite future, there will be Judgement Day, and everybody living or dead will get hauled in front of Allah and the recording angel will play back your scorecard. Then it's Jinnah (heaven) or Jehenna (hell).

There are quite a number of hadiths (extra-scriptural reports of things Muhammad said or did) that talk about the end times. Hadiths are assessed by Islamic scholars based on their provenance and general credibility. Those originating from people close to the Prophet are ranked higher; those that contradict the Qur'an are downgraded. Most of the non-Qur'anic end times narratives sound very similar to Christian eschatology, except that the Mahdi, the successor prophet to Muhammad, appears. Jesus (Issa) returns (and maybe he's the same guy as the Mahdi?), there's the Antichrist (the Dajjal) stirring up mischief, there are signs and portents, the giants Gog and Magog running amok, the stars fall from the sky as meteors, etc, etc.

It's not as entertaining as Ragnarök, but it's more coherent than the Christian fundies' fanfic.

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