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Scam Faultman

(Homer seeing Xhamster for the first time)

Literally the entire point of the comment you replied to, like making exactly that point.

Like; it’s not saying it’s a Ponzi scheme, it’s saying that this does everything a Ponzi scheme does, but with an extremely overvalued product, instead of no product at all.

so we don’t have a name for this type of fraud specifically, and we’re not calling it a Ponzi scheme because that, as we established, means something else. But it works very similarly, in the logistical sense. So much so that we can succinctly describe it - not by enumerating all the things it is - but instead juxtaposing it against a Ponzi scheme and establishing that it’s the same except if you change this one thing.

Perhaps we should name it instead? Like a Fauxnzi scheme? Like pronounce it like Fonzie so it’ll catch on with boomers? I mean maybe Henry Winkler doesn’t deserve all that but it’s descriptive no?

I wonder if this is what he meant but somehow I doubt it

Neither of you provided proof in either direction

Capital is trying to corral all the tech into “the cloud” so they can control it all and rent it out forever.

They do not want anyone to know anything about hardware.

This most recent hubris with AI is because they think it can be used to create new tech and instruct installers so they no longer need ANY human capacity with knowledge.

Of course that was not and never will be true but isn’t it interesting how the billionaire class will pounce on any opportunity to cement their power without reliance on society hmmm it’s almost like they’re the fucking bad guys

Why he look like Warren Jeffs tho

Hey, I know the guy who did the musical score! He’s an awesome dude and did a great job on this (from what I’ve been able to hear so far). Have a good feeling about this one.

WINE is a compatibility layer (famously, WINE Is Not an Emulator) for Windows APIs on posix OSes; most notably this allows you to run Windows applications on Linux.

Microsoft would truly love to beat WINE to death with a legal sledgehammer but so far they do not have the legal ground, as WINE is developed based on public knowledge and Microsoft famously keeps their source code closed.

If you saw the Windows source code, and then you contributed to WINE, it is possible Microsoft could make the legal argument that WINE was using stolen trade secrets, even if the verbatim source code was added to the WINE codebase.

Whether or not that would have worked for Microsoft is up in the air; but the WINE project didn’t want to find out the hard way.

No, it’s exactly the conversation, if you’d recall.

Yeah again this leaves out the “job I already have” vs “mythical better job that simply doesn’t exist right now” part

Whoa, really?

Yeah it’s gone. Wow. now THAT’s ye power trippin bastards material.