That's a very ignorant argument to make, because it completely ignores the fact that the individuals in a corporation all have their individual rights already, so why should they get extra rights because they formed a corporation?

That would mean that the only thing stopping someone from having the rights of 20 people, is The money to establish and run 20 separate corporations in their name, which is exactly what's happening!

Do you see how ignorant and asinine that argument is?

Yes, in fact a labor union was one of the lobbying groups that sued to be able to do campaign contributions.

All corporations are legal persons under the law in the US. Except, they can't go to jail when they do illegal shit, and they have resources that far outweigh what any individual person would have, thus making them impossible to compete against for individual people.

Ditto. The whole premise of Citizens United v. FEC is that corporations are people who are engaged in speech.

Corporations are NOT people, and CAN NOT engage in speech.

People pushing for corporations do be seen as people who have speech, simply want to have more than one voice, as the rest of us do.

Next they'll be lobbying that corporations should be able to vote in elections.

It's an insane argument to make.

Gross profits, not net You can have profits of 99 trillion dollars a year and still be losing money if you're spending 100 trillion dollars a year.

Sorry, this was always the final destination for Capitalism. To say "this isn't capitalism" like it somehow excuses the results of capitalism lacks wisdom.

By that logic, Communism would be a better method of governance than capitalism, because all the corrupt Communist regimes were put in place by capitalistic countries, and the non-corrupt ones were constantly undermined by capitalistic countries.

I don't know how that can be your perception, when Google and Apple clearly need to be broken up, and have needed to be broken up for at least the last 5 years, if not more, and yet... nothing has been done.

and that's ignoring things like the T-Mobile merger, and all the other telecom problems that the US has, and we haven't even start to touch media companies yet...

I mean, the DOJ's been fucking the dog for the last 25 years so while there's a lot to blame Trump over, I don't think this is one of those things.

He certainly won't help the situation though.

This is crazy. HPE is just buying up all the networking companies and the DOJ is just OK with this?!

This is insane!

First Aruba and now Juniper.

This kind of concentration of power is what's wrong with Capitalism. This does nothing but reduces competition. Anyone who tells you capitalism is about free market competition, is an idiot. Capitalism is the antithesis of both free market and competition, because all capitalism does is breed monopolies that crush their competitors.

I can't tell if you're joking or serious, because Microsoft actually does shit like this.

...Intel fired it's previous CEO that was an engineer and was working on long term engineering problems to fix the long term health of the company because they realized that long term doesn't mean 3 weeks or even 3 years, but that it could mean a decade to make the in-depth changes needed to keep Intel alive.

Instead they replaced the engineer with a business person who's first thought on solving Intel's huge technical problems is to divert the companies attention and focus from solving it's technical issues to working on a lengthy and in-depth rebrand?

This is insane.

There should be intelligence tests done before people are allowed autonomy, let alone the ability to make decisions that affect others.

I haven't checked yet, but I'll bet Intel's shares are up on this idiotic news.

Humans do this all the time. Humans WRITE like this all the time. It doesn't take much searching to see posts where people write in multiple languages in a single post, changing between languages mid sentence, or even word to word.

This is the data you're training on⦠of course the model will replicate this.

I'm starting to think a lot of the people in the AI space are bozos and don't really understand how these ML models work.

This is totally missing the point. No one cares if we stay with permanent daylight savings time or standard time, the thing people care about is not changing the fucking clock.

STOP. CHANGING. THE. FUCKING. CLOCK!

You're entitled to your ignorant and incorrect opinion. The fact of the matter is, while he was alive, I as an employee was given a lot of latitude to make sure our customers were happy, and after he died the first thing that changed was that latitude was taken away, and we were required to maximize profits at the expense of customer satisfaction, which was something we were never required to do previously.

If you view that as simping, you might be suffering from brain rot.

I also find it funny that someone who is clearly not the caliber person to get a job at a company like Apple, is making statements about things they know nothing about.

I worked for the man. I saw what policies he instituted in the company while he was there. This isn't worship. This is fact.

While Steve Jobs was alive, he insisted that customer focus and customer experience be first and foremost on everyone's minds. After he died, the focus was shifted, by Tim Cook, to be profits first.

Except it was different when Steve Jobs was still alive. I worked for Apple at that time, and the companies focus was serving their customers well. After he died, the companies focus and directives changed and we were told to be profits and numbers focused.