Rephrase that:

Unless the employer's contract stipulate work-from-office as a right, why should the employees have to do that?

The very first thing that the employees should do is unionize and strike.

This is exactly the the kind of thing the government should be involved in. The government should own and tend to the infrastructure, and private companies should provide the service. It is a great model that results in great service.

Where I live, government is prohibited by law from providing Internet service. However, nothing prohibits it from providing the infrastructure, which is exactly what it has done. The local utility has installed fiber throughout the city, and then allowed private ISP's to provide the service.

I went from paying $120 a month for asymmetrical 200/25 cable with massive usage restrictions and ridiculous data caps to paying $70 a month for symmetrical 1000/1000 fiber with no usage restrictions and no data caps. I went from unreliable cable with frequent outages to reliable fiber with no outages. This was only possible because of government intervention. The free market in the U.S. is incapable of matching this.

Indeed, copyright law is a tangled mess.

This is likely legally incorrect. Some courts have held that the mere act of loading a program into memory is making a copy for copyright purposes. If someone is not entitled to copy a program, then he commits a copyright offense, subject to related legal penalties, each and every time the program is loaded. There is no reason to think that the same reasoning won't apply to all forms of copyrighted material within these courts.

There is every reason to believe that the owners of these machine learning models are totally fucked since they copied these images on commercial scale never seen before.

The only thing, and it's a big thing, that the owners of these models have going for them is that there is little to no consistency in copyright law from court to court. They're taking a huge gamble, and they will either win huge (and destroy copyright as we have come to know it over recent decades), or they will lose huge (and bring an end to the current AI trend of recent years).

This is an all-or-nothing case for everyone (assuming there is no settlement).

You have more faith in humanity than I do.

This should have been posted under the, "no-shit-sherlock" department.

The case was prosecuted, and Microsoft was convicted (the conviction still stands). Microsoft appealed when it was found that Judge Jackson was giving closed-door interviews to reporters while the case was ongoing. Microsoft pushed an argument of unfair bias, and the appeals court bought it hook, line, and sinker. The findings of fact were upheld, though, but Jackson's breakup order was vacated.

Then Bush came into office and ordered the case to be closed. On the way out, Microsoft agreed to a consent decree where the Justice Department would oversee Microsoft's operations for a few years before Microsoft would be allowed to resume its monopolistic behavior.

Shortly afterward, Firefox started surging and Chrome appeared on the market. That made I.E. obsolete. Then Mozilla climbed all the way up to the top of the Stupid Tree, jumped off, and hit every branch on the way down. That allowed Chrome to take over.

Why would Obama apologize for Truman? Truman's responsibility was to the American people, and dropping the bombs saved many thousands of American soldiers' lives. It sucked for the Japanese people; but the Japanese military was warned to surrender or face devastation, and they chose to ignore the warnings. Even after the first bomb was dropped, the Japanese military chose to ignore the warnings and continue fighting.

Ignoring the warning before the first bomb was dropped could be excused for assuming it was militaristic hyperbole by the U.S. The destruction from the second bomb was entirely on the Japanese military.

Not only is remote work a good idea where it is plausible to do so (and has become job perk people are looking for), it should be mandated by law wherever possible. Air quality increased, and air pollution decreased, dramatically during the pandemic due to fewer vehicles on the road. That alone should be enough for countries with good Internet infrastructure to mandate working from home.

Rupert Murdoch has too much influence on government, and both he and the corrupt government officials he has bought need to be prosecuted and jailed.

We're supposed to thank them for attempting to flood the market with McCoders and drive down salaries? Thanks but no thanks, assholes.

I went one time when I was 12, back in the 80's. It had its good times (some of the activities were fun and interesting), and it had its bad times (sick kid threw up in my cabin, another kid got his head cracked open by a swinging log on the first day). After it was all said and done, I was glad to go back home. I never went again, and didn't miss it one bit.

When a paid service adds wrestling and ESPN, it has sounded the bell of the start of its demise. I've been subscribed to Netflix nonstop for fifteen years, but I will likely put it on the 1/12 plan alongside the other streaming services.

They do that every few years, then wait until the fake outrage subsides before it's back to business as usual.

The way I see it is that Firefox needs revenue to survive. If Mozilla can give advertisers the information they need while not selling my personal information, and that results in advertising revenue for Mozilla, that's as good as it gets.

Yes, like the ones who are dead set on saving people, even if it kills or maimes them. Take your authoritative regime, and shove it right up your fucking ass!