Sean Lennon, one of the first people to own a Mac in 1984 (given directly to him by Steve Jobs), whose dad wrote fucking “Imagine” and “Revolution,” is complaining about “wokism,” clearly not aware of the messages in his father’s own songs.
With the disclaimer that this is absolutely not a prediction of what the jury will do, not much in the jury instructions change what I had to say here:
@artemesia@dalfen@Teri_Kanefield what I read elsewhere, and have no idea if accurate, is that the statute of limitations on the misdemeanors has expired, and therefore the jury can only find him guilty of felonies. (I will try to find where I read this.)
@lauren my main browsers have used an alternate search for years (DDG or Startpage), but there are some browsers where I haven't switched from Google yet.
It was an unprecedented meeting. SPECTRE, THRUSH, KAOS, Soylent, Tyrell, Omni, and at least a hundred more -- the list of organizations and firms in attendance seemed nearly endless.
There was but one topic on the agenda. A proposal by their newest member -- Microsoft -- to embed a super power spy system into every Windows users' PC.
"We call it Windows Recall. We enable it by default, and every five seconds it takes a screenshot of what the user is doing, and keeps it for months or years!"
"Won't people use that to copy movies?"
"Oh no, that we'll block!"
"Very wise."
The discussions went on for hours, reviewing the many ways that such a system could be used for evil by various authorities, governments, politicians, ransomware criminals, and many more.
The time came for the vote.
To the shock of Microsoft's representative, their plan was voted down unanimously.
"But why?" he protested. "We thought you of all people would embrace this system!"
There are MANY videos on #YouTube explaining the so-called "Monty Hall" paradox, some diving deeply into fairly complicated probability math.
The paradox is traced back to the very long-running "Let's Make a Deal" game show, hosted for many, many years by Monty Hall.
The paradox involves the prospect of staying with your choice of one of three doors that might contain the grand prize, or switching to another of the three doors once you're shown that one of the doors you didn't choose doesn't contain the prize.
While most people assume that staying with their current pick is a reasonable choice, the math says that you should actually (for best results in the long run) switch to the other available door. It's really quite a non-intuitive probability puzzle.
The irony is that Monty when asked about the paradox consistently insisted that the show never actually offered contestants the choice to switch doors, and that the paradox was actually based on a "what if" postulation not the actual procedure on the show!
"Though usually considered joke prizes, traders legally win the zonks.[21] However, after the taping of the show, any trader who had been zonked is offered a consolation prize (currently $100) instead of having to take home the actual zonk."