FourPacketsOfPeanuts

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't pass the test for "reasonable doubt" ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Nice try lol, non-sexualised nudity is not illegal. UK law has a degree of common sense about it. A stick figure, even mildly sexualised, is unlikely to pass the test for indecency. Having said that, if someone drew some sort of extreme circumstance then, I don't know for sure, but I can imagine someone getting into shit about it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Any sexual representation of a child is illegal in the UK whether it looks real or not. In fact I believe it doesn't need to even be a child, it's a illegal if a reasonable person would believe it was depicting a child. This came up when adults who were into age play got into trouble distributing their images because it looked convincingly underage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Bound to be tested in court sooner or later. As far as I understand it one is "in possession" if they have access to a set of steps or procedures that would recover an image. So this prevents offenders from hiding behind the fact their images were compressed in a zip file or something. They don't have a literal offending image, but they possess it in a form that they can transform.

What would need to be tested is that AI generators are coming up with novel images rather than retrieving existing ones. It seems like common sense but the law is quite pedantic. The more significant issue is that generators don't need to be trained on csem to come up with it. So proving someone had it with the intent of producing it would always be hard. Even generators trained on illegal material I'm not sure it would be straight forward to prove that someone knew what it was capable of.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A good article that includes symbol resolution in context

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6463

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Holy crap there was someone inside that thing? How was their spine not destroyed on impact?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Heretic. True believers know it was 8 seconds ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would have been nice if the question mentioned the US then...

sips tea

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The cab was stationary at the time which I suppose made them think it wasn't a bump in the road or anything. Strange for a car window to spontaneously shatter without a jolt but I guess it happens.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The Sun dredging this up after six years? Classy reporting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Presumably to call it an "incendiary device" there's a little more to it than a regular battery with a fault. A circuit designed to heat perhaps or some other clear trigger.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm not talking about inheritance though. I'm talking about when a farm takes on a family member as the new management. Because that's literally nepotism.

(Without getting too much into semantics, isn't headhunting a new boss at a company a type of nepotism? As in, there wasn't a competitive process, they were hand-picked by the board / CEO. Is "nepotism" only meant specifically where someone's incompetence is overlooked because of family relationship? If they're actually the best person for the job is that still nepotism?)

 

Modulation / key changes have been used in music for ages but the style I'm talking about is the distinctive last verse (or chorus) sudden key change up to power through to the end. Seems to have come about sometime in the 60s/70s and was everywhere in the 80s onwards.

Examples:

Heaven is a place on earth - Belinda Carlisle

I will always love you - Whitney Houston

But who popularised it? What was the first big song to do it and set the style for the genre?

 

I seem to be completely failing to work out how to do this? See the reply in your inbox in the context of the original conversation?

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