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They don't even need to go through the work of breaking in - anyone can in fact just sue anyone for any reason at any time!


This is more akin to empaneling a grand-jury in the USA - it is driven by the prosecutors office and is the first step before review to see if adequate evidence exists to justify a "real" warrant that would lead to arrests.

If they get a warrant - its just like a warrant in the USA, maybe the cops bother looking for you i.e. go to your house / work / last known address but more often they just wait until you get a traffic ticket or something where you happen to interact with them. If you had a warrant from another state, the local cops would need a pretty good reason to bother actually looking for you.


> If you had a warrant from another state, the local cops would need a pretty good reason to bother actually looking for you.

Often goes slightly further than this. The state issuing the warrant must pay “transport fees” to the state doing the arresting. The arresting state calls the warrant state to see if their transport fees will be authorized. Most of the time, those fees are not authorized by the issuing state. So the suspect is let go, if the police interaction wasn’t otherwise justified in an arrest.

The reasons for why transport fees are generally declined vary, but I’d imagine that as long as the suspect stays out of the issuing state, they can’t commit more crime in that state, so the outstanding warrant is itself an effective deterrent against crime in the issuing state…the suspect generally will avoid returning. Also jails/prisons are overcrowded, dockets are overflowing, etc.

But generally any police interaction which shows a valid warrant in another state, the “local police” will by default attempt an arrest. It’s not “unimportant” to them. Just they can’t do anything with the suspect if they arrest them without approved transport fees so there’s simply no point in completing the arrest.

I learned all this just last week by picking up a homeless fugitive hitchiking along the interstate. But he’d had enough interactions with police in various states and seemed otherwise intelligent enough to be a reliable narrator on the matter.


In my area (Metro Detroit) it must be flipped. I had a rougher life when I was younger and did pass through the jail system once or twice...

The main counties around me go pick you up, not relying on the arresting jurisdiction to transport. One county in particular, Macomb, has a bad reputation in that it will drive across the country to pick you up. Traveling pick up buses criss cross the country. The bad part was the sometimes multi-week long trip spent in handcuffs sleeping in shitty hotels eating cheap McDonald's for every meal.


This fellow caught his charge in Las Vegas. Thanks for sharing your story from Macomb! Very familiar with the area.


In the right image the dark orange is the bottle which is a separate (uniform) piece.


Audible doesn't allow AI narration or much Public Domain stuff at the moment. The only thing keeping it from happening is the markets trying to keep back a flood of crap from over taking / drowning / diluting the more well crafted options and causing the consumers to get really annoyed.


Let's be honest, the moment Amazon thinks their tts is good enough, they'll be offering AI audible deals to every author on their platform


The 80% solution: Pair with a professional narrator who has consented to have their voice modeled by this (see the note at the bottom about what they held back from open sourcing). This generates a beta, and then you can pay the human narrator to rework specific sections you’re unhappy with.


Yea, hard to say because the obvious implementation would be to just have it built into phones once the model is potentially portable enough - I see this happening quicker as a more general TTS functionality much like Google is doing with 'subtitles anywhere' aka Live Caption. Paired with translations we maybe pretty close to the universal translator type functionality. I could see end users being able to customize their voice assistant even more or maybe having multiple based on if its talking for you or to you.

Anyways the problem with this is it makes the product 'ai audiobook' basically worthless, why not just buy the eBook and have my personalized translator turn it into an audio book. Now you just have market differentiation between cheap ebook + ai narrator vs expensive + professional narration.

Though narration costs are already pretty cheap - it really does not factor into the cost of publishing an audio book that much unless its really a bottom of the barrel book.


Thinking about this more - the copyright implications become much more interesting once its no longer a recording. Does it could as a private performance if you have headphones on? Is it a public performance if you listen to live TTS through your speakers in public?


I'm looking forward to my on device TTS, but Amazon has a decent moat with the DRM on their Kindles.

At least they'll have to remain somewhat competitive once consumers decide they want the AI audiobooks and the like.


Game mechanics are not copyrightable.


But character Design is. Here's a good summary of just how close a lot of the characters are.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1749183059877085396.html


There aren't even close enough to confuse someone who doesn't watch/play Pokemon.

If you showed me any given pal or Pokemon and asked me if it was a Pokemon, I couldn't tell you. They are obviously in the same style. But looking at that page I don't think they are actual copies, and I don't think anyone shown both at once would not be able to distinguish them.


I can't believe they have the gall to infringe on gamefreak inventions such as sheep and porcupines...


I couldn’t finish the list because by the time I got to shaymin it’s obvious that the majority of this is just picking out details that look similar NOT the same. Bunch of nitpicking with no substance.


close != is.

Unless you have solid proof that the characters were taken from Pokemon.

The Lion King characters look close to Kimba The White Lion

ReactOS is close to Windows

Close isn't an argument you can really fight upon. This is why we have so many knock-offs of toys, computer kit and the likes.


But its not Yemen, its Iran that's paying for it - with money from oil smuggled past sanctions.


Smuggled? Are you implying that any deal the US does not like is illegal? Wake up. This age is over.


Shipping from Iran to Yemen is also vulnerable, however.


Most of the missiles and other weapons are being smuggled in relatively small boats. It simply isn't practical to stop and search most of them. In theory the US and other nations could declare a blockade and simply sink any vessel that enters Yemeni territorial waters, but that would be a major escalation and require a lot more naval forces to be deployed


Yes and the efficiency rating of an induction device compared to gas is about 3x because its heating the container directly vs indirectly.

https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/brand_owner_res...


Audible does not allow for AI narration of Public Domain books currently.


It connects 3 - 4 main bodies of water, the lakes in the middle are a high spot compared to the oceans on either side.


In the absence of the canal, did these lakes naturally drain to the sea, or are they in some sort of natural "bowl" that is higher than sea level?


See the cross section

https://kids.britannica.com/students/assembly/view/68621

"Natural bowl higher than sea level" could be called a lake.


Very few lakes on the planted don't drain to the sea. They are usually salty, smelly water bodies that nobody wants to be around.


That depends on the state, many states are default open to travel in open land and require posting / signage to block free access. Pretty much all trespassing laws require notice first (of which adequate signage counts as notice) and you are not trespassing until you have been told to leave and don't.


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