Finally confirmed the genocide was real. Several apologies owed starting with Starmer to several of his backbenchers. The list is huge but I hope action is taken.......
We should ban party affiliations on parish councils. It is completely unnecessary and is only a fairly recent development. In 1991 only 10% of Parish and Town councillors had a declared party affiliation and only 4% of councils were run on political lines.
I've only ever seen less than a handful of party candidates on parish councils, even when the person is a party candidate elsewhere.
Where they are called a parish council at any rate. Parties do often now dominate on town councils I find, even if legally there's no difference.
I don't think it needs banning, but it's very unecessary.
Their finances got leaked, which deprived OpenAI of the opportunity to put a positive spin on them before the IPO. The numbers are so horrible the market is starting to realise there is no path to profitability.
And if OpenAI can't IPO it dies, because there is no other way to raise enough money to pay for all the commitments they've made for purchasing hardware and renting compute capacity.
Why would bad numbers surprise anyone?
Because they're really quite horrible, a $33bn yearly loss with $20bn of that coming from operations.
It's costing OpenAI $20bn to run a service that brings in $13bn from customers. They are also spending north of $5bn on marketing to get those customers. This does not include the very significant costs of developing the models, or the enormous spending commitments.
If my back of an envelope maths are correct, OpenAI needs to either IPO or roughly triple their customer base in a year or they will run out of money around Q3 or Q4 next year.
The initial funders were hoping being the first major player would lead to a winner takes all scenario, but the big tech companies today weren't the first to get big in their respective specialties, it might be the same with AI.
It's quite funny to watch. Sam Altman seems to have the weirdness of Musk without prior achievements to back up any belief in him.
Now it makes sense why Whitehall has seized control over planning at Cherwell District Council. They can force through the Bicester plans irrespective of local views.
They could anyway, but it's easier if taking over at the first stage.
Of course, many more councils will face the scenario as they'd probably prefer it to approving things they don't like. Always has been a careful dance of course, but a lot of councils are feeling more bullish that there's no benefit to trying to mitigate national policy.
Finally confirmed the genocide was real. Several apologies owed starting with Starmer to several of his backbenchers. The list is huge but I hope action is taken.......
Comments
Finally confirmed the genocide was real. Several apologies owed starting with Starmer to several of his backbenchers. The list is huge but I hope action is taken.......
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/israel-genocide-children-palestine-un-report-b3001474.html
“I am not saying my wife is rough but on our wedding day she walked down the Aisle to March of the Gladiators!”
Peter.
Where they are called a parish council at any rate. Parties do often now dominate on town councils I find, even if legally there's no difference.
I don't think it needs banning, but it's very unecessary.
It's quite funny to watch. Sam Altman seems to have the weirdness of Musk without prior achievements to back up any belief in him.
Of course, many more councils will face the scenario as they'd probably prefer it to approving things they don't like. Always has been a careful dance of course, but a lot of councils are feeling more bullish that there's no benefit to trying to mitigate national policy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYvEgX2COdA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMfgZviw4HA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=248th7HR2nE