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Yes, USDOJ is incompetent and dysfunctional, but this is not why. But sure, whatever, carry on...
Sovereign citizens claim to be independent of the laws of the United States.
This is a dispute about a company failing to comply with a specific law of the United States.
The only ones yelling were OpenAI employees and the company's security contractor(s).
Other prominent non-profits do not seem to have this problem.
The crux of our disagreement is whether they have the right to refuse entry. They can [unlawfully] deny a request I suppose and just choose penalties over compliance, but when it comes to denying the ability to lodge a request in person with the associated "immediate" timeline, there are First Amendment interests at stake and I think the federal constitution, if not federal preemption, wins.
In this specific instance, it wasn't clear to me what, if anything, the security guard had done or intended to do with my name and ID information (which is not needed to file a request for tax forms). So I didn't feel as though a specific request had even been filed. He wouldn't provide his name, he wouldn't allow me to speak to anyone with any knowledge of the issue, and I had nothing in writing. From my perspective, OpenAI prevented a request from being filed after its accountants said that they had the documents but that the non-profit's offices were the proper place to lodge a request.
On top of all of that, the 2022 IRS Form 990 instructions (page 79) refer to "the room" and the requirement that the member of the public "must" be allowed to "take notes freely." Outside on the sidewalk is not a room where you can take notes.
Company wouldn't let me in the office, blamed Thanksgiving, and lied about the office being closed when it obviously was not.
We're talking about sending an e-mail with a PDF in the middle of a business day when employees were clearly at work in the office. That's it. E-mail can be sent from anywhere in the world. And the accounting firm was willing and able to send it, just not willing to comply with the law because its client said not to.
Still no Form RRF-1 filed today.
OpenAI handled their audit years ago and hasn't had another one since according to their filings. So that does not seem like it would have been an issue this year.
Take a look at the top of the RRF-1 for the instructions on when it's due. Also, the CA AG's website says that OpenAI's was due on May 15th. They just have been filing six months later each year.
The Omar Qazi who runs @WholeMarsBlog is not a convicted felon, but he has been arrested twice.
I never claimed he copied code line by line, and that issue was never litigated. I never even sued Mark. So I definitely didn't "los[e] that one in court."
Anti-trust scholars and Congress agree that Facebook has a monopoly and has engaged in monopolistic behavior. See https://judiciary.house.gov/online-platforms-and-market-powe.... It's an open question as to whether the FTC will sue on these grounds.
You don't provide any justification at all for your assertion regarding a lack of Ponzi-type behavior, so I'll just note that I disagree.
http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20190509/my-response-t...
Imagine you're Coca-Cola. You have an on-line ad budget for this quarter. Where should you spend it? Probably the places that have the most reach: Google and Facebook. Do you know how many cans of Coke or other drink brands you will sell based on these ads this quarter? No. Is there any way for you to figure it out? No. All you know are the numbers Facebook tells you. And those numbers look pretty good. This is how "sophisticated" ad buyers work.
It's actually far easier for a tiny business to measure the conversation rate between clicks and actual purchases. Big ad buyers throw stuff at the wall to see what sticks, and they rarely bother truly measuring because that's often impossible.
The entire ad industry is based on fuzzy metrics. Within that fuzz is an awful lot of room for fraud.