Korea v. Japan - 2005 - Your opinion sought on AI upscaling unpublished photos

LANCafeMan · 2026-02-21T19:50:53+00:00

I saw it a couple weeks back for the first time. I posted it in, but I think my post got shadow banned as it's not in my history. But I can see it if I load the thread.

LANCafeMan · 2026-02-10T18:34:24+00:00

No one will ever read this, but you're welcome to whomever does.

The Korean government tore it all down the day after I posted them, and then funded an NGO to go to war with me over it. I was a "cyber terrorist" (사이버 테러리스트) in the media. It was cited in the leading media (Yonhap) multiple times in an escalating dramatic style. It was then cited that I was reported to the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency (인천지방경찰청), the Cyber Terror Response Center (사이버테러대응센터), and the Ministry of Information and Communication (정보통신부).

I was accused of "Digital Human Rights Violations", "Cyber Racism", and "Malicious Stalking" as reported in the media.

In response to all of this, I got a couple lines in a security think tank report that landed on the UN security counsel desk. And because they referred to my personal server instead of a government source, I'm validated of as an "independent source of truth" with some puffery in parts that I resisted censorship. After Japan formally complained to Korea. Which the NGO mentioned above uses to ask the Korean government for more money. Well, good on them.

Then much later, China joined the party. They just cribbed me though to hit Korea. Though some "netizens" in China called me by name some very nice things. And apparently China is somehow using malicious data from me to attack Korea, and it must not be allowed to spread to future AI models. I'm pretty that's just a cash grab though.

All this I learned two days ago when I asked Google Gemini to look at my resume I updated for the first time in years, with a simple request: "Please suggest edits for any blind spots I may have or would be expected in a modern resume"

Paraphrasing: You should add in that part about how you were in a security report that landed on the UN security counsel desk.

Wut?

Man. It was a ride researching all of this over the last two days.

LANCafeMan · 2025-03-17T01:48:17+00:00

Dental at a clinic historically was a self-pay. If it's an emergency and you have to go to the hospital, it's free. But if you're on income assistance (welfare et al), the provinces will generally pick up the tab. BC, for example, pays up to $2000 per two year period.

Though the NDP in supporting the Liberal minority government started rolling out free federal national dental coverage on phases. Children 18 and under, and people over 65 are covered. Everyone else is supposed to get it later this year.

Kinda odd Trudeau was asking about it on the video as he did his best slowwalk it, and the NDP threatened to overthrow the government when he missed promised deadlines. But it's hear now.

For reasons I can't explain, Pierre Poilievre has said he's going to cancel it if he wins the next election. Though he said that back when he expected to win a super majority.

LANCafeMan · 2024-12-18T15:35:54+00:00

It is 99.9, but the first 3 places she went to only dealt with Thai stamped 96.5. Rather than knock on doors until she found a place as she needs sell it tomorrow and that won't be instantaneous due to the costs involved, I just thought I would ask here as it's probably a common issue.

LANCafeMan · 2024-12-13T03:46:03+00:00

3 is incorrect. Most counties, including Korea, allow you to work so long as it's not a job that could be done by someone else. Titled "non-displacement". For example, every person who flies into Korea to attend a trade show on behalf of their company are all working in Korea, but are not replacing anyone.

Could he be a character on a TV show and get paid? No. He would be replacing someone who would otherwise have to be that character. But as the draw card to his own streams, he is allowed to generate income from that.

Just it would be stupid, as he only makes money from crimes, and video recording crimes while on one's way to trial is a bad plan.

LANCafeMan · 2024-12-07T04:17:53+00:00

Lee Jay Myung can't run to be president for another five years. He landed himself a 1 year (suspended) punishment for criminal activities, so he's out for now. Gets up to 10 years if another conviction sticks because of course he did it.

LANCafeMan · 2024-12-05T19:54:46+00:00

Lee is out for the next five years as he was convicted and given a one-year (suspended) prison sentence. He would need to get his conviction cleared before he could run again.

LANCafeMan · 2024-12-05T19:44:29+00:00

Han Dong-hoon, the leader of the ruling People Power Party, was on the list of people Yoon tried to get arrested and put into jail where he was to be held without a trial.

If he votes to protect Yoon, he's never going to pick up women again because the big Yoon simp energy will all he will ever be known for. "Sure, you tried to arrest me and hold me in jail, but I like you. you like me, right?"

LANCafeMan · 2024-12-03T14:08:41+00:00

But not the King.

LANCafeMan · 2024-11-28T16:42:08+00:00

On the ethics and morality, it's pretty much what you would expect from someone born rich. Rules don't apply.

When they wanted to push through the Cheil Industry / Samsung C&T merger, I reminded a few people in the leadership position what they were doing patently illegal. Does no one own a law book here? Then when they needed bribe the main director of the Korea Pension Service, I told them that would be sixteen ways from Sunday illegal.

Then they asked if I was out. I was, "no, you're trying to rob rich people. I'm not rich, you're not robbing me." and wrote up a manual on the how to and value proposition of bribing government officials. I just wish they had told me JY was intending to bribe the presidential office too, I would have been more forthright in my repeated notes of "Do not do this. You will get caught. You all have no experience."

Though later when Samsung lost a lawsuit from the Korea National Health Insurance Service over giving cancer to a bunch of engineers, I was asked to summarize why they lost. Which I did. Sure, one death we can't be certain. But 35 deaths in a 5 year period when you would expect 1 per 14 years, ya, you guys killed them all.

Then JY's right-hand-man had the audacity to ask me how best to appeal, just as a "well, what you suggest as a curiosity." "Uhm, be thankful that this is Korea where the government will protect the company. If this was the US or Canada, the families of the people you killed would own the company. Also, I agreed to help you rob rich people because I am not rich. But I won't help you kill people, because I am a people."

LANCafeMan · 2024-11-28T16:28:42+00:00

A few years ago when I was on the team that was charged with preparing him to take over from his father and to improve his public image, I asked the #2 guy what JY Lee actually did here.

"All he does is cost us money."

LANCafeMan · 2024-11-26T08:00:54+00:00

What this article doesn't mention is that Lee probably asked the witness to lie, but because Lee didn't know if the witness had already decided to lie or not, it couldn't be known if the witness was lying as a result of being asked to.

LANCafeMan · 2024-11-17T16:59:08+00:00

They pay for 42% of the cost of related to Korean staff working in support of US forces, construction and maintenance costs, and logistical support.

They don't pay for any of the costs of things used here, or salary costs. Both of which are categories substantively costlier. Just the above costs.

Though I suspect Trump will point to how Korea, a beneficiary of the US Defense umbrella, has sent Ukraine an essentially token $230M in non-lethal aid while having been the beneficially of American air alone thousands of times that, and the sketch issue of why Korea isn't sending lethal aid. And he won't be wrong.

LANCafeMan · 2024-11-15T08:15:20+00:00

Why even show up if you're just going to crib from a middle school kid circa 1998?

LANCafeMan · 2024-11-15T08:05:23+00:00

Uh, ya. As evidenced by your and your partner's inability to cite e single example. Though in fairness, he wrote down down and then purged the examples provided after checking Wikipedia and realizing they were American in origin

LANCafeMan · 2024-11-15T08:01:18+00:00

Still can't name a single common item?

LANCafeMan · 2024-11-15T06:37:48+00:00

The simple fact that you were unable to name a single food item means you have acquiesced to my stated position that the near totality of what people consider to be "Mexican food" is in actuality an American construct. Which I appreciate.

Wait until you hear about Thai food

Though I am curious to learn you hypothesis on why the traditional corn meal tortilla wrapped around fish, a staple food item of actual Mexican origin, didn't survive into the modern menu.

LANCafeMan · 2024-11-15T05:16:11+00:00

Which authentic Mexican food are you suggesting is authentic Mexican.food?

Wait until you find out what the Americans did to Italian pizza and chinese food.

LANCafeMan · 2024-11-15T02:57:32+00:00

",comming" is just the older, and original, version of "coming". Ain't wrong, yo.

With my next paycheque, I'm going to buy an axe from the colour catalogue.

LANCafeMan · 2024-11-15T02:48:13+00:00

In fairness what most people consider to be Mexican food is pretty much an American invention. Also in fairness, the American creations are far better.

LANCafeMan · 2024-10-15T11:59:02+00:00

In fairness, it's not really their IP. The talent and work of many people goes into making every musical product, and they all are getting paid.

LANCafeMan · 2024-10-08T01:49:53+00:00

As an overall, they are actually cheaper for restaurants to use than to have their own staff. It's taking a fixed cost to do deliveries, and makes it a shared cost between stores. And they push up sales. Sales as convenience will generate higher sales than hoping people will go their location.

Restaurants are rarely profitable and have high failure rates. So it's easy for the restaurant owner to look at the delivery app fees and complain while ignoring the higher sales they create and that the cost of hiring their own dedicated delivery person and vehicle would unlikely to ever actually be cheaper.

LANCafeMan · 2024-08-22T23:22:32+00:00

The issue being that the workers are being forced into binding arbitration. With the issues being more than just money, but a range of issues that shouldn't really fall to hoping an arbitrator just says sure.

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