- February 16, 2024
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D-Day! March 1: Prepare to spend money to pay for 2 extra expressways.
On February 16, a news report from the Expressway Authority of Thailand (EXAT) informed that, from March 1, it is scheduled to adjust the Chalong Rat Expressway toll. (Ramindra-At Narong) and Burapha Withi Expressway (Bangna-Chonburi) about another 10% or about 5 baht according to the cost of living index (CPI) in accordance with the conditions of the contract of the Thailand Future Infrastructure Fund (TFFIF), which it must be adjusted according to the EXAT contract starting in September. 1, 2023. But the Ministry of Transport asked for a delay of 6 months, which is due on March 1.
News reports indicate that For the new Chalong Rat Expressway toll rates, modified 4-wheel vehicles from 40 baht to 45 baht, 6-10 wheel vehicles from 60 baht to 65 baht, more than 10 wheels from 80 baht to 90 baht.
Burapha Withi Expressway: 4 wheel vehicles increased from 70 baht to 80 baht,
What Is The Consideration For The Contribution Provided…
2024-02-16 11:25:51 The different types of contributions to society
The contributions made by the partners can take the form of cash contributions, contributions in kind or even industrial contributions. Let’s take a look at each of these possibilities in detail:
Cash contribution
The cash contribution is, quite simply, a contribution of money to the capital of the company. The partners deposit sums of money into an account opened in the name of the company being formed. Cash contributions are blocked until the company is registered and released upon presentation of the K-bis extract provided by the registry.
In certain types of companies (SARL, EURL, SAS, SASU, SA, SNC), the partial release of cash contributions is possible on a conditional basis. Thus, in the case of an SARL, the partners release at least 20% of the share capital upon society creation, the balance to be released within 5 years. In the event of partial release, only part of the cash contributions is paid into the account of the company being formed when it is formed.
Please note: contributions to a partner’s current account are not, strictly speaking, contributions. Even if these advances or loans of money granted by the partners to the company allow it to improve its cash flow,
Legal Battles Of A Hollywood Star: AI Lawsuit…
AI Expert Analyzes Lawsuit Against OpenAI
Renowned AI specialist Marva Bailer shares insights on the legal battle between Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey, Christopher Golden, Paul Tremblay, and OpenAI, the company responsible for ChatGPT.
Background of the Lawsuit
The lawsuit filed by Silverman and other authors alleges that OpenAI utilized their literary works without permission to develop its large language models, which are marketed as tools for automating tasks through human-like conversations.
Recently, a federal judge dismissed several claims from the lawsuit, including vicarious copyright infringement, negligence, and unjust enrichment.
Expert Opinion on the Case
Marva Bailer highlighted the significance of this case, stating that it sets a precedent for future legal disputes in the AI realm. She emphasized the importance of examining the output of AI models to determine if they infringe on original works.
Key Legal Points
The lawsuit includes claims of vicarious copyright infringement, where the output of OpenAI’s ChatGPT program allegedly contains copyrighted material from the authors’ books. However, the court dismissed this claim due to lack of substantial evidence.
Furthermore, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act claim, which focuses on copyright management information, was also dismissed by the judge.
Sora: OpenAI Company Now Also Generates Video From…
The AI model called Sora will initially be made available to selected creative people, OpenAI boss Sam Altman wrote on Thursday on the online platform X (formerly Twitter). Experts should also explore possible security risks before the program can be used widely. This tweet is disabled
Videos created by Sora can be up to a minute long. On the software website OpenAI published several examples along with the description on which they were based. One of them shows a woman walking through a street. The video was generated entirely by artificial intelligence, with the text specifying that the woman should wear a leather jacket and a red dress and that the street should be reminiscent of Tokyo and have lots of neon signs that were also reflected in puddles. Other videos show, among other things, mammoths walking in the snow and a town in California during the gold rush.
Labelling
AI technology that generates moving images from text templates could transform video production over time. At the same time, there are great concerns that fake videos could be created on a large scale and could hardly be distinguished from real recordings. The developers of the technology are therefore working on ways to incorporate unique identifying features such as watermarks into the videos.
SEA TOURISM Madagascar Strengthens Its Protection Of Marine…
The presentation of the interministerial decree was held at the Radisson Blu Ambodivona.
Madagascar is strengthening the protection of its megafauna, real tourist attractions popular both for seaside activities and ecotourism.
An interministerial decree, signed between the Ministry of Tourism and Crafts, the Ministry of Fisheries and the Blue Economy, as well as the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development, was presented yesterday in Ambodivona. The text establishes the various provisions and regulations to be followed by boaters and nautical operators who observe marine megafauna. It applies to all marine megafauna, including marine mammals, whale sharks and sea turtles.
According to the Minister of Tourism and Crafts, Joël Andriamandranto, “as part of our strategies, we work with specialized travel agencies who direct their customers to Madagascar to observe whales. It’s a niche market.” However, commercial marine megafauna observation activities tend towards mass tourism. For example, the population of whale sharks in Nosy Be generates nearly 96 million ariary per year, or around five hundred individuals each bringing in $40,000 annually thanks to commercial observation activities in their natural environment.
“This activity constitutes a significant economic development lever for the coastal areas of Madagascar,” estimates Anjara Saloma,
Mukhtar Babayev And Rovshan Najaf At An Event…
“SOCAR’s decarbonization strategy and “future perspectives” event was held.
Publika.az reports that the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan, Mukhtar Babayev, spoke in detail at the event as the guest of honor and spoke in detail about the works and implemented programs in the direction of environmental protection and restoration of ecological balance in our country.
Rovshan Najaf, the president of SOCAR, who welcomed the participants of the event, gave information about SOCAR’s environmental activities and goals related to reducing emissions in the medium and long term. The president of SOCAR said that reducing flaring in the production process to zero, reducing emission intensities, and achieving the goals of “Zero methane” and “Net Zero” by 2050 are the main goals of the company. Rovshan Najaf emphasized that these steps were taken in the direction of turning SOCAR into an exemplary energy company in terms of environmental protection, along with corporate social responsibility.
During the event, a detailed presentation was held at SOCAR on environmental protection works, implemented projects, stated goals and future steps to achieve them, application of green energy in oil and gas operations, strategic goals in the field of decarbonization and energy transition.
US RETAIL SALES FLOP! Icebergfinanza
#RETAIL #SALES #FLOP #icebergfinanza
Perfect day yesterday, with new highs on the European markets as our Puntosella had predicted on Twitter, bonds rising again and the dollar temporarily breaking the 1.07 level.
Obviously we will talk about the data, consumption and subsidies that magically drop as companies announce record layoffs everywhere.
As I told you, it is the historic American consumer who, when he loses his job, does not want to burden the State by requesting subsidies, but prefers to get into 22% debt with credit cards. Then at the right moment, he will make a massacre.
Obviously all this, while the lord without memory continues to send tens and tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel, lost and criminal wars.
Yesterday, consumption suddenly smurfed.
Second negative revision of the data from recent months, and of course, first they release random data, then they fix it.
Obviously these are also adjusted, don’t pay attention, they just decreased well beyond the forecasts of 0.2%
After two months dragged by catering services, when you are in a depression, you spend and spread what you don’t have,
The Ultimate Loan And Mortgage Loan: A Detailed…
“A gas plant? » asks Cécile Roquelaure, director of studies for the broker Empruntis. In an interview published Monday on the website of Parisianthe Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu announced the launch of a discussion around a new type of bank loan. “Too many households are refused, banks must make efforts. This involves new financing mechanisms, I am thinking of “ultimate” or “mortgage” loans,” explains the minister. Faced with an unprecedented housing crisis, the minister wants to combine these loans in a new hybrid form.
For Cécile Roquelaure, if, “on paper”, she congratulates the minister “for his capacity for innovation and his desire to push the banks to find new solutions”, these loans are not aimed at Mr. and Mrs. Tout- le-Monde and are not the solution to the housing crisis. Point deciphers the issues of these little-known bank loans.
The ultimate loan, an expensive and risky product
The final loan is distinguished from a traditional loan by its repayment terms. “When you take out a loan in fine, to put it bluntly, you will pay off your credit at the end of the loan term,” explains Cécile Roquelaure.
Unipol, Cimbri Freezes Montani: Renewal? I Can Tell…
Unipol, Cimbri and the takeover bid for UnipolSai
“Today the scenario has changed, what was previously a low-cost variable now has a higher cost”. Thus Carlo Cimbri, president of the Unipol group, explains the reason that pushed to proceed with the takeover bid on UnipolSai to create a single group which will be called UnipolAssicurazioni. An operation that raised Unipol shares rose by 20% on the stock market. “It would have had a disruptive effect – continues Cimbri – on the shares if we had done it at any other time. We have patiently awaited this chain of events, once the anxiety over the chain’s consolidation subsided, it was another enabling element: silence and confidentiality were needed.”
Then Cimbri extinguishes any enthusiasm from banking risk. “This operation is totally unrelated to our strategy in Bper and Banco Popolare di Sondrio”. But it is always time to talk about credit institutions, given that the board of directors of Bper, which sees CEO Piero Luigi Montani sitting in the chair, is expiring. “It is the shareholders who present a list, and we will propose the same approach as last time: a list of seven people which does not in itself have a majority of the council,