I predict that the future is not predictable.

All money is "funny money". The gold standard is long gone.

Let's see them work with PHB's and clueless users to nail down "requirements". Automating logic is easy, automating prediction of random idiots is not so easy because randomness is by definition not predictable.

You have go to lunch with and sit in boring meetings with them to figure them out, and the robot will be booted out of the room because it will ask good but embarrassing, ego-shattering questions; and not get the design analogies that use Kardashian asses as reference points, asking silly questions in an attempt to figure it out. The business world is bunches of social institutions much more than it is think tanks.

You are trying to replace humans, not Vulcans. Kirk ran the missions better than Spock because he could identify better with illogical and petty aliens.

Projection. You have no proof of average boom boom edu or income, and are guessing out of your south pipe. The average is key to this debate and you shed darkness on it. You lost. Go home.

// robot's solution
Java.dump();
realLanguage.get.load();

Back in my FoxPro days I cranked out smallish biz apps like lightning with 1/4 the code I use now. The multi-layered client-server and then the HTML/CSS/JS/foo++/SQL stack gummed up that and turned CRUD into a mini bureaucracy.

Blow up the HTML stack and create GUI and CRUD-friendly browsers and markup, and database-integrated table-driven languages, and many internal biz coders will go gone. (No, MS-Access didn't integrate the database and code side well. I don't count it.)

This is a "we'll all have flying cars" sort of paper by people who could not make flying cars but were convinced that they'd be here any moment.

Strong AI is the first "computer program" that has the potential to automate the act of creativity. Everything less can be a compiler, a pattern recognizer, an Uber driver, and in general a tool that does what it is told .

And we are not particularly closer to Strong AI than when it was first theorized.

I would be more impressed with a paper by people who could actually make the software these guys theorize about, rather than sophomoricaly discussing it.

Yeah, they should contract out to Sony or Target instead.

I didn't deflect. You are still cherry-picking. These are not scientifically chosen examples by any stretch. It still says nothing about the average. You have offered no evidence about the average.

And why are you mostly focusing on US terrorism? Education visas can be a rouge to stay in the US longer and/or learn the language and culture in order to blend in better.

You gotta start somewhere.

If you voluntarily walk or drive to jail (for tax evasion), there is no violence. If you fight "the law" with violence, then you qualify for #3 on my list.

In practice, garnishment and property liens are usually used to collect unpaid taxes. Those who have nothing worth garnishing or lien-ing are usually not a tax problem because they have too little to tax.

Those with college degrees rarely seem to do the dangerous parts themselves. Managing is a lot more fun than blowing your brains out in a market.

Anyhow, without reliable surveys on the profile of the average terrorist or extremist, it's just speculation or thumbnail estimates from reporters either way, and probably not worth arguing about.

Mr. Laden didn't carry out the attacks himself: he got grunts to it. Most of the rank-and-file attackers or not well-off. Focusing on high-profile leaders in the org is misleading. Then again, I expect that from N.R.

The US may have to allow more immigrants in order to be competitive with China and perhaps other populous countries in a potential cyber-war. It's more or less a game of man-power. Either that, you siphon techies off of other fields. Maybe the "secret plan" is to send all non-military IT work to India, freeing the rest to be cyber warriors? Our trade deficit will be Jupiter-sized, though.

Your question is not specific enough. What laws are they ignoring? How about a scenario.