If it moves, tax it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.

I pointed out once EVs got prevalent enough, government would stop subsidizing and start taxing. I got modded down, by clowns who, when government inevitably changed its mind, would later dutifully regurgitate the talking point that government now needs taxes for roads.

Any not on a sketchy web site?

Looks like blu ray in being tight fisted with patents, saying "you must pay more or do without".

World: We choose to do without.

Blu ray: Let's not get hasty, fellas!

Not being able to play blu ray on your computer without buying more software isn't helping.

This is all just a brief window of control by corporations. When older models get out and updated, nobody will care about corporate AI anymore.

Don't go. If, by some miracle it is awesome, you can go.

I used to point out that, if Linux were on hundreds of millions of desktops, it, too, would be under assault from large numbers of motivated hackers from sketchy countries, and would not be anywhere near as bullet proof as POMSPPP (Pee-ers On Microsoft Products Proudly Pontificated.)

You were security through obscurity. Welcome to the edge of the big boys club.

"And the safety drivers must earn as much as taxi dr...uhhhn...taxi token owners who rent to poor taxie drivers."

"Ah, hell. We corrupt politicians are really playing a gymnast's game of Twister, right foot don't drive AI from state! Left foot toss something to entrenched taxi interests we are corrupt for and beholden to! Right hand don't piss off voters! Left hand launch talking heads about race to the bottom!

Before modding me down, realize your thoughts, so-called, fall under one or more limbs.

Let's assume I'm the biggest anti-trust fan, and reflexively cheer on every last thing out of some bureaucrat's throat.

Me: What's going on?

Bureaucrat: "Many non-iPhone users also experience social stigma..."

Me: That seems weak.

I submit no. Why? 200 to 300 years will go by and tech will have altered the situation unrecognizably.

This is political arrogancy, not science.

I don't want government ordering me to have a tiny AC because someone getting a kickback says so.

Promise of the future: Your specific info like DNA can lead to custom-tailored drugs and treatments!

Actual future: This guy is an engineer or whatever, jack the price up 15%!

Hey! It's the dream of comunism, "From each according to his ability!"

Hey! It's the dream of loudmouth western politicians, "Taxes from each according to his ability to pay his fair share!"

Here's a sarlacc pit with a Christmas tree grinder lodged in his throat. Jump in!

Clone in tank with pristine organs!

I read your comment as

A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his circumcised existence

Well, there's a use case!

We probably could have for the fraction of a major war, or a fraction of what was heaved onto the debt four years ago.

I'd suffer happily net 20% inflation if I had a clone sitting in a tank with organs, waiting...

Evolution can take its course. Religious people are also free to decline research results based on stem cells from aborted babies.