Follow your own logic... The inherited company is just bits in a computer UNTIL SOLD. Then it will be taxed. Taxing the inheritance and then also tax the value when sold is double taxation.

These companies makes recyclable products - they've done their part. Why sue them for what consumers due with the recyclable products afterwards? - Shouldn't you sue the consumers instead? - Of course the consumers don't have a huge pile of money so there's less to be gained...

I've always disliked streaming. Here's why:

- The selection never seems to include my kind of music.
- Requires network connection to play
- My (poor) music taste can be profiled on a daily basis
- The artists often gets ripped off by streaming services.

Since you found /. you're clearly both too old and too educated to use that stupid cliché catchphrase.

If automation is going to eliminate 73 million jobs then it's about time.

If all those people are doing stuff better (and cheaper) done by machines then it's a true waste of money keeping people in those positions.

Now the less intelligent will ask what those 73 million people are going to do, and the answer is quite obvious - service the machines of course. We know from previous rounds of automation that 1 job replaced will create 3 new jobs of a higher skilled type, and those 3 can do much more than just that one thing - because they're skilled jobs. This way we'll make much more use of the people and their skills than simply do stuff better done by machines.

But we NEED human space flight! - The warranty on this planet is about to expire and we need to be able to move on...

That has nothing to do with nuclear Armageddon. But of course a global nuclear war will cause a global climate crisis but that would be the least of our problems...

Short of actually blowing the planet apart I doubt we could kill EVERYBODY using nuclear weapons even if we tried. There will always be survivors.

If you do, you're wrong. It's PUBLIC areas. It's all in that description.

Also, there's no difference of being 'recorded' into passer-bys memory and to be recorded by a camera. Your actions can be recalled and the only difference is that the camera doesn't lie or forget/misread/mix-up actions of different people into one (which happens quite often).

I actually prefer a camera so as to not be misidentified or similar.

All three laws center on the concept of 'human' and 'humanity' but those terms are by no means self-evident.

Lots of beings belonging to homo sapiens have through the ages been defined as something besides 'human' - from slaves over certain ethnic groups to people with certain undesirable political views (and I'm sure I missed some). It still continues to this day where especially people from the extreme fringes (left, right, religious) consider the 'opponents' to be less than human or at least not deserving of 'human rights'.

In other words - it is far too easy to redefine 'human' to exclude some subgroup or to favor a certain subgroup so they would never work, just as Asimov pointed out in his books.

Am I the only one who thinks Richard should not have resigned any of his positions but instead have fought back, rallying supporters from across the world?

Putting up enough resistance would have caused a serious blow-back that would have forced both retractions and apologies. Sure, a few other people might lose their jobs alone the way but it would be worth it if we can stop this rampant persecution of white men in places of power. I feel we especially must get back at this Selam G person who single-handedly have destroyed a brilliant mans career using empty and false accusations alone.

Unless a fully functional AI is deployed (Skynet anyone?) the threat will still be from people, just like it always has. They will use new technology but it will still be people operating it.

Go after them, plain and simple.

Facebook started losing the game when they began censoring the platform and removing/punishing nipples and what they deemed 'hate speech (expressing any fact or opinion not shared by Facebook management).

It's fine removing fake accounts and people harassing others, but censorship is a losing game and the slippery slope will cause more and more people to turn their backs on the platform, pushed by endlessly repeating privacy violations and similar.

Not if done properly.

Hopefully nobody is stupid enough to think that network segmentation just means "use different network addresses for different networks". It should mean "complete separation" except for controlled gateways.

I've not been using a headphone jack for a decade! - Let that century-old tech die in peace.

Bluetooth works just fine and lets you avoid both the scratching noise and audio channel fallout when the jack gets worn, and the noise when the cord rubs against your clothing.