So you don't know either?

If you read the article, 35m of that 140m settlement includes paying the US treasury 35m. Why?

I love how, 5 years ago, you and those like you would have been celebrating this.

BUT, the machine told you that to be a good person, you must hate Musk, so you're hating Musk now.

Good bot.

This seems like a slam dunk for your customers; why didn't they have this policy before?

They're going to tie notepad to the store and break it like they broke the calculator, aren't they?

I can just feel it.

There's no inherent reason why a female protagonists should make something suck ( 13yo jokes and recent history notwithstanding ).

Of course, nothing can ever replace Trevor, but I'm hopeful this is a great game.

Seems no one can create decent entertainment anymore, so I'm begging whatever gods might be listening; please let Rockstar escape the curse and turn out a great game.

I guarantee there was a meeting when it was first proposed to give 3rd parties access to the system where the devs raised holy hell about this, but some PHB had some bright idea...so here we are.

That's...not what I said, but sure; let's go there.

I know it's my responsibility to create value and negotiate for myself, so that doesn't apply to me.

Feature.

Government intrusion should be difficult to implement. Though I suspect most here might not believe it, less government is far preferable to more.

...none of that has anything to do with the corruption I mentioned. Stop being tribal; the letter after the name has little bearing on the level of corruption.

Rely on the government at your own peril.

I'm gonna stop you there; we aren't going to agree. Even if you like our current iteration of "government", the next probably won't be to your liking, and they will custom order whatever 'science' they want to fit their agenda.

Competition may not be the perfect solution, but it's certainly the least bad off all the options.

Competition leads to better outcomes.

Right now we have a repeatability, and an outright falsification, problem in science. If you have two different large countries pursuing economic advantages, then these will be harshly punished and be reduced to irrelevancy by those granting the funds.

A monolithic apparatus will only make the problem worse.

Both sides are horrible, yes. That's why I favor single day voting. Make it a national holiday, we'd have to be physically present to vote. Not sure why voter ID is so controversial, but ideally we'd have to show our ID to vote.

So it's indistinguishable from "real" scientists.

Turing test passed?