Yes, people are discovering that you can be under surveillance in public, or not under surveillance in public. For some reason, there's idiots who want a world of being universally under surveillance in public, with all their actions logged and recorded and archived forever.

Smashing open your walls to check if anything is hidden inside the drywall is a reasonable search too, as long as they got a proper warrant for it first. Otherwise the search is unwarranted.

Compensating him is probably cheaper than having their source of funding pissed off at them, or having to do safe deorbit of all their trash.

Trump made history by being the oldest president the US has elected, if he wins a second term he'll update that record. He could very well declare himself dictator for life, without violating the two term limit.

You have to say you live in Florida. What are they going to do, actually check?

I'm just glad they decided to use this data gathering against rich people. The government might wipe their ass with the Constitution, but stopping the rich from cheating on their taxes is one step too far. I can only hope that when this is ruled un-American, it will be a wide ruling that covers you & me and not just "the IRS may not use this data".

Buddy these AIs are meant to free you... from having a job.

You can't go after people who claim to live in one of their extra homes for tax purposes but in reality are cheating the people of your state! That's so unfair, they might have to sell one of their vacation homes or even their yacht!

Sure, and you can also insist that employees must do jumping jacks while singing praises to the CEO. But stupid rules cost extra, and for self-respecting people quite a bit extra. But if you want stupid rules and to only pay a little extra, you have to start tapping the pool of people who love asskissing and have no self-respect, but you better hope their boss isn't an idiot who asks for convenience at the cost of security.

With a death sentence by stoning, or of being tortured for eternity? "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. "

Thankfully, these people can't scan your brain yet.

Sure thing boss, I'm sure every economist will agree with you that increased supply and competition causes increased prices.

Lol if there's a skip button you're doing it very very wrong.

It turns out Earth life is made of piles of food -- proteins, carbohydrates, oils. If Mars microbes can eat that, but we or our tastiest plants can't defend against them, we're in trouble. Of course, maybe Mars microbes won't like that our atmosphere is 20% bleach, even some of the Earth microbes living like this for several billion years still require an anaerobic environment.

Turns out there's lots of whitespace

People already time their electric use to benefit the grid, either because they're on variable rate plans or because the electric company pays them to. Traditionally with electric heaters, where instead of using random cycle times the grid tells them to turn on before reaching min temp or off partway to max temp. Idiots learn about this and say "Oh no I don't want to do the thing I'm not doing and don't have to do! My cycle times must be random!"