Fear not: A strategy requiring Americans to think is unlikely to succeed.

Or would be if it was not for SystemD.

When will Devuan track this change?

If someone is able to hack their account settings, then either* :

• They are old enough to watch adult content
• They are perfectly capable of bypassing any other protection divisible by humans

Alternatively, packets containing adult content could have the Porn bit set, and the recipient's machine machine do the censorship.

Notes
# Defining adult content is a fraught issue. In my experience, Europe and America have totally different ideas of what is adult material. * "protection" devised by AI is unlikely to work as intended.

It might also be worth having a GDPR bit. If set, your data must be protected according to the GDPR laws. If your Locale is in Europe, this should be set automatically.

People with little or no income receive "benefits" through an amazingly complicated network of rules that is mostly incomprehensible, and as a result, so I was told, it costs GBP30 in bureaucracy for each GBP1 paid in benefits, if any one person is earning significant money.

Consequently, on the face of it, a system based on "just give them the f'ing money, damn it!" would likely be massively cheaper

The present system has the highly undesirable side effect of demolishing families where one parent works and the other does not, and splintering family houses into houses of multiple occupancy because if a large number of adults live in the same "family" (as determined by nameless government officials) no one gets any benefits.

Also, with the present system, if you take a short term job because your employer went bust, then you will end up with 5 weeks of no income before, and another five weeks with no income after the short term job, so, unless the pay is incredibly high, you won't take the job, because the consequence is likely to be you and your children starving.

in short, the present system sucks in every possible way, and something must be done. "Just give them the money" is something that is very cheap indeed to any realistic alternative in the UK.

The objections come from people who are told by the right wing gutter press that people on benefits are "scroungers" and remain on benefits most of their lives. Such people do exist, but the vast majority are people whose employers went bust as a result of stupid government policies, or people whole family has suffered an adverse event (eg breadwinner sick or dead), and will soon be back at work - but probably much sooner with UBI, as they can spend time looking for jobs instead of in government offices facing interrogation or filling in irrelevant forms.

The real "benefits scroungers" are companies whose rate of pay is so low their employees need to receive benefits to survive. While other companies are taxed to support them. It should be illegal for a company to pay dividends if their employees cannot live on their wages. (We have a government defined "living wage", which is higher than the "minimum wage"). I think it would be perfectly acceptable to pay the minimum wage provided you pay no dividends to shareholders especially if the UBI ensures they won't have to go shop-lifting for bread, bacon and cheese (currently most frequent shoplifted items - according to a newspaper I probably would not trust with second hand Royal Gossip.

Proprietary infotainment systems are a major cause of depreciation in second hand value. After three years, they are worse than useless because of failure to comply with all known standards and software update costs that exceed the value of the car.

If only you could rip them out and replace them with generic ones like we used to do, at least they would not have negative value, but in many cars they are linked to functions like heater controls.

Does the auto industry actively seek to be hated or what?

Commercial TV in the UK used to be restricted to 6 minutes of ads per hour, which was OK.

I have no idea what happens on TV now, because I don't watch it.

If I could not use an ad blocker I would not watch Youtube at all. If they die, I will order several crates of beer to celebrate.

It might even solve the debt crisis!

They may tell you "no one ever got fired for specifying M*******t", and it may be true.

I for one, would sack anyone who brought Windows into my business It is considered a serious breach of security protocols to even use the word M*******t. Using the word "Windows" for anything other that a glass panel in the wall could result in pay deductions, depending on context (eg without an X preceding it).

Humans can have a concept of truth, because they can verify things by physical contact with the real world.

AI can only reference electronic information. It has no ultimate hard reference. We can do physics experiments, or die in multi-vehicle pile ups.

AI cannot tell the difference between Newton's laws of motion and Trump's ramblings. Sure it can "ask Siri" to help out. Well, its not going to help out.

"Ye canna break the laws of physics captain!" only applies to things with a corporeal existance. The rest is as solid as "2001 - a space oddity".

This may require nukes from high orbit.

This was considered normal 15 years ago.

Since then, most users have figured out that the new phones are less useful than the old ones due to things like frequent changes to the UI, and the definition of "USB" being interpreted as "Unpredictable Stupid Bollocks".

Anyone who is supplied with information by Google knows it is already rubbish.

Unfortunately, everything is rubbish these days.

We are doomed - we are all doomed <appologies for lack of a credible Scottish accent>.