Remote jobs are your friend. I left programming for ten years, and when I returned found that my age and lack of recent experience was a definite handicap. Then I applied for a telecommuting job (advertising for a 'young' developer) and found that they really only cared about my coding chops and how well I play with others, but not much else. They never saw the gray beard. By the time they discovered that I'm not young anymore, it didn't matter. And it turns out that I really like working at home, and would hate returning to a cubicle.

The problem is that 'glass teat' is too metaphorical. It needs to become an actual teat.

Asteroids?

99% of everything is crap.

The widespread hatred of her makes me want to watch her to find out why. Whatever it is about her that selectively traumatizes liberals should be isolated and weaponized. Also she's nice to look at.

What if my brontosaurus ate the clay tablet receipt? Will they accept petrified dung?

Dude, alt-D and chill.

Don't underestimate social flexibility. Society is also perfectly capable of freaking out upon discovering that AIs are safer than human drivers, flipping on a dime, and calling for an immediate ban on human drivers.

Not if they're discriminating against younger people. In the U.S. federal age discrimination laws only protect older people from discriminating in favor of younger people, and generally explicitly allow the reverse. This is in line with the primary purpose of government (as divined from analysis of actual spending) as transferring wealth from younger to older people.

For one thing it would outlaw ISP business models that filter by content, such as walled gardens for children, Christians, Muslims, atheists, liberals, conservatives, etc. As in meatspace, there are good -- and potentially profitable -- reasons for building walls in cyberspace.

Fox News is on cable. It doesn't use the airwaves. It is not regulated or licensed by the FCC. It would therefore not have been subject to the Fairness Doctrine.

So now I've got Wine running Cygwin which is running Wine which is running Cygwin, etc., down to 37 layers deep, after which it hangs. I've heard that if I get to 42 layers it will rip a hole in the space-time continuum and collapse the black hole that contains our universe. I'm guessing that would be a bad thing.

The car is rigged for just about every conceivable communications band including FM, UHF, VHF, HF, and WTF.

Phone home?

That's not fair. Krugman predicted 11 of the last 3 recessions.