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Uh, I might not recall well,but didn't the US declare that war?

Uh, give another go at history. The British army was the homeland army in the US and the actual resident armed force. Yours was a secession war that effectively created your national identity (or officialized it, depends on the point of view). The only real foreign attack you had on your soil was Pearl Harbor, and that wasn't an invasion.

Fine, but give me a democratic EU. I want a say in what the European Commission decides, I want to finally understand whatever the Council of European Union is (seriously, nobody seems to know), I want a democratic European Parliament with the power of legislative initiative. Anything else is a nice-looking dictatorship.

An AI smarter than us can definitely learn to repair itself, the same way we invented medicine.

About the shutting down traffic being rare in Europe, I beg to differ: it happens quite regularly here in Milan (basically we live in a natural cul-de-sac that accumulater pollutants.

Even better, the coordinates should be encrypted on Kryptos. Now THAT would be meta.

That depends on how persistent the missle's smoke trail is.

Neurotoxin will settle this.

We clearly need to create a Drone Patrol to guard our privacy!

Of course not, the same way Ayn Rand never used Public Health Care! *bald eagles*

Development cost and market price are not necessarily connected (see Android) and Apple is free to distribute R&D money among its divisions as it pleases her. Being the manufacturer of both hardware and software, it can freely claim that the market price for OSX is 0, but then restrict its licence to force installation only on Apple hardware. Plus, you're free to install whatever OS pleases you on Apple hardware.

If, say, HP or Dell claimed that Windows cost is 0, then they would have to demonstrate that they got it for free from Microsoft, which they didn't. The meaning of this ruling is that a contract with one party cannot force you into a contract with a third party.

This only applies when hardware and software come from different parties.

I wonder about Android smartphones...

I shamefully admit clicking on it at least 10 times and cursing at my browser before realising.

Hardware backdoors. See Huawei.