First of all, the proles are uneducated. Its easy enough to distribute the plans of these robots and have different groups making different parts. The outer class may be the ones who assemble them and leave it only to the inner class to program them.

Secondly, while the proles are building the robots, they have jobs. Once they are done building the robots, they'll lose their jobs. By then its too late.

No its because we spend it on the wrong things.

discretionary spending, This is 29% of all spending: https://static.nationalpriorit...

mandatory spending This is 65% of all spending: https://static.nationalpriorit...

A tiny, tiny bit of our spending goes to infrastructure. Most is wasted on areas with a less then 1:1 return on investment.

Not in Massachusetts: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

What roads do you drive on? Ever since I've been driving, everywhere I go the roads are terrible; they are riddled with pot holes and, in many instances, are more quick patch asphalt than road. In a truck built for off-roading you may not notice, but in a small car on the interstate at 60-70 miles an hour it can crack your suspension. In many cities, the roads might as well not be paved, they are so full of patches. I've driven over smoother dirt roads.

Telecom companies fix phone, cable and fiber lines. You pay for that by paying for cable/phone/internet, not through taxes. Taxes for the telcom industry, like the Universal Service Fund, go to creating new lines, upgrading speeds and lowering costs, not repair.

Power lines are the same for the power company.

The streets, highways included, are run down and dilapidated. The bridges and public infrastructure are crumbling. Water and land management is local government and varies heavily across the country. Law enforcement is a bloated war machine complete with riot gear, assault rifles and military vehicles.

I'll support taxes when the government shows me it can spend the money responsibly.

Cost effective, probably not. Possible, yes:

First artical I found with a good overview of the process: http://www.vox.com/2014/8/28/6...

Science is awesome.

Fact Check: Are you a chemical engineer?

Those chemicals listed are not pure elements (like aluminum and mercury). They are mercury and aluminum based compounds, designed to be inert but posses specific traits to do things like block binding sites on the viruses and bacteria. Come back when you have a better understanding of chemistry and micro biology.

Link to that article because those numbers are not right. 20% of individuals in the US do not make upwards of 234,400. 20% of households don't make that.

Not really. The article says "However, a large part of the Cybersecurity Unit’s mission will be to quell the growing distrust many Americans have toward law enforcement’s high-tech investigative techniques."

Quell in this context sounds more like "We will find those spreading distrust and remove them from the population." Then they can have their cake and eat it to.

Whooooooooosh

No, its just a long compile time.

"How does lack of understanding of a problem make it impossible to solve?" - Fixed

The question was directed at your post, and you seemed to infer the meaning just fine. Furthermore, a lot of problems are not fully understood initially. Part of the problem solving process is fleshing out those details. Most refer to it as the problem analysis, research or discovery phase.

Yes, because the greatest advancements in the world are built on the work of naysayers and the apathetic.

How does lack of understanding of a problem equate to impossible?

Yes, we currently do not understand intelligence enough to create it on the scale of a human brain, but we have made huge progress over the last century. How can you dismiss a whole potential sector of technology while also openly admitting that you don't understand it?

Really? I always thought it was kind of easy, but I'll leave it to your parents to have the "Birds and the Bees" talk with you.