Printed in stone on the Supreme Court building.

'Net worth' is not always a good indicator either. Consider a farmer with a couple hundred acres. Annual 'income' of $20,000, but on paper, a millionaire, because of the land.

'Coding' is not the be-all and end-all of 'good jobs'. Plumbing, carpentry, electrical...any one of a thousand other professions.

J.O.B.
Do that first.

Of all the money spent on this program, I predict exactly 1 person will actually end up with a job as a 'coder'. (and he will suck at it)

On road refueling? Oh please.
You do realize that in-flight refueling requires multiple human operators.

1 to fly the tanker
1 to fly the boom
1 to fly the A/C being refueled.

With some tankers, you can combine the first two, but still, multiple humans involved.

That's a pipedream. Other than connections like the $20k per month T3 to Sprint where I used to work, I've never personally seen a connection that fast. Most of the country is still chugging along with 1.5 Mbps DSL at the max.

Are you high? Here in Redneckistan Virginia, I have 50/50 fiber. $50(?) month. Have not had less than 25/5 over the last decade, cable or fiber. Previous to that, in Flyover Nation Ohio, it was 10/2 and then 20/5.

What 'country/state/city' are you talking about?

Given 30 years, a single protocol, and 'many eyes'...what is there to fix or update?

Think back to 1965. What media do you still have that you can access? Paper, and analog hardcopy LP's maybe. LP, only if you still have a working player.

1975? Same
1985? Floppy disks. How many of those do you have that are still readable? And on what device? Gen 1 CD. Probably all toast.
1995? Gen 1 DVD. Again, probably toast.

Meanwhile, while cleaning out my parents house, a photo album, with pics of my grandmother partying in a club in Harlem in the '30s, is perfectly, instantly, readable.

Film, or paper prints on archival paper.

" in or next to the Big Chair."

SecState counts as "next to"

For 36 years, except for the period 2013-2017, there will have been either a Clinton or a Bush, in or next to the Big Chair.
Let's try something else for a while, OK.

You're supposed to take in 3 roommates in that studio, also at $14/hr. Just like your H1-B competitors.

That is also done with a 5 year old Dell/Toshiba/HP laptop. Not really a high bar to get over.

Maybe a robot that can hunt down where all my missing socks go.

Actually, the dryer DOES eat them. Some years ago, my dryer died. Before tossing it, I took it apart to see what if anything could be salvaged. Switches, motor, etc.
Upon taking it all apart, there was a literal double handful of socks, outside the drum but inside the box. Along with a couple dollars in change, and a 1 dollar bill.

I'm pretty sure we could find a Usenet post from 20+ years ago, describing that exact same vector.

He was 83. The human condition does not last much beyond that, no matter what you do or do not do.

But agreed. Goodbye, old friend.

Oh, and this semi-Beta slashdot sucks. Possibly worse than the previous Beta we've seen.