Sorry, I phrased it wrong.

I would pay to see a bunch of cats being taped into the shape of a horse [in progress, not the final result].

This should finish off the job of not educating a good portion of the population. Between not being able to 'VR' into the class because the internet bill couldn't be paid, to the VR helmet being broken/used for video games instead, to even less 'classroom discipline' [kids actually paying attention to the teacher], to the biggest one, chiefly even less social interaction between kids.

Sure, some kids can successfully learn this way, but not a lot.

And rich kids parents know it's all about connections while growing up, so they will still bundle them off actual schools.

But I can totally see that 'inner city' schools will be forced to spend billions on this technology, and it will be sold to the public as 'giving the poorest children the biggest hand up". And teachers of those schools will generally be for it because it means far less stress in class trying to get children/teenagers to pay attention without being able to discipline them [they will just cut of any student that bothers them] and it makes it that much harder for the students to knife the teacher.

So, this is really a 'win' for America. Spend billions of dollars to help the poor, by giving that money to several large corporations, then shove it out into the poorest schools and forget about it.

it takes longer because they have to route the data from the fingerprint scanner through the local FBI office to check for people on the no-cafeteria list.

most of them want to come over here and use our washrooms.

I would pay to see a bunch of cats taped into the shape of a horse.

Guns will go out with anybody. And they prefer children.

and yet, if it were to happen, humanity would not learn from it.

Sure. But lawyers have made out like bandits. I wonder how many lawyers are patent examiners?

NY Cops killed a man for selling individual cigarettes. The gov't was losing literally nickels for each one, so they set up a task force to halt the problem.

The NSA could care less about false positives. They just mean the budget as to be upped that much more next year.

It means the manufacturer of the hardware has skinned the OS to jazz it up a bit, then loaded it up with a bunch of apps that you try once and never use again, but you cannot delete.

..for dubious values of "maintained" and "developed"

Yes, Microsoft really should stop making stupid 'wrapper' apps that just wrap a companies web site in a webview and then surprising the company by making it seem as if the company made it.

Surprise, we made an app for you and we didn't even tell you. and here are some ex-customers of yours that are very angry with this very crappy app. why don't you make a proper one for windows phone to try to fix the problem?

you are forgetting "first responders", cops, medics in ambulances, firefighters. The unholy trinity.

...and a shitload of money...up front.