That is completely garbage. The Underwriter's Laboratory is a private for-profit organization and does a very good job of assuring fire and electrical safety for a huge sector of industry. When something is UL listed you can be certain it meets stringent safety standards.

It's amazing how much you know about Republicans, given that you obviously are not a Republican.

We had a tortoise as a pet when I was young. My observation about tortoises is that they operate on a time scale much, much slower than humans. I wouldn't say they are highly intelligent animals, but they do have a wisdom about them. If you take the time to get to know them they are as complex and unique as any two dogs or cats are from one another. They just live their lives at a slower pace, so you have to spend time observing them to know how they live.

Science is essentially an algorithm that sorts models by matches and simplicity,

It's nowhere near that simple. For science to be an algorhithm would mean that it 'runs' on a machine. To the contrary, it is a social endeavor carried out by scientists. Who generally build their careers around the hypotheses that their particular 'school' of science works toward proving. Scientists are set in their way and work long and hard to support their science. They're not flip-flops that a sort routine bubbles up through.

In other words, Watson says 'Put somebody really powerful in charge so it can be implemented correctly....'

We tried that numerous times in the 20th century. It sucked.

Here's some corn. Now, why don't you waddle off to the pond.

A mechanistic approach, materialism, is only one way of looking at things. Why do you insist on cutting yourself off from so much of human wisdom? Does it make you angry that others find wisdom when they take paths that just confuse you? That makes you seem like any confused redneck out there who hates computers he can't understand.

Thanks for chiming in, sociopath.

Now fuck off. Go back down into your basement and cut apart some more stray cats.

Likewise, the Marxist-Leninists, and then the Stalinists, and the Maoists, espoused atheistic 'Scientific Socialism.'

I am not red-baiting, simply pointing out that 'Progressives' have always waved 'Science (tm)' around like something they own.

A 12 guage is also a useful 'remote control' for drones. You don't even need radio contact.

Lasers are 'out of the bottle' too. What 'cool' things do you suggest I do with my 35 milliwatt laster? No, I'm not really interested in doing it, whatever stupid notion you have of adventure.

All they'll need to do is relicense all the typewriters and copying machines. Anybody who wants to do anything interesting with electronics or anything else technical can go back to buying parts on the black market out of shady characters car trunks.

A Russian service often can't do all the same things. You think the Chinese govt. wasn't elated when Google was replaced by something inside the Great Firewall that they could control?

Sure, the Russians can rely on domestic second-rate suppliers. Does that benefit the Russian people?

That's Mayday the event, not the sound of alarm. Mayday is also known as International Workingman's Day.

Don't you remember the old newsreels of Soviet tanks and trucks bearing missiles, rolling through Moscow for the annual Mayday Parade?

Was it clueless, or was it deliberate?

Mayday, incidentally, should be a strikingly American day on the calendar, as it commemorates the May Day Massacre which happened in Chicago. The people killed were Communists and Anarchists, though, so it isn't gonna go on the Official Holiday Calendar in the US.