the statements about dead of the lander are slightly exaggerated. It may still wake up. What was the last time when your project delivered all you started it for, did it on time and possibly (as we do not know it yet) did not reach goals on ambition level? I would like project that I work on be as good as this one. But than I have the biggest evil in the whole universe to fight against: bean counters.

I suppose the poor guy may have made a mistake but the nazimfems and their serfs that go after him and his shirt should be sent to uranium mine for their stupidity and lack of spirit and understanding for other humans, especially if those are equipped with rape toolkit formerly known as penis.

dream on.

That was maybe well intentioned but naive and written in a context of a large continent emptied nicely of local populations by germs and steel tools.

it works like fighting evil regimes by clicking on 'likes' button of fb and alikes does.

unless the touch in question is carrying meaningful traces of infectious agents of course. Besides I may still be a social ape but I dislike other humans with exception of my kids and these means a very small group of people and limited set of types of human touch. Human touch may still help in releasing some endorfins but it confuses the hell out of me too with the result that on average the outcome is negative.

you may not need robots doing t he driving if your daily grind is replaced first.

I wonder how robots would handle getting over right angle bend with any meaningful speed and without seriously troubling a transported indihvidual.

If you dislike government making decisions then there is a problem with 'we' that you use as in "we have to do something". If you want to have a general application of some rules then usually you need to have to talk to gov. Unless the matter can be resolved by talking to one controlling body that is not government. Do we have such? So if your statement (about 90% of issues being fucked up by a gov) than there is a much bigger problem in your country and that is not net neutrality or few angry and uninformed people talking nonsense.

Other than that it is a very thoughtful post, thank you.

Is that so? So why the biggest democracy in the world India has higher poverty levels than the most populous country in the world which is not very democratic? One can take your sentence of course and say that for it to work you would have to have functioning government and during process of building one there is no way to have democracy but I think the old fart that allegedly said this thing was maybe drunk but surely did not mean all that much.

You should maybe read this before talking nonsense.

I suppose by "single click problem you mean "a problem that is solved by single click" or a problem that is caused in single click directly followed by 'oh shit" realization? Privacy, encryption, authentication and authorization are all quite difficult already without bad terminology being used.

we all made a conscious decision on that? I must have missed that somehow. Privacy is not dead. There is always something that can be done to ensure good enough level of privacy that also allows good enough chances to catch criminals. The current violations of privacy are not used to do even that but serve the powers that be. And that needs to change.

to have design flaws one would need design process in the first place. for number of years already I mostly see coding without design.

I do not want to split hairs but there is a significant difference between I am not eligible because US gov. did not allow me (Porto Rico, District of Columbia etc) and I am not eligible because I could not be bothered to migrate to the greatest country in the world.You are an insensitive clod!

The really interesting part is this: if all that in the study is true then one can imagine a device that determines your voting preferences automatically. I can even imagine making similar scans early in the childhood (as soon as that is technically possible - I would imagine early teens is already good enough). Make an implant or something not easilly removable and you do not even have to go trough all the trouble of visiting polling station anymore. Optimizing it further I can imagine that your preference can be noted in a voting register (together with some other preferences deduced from the scans) and use them whenever an election or some other silly routine is started. When technology is advanced enough we can even put some people (rated dangerous or not very useful for society) on the way trough the chimney with a single and simple database query although that may require some amendments to currently existing laws in some jurisdictions.

in my rational view your 'rational' view is just irrational. Your post as AC so I cannot be sure but most of people using similar arhuments (although not all) are irrational bigots.