I had to look that up, but it is real!

Crappy people at work. We really need to make greed a punishable offense in some areas.

You mean unlike the US pharma price-gouging, where people pay 20x as much as they do for basically the same product with the same safety in other places? Let's hope so. Americans may find out that most things can actually be treated without sending you into medical bankruptcy.

Indeed. Profit-driven is not enough.

Like hat has never happened before and nobody could anticipate that....
Japanese cameras and then electronics for one close example. Or look up where "Made in Germany" came from.

Sue Taco Bell!

Or another New Deal, except that to get to the last one the US needed the Great Depression.

In other news, the catholic church is suing OpenAI because they had the idea to simply make suicide illegal a thousand years ago and have been using it ever since.

Not sure if it's a trade secret or a copyright case, the news often don't mention the fine details.

That's a good point. Here on /. I can assume people know what open world games are. Out in the real world movies are probably the better analogy.

That's fine for the US, but that doesn't help the EU.

Hopefully they won't be running mcnpx in violation of the ToS, then.

Of course. And also ordered paying for it by "savings" from all that soshulism, like roads and so on. Just as long as any loss is still public and any profit is kept private.

I know of several places that have built "the biggest supercomputer in..." some arbitrary geographical area where the said supercomputer basically does nothing except getting obsolete.

Given that "the bigger pray" elects and appoints freely foreign agents to rule them, why not?

There has never been too much of "R&D" anyhow. Most of the R&D is actually government-sponsored. 100% of the fundamental research, probably over 30% or 40% of the applied, too.