They'll have less resources to assign to the 90% of the time they have given to domestic disputes and even less to the chuckleheads who are cutting you off, talking on their phones, while drunk and snorting coke, while driving.

Every new law should be bound to carry funding to enforce it.

Here is tip, comrade, everyone is a terrorist, but me!

Most of the low-middle or lower class folk, once they paid for food, rent, isnurance, and gas, have next to nothing left. How do you propose they would buy share ? How do you propose they would buy enough that they would live on the dividend (which would be what , 3-5% in average ? Meaning they would have to invest upfront 20 time the amount they need to live per year) ? What do you propose they do if the company fold and their share are worthless ?

No what will happen is that the lower class will grow , until it reaches a spot where the lower class has nothing to lose in looting/rampaging a bloodshed, then at this point society correct itself by having more non automated duty, or economy crashes due to nobody having money to buy stuff, so company folds and robot investment get too expansive so only manual labor company get enough money, and that happen in a cycle until our life condition reach the same as developping country or a sweet spot is reached between manual labor/automated labor.

But knowing the greed of those of the upper class, I would bet bloodshed rather than sweet spot.

If it was that tough, the other farmer not using the modified seed would have a competitive advantage, and mosanto would see its revenue dry up. I am willing to bet they set up the price of the seed so that it is not too painful as to kill the market, but more expansive as still make it a good revenue source for them. If it was not the case, you would not have the 90% using the modified seed.

There is a good reason if given choice we eat meat , because it is tasty, because we have the taste bud for it. Because our stomach is also made to consume various stuff including meat, we are omnivore, not vegetarian or carnivore. Now why not insect ? Giant Grasshoper grilled and dunked in honey. Eggs from spider. Various insect I tried. They all taste OK-ish. But compared to a good prime ribe steak ? No way they taste as good.

It is a fact of life, like the sun rising, that all administrations will put blame to the previous politically different one. I mean up to the end the reps were blaming clinton for stuffs, and I recall distincly the dems doing the same during clintons year with bush snr and reagan. Heck they do the same in nearly all country.

And it is partially true , aprtially bullshit. Partially true since some politics made by the previous administration (no matter which) clearly will fail (for example banking law relaxation, Tax stuff). Partially bullshit since some stuff like economics are more or less throwing dice.

But every politician do it. Blame the previous guy.

but hey....

In various school / university I was in the virus infection were dealt in either way :
1) ignore it
OR 2) buy a new machine give the old to the trash

I am not kidding you , I saw back in my day 12 PC desktop being sent to the trash because they had a variation of PONG virus on their HDD (that was DOS time).

Starbucks are probably kicking thenselves for not thinking of this first.

Something I got a kick out of was when Michael Stackpole wrote out an elaborate Japanese Tea Ceremony in Zero-G in one of his BattleTech novels. He didn't have to, but it was great reading.

False negative are the problem. False positive are OK if they are low enough. Effectively even if there is a 20% false positive rate, that means 80% of the time somebody not you trying to use your gun will fail. Better than the current 0% failure 100% sucess today. Bad guys would find the gun less interresting to steal, if they can't get their hand on the reprogramming tech or it is too expansive (and it would still be easier to steal a classical one not needing reprogramming).

As long as you can't set foot and have a permanent presence on the moon/exoplanet, it is just fun. Unless people pay money then it is a scam.

Second hand sales let you get (relatively) recent game for lower price. The same as do steam sales. Which is why you can support second hand sales and steam in the same breath. Heck I can at the moment buy a lot of gmae half price, on steam, some of which I saw full price or only 10% off in retail stores.

I'm waiting for 3D-printed House Representatives. One more dimension than the present models.

To 3D print the cartridges.