I dunno, balloon cities .. how stable is the atmospheric layering? We may be better off inhabiting space itself in modular space stations built from asteroid minerals. I would not be opposed to trying it though.

Uhh,, are you crazy?? It's got an atmosphere with clouds of pure acid that snows lead sulfide on a surface that'll melt you face in 5 seconds. That said, we ought to do it.

If you need a rationale, you already failed. Going to Mars if fucking cool, next level amazing. It's another fucking planet. A wandering point of red light in the sky our ancestors could only wonder about. How the F can any "rationale" be more compelling than that?

That got dark quickly. Maybe you should stop fantasizing about murder being the solution to your problem? There's ALWAYS alternatives.

I would cooperate with law enforcement if they're investigating serious (violent) crime. All stupid "omg, privacy" excuses are pathetic. If it was your family member that would be victimized you'll be angry at everyone who didn't help.

Good. I assume they use the money for the most pressing inference and training needs such as the importance of using utensils to handle food and good hygiene practices.

There's no reason for this to be expensive. I've made CRISPR nanoparticles and mRNA vaccines for research purposes. I can tell you the process is simple enough that a person with good financial means can make these himself in a garage with below $150k of capital expenditure. Note .. it can be done for under $60k too in a crude manner. I put $150k because you'd want a machine called an FPLC for purification purposes, freezers, and maybe a DLS. Now before that asshole who always argues with me shows up, it's DIY and isn't going to meet GMP-certification standards. I reckon you could meet GMP standards for under million .. because the only difference is that you need more analytics and you have to hire people to watch and sign documents. (Note: I haven't much experience with that aspect.)

Yeah a society is more free where its residents are afraid to go out because they can be mugged or killed on the street and the perps walk free because there's no way to track who they are. Drug dealers should have the right to deal in privacy.

If you owe the bank $5,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $5,000,000 it's the bank that has the problem.

The West hasn't gotten poorer by any metric. Home ownership has increased. Air travel has increased (means people have vacations, economic strength). Homicide rate has reduced over the last few decades. Long distance communication is easier and widely available. More people have health insurance. Disease treatments are more widely available. Let me know of a meaningful metric by which you can say we're poorer. You can argue that we may not have progressed as much as we could have, but we haven't digressed on any rational metric.

What's China to do with its pile of foreign currency? Most countries dont make anything China wants. If anyone's being ripped off it's China. They provide a product people want, in return for what? A piece of colored paper? Well not even that. A database entry of some numbers.

50% of homicides go unsolved because of people like you. What's wrong with recording what happens in public? Do shit privately.

Seems like everyone wears contacts, gets lasik, or something?

In public for security reasons, we have to allow recordings. My safety is more important to me than your right to secretly visit brothels or Facebook to know where you shop. If you don't want Facebook to use the data then block that, put criminal charges on Zuckerface if he accesses cloud data for advertising -- and handsomely reward whistleblowers. People have the right to record publicly areas outside their home and within their vicinity. Businesses have the right to record their premises and public areas outside it.

Tel me which law you reckon is easier to enforce, a law against people recording stuff and saving to the cloud (end to end encrypted) .. or a law that forbids mass analytics for anything other than solving heinous violent crimes?

Think of which is more intrusive to enforce.

Plastics.