yes, took 17 years and $12 billion (twice budgeted cost!)

So yes, we could do that, will take massive amount of money.

where were the parents? takes a long time to get to that state.

A child with mental issues left alone for a long period of time is definitely the fault of the parents.

The more relevant analogy to your nonsense 'raped' claim would be "the child became a rapist, getting with others to take a girl 'behind the bushes" at school as the black inner city kids say. that too is horrible lack of parenting.

Let me guess, you have no children. Or they are a mess.

I have shocking news for you, most minors wouldn't believe a stupid machine, sign or computer that advocated suicide. Where were the parents?

Courts of a bunch of failures at parenting are irrelevant, lawyers are scum and the worst get promoted to judge. Not admissible evidence.

Like a typical modern snowflake you shift blame from those responsible. This is why inner cities are hellholes.

ooo, 200 pounds more than my '64 super wildcat, 428 cubic inches of 360 hp big pp 8 mpg gasoline suck. A chevy nova once crossed the centerline and hit it, poor thing lost a third of its length. Had to buff out the scuff and put in new headlight bulb

the left-wing racism peaked twice under Obama and Biden; certain demographics made more random hate crimes on the streets, in buses and trains, in small businesses

Sure, the right wing flavor is bad too.

they're only 1% of global emissions, #16. Doesn't matter what they do. The top 10 are the big fish

you can do that now and find out the u.s. account at the time was nonsense. Go to wikipedia and see.

my dictator can tax the crap out of us with tariffs on imports from your dictator. we sure showed you who the bitch is!

When Commerce Secretary Hoover got Congress to create the FCC's predecessor in 1927, it explicitly required spectrum allocation to be based on "the public interest", overturning the private property rights common law had been developing. This was done at the behest of the new radio network cronies. This led to all sorts of censorship, eventually enshrined as the fairness doctrine. The FCC also flexed its muscles to delay FM radio, cable TV, cell phones, color TV, WiFi, and I forget what else, by 10-20 or more years.

There's a great book on this, "Political Spectrum", by Thomas Hazlett. A good review: https://www.hoover.org/researc...

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Wrong, it's 100% on the teen's parents. Blaming internet or some chatbot is being the typical modern snowflake trying to shift blame where it doesn't belong.

I found out and it's boring. Amazon has 60 crashes per million miles, half of USPS rate.

Huh. I coulda sworn mine had the crank. On the other hand, maybe they only promised it for later delivery and I barely used it after a few days experimenting, since it was so limited, and eventually tossed it along with a lot of other eWaste.

Many many years ago, I bought an OLPC, actually a pair, one for me, the other they sent to Africa or some other place. I do not remember the year even vaguely. I do remember it had a crank to windup and charge the battery. I bought the two because (from memory) the purpose of the laptop was strictly limited:

* Carry all textbooks on one laptop, instead of having to walk miles to school and back with a heavy backpack.

* Have modern eBook textbooks, not fifth generation hand-me-downs which had been written in a different language for a different country. This was certainly important for indoctrination in local history and culture, but it even applied to math textbooks, whose examples could well use cultural aspects which were literally foreign.

* Be rechargeable with that windup crank for kids whose homes had no electricity.

* Use a screen to read those books instead of having to stop using them after dark or by candles or oil lamps.

In particular, I had never heard that they were meant to teach computer science. It might have been a nice side effect, but I did not think it was any kind of a primary goal. The primary goal was to help young children learn.