I guess if you look at all the FUD spin for the invasion of Iraq, fear was being used as a tool to push an agenda. There is a lot of similarities here. Is that corrupt? I'd call it warmongering. And pumping the fear is a central feature.

It is existential in a financial sense. The spend is completely insane, for what amounts to a search engine. The fact the purveyors can so easily rake in the money on claims of great things says that fear is indeed what's driving the actions.

Not judging or preaching, eh?

The UN doesn't do the work and never did. It was always up the participants to execute.

Peak oil is all about demand. Demand will vanish long before resources run dry. Shale fracking is proof of that.

And a good thing too. If we suck out every fossil and pump it into the atmosphere Earth will turn into a second Venus.

We have equally demonstrated otherwise on global action. But it does require an agreed consensus that is stuck to by all major parties. ie: Serious participation at the UN.

AI has already sucked up every speculator in USA. Maybe some nice Chinese investor will help out.

I wouldn't call this particular one as planned. It's a case of total disconnect between the move-fast-and-break-things crowd who set the online protocols ... and everyone else.

The TV makers are in the middle trying to glue it together. There was a great demonstration of this here in New Zealand a few years back when we co-hosted the Rugby World Cup with Australia. The largest local telco purchased the exclusive coverage rights and told the whole country they had to view it via streaming only.

After much publicity about purchasing new TVs or using computers or dongles for streaming the end result was a shambles for most people because even those that purchased a new TV found that only a TV model released in the last six months would have a chance of working on its own. It created much negativity. The telcos have all kept quite ever since.

In other words, not intelligent.

The weirdest part about Brexit was the sales pitch was always an obvious big lie. It's almost like the intent was to economically damage the UK.

The vote was sold on immigration. Problem is immigration is a policy for lowering the cost of labour. Such a policy can be adjusted irrespective of being in the EU or not.

I'm okay with the pad-to-pad functionality. For me the most important aspect of what makes a "car" is when it is owned and operated by individual consumers. Otherwise it becomes a bus or taxi.

Safety is the death nail for anything flying. Putting millions of them in one airspace is a safety nightmare. From collisions to bugs to confusion to wear-and-tear, put a mass of then up and you're going to have lots falling from the skies onto the unsuspecting on the ground.

Cost is the least of the worries. The idea itself is a total safety nightmare. Just imagine having lines of helicopters criss-crossing above every house in every city. Just from structural fatigue failures alone, thousands would be falling out of the skies and smashing through roofs every day.

The Jetsons cartoon didn't use powered hovering, the vehicles magically floated. Lighter than air would be required. But then wind would become a huge safety issue. There's just no sensible engineering solution for a flying car.

Maybe could be a flying bus/train solution where the routes and vehicle count are both limited and well managed on a city wide scale. No flying over any houses at all, for example. And a few hundred highly maintained collective vehicles, per city, instead of a few million selfish owners.

Negative feedback dampens. Positive feedback reinforces.

Presumably the stocks held were not bought for shorting. He does have a responsibility to behave as advertised when managing a portfolio for investors.

Obviously, OpenAI have been sifting through them all along. And probably selling your info to boot. It's not like they keep those logs for no reason.

No one wants to reveal their levels of mass illegal pillaging.