Was that deliberately wrong? Hard to tell on /. any more. In case you're actually confused, you meant "composed". "Comprise" means "include", or nearly so.

Government money always goes to friends of those in power. All we're seeing in Canada is researchers discovering they need to be friendly with the new power group (until it changes back).

As soon as any research can support or attack any political position, the ruling party is going to ensure that only research that supports their positions gets funded. How could you expect it to be any other way? Perhaps those in power used to support positions you agreed with, so the steering of research seemed unbiased, and now that's changed so suddenly it seems biased?

Pravda may be the best paper going, now that the Weekly World News has sadly folded. Since they're all basically fiction these days, the least they could do is try to be more entertaining! Pravda is brave enough to publish bigfoot stories, but only the Weekly World news had photos from the secret marriage between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, and the follow up on their cute chimpanzee baby. Sadly, only News that Fits the Narrative is printed these days (though I doubt there will be a single large paper in 20 years, as the only generation who still reads them dies off).

Doesn't seem any more difficult than picking a tape from a rack. You can get in the ballpark by dead reckoning, but to actually grab a tape/cable/whatever you need a camera, appropriately-shaped fingers, and some clever control logic. It's a fun engineering problem to solve, but one that has been solved many times.

"Jobs" will never be obsolete. What an odd idea - people have a deep need to work for what they have, or they don't value what they have and act quite destructively.

Low skill jobs will become obsolete. Repetitive mindless tasks, which for a long time were the source of almost all employment, will eventually be the source of almost no employment. And that's a good thing! There will still be plenty of jobs providing services for one another, which we'll perform to get the money to pay for services (and a small percentage for all the food and manufactured goods we need, which will be taken for granted).

Fewer of the world's richest people will own manufacturing and transport companies, more will own fashion companies (already a significant portion).

Are you sure your brand of duct tape is IR-opaque? A tiny tinfoil hat for your console is the only way to be sure!

Steam is darn good about clearly describing the DRM included with each game. Do people even buy games in boxes any more?

If sellers get more money from this than they would from Gamestop, and buys pay less than they would from Gamestop, people are going to be happy with the result. These are console games - "locking them in" to a given console is the basic premise.

GoG is by far the best and easiest way to get old PC games, because they work out the emulation and such for you. There are still people who sell boxed copies of old games for more than GoG prices, but that's mostly the collectors aspect, I suspect.

Given a good online service to buy old console games cheap - like GoG (and to a limited extent Steam) provides on the PC - why would a second-hand store be needed?

When has the average consumer ever cared about DRM? People have gotten upset about an "always on" requirement, but DRM without that has proven marketable.

I suspect there will be a lot of variation between individual games in what the requirements are - just like Steam.

I believe that's exactly the scam here. D-Wave is selling something, something which solves problems, but is much less interesting than claimed.

Paying millions for really impressive PowerPoint slides only leads to scams. Actual proof of technological advancement if worth paying for, but unproven claims of such are worthless.

No, I'm arguing that's that oversimplifies the problem to a really poor conclusion. We get better outcomes if we separate charity and health care. This is not a complicated idea.

Yeah, 10 minutes of preparations, 30 minutes of heating, and 10 minutes of cleanup is totally the same as 2 minutes in the microwave. And when cooking for one, it's hard to make appropriate portions from fresh ingredients without a lot of waste. Needing 1/3rd of a tomato for something is just annoying (not that I should have even that much sugar in a meal).

Only after what you eat had been soaked in a pit of acid, then specific parts of the result selected by enzymes for later use. It's amazing the crazy stuff people convince themselves of regarding "processed" food.

No, you're missing the larger point - that was a time in your life when you needed charity. If you had a totally separate state charity, which you could have gone to for money to pay health insurance premiums, you would had had health insurance to cover your hand.

Bundling "charity" and "health care" is a poor choice (among ways to organize society) that comes from not making a better choice elsewhere.

I'd argue that the-state-as-charity is a morally bad choice (for reasons that would take a long time to explain) that we choose because we prefer charity to be impersonal.

So there was a time in your life when you needed charity? Happens to most of us. Sorry there wasn't a family member, church, or other charity there for you. We should be better at charity - which has nothing at all to do with the quality of health care available in the US.

Billing and cost-transfer is a huge problem with the US system, and one that we oddly don't have anywhere where people directly pay for the services they consume. Funny how that works.