You misunderstand. If you have $10, you don't owe debt, you OWN debt. Someone owes you $10 in productive labor or material goods. The bank from which you received the $10 acts as an intermediary on your behalf. They loaned out that $10 to someone else.

And if you wish to collect the debt owed to you, you do so in the form of goods and services you purchase by selling your debt instruments (cash).

People like to pretend that calling it cash or adding unique regulations and intermediaries somehow makes this different from selling debt, but the logic of that argument is absent in the face of fungible money.

There were no ice sheets in the Cretaceous, and whole groups of mammals died out. Tell us again how we should welcome a return to the late Cretaceous.

Controversial for whom ? Definitely not the customers

You have a lot of questions and, therefore, a lot of reading to catch up on.

And we made it here, finally, the vindicationn and exhoneration.

Wester civilization has extended childhoood well beyond sexual maturity. Being that humans will accept being a child as long as they can. Sexual maturity is no longer the metric. Indeed, some SJW's and even some conservative kooks are trying to extend childhood into the 30's.

But there law just happens to be the law, shaitan. It is really difficult to keep sexually mature, by law, children from engaging in sex with each other, but as adults determined by law, we know what the law is, and just like any other law, if we break it, we are punished.

There are plenty of older women who are a whole lot better at this sex game as well - if you know what I mean.

Well in this case we haven't got to the tragedy yet. I imagine that will happen after Trump leaves office.

" Did he take the coward's way out, or was someone paid to make it look like he did? "

I'd bet on the latter for sure. This is the second attempt. They take away everything you could hang yourself with down to clothes and covers if they don't want you dead after the first one.

Please prove that the brain is not a soul receptor.

Show your work.

I don't actually believe that it is, but I also can't prove that it isn't, nor can you.

Frankly I think we are the sum of our experiences, as projected through our physical ability, but that doesn't make it true

By god of the gaps, I mean when we don't know something, some people assign the mystery to god, as in, "Oh, well, you know god works in mysterious ways so that's why you don't know."

Some of those things we didn't know, we do know now. There went a god-gap.

God's real estate is shrinking.

An exciting feature of science is the ignorance of the gaps.

Never mind, apparently he was in cardiac arrest when he arrived at the hospital which was induced by an attempted hanging. Maybe. Too many disjoint and semi-conflicting reports this early on.

The claim, which I have no opinion about, is that during the period when Minsky was a dominant leader (don't move the goal posts), "MIT didn't make advances i.e. worthwhile contributions to the field of AI." If your claim about your 1980s activities was true, you'd be able to read some of those lists and call out relevant advances from MIT.

Epstein's accusers are clearly stating that they were forced or coerced into unwanted sex acts. Yes, some women lie, but there are too many accusers for that to be the likeliest scenario. Women are not so much more developed than men than you think - neurosexism is a discredited theory, not a fact. They are just as susceptible to manipulation as are men. Maybe even moreso, though not because of any brain differences - it's that men are told they should be rugged individuals with a hint of danger, while women are trained to be docile and pleasant by receiving negative attention for behaviors which we laud in men, like standing up for oneself.

He got off easy

You are not wrong. Weinstein's women had a more defined goal however. Not certain what Lewinsky's was, although her "friend" Linda Tripp apparently offered much encouragement to her pursuit.

I think when we talk about consenting adults and heterosexual sex, we sometimes forget that there is a male, and a female. Lewinsky didn't have to give a blowjob to Slick Willy, and the ladies had sex with disgusting sleaze Weinstein for a reason.

And as it turns out, some of the shakers and movers of #metoo, like Asia Argento, like themselves a little underage action, the boy even took the pictures to prove it.

tl;dr - Humans are a bit sleazy.

Since you claim to have learned the field in depth in the 1980s

vs. what I said: "I wanted to get into AI development as a teenager in the 1980s and did an extensive amount of research."

The claim was that MIT has never made advances i.e. worthwhile contributions to the field of AI. Clearly I never claimed to have "learned the field in depth" ... I researched what schools were doing what. I wanted to get into AI. People who understand language know that means I didn't end up making that decision ultimately. It is even more obvious that anyone who would try to claim that in the history of MIT they never made any advances in a given field, AI or otherwise, just makes it clear that you are an idiot. Off you go now little child ...

Fortunately, most of us aren't worried about being the target of a "Mission Impossible"-style heist.

Presumably I would go back to password-based security?

Biometric authentication without a proper second factor isn't appropriate for a lot of use cases, but for accessing the average user's smartphone, it falls comfortably in "good enough" territory.

"Bill Clinton's opponents tried to impeach him when the Lewinsky scandal came out, but nothing stuck hard enough."

If only you knew what impeachment was, or what actually happened.

Clinton was impeached. He was not convicted of a crime, nor was he removed from office, which impeachment doesn't do unless a conviction is secured.