War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Yeah. If you're gonna perpetrate a hoax, at least be good at it.

So, IOW, fossilized human remains.

... if everyone obeys them.

Even without becoming sentient, an intelligence may develop its own morality. Or amorality. Or immorality. Why can't an AI become psychotic?

A train is traveling from New York to Chicago at C. But Chicago is moving away from NY at xC.

Q: When the train arrive at Chicago?
A: 12.8 billion years past midnight.

I'd still like to know what the "H" stands for.

Maybe they want to learn some skills for which someone would be willing to pay them. So's they can put their six-figure debt behind them and start life before they're 40. Not that a rich and broadly diverse education doesn't have value, in and of itself, but with a little sweat equity, it can be gotten for no money down. These are usually referred to as personal interests or pursuits, not marketable skills. The world has just gotten lousy with psychologists, sociologist and "journalists". GEEZ, everybody is fucking journalist, in case you haven't noticed.

Of course, it's not easy. In STEM, there is generally only one right answer to any problem. Most of the rest are wrong. Under the softer "sciences", there are almost no wrong answers. Unless the professor doesn't like it. So, don't pick that answer.

So, I get a little lazy and they accuse me of not being me. Or a more lazy and sloppy than usual. That's okay, at least THEY have my money.

And some people claim there's a market for smart guns and other biometric devices that are specifically intended not to work as intended, when intended.

... and those who are smarter than everyone else and still can figure it out.

Same here. On all the time but nobody's watching. Unless something catches our attention then we back up the DVR.

LOOKOUT!!

On that, I'd have to go with Lotus Notes. GAWDAWFUL.

No it won't. NY will simply continue to make doing business in the State as impractical as it has since Prince Andrew's father, King Mario was in charge. Ever notice all of the ghost towns in Upstate NY? IBM, Corning, Kodak, GE, and dozens of smaller company towns never really came back during any of the market upturns in the past 30 years. They just continue to decline further during each recession.

Paper notes printed by governments have no intrinsic value either. Except that people generally (or universally) accept them as having value. You can't print them yourself (those are not accepted as having value) and you can't mine them. They can only be obtained in exchange for something else of commensurate value (labor, goods, services, knowledge, information, etc.)

At one time, many people did not accept those "worthless" pieces of paper as being a valid currency. And now, most people will not accept a cryptographic currency. But they will, and there will be many, not just Bitcoin.

If all the wealth in the world were based solely on intrinsic physical commodities, a single ounce of gold would be worth millions, a barrel of oil would be worth thousands and a bushel of wheat hundreds. But there ore other things of value you can't physically touch (like information, knowledge, expertise, etc.).

Then why are we taking direct measurements at all, if they're suspect, inaccurate or unreliable?

Why not just use proxy data universally?