No. it’s not a good idea to subsidize gambling addicts too drunk/high to drive or fly, with Federal tax dollars. The fuck do you need a survey for. Common sense.

(America) America is building their first high-speed rail!

(Average Citizen) Oh, cool. Sounds like something we could use.

(America) it’s specifically for gambling addicts too drunk/high to drive or fly.

(Average Citizen) Why the fuck do I even bother anymore.

Sure as hell hope casinos are paying for that.

OK, I guess I’ll be the one to question how the hell we’re here celebrating 40 years of ‘active’ development, while using the term abadonware accurately.

I really miss the days when we didn’t have to question EVERY claim.

One human pyromaniac with a bic lighter can probably do more damage.

And that should be considered a different type of crime unrelated to employment. A threat is a threat. And we DO have crimes against that. Threatening employment is about the most direct form of harm short of physical violence.

I'm picturing a robot powered dog sled.

The announcement was focused on price. Do you REALLY want to know what taxpayers pay for THAT model, at government pricing?

I don’t.

The threat of any of an offtarget gene edit causing cancer is highly unlikely, but possible. The FDA in Dec.2023, for the first time, approved infusion with CRISPR edited cells as a treatment for sickle cell anemia. The way that works is .. they take some of your blood .. select certain type of stem cells, modify them, and then put them back in you. The reason that approach is safer is because we can check copies of the edited cells to make sure they haven't gotten potentially cancerous mutations. However, I don't believe CRISPR is yet ready for in-vivo (in the body, in a live person) clinical use (and I've worked on/with CRISPR tech for a while now btw fyi). A cell has many features that either block (aka tumor suppressor) or (if over-activated) cause cancer (oncogene). If CRISPR lands off-target on a tumor suppressor, it can enable the cell to become a cancer cell. If the DNA edit happens in the right spot near an oncogene (such as LMO2), it can inadvertently activate it. So off-target is dangerous. But forget off-target, .. even when it lands on-target there's still risks of triggering genome rearrangements (note: CRISPR base editors are not really susceptible to this). We can definitely fix these issues, but it will take time and sustained effort. CRISPR is barely 12 years old. Think of how long it took to make air travel safe, and that was with strong investment.

Would be nice to ride around with violet eyes in my fusion powered flying car.

Did I make a false statement? I asked for your evidence and you called me a shill. How am I supposed to get paid if you guys don't even make it look difficult to shill?

It's hard to write something that will blow peoples' minds when you're writing in a genre that's had decades of writers mining the same material. But we ought to beware of survivor bias; the stories we remember from the Golden Age are just the ones worth remembering. Most of the stories that got published back then were derivative and extremely crude. Today, in contrast, most stories that get published are derivative but very competently crafted. I guess that's progress of a kind but in a way it's almost depressing.

I think the most recently written mind-blowing sci-fi (or perhaps weird fiction) novel I've read was China Mieville's *The City & the City*, which tied with *The Windup Girl* in 2010 for Best Novel Hugo. I was impressed both by the originality of the story and the technical quality of the writing.

I recently read Ken Liu's translation of Liu Cixin's *The Three Body Problem*, which I enjoyed. In some ways it reminds me of an old Hal Clement story in which the author works out the consequences of some scientific idea in great detail, but the story also deals with the fallout of China's Cultural Revolution and the modern rise of public anti-science sentiment. So this is a foreign novel which doesn't fit neatly into our ideas about genres of science fiction. It's got a foot in the old-school hard science fiction camp and foot in the new wave tradition of literary experimentation and social science speculation camp.

Oh no. I was more promoting a more likely reality that could be far fucking worse. Government mandated cyber insurance taken from your paycheck at the Federal level, while they manufacture a CyberThreatCon annual loss cost to be adjusted quarterly and taxed for next year, pre-paid? Just imagine how many “foreign” APTs you would find working at three-letter agencies on behalf of the Donor Class funding them. Imagine how quickly cyber-taxes would rise. As I said, Federal law mandating illegality has a steep price. One we should consider before literally asking for it.

Sure. Put the executives in jail even if egregious enough. Of course every company would suddenly find a problem hiring executives after that. Or board members. Not without paying them 10x what we pay them today, thanks to that malpractice-grade Federal executive cyber-insurance policy CE, oh I mean you will ultimately pay for, taxployer.

We are in agreement more than you may assume on this. The answer to cyberattacks is proper fucking DR planning. That’s not a legal matter. It’s more of a we don’t punish executives when they fuck up matter. I don’t want more laws, because I’ve seen what they often do now. Citizens need to be careful what they ask for. My scenarios can easily happen.

Lets get down to the real here.

COVID eradicated HIPAA privacy protections in favor of mass hysteria profiteering, which both government and the Medical Industrial Complex gained handsomely from. Billionaire Daddy Database found flocking to the new Medical gold rush ripe for the picking to be sold to the Insurance Complex happily paying for it. All involved are Platinum members of the Donor Class ensuring corporate profits continue to be shat through a toilet plumbed in Ireland first, to rinse off any of that crappy tax obligation in favor of kicking back higher stock price returns for the lucky lawmakers bestowed with insider trading benefits.

Medical data in the US is a huge gold mine given the way COVID raped privacy, and all involved stand to become very rich from it.

And to think that’s all before we get to the COVID class-action settlements deemed Too Big To Fail. Fuck me sideways, taxpayer.

We would end up with more cyber fuck-ups being deemed Too Big To Fail at taxpayer expense, along with Government-mandated corporate cyber-insurance, taken right out of your paycheck in taxes if we follow your illegal lead.

Be careful what you ask for. Not like we’re suddenly going to start punishing Greed N. Corruption, CEO.