Promise of the future: Your specific info like DNA can lead to custom-tailored drugs and treatments!

Actual future: This guy is an engineer or whatever, jack the price up 15%!

Hey! It's the dream of comunism, "From each according to his ability!"

Hey! It's the dream of loudmouth western politicians, "Taxes from each according to his ability to pay his fair share!"

Here's a sarlacc pit with a Christmas tree grinder lodged in his throat. Jump in!

Clone in tank with pristine organs!

I read your comment as

A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his circumcised existence

Well, there's a use case!

We probably could have for the fraction of a major war, or a fraction of what was heaved onto the debt four years ago.

I'd suffer happily net 20% inflation if I had a clone sitting in a tank with organs, waiting...

Evolution can take its course. Religious people are also free to decline research results based on stem cells from aborted babies.

Here's a god damned task for AI: rename this bitbucket branch

Other Chess Computers: What's with the poorly-programmed processor?

My own company just moved to online version of Office 365. What that means for me is 4s lag when I hit ctrl-f in Word to search before I can search, then another 4s waiting for it to start searching.

The odd part is they appeared to do extra work so I could bit ctrl-f then start typing immediately, and all that gets buffered and processed eventually, rather than enter some void mode where the user has to wait for the prompt to appear in the find window, and only then start accepting typing.

Which means they know about this problem and are pushing onward anyway.

Why the hell is all this stuff online again?

Same argument with florocarbons used in emergency inhalers for asthmatics. They were exempted, then the government un-exempted them, but apparently because the inhaler companies got patents on the new stuff, so could get back to charging a ton on new patents.

Ymmv but seems rotten if it was insignifant as a use.

Exactly. The car companies aren't "sharing" it, they're selling it.

Well, if they call out a line item to make you pay for something the government makes them do, that's fine, and really your problem, voter who voted for that stuff.

Government: You must do this costly thing!

Company: Fine, but money doesn't magically appear. We will charge it to customers in a separate item in the bill.

Like taxes, this is an extra cost due to government, and indirectly, their voting customers themselves.

Here's our price, A. The total is A + B, where B is $27 of taxes and fees and prorated other crap your government forces us to do.

Is it illegal for a store to, next to the "total price", call out line items for VAT and other taxes so you at least know how much you pay?

No, you know there are sales taxes in your state, and what they are. There is nothing hidden.

If you don't like that, talk to your government officials, who create the tax.

The stores shan't be hiding the amounts, to make increases and effects easier for the politicians. Some of you are putting the cart before the horse.

Like worrying about company advertisers gathering your data more than government. History much?

Actually paying tax at the register is un hidden fees. It's the countries hiding taxes in the advertised price that are being deliberately deceptive, trying to obfuscate the amount of tax you pay.