A classless (true communist) society can't scale up beyond Dunbar's Number. They do work for groups like communes and small, isolated villages. Where everyone knows everyone else, what their skills are and who is/isn't getting work done. The latter are usually banished from the community, either returning the miscreant to "outside society" (this presumes the existence of an outside society willing to deal with your screw-ups). Or accepting the fact that the banished will probably be eaten by wild animals.

Once Dunbar's Number is exceeded, one needs some sort of bureaucracy to manage societal organization. One can't depend on markets, because that wouldn't be "fair". Someone with valuable skills could demand more than the average peasant, undermining the whole equity shtick. Likewise, resources (the means of production) must be managed by this bureaucracy. Since leaving decisions to the market would have workers with little/no skills under-funded. Again, "equity" rears its ugly head.

So, we need this bureaucracy. Made up of the self-appointed intellectuals. To "manage things". This creates a scramble to the top of the intellectual pile, lest you be left behind among the filthy proletariat to do actual work. Hence the tooth and nail fight to make it to the top of that pile. Which works until a government stabilizes under the winner of the scrum. Then, to protect themselves, the winner(s) must eliminate the also-rans. Much as Stalin purged anyone he felt to be a threat to his position. Or Richard III burying the princes that could challenge him in the walls of The Tower of London.

Market economies (capitalism) allow me to "own the means of production", but leave the wisdom of the masses to reward those with the best foresight. There is no "leader" or opinion-makers to self identify as having better brains than the others. If you are really smart, you'll 1) pick the winners and invest. And 2) keep your mouth shut about your big brains, lest the competition tries to front-run your strategies.

Someone figured out that socialism means you have to work. Even in a Star Trek economy, someone has to wear the red shirt.

If you were more informed about history you would know that not only did Iran ignore the sanctions and agreements, they expelled inspectors and refused to permit follow up inspections as mandated by the agreements they signed.

And many of the dispute resolution mechanisms were subverted or diverted by the other parties involved, the UN and European nations in particular.

This is so widely known that i challenge you to provide evidence of Iran's compliance. But if you cannot, then consider they did not comply in meaningful ways.

I doubt you will. Try again.

So, how much for heated seats?

Let them come. The socialists have been heralding the post scarcity society. The Star Trek economy is approaching and the left is terrified. Seems someone just told them that the hammer and sickle symbolize labor.

Oblig joke: Computer scientists were putting the finishing touches on their first fully intelligent machine. Once booted up, they decided to test it with deeply philosophical question: "Is there a God?"

"There is now."

Are you certain that there's no one to the left of zero? I'd beg to differ.

Stack Overflow

... AI and robots, this is how you get AI and robots.

I've been wondering for many years before the first traffic camera appeared, why the toll-roads aren't enforcing the speed limits automatically. The time you enter and exit the highway is recorded down to a second. The distance between these two points is known — your average speed could be computed on the spot even with the early 90-ies technology...

The polite police officers would be standing right behind the toll-booths issuing tickets without the drama of hiding in the bushes, then chasing you at highway speeds...

And, yeah, you could lower it by stopping at a rest area — but it'd still be a tremendous disincentive to speed.

I was and continue to hope, that such universal enforcement, affecting all voters, would cause the limits to go up to reasonable figures — or even be abolished completely...

I've run into these people, they're the worst

When have you last checked your compiler's output?

Nah, AWS provides logistics to military and intelligence and has for quite a while.

It's tough to argue, "these aren't military targets, we just rent the equipment and provide services to the military for hundreds of billions of dollars."

Which is probably what people will argue.

Do you think that might be due, in part to the style of comedy presentation? The Sam Kinisons and Bobcat Godthwaits screaming at the audience might trigger the overly sensitive. Compare them to comedians like Bob Newhart or Steven Wright. Not "over the edge" types.

I think written humor falls into the second category. You read as much slapstick, physicality and emotion into the text as you want. A lot of British humor seems to be based on "misreading" of cues or interpretation. The infamous, "Does your dog bite?" "That is not my dog."

Raspberry Pis often can be had as board only. And if one is building some sort of data acquisition system or device controller, the board is easily built into the same box as the device.