If you're willing to settle for only $30 million, that should be enough to obtain a birth certificate and proof of residency in some remote village.

He told his Ferengi superior that he could keep the latinum.

This raises a very important question. If the CIA are taking shortcuts and making assumptions about anything, we should not be making assumptions ourselves that the CIA aren't doing the same elsewhere. I am, however, still waiting for biolabs and WMDs to turn up in Iraq - something for which they appear to have ALSO taken one person's unsupported word for. They also ratted out their own officers in retaliation for questioning the existence of "yellowcake" (that turned out not to exist).

I'd be wary of claiming there was a pattern, but... They do seem awfully incompetent.

Trump did not get his cut and was not told how great a leader he was.

They starting that, along with a whole pile of other IT changes that kicks US companies out of the EU.

The US government has forced this, and what is worse is they have created a competitor to the USA. They are building everything on top of OSS/Linux.
And they will be able to export the know how to other countries, and offer much safer solutions for smaller countries to store their data in.

Hell, offer safer social media, safer as in less abuse, far fewer pedos, sex pests, nazis, etc etc etc because you will an ID, and these people don't want to be ID'd.
It will make it safe for families, again a service they can sell the world

And it's not just IT, military contracts are being cancelled with the US and given to the EU.

The USA has lost trust, they are also losing "soft power", trade agreements (again the US bullies, lies, etc are in play here too).

20 years time, the US will regret the Trump years, the will be seen as the start of the complete F*kup of the economy and all the debt he has racked up with destroying the customer base it needed to bring in money to the USA so they can pay this debts

Russia has just defaulted on its debts, no one is too big to fail.

All before 2020, no AI slop involved.
No Adverts
No tracking
Physical media can not later be denied access to it
So much less "noise', BS, Slop, Distraction, etc etc etc...
And MUCH MUCH healthier for the brain.

They are NOT using a 3rd party, there is however a private company who sees a buyer for the information that have to sell. Capitalism at its best.

Just like Ring door cameras or any other privately owned data gathering company.

Law enforcement spend large amounts of money to track people via social media etc

How many children have an IO like that ?
What about services that are NOT supplied from your country ?

Solution ?

Social media is harmful, particularly to a developing brain (teens)
What ID can be used here ?

"The Parents" is a myth, you can be the best parent in the world, deny your kids access to social media, etc etc etc, so exactly how does that protect them when someone nudifys them and shares that at school, or sends it to a bunch of their friends anonymously.
This is a real world situation, not a hypothetical
This is the "free speech" the like of "X" was supplying, and he is not the only one.

So solution is ???

More and more countries are looking at age restrictions to social media and other internet sites. Most adult sites just work with a button "I am over 18" and pretend that is some kind of age verification. Its not.

Got a solution to this ?

It is a difficult problem balancing privacy, security, safety. Social media does NOT want this solved, they just see they are creating edicts that make them more money. I many (most) countries they pay zero or trivial taxes, and they have no liability
Who pays for the harm ? Digital services tax, that ends with economic threats from the USA because billionaires dont like their income being taxes.

Got a solution ?

Agreed. Deliberate adding of surface roughness (and even multiple surfaces) have been used in racing yachts for many decades. I think they started doing this in the 90s.

No, because the problem remains.

How do you protect kids

"Prenatal problem" ? then explain to me how you teaching your kids about the internet stops them from being a victim of someone nudifying them and sharing it around at school. Or being bullied / targeted
Who picks up the mess ? that anonymous person you can not track down ?, social media ?, AI ?, government ?. It will be the parents of the victim.

What happens when kids self delete because of this, was it the victim fault, parents fault, because educating them does NOT stop them from being a victim

I don't expect the USA to do anything to be honest. Having kids never come home from school is just another Tuesday, throw in a few quick "thoughts and prayers", jobs a goodun. Other countries, ie 96% of the population do not share your attitude.

So you and the techbros better start working on an actual solution, because it's a real problem, and if you do not contribute it will be forced on you no matter what you say. And the more you fight it the more they will tighten the controls.

Just look at Gun controls, other countries don't even have bullet proof backpacks to buy, because the risks a fairly much nil.
Violence is lower, murder is lower, rape is lower, they have greater freedom, security, health, education, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, life expectancy, happiness, etc etc, so something must be working for them.

you can down vote me as much as you wish, and some will thinking that the problem will of away, it won't .

So no solution, just stupidity.
No wonder you posted as a coward.

Someone come up with a solution then.
what we have is not working and everyone is avoiding responsibility

Would you feel the same if it was your daughter who go nudified by kids at school ?
You saying "Parental responsibility" protected you daughter exactly how ?
Its anonymous, so who are you going to sue
"Parental responsibility" is no better than :"houghts and prayers" after every school shooting, 100% worthless and is used instead of finding an actual solution.
That information wants to be free....

How about bullying, if your child is the victim your "parental responsibility" is again 100% useless

It does not remove the harm and the harm is serious , kids have self deleted because of it, if it was your child would you be going "thank god for no restrictions" as you shovel dirt onto the grave ?

Stop telling us how kids will get around it, yes kids always do with things, I drunk alcohol as a kid once in a blue moon, but I was not carrying a hip flask in my pocket nor dealing to other kids.

Give a solution, if you don't , the solutions will slowly be imposed on you and ever "failure" will simply see the imposed solution get more onerous.
So far, no one who is against age verification has given any hint of a real workable solution

The social companies do cause harm, just like tobacco and alcohol, social media knows it, but they are making billions so who cares.
The avoid paying their share of taxes though every loop hole they can fine, especially in other countries where "IP fees" account for 90+% of tax deductible costs
They are taking the profits by contribute $0 to the social costs, that gets pushed back onto the tax payers

So again, give a workable solution.

In unemployment figures don't show actual unemployment, but deliberately excludes groups for the purpose of keeping the figure low (and the UK was very explicit that this was the purpose when Thatcher's government sliced several million off the official figures, less sure if the US was as honest) then it's hard to call it anything else.

Smokers are deprioritised on lung transplant lists. Foreigners have to pay. So we've already got differential service. We just say that sportsfolk who knowingly and deliberately inflict damage on themselves in such contests get lower priority on medical procedure lists as well.

Not removed - they've paid national insurance - but all procedures are on a prioritised queue already, just given them a low priority. (No, not in the UNIX sense.)

They'll get seen to, when service permits. Of course, there'd be more service if the rich paid more taxes, but that's between the sports stars and the rich. They can take care of that dispute between themselves.

Well, technically that is the entire point of some of the major sports in the world, and it would be problematic to say that deliberately causing brain damage for competition is ok in one sport but not in another.

On the other hand, I am not altogether convinced it should be openly encouraged in any sport.

This is a tricky one, because I would also argue that I should have no say in what a person does to their own body for their own reasons, that my firm belief that people should have bodily autonomy when it causes no actual harm to others does not permit me to condemn others for doing stuff to their own body for their own reasons when it does no actual harm to others even if it's a context I don't agree with.

Given that (ethically) I cannot condone wilful irreversable damage but (ethically) cannot condemn personal choises that harm nobody else, the obvious conclusion is that I don't believe such sports should be actively promoted or encouraged, but that what individuals do in the privacy of a private sporting event should not concern those outside until or unless actual harm outside of those events occurs.