I would guess it's as much for the operating system, which will be guaranteed to run approved Steam games without users having to figure out solutions for themselves, and the consistent hardware configurations which game devs can tune their games for in future.

There are some things where I think it's fair to never trust that person fully again. Ever. But we need a way to trust them enough to let them live and participate in society if we believe they are rehabilitated while still protecting everyone around them.

I'm sure that's not easy, but it has to be easier than lifetime incarceration.

Look at the prison models of almost any other industrialized Western country - make even the slightest genuine effort to reform people instead of considering them subhuman to be inhumanely tortured by the circumstances of their confinement followed by blocking them from participating in the economy upon release and results will improve.

Improve public education and remove inequalities and you remove crime as the best option for catching up to everyone else.

AI won't be used to help convicts, because nobody in the US wants to help them. It'll be used to better manage their shackles for increased profits.

1) Typically the systems monitoring, if not the systems themselves, is dumped on the police along with the funding. I agree in principle that police data systems should be handled by an arms-length agency without ties to any particular police service. I also believe this should include their body cams, interview room video, and even their fleet and weapons/ammo tracking. They should not have any oversight over their own data because that leads to the potential for abuse.

2) At least where I am... officers can query, but queries of federal databases are audited and monitored. You've never seen someone walked out of a building faster than when they are caught with their hand in that particular cookie jar. And yes, charges happen for the serious incidents. However, that still leaves a lot of room for abuse of non-federal data.

And that title is backed by the fact that a decade ago or so I was implementing proper auditing to track cops because they were... abusing video systems and it made it into the news.

Cops are just people, the badge doesn't confer ethics or strength of character. It often does confer a sense of superiority to the general public and a belief that they're above some of the rules the rest of us abide by.

Even the best, most upright cop should never be taken at their word - there should always be some form of oversight. Because they're humans.

On the one hand, yes, there's no good way to regulate technology which is only used in a very limited number of vehicles. It would have to be more like spaceflight where it's regulated based on what damage it could do to third parties and not the staff and crew.

On the other hand they could have just called up James Cameron and the submersible engineers he knows, asked them if it was safe and waited for the laughter to stop before refusing to let it operate from Canada.

It seems that everyone involved in operating deep-sea submersibles knew it was a disaster waiting to happen but there was nothing they could do to stop it as no-one cared about their opinions.

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.

Statism creates billionaires.

> Except, of course, for the front part, which was weirdly aerodynamic

It could separate, so maybe it was intended to be able to handle entry into a planet's atmosphere as a lifeboat. It also looked cooler that way.

> Yes, the lack of fuel tanks is a real problem. Also, how do they fly? They only have engines in back, but they skim over the surface of the moon like they are levitating.

I don't remember if the show mentioned anything about it, but I'm sure the books said it used nuclear engines of some kind. The model I had as a kid had rockets on the bottom too, which would have been a very inefficient way to fly but maybe doable if it was nuclear.

Thank you for actually answering my original question. I appreciate your experience, even if it's just a small sampling.

is how reliable these Chinese EVs have been over say...5 years? The stories that reach the US shores are a mix of "China bad!" and "China even more bad!" sprinkled with a bit of "We can't let China (who is bad!) sell cars here."
So, for the sane Europeans that come here, and own a Chinese EV...how's it been? What's service and support like?

They're not "born lucky". They sell their souls to Epstein and his backers ensure that the money comes rolling in.

Most of the modern "elite" were made, not born. It's hard to become a billionaire if someone isn't willing to give you a billion dollars... and that comes with chains attached.

Sure, you'll get news stories about "oh wow, he was so lucky that someone just happened to give him a billion dollars" but once you look into it you soon find that it's the same old ticket-taking. Any time you see someone saying "I'm not passing my money on to my kids, I'm giving it to my charitable foundation" it's a pretty clear sign that the money was never theirs to begin with.

We're not talking about going from free to $10 a month. We're talking about business fees going from $1,000 a month to $10,000+ a month or more.

That completely changes the business model and eliminates the benefits of using AI over humans in many roles.

It's hard to see how companies can ever be convinced to pay the true cost of the AI services they use without the AI service waiting a few years for those companies to sack everyone who used to do the work and then suddenly ramping up the costs 10x or more when the companies have no choice but to pay.

The law under international treaties says the US government is responsible for all satellites launched from US territory or by US companies. That is why SpaceX have to get permission from the US government to launch.

Other than that, space is like the oceans where you can travel at will wherever you want. Currently you can't claim territory in space, but that will change soon as it becomes possible for people to live there rather than just take a vacation.

Even this article says that most parts will reenter in a few months. Anything small and low-density will come down rapidly due to drag at that altitude and the rest will follow.

SpaceX chose it in part so a dead satellite wouldn't stay around for long causing trouble for other Starlink satellites or other users of that region of space.