If you wanted to call the entire assemblage a robot, maybe. Calling the motes robots is nonsense.

It should have been prevented economically before this instead of what actually happened

You just let us know you're racist for free thanks

What makes you think it ended?

It's not a remotely level playing field. One soldier who took part in the Venezuela raid basically had orders in hand when he placed multiple bets on the timing of the raid, netting a ton of money. There have been many other examples of inside information being used to stack the odds.

This is absolutely not true. There are plenty of people in the financial side of a business that have information that is material but non-public, and trading based on that knowledge is illegal, including sudden cuts in spending, audit results prior to publication, and more. HR will be aware of major layoffs. Facilities might be aware of impending site closures before they're announced. All these things can be used for insider trading.

Lower-level people aren't usually pursued because they're small enough to fly under the radar. But that doesn't mean it's not illegal, and it doesn't mean it never happens.

I'm in favor of enforcement of laws which protect rights, but it's cheap and easy to get such devices, and there are valid reasons for them to exist — like knives.

You could cook with only shorter knives. It would be a lot more difficult (I also cook) but it would be possible.

I don't think most people who can afford a thousand dollars for a phone plan to keep their phone for longer than the 7 years Google will support their Pixel devices these days, nor do they want to buy a phone which has been out for very long. The poors will accept last year's iPhone, or an even older one, or the Shitty Edition bundled into their phone plan.

For a non-Pixel device you'd have a solid point, as most other Android phones have abysmally short support lifespans. Then again, many of those phones are so much cheaper you can buy one every three years...

It's partly end stage for a nearly dead country that causes us to have to talk about politics now.

But it's also partly because we didn't take politics seriously, and get involved enough in it. If we had discussed it a lot more sooner, maybe we wouldn't have to discuss it so much now.

Even if it could find the answer it might mess it up before it gave it to you. It might give you the right answer sometimes and not other times, especially if the right answer has changed...

Wikipedia wasn't banned, though one asshole did introduce a bill which tried.

You can't cite ANY encyclopedias after elementary school, whether it's claimed they are particularly inaccurate when they aren't, or not.

We would have fixed this with wind and solar already if the money holders didn't think nuclear was going to solve these problems any day now.

Humanity is in the end stage atmospheric we're fucked fire... And the amount of fire is increasing.

If some people didn't spend political effort to make sure of that then this wouldn't be an issue.

Slashdot has ALWAYS been a place where we discussed politics. Cry harder.

Yeah he paid billions to shut down a wind project in my area in California. PGE has made it quite clear they will not bring in more power, and right now you can't get anything permitted here that requires new service because there isn't any to go around. Since California let PGE kill net metering (fuck you Gavin) we won't be getting the power from anywhere else either. The local descendant of the Confederacy yokels are celebrating because they didn't want the wind turbines to ruin their view.

But you participate in society! I am very intelligent! Etc etc