Nah, with 50% of Americans struggling with an 8th grade textbook I'd say the USA is a nation of 13 to 14 year olds when it comes, which is Really different to 12 year olds. Especially if you're asking them to vote on American Idol.

So there were no Palestinians forced off their land and into refugee camps by Israelis taking their land after partition in the '50s and 60s?

Nah, it's really more about who's getting the lion's share of the wealth the country is generating. The same few families/companies, or the average person? Most nations are producing quite a lot of value, it's just where the profits end up over 5-10 years that varies.

Does wearing a jacket with some kind of lining reduce the accuracy or actually make someone stand out? Which body parts provide the most data and thus should be most commonly hidden from scanning?
And where's the medical uses of this kind of tech??

Intriguing titbit, I'll try and avoid getting arrested by Russian police anytime soon :)

Parents would just use their own IDs to let the kids onto social media. The tech the companies are trialling Kinda works, especially if you combine facial recognition with other methods. The real silver bullet is parents having more time to supervise kids though, in the home at least. I don't know about on public transport :/

But the TV is likely in a common area where other people can check in on what the kids are watching, vs a mobile device app connected to headphones. It's still a good idea for kids and teens to use computers/etc in a common area of the house. Or at least position monitors/etc where an adult can easily check on what they're doing during non-sleep hours.

You really buried the Lede here, SlashDot hid your conclusion (does that mean SlashDot buried your Lede?) because you wrote so much.

What do you mean every hospital doesn't have someone like House who can spend hours/days/weeks diagnosing patients with strange symptoms??

Oh, why bring hard data, going back decades, into an ideological fight about 'Gov Tyranny' vs 'free market heroes (who have golden bathtubs)??

Yup, in the UK as well, classic neo-con tactic, run something into the ground, blame the other party (who hasn't been in power for years) and then privatise it and get more campaign contributions from the profits their pals are suddenly making.

Exactly, but it'll mean less money for HMOs, so their owners lobby Congress to keep their profit margins high.

So is that a non-urgent treatment, or urgent? Because there's different wait lists for different categories, just like in the USA. Also if a GP in most countries says you need a scan then you get one, in the USA a HMO might just say that you don't get a scan. While charging everyone for the HMO's time.

When the Gov is paying all of the bills it can really drive down prices. Too often The Market is full of company owners who know each other colluding to increase prices, or just own the entire supply chain and bilk customers due to lack of competition.

You make a good point, we should reframe vaccine refusers (without health reasons) as freeloaders, skating by while the rest of us do the hard work of keeping the community safe.