Addictive products are just good products! Have a cigar.

It's more that they have seen they can count on protectionism. Which ironically they also hate because it subjects them to dealers

Indeed. Here in California we are the poster children for this, because we have a 55 mph speed limit while towing which is NEVER enforced. We have a requirement that headlights be aimed correctly, same. We have a law saying that if there are five or more people behind you, you must pull over at the first safe opportunity to let them pass, same. Fender flares must project as far as tires, same. (Anyone who's ever had a rock break their windshield understands.)

CHP cares specifically and only about revenue generation, so they do nothing to improve safety except go after speeders. That's not nothing, but it's not enough.

If they weren't they wouldn't buy their shit, so they KNOW they're stupid

First, Iran has never been close to having a weapon

Second, if they do want one, it's because their primary enemies have one, and one of them is the only country to ever nuke another country

Or the gravel pit

The FCC isn't making these decisions. They are made by the DoD and the DHS, per the initial announcement.

Manual windows don't reduce cost much unless you're going to put them on a lot of vehicles, otherwise it's just more parts you need to design and stock, meanwhile window motors are shared between multiple vehicles. Statistically nobody would rather have manual windows on a vehicle which costs even $40k so it might actually increase costs to offer them.

Not after the bribes are paid.

The point under contention was whether AI can be controlled and whether the state of control of nuclear weapons is proof of that. I have given multiple examples that prove that even though nuclear weapons have only been used twice on humans, we are very very far from a stable control state. If that is the level of control you think is going to prevent terrible results from AI, I'm not going to trust you with anything serious. Dismissing the Cuban Missile Crisis as 'control was maintained' is insane; it came down to one guy making a judgment call.

Let's forget about your bad analogy. If you're such a worker, then give me an actual way in which we are going to control AI and let's see how well thought out it is.

"Iran have been planning and trying to get nukes forever."

That's what naziyahoo says every time Israel needs money for more bombs, and you internalized it because your mind is weak.

It may be a false pretext, but it still 'plays': If nukes weren't so scary, there would be no justification accepted by a large part of the various electorates. The Iraq war was also waged because of 'WMD's.

The point was and is about how 'controlled' the 'genie' of nuclear weapons is, how we needn't worry about them anymore. The reality is that they are very much still one of the biggest risks of destroying humanity and very much a worry for all.

It may be a false pretext, but it still 'plays': If nukes weren't so scary, there would be no justification accepted by a large part of the various electorates. The Iraq war was also waged because of 'WMD's. I suppose you'd call the European leadership that got roped into it similarly staggeringly uninformed.

This is a thing that happens, if by aliens you mean foreign weed growers operating unlicensed grows in our country. But it's farmers illegally selling them the water.

Yes, if we want to solve our water problems we should make it possible for farmers to not use water themselves and yet keep their allotment in future years by allowing them to divert the unused portion to an aquifer.