It might be an option, but should not expect everyone to take that "bargain". Moreover, with the reliance on stop-loss in recent times, four years is hardly a guarantee.

No. Federal loans are not readily dispatchable, are supposed to be an investment in the future of the country, and still Congress sets the rate stupidly high.

Any justice official caught fabricating evidence ought to receive the typical sentence for the crime they were fabricating evidence for, plus time for the offense of violating the public trust/their duty.

True, but their production is linked. Maybe, as drinkypoo suggests, that's the idea: artificial "demand"/synergies.

OTOH, wikipedia suggests that warhead plutonium pits are far richer than is typically used for power generation, making it a rather wasteful end use. Seems like it would be best to repurify the existing high-purity material to create replacement pits.

They want to give it to private industry, yet NASA has issues getting enough for its missions, and somehow the war hawks also want to make more nuclear weapons. These do not seem to be mutually coherent goals... (subsidizing the power industry, providing NASA with adequate resources, and potentially restarting the nuclear arms race)

But the phone book did not list one's political affiliation.

It is not an "official religion." It is *recognized* as a religion by the IRS, and receives the same egregiously advantageous financial benefits as other religions, but that doesn't really give it any more weight than Mormonism, Presbyterianism, Catholicism, etc. None of which (thus far) are "official" in this increasingly "best of all possible worlds" >-|

Isn't claiming that a magical computer program can find all bugs in another program effectively a variation on the halting problem?

Surely if the CEO can't be bothered to show up for meetings then he ought not be paid so much?

This was addressed in TNG: deliberate panspermia.

People who quote that quip aren't being half as clever as they think, since it rather depends on the distribution. A normally distributed "intelligence" with a very small standard deviation would not be much of an issue

That's a horrible idea because someone could simply build a bigger cluster, or record and save communications until they can get some better hardware in a few months.

How about Forbes? Is that sufficiently billionaire boot-licking for you?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/11/12/trump-organization-record-foreign-workers-visas-2025/

To clarify that'd be strict and enforced privacy regulations with teeth, not a central clearinghouse.

That is what a properly functioning government is for :-[