This is a desperation attempt to solve a problem; or more like placate voters -- if it works or not is not as important as acting like you are solving a voter issue.

A common (fundamental?) theme in minor to pro-level politics is BLAME management:

The fact corps impose the whole trash problem on *everybody else* to save them money, is masked by making it OUR problem to solve; we are responsible for cleaning it up.
Protection of children (especially if you want to do harmful stuff) is then the responsibility of their guardians to use the laws and tools they promoted to "empower" them. They are the good guys lobbying etc. to give everybody the ability to V-CHIP the internet! So then like the V-CHIP it'll fail but its our failure instead of theirs (to be fair, they never put porn over the airwaves and blame people for not blocking it with the V-CHIP... because that was a BS placating political "solution" from the 90s)

It's funny to suggest that we need age verification to counter immature people who go around making empty death threats like a 12 year old... but is not age tagged so we treat it was serious. Making an argument using them as a reason precisely against their position!

But really, those can be ignored for just about everybody. Now a real person on a phone call can sound really bad and real if done by the right unhinged person; heard it. Now with AI a child can get a really good real sounding threat. While a child calling would sound comical and unfortunately they all know this so we don't get to enjoy their cute death threats. Outside the USA, it's entirely empty when you get those things. Sure you can find 1 example case out of millions of people with lower odds than lightning strikes (and not golfers either.)

Seriously, a user group is all we should standardize as a solution. software can use the flag or not and setting the flag (user group) becomes another issue to fight over.

Find a better source. The idea doesn't originate from that sick woman who is a high priest of the morons. I'm not being insulting, her work is juvenile; it's low maturity for her age and while it resonates with teenagers, a healthy person out grows that in a reasonable time... when they hit their 20s. If you are still stuck, then by definition, you are a moron. Just a fact. Without brain damage, it's theoretically possible you can still learn and grow out of what everybody else has. Not all morons are permanent; though, the old definition of it came at a time when they didn't know brains are extremely adaptable.

Correct.
Americans ARE. TOO. STUPID. (by majority.)

Far from it, the admin loves military contractors! Why? big money.
Safer? they don't care much about that.
Low floor? again, they don't care much; probably the incompetents in charge don't even realize that matters until somebody tells them.

THIS is the solution! Promote it!...
Actually a simple user group "adult" that you add users to who are adults or "underage."

It's not OS enforced; it's STANDARD for software to poll to find out permissions. Engineering wise, shouldn't you use the OS existing permissions system to do this?!!

The law simply applies to software using a simple standard mechanism to determine it. If you want intelligence and security or whatever, those are 3rd party software that handle the user group.

The admin has a JOB to do. That JOB is to set access permissions. If the child becomes an adult, it is the admin's JOB (as a parent?) to set permissions. It should not be automatic or set by age or whatever. That is open ended and is entirely the admin's JOB! If an admin can't handle this simple task, they are too stupid to have children. Child protection services should take away their children; seriously!

Use case for those lacking creativity, a school. A school bans things from children. A child turns 18 but who is still in school and their peers are not yet 18 and the school don't just immediately allow porn or beer in the school at their birthday. An automated date rule would not work realistically in the REAL WORLD. Increased complexity (date+rule) resulting in even more complexity and special case exceptions. Poor design ends up in hacks and data corruption.

No he is not. He has no power to start wars. or kidnap people. he can make emergency defensive moves. that is why they are bending over backwards to make up imminent threat emergency excuses to give them legal cover that itself is pathetic. even bush had to work at it to do his war; this idiot just picks the worst option people give him -- just as John Bolton said he did previously.

Trump put crooks in charge and maybe you've noticed a huge increase in small delivery companies you never heard about bringing your packages when it used to be the USPS? Also the time delays of having your neighborhood letters being sent 1000 miles away to be sorted only to arrive later down the street...

Plus they hired a military contractor to waste money making stupid ugly delivery vans that are way way behind schedule; also they use plenty of gas. The EV company that bid for the contract would never be allowed to get the contract. Would have built a fleet by now and they'd be running CHEAPER. My USPS is using a minivan because they couldn't get what they were supposed to-- the good part is the minivan is far better than the shit being slowly made in Wisconsin.

Also they seem to like spending money on ads for the USPS. I don't know if there are more of those or not. I don't see enough TV.

FYI, right now they are set to have major delays and money problems likely to screw things up with delays for the election. Plus they don't timestamp letters locally so it appears later than it was mailed...

I thought the Ring was a metaphor for technology/industrial revolution etc. not generically all oppression.

This one way to keep him nice about being censored...

He's a super nerd on lord of the rings. Not sure this will turn out well except Jackson will tone it down like he did the books... but hopefully not pad it out extremely like he did the Hobbit. Perhaps this is the job-- make the padding not so bad as they stretch out more and more from little.

Interesting his son took his mother's last name.

I wonder if Lord Trump orders this project scrapped out of spite? It could happen and likely would if the Eye of Trump notices.

Good! thanks, you gave me a chuckle.

Now pitch it to a streaming service so I can torrent the show later. (just have a chat bot write most the script... it'll likely be better than some of the crap human "bots" are churning out.)

MOST of today's Democrats are not like they were a century ago... not as bad as Republicans, who've turned full Fascist and practically confederate. Go listen to the Lincoln Douglas debates, often still performed and don't watch, but listen without knowing who is Lincoln. Well, one I listened to left all that out on purpose. You certainly figure it out but you can hear a huge difference and which party he'd be in today.

1) Comparing with all home ownership is improper. The only part that matters is % of buying in the active market or constraining the active market. It only needs to be in certain market segments to have a big impact as well. By # of people and not the $ amount within a range; so if they did 100% of mansions it doesn't impact normal people much and if you counted that by # it would be relatively tiny % too. Rental stock is not everything. They also just sit on things too; also they flip and sell in various schemes.

2) Both the mega building corps had CEOs talking about not returning to pre-COVID building rates because the low construction rates boosted their profits; which they said openly. That is not buying, but simply limiting supply to drive up demand = profit.

3) Loans. tons of games around loans. they created the depression in 2008 doing complex fraud games with home loans. Nothing changed except aspects of the game. Huge amount of investment is around the "industry" of home loans/rents/management/building/supplies/insurance....

4) INDIRECT. Wallstreet has been waging a class war for generations and attacking anybody who points this out as "socialist" etc. Class war is older than civilization itself! It never stops. Even with equal demand, wages have been doing DOWN and only masked by technological advancement lowering some prices. It can't lower land prices; but it has taken a little out of construction cost (most savings go to the top, as they always do.) You can be poor and own a smart phone super computer. thank you technology. The richest generation in the USA could only afford 1 TV per house at it's peak. Easily fooling people into thinking things are better because they had more distraction tech; but in real $$$ they are poorer!! It hits when they need a house or healthcare or buy organic food or when gas prices rise a little (like now) then they feel some reality... but don't realize that they are paying for that record number of billionaires out of their pockets. Construction workers and trades can do well, they can have income that didn't get hit as hard by inflation; but they give up a bigger portion to the top than they should or used to. So you can't as easily afford a newly built house...

5) Climate change. resource demand is increasing. more disaster repairs than ever before. it's so bad insurance is pulling out of hard hit areas. Big chunk of investment is in the biggest defenders/creators of climate change. This one is a long term problem. Also indirect but also demand is hiding higher profits exploiting that demand. They will rob desperate people, nations etc. if they can.

Decades ago I tried to lobby officials and convince people we need solutions. It was utterly hopeless and people were not even ready to take measures to begin with.

They don't know what Identity is or Authentication or Certification or any of the specifics they should know to write laws. Not. that. interested. Certainly, in the USA we can't have government do anything productive and useful; that is forbidden by the libertarian morons.

Government can provide anonymous digital credentials of various sorts; including a simple rule that OS have an adult user group parents can keep their children out of; and any software should be able to probe if a user is a member of the adult group. ISPs need to be forbidden from any involvement.

A photo ID with embedded digital verification of it's validity and an adult and drinking status. no birthday, no identity. Somebody just checks your face as they always did but now they can use a phone app to catch fake IDs. The photo doesn't need to be detailed enough to be perfect - it has to be generic enough to not let you be face tracked from it. It is more tricky to use online, but building upon that for online age verification. Government walled off services that are secured stronger than the IRS was... you're a fool if you think private corps can be trusted. If you can't trust government to do this, then your country is incompetent and you have bigger problems... which is the case for the USA already.

None of this should be fool proof and only minimal protection for incompetent parents; because the real defense is competent parents.... so rare, that it seems hopeless to depend upon them. It doesn't help that we don't allow people much parenting time...

Also cancer makes for a great cover-story for a fatal STD... especially given his business, they certainly don't want that kind of death!