Free cars in the CCCP? Where did you hear such nonsense. Whether a Moskvitch or a Lada, there were years long waiting lists for people to buy them.

BTW the Mars surface air pressure is similar to 30 to 35 km altitude on earth.

Did the politicians really think teens would go back to perving on the beach like their parents used to do?

I present to you the NASA Mars Helicopter. They can fly at whatever altitude they are designed to fly at.

Exactly - capitalism is not anarchic - it is a controlled free market. Now expecting latter day Sloshdatters to read Adam Smith or Ayn Rand may be a bit much! ;)

City Council member of a non-listed Twin Cities suburb I know:

FBI is involved. Most water systems use one of two control/alert systems that are old and make them easy targets.

All they did was shut down components of the systems e.g., wells/sewer lift stations. Most cities were able to cycle manually to get back up and running. There was not messages warning or ransom of which I am aware.

They could have done a lot more damage if they wanted to, rather than just shutting things down.

I live in Plymouth; there was no city communications about this nor did I see any issues. So, I assume there were no physical disruptions to service.

Kafka's The Trial.

I think it is clear that you are totally clueless about Nvidia products.

And absolutely nobody is using Llama.

You are correct. It is in no way like Enron, more like UUNET or Compuserve.

You just passed Pedagogy 101

I have wondered about the other three students who must surely have used different AI - which ones?

Something with a half life of 100000 years, you can probably hold safely in your hand.

Bison replaced Yacc long ago.