Mos sensible post I've seen in this thread. Are you sure you're on the right web site? :-)

With over 15,000 residents per square kilometer in the center of the city you wouldn't want ANY drones overhead where if they lose power, lose contact with the controller, hit something, etc. there's a high likelihood of personal injury. Now with the introduction of robot air taxis into he mix there would be even higher risk. In that sort of situation requiring permits and flight plans makes absolute sense.

We haven't seen a president in the US who could be considered anything less than 'conservative' since Carter in 1980, everyone since then is either conservative, hyper-conservative, or wing-nut loony conservative. In civilized areas of the world the Democratic Party would be considered moderate-right.

Not only common, but necessary.

Planets don't just spring into being. They form through gradual accretion, and that is not constrained to just one big thing eating all the other little things. Its a bunch of little things all eating littler things, getting bigger in the process, and then colliding with each other as their orbital mechanics change from the changes in mass and angular velocity/momentum.

Most models have things forming in the outer solar system and falling in, as they get heavier and slower-- or things in the inner system getting ejected out after such a shift, plunging toward the sun, picking up a lot of speed, then getting slingshotted out.

This is why there are so many rogue planets floating around in deep space. (On the average of 20 per star, in the milky way galaxy.)

Until things settle down, early solar systems are very chaotic places with lots of collisions, things falling into and out of orbits, getting shot out of the system, all the while getting bombarded by highly unstable and variable/unpredictable solar radiation effects from the host star being turbulent.

Trick question-- There is nothing "good" about social networking as it currently exists.

Moreover, the very same people here who are wanting to shut down child access, are the same folks who have been doing all manner of organized child exploitation through government systems abuse.

You seem to think that just because one thing is bad, the other must be good.

The reality that none of the things are actually good, seems to escape your grasp.

I am being pragmatic, and suggesting instead that No Force On This Earth will be successful in stopping the kids from their favorite haunts, and that the effort to try to shove that genie back into its bottle is pointless.

The only reason anyone who understands the problem would try, is if there is some other ancillary goal they have in mind, with the impossible boondoggle that looks good to rubes as a cover.

There's no way to make social media safe for children. The only way to make children moderately safer from this, is to completely outlaw the very concept of social media as a service. Even then, kids will form them on their own, and the very same things will be discussed in them. Don't think for a minute I dont understand that this happened with IRC in the days of yore, and still happens today on services like Discord.

The genie will never go back into that bottle, short of civilization regressing to an earlier state.

Dont be silly!

This is a truly visionary, and ambitious programme undertaken by the british PM!

By restricting the information and content young people have access to, they can double down on state owned television and enforce messaging that favors them!

It'll only take half a decade or so to come to fruition, but it'll work, I'm sure of it!

There's no way those kids will use stuff like proxy servers, VPNS, fake identities, or TOR exit nodes! If they just block social media, they can shut down all those bad dirty ideas! Surely!

Anti-war pacifists like myself may be the most qualified to speak out on hose subjects. Unlike war supporters like yourself we're realistic enough to realize that NO ONE ever wins a war, just one side which loses less than the other.

That's utterly false. Those are not "defense" weapons, drones which need to locate their position are OFFENSE systems. Defensive drones only have to locate the attacking aircraft, they don't care where they are in relation to anything else. This whole PR game of pretending that offensive weapons are something else just irritates the hell out of me.

No, it's because in the real world storage, network bandwidth and compute power all cost money. People who think that Ring and Alexa are retaining the minutia of your daily life don't seem to understand that either.

A lot of forces won't even investigate most misdemeanors any longer because there aren't enough prosecutors to even file the case much less pursue it. I heard a cop who was told about a stolen bicycle the victim had located, "Go steal it back tonight. Then buy a better lock." because they wouldn't dispatch anyone for a bike which valued less than a felony warrant.

They tend to rely overly on authority figures, since they can't understand the world on their own. Unfortunately their authority figures tend to rely overly on questionable, or outright corrupt, sources of information like the MSM and political leaders.

I've always wanted a prehensile tail, it would be handy when working on the car sometimes.

That "gulf" would last about five years, when the exponentially dropping price of gene editing makes it available to the masses. See my post above:
  https://science.slashdot.org/c...

Outlaw it in the US and people will just go to Paraguay or Vanuatu on "vacation" and come back pregnant with designer babies. Cloning will go the same way.

Something that is generally overlooked is how the tech associated with genetics is advancing exponentially while getting exponentially cheaper. In the '90s it cost billions and took thousands of researchers most of a decade to decode the genes of one person. Today you FedEx your cheek swab, the tech puts it in the machine and emails you the results for a hundred bucks. Genetic manipulation will be limited to the rich and powerful at first, but it won't be long before the price makes it down to us plebes and they'll embrace it. Face it, who wants to have the dumbest, weakest, sickest and ugliest kid in their school?

The original "criminal" has served his sentence now, and says he'll do it again without hesitation using the better tools available now.