The DOI has stated that it will refund the fees 'after the investments have been made'. Whether it actually does so, remains to be seen. It would not be out of character for the payment never to be made.

Can a 12-yr old walk into a store in the US and buy a porn mag? If not, then you already have a precedent for requiring age-verification before allowing access to the writings (speech) of a third person.

So it provides a service to British people. Is the provider being compensated for the provision of that service? Yes, although not by the person receiving it. Therefore they are providing a commercial service. 4Chan needs to either geolocate and block any access from the UK or stick to the rules of providing services here.

Is it not safer to just use the history search feature rather than risk the tab getting closed?

None of the above is actually true, but blasting it across 'news' media and social media 24/7 is very effective in making people so pants-wettingly terrified that you can manipulate them in any way you choose, as long as you promise to save them from the fears you've inflicted upon them.

For a small price premium I can mod the cockpit of your EV so that you can still stick shift. As a slightly higher cost option I'll even connect it to the onboard computer so that it does something.

As AI becomes integrated into the decision making systems, the question becomes: are Humans more willing to launch a nuclear strike when the AI that they have been told makes correct decisions recommends it, than they were when they had to make and 'own' the decision themselves?

I think it's very unlikely that the OP made that up. That particular misrepresentation of the data has been posted EVERYWHERE on the internet for months via many thousands of accounts. I think it's far more likely that the OP simply saw it on a feed from someone they thought could trust for factual information and repeated it. Sadly they were mislead.

Why wouldn't they? They are very nice to live in and when they flood the bill will be paid by you.

In some jurisdictions, having lost your encryption key is purely a _you_ problem, and you can sit in jail semi-permanently for contempt of court.

Gunshot wounds have been proven to sometimes have a significant protective benefit to health. It all depends on who the gunshot wounds are on.

Were the kernel versions that topped out at 19 the ones where one of Linus' fingers was otherwise occupied signalling opinions to mailing lists?

That's the better option. The worse one is that you've been elected on an agenda to be tough about stuff. Stuff that people may not have heard of before but you've told them that they need to be afraid of it. You prosecute everything about stuff, even if you're going to lose and cost the tax-payers millions. Then you take your loss and use it as evidence that THEY are out to get you and your voters. THEY are the people behind stuff, and people need to be more scared of THEM than they ever were about stuff. This drives your voters to ensure that you stay in place, even though you've cost them millions.

Vastly more likely that someone got a toothache.

And both solutions above will also lead to vast numbers deciding it is best to just take their chances and enter anyway. Which then costs you an absolute fortune to look for them.

There are two other options: regime change, and bribery of the existing regime not to make conditions so bad as to cause refugees. Neither of those are great either, but they can be cheaper.