I don't know--it's kind of like splitting vaguely defined hairs. Each program hit significant benchmarks around similar dates.

The groundwork for GPS was begun in 60s, formally a project in the early 70s, fist satellite in 78, partially usable experimentally around 85, and fully operational in the early 90s.
If anything, the "idea" for GPS predates the internet.

Yeah that guy who kept boxes of secret documents parked next to his corvette, in his office in Delaware, and at the university of Pennsylvania sure got a sweetheart judge too.

You're not wrong regarding H&R and other accounting firms, of course, but the real reason the tax code is ridiculously complex is it benefits the wealthy. When you can hire an expensive attorney (especially one whose firm helped write the tax code) to help you reduce your tax liability by millions or more... It's entirely worth it.

You draw very strange conclusions.

The article just mentions that those tracks are uploaded. This does not mean that they are uploaded via fake accounts, nor that they are offered to any listeners. To the contrary, the article mentions that Deezer offers to filter out any AI generated songs from your recommendations. To me, this is nothing more than reporting the fact that it is easy to generate a track via AI and then upload it to a site, and that people are using it. Everything else is just projection from your site.

You act as if the money given to people is just going to disappear.
If Germany or any other country was a closed ecosystem, maybe it would eventually float into the wealthiest Germans's bank accounts once again, continuing a sort of mana from heaven like rain cycle where the aristocrats constantly make it rain on the peasantry. And knowing the Germans penchant for certain activities there's an aristocrat joke to be made here.
But like all countries, they are little more than economic zones, most of all to the ultra wealthy. As soon as there's a trade imbalance, especially to any other county not implementing communism, that economy will leak. Most of it would probably quickly go to China.

There are 84 million people in Germany. If you gave 1200 euros to each German every month, the yearly cost would be a bit under 1.3 trillion. A quick googlelydoo said that the combined wealth of the top 10% in Germany is around 7 trillion. Even if you outright confiscated 100% of assets belonging to the top 10%, this program could be funded only for five years and then it's bankrupt. That's the problem with these sort of schemes: eventually you run out of other people's money.

So, where is the money going to come from? It's going to come where all major social programs funding comes from. The people who would be beneficiaries; or it will be rolled up in ever increasing national debt which will forever never be paid down, forever causing ridiculous inflation, which is in itself a quiet tax on the very currency you hold and the assets you own.
It will count on the black line always going up exponentially, just like social security in the USA. So your government will be spurred to import forever more foreign workers since your own people are not reproducing fast enough to satisfy the grand Ponzi scheme you've inflicted upon yourselves. Never mind that the vast majority of these people will be net tax consumers and drive your country even further into the red. And now you've killed your country, erased the very identity of the people who lived there and built it up.

Germany's national debt is 2.something trillion euros. If this study was funded by taxpayers, the debt was added to the national debt in some way. Bonds were created to issue more euros, or the currency was created by the bank--however it works for euros, I'm not sure. Effectively, inflation was increased and while maybe nobody worked harder, however their cost of living may have been increased, their ability to save for a home or retirement or perhaps a vacation was made more difficult.

No such thing as a free lunch.

Yeah... And the last time that happened, an amateur Austrian painter became chancellor for totally unrelated reasons.

Puerto Rico and Hawaii became U.S. territories only in 1898, even more years later.

Florida joined the U.S. in 1845, but at the time, growing sugar cane in the North of Florida had already ceased, because the climate was not right. Production of sugar in the South of Florida really took off after 1900. So no, the sugar tariff was not introduced to protect any local sugar industry, because it was introduced in 1789, more than 100 years before any meaningful sugar production within the U.S..

Rather quickly? The ban on British beef imports was only lifted in 2006, ten years after it was put in place.

And taxes are the main income for the state. Your point being?

Especially the sugar tariff is a prime example of revenue generation. It's one of the oldest tariffs in the U.S. and falls straight in the category "tariff anything which has to be imported anyway". When it was introduced, sugar was mainly made from sugar cane, which is a tropical plant and was harvested in the Caribbean and South America, but not in the U.S.. Only in the early 19th century, the sugar beet was slowly introduced as a second source for sugar. The method to extract sugar from the sugar beet was invented in 1747, but only in 1801, the first sugar beet fields were commercially grown in Prussia, and in the 1840ies, the sugar beet was introduced into the Americas. 1879, the first commercial production of sugar beets started in California, and by 1880, 50% of the world's sugar was made from sugar beets.

This means that for at least 100 years, nearly all sugar was imported into the U.S., generating a wealthy income from tariffs to the U.S. government, without any local sugar industry to be protected.

Don't confuse more or less desired side effects from taxes and tariffs with the main goal: revenue!

You can try all kinds of tricks to convince yourself otherwise, but tariffs at first are a method to generate income for the state levying the tariffs.

In the most cases, the answer is "to generate income". Tax what can not flee, and put tariffs on things that have to be imported anyway - profit!

With the need for data centers going down, there is also the need going down to power them. How are companies like NuScale and TerraPower doing, whose SMRs were supposed to be required to run the data centers?