While the law is still respected, they literally can not install their own. This mass surveillance is an end-run around the Constitution and everyone involved is treasonous.

Unfortunately, the law is not very respected anymore, so these things will continue growing.

The need for power and control. Everyone is born with it, many never grow out of it.

By turning programming into an actual engineering discipline? I dunno. Might be more effective than seat of the pants programming that we encourage now. But wait, yet another language will make it easy to program again.

Lazy and undisciplined. What do you think will happen? Exactly what we are seeing?

The owners are Dutch citizens. They would have been made incredibly wealthy. It is your own fault if you interpreted that statement to mean all Dutch citizens.

And most Russians want regime change in their country. It won't happen, because the masses DO NOT MATTER. Your life is forfeit to those who have power over you.

The whole point of all of these gyrations is to remove control from you over your own hardware. Nobody really gives a fuck about age verification, or if they do, they want to ensure they are getting minors to exploit.

And you think medical supervision will be enough? Once any amount of steroids is tolerated, there will be people who go beyond to get that extra edge, regardless of medical supervision.

I do not know what the proper answer is, but this is not it.

I would be interested in knowing where you get that data as every discussion I have seen ends up with someone claiming that autonomous vehicles are MUCH safer than humans (which I find difficult to believe without massaged statistics).

You have never lived very far north then. *shrug*

I dislike changing the clocks; however, I understand why someone further north than myself would want to. I have been fortunate in that I have lived half of my life without changing the clocks twice a year. I would like to keep it that way.

FYI, anything that requires cooperation is absolutely guaranteed not to happen. There is too much money to be made from cooperative people by being uncooperative.

The major businesses might disappear over time; however, the families that owned them merely moved their capital into other companies. In other words, it is not about the companies, it is about the families where the wealth is stored. Think of the Kennedy family or the Bush family (mentioned because one destroyed the other)

Yes, but only for the young'uns who didn't live through big tech layoffs in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, or 2010s.

Echos of the 'multimedia franchise' days when part of the plot was in the video game, part was in the comic books, part was in the companion app that was delisted two years later.....

Like . . come on.