Goofy at the bottom

From the phrasing and context, I was expecting something else when I clicked.

"Privacy" in the modern sense is less about protecting you from personal embarrassment or financial loss, and more about protecting society from the dangers of mass data collection.

Historical examples of mass datasets that were misused:

• The Nazis used demographic records (birth, death, marriage records, etc.) to identify Jews and other undesirables in conquered countries.
• Japanese Americans were identified for internment in part through illegal use of census information.
• The Rwanda genocide was facilitated by tribal information being printed on drivers licenses.

In none of these examples were the data collected for the evil purposes it was eventually used for. In some cases, the evil purposes were completely forbidden by the rules governing the data, but they were used anyway.

Information is a form of knowledge. Knowledge is power. And power in the wrong hands is dangerous.

The economic bubble being created between the AI and hardware companies is going to pop and take out huge swathes of the broader economy, a la mortgages in 2008.

I'm painting a cave wall right now.

Californian. No.

It wouldn't solve any problems that can't be solved by other means, and it would create new problems that we haven't had to worry about before. It'd be a net loss for everyone involved.

The state government isn't involved with collecting federal taxes, so how could this be done?

James Clerk Maxwell. If it uses electricity then it's based on Maxwell's equations.

If you believe Trump, yes.

So in reality, no, not in any sense.

So that's what caused WW3.

Writer, director, producer, and star of the worst movie ever made.

His background, where he got his money, where he was born, etc. are not publicly known.

Obligatory reminder that the guillotine was primarily used against commoners who were the political opponents of the party then in power.