To be called "Shit Howdy" in the South.

"Privacy died in the 1970s when stores started to track customer purchases."

I was going to say, "Privacy died in the '50s with Jedgar's wiretaps", then decided to look it up.

Apparently the first wiretapping was in the 1890s, shortly after voice comms were invented. The legality was strengthened by the Supremes in the 1920s (Prohibition, 'natch). WWII, wartime rules. We get to Jedgar in the '50s due to Commies behind every bush. In the '60s RFK Sr. signed the order 'tapping MLK (The Supremes finally required court orders in '68).

That brings us to the '70s and your comment, where other technologies started coming on line that make it easier than ever to intrude on privacy.

"Or said differently, there isn't a lot of human professionals that require AI verification..."

Well put.

OTOH, as the LLM's absorb the worldviews of their various owners, I expect that will end when they start vetting people with various AI's for various reasons.

It does sound like fun. Hope it doesn't devolve into tentacle pr0n. Knowing humans, it'll be B&D sessions instead.

at least the front didn't fall off.

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your multi-national corporation!

Well, they got the "boom" part right.

Interesting. Clicking a few additional countries, I note that Canada and Australia pretty much track the US for the past decade or so. Next tier are Russia and SK, then China (growing), and below that Europe. India is way down there. Also growing, but will take a century or more to catch up (using a linear extrapolation). "Fun" chart to play with, like many at that site.

I applaud others stepping forward to fill the vacuum from a general US contraction in Earth sciences. I imagine that eventually they and others who do this can sell data to US insurance companies, urban planners, the military, and others whose job it is to do long-range planning.

Agreed. I remember reading a young adult novel about German immigrants to Texas in the 1800s. One of the things that piqued my curiosity was when the narrator, one of the children of the family, described how they were learning three languages at once: German at home, English at school, and Spanish at the market.

Interesting. Good thing there's a public school system to provide a back stop for those failed charters.

"Here's another small tweak: Fold the line back on itself to form a grid!"

Give it a half twist and you can live on both sides.

I suspect that this is simply another feed. Their other feeds such as cable channels and websites will still be available.

I watch the channel occasionally. Unfortunately the feed from my provider never matches the index, but it makes for great background noise.

It reminds me of that bit, something like "I can kill somebody in the middle of Times Square and never be convicted"?

"Most of them will spend 20+ years on a given ship, and will know every system intimately."

Interesting. The stories that some of these Warrant Officers could tell!

One of the reasons that officers are rotated in a modern military is so that no centers of power grow to where the troops are more loyal to a commander than to their government. Limiting the rank to WO's sort of gets around this problem. Supervisory authority, perhaps, but no command authority.

I wonder how large of a navy this could scale to?