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The problem that comes to mind is you will need some way to guarantee that the signal is not being influenced by an external EM field.

"all of the above which won't react negatively to the irrational and otherwise bad things humans might do to them. What's not to like?"

Well, the first thing that comes to mind is that it will normalize that behavior when dealing with real humans.

"Morality is "principles of right and wrong"; animals and plants don't have right and wrong, they just act as necessary in order to survive."

You say that, but you provide no evidence to prove that assertion. There is evidence that wild animals do have exactly what you claim they don't. However, they may still just be acting in a way to ensure survival, as you suggest, but you would then have to provide some evidence that what we call kindness or evil in humans is in some way more than just acting as necessary to survive.

Try owning a dog and then tell me it doesn't understand "right and wrong".

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"where they don't belong"

What does that actually mean? Its almost as if you believe there is an absolute correct that we can compare against.

I think you may be thinking of particle spin as something spinning, so it would have angular momentum, so from there you assume there is energy and its somehow conserved. But I don't think anything is actually spinning.

Also, think about what would be happening if they were actually spinning, like a wheel. If you have a spinning wheel and magically split it in half perpendicular to the axis of rotation, you have the same energy in the system, the two parts still spin in the same direction, one doesn't suddenly start spinning in the other direction.

Or take the other way of looking at that. You have a pair of wheels. both spinning in opposite directions, and join the axles together.The energy doesn't cancel out, it sums and gets converted into a force twisting the axle and eventually into heat.

Don't want to pick a fight, but you were the one that invoked "extension of conservation-of-energy", so you are the one that needs to explain what that means. Not sure what other information or understanding is available without that explanation.

And in this weeks art predicting life, from the Wormhole Disco:

VARIOUS DANCERS: Hi there baby, you want to dance?

ROOSTA: [Shouts] Beeblebrox!! All these dancers! They’re robots!!

ZAPHOD: [Shouts] They’re just to make the place look crowded!! Give it some atmosphere!!

ROOSTA: [Shouts] But there aren’t any real people here at all!!

ZAPHOD: [Shouts] So what’s new?!

And as I am sure you are fully aware, below some point Digital becomes Analog as well.

Well, strictly speaking the software system was from ICL, Fujitsu then took over ICL. Anyone who know UK software in the 80's knows what a crock of shit ICL and more specifically ICL salesmen and managers were. I am not suggesting Fujitsu were blameless here, but I doubt they understood just what they had put their name on.

To quote Wiki:

"In May 1996, ICL Pathway Limited (later Fujitsu Services (Pathway) Limited) was awarded the private finance initiative contract to develop the Horizon IT system to modernize Post Office and Benefits Agency operations. The project encountered a number of delays and setbacks during development, causing the Benefits Agency to abandon it in 1999, which led to a £180 million write-off at ICL and £571 million at the Post Office. The project in large part led to reputational damage to the ICL brand, causing the renaming of the company to Fujitsu Services in April 2002, and later to just Fujitsu.

"Being employed is a human right"

It really isn't, and if you thought about it for a moment you would realize how stupid a thing to say that is. Being able to provide for yourself and your family is probably what you meant to say, but being employed? If only for the contradictions that being employed requires a employer, so what about the right of the employer to be employed?

"what happens when those systems fail, either due to actual hardware failure, or bad firmware/software"

At the worst, much the same as happens when a brake pipe fails.

"especially proprietary CPUs and firmware which can't easily be replaced."

After market ECU have been a thing for many years, direct injection and DCT transmissions makes it harder , but yes they can be replaced. You may not have the same level of infotainment software, but the car should still be able to run.

Yep, I agree the EU wide standard is 230v, but in practice if you measure the actual voltage in the UK, you are more likely than not going to find its a little over 240v, often closer to 250v around here. All I was pointing out was that at least in the UK the standard was the only thing that changed, not the actual thing referred to by the standard. And its not 220-240, its 216-253v. the higher number caused a lot of non EU imports that were built expecting 220v to fail quickly.