A little more than 10 years. Like... thousands. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
You're right though that those societies didn't have a problem with it... until they got conquered and forced into a different mold.

Neither of which includes a kindle brought from home, unless the bill's definition of "cellphone" is pretty wild.

yes, because they don't have a US-government-protected monopoly on making toys and showerheads.

We do enough bulk processing of chlorine and lye that I suspect that answers to that part are already known.

I think you're underestimating the time and effort to set up "their little "special registrations" system", and until it's up and running, any export can reach the US.

I was unaware that high schools taught statistical analysis. Or even statistics. I didn't get into that til my 2nd year of college. (Maybe third. Don't remember exactly.)

Oh, he doesn't need to be electable. He just needs to be the best available figurehead; the powers that be will handle the rest.

You have a point that they have incentive to say "this is risky, we need more money". But they're talking about "this is too risky, we cannot do business here" which is not a path to increase revenue; it's purely loss-aversion.

"The Jigsaw Man" was published in 1967; "A Gift From Earth" was 1968

I actually feel somewhat hopeful we can maybe skip the "traffic infractions are capital crimes and send you to the organ banks" stage and go straight to the "artificial organs for anyone who needs them" stage.

That seems like it would effectively ban things like my phone alerting me when my dryer finishes. I realize that's not a huge deal, or something that most people use, but it is a feature that would be useful to some.

Unfortunately I have no idea how to phrase the restriction to allow that feature to require network and not any other feature. Oh well.

I look forward to your conclusive proof that vaccination did not save _any_ lives, at all, anywhere.

Meanwhile I'm just going to be rereading this thing on Survivorship Bias...

If I recall, it's because Comcast was poisoning their DNS and people realized "hey, Google will give me straight answers, I'll just use them" and now it's a habit.

The description left out the prebate, where they say "we don't want you to pay 23% on the first 10k you spend, but having the retail collector handle it is complicated, so here's a check for that 2300 back". (That was the mechanism suggested last time I read the details; other mechanisms may have been thought of since then.)

It's both. It's a piece of capital that works to acquire other people's capital.

Fortunately it was recently ruled that AI-generated work is not eligible for copyright. Unfortunately I don't expect that to last =/