Building codes should probably include Faraday-cage type shielding.

I’ve been worried about neighborhood cats and other non-human animals.

In the case of trash collection, the fine has been put in place by the trash-collection corporations. How that specifically may analogize to household-chore robots: I’m not sure. There are possibilities, but picking one among many and saying it will certainly be that one seems likely to be like gambling. Perhaps the robotic company requires you to sign an end-user agreement with lots of fine-print legalese.

I’m making what is called an analogy.

What reason would the governments have …?

The motive is money, but I didn’t say anything about governments, that was your interpretation, and I’ll admit it is a possibility. These robots are said to be AI, and I’d be very surprised if they don’t also have wireless communications of some kind, but to whom and whether those communications can be hacked are all unknowns.

In California, decades ago we used to be able to throw away our household trash in one container. Now we have 3 containers, and it’s recently become a fine-profit center: if folks don’t properly separate their recycling, greenery, and trash components, the AI-surveillance cameras mounted on the trucks will catch it and fine the subscriber (never mind that these trash-recycling-greenery containers are unlocked and on the street where anyone can open and toss something in). In similar fashion, if society adopts robots for household chores, how long until household inspections are held to fine people (as a profit center) who don’t keep their homes sufficiently neat?

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I see the stamp of religion all over this, but not in a moral sense. Our leaders and journalists work so hard to ignore that elephant in the room.

The United States has pushed the talks beyond military matters and wants effective veto power over any major investment deals in Greenland to box out competitors like Russia and China. Greenlanders and Danes strongly object to this.

That’s the free market’s “competition” in actual practice. Extol the virtues of competition and the free market, while undermining it wherever possible.

Bible culture is entirely bogus. The Christians who voted for Trump did so because he was rich and in spite of his felony convictions.

I guess we’ll find out if the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment applies to the Executive Branch, or just to Congress.

I’m not in Texas, but was leaving Costco a few days ago, and on the busy street corner adjoining their parking lot there was a guy with a sign that said something like “God hates transgender” and “transgender is evil” and on his sign was a cross. I’ve been thinking about it for a few days and realized there was no “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.”

Text of the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

It has always bothered me that the First Amendment says nothing about the Executive Branch doing these things (such as via Executive Order), only Congress.

Curious they’re suing the NYTimes instead of the various interviewees.