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It is absolutely nonsensical to think that someone who creates a thing should be held responsible for every negative use or misuse of what they create. It's even more nonsensical to expect someone to come up with every single one of these scenarios that could possibly happen. It's just not realistic, doable or even helpful. At best, it will have an extensively negative effect as every single new development will be tut-tutted into the shadows by a group of hand-wringers, terrified of a user 7 sigmas away from the mean might do with it one day. This is an appalling way to construct a society, let alone a discipline that requires rapid, ground-breaking iteration.

This. Imagine how much faster we could lift the world out of poverty if copyright & IP weren't strangling us to death.

It's that expensive because of the population density and government meddling. There's no need for that in the US...are you saying we should artificially charge the pants off of everyone driving to work just to force them to use public transport? Why? I like my car. I like driving my car. I don't want to ride a train, or a bus. If I can work to the office, I will. I'll drive everywhere else.

America has plenty of cities that are just like cities everywhere else...we're a big country, we hardly have need to pack everyone in like sardines. I live in a major city, downtown. And I'm starting to hate it. No personal space, no yard, shared (or no) garage, and I'm a car enthusiast by the way, which I'm sure is practically a dirty word around most city-dwellers now. I'm seriously considering moving out to the suburbs even if it means a longer commute to the office. I like driving, and I have no problem driving places to get things done...after all, I can only carry so much shopping with me anyway.

It uses Xeon processors, AMD Vega GPUs, has incredibly fast PCIE NVMe SSD storage, and obviously contains a 27" 5k display...just because you can't take out the hard drive doesn't mean it's not a desktop machine. This is a weird statement to make. Companies using these machines are not interested in physically upgrading them...they use them as long as they can, then buy the newer, faster version.