vats

What hurts people the most is VAT (Value-added tax), and Croatia has one of the highest VATs of all the EU countries [1].

Could you create robust, modular storage vats that double as interlocking elements of a sea-wall to hold back future tsunamis?

If a few owners of a legal pot shops end up in a vats of acid, demand might return quickly.

When you've been reduced to arguing about brains in vats, you're no longer having a technical conversation about security anymore.

Even then, our brains in vats could be under constant monitoring and decoding, therefore making secrecy a futile exercise altogether.

All they need to do is hire some Asberger-y women, put them in vats of liquid, and give them some psychedelics.

Pastureland could be reduced with meat grown in vats instead of raised on farms (or people simply shifting from a meat-heavy diet).

VATs apply at all parts of the supply chain and have rules in place to charge tax only on the value delta.

A small company would have to account for 75 different VATs?

Americans won't tolerate people being dipped in vats of acid.

Genetically modified meat grown in vats, compact nutrition rich superfoods/tablets..

Probably, but we might as well just skip to the meat grown in vats.

Taking the standard "brains in vats" position there is no way to show in your system the the apparent actions of [apparently] external beings aren't simply being fed to you.

Like the fact that "orange juice" is basically rancid orange sugar water left sitting in large vats for up to a year that is doused with orange oil before sale, apparently.

Barring a "Doomsday" (which I don't envision), our descendants won't give it up, even if they use vats of bacteria or lattices of anti-quarks or something even less recognizable as "hardware".

I found some amazing quotes (linked to from the article): It is cited that the Burmese king Nanda Bayin, in 1599 "laughed to death when informed by a visiting Italian merchant that Venice was a free state without a king London Beer Flood, 9 people were killed when 323,000 imperial gallons (1 468 000 L) of beer in the Meux and Company Brewery burst out of their vats and gushed into the streets.