Yes. Exactly. That is my point. Behaving badly or in a manner that disadvantages others is not evidence that you are a monopoly.

Antitrust laws are there to protect consumers, not manufacturers or corporations. Are there viable alternatives to an iPhone? Yes? A lot of them? And Apple is making it more difficult to develop for their platform? Sounds like a self-solving problem.

The OP seems to think so. I'm only commenting if Apple is an absolute monopoly, which they clearly aren't. It's incredibly easy to not use any Apple products at all.

Eufy sends all images from their security cameras to a central server somewhere, whether or not you agree to it. Are they an absolute monopoly?

GM dropped CarPlay and Android Auto from all their EVs. No customer wanted or asked for this. Are they an absolute monopoly?

Subaru is popping up ads in their in-dash displays. Nobody wants this. Are they an absolute monopoly?

There is a gap in your logic.

Since the article is somewhat vague about it, a SNAP generator is a thermal generator mostly used to power satellites. It uses the heat from nuclear decay to generate power. It's not a nuclear reactor. If you've seen The Martian, that tube with fins that Watney digs out of the ground is what a SNAP generator looks like. They used to be top-secret classified, but just about everyone knows how to make one nowadays. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Ever been to Switzerland? It's small. It's roughly the size of New Jersey. Most of it is mountains. They farm and raise livestock on their slopes as there is literally nowhere else to put them. There isn't a whole lot of space for cities, which is why living in one is incredibly expensive there.

So, yeah, putting a hard limit on immigration makes a lot of sense. There are lots of other places to live in Europe. Finland has nothing but room.

They can unwind deals after they are complete. It's pretty rare, because it's messy and expensive for all parties involved.

Also, given the rubber-stamping of the last dozen or so media mergers, it would be difficult for the government to explain why this particular merger would be harmful, while the last dozen mega-mergers and divestitures were just fine.

I'd say keep letter delivery, but cut it to once a week. Have a smaller workforce cycle through the routes. Do bulk mail once a month.

The Kroger by us, in a fairly densely populated suburb, has over 25 positions open. The nearby Wal-Mart can't stay open 24-hours because they can't get enough people to work the night shift. Two nearby restaurants closed because they couldn't keep enough staff to stay open during lunch and dinner rushes.

My son works for his high school newspaper. He brought in a battery powered Panasonic cassette recorder to do interviews, complete with the cheesy chrome microphone it came with. It got people more interested in the interviews and he got some good copy out of them. He also brought in a portable typewriter we found on the side of the road being thrown away. He fixed it up and uses it to type notes in newspaper class. Everyone in that class loves it.

Because ECC adds price and, usually, is slower than regular memory. What has mainly driven PC hardware is gaming, and gamers care about speed, not long-term stability.

RAM speed doesn't matter as much as it used to for framerates, though, unless you are overclocking a ton, in which case you don't care about stability anyways.

Ages ago I worked for a company that developed car stereos. Car companies were insanely paranoid about driver distraction. There were industry standards on minutiae like how fast song titles scroll on the screen, and a complete ban on flashing or pop-up anything.

Car companies being OK with anything flashing up on the screen that isn't absolutely critical to driving is mind boggling. All it takes is one diver glancing down for a split second to look at an ad, hitting someone walking out from between parked cars, and you have a slam-dunk lawsuit that will evaporate any money made from the advertising. Lawyers salivate at this kind of thing. Standing in front of a jury with a client all bandaged up "This callous car company thought it was more important to make money while distracting this driver by selling ads than to make sure the driver was paying attention to the road..."

If you want *any* manufacturing jobs brought back to the US, they are going to be in mostly automated plants. Car companies can barely hire enough workers to cover existing shifts. People don't want to work in factories, and companies don't want to spend $100,000 a year paying workers to stick an automatic torque wrench onto a bolt.

Even completely automated factories large-scale need a few thousand employees to maintain and ship stuff.

You think shareholders have a direct voice in day-to-day operations of a company? What is that mechanism?
Last I heard of something like that happening was when Roy E Disney was pissed that Eisner was screwing up the Disney-Pixar deal. He had to gather a dozen other large investors, overturn a good chunk of the board, then have them vote Eisner out to fix that deal.

We used to use 3rd party booking sites. If everything went fine, there were no issues. If anything went wrong, it was a disaster. Hotel overbooked? The hotel won't help you. Wrong room type? The hotel won't help you. Can't find your reservation number? The hotel won't help you. You get to call Expedia and pray that a human picks up and can do something for you. This happened once to a friend, where a hotel was overbooked so Expedia got them a new hotel room on the other side of town. Didn't help our friend who was going to a conference at that hotel. If he had booked through the hotel, they would have put him in a sister hotel a block away.

We only book through the hotel sites now. You have a lot of leverage with the staff when you are sitting in front of them and they are responsible for filling your reservation. Also, if you are a rewards member, you can call the rewards number and they will usually fix anything the staff won't, or can't, fix.

It wouldn't be the elected elites. It would be the bureaucrats making the rules whom, after tailoring regulations to favor some companies over others, would then go work for those companies.