Who would return to a company that used "good attrition" to relieve them of their job?

The "rich" are already paying the vast majority of income tax in the US while about half of the country pays virtually no income tax at all. The top 1% of earners pay nearly 50% of income taxes.

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For many GM vehicles with OnStar, it's not THAT difficult to physically disable the system if you so desire. The controller isn't hard to identify and you simply physically disconnect it. I have done this on my wife's GM SUV as we don't use the service (never subscribed). Here's a simplified example of how to disable it. There's plenty of info online about specific makes/models with instructions to disable.

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A budget tablet is just crazy talk. How are our frenemies going to jam ads down our throat if we disconnect from the mothership?

My wife likes to do the family slide show thing when we've got family visiting around the holidays. We bought a couple of cheap-o 1080P android tablets from Walmart and use a simple slide show program and all the images stored on an SD card. No cloud and no network required.

Easy peasy.

Their market share is going to dwindle as enterprises that can get out of the platform are leaving. I'd rather spend my play time with Proxmox.

Agreed. They don't have a particularly good track record in that regard.

Would I use one of their cheap-o unmanged ethernet switches in somewhere in a home environment for non-critical purposes? Um...sure. Wifi or anything with a management interface...nope.

Perhaps this will achieve what Amazon has been unable to control and end the proliferation of cheezy low quality Chinese knock-offs of almost every category of product sold on Amazon.com.

These firms have been feeding at the government trough for decades. I have zero problem with reigning in shoveling money down the toilet to fund perpetual engagements with these companies.

Wake me up when you can buy 8K content.

While true, I've found that my kids seem to be less slavish to their phones once I removed social media apps and games. They can still call/txt and use a web browser.

Does the US buy anything from NK or Russia? I suspect nothing of consequence. How do you place tariffs on goods/services that you don't buy?

Do we REALLY need additional providers for satellite internet? Competition is great, but given the huge capital cost to play in that game and the additional "space clutter" in orbit, does it make sense to have multiple satellite constellations providing essentially the same function? Does it benefit society or is it wasteful hubris?

I don't consume or intend to consume satellite internet so I don't really have a horse in this race.

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Microsoft has been retreating from China for 20 years.

David Carradine is no longer available.

Snatch this token from my hand....

That doesn't capture them all. You don't need an L2 charger at all. You can plug it into a 120V or 240v outlet and use the charging cable that used to come with all Teslas (now I think it's a few hundred bucks). A standard 4-prong 240V outlet (normally used for electric stoves and electric clothes dryers) and charge at a rate of about 30 miles of range per hour. That's actually what I use. Even if the battery is completely flat, you can plug in when you get home from work and it's fully charged in the morning.

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