The Internet as such STARTED with the ARPAnet, which was a government provided backbone. Pushing to get EVERY home broadband isn't being fascist.

Many people don't understand the logic of it. When the super-wealthy have only 1% of their income being needed to cover all of their expenses, then the rest of it is just gaining additional wealth. At that point then, the idea of a top marginal tax rate of 90% or more isn't going to affect anything other than the money "in the bank" growing slower than it currently does. Before Ronald Reagan pushed his trickle-down economics, that is how it was, a 90% or even 94% in some years top marginal tax rate, and the wealthy were never limited by that sort of tax rate.

Why should there be a cap on Social Security contributions, the more people make, the more they should put into the program, with no cap, which would again, make those who make more money contribute more.

When the overall economy does better, that means people can work and afford to pay their bills, and crime isn't needed to survive. When the economy goes down, more people need to steal to afford to feed themselves and their family. Trump is driving the economy down, so crime is increasing, but violent crimes can still go down even as other crimes increase. The desperate won't necessarily go to violent crimes.

Ignorance of the law isn't an excuse for breaking the law, and just because a driver under the influence of drugs and alcohol may not be charged with murder(intent), manslaughter is still a charge.

Just because these AI companies weren't trying to make a criminal piece of software doesn't mean the software shouldn't bring criminal charges.

There is a clear difference between murder and manslaughter charges, so while these AI companies may not be guilty of certain crimes, negligence should still be a reason for them paying $1 billion fines for each case of their products breaking the law. If they can't afford it, then their incompetence should be reason to shut down their business, but also, to bar the executives from working for ten years due to neglecting security in their products.

The issue at hand, these AI companies should have executives dealing with criminal charges against these companies for their products hacking into other systems. If it's intentional or not, if you kill someone while under the influence, you still get charged with manslaughter. AI companies have things that would be criminal in humans should still be on the hook for their products breaking the law.

In the same way that there are charges for unlawful entry that is different than breaking and entering, AI companies and their executives should be seen as guilty for the illegal activities these companies are involved in, even if it wasn't intentional.

So, Republicans only support state rights when individual states go against human decency, but then try to use the force of the federal government to push fascist policies on the rest of the country.

It's amazing that anything that is critical of Trump on the news is "fake news", but when Trump tells lies and Fox News says clearly incorrect things it isn't. As far as "communist" stuff, you wouldn't know what communism is, even if you were to go line up at a food pantry because you can't afford the cost of your own groceries.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, we have Trump in the White House right now as evidence of this huge problem. I expect Trump would see a planet killing weapon to be something he would activate.

The use of AI as a tool for people who can do the work themselves makes sense, but the use of AI by young people so those young people don't have to know how to do anything is the problem. Back in the day, you were allowed to use calculators once you got far enough into math classes that doing the basic stuff wasn't the challenge, it was the setting up of formula to solve the problem.

They look for excuses for why this or that isn't going well, but the basic problem is that teaching analytical thinking and problem solving is something they wait on until too late. Children need to be taught the idea of problem solving, not just "how do you solve the following in mathematics?", but more, "you are trying to do this, can you figure out the steps needed to make it happen?" Without teaching problem analysis for things outside of mathematics, we get generations of people who couldn't figure out how to do ANYTHING on their own. Aiming to make the entire generation a bunch of people who just do what they are told is why we have the majority of people at risk of even basic uses of AI eliminating their jobs.

They also look at social media for a number of problems, as though that is the reason children have emotional problems while their parents are out working two jobs each and the children are left alone most of the time. Being a "kid" is difficult enough, school, social circles, or a lack of real friends, the list goes on for reasons why most kids will feel depressed and even hopeless when they can't EXPECT that doing well in school and college will get them a job. The idea of, "why even try doing anything when it won't help me?" is a good reason for kids to be depressed, and socializing is the only distraction from life seeming to be full of misery.

So, teach analytical thinking, and get an education on how to solve problems...that's how you get children who will have a decent chance of a career that AI can't take away for at least then next 20 years.

What feature can just be enabled remotely the way you are complaining about? The issue is "when features with vulnerabilities are enabled, then going to a web page that can compromise the vulnerability might be able to do things". You just assume that all features can somehow have a vulnerability that will let a remote web page change the browser settings, and that's a STRANGE thing to ASSUME is happening.

I've never seen Firefox updates that just decide to change settings that I had put in place the way you are claiming, but if you are such a special butterfly that you feel a need for some fully cut down browser, go to command line lynx and be happy with the lack of graphics and potential things to compromise you.

Modular approach doesn't have to be plugin/add-on as the method. We aren't living in the 1990s, they COULD have it where features you disable in settings unload the feature from memory. This doesn't mean there isn't room for plugins, but when you have to compete, many people look at the features that come already included as their reasoning for picking one product over another.

I start by turning the old-school menu bar on, and go from there. It's not difficult, and easier to find things than the UI you find in Chrome or Edge.

Disable the feature in settings, and then you won't care. It's not like certain other browsers where you need to give an obscure command in the main bar to get to a feature to turn it on/off.