So the faster we help them develop, the slower the world population climbs.

Let's face it, many evangelical Christians have voted for an administration that would instantly deport Jesus to El Salvador if he appeared today.

Trump printed and handed out cash during COVID, that is socialism. It's a stupid form of socialism, but that's what it is.

Bush Junior passed and introduced the following:

1. Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Benefit (2003)
Largest expansion of federal welfare since 1965.
Added a new entitlement program without funding.
Taxpayers cover pharmaceutical costs for seniors.
Price negotiation blocked which transferred public money to private drug companies.
Long-term cost estimated over 1 trillion USD.

2. No Child Left Behind Act (2002)
Centralized federal control over education.
Took power from states and local school boards.
Tied federal funding to test results.
Expanded the Department of Education budget by 60 percent.

3. TARP Bank Bailouts (2008)
Socialized Wall Street losses.
Government purchased troubled assets and equity in failing banks.
Public money used to save private firms.
Risk transferred from private investors to taxpayers.

4. Nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (2008)
Federal government seized control of two huge mortgage companies.
Socialized hundreds of billions in mortgage losses.
Largest nationalization in U.S. history.

5. Federal Takeover of AIG (2008)
Government took 80 percent ownership.
Public funds used to pay private insurance contracts.
Direct state ownership of a corporation.

6. Steel Tariffs (2002)
Protectionist economic intervention.
Used federal power to interfere with free markets.
Forced consumers to pay higher steel prices to protect an industry.

7. Expanded Farm Subsidies (2002 Farm Bill)
Increased federal agricultural payouts by 190 billion USD over 10 years.
Direct wealth transfers from taxpayers to farmers.
Expanded central planning in agriculture.

Those are all socialist policies, they are a big state, interventionist, entitlement growing policies.

Senior Bush

1. Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
Large federal mandate on private businesses and local governments
Forced costly compliance without funding
Expanded federal regulation of the labor market

2. Clean Air Act Amendments (1990)
Massive expansion of federal control over industry
Centralized environmental rules and enforcement
Imposed new costs through regulation and fines

3. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (1990)
Raised federal taxes by 137 billion USD
Increased top income and corporate tax rates
Expanded federal spending rather than cutting programs

4. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (1991)
Increased federal power over banks
Allowed government intervention in failing institutions
Moved risk from private investors to taxpayers

5. Savings and Loan Bailout Continuation
Continued Resolution Trust Corporation actions started under Reagan
Used taxpayer money to rescue failed financial institutions
Socialized private banking losses

6. Immigration Act of 1990
Increased legal immigration by 40 percent
Expanded government-administered labor quotas and visa programs
Managed labor supply through federal policy

7. Transportation Equity Act (1991)
Large federal spending on infrastructure
Expanded federal role in transportation planning
Increased dependency of states on federal funding

Whatever you want to call him, this guy increased the size of the government, introduced socialist policies, expanded federal control over business and banking. He did more to give government power over private enterprise since Nixon.

Reagan

1. Savings and Loan Bailouts
Used taxpayer money to rescue failed financial institutions
Created the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation bailout framework
Socialized private banking losses
Set precedent for future bailouts

2. Military Keynesianism
Massive deficit-funded military buildup
Defense spending increased 40 percent
Government spending guided industrial output
Economic growth driven by public debt instead of private investment

3. Tax Reform Act of 1986
Flattened tax rates but also expanded government direction of the economy
Removed many private deductions
Strengthened IRS enforcement powers
Increased tax burden on working and middle class through payroll taxes

4. War on Drugs Centralization
Large expansion of federal police powers
Federal control over local law enforcement through funding and mandates
Increased federal spending and bureaucracy
Directed social behavior through state coercion

5. Export Controls and Trade Intervention
Limited high-tech exports
Imposed sanctions and trade barriers
Government interference in private trade decisions

6. Protectionist Trade Action
Restricted Japanese car imports
Imposed tariffs on motorcycles to assist Harley-Davidson
Protected domestic industries with federal action
Violated free market principles

7. Social Security Rescue Plan of 1983
Raised payroll taxes
Increased government control over retirement income
Forced workers to pay more for a mandatory public program

8. Farm Lending and Subsidy Support
Expanded federal loan guarantees to farmers
Federal aid to agriculture during the farm debt crisis
Transferred risk from private banks to taxpayers

He was a so called pro free market guy, who really expanded the role of the government, grew public debt, expanded federal police powers, abused tariffs, bailed the banks out, expanded SS.

AFAIC all of these are basically Marxists, never mind socialists. I would not allow any of these people to run a corner store, never mind a country.

The Telegraph - this one talks about China and its complete automation of production lines, speed to manufacture and deliver the final product. The West is done, it cannot compete, I wrote this here decades ago, once the West loses its manufacturing due to inflation, money manipulation, regulations and taxation, it will lose its engineering and then its education and science. In any case, what the West lost a long time ago is its ability to manufacture anything quickly and cheaply, its ability to manufacture anything domestically because of all of the combined costs, rules, laws, taxes, basically the cost of government and all of the socialism.

The West cannot manufacture because socialism cannot produce, it can only consume, that's how the USSR died as well, this is the path for the West if it doesn't reform and it won't.

The car manufacturers are correct, the so called 'laws' are garbage. Europe and the USA are going to lose all of their manufacturing, China will win in this manufacturing war and that's all there will be.

The upshot of my comment is that OEMs do have an easy option to not chain their devices to their cloud. They WANT to chain the devices, but then don't want to maintain the server and cry about the cost of their own self-imposed obligation as an excuse to brick features.

It's a scam.

ESP32 isn't all that new, and has never been expensive. Most of the OEMs doing rug pulls these days had the option easily available at design time.

You can put a web server on an inexpensive ESP32 these days. That server can be a lot simpler than the one in the cloud since instead of having to maintain many accounts, it only needs to handle 1.

I enjoy my 2013 Boxster, take the roof down, release clutch, engage the first, switch gears, enjoy the ride. I respect that Porsche found a way to stay in business selling SUVs that I will never buy because it 8s a travesty, but this goes too far. I don't want even to think about an EV Porsche, never mind drive one or charge one... this entire story is one f up after another, all piled up on top of each other....

If a company is unable to get rid of dead weight, eventually there will be fewer companies and if this means fewer people are treated as human resources then more people will have to be treated as welfare burden.

Why not? I automate more and more within my system, what I used to do by hand and then hired someone to keep doing by hand and then hired a developer to automate no longer needs to be done by hand, why should I not be able to enjoy the results of this innovation, which means cutting cost and delivering the same value with automation?

Innovation is not necessarily in inventing a new engine, it is quite possibly just another batch job.

The cop had it covered with a drinking bird at the keyboard. Simpsons strike again!

On fire, fire sale, what's the difference?

At Radio Shack, you've got Questions, We've got cellphones.

Agreed. They did a lot better with retired engineers and college kids majoring in EE.

agreed, asking for credentials is too much and providing them is really stupid for many reasons. I have to say though, these landlords are definitely doing more to ensure that their tenants can afford their rent than the banks were doing before the housing market crash.

Just like a million or more of others, who have done the same, I have personally, singlehandedly used the same exact principles and techniques to construct in a dynamic manner, not only visual representations of parent/child relationships as visual trees, but created entire systems that relied on these concepts for both, reporting and control.

I am absolutely capable of displaying my work, results of my work, people using result of my work, my work used in production on daily basis. I built a retail management system back in 2009-2013 and it is in use today as well, where data was described as master product (a representation of what a product is), an actual product instance (sku), incoming product orders and incoming product order items, etc.etc.etc.etc.etc. it is large and complex enough to spend many hours to go over it.

In any case, to be able to see data from all sorts of different perspectives, to analyze it, to understand what must be ordered, what sells, what doesn't, to filter data, to report, to control it for purposes of ordering, changing prices, creating lists of discounts, everything that a retail chain needs to do to be able to survive in a retail chain market.

A master product can be labeled with a record called 'label'. A label can be typified, because we may want to create *dynamic* representations and views. So for example labels can be of type 'supplier' or of type 'brand' or of type 'subbrand', etc.

A filtering system was created that allowed *LEVELS* of filters to be arranged, creating *DYNAMIC* ordering of *NODES* within *TREES* of labels and then master products or product instances (sku) could be selected from the database in a way that corresponded to the tree representation of the labels.

So a tree of labels became a template, with levels of the nodes being grouped by label types and then the products were arranged based on this template and all of a sudden you could use this grouping to understand the flow of products and the flow of money, purchases (incoming orders), sales (receipts), numbers of receipts and of individual products bought or returned or lost or whatever.

On the webpage or in an excel file this data was represented in either table format (very very similar to the figures and pictures attached in this story) or in an actual *TREE* format, where one could drill down as deep as needed.

I kid you not, I would be perfectly happy to participate in any lawsuit against any patent office or a company to prevent any such patent from being issued. ANY FUCKING PROGRAMMER would figure this out if they are mildly awake or even slight less than creative, it is absolute nonsense that we even have to entertain a possibility that this stuff can be patented, this is bullshit. Search trees, sort trees, visual trees, whatever trees, they are obvious simple data constructs and must be left alone without assholes trying to make money on suing people for stuff that is as obvious as the air we all breath (together with these assholes, unfortunately).

Before 2009-2013 I had a variety of projects, where trees were used as well, I built silly things like XML file editors, fucking XML to describe logic that was then converted by a piece of code I built to generate java code from that XML. The XML was a fucking tree, I built an editor so that an insurance company rep could fill in the data within XML nodes to describe logic (don't ask me why, this was 2001-2002 or something).

Before that I had to work with data sets from AT&T that were loaded from mainframes in order to create normal parseable file sets that were sent to rebiller companies, with the records that were at some point represented as tree nodes in levels. That was 1997 I think. Fuck. Before that I wrote tools for myself to study languages, English and French, long ago, where sentences and words in different languages were structured as tree nodes, with multiple crossing tree structures corresponding to different grammar rules.

Fucking hell.