The UK is going that way as well - for businesses and some individuals, many individuals can still submit a tax return on paper of on-line (web). It is slowly creeping to engulf more people.

Your one ICE car will not make a noticeable difference but the collective emissions of the approx 1.5 billion cars is making a significant contribution to: the climate crisis; air pollution that causes asthma; etc - which will kill millions. So regulations on every one of us is to benefit everyone on the planet.

The trouble is that self interested twats like Trump do not care - they are rich enough to avoid the problems and stupid enough to not realise how it will harm their grandchildren. Most of the MAGA crowd just worship their orange god and do not evaluate critically what he says.

A human starting out programming will write code that has all manner of bugs in it, including security bugs. S/he will have to fix such bugs as they are reported -- this is how they learn what does/does-not work and, over time, they get better. The problem with AI is that it does not get this feedback and so does not learn & get better.

This has already been attempted: Indiana pi bill

where the avionics had been written by an AI ?

Do not worry - DOGE will identify this as inefficiency and stop it. At least in a sane world this is what would happen, however ...

I moved away from CentOS when RedHat played its packaging games. I had installed RedHat for customers, no more - I will push Debian or Linux Mint - both of which are completely free to use and do not require registration.

When going on duty to a sensitive location all personal mobile 'phoned must be left at home in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.” --- switching them off while on duty is not enough.

To make this work the employer must provide locked down 'phones with minimal apps installed; if this means that the security guard cannot chat with his lover on Instagram/whatever then tough shit - they are well paid to protect someone not to chat on social media while on assignment. This might also make the guards more effective as they will not have social media distractions when they are supposed to be keeping an eye out for assassins/whatever.

Of the money raised it goes to two sorts of artistes:
* The composer of the music and the lyricist (ir there are words)
* The performers, ie band/orchestra and singer
Of the money taken from the venue where the music is played, how much goes to the artistes above ?

Not before some of those involved in the bubble have got away with a lot of cash from the naive.

The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was a list of books deemed heretical. The idea was to stop people from reading things that might give people ideas that the Church did not like. Taking down these web sites is much the same thing: stop people getting ideas that those funding Trump do not like.

You forgot the noise of unwrapping sweets from crinkly bits of cellophane.

The smaller it is:
* the easier it is to audit
* the less often it will need to be updated
This means that it will be less likely to break.

of what to do with plastic waste.