Between then and now there was 2 democratic and 1.5 republican administrations. And it did not get like this overnight in 2012. So it was trending in this direction for many years before regardless of who had the power. So we should stop pretending that the next "my" candidate will fix this. This will never be fixed by a president. And it is unlikely that taxes will fix this as the "representatives" are in that 1 percent that everyone loves to hate so much.

If you are exposing web management interface to the internet you are an idiot. Majority of the routers have this not enabled by default. My personal Archer router even has a white list for mac addresses that can manage it. My older asus router has ability to only enable management from a wired interface so you need to be physically connected to the local network to manage it. In the end security is only as good as the end user. Correctly configured router should present a non existent device to the internet. The CVE https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnvd.nist.gov%2Fvuln%2Fdeta... says that the issue in the web management interface.

Clearly stated by a person who has no managing experience. Managing well takes a different skill set than "technical skills". Try sitting in the meetings 8 hours a day.
Good manager enables his employees to be more productive and provides whatever support is needed for them to do their job. I had a few good and a few bad managers over the span of my career and there is definitely a difference. Good manager will gather good team around him/her and will be successful together with the team. Bad manager will gain a reputation and people will leave them for other managers or other companies.
I am not a manager nor I would want to be one, but I would not want to work for a bad manager.

That is a total BS statement.
I do most of the plumbing myself and it only requires me one trip most of the time. Unless the store does not have the part I need. Household plumbing is extremely simple comparing to software development. It usually takes me longer than it would take a plumber to do similar job. I usually do it better and don't have to come back to fix things as it happens with plumbers. That is because I care and want to do things right.
The only time I would hire a plumber is where I tried it myself and I can't undo the fitting. If the job needs heat or pipe soldering in tight spaces. Any time two fittings come apart I can do the job myself. Replacing toilets, valves, faucets, etc., I can do myself. Highly recommend learning this skill, saves a lot of money and you get satisfaction of doing something yourself.
I replaced washing machine just a few weeks ago and it took me one trip to the store to get the new hoses because I did not want to use cheap hoses that come included with the new machine.

US is turning into idiocracy with every legislative proposal. Yay for "freedom" and "democracy"!

I am sure you have done really well for yourself, talking smack.
However Brodacom stock did not do that bad either https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Ffinance... . 426% increase over 5 years only can be done by self destructive company.

This is quite a dumb statement and it was moderated as insightful. Just look at the earnings call transcript https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fearnings%2F... . The management highlights earnings from VMWare ($3.8B) as major contribution to the revenue. Hock Tan is a numbers guy and spending $68B for this acquisition for internal consumption makes no sense.
It is more likely that Broadcom wants to keep highly profitable customers and dump the rest. There could be a high maintenance customers or or VMWare products that provide little revenue for a lot of cost. It only makes sense to dump such products/customers.
Broadcom will likely to do just fine using this strategy. If they see that revenues are dropping, there is nothing that can prevent them for adjusting the pricing and the model. This is a business and they don't have to retain every customer at all costs.

When Trump implemented travel restrictions, Biden and democrats called this xenophobic https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fpoliti... . This is from NBC news which is hardly republican outlet.
Trump can find cure for cancer at this point and you will spin it as killing the human kind. Same it true for republicans in regards to any good thing democrats will do.
Under Trump however the covid vaccine development was funded and pushed forward. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... .

Any computer/laptop that must be opened with spudger is hard pass for me. I open my computer at least twice a year to clean the dust out. Even in the cleanest of environments computers accumulate dust from sucking air.
I also open all laptops in the household once a year to clean out the hair and dust from them. Make computers last so much longer.
Apple products are not designed to be serviced. Or usable for that matter, like a mouse with the charging port on the bottom. Or making a touch function key line. A dumb trend that unfortunately getting picked up by some PC manufacturers.

You would be guessing wrong. I do not work in chip design but I do work with people who do chip design. They work with tools like matlab, and various design and simulation tools. Most if not all of the tools are running on some server somewhere. So yes, they can and do work remotely. When I was using emulation tools from Mentor to test my software, I did not even know where these are located. You just login into some remote unix and use the tool from the shell.
The only people that must work in office are the people who test physical properties of the chip and handle the actual samples.
I am sure that I don't know every job involved in designing a chip, but from the ones I know, at least some can be done remotely.

I would worry more about US and its out of control spending. Russian government national debt is 14.6% of GDP (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ceicdata.com%2Fen%2Findicator%2Frussia%2Fnational-government-debt), the US national debt is 122% of GDP (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebalancemoney.com%2Fnational-debt-by-year-compared-to-gdp-and-major-events-3306287). And while Russian debt is going down, the US debt is going up. The chickens will come home to roost at some point.

Just look at reply to your comment few post above. You can look at this link https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.atlanticcouncil.or... , specifically page 27. And also page 25 in the top right under Honorary Directors.

US is a country of hate. We hate everyone. We hate Russia, because they invaded Ukraine or just in general for being there. Never mind that US invaded two countries in the name of "democracy". We hate China just because they are getting bigger than US. We hate Iran and North Korea because Axis of Evil. The only country we don't hate is genocidal Israel. That one we love for some reason.
Internally, Republicans hate Democrats, and Democrats hate Republicans. California hates Texas for competing with them, Texas hates California for being too liberal and spreading its liberal values. Citizens hate other citizens to the point where there is a mass shooting pretty much every other day. This thread is full of hate, people calling each other names and so on.
If you hate everyone don't be surprised that everyone hates you back.

The point is not that these kids are not American. The point is that the parents of these kids are likely to be first generation immigrants and brought their respect for science with them. The children of these children will likely grow up with American disdain for science so the winning streak is likely to end.
Math and science education is abysmal in US public schools and is not getting better. Instead we are lowering standards.

Even if these are names from before, the situation hardly improved. The 2024 USA IMO Team members are:
- Jordan Lefkowitz, 17 (Connecticut)
- Krishna Pothapragada, 18 (Illinois)
- Jessica Wan, 18 (Florida)
- Alexander Wang, 16 (New Jersey)
- Qiao (Tiger) Zhang, 16 (California)
- Linus Tang, 18 (California)

Jordan Lefkowitz is the only one that can be considered "white". The other are Indian and other Asian descent. Let's face it, Americans hate math and science. Even capable kids refuse to go into the field. They prefer business, marketing and other "soft" subjects when going to college. I know this from first hand experience.