Sorry I worked for a company that built Stenomachines and wrote software for Court Reporters.
1. Learning to write Steno is hard. It is very hard. A lot of full time students never break 180, 225 is what you need to graduate.
2. The market is small.
3. You have several companies that have been in the market for decades. Stenograph, Advantage Software, ProCat, and Stenovations are probably the market leaders.
4. The requirement for support is super high.
5. The market is shrinking.

" in order to protect established industries in their own states"
That is what Congress people do. Nobody wants to see nice high paying jobs to go bye bye.
Heck my Democratic congress person fought long and hard to make the Navy keep the USS Forrestal when the Navy wanted to scrape it to save money. The reason was simple jobs in Jacksonville.
A congress person doing this is not evil but a part of the give and take of government. That is why mission control was moved to Houston from Florida. It is expected that every member of congress will fight to put jobs into their state and it is up to the group to work out a good compromise. What you want is for your congress people to fight this to save tax money from their folks.

"2 - It stops working forever if I'm dead."
That is what I am worried about. I would like my wife to have access to my online accounts if for no other reason than to say good bye for me.

"The simplest course of action would be for the major search engines, i.e. Google (there are some others, I'm told) to simply cut those spanish newspapers out of it's web-crawlers and search functions. If there are no links to the newspapers in question, there can be no tax to pay."
True but it would mean cutting off links to all spanish newspapers! The law makes the payment mandatory to prevent any forward thinking papers from having an unfair advantage.

"t. Do they really want Google telling the government who owns guns, who visits anti-government websites, what they say on their hangouts about campaigning against the president etc?"
None of those things are illegal.
How do you feel about making contributions public knowledge. You could get drummed out of a job at liberal tech company just for supporting a law that passed a public vote but that they didn't like!

Wow you just suck as a human being. I mean wow just one of the worst examples of what passes for human I think I have ever had to deal with.
Great example why ACs are such a bad idea. You would never have the guts to post that with your name. You live up to the term Anonymous Coward in all ways with that post.

And the proof before us.
1. You should not fear Ebola getting to the US by a careful transport of two patients to a secure facility. You should fear the the US tourist that bumps into someone that has just started to show symptoms in London right before they come home to the Los Angles.
Frankly all the rest of your post is nothing but mindless shrieking terror.

Simple you do not have the facilities and researchers in the middle of nowhere. The ideal place for the CDC might be Johnson Island, Midway, or one of the dry valleys in Antarctica from a safety point of view.

"Bullshit. He could have, in his important position, pressured for better conditions for the workers. "
Really? Even Rommel could not do that. He would have been killed as an example.

Amazing how fast humanity flies out the window when fear is involved.

Plus it give the US a chance to gain experience with treating Ebola before it gets here.
The Army is involved because of the bio-warfare group they have. Before anyone freaks the US unilaterally stopped developing bio-warfare agents back in the 1970s
The US does research in defence aka treatment and prevention.

You left out the third option. Was he just trying to stay alive and ignoring the conditions around him. It is very easy for humans to do that.

In the firmware development group I work in we actually have a good amount of diversity.
We will hire anyone with talent.
The lack of opportunity is not in the hiring area. It is in the home and education. Hiring someone because of race is bigotry. I doesn't matter if the race happens to be anglo or african descent.

The Vendor will have issues with their product running if you do not configure the firewall correctly and will cost the Vendor support time.
If you get hacked because you let malware onto your POS systems or put a compromised machine on the network it is your problem.
A firewall will just prevent an exploit of a service. So only run the services you need. The real issue for this POS would be an exploit that gains access to the SQL server and a firewall is probably not going to stop that.

Which is exactly why this does not use V3.
To be secure you really need to have the option to lock down the hardware and only allow updating with signed modules. It is actually part of the FIPS regulations.