Maybe companies will start hiding the profit by selling paperclips to themselves...

The car industry has been doing this for almost 100 years (with engines). If they can't be stopped, It is a safe bet that shuffling bits around will be harder to tax.

This is what is known in the trade as "throwing a sop to the voters".

anyone working in the regulatory agency will be completely ignorant of how the industry they're regulating works

No change there, then.

The tax code is for funding the government, not for social engineering.

Maybe in America, but here in Europe, tax is seen as the wheel to steer the ship of state, and social engineering is seen as important to maintaining a state in which the police do not shoot (many) people, and they don't (often) shoot back.

Someone on $2 a day is outside the monetary economy. They do not pay for food and shelter with money. p. Do they need surface tablets? Hell, no - they need large format Android phones.

In the days of Fidonet, I had a BBS, and quite a few of the people I communicated with were Russian. Several complained that even one spelling mistake was a problem for them, because they had to look up every single word in the dicitonary. Mistakes like lose/loose are totally mystifying if you don't understand what you are translating.

It made me try much harder with spelling, and rely less on automatic spelling corrections, and also gave me a new insight into the Bible!

You might want to google github or sourceforge.

Why feed back when, you can fix it yourself.

Obviously your sarcasm filter needs upgrading to use systemd.

Of course not. Think of the RIAA!

Of course, Moses may have been a precident - but there is the NIH syndrome.

World's first Dr Who tranplant? Jeremy Clarkson may be needing one soon.

Ye. The threat of yet another karaoke version of "My Way" would definitely drive most normal people to suicide-bombing!

The 9-11 attacks killed a piddling amount of people compared to road traffic accidents, or even people shot by the various US police forces. Probably construction and farm accidents both killed more people. I don't have the data.

The reality is that terrorists are a tiny proportion of the threats to the average American.

There are only two possibilities:

a) The European view: Americans are a bunch of spineless, knicker-wetting, yellow bellied softies, or

b) The American View: those Corporate American Commie bastards have infitrated our gummint!

I wish to propose a third way: both of the above!

Probably most users just think their ISP is a POS but so are all the others. Like most other things in the UK with a "regulator".

If BT isn't blocking you as a result of government policy, then it is probably because their DNS settings are corrupt - again.

How was that patent even slightly valid? Parity was known about before WW1 - and by implication probably before An Wang was born!

The IBM709x series were in use around about 1970. By 1974 the system 360 was all the rage, and bytes were in common use, so probably over 40 years ago.