And, for good measure, travel with a laptop running BSD without a GUI.

Um, that might work if you never leave the city. Some of us like to actually leave the city and go places where there might possibly be a cellphone signal, but there definitely ain't no wi-fi. Actually, my last real vacation was sufficiently out there that there wasn't hardly any radio, much less cellphone or internet. Surprised how little I missed it all.

Pick one cellular provider. Give them one month to tell the cops to get bent. If they don't do so, every customer (well, all the customers we can get to do so) switches to another provider. Or, if that's too drastic, a warning shot: no cell-phone week. We all leave our cell phones at home, turned off, with the threat to cancel service if Stingrays don't become extinct.

Give them, maybe, one day to respond to your complaint. If they do not respond to your satisfaction, close your account and go elsewhere. It's your money. If they won't take good care of it, someone else will.

Hell does exist. It's modern name is Los Angeles.

I really do not understand why a company would post their proprietary code to Github.

I don't really trust my own government. What on Earth should I trust yours? Growing up, I generally thought of the USA as the good guys. Nowadays, not so much. I'm not sure there are any good guys.

You can potentially print things like toothbrushes, etc, but you cannot print food. Nor can you print gasoline or diesel fuel or ... I doubt this will significantly reduce shipping (it could potentially increase it - if printing stuff is cheap enough, the amount of raw material for printers might exceed the the shipping requirements of the finished goods it replaces).

Further, if the shareholders want to turf him, then they reasonably need to turf everyone involved in hiring him as those folks knew, or should have known, about his support of the proposition.

No, his presence negatively affects some people's perceptions of the business but it probably has a positive affect on others. No idea how it balances out.

... I've learned a few things. 1. Technology is continually changing. 2. It is up to me to be continually learning; no one else can, or will, do it for me. 3. The underlying principles and concepts remain the same, so someone with a good grasp of them will be useful IF THEY WANT TO BE USEFUL. 4. The best employers try to help employees keep up to date (but DO NOT RELY ON YOUR EMPLOYER FOR THIS).

Vaseline.

Well, if you look at their name, it's obvious that they don't have A CLU.

Even if the self-driving cars are well coded, what about hackers? Imagine a virus that causes, say, a million vehicles to go berserk some Monday morning during rush hour. Or even just causes a million vehicles to brick themselves. Yes, people can also go berserk, but you likely won't get a million of them doing so at the same time. Have we learned nothing from M5 or iRobot or Terminator? Methinks 'tis about time for a Butlerian jihad.

... best to keep it simple. Get there prepared with all the info they will need. Answer questions directly and simply. Don't volunteer additional info. I've traveled extensively. I've also had interviews with security services in the process of landing jobs. Those rules have always helped. Never had any problems.