And worse, the government will screw any competitors to its *favored* companies. Just watch el Bunko, he has no morals or ethics, so naturally the Christian Right feels he is one of them.

This is not socialism but fascism. Look it up. And what happens when one of these companies that idiot put U.S. taxpayer money into? The taxpayers will bail it out. And if anyone of these companies cannot compete, it won't matter because the U.S. Government won't let it fail.

I'm pretty sure Starlink is already blocked inside Russia.

la Presidenta is entirely Republican. You must recall that Reagan campaigned on Gov. is the Problem and more or less promised to tear it down. He didn't of course and taxes actually went up under Reagan. He also let the feral Christian Right into politics under the guise of Jerry Falwell and his ilk. They proceeded to destroy any freedoms that they could lay hand on since they were not contained in his Bible. After that, Gingrich proceeded to further destroy a functioning government and then campaigned on government does not work. Nice shot, Gringrich, and he's still promoting the same stupid shit.

Reagan also campaigned for the rich people. His tax cuts were aimed, if not entirely on them, they were huge beneficiaries. Bush 1 and 2 were similarly dumb. Bush 2 claimed there were gov. surpluses as far as they eye could see, so they could then proceed to cut taxes thus screwing government one more time. Deficits continue to rise because of those. Obama stupidly continued those damn things, and then we got The Whiner in Chief who thought that rewarding rich people for being rich meant that they'd reward him with some of their riches; he wasn't wrong.

Biden was caretaker and the U.S reeled under Covid, a disease ignored by la Presidenta until if couldn't be, mainly due to the stiffs piling up. The Republicans thought this was just potty because they were not Their stiffs, those were little people stiffs. la Presidenta funded the vaccines only because he wanted to be re-elected, other than that he didn't give a flying fuck. It was so bad that when Biden got in and asked for the NiH plan to combat the pandemic, they handed him a binder of crap that was no plan at all. The Biden Administration had to start at square one.

Now el Bunko is selling off the Federal Government one piece at a time to his rich friends who reward him by feeding his grifts. Just look at who contributed to his alleged companies or his dumb-ass ballroom or his festooning the White House with tasteless gold gewgaws. Meanwhile the Republicans are whacking Medicaid and intend to whack the ACA under reasoning that those are helping the little people. In their eyes, the little people are not rich because they choose to be poor.

Whoosh!

I appreciate your ideas, but this will never work. Executives (and every other sane person at the company) will always be more interested in their own success than in the company's success.

They're apparently active recalcitrant nuns. Odds are at least one lives to 100.

Life expectancy for an 85 year old woman is 7-8 years.

Given 3 of them, I'd bet at least one lasts a decade.

How should the CEO have addressed that problem?

"even one time"

Unless you never use a password, in which case, you log in via all the other available options BUT password. You don't notice it missing. Passwords are so 1980s, get with the program.

I don't use biometrics because .. lets just say they are their own version of compromised. You cannot be compelled to give up your Password (legally) (hammer method is still valid) but a fingerprint, face ID etc that doesn't require you to speak can be compelled. I have no idea why people think it is "more secure" to use biometrics.

For most of my early life, Intel was about process engineering, not CPU engineering. They were usually a year ahead of other manufacturers so even if their CPU design was lacklustre they could win on the manufacturing process.

Then they lost the lead there and now their problems with CPU designs have caught up with them.

Intel sacking white men and replacing them with DIE hires was widely discussed over the last decade, along with predictions of the inevitable end result. Which is now clear to everyone.

No-one I know on the right want to spy on everyone's phones.

It's a government thing, not a left/right thing. Governments want to spy on everything all the time because they're authoritarian scumbags, regardless of whether they claim to be left-wing or right-wing.

I mean, it's not a right-wing government pushing Digital ID in the UK. It's a left-wing Labour government who claim to be the socialist party of the working man and have been trying to force ID cards on the British people for the best part of thirty years now. Nor is a right-wing EU government pushing software to spy on every private message.

I think I'd rather be nuked than starved.

A couple of hundred years ago a big volcanic eruption threw masses of dust into the atmosphere and blocked out the sun to the point where there was famine over much of the planet because many food plants couldn't grow.

Now the tech bros want to do that artificially because they're so smart they know exactly how to control the weather.

They're going to kill us all.

Aye, sanctions only help preserve Ukraine booty so el Bunko and the Russia Oligarchs can slice it and dice it to make it their own booty. el Bunko is above corruption in the same way a brick is above the Sargasso Sea (to borrow from Douglas Adams).