Google also abuses the standards-making process through Chrome.

Also, add to the terms of service policy that after N minutes grace period, there will be a per minute fee while occupying the vehicle.

Calling 911 for a non-emergency because the robotaxi can't figure out how to run its own business is just a way for a wealthy corporation to burn taxpayer money. I shouldn't have to pay more taxes (or get less services) because Waymo is incompetent.

They didn't. And the files were sealed.

Trump pardoned all the J6 terrorists via autopen. Get fucked, poser.

Right, they want them dependent on the applications, and providing the OS is no longer necessary to accomplish that.

I don't really care what happens to billionaires.

You are helping to engineer your own demise. Not sure what else you should do really, but definitely don't get smug.

Really no. The wealthy get most of the money. The wealthy spend less of the money. When the poor get it, it's spent about five times before it comes to rest in a tax dodge. When the wealthy get it, it's spent only about twice. What we need is for the wealthy to spend money like they pretend they do, in order to create jobs like they pretend they do.

Apple goes with simple brutalist complying with China.

And Microsoft themself is now acting to make that dependence on Windows go away, with web-based versions of their applications. I think they can see that Windows' time is limited. Maintaining an OS is a big thankless job that they don't need to do, and they're not any good at it so it's not like they deserve thanks anyway.

"DEATH TO PEDOPHILES!" they chant... "BUT NOT THE ORANGE MESSIAH CHILD RAPIST, HE'S SPECIAL!"

The Commerce clause gives the federal government nearly limitless authority over the States despite what the rest of the Constitution says.

Not usually. You have to add so many plasticizers back in that it would be more economical to burn it in a modern waste-to-energy incinerator, if onlynthose weren't basically illegal in California

Commercial speech is not free speech ... Fight me

There won't be any money to hire you after the bubble pops. We'll potentially enter a recession that lasts for a few quarters or perhaps a few years.

AI fraudsters that tricked millions of middle class retirement account managers to invest in the wrong* AI companies are going to come out ahead of course.

* I say wrong companies, because I don't believe anyone can pick the winners right now.

Simple LED display, radio, and the alarm was just a square wave BEEP BEEP BEEP at 90 dB like the house was on fire. I got it for $5 at a yard sale in the 1990's and that was my go-to for waking up my teenage self.