Wage-slave salaries stay flat while rich get richer, and protecting the rich's tax cuts is a Holy Endeavor.

...wacky ideas, so if it keeps his orange nose out of pressing issues, I deem it good.

Admiral Ackbar: "It's a trappist!"

Correction: kaboom

potential hurdles include ensuring that the methods used for startup, operation and shutdown avoid instabilities

"Instabilities" = that giant boom that Marvin the Martian always wanted to hear.

Don Q-uixote

In my day, to plug in a mouse: We took the box apart, installed a proprietary bus card, and then tried to figure out non-conflicting spots for the I/O and IRQ jumpers. Then we typed a bunch of gibberish into AUTOEXEC.BAT. And we liked it!

I don't give a shit if some Russian/Kazakh/Malaysian bot farmer wants to take over my phone.

So you do no banking on your phone? Unlikely.

For the 99% of people that do in fact use a phone for banking, protection from lower level criminals is invaluable. For most people there is real financial loss possible from a phone being taken over, at the very least to monitor banking access mechanisms.

I once worked for an environmental cleanup organization. Then we merged with a conglomerate full of polluters. In the gallows we joked that we were being paid to clean up our own messes.

PhallicGPT

Everybody seems to hate some group these days.

...won't be easy to undo.

Should have attempted a coup while at it, would get off free.

Not at all. Free citizens picking lettuce on a corporate-owned ranch is the American Dream!

It's better than medieval serfdom was because you're FREE!!! You could even prove it by wearing a giant bald eagle and flag T-shirt while you work!!!

A whole bunch of opportunities have recently opened up to US citizens for picking lettuce.