How much does it cost for, say, a small business in Argentina that ships to the EU to comply with article 27 GDPR by hiring a representative?

Article 27 GDPR, as I understand it, requires businesses outside the EU to hire a representative firm in the EU if they get even one order in a year with a shipping or billing address in an EU member state. It also requires businesses outside Britain to separately hire a representative firm in Britain if they get even one order in a year with a shipping or billing address in Britain. This has caused small businesses without the budget for an article 27 representative's annual fee to comply by removing EU member states and Britain from their list of valid countries. How is this not a geofence?

True, but on the other hand, they probably wouldn't have accidentally deleted the data center.

Especially given Google's default support policy: "Talk to the hand".

The worst I have seen was a client-server setup where the server offered an authentication call but because of a design flaw, all it did is tell the client if the authentication was good. Either way, or even if authentication was skipped entirely, it would execute any commands sent to it. It was on the client to actually check for authentication and then refuse to send further commands if it failed.

Not naming names due to NDA.

Which leaves what for people in Slashdot's home country who enter the workforce before age 21?

Then let's amend it to an algorithm not fully disclosed to its users. This way chronological can stay common-carrier, but the secret sauce of Facebook and X post ranking becomes editorial.

I suspect the latter. Otherwise, the streaming providers could just discount to the amount the consumer would pay and keep the part Comcast would profit on.

I get why they might like to offer that, the question is, why would the consumer? Adding another middle man seems like an unlikely way to get a better price.

In the new Capitalism, the corporations are the state. Everything is owned by the state.

Cable is dying and they did it to themselves. Get a few streaming subscriptions and enjoy MORE content when you want it for a third of the price.

What's the point of bundling streaming with cable? That's like finally getting the puppy house trained and then hiring someone to randomly pour piss on the carpet.

We are also talking about sole proprietor farms who do not get the same level of cooperation (that's why they get to wait days for the dealer while the crops need to be harvested NOW).

From the standpoint of society, we definitely do NOT need or want further consolidation into a small number of corporations.

You have a very dated and stereotypical view of farmers. Some of them have managed to obtain hacked dealer software from Eastern Europe over the dark web to maintain their tractors. Does that REALLY sound like someone bringing a wrench to a job that needs a laptop?

The problem is the DRM ladel lock-outs on the equipment that is primarily there to keep anyone but an authorized dealer from replacing paired parts or getting useful diagnostics.

It sounds like a desperately contrived scenario written by a ten year old trying to justify not allowing repair. Or just trying to avoid an F on the short story assignment due in the morning that he slagged off for the last two weeks.

How does that relate to anything a farmer might actually WANT to do like replacing a faulty module without having to wait for the dealer to come bless the pairing?

This. The new Capitalism is Communism except you don't even get a fake vote and the people who own everything don't even pretend to be "the people".

If you hated Communism, you should REALLY hate the new Capitalism.