It would really be interesting to see a study on the more confident individuals and their reason for confidence. It could be an ego type of thing, which I think you are implying, but I think there could be a couple of other possibilities as well. Maybe they intrinsically value hard work more than intelligence and consider that to be what makes them not a fraud, or maybe they have enough life experience to realize that the Dunning Kruger effect is real and compensate for that in their assessment, effectively realizing that all of their peers are similarly limited in their knowledge.

I am typicallly around 700 MB of data and I don't hold back. Home, work, gym, hotels, restaurants... they all have wifi. I don't think I could use 10 GB of data in a month if I tried.

Its really not, because you save a ton by not paying for unused data. If you use 515 MB, then you pay $5.15 for data. Fi also does a great job of using wifi whenever possible, including for voice calls and the provide a free VPN so that you can feel safe using public wifi in more places.

My bill is typically around $28. Most providers with service rates in that ball park do not give you access to Nexus phones.

I think its more like the definition of welfare...

Got to make sure all of those bureaucrats at AFRL with outdated skills can justify their ridiculous over compensation.

I don't think the military is trying hard at all to develop a do-it-all bird. In fact, I doubt most of the military cares, including the Air Force where they are far more interested in unmanned vehicles and cyber. JSF is a congressional project for money re-distribution. The portion of the military that cares about doing important things like winning wars, moved on from JSF a long time ago. It is a boring, uninteresting program.

Forget about Ireland. The irish tax rate is not the issue. The problem is that when they "sold" the assets to the Irish company, they blatantly and intentionally misrepresented the value of the assets. As a result, the IRS lost out on the taxes on the revenue of that sale of assets.

The test is simple. Would Apple have been willing to sell Microsoft, Google, or anybody else that IP for 10% more than they sold it to the Irish company? Wouldn't it be logical for a for-profit company to want to sell their products for more money?

It is not the payment of taxes in Ireland that is in dispute. It is the transfer of assets proceeding all of this and the subsequent huge adjustment of asset values after the transfer. That is what makes the whole scheme work and the IRS and other government tax authorities have always cracked down on this sort of stuff. It is tax evasion.

IMO, it is not just the tax break in Ireland that is the core of the issue. The real problem is the manipulation of the value of an asset (in this case IP). The value of the IP magically takes on whatever value that Apple needs it to take in order to transfer it across borders and then charge themselves royalties equal to the amount they would have otherwise earned. It is not new that this sort of thing is tax evasion.

Its not really a retroactive change, in my opinion, it's just that someone has finally decided that the law should be carried out and blatant tax evasion should not be allowed.

The scheme is called double irish, or more recently, double irish with a dutch sandwich. Essentially, Apple starts up a company in tax haven Ireland, then they sell their intellectual property to that company at an extremely small valuation. Then they license the technology from the new company at a royalty cost that is coincidentally exactly equal to the amount of earnings that they need to shelter from the governments.

When citizens like you try to fudge the values of property during a person-to-person transfer in order to cut the government out, the IRS will call it tax evasion and come after you.

I do not think it is really a matter of trust. If the DNS system is not being managed well, then it can be taken control of more easily than you might think. For instance, if the EU wanted to take 100% control of all of their TLDs and make them subordinate to a new root, it could be done. It would create issues temporarily, but nothing that could not be worked around. I think the issue with handing over control of the existing root and management of new TLDs is that it is hard to identify an organization and funding that would do a better job of competently managing the system, but there are certainly many organizations and countries that we don't want involved in managing the system. So the low risk approach is "If its not broke, don't fix it".

The money is overseas because the sold products overseas and had revenue overseas. On top of that, the products were probably built oversees. So now that they want to bring money back to invest in the U.S., we tell them that they need to give us 30% of the money? They shouldn't take that deal and we shouldn't be crazy enough to ask them to take that deal.

Except in this one case where they would have to be able to modify the OS of a phone that is already locked.

You either need to find an entrepreneur or be an entrepreneur. Seriously, the hard work is just getting started. You may have a technology, but you don't have a product, a market, a business model, or a customer. So start learning about how you build companies. There are plenty of online classes or books at the library. And forget about starting with big companies just because they are big, you need to find the companies that are hurting the most from the problem you are solving - electrical fires.

Depends on the state maybe. In some states (Michigan I know), they are expected to be as far right as practical. Also, they can be ticketed for impeding the flow of traffic. Unfortunately, this is part of the problem. Most cyclists think that the laws are the same for them as it is for everyone else. They end up doing lots of stupid things that eventually catch up with them.

Are you saying that embedded internet technologies are only useful if they can be embedded into every electronic object?