Not that shortly. The first filibuster occurred in 1837, or 48 years after the Constitution.

How has Apple "...monopolized various aspects of the online economy" exactly? Apple has a minority share of the smartphone OS market; Android is the market leader. By definition, a company with a minority share can't exercise monopoly control of a market.

Go ahead and break-up Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Those are actual monopolies. Apple has a monopoly over one thing: it's own app store. Nobody is talking about breaking-up Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft, and those companies also exercise monopoly control over their own app stores. But none of those three companies has a majority share of the console gaming market.

These are great ideas...for 1920. It's far, far too late now. Many of us alive today will live to see a dramatic decrease in this planet's ability to grow food at scale. And when there are no more crops or animals to eat, people will eat people, because that's all that's left.

But that's not even the worst part. We may have a water shortage before that even happens. If today, you wanted to install a water reclamation system in your home, what would it cost? Do any even exist?

The situation is dire, and I'm sorry, but it's just too late now to stop. We could stop emitting CO2 today and it would still be too late. Temperatures will continue to increase, and the Holocene extinction will accelerate. You can live in denial if you like, or go through the stages of grief if you prefer, but It's really time to make peace with each other because this is it for humans on this planet.

As an aside, could this be the reason we don't see any evidence of life in the universe? Perhaps nearly every civilization learns how to dig carbon out of the ground for fuel, burns it, and then destroys itself within a few hundred years, so they exist for such a brief period of time that we can never see them?

Actually, the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) is slowing down. Once it shuts down completely, Europe will be colder, not warmer. Good luck growing crops in France when it's too cold all year round.

Nobody? The Apple Watch is the top selling watch in the world. Millions of buyers isnâ(TM)t nobody to most people.

Have you tried AirPods? Theyâ(TM)re not perfect, but theyâ(TM)re much better than the half dozen other Bluetooth headphones Iâ(TM)ve wasted money on.

Really? Skydiving requires zero skill? OK, if you've never been, let's both go. I'll live. You'll die.

Banking is for talentless C student losers who are too dumb to sell insurance.

How absurd. Banking literally requires zero skill and zero talent. It just requires money.

The minute you threaten the death penalty, all the criminals leave the market, along with a ton of risk. The remaining honest banks will clean up with less competition and no lawbreaking.

You have it backwards: it is the LACK of regulation which allows companies to merge, thus depriving consumers of choice and competitive prices, and henceforth becoming too big too fail.

Right, but normally the Fed would just have to deal with sluggish demand, which would be bad enough, but now they're having to do a lot of selling when demand is low, which is going to make their job (controlling interest rates) that much harder.

I'm not saying QE was a bad idea, I think it was a good idea. I just think that the Fed is always late to the party: they wait too long to lower interest rates and inject money into the economy, and then they wait too long to raise interest rates and pull money out of the economy. They should have begun slowing their purchase of treasuries years ago, not wait until there's another bubble.

Until we again separate banking from investment banking, we're going to continue with these boom/bust cycles, and people are going to get hurt.

The Fed affects the economy by raising or lowering interest rates, but this is different. The Fed is trying to unload $4.5T in treasuries that it has bought since 2009, but China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia have all cut back on their purchase of treasuries, so rates are rising to make them more attractive. But this is also going to cause rates on everything else to rise, including corporate debt, with many corporations will be unable to shoulder those higher rates.

This isnâ(TM)t good.

Is the NHS costing you $2,000 a month for a family of four? Because that's pretty common here.

No, I think the market was down because the bond market is taking a hit now that the Fed is trying to sell all those treasuries, which is going to drive up insurance rates, which cools down the economy, which causes the market to fall. Round and round we go.

You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once. At some point, Apple's customers are going to realize that the iPhone has become less reliable, and isn't worth the $1,000 they're spending.

I'm not seeing quality decreases in iPhones or iPads, but I sure am seeing them in Macs, particularly the MacBook Pro. If the battery swells or needs to be replaced in recent MacBook Pros, it's a $200 to $400 repair, because the top case becomes malformed, and now you have to replace that, which contains the keyboard, trackpad, AND the battery, or so I've been told by a repair center.

It seems to me that Apple should design its products so the failure of a consumable doesn't require replacing half the device. That kind of abuse can't go on forever.

Right, but the whole point of OS X Server/Server.app was ease-of-use, and the issues with permissions, SMBX, password server, Profile Manager, and Open Directory weren't ever really fixed, so that vision was never realized.

Apple management just doesn't understand: if you want to keep people in the ecosystem, then you need to provide and maintain ALL PARTS of the ecosystem: cloud, network, server, desktop, mobile. They depend on each other, but Apple mistakenly focuses all its efforts on mobile, to the detriment of the other components.

And the shortsightedness isn't just restricted to Server. Have you used the latest versions of macOS or iOS? They are the buggiest versions in years. I'm tired of telling clients they need to wait until nine months after release before they should upgrade.

It is past time for Apple to move to alternate year releases; they just don't have what it takes to release updated, reliable versions of four OSes every year.

Apple stopped offering a server certification years ago, but it didn't stop Apple Stores from recommending a Mac Mini with a single drive to customers who wanted a file server. Apple's SMBX doesn't really work well with anything but a Mac, and Profile Manager is just about the least reliable MDM out there.

And who is really using Open Directory these days? If you want Netboot, you can do it from Linux. If you want VPN, use your firewall or an appliance.

So, when people want a server for use with their Macs, we'll recommend a Synology or a QNAP. They offer dozens of services, including DNS, practically any other service you could want, and they have RAIDs and SSD caching as well. Some of the Synology units can even be configured to provide Active Directory.

As Apple has now built the caching service and file sharing into High Sierra, I don't really see that there is much reason for Server any more. Oh wait..

MAYBE you don't want to trust your data to someone else? Maybe you figure YOU are the best person to manage your data and services, so you won't be down a day or two while Google fixes G Suite? And as Google thinks they're the world expert on who is and who isn't sending spam, what could go wrong there?

Server was great because it enabled the end user to run his/her own mail server, DNS, file sharing, software update server, and more, rather than outsourcing everything to companies which may or may not give a damn when something goes wrong with "the cloud".