SAVE THE CONSUMERS

I have repeatedly written to request that Barr cure cancer - but he simply refuses. Why? I can only conclude that after reading my several letters regarding sick kids with cancer, that William Barr doesn't care. Nay - he actively HATES KIDS WHO HAVE CANCER! Which is why he won't simply cure cancer like I have repeatedly and with pure, blind ignorance asked him to do. Over and over. What a monster.

My *gut* is telling me this was actually sabotage perpetrated by Ukraine and Hillary Clinton something something Trump witch hunt

Sorry - as of this morning 200k+ pre-orders. My data was from Saturday... the update has already hit the market - but if you're not willing to "know" a thing, but rather "believe" your own thing, this is probably the wrong site for you. REF: https://electrek.co/2019/11/25... (not paywalled; further references at that link)

Pre-orders are already north of 150,000? It's only a refundable $100 to reserve, but still...

yes

Remember when this self-titled "president of the world" wants to actually run for office: he'll do the same thing to the voters that he has done to his former employees: keep all the cookies for himself while treating the rank and file as the disposable trash he knows they are.

But wait - capitalism was ALWAYS (according to Adam Smith) the new, best system for social good - at least when the 1.0 version was released. The upgrades have all been shit - a few steps forward and many yards back as we gave up (or really got outbid by the oligarchs) governmental oversight, regulation and a meaningful, progressive tax code and other playing field levelers that were all meant to make capitalism work for the country as a whole. I think a return to well-regulated markets is what's called for. Government should only be focused (internally) on reigning in corruption, monopolistic and anti-competitive behavior, collusion, anti-consumer and other "pro-business anti-society" behaviors. Government should be pro-"their" businesses when dealing with outside nation-states who appear to be trying to warp markets. Rule number one when a new law is proposed: is it designed to benefit society as a whole? No? Throw it out. Corporations that don't fundamentally benefit large swaths of society shouldn't be given corporate status - if you want to grab all the cookies for yourself you do so as a private entity, with no shield of liability and no corporate tax rates. Corporate values should be ordered 1) customer 2) employees 3) management 4) investors - with penalties for deviation. Whistle blowers exposing corruption/illegal corporate behavior should be encouraged with a 10% fine award. Fines should be structured in such a way that forensic accounting of the infraction's potential benefit will result in a 3x penalty - it should *never* be worth it to gamble on coming out ahead even after a trial. Corporate bankruptcy should attach 50% of the assets of the top 5% of paid employees in addition to the liquidating corporate assets. Return progressive tax brackets to Nixon-era and greatly reduce personal capital gains write-offs - capital gains protections should apply to $2m in personal assets and then only incorporated investment where corporate rules are followed; private hedge funds should be treated like straight income under the previously-mentioned tax brackets. Reign in state tax giveaways to business (with some allowance for impoverished areas/low-employment areas, etc.). Structure write-offs for corporate-wide benefits (IE: stock options distributed relatively uniformly) and eliminate tax benefits for things that target only a few top-level employees (IE: corporate jets for executives). Finally - although this appears to be happening somewhat already - return to strong pro-union rules and union protections. There are all sorts of things that would help capitalism return to the ideal Adam Smith envisioned. Just imagine what Sauron (Trump, Koch bros, etc.) would do and then do the opposite.

Thanks for cancelling the evacuation - that will make for a MUCH better HBO miniseries.

Sorry - this is probably my fault - I deleted the Uber app a few quarters ago (because Uber is really an awful company on all levels just dirtbags)

1) No Collusion 2) No Obstruction 3) Actually, No Security Back Doors See? Fun to make shit up in a summary. BTW Barr's full statement is classified you really should just refer to my summary and report that.

I'd moved back to Google's 8.8.8.8 DNS (with assumed evesdropping) after noticing a few weeks ago Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS seemed to be basically non-functional - I am assuming their DNS services are being hit with whatever their larger infrastructure is suffering from

I wonder if Putin will order Trump to pardon him?

awww - I wish "anonymous coward" could be changed to "less than zero" (in this day and age of /.)

I like what consumer reports does in *theory* and paid them for a subscription, but their site was 100% unusable unless I turned off all privacy and tracking tools and reset my DNS to plain vanilla (I have a dynamic block list of known tracking IPs & domains). The believe that they own and can aggressively monitize their subscribers is whatever the opposite of "pro-consumer" is; I have an immediate negative reaction to anything they have to say.