Citing a silly platitude that is not even logical does not have the argument winning effect you wish it to have.

We really need a new Godwin's law, but applied to the term "fascist".

The vast majority of the ports in the world do not care if a container debarks one ship and eventually embarks on another without going through their customers and entering their country. There are major world ports that are considered "hubs" just like airports for people. 85% of the containers that arrive in Singapore for instance are transshipped.

It is extremely difficult once a container has left one port to know where it is really going to wind up. The logistics databases can be updated after a container has left one port and none of the top 6 companies managing the flow of the world's containers are U.S. corporations.

There are even businesses in 3rd world countries that all they do is completely unpackage and re-package the contents of shipping containers to eliminate the possibility of hidden tracking devices.

Even if the magical tech envisioned in the Chip Security Act worked, all it would tell us is what we already know, that boards and chips are winding up in places the U.S. government declared that they should not. If we can't stop specialized gas centrifuge components from getting into Iran, we aren't going to be able to keep commodity chips from getting into China.

yeah, sure, totally. One time only. uh huh.
I work public sector. The only thing that scares me more than an unhinged capitalist AI system for profit only is an unhinged AI system built and maintained by government bureaucracy. It will either be totally ineffective, or will murder you and produce documentation in triplicate to be distributed to all departments justifying said murder. Perhaps both?

A gross profit of only $2000 per vehicle in no way has to mean every vehicle has a negative net profit. The net profit is likely near $0, +/-500, which is a little different than the scale of the losses the article seems to imply. That they can capture so much of the market at so close to profitability is scary, but this is what happens when you shift all of your production to another country for their cheaper labor ... within a couple of decades they are producing cheaper products than the ones they were hired to make. Britain shifted production to the U.S. in the 1780s ... this has been occurring throughout history.

It is cheaper to make identical high end and low end chips and use a minimum number of mutable bits to disable features that it is to design two completely different chips. This isn't enshitification or a conspiracy, this is just Standard Operating Procedures for companies making complicated technical products. This is not a new practice. In the late 1970s the only difference between a 0.25 MIP and a 0.50 MIP HP3000 was one jumper on the motherboard, but the latter "product" cost significantly more (when you purchased the system you signed a contract asserting you would not modify the system). It is far more cost effective to have different levels of products be essentially identical and curtail capabilities than it is to actually make different chips.

There was likely some sort of internal feature review where it was noticed that a bit that marketing said to disable years ago had not in fact been disabled, so they "fixed" this issue in the AGESA 1.2.7.0, release.

Someone sounds angry. Parents raise you wrong?
Raising your kids is your responsibility, regardless of the state's help or lack thereof. Calling someone weak for stating that is some 1984 level doubleplusgood speak.

I can remember looking at cereal boxes and wanting so badly to read them. However, I can't remember my parents ever assisting me with this at all: it was just told that I'd learn it when I entered school. I became a voracious reader once I learned, however.

When Blackberries came along managers stopped seeing anything more than the first couple of lines of text in emails, so you not only had to get your point across succinctly you had to do it in a way that what you wrote could be forwarded up the chain without detonating a shit storm.

Now it seems this is how one has to communicate with everyone, not just an irritating boss.

Unfortunately, most technical issues cannot be relayed in 2 sentences.

Fox must not understand just how toxic their brand is to half the country. Anything they buy is going to lose half its customers overnight when there are cheap, competitive alternatives.

20 pages is not quite a lot.

The overhead on Bitcoin is $15 to $25 million per day for the electricity of the miners. This overhead requires constant new fools and when new fools stop injecting cash into the ecosystem the whole thing implodes. That hasn't happened yet, there is at least this level of new fools coming along every day or the miners would not be able to turn their block rewards into the cash needed to pay their electric companies. This is how Bitcoin will end -- a bank run followed by a bunch of overdue electric bills.

A few police officers pacing traffic would have cost a lot less than $33 million.

Now do the moon landing.

This reminds me of the judge Dredd storyline with Judge Death: all people are capable of committing crime, so the only way to perfectly stop crime is to kill everyone.