It's not just for Microsoft anymore

It's both. He's intentionally spamming the politicians as a form of activism.

Microsoft Is Plugging More Holes That Let You Use Windows 11 Without an Online Account

Technically, they are plugging more holes that let you set up Windows 11 without an online account. Once you've done that, I presume you can still create a local admin account and zap the account used during setup. Now if they were to remove the ability to create local accounts entirely, that would be a problem.

I'd mod this up if I could. The extra middle men all have to be fed as well.

For firing the Woz and canceling the IIgs line

unlikely it will be good for much with less than 1GB memory available. Should be a good reminder that true personal computers are still available and at only a modest cost premium.

Ah, I guess it's "all-cash" as in existing shareholders will receive all-cash for their shares.

If you read the article, "The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of fiscal 2027, pending regulatory and shareholder approval. Financing will come from $36 billion in equity and $20 billion in debt arranged by JPMorgan, with $18 billion funded at closing.

I'm not a finance person, so I don't know in what context the "all-cash" wording in the summary might make sense, but the article is pretty clear on that.

That evil guy Trump has the solution, created last Friday- $100,000 minimum application fee for new H-1bs

If Trump wants to make the $100,000 H-1b fee *extremely popular among techies*:

-$30,000 to an American worker laid off in the last 36 months for retraining funds and or job coaches
-$50,000 in a trust fund for the worker to be paid upon purchase of a return ticket when the visa expires, or alternatively, to pay for a conversion to an immigrant visa
-$15,000 to the revenue to help pay for INS/ICE and the bureaucrats to process the application
-$5,000 to a company that cancels an H-1b application to hire a US Citizen

EVs would be residential, not wholesale, pricing.

Big AI Data Centers would be wholesale pricing.

I guess I should clarify. In addition to "just the W2" there's also a monthly, quarterly, or yearly payroll tax report that goes to the IRS, along with a whopping large check for the withholding, as part of normal payroll processing. Different companies do different reporting standards, of course. But they're getting the data a lot more often than you think, just from the money paid in *during* the year, before the return is filed for.

I recently watched a The Critical Drinker video where he bemoaned the state of TV these days, where a "season" is really a 6-8 episode mini-series, and then you have to wait two bloody years for the next season, by which time you've pretty much forgotten about the show, and any kind of momentum is lost. Back in the day when a season was 22-24 episodes, with a couple of shorter mid-season breaks, there was only a few months between the end of one season and the beginning of the next, and you could really stay invested in a show. This is something that affects even many of the good shows of today.

It's a very rare event but electric heating is much less dangerous.

You might think that. However, from this Home cooking fires report, Ranges or cooktops were involved in 53 percent of the reported home cooking fires, 88 percent of cooking fire deaths, and 74 percent of cooking fire injuries. Households with electric ranges had a higher risk of cooking fires and associated losses than those with gas ranges.

I just found that with a quick search, so I haven't read the report in detail to look into nuances or causal factors, so maybe it's not saying quite what it seems to be saying from that quote, I don't know.

#2 is already happening, that's what the Internal Revenue Service *does*.

50% revision from a survey is not consistent or predictable.

But we do know the answers- just use the information reported to the IRS from every employer doing business in the United States instead.