What happens if someone has $1B in net worth but doesn't have the liquidity to pay the tax? Will they be forced to sell assets - perhaps even at a loss - to pay the bill? Will they have to sell part of the company they may have created?

There are some books, such as Dungeon Crawler Carl, which are absolutely not the same experiences when read as compared to the performances put on by the narrators. Audiobooks aren't just "read" anymore - they're performed.

Monopolies are not illegal, and are not necessarily damaging. Abuse of one's monopoly power is where the harm comes from and is the thing that is illegal. Amazon is probably abusing their monopoly.

You may be surprised to learn that reactor technology has changed a lot since the days when the USSR ignored all safety measures and built Chernobyl. There are some new designs, one of which was recently licensed to proceed, which don't suffer the meltdown risk.

I'm sick and tired of the notion that banks can collect a cut of nearly all retail transactions on the planet. We're switching to all cash for most things we buy. There are places that give discounts for cash, so I'm all in. You should be, too.

It's not from fossil fuel production. It's from fossil fuel use.

Apple said it won't work for EU residents or those with an EU Apple ID. I interpret that to mean it will work if you are in the EU visiting and are neither a resident or have an EU ID.

Shouldn't we be blaming the hackers? I mean, if I left my front door unlocked and then got murdered, am I the one to blame or is the murderer?

Hmmm... I don't know... an army of Chinese robots roaming the US. Kinda makes me nervous.

Please note that most of the billionaire's net worth is actually the value of the stock they own in their companies. When those values go up, so does their net worth. They're not actually "extracting" money from the economy, leaving people with no money to save. They don't have piles of cash under their mattress or in their bank accounts.

That's not what went down. The US asked Apple to make a special version of the OS that would not wipe the terrorist's phones after multiple failed attempts to log in.

It was Bill Clinton who signed the Most Favored Nation pact.

It's amazing that you know all this about a film which has not been released, and you definitely haven't seen it on a Vision Pro. How about we wait until it we actually see and experience the thing before we trash it?

The parent was trying to say that Apple intends to process most of these features on the user’s device without contacting a server, not use iPhones and iPads as servers.

You can also change a setting so you must be actively looking at it, not just in the vicinity.