Who controlled the federal government throughout most of the 80s? Hint: It wasn’t the Democrats. How you can pretend a party out of power had the ability to strong arm the states into compliance is beyond me.

Republicans never really cared about state rights beyond the federal government not dictating to them how they can and can not oppress their own residents. The term resident is important here. States have residents, not citizens. We are free to come and go as we please. Egregious circumstances aside, one law abiding citizen cannot be barred from engaging with other fellow Americans whether they live in our state, or a different one. The Executive branch does not make laws, though they can choose which ones to prioritize and which to de-emphasize. They want a nationwide law barring states from regulating AI, that is the prevue of congress.

Which is why they are using the threat of withholding funds for unrelated activity. They have no way of enforcing such a law. So they threaten to withhold congressionally authorized broadband access grants. Basically saying, "Do what we want or we will hurt the rural economy and poor people in your state". Which is a similar strategy used in the 80s by republicans to lower the BAC to .08 across the nation. Saying if states refuse, they would no longer receive highway funds. I don't know if that was ever challenged in courts. But that seems more connected than equating getting internet to areas private industry doesn't find profitable, mostly poor and/or remote areas.

I would be very surprised if this one doesn't end up in the courts. The Project 2025 has be a godsend work program from those in the legal profession. I wonder how many billions have already be wasted paying lawyers, judges, and all the support staff litigating all of these power grabs?

I am sure all of those non-EU website will respect the hell out the cookie policy. I imagine most major international companies' sites will. But outside of that, good luck with enforcement.

America, where people are free stop make stupid decisions that negatively effect not only themselves but others around them. To be fair, you have to include Canada there too as they have sustained measles outbreaks there as well. Both originally brought on by Mennonites.

Okay, however this definition ignores when a product is being sold at a loss or break even in the home market. Rail on me all you want if it makes you feel superior. However, it doesn’t change the fact just because it is being sold at a higher price abroad it doesn’t necessarily mean it is being sold at value that is not artificially low.

How about instead of calling it dumping; I call it: Deliberate price suppression due to state supported industrial policy designed to undercut domestic producers in foreign markets. Resulting in the collapse or suppression of production capacity in the foreign market and resulting in a dependency in Chinese exporters for a category of product.

Does that make you feel better? Talk about pedantic. A rose by any other name is still a rose.

“ 1) Do you seriously think that having concern about "trans sports" is preventing antitrust enforcement? That is quite an assertion, and a ridiculous one at that. 2) They are not "trans girls" playing, they are males. And they have many or most (if not all, in many cases) of the sports advantages of males, and it greatly diminishes the value of female sports competition. 3) It is far from just "field hockey in the Midwest", it has been across all kinds, ages, and levels of sports, except where it is finally being stopped.”

Yes, because they are using the above issue to get voters while the ones in charge stack the deck in their favor and rob our treasury. It is the old, “Look at this hand! Look at this hand!” While the other hand picks your back pocket”. While I agree than biological males should not compete against girls in high level sport at high school and above, it isn’t such an important issue that I can’t see the other hand robbing us blind.

It’s not selling ‘at a price lower than their home market”. It is selling at an artificially low price because of government subsidies and intervention.

The prices are so low in China because the government was giving out no and low interest loans like candy in order to rapidly grow the capacity and market. Now the marker is over saturated and they have to practically give the cars away in their home market. Often at a loss.

They can get higher prices in foreign markets because there is less competition for similar products. It is still dumping because they are can price the product as low as they do because of the initial government intervention at home of the low or no interest loans.

I haven’t had cable or satellite for about 15 years now. I’d never go back. I do subscribe to some streaming services, but outside of watching sports, linear tv is dead to me. And has been for a long time. I only subscribed to cable or satellite for so long because of sports. Before legal streaming sports options were available, once bandwidth was high enough where I lived told them to suck it and I’d just watch pirate feeds online. i would have paid sooner if they would have let me. But I was fed up paying for 120+ channels I have no interest in watching for the 6 or 7 I did want to watch.

I haven’t watched commercial interrupted linear tv, save perhaps in a waiting room, for scripted programming since around 2004. And I like scripted dramas and comedies. Just not on someone else’s schedule, and certainly not with commercial interruptions. At least with sports, nothing is going on during the commercials.

I hope the Mars portion is just as successful. It will be good to provide Space X with some completion. Even better that the competition is another domestic company.

I want a watch, or maybe even a ring, I can take off and set down that projects a screen or 3d hologram and virtual keyboard. I predicted the smartphone when I got my first mp3 player (creative) in the 90s and was also lugging around a Nokia candybar, and palm pilot. I was so satisfied my prediction came true, I then predicted that watch or ring. I’ve been equally disappointed it’s never been made or released. And never had the venture capital hire people or technical ability to make it myself

There are pico projectors and laser keyboards. There are virtual hand tracking keyboard/mice now too. The processors are just about finally there. Maybe one day. But it seems the people with the money are going the route of AR glasses. So maybe that will be the way it goes. But I still think it would be cool to have a pico projectors or three image you could watch with other people. Who didn’t also have the tech on them.

As long as I’m dreaming, It would also nice to be able to dock such a watch Mr ring c to a multi monitor and Bluetooth keyboards and mouse set up like I can with my MacBook Pro.

Clearly.

Fortunately there is an easy fix. Education. Never click on links from any email you receive unless you just initiated the link being sent to you. Go to the businesses actual website, log in from there. If it’s legit you’ll very likely see what it was talking about upon login or after a brief search through the sites menus.

Unfortunately for many people, they are too lazy, ignorant, and/or refuse to take basic and easy precautions. And yes, some people are just dumb on their best days. That’s why things like this work if you send such scams to enough people.

It is exceedingly simple to install non apple vetted software on a Mac. They throw out a bunch of scary sounding warnings, but that is about it. As far as the rest of it there are people who give out their banking information and social security numbers to strangers who text or call them over the phone. If not the scammers wouldn’t be flooding people’s phones with the bs. You are right that people like that will be more susceptible to such things. However, the any I see it, it’s kind of like parents who home school their kids because there are jerks, liars, and bullies in schools with other children. What are those kinds going to do when they invariably encounter bullies, liars, and bullies once they leave the nest? It’s better to learn how to deal with the bad actors out there than to expect a cocoon to save and protect you.

Except the quality of public schools vary wildly depending on your zip code and boundaries.

They are generally the funded by property taxes. So the richer the neighborhood the nicer the public schools. And the poorer neighborhoods have the schools you have assumed exist everywhere. The unfortunate irony being that as a public service the poor probably need access to better schools more than the wealthy. Add to the fact there tends to be less enrollment pressure in wealthy areas because some wealthy people will send their kids to private schools anyway and the wealthy tend to have less kids than the poor. Though the exceedingly wealthy tend to have more than both the merely well off and the poor.

If a billionaire lives in an actual neighborhood instead of an island, that place most certainly has top notch public schools. That is unless you are in a big city instead of the suburbs. It's why people who can afford it usually leave downtown, or the city entirely, for the suburbs once we have kids. Big US cities usually have high property taxes and high property values for safer areas coupled with poor public schools once you reach high school. Which results in cities comprised mostly of rich families who send their kids to private schools, poor families who send their kids to bad public schools, and middle class childless adults.

My property taxes are not any lower in my train attached walkable suburb than they would be in the city. However, the public schools here are some of the best in the state. With test scores comparable to the best private schools even though they have to accept everyone while the private schools can kick people out who underperform. Which makes them some of the best in the country.

So no not all public schools are bad. Though to get access to the good public schools you often have to have parents who made good life choices (and had the opportunity to make those choices) or were born with a silver spoon. In the USA if you live in a major metro area it is better to live in a shoebox in a nice area than a palace in the ghetto. Or you could live in a mid size city or small town somewhere and not have to compete so hard for resources (and not have access to as many resources as a result).

So what they are saying is that we need a world war to decimate all our international competitors. But it needs to be started by someone else so that the USA isn't the bad guy, we need to wait from them to pummel each other for a few years before getting involved while remaining unscathed. Then our companies will be welcomed once more across the planet to rebuild other countries' destroyed cites.

Seems like the plot of a derange sci-fi novel.

Is that why most computers, including Macs, are infected with malware and surveillance software....oh right. They aren't.

Sure there are plenty of people who install whatever from whoever. And there are people who will try to trick other people into installing sketchy things. However, there is nothing preventing people from just sticking to the App Store or major companies if they are afraid of or unable to discern the difference. If fact I think it is safe to assume the most basic and novice users will likely never venture from Apples curated garden. The people you will have to worry about the teenagers and twenty year olds with little sense. But that is true for nearly everything.