We had babies. Damned things morphed into teenagers on their own.

Don't they have military academies where you live?

Perhaps they could use the reciepts to fund a better spell checker.

The Bart Simpson defense.

"I hadn't seen a body put together like that since I solved the case of the Murdered Girl with the Big Tits."

WHOIS: GMail.com

Nope. Of absolutely no use.

... Stokes did get a nice new set of bracelets.

Yeah. Thumbs up for that Linux Subsystem for Windows.

Not just GoDaddy. There's an entire ecosystem of "used domain name" traders out there*. For a small fee, they will "administrate" a domain for you. As if that's a difficult job. Next thing you know, the reassigned administrator contact in the DNS record will be sold off to a squatter. Not typo. They actually have your domain. Now you have to buy it back.

Microsoft was in this business a while back. But they were buying up entire hosting companies and then informing cusomers that their domain was no longer "your_name.com" but "your_name.msn.com". They sold original domains off to squatters that refused to let them go (front companies?) and were sued to recover and return the original names.

*That's on India. I own a domain. The fact of which isn't concealed. I get numerous e-mails and phone calls offering management services. Most of them sounding like the "Do not redeem!" guy.

It's great having customers secured by guard gates and sentries with M16s. All I can say to the nastier callers is "bring it on".

Actually those numbers are from OMB. I didn't ask AI. And, yes, they're percentages of spending.

You do know that cable (where available) is how some people get an internet connection. TV might be of secondary importance, but plan pricing is such that you may as well get it bundled.

On a percentage basis, mostly what we get for our tax dollars is entitlements, like social security (22%), medicare (14%) and medicaid (10%), plus interest (14%).

There aren't enough super wealthy to provide sufficient revenue. We went through this exercise a while back. Take a corporation. Lockheed was the example IIRC. Take all of the executives compensation. Every penny, not just some tax rate. Spread it it across all of its employees like peanut butter. It will make a nice Christmas bonus. Nothing you'd manage to live on. Your kids might get nice iPhones under the tree (but not the top of the line models).

You HAVE to tax the middle class. Because that's where the money is. Once this is encoded into tax policy and enforcement, the rich have an interesting tactic: Given that there just isn't enough money in that slice of the economy, chasing after it isn't worthwhile. On the other hand, enforcement targeted at the middle classes will pay off.

The alternative to a non updateable blob is to have the telecoms roll their radio firmware when a vulnerability is discovered. And then block old versions of your phone model from their network.

Think of the e-waste.

"I want either less corruption. Or more opportunity to engage in it."