Why not? If they can get a better deal using one provider or source than another, why not take it? Or do you want them to just spend their money like a drunk sailor like most Americans do?

I love your optimism; however, government spending grows to whatever amount is available and then shortly thereafter exceeds it. Taxes will grow until it is no longer possible to tax anymore.We will never get quite that far because the system itself will collapse before it can take everything.

Who will they sell their widgets to if everyone is starving or dead? Nobody needs widgets when they are starving.

What is there to be prepared for? A lack of food means the body dies. The body is ready for this even if the passenger ridding along is not. Starving to death happens all the time, just not normally in the numbers we are about to see.

Fuck the people about to die (including me). They should have been more prepared/stronger. If they were, they wouldn't die. Darwinism in action and enforced by society. It is merely coincidence that those born to wealthier families starve at a slower rate.

They did. It was released last week. 3.8.10 is runnable on any hardware.

We tried that 40 years ago. It still kind of exists despite it being a proven failure. Got any other bright ideas?

Dude, we live in a society of "fuck you, I got mine". None of this discussion matters. Eventually, we will just execute prisoners because we don't have enough money to maintain prisons.

The worst part about that is that the "justice" system doesn't care whether or not you are guilty. As long as they can pin a crime on someone, the system is happy.

What a miserable bunch of fuckers we are as a whole.

I don't know how they manage to mux all that I/O. It must be several hundred phones (maybe thousands) all connected to one computer.

The one you saw is probably the fake one. However, Chinese phone farms do exist and they advertise in the open.

Please, find me an example of this fantasy.

Here you go.

For a slightly less gruesome story, this guy misrepresened himself for years, lying about his credentials.

What law made software publishers able to enforce their bullshit licenses? Contract law does not as it requires a "meeting of the minds".

To my knowledge, software is owned unless specifically set up as a rental/subscription such as Adobe Creative Cloud.

I do not trust the companies doing the programming.

The company with arguably the best software engineers on the planet are completely incapable of writing a reliable operating system and you expect a company with theoretically less-capable engineers to write software maneuvering a multi-ton vehicle at high speeds around other humans?

Yeah, no. (the results so far are impressive in many ways, but still; yeah, no.)

You could have just asked them to perform a password reset rather than fighting a battle with the CEO. *shrug*

Are they REALLY missing the point? Or are YOU missing the point?

Those unrealized gains are good enough to borrow from, so they are good enough to tax. The simplest method is to tax the money as it is being loaned. Everyone agrees on the value then.

So what? There are millions of people within the USA that have never, and will never, own a fucking home. Let it all burn until we can learn to organize a society where people who are willing to work are treated fairly. What exists now is essentially slavery but without all the responsibilities of maintaining the slaves. Fuck that noise. That is no way to live. If you think what I am saying is unreasonable, that is only because of the social status of your parents.

If the value is certain enough to borrow from, it is certain enough to tax. Lies and deception should no longer be tolerated.