Eg Tesla, and I am sorry to have to say it but with the current president anything seems to go at the drop of a whim. I would not buy a car made in the USA.

Which is good as I occasionally organise group outings to a play or similar. People pay me the cost of their ticket. I do, sometimes, profit as some theatres will give (me) a free ticket if I buy more than 10 or so -- but that is not why I do it.

with me when I next go out burglaring then!

Most people would do just fine with a pretty simple tax app.

I'm pretty sure I could vibe code a PWA in a few hours that would work for 80% of Americans.

How would I fund it?

$0.78 for a stamp.
$0.10 per page to print
$0.50 for an envelope
Total $1.38

Consider payment fees and such and we can settle on $3 to click submit and I'll print and mail your tax form for you. Or, you can do it yourself. Same, same.

Thank goodness I don't live in the states. My taxes are "log into government web page, see if it's worth my effort to make changes, click submit".

Does anyone know what permissions on your 'phone the app will require ? Eg: access to your contacts which will let Ryan Air work out who your friends are. This sort of thing is my primary reason for not liking this.

And pay the price of a parcel for a letter. How much will that cost you ?

So, here's the deal. First of all, this stinks of corruption. Henna Virkkunen will probably have a nice corner office at Nokia in 3-5 years because her work on this.

Next, using "safe vendors" leads to apathy. Nokia and Ericsson are worse than back doors. Their equipment is shit and their paywalled documentation looks like it was written during meetings held in pubs. Just hop on eBay, buy a used Nokia BBU, boot Open5GS and have fun. If you can't find at least 10 security holes in the first hour of looking, you're as drunk as their documentation authors. Don't worry about the age of the software, Nokia and Ericsson don't patch them. The only thing making Telcom software secure is that management is out of band, you need to hack that... But hacking is such a strong word. "Nokia security" is like putting a post it note on a bar of gold saying "don't touch, this is secure" then leaving it on an unattended bench in the park.

Huawei is far more secure. Every single thing they do is watched closely. They patch their security holes at breakneck speeds. Beijing would need at least 10 minutes to hack their stuff compared to the 30 seconds for Nokia or Ericsson.

Yes but we will need people who will tell us the truth about what they see, not what they would like to see or what they think those listening would like to believe.

Sad to say but these days that is a real possibility.

Why do we, a supposedly intelligent species, make war rather than cooperate ? If you think that I am naive - please explain.

and his push for coal quite so much if the pollution so caused would stay within the borders of the USA so that only Americans suffer climate and health problems caused by the orange idiot's stupidity. Unfortunately this is fantasy: we all share this planet and it's atmosphere so we all suffer pollution elsewhere.

So... About 55 years old with a pudge and shiny head?

Did you decide a really sad car was easier than a gym membership? Did you know that Corvettes are about as sexy as leisure suits in 2025?

Seriously... You shouldn't have bought the 2022. It isn't even useful for compensating for something. Spend the money on a trip to Turkey for hair implants instead.

I actually had forgotten about Corvettes... I thought they ungracefully faded away.

Sorry, I live in Europe. We don't have GM here

Don't let your kids grow up to be professional techies.

Unless they're unwilling to be enslaved and have a union.

If my entire production system were attacked and I lost all 500,000 nodes, network, and base storage, in 200 data centers in 100 countries, we could have operations back up in a few hours... days if we need to fly staff to remote sites.

I don't care how bad the hack is... Even if you have to debrick every electronic system one by one and even build and install firmware, I'd be embarrassed if it took more than a few days to get systems at least operational. If accounting and ordering is the problem, where is the backup?

If JLR can't handle this, do you really trust a car made by them?

Maybe it's better if they don't recover.