Apologies don't teach lessons. Cash money does though.

I'm not interested in a computer on wheels. I'm especially not interested in a computer on wheels....which I own....that is constantly sending data back to the people who sold it to me.

Absolutely

I'm still rocking my 2010 Honda Civic....fucking love that car. So I don't know how these newer cars are set up. But how hard is it to disconnect them from communicating with the outside world?

Changing owners is neither here nor there... but the leveraged buyout is pretty nefarious and will likely kill the company.

Which makes me wonder if this was some kind of inside job. Faking both sides of a conversation to steal a one time payment for a project a small town and a contractor? This isn't 'send out a million emails and see who bites' type scam, they had to know about both parties and that a larger transfer was going to happen soon.

Nope, you can't separate the Nazi from his companies.

Free speech includes lying.

On the other hand, C does exactly what you tell it to do. Rust always feels like a constant argument with the compiler (linter really?) where it keeps going 'I understand what you are trying to but am not going to do it'

It's the only way baby!

So they developed a super web designer? Gross

You also have to remember your place in the world. Acting above your station and taking actions that are reserved for higher ups is a social threat.

Their whole ethical system is built around the idea of a natural order and actor (rather than action) based morality. This person acted above their station and did things that people of their place in the world are not supposed to do. In a way, he stole from trump and his community by taking their natural right for their own.

Merit should always consider strictly value.

This. One of the big problems with the modern environment is that the interests of shareholders no longer align with the interests of companies, and neither of those align with the interests of industries or the economy.