Business will be economically rational. Stupid, but rational. The effect of the fee will be to just push the barrier for use of the visa higher. Think C-Level.

If there are no local cantidates, then the job will be offshored. To a cheap country. It is not cheaper to train someone locally. It will not help employ a single local cantidate.

There are very, very few jobs at a high technical level that can't be offshored.

- Culture is not important
- Team spirait is not important
- Quality is not important

On the otherhand
- Money is important

The only exceptions would perhaps be some defence work where citizenship and physical location are important. In which case, I am sure there is the appropropriate loophole.

I don't wish harm on anyone. But I hope Karma comes and bites them on the arse bigtime.

Sure. Not seeing something is very useful.

I imagine that this would have two use cases. Firstly the one where it is observing, and this could use all sorts of tricks with timing the observations to match the speed of rotation. Second, there is just having it get to where it needs to be with minimum observation - then, execute when discovery is no longer a problem. (Potentially, slowing down from 25 Hz to zero might give a discoverability window)

Conventional radar should probably pick this up as well, no? As much as a very small, shielded object can be detected.

What?

Isn't increasing shareholder value one of your core beliefs? How else do you get up in the morning?

Next you'll be telling me you don't thrive in a high paced, even changing environment!

In other words, tell them to "Flock Off*?

Or is that "Get the Flock out of here"?

In reality, yes.

According to Hollywood and its accounting practice, it loses more money than exists in the world at this time. In every jurisdiction, simultaneously.

Adam's Starship Bistromath was right in the way that number alter reality. It was only wrong in the form that it took.

Oh heck yes. I even make sure I have a good nights sleep in Singapore. Then complete the journey the next day.

Jet-lag is still a thing but a full break normally kick starts the adjustment process!

Friends don't let friends install HP.

The reason they are still there is far simpler. The reason is "people are morons".

If you don't have them, some idiot will light one up. Heck, I've even been on a plan where two approximately 20 year olds thought they would be so smart as to vape. Hiding under jackets, but you could still smell it. This was post-Covid, so ... recent.

So you still have the sign, you still have the ashtrays, just to cope with the self-centered idiot that can't go 2 hours without their favourite addiction.

Problem in Australia isn't the same, but the symptoms are. "Party A" spends so much time looking in the rear-vision mirror that it forgets to look ahead and enunciate a vision. "Party B", even full of the most insane shit ever, says "We will make Pi equal to 2" and everyone things "wow, at least there is a vision here".

Liberals and Nationals spent so much time looking at PHON coming up behind them, they took their eyes off the road and crashed. From time to time you've got to jettison the loonies at the edges to capture the middle.

Same thing happened to Labor in the 60s with the DLP. Big split, nearly killed the ALP, but they came back, eventually. Remember the (Australian) Democrats, where are they now? Who is now "keeping the bastards honest"? Even Labor lost a little to the Greens but now works ok with them.

No LAN cable. Check.

No Wifi access. Check.

Buuuuuuut : If you live far out in the country, you can probably control all Wifi points the TV could realistically connect to. Here in any reasonable dense city, there are about 20 wifi SIDS being broadcast when I'm at home. It only takes one open one for the TV to connect to at the makers bidding, not yours to upload the precious telemetry.

Esim : All bets are off. If $Cost_of_esim_and_sub LESS THAN $Revenue_from_telemetry then you know the tv will have one. Heck, if I was making TVs I'd probably throw in a bitcoin miner too - someone else is paying for the power, only on the hook for the cost of the ASIC.

*FFS it's 2026, is it so difficult to let us put in Less than and Greater than in the comment box?

From HP to GM. Same shit, different brush (brush available only via subscription). No thank you.

Not going to buy a car from GM if I have to rent it too.

These Chinese cars are looking better and better value all the time. I wonder how much spyware they have? More or less than the US cars?

Trust is like a condom. It's only broken once.

HP - Death by a thousand cuts (ink droplets), now I'll never touch the hardware again
LG - No way, Jose. You've made the list
Sony - Well, your TVs used to be good, but after the rootkits, I won't touch your equipment witha barge pole
Google - From "Don't be evil" to 1984's Big Brother

There are more than adequate replacements for all of them.

Obviously somebody's quarterly bonus was on the line and looked for a new revenue stream. Booked the revenue and cashed out. Nevermind the ongoing reputational damage.

True, but never, ever fun!

That, and "Radical-Left".