Um, the executives mostly got home confinement, not prison. Prison was reserved for the lower level offenders. The only "real" penalties the executives received were fines; with the CEO paying 2 million while the lowest level executive paid $50k. I suspect I read a different article than you did as I kept with tradition and did not read the linked article.

If you exclude the government and collection agencies, 12,384 currently active. Most are small time (less than $10 million in assets of all parties).

Apparently, they do have that right. They did it. Nobody stopped them. Nobody complained about it. They will do it again. They have actually arrested someone for not submitting.

Whether that right is written down or not, it is now established. Rule of Law is whatever whomever is in power wants it to be.

The people who think and act like they own 'us', the regular people, don't care how we act. They are going to do whatever it is they are going to without any regard to input from the rest of us. Go ahead and act selfish. It will not make a difference. Go ahead and try to conserve what we still have. It will not make any difference. The industries need to change, not the people. The people will go wherever they are led.

Nonsense. 1/3 of ANY population can be manipulated with propaganda to get whatever result is desired. The USA is not unique in this regard. This has nothing to do with the general population, rather, it has to do with intentional bad actors that have entirely subverted American Democracy. Laugh all you want, it has happened to other countries previously, with Germany being quite notable.

WTF is wrong with you?

This wouldn't be so difficult to deal with if security patches were not intermingled with new feature patches. WTF?

You have a really low opinion of kids. I feel sorry for your kids. My kids were educated about the dangers. They knew they could talk to me and get straight answers, so any weird situations they found themselves in, they declined until they could speak with me. My children are now fully functional adults. I am betting yours are crippled by the lies you fed them.

You protect your kids by teaching them to protect themselves. YOU do not protect them, they protect themselves. Kids will not be kids forever, so taking learning experiences away from them by sheltering them is ill-advisable.

An interesting theory; however, nobody has been arrested and nobody will be arrested... so your theory already fails. Maybe once we start holding people accountable in this country again, your theory will prevail. I am not holding out any hope. We are completely fucked. The Rule of Law is utterly meaningless except as a punishment regime for everyone who is not in power.

Sure, but the predatory interests are the people who want you identified no matter where you go. Nobody gives a fuck about the health of kids; otherwise, there would be free school lunches and such.

Hard disagree. It is good to positively support kids. It is evil to protect them. How will they ever become adults if they are always protected? There is nothing to learn if there is nothing to lose.

Only the faithful disagree; however, electing Harris would not have cleansed the Republican party, so the delay would have been just that, a delay to what is occurring right now. Better to go through it earlier rather than later. All of this was inevitable since at least the 1970s.

There are about 10,000 people who matter. They are neither Democrat or Republican. They want money and power. All of the money and power. They will get it as they lose it. What a miserable fucking timeline. So fucking one dimensional. At least they are having some fun, but the frustration of not quite getting what you want despite having everything must be quite annoying.

It is possible, but it is not easy, to create a reliable model. Which means, of course, that it is impossible because almost nobody does anything hard. They want everything for free or less. The scams are endless and the integrity is nonexistent.

That is so last century. Stop being naive. Copyright exists to generate as much profit as possible. The Constitution is irrelevant now. Over 2 centuries of law being created to subvert the original intentions has created the opposite of what is written. There is nothing to be done about it but let the evil people do whatever the fuck they want. The rest of humanity just doesn't care enough anymore to resist and resisting by yourself is just a pointless death. The USA is over. I nominate the name of "The Kleptocracy" for the new nation. Seems perfect. We can all be proud of being exploited by it.