If these drones are a security risk

They're not, any more than Canada is a drug den or Europe is a mecca for slave labour. The US president is not allowed to levy taxes; that's a power given to the US congress by the US constitution. However, in the case of an emergency the executive can give itself more power. Emergencies like national security risks.

Most countries have that kind of emergency mechanism. They're usually used very rarely and for limited durations in times of war or terrorist attacks, stuff like that. The US has had 90 emergencies since 1976, of which 51 are currently active. Actually, probably a few more than that... it's hard to keep up.

Here's the list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"its suggested commission gives it fair compensation for the App Store platform."

Which is a pretty bold claim given this is specifically targeting devs/publishers who don't want to use their walled garden but have no choice if they want an audience of more than a few dozen hardcore geeks.

Never mind "under that approach, the fee would be zero" - Under that approach, the fee should be negative! People are actively trying to work around Apple's lock-in. I can't speak for everyone, but I usually don't go out of my way to avoid beer and BJs.

Whether we like it or not, whether we use Windows or not, Microsoft is going to insist on adding the tax whether the PC comes shipped with Windows or not. This is illegal bundling, Microsoft has essentially ignored prior rulings, and it's pretty much a certainty the courts will be fine with this.

Simple: They tried and it failed. Again. sure, as an end-goal it is valid and eventually it will work. But not anytime soon. Computers are not magic.

I mean, this could be used to see things about the non-existent climate change, right? It must be banned! Or maybe put 100% tariffs on every byte of data!

Indeed. The Chinese also know that publishing a story about a found backdoor in their software would be a great exploit for the US and hence they know that the US is looking. Strangely, nothing has been found so far. Or rather very obviously, nothing has been found and the whole thing is nothing but lies.

And no, that is not "socialist" or "China loving". This is what is called a "fact". Obviously the MAGA cretins do not know what that is.

And as soon as you are, expect to get fleeced.

And yet, US citizens are in prisons around the world for violating local laws. I guess that little detail is too complex for you to understand.

And in other news that oh-so-mighty US military just got defeated by Iran. Even if the Dumb one (who you apparently pray to) claims differently. BTW, have fun wen the US strategic oil reserves run out in the near future.

Always the same stupid and invalid comparison. Here is one that is actually valid: We do require banks to have secure vaults and if a bank were to store the valuables of its customers, say, in cardboard boxes in an unsecured office, of course the bank would be punished

My university did the opposite, and to this day I think it was good.

At the end of the first semester, you were given a test in the three most important subjects for your field. If you failed, you could re-take it after the summer break, before next semester starts. If you failed it again, you could repeat the first semester and try a third and final time. Fail that, you're out.

It was hard, too. In my class, we were just over a hundred when we started. We were 28 in the 2nd semester. But of those 28, almost everyone made it to the end. Everyone who would've failed somewhere along the way had already been weeded out.

It was brutal, it was stressful - but IMHO it was the best way to do it and be respectful of both student time and university resources.

We had that in 1st grade. Not university, school. So students starting university have now regressed to the level of 6-year-olds ?

I get that it's stressful. I don't get how "managing stress" has vanished from the requirements of getting a degree.

It's a replacement for current turboprops, on their shorter routes. This is a picture of this plane:

https://www.heartaerospace.com...

This is the De Havilland Dash 8:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And the ATR 42:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Note some similarities?

You're need to get to work, get groceries, maybe go for an occasional Sunday drive. Do you buy a Porsche or a Honda?

SpaceX is. Grok/Twitter/xAI isn't. And SpaceX themselves advise that most of the growth potential, and thus most of the future value, is in the latter, not the former.

Software. Software companies often get P/E ratios of around 30 because they spend lots of money developing a product but after that they usually have very high profit margins and their incremental cost is pretty close to zero. That's why everyone, from Tesla to Uber, wants to be a "software company."

They're not though, and neither is Anthropic. They're a service provider whose ongoing costs are very high and there's no real reason to think they're going to be coming down much in the near future. Their incremental costs are also very high, having to pay for all the processing time. They're more like Tesla who has to actually build cars not just provide a download link. Except even Tesla doesn't have to spend billions every quarter to come out with a new product to keep up with their neck and neck competitors.