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EU launches mass DMA violation probes against Apple, Google, and Meta
Per the USPS: "The Postal Service is generally self-funded. This means that no tax dollars are used to keep the lights on at its many facilities across the country. The Postal Service, instead, relies on the revenue it generates from the sale of stamps, products, and services to fund its operations."nubus said:
Eh... USPS is running a government monopoly on letters and mailboxes with subsidies. Are you really that happy about service and pricing at USPS? And Amtrak... seems you just can't get enough services from government monopolies loaded with tax funding.freeassociate2 said:Also, I’d like the EU to open up all transportation systems to third party availability, with no tax subsidies. No more government monopolies.
EU forced competition on rail in 2010 and the postal directive has opened competition on letters as well. We do add subsidies as needed, but we let real companies compete on services and pricing. No USPS or Amtrak here.
Per Investopedia: "Amtrak receives considerable subsidies from both state and federal governments but it's managed as a for-profit company. This isn't unusual. No country in the world operates a passenger rail system without public support."
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Epic Hackintosh project gets 3D printed Mac Plus body
That was an outstanding piece of work!
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Decade-old Apple Car project may be completely dead
You're largely right. Of course on the ElecTrek web site it's still all sunshine and lollipops.toddzrx said:Somewhat surprisingly your post is the first to discuss what’s been going on in the EV market over the last 6 months. Apple is canceling the car because reality just set in across the EV auto landscape: all the rich people who want one have largely bought one, government subsidies have mostly run out, repair costs are abysmal on an EV because even the slightest accident can cause fire risk in the battery, leading to increased insurance costs, and public charging costs have gone up. Of course there’s the ever-present issue of long charge times/range anxiety/charge station availability. EV’s are the first large scale product that the public is having to deal with and consider in their economic choices in the government mandated “green revolution”, and the EV’s are losing.
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Decade-old Apple Car project may be completely dead
I don't think it was too big of a challenge for Apple, as other newer companies have entered the field with far less in terms of manpower and money. The bigger issue is that there was no champion for the project, and the constantly shifting management was a significant problem and troubling indicator.
As much as I wanted to see this brought to market, it should have been put to death long ago--again, nobody home when reality knocked, including Tim.
Unless this is all a rumor, then "Nevermind"
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US defense and intelligence services are buying troves of data about Americans on the open...
I'm not in favor of data harvesting by government agencies or commercial entities, but if the information they are referencing is already out there (commercially available), whether damaging or innocuous, those horses have been loose for many decades and aren't going back into the barn.
How the information may have been initially collected, or why one may have provided it to be used commercially (informed consent?) is more deserving of investigation.
