Basically, a reverse GPS signal. It’s really not a bad plan.

“I don’t see much of an argument against developing this technology”

Also, this is data for ‘81-now, and the 80s MBs are built better than many tanks.

That is exactly what that means

“Especially if we started with state houses and worked upwards. A typical state senator could probably be bought for a mere 100k.”

They’re only cheap because there’s no counter-bidding going on. $700k is just the retainer fee - if there was a bidding war, there’d be no hope of winning.

And never mind that the point of de-regulation is to reduce labor and safety overhead costs...

The problem with that is that filtering noise is relatively easy - a pattern sorrounded by random noise is very easy to recognize - think about word-search puzzles - and data miners and intelligence spooks are very good at it.

“Ineptitude” is what you’re looking for :-)

Serious thought: I assume it would not be difficult to develop catalytic converters for cow farts.

Trump isn’t half as smart as Tricky Dick Henry Kissinger when it comes to maintaining plausible deniability.

Nice. 

The actual point of this experiment is not about shopping - it’s just an excuse to improve their people-tracking and item-tracking technology they use at their warehouses (and gain some PR)

I hope she knows that those safety goggles aren’t actually going to protect her in a terror attack...

Whether China jumps in or not is entirely economic - it’s not political or idealogical anymore. If it becomes cheaper to kill US (or coalition) troops than it is for us to train and arm them, normalized to respective GDPs, then China has a reason to support them. That’s how modern proxy war has worked since at…

Oh, you mean “SRAM”...

Ironically, our best chance to be rid of them sooner died on the house flour Friday...

It generates money that can be used to buy political clout. 

Also, can we talk about the number of asterisks required for the statement:

“Land of the free” - as in, we’re taken and used, not paid for.