Supposedly restricting protests to "free speech zones" meets the constitution's First Amendment intent, according to the current crop of Supremes.

When the Constitution was written a "well regulated militia" could mean a group of farmers armed with whatever they had directed by someone with some military experience. It wasn't groups of people in uniform marching in ranks, a lot of them wouldn't even had real shoes.

The reason it just says "arms" with no specifications as to what type of weapons is because they didn't envision machine guns and cluster bombs. Merchants traveled in convoys guarded by mercs because of bandits, many private ships were better armed than many naval vessels, and the "town hall cannon" wasn't an ornament but something that could be brought into play against raiders, pirates, or Spaniards.

So Ford will decide that any car older than 5 years needs to be replaced and start nagging you every time you drive. Since they'll be able to track every Ford they sell now they can say, "Doesn't that new F-150 next to you look better than your old truck? Better upgrade before your friends think you're too broke to buy a new one!" For that matter, if they monitor your credit they'll know when you've finished paying it off so they can market you even more efficiently! Isn't that great?

Yep, and eventually they were.

I just leave my 2002 truckette unlocked. If someone wants the change in the ashtray I'd prefer if they didn't break the window to get it.

People wanting a simple car, like me, are holding on to our old "dumb" vehicles far longer than Detroit would like. In my case my Tacoma truckette is 24 years old, RWD, 5-speed, with the smallest 4-banger Toyota sold, and it's still more truck than 75% of pickup owners in the US actually need. There is nothing like it on the US market today, and people leave notes on my windshield all the time asking if I want to sell it. On the other hand, I could go to Peru or Indonesia and buy a similar new vehicle right off the lot, and probably would if I could bring it back to the US.

And this is why China is eating Detroit's lunch everywhere they're allowed to sell cars.

As though they weren't already proving it in myriad ways every day.

I think this is mostly a risk to Cisco's organized bribes, err, 'campaign contributions' than anything else.

It's also a way for foreigners to launder money. Traditionally that sector was dominated by commercial real estate (the Trump clan made much of their money in that market), but now residential property has become valuable enough that they've expanded there as well. IIRC after the traditional routes of commercial banks and the stock market, real estate is the third largest method.

You misspelled 'Mierda Lago".

Peru, Nepal, Tibet, some places in Chile and Ecuador.

Hungry people pick up torches and pitchforks, either the PTB embrace UBI or we'll get a new social structure. There's no use pretending that automating horrible jobs isn't going to happen, like designer babies, all you'll do is delay it a couple of years and make the adjustment even more difficult and harder to integrate into our civilization.

Ever had one of those wonderful manufacturing jobs? They uniformly suck. Pick up the piece of metal, stick it in the machine, push the buttons, take out the bent piece of metal. Over and over for 8-10 hours. Why shouldn't a machine be doing that on its own? Ever pick strawberries? There's a job that needs to be automated ASAP. Ever wash dishes in a restaurant? Assemble electronics? Work in a mine or lumber mill? Process fruit or fish? There are a frack of a lot of jobs that no human should be condemned to do.

That's unlikely, the gravity of small objects like that tends to be low enough that pressure from the solar wind and jets of vented gas will separate them. The four pieces will undoubtedly be of different sizes and albedo, so will receive different amounts of force from the sun.