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> I betcha these proposals are equally as unrealistic. Because who can resist collecting data? That's what all our software and hardware is designed for now. The whole market for this stuff is oriented for telemetry at the expense of any other feature or functionality.

At one point the financial markets were completely unregulated, the airwaves could be taken over by anyone with a bigger transmitter, medicines were made of everything except the things they purported to contain, bakeries made cakes with lead coloring in the icing, and milk was sold with more formaldehyde in it than milk.

Just because it is difficult to start doing doesn't mean we can't change how we operate.



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