Disney's recent business model has been to buy up every competitor it could. That's meant acquiring Marvel and Star Wars, among others. They've been spending vast amounts of money to buy things at inflated prices that it turns out they can't manage as well as the previous owners did - and the previous owners had been in a slump even before they sold. I'm not exactly shocked to discover such a strategy leads to losing money. Or that Disney's proposed solution to the losses its to grow even larger.

TOS wasn't half as inclusive as Roddenberry would have liked it to be. The pilot episode had a female XO, for instance, which by the standards of the 1960s was woke as it comes. Management stopped that, and in retrospect TOS would have been better, and more significant, and quite likely more popular, if Roddenberry had been given his head. So I wouldn't offer it as evidence against wokeness.

It's not so long ago that Boeing declined to follow Airbus into giant prestigious aircraft like the A380, instead backing smaller aircraft like the 737. That decision is a lot like not choosing to go supersonic, and Boeing got both decisions right as it turned out. So I think you're being a little harsh on Boeing management.

They're better, they aren't perfect. The crease is less obvious and most of the time it's no big deal. But you can feel it swyping over and occasionally it will catch the light at the right/wrong angle. I don't think it's fair to call it a quality issue, it's just a tough problem.

Don't get it mixed up with your lip balm.

In most Western countries residential property dwarfs other forms of investment. One of the objectives of this proposal is to eliminate the main incentive ("making someone else rich") which would stop or slow this flow. (An obvious alternate or additional way to do this would be to reduce the tax breaks of the owner-occupied home, but that's probably politically impossible.) So we have to ask where that money will go instead. Will it be more efficient and beneficial to our society if it instead goes to commercial property, or the various industries participating in the stock market? There seems a real possibility it might: sectors which are at present relatively starved for funds could do some interesting things with the investment. I don't agree with the author's primary objective, but the side effects could be beneficial.

The main difference between an S and a Note has laid been that the Note has an S-pen. An S with an S-pen is more like a Note than it is like an S. De facto they are not abolishing the Note but abolishing the S and renaming the Note the S.

This is an unreasonable level of detail to demand, since to satisfy your requirements we would need to accurately predict the actions of every alternative president. And of course Trump has told many lies. I think you only have a right to expect broad analysis of his most egregious deceptions.

Lockdown is not a binary concept. Many GOP state politicians live in fear of Trump's public disapproval, since GOP primary voters are very loyal to Trump - many GOP politicians who opposed Trump have lost their primaries. And also to a lesser extent because of public protests encouraged by Trump. As a result, many GOP states and probably to a smaller extent some democrat states implemented less severe lockdowns that they otherwise would have.

It is an error to speak here of Trump's beliefs, since it's clear from e.g. statements to Woodward and his hygienic precautions he was aware the pandemic was dangerous. It was his statements, more precisely his lies, which caused the deaths.

Some would have. But Trump has enormous influence and respect within a large minority of the population. Certainly far more flouted the mask and social distancing rules because their president advised them the precautions were unnecessary. Certainly many adopted conspiracy theories that masks were harmful, because their president told them the virus was a hoax. Some would have anyway but in pandemics numbers matter.

Some of them, yes. For the reasons given above.

Guilt doesn't work like that. The fact many other people did foolish things doesn't make Trump innocent. Any more than having an accomplice, or the carelessness of a victim, reduces a criminal's guilt. He's responsible for the foreseeable consequences of his own lies.

But the planet doesn't stop it all, and the planet reflects GPS frequencies back into space.

It's not like radio was the first field to use the term repeater.

A compressed signal, which is what a sophisticated society would probably use for their internal communications, looks like noise. So does an encrypted signal.

You paid money to see Suicide Squad. Afterwards you hear there's another movie in the same franchise. How strong a desire do you feel to see it? Sometimes people see a bad film before they know it's bad, and the impact is felt by the sequel. I thought Birds of Prey an unambitious success. It was enjoyable to watch but nothing special.

How about random changes to the rules. "In this game, knights and bishops start switched around."

Why does it need to run its auxiliaries? Can't they take power from Southampton?