Blimps are going to have a hard time keeping up with Navy ships moving at flank speed. You'd also need a very high altitude blimp to avoid weather.

Whether or not it succeeded is irrelevant. If her contract guaranteed an exclusive theatrical release, it doesn't sound like D has much of a case. I expect they will settle out of court, and quickly.

If you want an example of why the seemingly good idea of "build a single platform that works for everything" is actually a bad one, look no further than the F-35.

Wait, do you think hacking someone's iPhone is legal?

I live in Los Angeles, so I'm with you - I hate the fact that I have to wear a mask indoors again.

On the other hand, there are lots of people who simply can't get vaccinated, so I guess I can manage a mask to protect them. Agreed though, it's tough to stomach that in the vast majority of cases the unvaccinated are by choice.

That would make for one interesting court case... a health insurance company compelling you to take a preventative treatment in order to get additional care.

I mean, I think everyone should get vaccinated, but denying people care (that they paid for) because they didn't get a vaccine is rather rough.

Look at this guy, saying TSM with its 33 P/E ratio is a good dividend stock.

It's very very expensive if you're hoping to earn money off of the dividends. Intel has a much higher yield at current prices.

Well you didn't pay for the self-driving feature when you bought it, so no, you don't already own the self-driving software.

Or maybe people realized that it doesn't make sense to own something you only use one in a while? I've never understood why anyone would want to own a bookshelf of DVDs. Do they really need to own their own copy of those movies?

Same goes for cars. I'd rather pay 8.50 an hour for something I'll likely only be using once in a while, rather than 10k up-front. At 8.50/hr, I'll get 1176 hours of driving for $10k. I drive less than an hour per day, and realistically only a fraction of that is going to be in self-driving mode. I'd much rather go for the 8.50/hr payments over the next decade than the $10k up front. Much less risky.

You buy the car, you rent the self driving features. It's not complicated.

Well yeah, if there was a bus going straight where I wanted to go without any wait... I would totally ride it instead of driving. I only drive myself because there isn't some form of public transportation going where I want to go.

Well, no, you paid for the hardware. You didn't pay for the software.

Washing it through exchanges is fine, but that doesn't help you avoid taxes. At some point you still will want to convert it to something besides bitcoin, and that's when the IRS will have questions about where you got all that bitcoin. "From an exchange" is not an answer.

Because there are ways to wash bitcoin, for example, through pools. That wouldn't help you though if you ever want to convert your bitcoin to something tangible inside the US, like a physical asset or dollars. The IRS will still be able to see that you have a large amount of bitcoin and will want to know how you acquired it... "from a dark pool" is not a good answer.

If you're buying something in Russia, that's less of a concern... as long as you pay your Russian taxes, you're probably fine.

Of course they're on the same "spectrum", what a meaningless point to make in bold. A lightbulb is on the same "spectrum" as the sun, that doesn't mean you should be scared your lightbulb will suddenly start fusing hydrogen and consume your house.