Never have had any sympathy for investors making less money, never will have any sympathy.

Despite the ridiculous state of American law, a studio (company) is not a person.

Of course not - nothing's free. And if the police officer executes you, your family will be billed for the bullet (as is the norm in statist utopias).

Not rocked sciense, so don't know what a University offers.

Maybe they can find someone who can spell "rocket science"....

Does said US citizen get to hold his US passport?

Possibly.

Does he get to use US Embassies?

Ditto

BLOCKQUOTE>Will he be rescued by the US military if kidnapped in Iraq?

Extremely unlikely.

The real problem is that companies can be headquartered anywhere! America benefits hugely from having the US be the home of choice for corporate HQs. Lots of high-paying jibs here because of that. But enough BS like this and there simply won't be any large US corporations any more.

We don't need a corporate income tax anyhow. We tax wages, and we tax distributions via dividends and capital gains - what exactly do we accomplish by taxing the corporation itself? We're going to tax that same money anyhow, so we're better off keeping the US as the preferred HQ location for multinationals.

The loser here is Hillary Clinton. To win in the general election, she has to position herself as a moderate centrist, that can win in the Midwest, and maybe even pick off a Southern state. But by steering the Democratic party into hare-brained anti-business claptrap, Obama is diminishing her ability to do that.

I can see that as an intended consequence - Obama makes history as the first black President, then gets overshadowed by first woman President. Does it make sense for him to enhance his place in history by making sure the first woman doesn't come along for another dozen years or so?

Or am I just off my meds today, and seeing conspiracies everywhere? And what are you looking at me for?

The innovations involved in each of these (bar the 2012 multiple sizes that you brought to the table) were of course much more than simply changing the size.

Yeah, fuck the Super Bowl, wake me when the Hyper Bowl is on!

Useful clue:

Calling someone an idiot for not knowing your buzzwords of choice does NOT persuade him to your side of an argument.

And if you actually want change in the world, persuading other people to your side of the argument is helpful to your side.

Of course, if all you want to do is bitch in your little echo chamber, carry on as you have been....

"disenchanted/upset customer"? Clearly, you haven't worked in tech support, or known anyone who has, or read any of the blogs or horror stories, or, really, informed yourself in any way about this. Humans have a bell curve of both "crazy" and "mean", and the tail end of either is not something you'd ever want to come into contact with.

My sympathies are with the Comcast tech support on this one. As bad as Comcast can be, which is at least 300 milli-Hitlers bad, the tail-end of the worst people to call customer support can be worse still. Or just too stupid to be allowed to own a computer.

I understand that's entirely wrong. Apple understand the danger of pre-announcing. The "no apps" position was to get people to buy the iPhone as it was in version 1, rather than wait. The "web apps" position was to have something to tell developers at a time when the SDK was far from ready to announce. But Apple were intending to have third party apps right from the point they selected a cut-down OSX OS.

Yeah, multiplayer Monster Truck Madness was the best driving game I ever played. One of the few great MS products.