If you have a runaway auto-trim you turn it off and leave it off. Then, a few seconds later, the auto-trim turns itself back on and puts you back into a nosedive.

So you turn it off again and leave it off. If you have enough sky to nosedive through you can have this argument several times.

Thought they hired accountants for that thing. The sort of people who can make a billion-dollar legal problem disappear into an offshore tax haven.

No, he underplayed it, at least for the first few months, by insisting the virus was a hoax, that is wasn't going to hit America, and that it was simply a normal flu that did not warrant a federal response.


The panic buying occurred because doctors and health specialists got on camera and said, no, this was not business as usual, a strong and unified response was absolutely required, and then states began rolling out lockdowns and mask laws by state with no cohesive, overarching federal response. People weren't stupid; when their doctors told them this would kill them and their politicians told them this was fine, many people chose to trust their doctors.

Bezos resigned as CEO to take the position of chairman of the board. He's still calling the shots, he just now has a minion to take the blame.

It's still a felony unlawful access of a computer system for 10 years of federal prison, even if all she did was to change the system Message of the Day to "Boss is a wanker, carry on."

As a skilled developer, I pay attention to the market demands for skills and experience. If the market demands Linux experience, I might mention that I've spent the last five years doing most of my work from a command line. If the market demands full-stack LAMP developers, I might instead mention how I've been doing full-stack work including MySQL and PHP.

And if your salary is less than my current hourly rate, or if you have a reputation for making your employees pee in bottles and poop in bags, you probably won't get my resume at all. In fact, I might go so far as to ignore the dozen or so recruiters for your company who've pinged me with a job.

Private companies are completely free to hire second- and third-world semi-literates who graduated from University of Mudhole....so long as they reside within their country of origin. It becomes the government's problem when those companies want to bring over the U of Mud grads to live as indentured interns indefinitely in the Land of Glorious Freedom And Money.

This should be obvious to anyone not shilling for a bad actor. I hope you get herpes from the professional services demanded of you. Have a nice day.

What OP was complaining about is a law that, if you have ten acres of farmland and get twelve inches of rain, you are not allowed to keep ten acre-feet of water around in buckets. You must let the majority of it run off to gutters and be wasted.

That wasted water isn't being used by cities. It's sometimes going to feed rivers that the city drinks out of, but the effects are pretty minimal.

The primary effect of legislation like that is to make farming harder and more expensive: instead of collecting water for free, you are required to buy from the city.
In other words, the area is creating an artificial monopoly on water. There's no free market at work here either way.

Not sure what entity you're referring to - but if a website in california wants to do business there, then they have the authority to regulate that business.

The science says reducing the R-value of a disease is helpful for everyone. Reduce it below 1, and the disease dies out. We've done that before with other diseases. Masks and vaccines reduce the R-value among populations that use them.

Pardon the condescension, but the r-value is the number of people, on average, that a single person infects. If each person who gets sick infects sixteen other people because they go to parties and get haircuts and infect everyone there, then the r-value is sixteen. And the spread is 1, 16, 256. If each person who gets sick infects exactly one other person, then the r-value is one and the spread is 1, 1, 1. If it takes 16 people on average to infect one additional person, then the spread goes 256, 16, 1, 0 and the disease dies out.

What Trump and co, and his anti-vaxxer anti-mask crowd has insured, is a nice healthy high R-value for Covid, making sure it thrives in the general population.

You've grossly misunderstood the science. You're just spreading anti-science misinformation right now. Don't do that.

Something doesn't have to react chemically to cause cancer. See, for instance, asbestos. Also look up miner's lung.

Unfortunately, loyalty cuts both ways. Companies are only loyal to the money their employees bring them; it's been shown over and over again that corporations in the US have a legal obligation to screw over their employees, customers and suppliers when it is legal to do so or when they can get away with it.

An employee's loyalty should go so far as their notice of termination. If the company is not in the habit of giving two week notice before terminating employees, it has no right to expect a two week notice before those employees quit.

Big Tech has shown that it's 100% willing to work with unethical governments to suppress human rights in China, the Middle East and the United States. Their employees, who are harmed by the unethical behavior of the company they are employed by, have every right to object.

Economic science falls flat on its face when it runs into bad actors, and by law in the united states a publicly-traded corporation must be a bad actor to its customers if that will result in greater shareholder profits.

The interesting issue, to me, will be what happens during the transition period in terms of consumer food prices. Such as, will there be famine?

At 3000 calories a day and 400 lbs, I gain weight. At about 2500 calories a day, I break even. Welcome to the world of nutrition, where everything you know is wrong.