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Comment Gas prices (Score 1) 3

When gas was nearly free, there was little incentive to make vehicles aerodynamic.

When they did go aerodynamic, they all started to look the same - as there is an optimal aerodynamic design for a box on wheels so every designer with the same cost constraints and design tools will converge on that.

Comment Re:Sweet spot? (Score 1) 227

It's a cycle that everyone is caught in. The production companies need to have a large suite of channels so that they have bargaining leverage over the content delivery services (Comcast, AT&T, FiOS, YouTube TV, etc). The content delivery services merge so that they can have bargaining leverage over the production companies. It's very hard to make an economic case for a la carte if you are a production company because you will lose this leverage.

Even Netflix is not immune from this... they stick with the package deal as well, rather than the Amazon/iTunes/Pay Per View model. And look at their success! It even spurred the crusty old broadcast production companies to work together to put together a similar offering via Hulu. Amazon similarly needed to move away from a la carte with it's "Prime Video" service, and now Apple is making a similar move.

We are moving AWAY from a la carte, not toward it - and it seems to be a fundamental artifact of copyright law, not something that is going to change in the short term. Those of us who like a la carte are stuck with usenet or torrents.

Comment Re:if-trump-obstructed-justice-he-cant-be-exonerat (Score 0) 105

Those investigations will continue apace, as will the SDNY and other Federal investigations into, among other things, emoluments, conspiracy, fraud, charity fraud, campaign finance fraud, self-dealing with government monies, obstruction of justice ongoing, lies his son and daughter told to Congress, among a myriad of other unknown charges that will be coming to light over the next year to two years.

Well, no collusion. Your list is at least getting shorter. That's progress I suppose.

Comment Re:Science Disagrees... (Score 4, Insightful) 249

Dude, a jury found OJ not guilty. Don't sweat it.

For what it's worth, most studies on Roundup were concerned with the level of exposure that consumers encounter. This is a bit different - these are agricultural workers with much heavier and different types of exposure. the typical consumer probably isn't breathing the stuff day in and day out.

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