McDonald's franchises?

The jobs normally pay enough that the worker has to be a kid living at home or an adult subsidizing his/her income with a subscription to government benefits.

How is it you test for violence and impulsiveness? he wondered aloud.

And by birth to some number, which is too many whatever it is, of infants.

Microsoft's chief advantage is their ability to provide the slush for the fund that bends target markets to their will.

True Open Source would diminish their ability to do so.

Seems easy to connect those dots.

I like

Your tone.

I'm not sure

There was simply no way at all your post could be completely wrong.

Identifying and understanding are the keystone to education and betterment.

Therein lies the behavior modification. Good and bad aside, you damn sure learn not to place your stingables in harm's way of another scorpion.

A year? I will grant you that length of time allowed Tesla to at least consider the options available to them. How many years did GM keep producing vehicles with dual gasoline tanks outside the frame after they knew they were more likely to explode in a collision?

What can be inferred from that?

How about their PHB is of the opinion that truth and accountability are foundation principles? See, he's smart enough to assume you are probably smart, too.

I think you know it's considered highly inappropriate in some circles to use the words fellate and Jesus in the same sentence.. unless you're Catholic. If you are I'm very sorry.

If you're not just the victim of a rant gone wild, been-there done-that, you just have to maintain the ability to step back and imagine, This isn't the only possible response a car manufacturer could make in the wake of a fuck-up.

Remember Toyota's floor mat story?

New relationship, eh?

Once your comfortable, you won't even get out of bed to shoot bunnies. Not even when your lady's petting the bunny.

Nice reference to persistence hunting. Wolves, in the rare instances where they still have territory free of the blight that is the hairless monkeys, are notoriously successful using this method of prey exhaustion. Humans fare even better, having the only brain in nature (I'm aware of) that engineers the carrying of water during the hunt.

For many, many modern humans, the daily struggle to acquire sustenance is a tad less rigorous.

Walkability (what a focking twat word) becomes a concern in urban areas, as the relative uselessness of a personal auto helps one cope with the higher rents and mortgages.

By bad, you mean a link back to a prior shudder Slashdot story, then yes. Maybe they fixed it.

This smacks of the sort of home movie experience purchased by people who already have the newest hyper-resolution televisions.

For the If it's this or the light bill crowd, market share will be on the order of shoe size.

The Washington Post, historically one of the most respected daily news sources, was hemorrhaging money while attempting to follow demand and make the transition from dead tree news juggernaut to an internet news site.

Major influence peddlers of the past, major newspaper owners were often more interested in the power derived from an ability to shape public opinion than the bottom line...although they were a great deal more profitable before instantaneous news became impossible to compete with.

Bezos is dealing with the challenge of ushering the decaying giant into the new World, and in some fashion, that includes monetizing the operation. A button for Amazon purchases? Were you expecting a Rakuten link?