that's why the law for it's called an "Ordinance".

like the pay cuts that have been going on in tech since server admining as been getting easier?

the sale of Alcohol in public places. In my state you're liable if you serve booze to somebody until they're drunk and they go off and kill someone in their car. Pay attention sometime when you're at a sporting event. They're friendly about it but they cut you off after a few drinks.

Basically, Imagine a stadium full of soccer hooligans with 3x as much booze as they're normally allowed to have.

until we intervened in their politics to stage a Coup d'état and put an (at the time) friendly bunch of ultra right wing fascists in power. You can find pictures of girls in short skirts and pants from before than. America turned Iran into the right wing religious hell hole it is today, so you'll forgive them if they're a little testy towards us.

The engineers wouldn't have jobs? Do you not have the slightest clue how this works? These were top of their field guys with tonnes of job offers who took _less_ pay in exchange for stock options in a company they believed in. They literally invested their lives in the company in place of their dollars. The through some legal slight of hand it was stolen out from under them. AOL did the same thing when they merged with Time Warner. When you have tens of thousands of dollars taken from you you don't "Just shake it off".

and I hope the CEO lost money, but I bet he made out fine. The guy cheated his engineers out of millions. He paid them in stock options while they built the company from nothing and then folded the paper corporation right before the investment money came in.

The cops really couldn't care less. They have tons of violent crimes to deal with and surprisingly little funding...

What's that in parsecs?

it's been money. I know a few guys who hire comp-sci for gov't jobs and they're always complaining they can't get good candidates while offering 1/3 the pay of private sector. It'd be one thing if it was a stable career path but with our right wing taking a hatchet to anything they don't like it's not even that.

we have an understanding. We write laws to protect consumers and nobody enforces them. Did nobody in Europe get the memo? Where's Thatcher when you need her...

"Finance is no longer a tool for getting money into productive businesses but instead for getting it out"...

it's easy to spot since he calls one of the political party's out by name. There's still some weight to the NIMBY folks though. The trouble with nuclear, at least in America, is that it's damn near impossible to keep it safe. Sooner or later some venture capital firm notices how much money's being spent on safety and moves in with promises of "efficiency", takes over the plant operation and starts cutting back. That's really what the NIMBY crowd worries about, they're just not allowed to talk about it because those same venture capitalists are our ruling class. It's pretty much the same thing that happened in Japan. They knew the plants weren't safe but didn't want to spend the money. Big disaster, lots will die of cancers and the like, but nobody important go in trouble.

she's got lots of money. Also, she has connections with other folks who have lots of money. It's not echo chamber. She doesn't need a good record, just enough to bury the past. If you're old enough to remember Regan he didn't have much to run on, but his ad campaigns were _fantastic_. It's morning in America, and everything's just a little bit brighter because you voted for Regan...

Also people like to forget she basically won the California Gubernatorial race until an epic, almost legendary gaff during a debate cost her the election. Gerrymandering + voter suppression + money can get anyone or anything elected in America...

and there are several such lawsuits going on, they're just a bit smaller scale because this one involved a really, really rich lady. It also made the news during a slow news cycle. Really, it's not that big a deal. Investors don't care. Everywhere's a political minefield. Shit happens.

I know it's popular to say problems can't/won't be solved, but I really think that's just because it feels nice to think our lives aren't so easily controlled. Sure, it might take a little effort but it's not that hard. We have self driving cars, it wouldn't be hard to make planes with computers that loon balls can't crash. We just haven't bothered yet.