Foreplay for George was sending people to Guantanamo

At least the last couple of Presidents have been 'selling' access in return for favorable press.

no, because only Congressmen sit on the 'review of review panel reviews' panel

but does he still watch it?

Also the amount of effort.

sit in his office and collect royalty checks for 'producing' a whole bunch of cd's

Betteridge's law of headlines: No!

Isn't step 3 basically "scala is old. let's make a new cool language instead."?

the country that had them, used them, until the other side gave up.

A whole bunch of dealers did get fucked over a few years ago...when the automakers went bankrupt, and as part of the process revoked a bunch of dealership licenses. It amounted to: the cars you have, you still owe us full price for, you have 30 or 60 days to sell them before you can no longer sell them as new 'brand' cars. Good luck with that.

There is nobody alive who has seen me driving while distracted!

history. those who don't remember it are doomed to repeat it.

and "using a smartphone" doesn't make it new.

somebody dumb enough to believe that Hitler and Hirohito would decided to just lose instead of using nuclear weapons if they had them.

more like "we better form a committee to study the effects of blocking this route right away"

That's exactly what they said at the start of WW I and WW II.