Doing that would be stupid because we know the government will try to bail them out.

You can't make rational economic decisions when the government will interfere with the market any time it feels like it. That just turns the whole thing into a casino.

Also, consider missing with your shot and hitting a little girl merrily going on her way to school, store, etc. And be sure to keep your lawyer on retainer should you do this. And do not forget basic gun safety, keep it locked up and away from your kids. And also keep aware of your mental health as a gun can represent a quick escape from the world. So go buy a Glock, hell buy one for yourself and 10 of your friends. They'll be friends of yours for life, yes?

Just out of curiosity, how many butterflies do you figure the scientists can reasonably be expected to tag? Sometimes it helps to have a sense of proportion. Mathematics can help. Sociology would tie up the loose ends for you. So you needn't gets your knickers in a twist over this.

Then he'll get HHS to put some scientists to work on changing monarch genetics so they'll come gold.

Yeah, why would we want to understand the world around us. It's all magical and simply is, right? Hint: understanding the world can tell us when, how, and why we are screwing it up. Whale song changes might indicate those changes. But, please, wallow in your unenlightened bubble of ignorance. What you don't know, won't hurt you, right?

Allah hasn't ever said shit. Read the Koran, he's so fucking other than he can only send angels to deliver shit, sort of like Amazon but without the free shipping. And he cannot respond to prayers because that would be tipping his hand into saying something just by the effect. Basically he's a Eunuch but with a posse.

I do agree that incentives (and dis-incentives) are typically superior to other forms of regulation.

For example, a higher property tax for unoccupied buildings (or a tax break based on occupancy) might help get things moving.

Though, in the case of commercial property, that might not be enough. A root cause is Bank officers handing out loans like candy and basing the value of the collateral property on "anticipated rent". The owners are now afraid lowering the rent will trigger a re-valuation and the bank demanding repayment or starting foreclosure. Meanwhile, those officers know of the situation but don't want to rock the boat until they can get promoted far enough away not to have it come back on them , or better, make it to retirement first.

In truth, forced re-valuation is most likely the only way to break that log-jam at this point. The market isn't going to grow enough to actually make those turkeys rentable at current asking.

For residential, a grace period on some of those rennovations in exchange for actual occupancy may help.

The problem is that the most-often taught English cursive style is bad. Spencerian cursive _is_ faster than block letters, because it allows you to smoothly move the pen. It's also slanted because slanted movements are faster than straight up/down lines.

18. Using the Fed. Gov. to grift for himself and his family.
19. Demonizing migrants whose only crime was to come here, work, pay taxes (including SS), and raising families, everything the White Nationalists want except their skin color, and not being able to collect any of the U.S. safety net including Medicaid, Medicare, and SS. Also migrants fight in America's wars for the boobie prize of being exported to a country in which they have never lived.
20. Creating concentration camps.
21. Sending migrants to foreign concentration camps and prisons.
22. Filling the White House with tawdry gold gewgaws.
23. Giving us an HHS moron who reads some blurb on-line and decides to make it health policy.
24. Floating a 50 year mortgage plan to fleece the gullible just a bit more.
25. Whacking science funding so that scientists decide that other countries would make better use of their skills rather than the U.S.

Damn, this could take the rest of my afternoon.

That's not the question.

The question is whether the AI-produced code is a derivative of existing code, and the answer is still not resolved.

In some cases, the answer is a clear YES, because the code is a direct copy of something written by someone else. If something like that ends up in the kernel, it will have to be removed when someone notices.

el Bunko's achievements:

1. he or his companies being convicted of fraud.
2. bankrupting a handful of casinos (that took some doing but he found a way).
3. stiffing myriad small businesses out of bill payments after service had already been rendered.
4. stacking the Supreme Court with Nazis.
5. defiling Christianity by convincing the Evangelicals they really hate migrants, people whom them deem to use the wrong restroom, minorities, etc.
6. screwing up the U.S. and the World's economy.
7. handing Ukraine over to those nice Russians.
8. blowing up boats with people in the Caribbean because they MIGHT be carrying drugs, when in fact he simply hates non-whites.
9. making the former allies hate the U.S. to the point they are refusing to share intelligence information.
10. royally pissing off the mild-mannered Canadians to the point the only thing that would make them happy about the U.S. is his death.
11. destroying health care in rural counties by taking $1 billion out of Medicaid, and that doesn't even cover trying to take away ACA subsidies.
12. backing Israel for killing over 50,000 Palestinians.
13. being Putin's bitch.
14. saddling the American people with a value-added tax int the form of tariffs.
15. destroying health and food aid for foreign countries so that he could crow about how many billions he's saved (less than $30 billion) and thus causing the deaths of at least 200,000 of those non-whites he hates.

I could go on but it is too depressing.

That is a good approach, but Walmart success shows that it's not the only approach. It is also possible to make a load of money by selling everything. (See also: Procter and Gamble).

Steve Jobs chose the right solution for Apple. It's not the right solution for every company, or all the time.

They know how to put a stop to all this evolution nonsense. If they would just get on the ball.....maybe use a few prayer seances....they could prevent evolution from happening. And they'd be so happy they'd Rapture themselves and ascend to.....errrr.....well wherever it is they ascend to. And the rest of us could all be happy for them.

Haven't you done enough damage already? Stop, just stop.

Speaking of pollution, sending up zllions of satellites with maybe several missions for one is sure to pollute the Earth's atmosphere. The scurvy little bastards that will do it to us won't care as long as it turn them into billionaires.