Wait, you are saying you need a permit to burn tires? ,/EM>

If you don't want to dump all the burning toxins into the air, yes. Or don't you breathe where you come from?

I doubt Trump wants war, he's a businessman, not a soldier.

Yes, you are correct. The draft dodger is not a soldier and has little regard for the military, criticizing Gold Star families and mocking those who died.

However, the reason nothing will happen while he's around is because he admires Putin. Remember when he held up a picture of he and Putin after the Alaska meeting and said he was going to sign it and send it to Putin? It's the same reason he has not put real sanctions on Russia despite the Senate having the bill to act as a sledgehammer. Trump himself said back in July that Putin has 50 days to make a deal. Here we are 88 days after that statement and nothing has been done. He then followed up with a statement in the beginning of August where he said, "We have about eight days. ... We're going to put sanctions," he said. And yet, here we are, two months later and nothing.

Anything that would make Putin look bad, Trump won't do. He wants to do business in the country so any sanctions or military activity is the last thing he would do. His usual word salad is all we'll get.

Correction. A small price for accepting genocide.

The role of middle managers is to execute the plans of upper management. Without middle management the upper management would have to deal with the workers and all the minutiae while at the same time trying to keep the company running.

As Forbes said, middle managers are the overlooked leaders who hold the organization together.

Sharper Image was never that great. Just overpriced Chinese-made products made to look nice.

Agreed. It's not the same, but similar issues remain. Investors, both from the stock market and direct, are the ones providing the money. So long as companies keep buying the products, everything is fine.

What has to happen is AI, in all its forms, needs to get its act together. While the market can stay irrational longer than you or I, you, as the company, need to show something for the billions being sent your way. Personally, I believe there will be advances from all this computing power. However, it's going to take time to sift the chaff from the wheat. Once someone, or someones, finds the right combination of software and hardware, that's when it will get interesting. How long that will take is the question and whether investors are willing to keep handing over their money.

The difference is these companies aren't necessarily going into debt to keep running. They just keep going back to investors who hand over their money.

Also, those other companies in the 90s used the debt to purchase and install physcal equipment needed for the upcoming expansion. That they sabotaged themselves with high prices and slow rollouts is the main reason for their failure.

When you're in a forest, things are darker than in the open. You would need to stand out.

That and the colorful butterflies either go somewhere else or die off because humans are cutting down their habitat.

Why stop there? Why not legalize all grifting.M/EM>
BR? Have you not seen who is in the White House? He's the biggest grifter we have. He routinely pardons people convicted of financial crimes as well.

They've been pushing this narrative that media can't be trusted. This then allows them to shape stories to fit their own right-wing agenda. Witness for the past 5 years all the whining about a "stolen" election. Almost every day for Biden's term that fake story was pushed out, mainly by their stooge Trump, but definitely put out there on other sites and roundly repeated by the dullard MAGA crowd.

Never mind that the Fox tabloid jumped wholeheartedly on this bandwagon and got bitchslapped for almost $800 million for pusing the lie, or that several attorneys were either suspended from pracitce, criminally charged, or disbarred for repeating the lie in court. Nope, the election was stolen and the media is lying because . . . reasons.

Then of course there are the calls of "FAKE!" every time the truth is put out. Such as when repeating the decaying coleslaw words of dear leader Trump. Repeat his own words and you're called out for being "fake news".

What makes this story so hilarious is that the same people who claim to have low to no trust in media are the first ones to go rushing to the same media to see who the new white guy is shotting up a church or school. They want to see if their biased perceptions are true and when the story doesn't match what they think, they claim the story is false because . . . reasons.

Even more hilarious is when people claim they no longer listen to the media but instead get their news from various social media sites. Where do they think the people posting screenshots are getting their information from?

Turmp is right. Smart people don't like him because he caters to the poorly educated (a group he says he loves) who will lap up any bs he or Project 2025 or the late Charlie Kirk spit out. Because instead of looking at reality, they want to believe there is some vast conspiracy by news media to lie to them, to withhold the truth. Except, when the truth is out there, these same people claim it's all lies. They can't have it both ways (they can, but it shows their stupidity). Either you have to accept these people are doing their jobs reporting on corruption, reporting on who's doing what underhanded thing, who's committing genocide, or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose like all the Senators and Representatives who claim the election was stolen, except for their election.

This is the Zeroth law:

A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

The FCC said it would consider public comments before deciding whether to reverse the rule

The decision has already been made. They'll probably use fake comments like they did in his first term. Went looking for the quote, but a guy wondered how his dead mother was able to submit a public comment.

This will be no different than RFK, Jr saying in April he'll find a cause for autism by September. And look what happened.

Putting one in New York never really made sense to me, because the state of New York had aproximately nothing to do with the shuttle program other than providing a museum at the end and probably contributing some astronauts to the program.

Eyeballs. Compare the number of people who visit New York City to Houston. New York City attracts 60 - 68 million visitors each year. Houston attracts roughly 54 million.

NYC also has more international visitors than Houston so more people from around the world would get to see a shuttle.