That's barely a slap on the wrist for Big Magenta. More of a gentle tickle, really.

Using free data sources like Yahoo Finance, you can easily see that TMUS collected $33.9 billion in revenue over the last four quarters. $1.1 billion trickled down to become bottom-line profit. This $48 million fine is a rounding error compared to the company's sales and just 4.4% of its trailing profits.

Put another way, the company has 67 million total subscribers. If T-Mobile paid back the entire fine directly to its customers, it'd be a grand total of 72 cents each. Please sir, may I have another?

The Census Bureau says that there are about 116 million households in America. From that perspective, and assuming that the vast majority of Amazon customers don't have multiple Prime accounts per household, "half" sounds about right.

Right? :)

"...the community graciously accepted it, seeing it as a huge step toward making Java better. Its unique selling point is the attention paid to every aspect of the programming language..."

Java 8 also turns your garbage into gold, serves you pancakes in the morning, and will never give you up. This is ad copy.

Exactly. It was obvious to him, way back when, that programming these things to do the right thing (from a human perspective) would be difficult/impossible/insane. And here we are.

Nuff said.

And if there is a manual, it was probably delivered on a USB stick.

But what if you're a hoopy frood with two heads and three arms?

You insensitive clod!

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Fair enough. I'll try to steer clear of Godwin's Law, though.

The way Scott Adams lays it out, I'm not 100% sure that Trump is a total nincompoop anymore. This whole act may in fact be a carefully calculated and very shrewd act, designed to steer the election in whatever direction he wants. Which may or may not include putting a terrible hairpiece in the Oval Office.

Like I said, I'm still not entirely convinced and need to think about everything some more. Will probably re-read Adams' article, just for good measure. Hope that satisfies the Poe conundrum.

Uh, I have to go think about stuff now. I feel so manipulated.