Maybe I'm showing my age with this comment, but can someone explain to me why the Feds and specifically the President aren't putting more pressure on the states to increase vaccination rates, or even follow the protocols that the CDC has set. The President and Congress both have the ability to very effectively leverage power over individual states to coerce action. Even ignoring that, where is the intense, focused "patriotic" pressure? Obviously Dr. Fauci is out there, but why aren't we hearing a constant refrain aimed at those who refuse about their "patriotic duty". It's a tactic that has worked very well in the past in the US and almost everywhere throughout history.

You're completely misunderstanding copyright. Facts, even facts about fictional creations are not copyrightable. As proof, consider Cliff Notes. If you were right, Cliff Notes would be illegal.

I give it a week before the first lawsuit is filed.

What he said wasn't that people should inject bleach, it was however a dangerously irresponsible comment that suggested it's worth testing.

""And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?

"So it'd be interesting to check that.""

"For bleach, the numbers are less dramatic, but still telling. In January, February and March 2020 poisonings were up 7%, 1% and 59% respectively over each of the same months last year. In April they leapt 77%. As with disinfectants, May has similarly improved a bit, with the first ten-day period showing an increase of 51% over the same 10 days last year." (Source:https://time.com/5835244/accidental-poisonings-trump/)

So our former President took an incredibly dangerous idea that was already on the minds of a number of people and further legitimized it. That's the issue.

You forgot a 0% chance that even if this ban passed, it has any affect. It's a ban on future sales, for the second best selling game of all time. There are already over 140 million copies in circulation. It could never sell another copy and virtually every one who wanted it could still play it.

The urge to Godwin this is really high. One of those, despicable, methods would be about the only way you could reasonably enforce that. Not to imply that forced tattooing, or armbands would be reasonable.

Sources please. Emergency Use Authorization by the CDC states results "confirms the vaccine was 94.1% effective
(95% confidence interval (CI) 89.3, 96.8) in preventing COVID-19 occurring at least 14 days
after the second dose (with 11 COVID-19 cases in the vaccine group compared to 185 COVID19 cases in the placebo group)."

That number is definitely lower than reality. Likely by orders of magnitudes. I can't provide proof (since I was unable to get tested the first time), but my initial infection was Mid-March. My mother had it at the same time. She suffered from loss of sense/taste, and trouble breathing, among other symptoms. We both came down with it again mid November. She again suffered a lost of sense and taste among other lesser symptoms. Neither of us got tested the second time, what was the point? We stayed home and quarantined.

Isn't it a better example of the need for a guaranteed right to privacy? Something explicitly spelled out and untouchable.

It's kind of funny how people claim he wrote a blatantly sexist manifesto, and than completely misrepresent his "observations". He specifically talks about statistical distributions, and how there are gender differences between Men and Women as a whole. None of this is sexist, it's scientifically accurate. Perhaps his statistics, observations, and/or conclusions are wrong, but attacking someone personally for making mistakes in a piece that is clearly designed to be helpful is just rude.

Furthermore, it is quite clear for anyone who gives his "Manifesto" even a cursory glance that it is intended to be helpful. While you may not agree with his content, or conclusions, he quite clearly spells out what he believes are fixable issues, and suggests solutions for them.

Let's just follow your thought experiment to it's logical conclusion, using the current PS5 release as an example. The scalpers buy approximately a million units at $425 and $525 (ps5 digital and disc versions). A week later the manufacturer releases another million units of each at $399 and $499. Those units immediately sell out as well. The scalpers sell both sets of products at $900-1000 dollar.

Where's the benefit?

You do realize that currency does not have a fixed value, right? I can buy CAD with my USD today, and than sell it tomorrow and make or lose money, just as easily as I can do the same with Bitcoin.

I don't think you realize how expensive first class flights are... we're talking $5000 per flight, minimum, with some exceptions. International obviously, not domestic, which is actually business, not first.