You're forgetting Motorola in that equation. The return of Steve Jobs to Apple really knocked Motorola out and that was the end of that. Motorola was more about the militarization than IBM.

How many monitors can the base system support? If you tell me even just 2, I'll order 3 new systems for our office the day they're introduced.

They aren't planning on building the world's biggest plant. They're planning on enlarging an existing plant to make it what would be the world's largest. To me that's an important distinction - to use their numbers, it isn't 11 gigawatts of new capacity, it's a 50% enlargement of an already existing plant - still a lot of power, but a lot less new power than the headline makes it seem.

I'm not sure that argument makes sense. Owner could release rights if that's the case - or even give specific approval to certain types of distribution. Saying you're just going to assume the owner doesn't care and you can therefore do what you want is pure hubris.

For the most part, I agree with this statement. In this case though, it's happening across the board. So the answer would be "don't watch stuff", which rather defeats the point.

Or do know what torrents are and don't care because they're not people acting like 12 year olds ripping stuff off in their parents basement.

Public domain would be legitimately free stuff, but yeah the 99.9999% comment seems to be him just saying he can pirate stuff. I mean, no crap. Anyone could. But I'm not sure what that has to do with paying for things legitimately.

That's entirely untrue. This isn't gambling. Shorts are relatively new. Typical stock transactions are just a willing buyer and a willing seller. No one has to lose. And if you do lose it's just because you decided to sell when price was below what you bought for. Shorts are an entirely different thing. Shorts are betting on a companies stock failing, and doing it by borrowing a stock. You don't even buy the stock (initially).

This is my sad face... I'm so sad. It makes me so sad that people betting against companies lose money. Wahhhhh /s

You're right about everything you say except for what the biggest expenses are. By far the largest is social security, but that's followed by health, income security (retirement, unemployment, housing assistance, etc), national defense is 4th/5th, effectively tied with medicare. Interest is all the way down at 7th. Now, it's still huge (~8% of the budget), so your point isn't lost. Just clarifying.

Discover+ is a lot of reality dreck. That'll be most of it. Even on its own though, HBO probably averages 2-3/mo.

I would assume... there's already both HBO Max and Discover+ apps.

Yeah I mean, part of the reason for the Bill was to push American manufacturing, so you can't just change courses on that... but a phase out would make sense.

I foresee literally none of that.

Ted Lasso, For All Mankind, Severence, the Morning Show, Jon Stewart, etc... there's a lot to like about ATV+, especially for like $7/mo or whatever it is. But what does that have to do with cinema production spending anyway? I mean, even if I agreed with your point this would be a move towards improving it.