I think that the state of California has already solved this problem, and rather than pushing for... whatever this is, the people organizing this protest could just be pushing for a more widedspread adoption of that law and consumer insistence on only spending money on games that they can actually purchase.

I kid, that won't go anywhere. Boycotts are seldom effective, and gamer boycotts are particularly laughable. Still, the law is a good one. Start with that.

They didn't really have sales, not for any appreciable amount of money. They had discounts for games that didn't sell, but you couldn't wait for them because odds were good that if you tried you just wouldn't be able to buy the game at all. There was very much a feeling that you needed to get a game before it went out of print.

This is not particularly amusing. I had a conversation some months ago... I found it in which another poster claimed that Democrats hitched their wagon to transgender issues.

Of course, in reality they did not and have not. What actually happened was that Republicans hitched their wagon to transgender issues, and Democrats wanted to talk about other things like the economy and Trump's crimes. And so the Republicans kept stumping on and on about trans-this and trans-that, and the Democrats kept talking about other things, and some of the people who were listening to the Republicans started to assume that if the Republicans were anti-trans, then clearly the Democrats must be pro-trans.

Your comment sounds like that. Democrats have never been hostile towards religion, but they also don't loudly declare their religiosity in the same way that the Republicans do. And so some people, seemingly including you, make the assumption that they must be hostile towards religion. Despite the fact that there are a total of zero atheists in congress, and a whopping two agnostics.

As though the only people who count as "real Christians" are the loudest and angriest of the bible thumpers.

It also isn't true. If that's all they wanted to do they could have passed that in it's own bill no problem. Democrats would have even voted for it. The tax cut crumbs they give out to the poors is not and has never been the point of that bill.

Well... we could always send him to El Salvador, and then start actually paying attention to the constitution. There's no reason why we should start with Musk.

I don't see this as "the right thing." This was going to go into effect in December anyway, there's very little benefit in moving up that timetable. This just seems like another example of Trump demanding that people abandon their plans and do what he says now now now.

Maybe this is Trump's attempt to co-opt a plan that wasn't his. So that Trump can put his name on it, and blame Biden for acting too slowly.

Setting aside the fact that every estimate that Musk has ever made has been a ridiculous low-ball and should not be trusted or even considered, I think you might have missed something from the article there. Commercial space flight, governed by the free market, means competition. And competition means many companies doing the same thing. I.e.: resources wasted on redundant effort.

So the cost of getting into space is not the cost of one company getting into space. The cost is all of them.

Right. That's the point, yes. Probably not a coincidence that things aren't repairable anymore.

Infogrames did indeed buy the Atari name, but then they changed their own name to Atari. And that company is still the holder of the trademark. And so it's accurate to say that Atari has released "consoles" in recent years, even if it's not the same as the old company.

Still more than you'd think, recall that Radio Shack made a nationwide business out of selling parts to electronics hobbyists. But I think that small-business repairs are where you'd expect to see this really shine. A few decades ago there were TV / VCR repair shops all over the place.

It has to be the US government, either directly or indirectly through another contractor. No one else has that kind of money to throw around, and the motivation to give it to Oracle. Bear in mind that Larry Ellison is a very public Trumper.

For your first question: not many, most people don't think about it until something breaks. For your second question: lots.

Repairing shit is something that used to be very common. In the last few decades it's mostly disappeared outside of PCs and cell phones, but that doesn't mean that people wouldn't take their stuff in to a repair shop if they could.

They've released a couple of those mini consoles in recent years. There's one from a couple years ago that looks like a 2600 and plays 2600 and 7800 games.

Well the whole point was that they're not mainstream. Some of them had budgets, but you forget about them because they sucked and never went anywhere. I forget about them too. The most successful I can think of is Captain Planet.

That's not it, he already had a deal for everything he wanted. The problem is that after the tariffs China is no longer willing to play ball. So now he's trying to keep what he almost had.