Well, the Orange Dragon has been President for a year and a half. No doubt he's already killed everyone, so there's no one left to die!

Japan's death rate is about half what's cited here at about 12,000 per 100,000. Eu's is about 1,000, or about 2/3 higher.

Any more questions you could answer in three seconds at your favorite search engine?

The real issue is that it would piss off the tech bro subculture, who contribute millions of dollars to reelection campaigns. Can't be having that.

Yeah, I'm sure that less than an hour's pay each at minimum wage (or, to be precise, about $3 each) will solve everyone's problems.

Steal a hundred billion dollars from evil rich people and it adds up to about $600 per worker in the US. Which is to say, less than a week's pay at minimum wage in most states.

Nowadays? What rock have you been living under for the last century?

Putting the government in charge of a bad idea is always worse than having someone, anyone, else, in charge of a bad idea.

While trying to get reelected.

So you believe that virtually everyone posting here is drunk?

Plausible, I guess, but dude, you've led a very sheltered life.

4 hours won't cover the average outage, but it's long enough to prepare for it.

Mixed with first rate marketing.

It's also disingenuous to call a merger "swallowing." While the bigger company (if it was bigger at the time) usually comes out on top, it's not a guarantee. Smaller companies often have far more agile political chops and end up taking control. There are several examples in the banking industry.

With a teacher that makes up what you want to hear.

(Sadly, that happens with live teachers, too.)

No-haggle dealerships aren't a new idea. They've been around for decades (Saturn was no-haggle at all their dealerships). The ones that have reasonable prices do well, the ones that don't die.

Something that sits between the internet and the browser and alters the page before the browser sees it? Then Google can pound sand.

I hate puppies.