The theaters don't get that much on opening weekend. Concession sales are where they butter their bread, or their popcorn at the very least.

They don't need to. They can spy on the network to get everything they need and most people aren't using encryption to secure their communications. They don't even really need to do that either though as most people aren't using encryption. They don't even need to do that though as most people will happily share everything on social media.

Assuming they can actually pull it off and it's not some kind of concrete limited to this particular data center, it seems like it lowers carbon by 35% for everyone else that can use it as well. I'm guessing that whatever they're doing isn't as economical as regular concrete or someone else would have already done this. Even if you don't give a single damn about the environment the amount of money to be made from green initiatives is staggering and this seems exactly like the sort of thing that could get a lot of government contracts.

I'm not interested in being a slave for people too lazy or disinterested in even trying to support themselves. The notion that everyone can have a job that they personally find fulfilling and life-affirming is naive idiocy. Find something to pay the bills and take up hobbies if work is not satisfying your personal desires.

No one is stopping you and other commie fools from starting your very own cooperative society. The rest of us only ask that you leave us out of it. We have no desire to subsidize your existence just because you find all work available to you unappealing.

Everyone can do that. It's as easy as buying publicly traded stock. If you have a retirement account or pension it's almost certainly based in large part off of an index fund.

Stock options are a fairly common form of compensation for software developers at many companies, startups in particular. You don't need to found a company to be an owner.

I'm assuming they worked on other titles as well, but it's not surprising they were laid off. That many staff for the kind of games they're making seems excessive.

Why is it so important to you that he gets credit for the vaccine when he was more than happy to disavow his administration's botching of other aspects of the pandemic response like testing. His exact words were "I don't take responsibility at all" and blamed (of course) Obama of all people. He only takes credit for successes and blames anyone but himself for failures. Our country is screwed because millions of people like you cannot acknowledge that, let alone call it a character flaw.

Why would you think the Trump administration's program for developing a COVID vaccine has anything valid to compare with the Biden administration? Were you expecting Biden to make them start over so he could try to do it faster? That's actually the kind of petty, self-sabotaging, ego-driven thing Trump would have done.

They did honor the deal for the lifetime of the car wash. Were you expecting something different?

Anyone who hasn't figured out that "lifetime" belongs in the same pile of terms as "unlimited" and similar marketing ilk has earned themselves the experience of learning a valuable life lesson.

I've had the opposite experience with Amazon. They were far easier to work with and within ten minutes would either refund or replace an order that never arrived. Compared to the hours spend dealing with the police or postal service, Amazon was downright pleasant.

If you did order something you never received and you paid with a credit card you should have filed a chargeback. Having filed a police report and contacted whoever delivered the package to get a case number will certainly help, but the card companies have mean bastards on retainer that will squeeze the money out of the company if they didn't give you what was sold.

I doubt it considering the voice recordings that exist of the pilots. Radical Jihadists aren't exactly shy about proclaiming their acts. It sounds like a pilot did something incredibly stupid that they tried (and unfortunately failed) to fix, for reasons that we'll never fully know or understand. This could be filed under the kind of brain glitch that happens all the time to no ill effect or a near miss, but because it happened to someone flying a plane it was far more catastrophic.

Universities seem to be doing exactly nothing to change this or to fix the culture and incentives that led to this problem. The very idea of "publish or perish" is what should perish. Any government funding should require preregistration of the study including the full set of hypotheses and methods. Give funding to making sure results are replicable instead of chasing after the next big thing.

The system itself needs to be reengineered so that it doesn’t devolve into some kind of cargo cult. It may be painful, but that's the cost of leaving the problem to fester this long.

And the data that makes this a "fact" and not your opinion is.... where?

And she's still insisting that the recovery should be on the state's dime.

I'm so glad Texas is getting what they voted for.

And yet it's been private companies like SpaceX that have done far more to advance humanity's space faring capabilities than NASA has of recent. Your example also sucks because the railroads only did that to take advantage of idiotic government policies that handed out taxpayer money without any consideration for whether it did something useful. Incidentally rail fare was cheapest on routes where there was competition and most expensive where exclusive monopolies existed, so I'm not sure what you thought you were proving with your statement anyway.

The libertarian position is that the government shouldn't have funded any of that and that in absence of free money for needless work, private industry would not make stupid decisions that only waste their own money. When private businesses act stupidly and engage in foolish acts they only waste their own money, not my or your tax dollars. Corporations love regulatory capture because it guarantees their existence and keeps competitors out. People mistake a desire to keep government out of the free market as some kind of pro-corporatist mentality when in reality the alternative produces far more corporate welfare and enables the worst sort of corporate behavior.