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Comment Making Car Unaffordable for Regular People (Score 1) 178

At some point, the cost trade off has to be considered. We can save lots of lives and make traffic accidents nil if we make car unaffordable. But how does this affect poor people's ability to get to work or go on with their lives. For the lefties out there, stop focusing on Trump and corporations and consider the negative impact on marginalized communities if cars are unaffordable to buy, operate, and maintain.

Comment A win for democracy (Score 3, Insightful) 372

Resolving ambiguities in the law is what judges are for. The existing system is all about writing vague laws and then appointing "agency experts" to fill in the blanks without having to bother with that whole annoying democracy thing to change the law. Some people like it that way though, the submitter seems pretty upset at the idea of lawmaking involving things like voting or separation of powers.

Comment Killing the revenue stream doesn't earn royalties (Score 2) 25

NBCUniversal should cut them some slack and work out a payment deal or forebear for awhile. If they force Redbox into bankruptcy, they would probably get pennies on the dollar in a bankruptcy settlement and the revenue stream would be permanently gone. This is the classic golden goose case.

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