It would not be a " good move for both companies. " Nintendo would suffer under M$ mediocrity and lack of vision. And the gamer would absolutely take it in the pants by an M$ monopoly.

These kind of comments enrage me and indicate to me about the complete lack of vision that MS execs have and really no respect for gamers or games in general. To them it is just another business line.

But it wasn't 1 in 1.5m for the target population of the problem, younger women.

These epidemiologists behind the vaccines go to school for 10 years then spend decades of research and what must have been an insane amount of time during this pandemic trying to get a vaccine to be over 70%-80% effective and some moron who doesn't understand a damn thing won't take the vaccine because it "doesn't work 100% of the time".

Fuck these people and social media for basically giving them a megaphone to spread their stupidity.

You can blame the brits all you want, I can't stand AstraZeneca or the Tories, but the initial vaccine purchasing strategy of the EC was stupid. The strategy assumed that pretty much all of the vaccines would be successful at the beginning.

LATER after they realised their mistake, but the availability was initially piss poor and cost 6-10 Weeks precious time that could have been used to make sure that variants were even more isolated by the mid-summer.

So I am very skeptical about how fast the EU can do things, and that was initial point. I don't believe their time estimates.

I don't buy the 2050 date at all (just like the EU had bought enough vaccines for all of us right? they never make unrealistic projections right?).

Europe should have been wise enough to take off it's stupid "Atomkraft, nein danke" bumper stickers , stupid hippie ideals (I say hippie, because it definitely is not peaceniks, as they will beat you up for expressing support for nuclear power). and gone with more nuclear power decades ago.

Instead we have decades of coal ash and now have to deal with dictators for natural gas.

That is nonsense and Americans should actually face the fact that the government fumbled the ball.

N95 masks should been at pretty much every pharmacy in the states to even be in the ballpark of what EU had. Hell they even gave away FFP-2 masks away to vulnerable groups across Europe, when the CDC was still advising that they were only for medical professionals.

Same thing when the test production ramped up. Now the market is absolutely flooded with tests in the EU.

None of this happened or is a problem in the EU. You can test your kids with the sniffles all you want. And tests for coworkers that aren't yet vaccinated or don't want the vaccinated are not a problem either.

Same with the masks, N95 (ffp2 masks in the EU) are and were everywhere and cheap, despite the high demand. Hell they gave them away even when you had shortages in the US. It is amazing how when a government actually determines that something is in the public interest and makes it...it actually gets made, instead of depending on some company that might not see a long term profit in something.

The problem always comes down to the government in the US, where other governments have stepped in and went ahead with creating PPE because it was in the public interest.... even if companies didn't see a profit . Whereas in the US, you don't have that and the waves are still hitting the US market. It is stupid really, given how much the US could have accomplished but just didn't want to.

What is the evidence based on this? Because I haven't heard of apple selling your data at all... and who to? Because if you haven't noticed, Apple makes money on selling hardware. Not selling ads

Ok I will take the troll bait. How are they not better?

They don't break and they offer much more security... sounds like Apple phones are better to me.

You could say the same thing about hundreds of businesses in major cities, like NYC, where there almost always lower priced substitute options than higher priced, manual labor intensive options, but due to convenience and marketing they are very profitable. So you are totally neglecting convenience, which is pretty much what fast food operates upon.

Also you neglect that for convenience & marketing reasons people will pay can and will more for the same product & many times lower quality products as well. A perfect example of this would be how much more (as a percentage of their salaries and many times outright) poor people pay for food & transit in urban areas because that is what is offered to them. So while there will be a highly group of tight wads that scour the entire metro area for cheaper options, something like a minimum wage raise is not going to stop people from buying local junk food.

The second part of what you said is just on anecdotal fluff. Living wage tests in Canada have shown that paying people a basic wage doesn't lead to growth stagnation in adults. So the idea that all adults are going to give up on school or academics and flip burgers is just scare tactics as well.

This is pretty much what I would say as well. Employers threatening the end of the world is mostly propaganda. And then they also threaten automation in this case which is usually something that requires large amounts of investment and time to get correct.

So automation is not just something that you up and do on a reactionary basis. So I call this as bullshit.

Tell the Iranians nuclear facilities that, or the Tor project that after the FBI recently compromised quite a few peoples anonymity, or the NSA that in pretty much every corner of the internet.

You would be surprised how rare it is to actually see that guy around. Certainly MUCH more rare than someone you love getting cancer or having a heart attack. So why not put the funds against the things we all will face, instead of the one in a billion chance someone gets hurt in a terrorist attack?

I didn't really mention Medicare you brought that up, without me mentioning me at all. So what is YOUR point?

I will say the "military budget" doesn't even begin to explain the trillions we have spent on wars. How do you explain how we wasted 2 trillion dollars in Iraq?

Honestly I am starting to agree with this line of thinking. Take the same insane amounts of money we spend on warfare and put it into repairing our bodies, fighting diseases, making people smarter and life easier, cheaper & abundant power, clean water for everyone, and more realistic fake jiggly boobs. :-) Spend the money we do destroying each other to make the planet inhabitable by all WITHOUT fighting wars over limited resources. Make the pie bigger, not fighting over a smaller piece.

Bet you didn't see that coming did you.