Comment idiot savant (Score 1) 102
Comment Re:The US strategy (Score 2) 117
10 million people within spitting distance of America who now have a *renewed* reason for revenge. This administration is filled with geniuses.
You mean, the people who are willing to ride a piece of driftwood across the freakin' ocean because they'd rather live here than in their communist hellhole? Okay.
Comment Carmack makes a good point (Score 4, Insightful) 56
To continue being produced long term, games need to succeed, not just be beloved.
Comment Yeah, *that's* the big problem right now (Score 1) 103
Time for some C.S. Lewis.
The game is to have them running about with fire extinguishers whenever there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under. {...} Cruel ages are put on their guard against Sentimentality, feckless and idle ones against Respectability, lecherous ones against Puritanism.
The big problem of our civilization and age right now isn't that we are going to get too harsh or guard too much against people who rip off stores.
Comment So ... (Score 1) 24
Comment Re:Functional unemployment is 20% (Score 1) 182
President Harry S. Truman proposed universal health insurance in 1945, where workers would pay a fee or tax and the government would then pay the doctor or hospital of the patient's choice
The AMA claimed this was "socialism" because the federal government controlled the money.
Um
Now, you may like socialism
Comment But, but ... (Score -1, Offtopic) 132
Comment Re:The Great Equalization has begun. (Score 1) 84
This... is going to be interesting.
Especially interesting for these who don't understand and appreciate what they still (somewhat) have.
Y'all may think that you like communism, or (other peoples' exotic) eastern theocracy, but if they get the upper hand, you will find out much too late that you do not really like them at all
Comment Looking for silver lining here (Score 3, Funny) 94
Charles Poon, Ford's vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, added, "Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product."
(Looks for silver lining)
Comment Re:Now now guys ... (Score 1) 22
From the summary, "Five people in the US were convicted and received jail terms or probation.", so sounds like some westerners are involved as well.
Possibly, though their names, citizenship status, etc. would be helpful to know that.
Comment Re:What is a "harmful response?" (Score 1) 59
Then you do it.
I think we've identified the harmful bit right there.
Comment Re:Is this (corporate) exceptionalism, USA? (Score 0) 22
TL;DR: US company that screws-over its suppliers and its employees also suffers employees that help suppliers screw-over other suppliers.
Er, actually it sounds like values from other, non-US cultures operating in parts of a worldwide company.
The ring allegedly extracted about $100 million in unfair advantages by bribing Amazon employees in Asia to help them sell more products and sabotage their competitors.
Comment Now now guys ... (Score 1, Funny) 22
.... don't impose your western values on the eastern folk of this worldwide company!
The ring allegedly extracted about $100 million in unfair advantages by bribing Amazon employees in Asia to help them sell more products and sabotage their competitors.
Comment Re:"Disarm" is doing some heavy lifting here... (Score 0) 31
One of the things that made Germany just suddenly pop off like that is they stole billions of dollars in property from the Jewish people.
Um