A lot of it has to do with the fact that the last of those who lived through WWII are about gone. People don't have a grandpa talking about killing Nazis or a grandma talking about when she made tanks.

It isn't just US Americans, Europe has forgotten, too. Which is why Russia is walking all over them and they can't seem to respond.

And I fear we are going to refresh the antibodies, or to say it in a more American way, water the tree of liberty.

I'm amused by those who imagine that the laws of physics can be defied merely by looking the other way. It makes me ponder how unbelievably moronic humanity is, how pathetic, and how deserving of what it is come.

American rewards with money what it truly values, and it truly values war.

A stint in the Space Force, Air Force etc can open DoD and many other doors via the human network officers naturally acquire. It's an instant career or a useful stepping stone. The security clearance won't hurt either.

The Guard and Reserve are options for those wanting to hold civilian employment but active duty retires much sooner. An officer makes enough to fully retire at twenty years and never need to work again.

They have been selling a Google API that Google itself refuses to sell for years.

I've wondered how they hadn't been sued before.

Games are mere toys freely adopted and freely abandoned. There is no "prison" and such hyperbole is absurd.

Of course your comment on Palladium is correct, but games are mere trifling amusement with no involuntary physical constraints like a prison cell.

That's exactly what everyone needs - Oracle's avarice buoyed by the UAE's psychotic oppression game, refined by China's carefully engineered oppression.

That's the GOP's vision for the country - From each according to their ability, to each according to my whim, and shut your fucking yap if you don't want to be dismembered, serf.

I'm pretty sure someone was expecting that we were addicted to that $100B trade, and by throwing a 15-999% tariff on it, 15B-1.5T of fresh taxes were going to be generated. With a 40% drop in purchasing, that's going to translate to a lot lower tax intake than expected. The price for that will probably be more inflation, but the powers that be have shown very little concern over using other, more nuclear options (possibly even literal nuclear options), for handling budget shortfalls.

Exciting times!

Oh, that explains why I didn't read it.

Amateur. It's more like:
*drops to knees* KHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!

And that is the assumption you made. The article specifically mentions "affiliates, parents, or subsidiaries” accounts. The way I read it, if you owe Apple money, Apple is not asking Epic Game Store for the money. If you have multiple accounts, Apple is not limiting withdrawing from the main account. Banks have done this where overdrafts on checking gets pulled from savings or other accounts. I would assume if the amount owed exceeds money in all accounts, then Apple would use a third party debt collector.

Where in the world did you read that Apple "can arbitrarily make up a number"? The article says that IF a developer owes Apple money, Apple can pull the funds not from the developer's primary account but other accounts the developer might have. For example if a developer has a separate account for two apps and one of them is in the red, Apple can withdraw money from the other account.

If I read the article correctly, Apple will go after debt that a developer owes them by withdrawing from other accounts that developer might have. If the developer has "affiliates, parents, or subsidiaries" accounts, then Apple will get the money from them. How is that a debt collector again which is normally someone recovering debts for a third party?

It is right there on the label. Their sympathy is always on the side of capital.

They're up-front about it, and if you're aware of the bias, they're probably the best national paper in terms of factual business reporting. Just skip the editorial page, it consists of almost entirely of indulging the resentments of the geriatric rich.

Sure, like people crave sugar. But change the balance of nutrients and you change the body composition.

Sure, mankind isn't going extinct over this. But nature operates in a very brutish manner. If I can avoid health problems by popping a multivitamin or something, I want to know that.