I'm glad victim-blaming is still alive and well. Those developers' skirts were far too short, they were asking for this.

Man. Something like that could cost you a trip to the NFC Championship game.

There's obviously something fishy in the relationship between McD's corporate, and Taylor, who makes the machines.

Ultimately, I'd imagine that this relationship benefits McD's corporate in some way, wherein it's a method to pull additional profit from the franchisee beyond what is established in their partnership agreement.

guy's just trying to get to work.

Yup, that's me! Still on DirecTV specifically for sports. It's amazing to me how little I actually watch of DirecTV, mainly just news and sports; that's it. The rest of their programming is all garbage and obsolete. I used to enjoy documentaries and such on Discovery, History, and NatGeo back in the day, and now it even seems that all those channels are just reality show reruns about rednecks trying to live in the wild, people trying to build houses in the mountains, or people catching different kinds of things from the ocean and rivers.

What gets lost in the shuffle is how well DirecTV does sports. They don't just offer sports, but they do a great job of taking sporting events and grouping them along a specific channel-range, and then providing you with a consolidated channel "mosaic" that allows you to watch four channels at once. Plus, you can "swap" between two tuners with the ability to rewind whatever content is being cached on each tuner, so for tournaments and large events, it really is an amazing platform. There's nothing to download and figure out how to use and its all very consistent.

The day someone puts up a serious sports package on-line, I'm in. I need:

Football & basketball, college and pro. I need the individual networks for every power-5 conference, fox-sports channels, and multiple ESPN channels. NFL Sunday Ticket or equivalent ( I could live with just paying for Sunday Ticket streaming ), but I'm a transplant, and the Sunday Ticket is the only way I've been able to watch my team every week for decades. And yes, I know the Sunday Ticket is specific to DirecTV, but it likely won't be the case next contract negotiation.

Boxing: I need to have solid boxing matches on Friday and Saturday nights, plus some kind of conduit that lets me order PPV boxing easily. When you're hosting a fight with your buddies, you need something that absolutely works, and don't link me a bunch of crappy links, because I'm not a thief into stealing content. And regarding boxing, undercard fights can sometimes be a real drag, so it's not uncommon to swap to the "other tuner" and watch another sporting event that's on at the same time, whether it be football or basketball (or do a side-by-side, which DirecTV allows you to do within their tuner). This isn't possible if you have to go from one app to another app with streaming media, which is kind of frustrating and makes for less of a user experience. DAZN is promising, but I basically had to reserve my AppleTV for streaming boxing and flip my HDMI input to DirecTV for another sport to do this, which really pisses off my wife who doesn't like sports, and probably wants to watch Golden Girls reruns on her netflix in the bedroom, which needs my AppleTV. YouKnowWhatI'mSaying. Content-specific apps suck.

GOLF channel. I need to see all the majors with multiple-groupings available, not just 1 channel. Would like to see other events as well. DirecTV did a very good job with their "mosaic" channel during the masters. I thought the "Masters app" was actually really great, too, but it doesn't have as good of announcer-coverage as DirecTV does, and it is nice to not have to have a specific app for every event.

NCAA Tournament: A Mosaic-like channel functionality (as referenced above) as well as multiple games across all networks. You shouldn't need to miss a game.

Olympics: yes, olympics. Even curling.

And more. But we're a long, long way off before I can justify getting rid of DirecTV.

This is what happens when you decide to move a bunch of people from California to Texas. A lot of these people want to stay, and Rivian is a great option for them. This isn't poaching, this is free-markets at work.

but wherever the a-hole is comfortable, I guess.

Right. And it just so happens that many of these 'private enterprises' happen to be owned by current or former high-level government officials. Probably not a great idea in their 'capitalist' economy to be a competitor to a company owned by a general.

Trees are just temporary storage. If I recall, Canada thought they'd hit the jackpot in terms of selling their carbon-credits, until they realized that forest-decay just releases most of the collected carbon back into the atmosphere.

This has the potential to be a much better long-term solution.

I've heard that for a lot of long-time smokers. My mother says that even after 30 years, she has an intense craving for a cigarette when she sips her first morning-coffee.

... with a format. Basically every year they say it's the year of Linux on the desktop.

Lighten up. Looking at everything in life as a math formula or a calculated risk is boring. Some of my fondest memories were of doing things that probably weren't a very good idea.

Once the Lottery gets up this high, casual people start buying tickets, which really makes the jackpot jump. That's usually when I will buy a ticket, too. I realized the stupidity behind the a) chances of winning, and b) the fact that a shot at a mere 300 million isn't worthy of my $2. However, it does make a great escape, imagining yourself as one of the super-rich.

I'd say that $2 investment provides a much greater entertainment value, and discussion with my wife and friends, than does seeing half of the movies out there, to the tune of $10 each.

Also, have you ever tried to explain your logic to someone who won? I'm sure they'd love to hear how incredibly stupid they were. =D

Jeeves just told me this is BS.

So you have absolutely no idea as to what your highest score was?

I see, you're going to completely discount the possibility that protesters were paid.

So, it's feasible that the company that has an interest in a multi-billion dollar pipeline hire a para-military organization to demonize protests, but it's not feasible that an even richer company, that currently owns the railroad that presently carries by freight all of the oil over the very same reservation, organize a public-opinion propaganda machine to protect their interest in profits under the auspices of "saving the reservation."

It's a chess-game of billionaires, so picking a side based on your ideals and beating your chest about it just shows tremendous naiveté. So, which group of billionaires are you rooting for, again?