The top-level descriptions sounds very much just like Joel Kotkin's book from earlier this year... https://books.google.com/books...

Well, if you take their high estimate which is 3 orders of magnitude greater, you'd have 1000 small lakes, but this seems like a gold prospector taking one pan in the USA (9m vs. 14m square miles for moon) seeing some flecks, and declaring the entire country is covered in gold.

Mississippi has one of the lowest gas taxes in the US. For 2022, combine it's .18/gallon with Federal .184/gallon and that $150 annual road-use tax is equivalent to 412 gallons. Given the 2022 average fuel economy in US of 26.4 miles/gallon, that 412 gallons will get you on average 10,879 miles. FAR below the 100,000 miles mentioned in the article. This "tax" on BEVs in Mississippi looks like a bargain, especially given their higher weight and wear and tear on roads they generate.

Oregon's (blue state) fee per year for BEVs back in 2020 was $306, so, again running a BEB in Mississippi is a comparative bargain. Every state will be introducing these taxes as BEV adoption grows. There is no free lunch, nor should there be.

Once upon a time when phones ran BREW or J2ME (or Symbian), there were two views by carriers on how to manage what apps were available on their networks. In the West, carriers went for a walled-garden approach where you had to beg to get your apps on their decks. The upside is if you got on and especially if you got premium placement you'd sell a lot of apps. But there was not a lot of choice and the carriers were the gatekeepers. In Asia, however, they eschewed both walled-gardens and also any notion of programming. What you had were Websites chock full of 1000s of apps, mostly selling for the equivalent of 99c, many of them derivative and just rip-offs of other games or the same game re-skinned 100 times by a developer to try to dominate as much shelf space as possible.

What we have today with both Android and iOS is more like the latter than the former, but as someone who had to go bowing and scraping to get placement for apps on the decks of the major US carriers, it was no fun, and if Apple or Google were to switch to that model, developers would be raising hell.

I don't think either Apple or Google care about games. They're almost universally free and supported solely by microtransactions. That doesn't make them bad; some are quite good, but the platform owners have thrown their hands up and said basically let the market sort things out. If you have money to pay for customer acquisitions, you have a chance. If you don't, you're probably not going to make any money. That's just the way it is and it's not going to change. If you want a "managed" games market, then buy a PS5, XSX, or Switch.

We can argue over whether Bloomberg is a reliable source here, but the case was dismissed late last year with essentially a finding that the science behind the lawsuit was garbage and it was entirely litigation motivated. Check out the op-ed in the WSJ which simply recounts the facts discovered during trial from the 341 page ruling that essentially the lab that did the testing were incompetent (and are finally being criticized by the FDA as well).

https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...

SF just needs this guy back in uniform... http://vignette2.wikia.nocooki...

The problem with "Customers with older plans can check on our website or call in to see if a lower cost offer is available to them" is that the prices given on websites are almost always 'limited time promotional rates' and it is nearly impossible, including by phone, to find out what the actual rate is going to be after the promotional period is over. You could change plans to a lower rate and find in a years time you're paying more. As much as I loathe regulation, ISPs need to be forced to show what their real rates are and spell out exactly how their "promotions" work.

So says David Faber and he's almost always right on these things... https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/2...

You can always count on legislators to encourage bureaucrats to be even more bureaucratic in ways that really help no one.

I don't understand why Scott Wapner gives this idiot air time.

Oh, give me a break, this guy has been wrong for the last 50 years. He's always predicting the next catastrophe that does not come because he has no respect for technology and the ability of humanity to solve problems. Instead, he started back in 1968 with idiotic statements like this:

"We must have population control at home, hopefully through a system of incentives and penalties, but by compulsion if voluntary methods fail. We must use our political power to push other countries into programs which combine agricultural development and population control."

There's caring about the ecology of the planet and then there's eco-fascists. He's the latter.

That's a terrible example for this article as this was a drug that had been around for decades that just got approved in the US and is dirt cheap everywhere else. For the cost of doing trials and getting FDA approval, Marathon gets a 45x markup. Whereas previously, patients could buy this drug from overseas, now that it's approved by the FDA, they can no longer do that. So they have to pony up the $89K (minus whatever discounts Marathon offers to try and appease the mob). That's BS. The reform has to start at the FDA. If a drug is approved in a place like Canada, where I'm sure they're not just passing out hemlock and saying this might cure something, the process here should at the very least be shortened for approval and if the drug is already available from an existing company(ies), then they should not be handing out these sweetheart deals, like the one to Marathon, to essentially gouge all Americans with these ridiculous prices. The FDA and the Congress are complicit with the drug industry lobbyists for creating this environment where America pays far more for every drug than in the rest of the world. We're floating Big Pharma's profits and their marketing budgets because no one in Washington DC has the will to stand up and protect the American consumer.

You can have a couple of lights that you can turn on/off OR change your temperature from your Smartphone, not both. To have a truly automated home likely would cost about $5000. People are not so dumb. Wink would like you to think you can get real automation for $200 to sell you their $100 hub.

The maximum banking at Talladega Superspeedway is 33 degrees. I've been in a stock car ride-along at Pocono which is just 14 degrees in Turn 1. That was plenty of banking for me. When I read this I was like, wait, April 1st is still days away.

They've also eliminated the ability for you to expand your storage with a JetDrive or other SD card so that if you need, say 512GB, you need to buy the more expensive configuration from them. For a lot of things, like picture or document storage, you can get away with and SD storage device and avoid the Apple toll. Not anymore.