Like with re-surfacing the Reflecting Pool, Trump will "know a guy, that's done work for him" - that he'll later say he's never heard of - and it will end up being be a no-bid contract for $35M, that will end up actually being a large multiple of that, which we find out from a reporter who Trump will call treasonous and/or stupid - for pointing out inconvenient facts/truth. In any case, just another avenue for corruption, at our expense. /s

That probably would have been a really hard sell to Congress, even a Republican-controlled one.

So sad Elon missed out on getting rich. :-) More seriously, how much more money does Elon need? /s

Unfortunately, those rules won't really matter while the guy at the top rigs things in favor of "friends" (meaning sycophants). Yes, Elon lost in court, but he's got two and a half more years and a ton of "flatter the king" money to change things in his favor. Also unfortunately, our current business and political climates are just cults of personality where money gets you everywhere. Those rules are also about to get skewed even more by the $1.7 billion slush fund the IRS is setting up for Trump, for dropping his bogus, and probably illegal, lawsuit against himself, so he can pay people he thinks were wronged under Biden, like the Jan 6th insurrectionists.

As a comedian said: "Reparations? From the U.S.? They need to get in line." :-)

Noting that Trump has a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School of Finance and Commerce (name when he graduated).

(And he *still* claims exporters pay his tariffs, which are import taxes.)

That sounds like insider trading. :-)

I spent about half my career as a software engineer and half as a systems administrator, sometimes overlapping, both on everything from a PC to Cray-2, and never really thought a Master's degree would help with what I did day to day - or, at least, not for the extra effort and expense. I had co-workers with Master's who got a few tasks that exercised that extra education, but those didn't really interest me that much and, because of my longer experience over a wider area, I earned the same if not more than they did anyway. I like working on hard, or "impossible", practical problems that usually required detailed working experience over a wide number of systems and programming languages, as well as porting scripts and programs, historically between combinations of Unix, Linux and Windows, and a Master's won't really help with any of that.

Meaning: We're investing a LOT of money trying to replace you, so shut up, do what you're told, how you're told, and be grateful you still have a job - for now.

Also, I'd still want to know who's on that rocket and especially who I'm sitting next to. If it's Elon or one of the other rich, entitled, um... CEOs - pass. /s

Remembering what Jordan Klepper said on The Daily Show about Trump's recent trip to China with all the tech CEOs:

Probably not even "has to" show up, the work ethic (has historically) trended stronger in the elderly.

Sure, but having trouble seeing how those would relate to actually pricing a cell phone plan though. If customers don't care that it's detached from anything tangible or operational, fine, but, like the gold, it's just more idolatry. What are those sayings, "There's a sucker born every minute" and "A fool and his money are soon parted".

Bond is a Time Lord and he's only regenerated six times so far -- which explains why he routinely looks different.

"The name is Bond-8.0, James Bond-8.0."

If it's one thing people like, it's arbitrary pricing.

(Good thing similar services aren't available elsewhere for less, otherwise you'd just be giving rich guys more money. /s)

... 'cause now I'm craving peanut butter and jam sandwiches.