So that would suggest that vocal muscle tone isn't enough to prevent someone from needing a CPAP machine.

Yeah, I have a friend who runs all his games on Linux. Which is cool but even though he has a high powered laptop he seems to run into more crashes than I do when we are doing co-op games. Not enough to matter, but still something I notice while I'm on a Win 10 PC.

But doesn't Paypal have some of the same restrictioins that Visa and Mastercard implemented to protect them from being associated with "unsavory content." So I get Paypal wanting to establish themselves as a good alternative to Visa/Mastercard but I don't see them as some savior.

It wouldn't matter if Nadella were replaced with someone like a Mark Zuckerberg character. The problem is that any CEO that expects to last is going to foremost due what the investors want. That means do whatever it takes to keep the stock going up. If that means cutting thousands of jobs then that is what both an Intel and a Microsoft will do. Even though the companies are in very different positions, they are both cutting jobs to look better for bottom line.

100s of millions of people to deport? Just how many people do you think live in the USA?

Especially if they were just recently allowing people to pay for the "lifetime" service. Then taking it away with no warning is very likely to get someone to decide to sue them.

New York isn't the only financial market in the world and if it is getting shut down you can bet the other markets will step up. Also the state is going to have trouble freezing assets that exist outside the state. Let alone freezing assets when the state government is shut down due to a lack of power.

Though from what I was seeing you could have got the same service without the data caps from Comcast. At least going back a few years I started getting hit with the offers from Comcast to move their high speed Internet plans without any data cap. As Comcast really wanted to pull customers from AT&T (I'm on their Uverse fiber 1GB/1GB with no data cap) and they couldn't do that with that 1.2TB/month usage limit.

Not high hopes given the material and the games I wasn't expecting some world shaking movie, but I was hopeful we could get an entertaining movie. Certainly there was enough material to make such a movie. Sad to see they apparently failed.

According to what I've heard the people who say they were talking to the Secret Service may have been talking to Trump's own people. After all they've all take on the same look even though Trump's people don't have any law enforcement capability and don't communicate using the same devices/channels as Secret Service. So it is entirely possible that Trump's people heard about the guy and either didn't think any thing of it or tried to communicate to USSS agents and failed for some reason. Again getting back to a failure of technology caused by poor decision making either in deploying the tech or testing it.

I don't blame Microsoft for the Crowdstrike fiasco. That's mainly on Crowdstrike for not properly testing their updates before shipping it. After all, they had a similar problem with Linux earlier this year. As for Microsoft they had little choice but to let Crowdstrike and others get that kernel access thanks to the Euros.

His long time partner , Charlie Munger, until he passed away, was also there helping to make decisions into his 90s. So it's not so much an age limit there is needed as some sort of competency test for leaders. Of course that has the potential to be manipulated to get rid of people so that needs to be considered.

You are right that the police shouldn't react the way they often do to one of these calls. However with the kid having done 29 of these calls (that we know about) there's no way he wasn't aware of what the police might do. He was likely counting on the police to over react which he got off on.

After all where is the fun in making a call to the police only to have them knock on the door and have a polite conversation with the home owner before leaving. He wanted the police to do more or else he wouldn't have kept trying to swat people. Was he hoping for a murder by cop? I don't know, but it certainly was a potential outcome of his continued calls.

Can't say that I blame them. They need to be in a city that is designed to handle huge influxes of people. Vegas is the perfect place for that as that's a city with a constant flow of conventions. I doubt the hotels will stop charging top dollar until the convention decides to move and then it will be too late.

As others have pointed out before they are US companies but they do lots of business in the UK. Hence there is the option for huge fines should Msft/ActiBliz go against this ruling. Of course the companies could decide to not do any business in the UK but that would also come at a huge cost. So, for the time being they will comply with the ruling while working to get the deal approved.