The terminations would follow a previous round of layoffs in May that hit 6,000 people and fell hardest on product and engineering positions, largely sparing customer-facing roles like sales and marketing.

If you got rid of the people who produce the product you don't have a need for people to sell the product.

I have inadvertently clicked on what I thought was a video only to be forced into Shorts, and what an abysmal mess. The Short plays, but I don't like the placement on my monitor. I touch my mousewheel and I'm flung into some alternate universe where the Short I was on is now gone and something else is trying to take its place. And you can't get back to where you were.

YT has fast become nigh unusable. About the only time I go there is to watch a news video because the news website makes it as difficult as possible to watch a video on their site (BBC excluded), or I happen to come across part of a song and want to hear the entire thing. Other than that, there isn't a need for me to go there.

Putting the card into the reader solves this issue. The slot is there for a reason.

And then people drop their insurance because it's too expensive. Such as in Florida, though in their case it's more related to hurricanes and roofing scams.

Sure, the state can, and generally does, offer insurance of last resort, but that's not inexpensive either. But then, the taxpayers are the ones footing the bill.

Anybody else see this statement as being complete BS?

No. Corporate profits are at record highs.

Nuke them twice?

Agreed. I have a desktop from about the same time running Mint and have had almost zero problems running Firefox. I had one lockup about a month ago, but that's been it.

Other than the excessive nagging about updates which can't be removed, it does exactly what a browser should do: display web pages.

Hiring a guy who injected children with an anti-puberty drug to show vaccines cause autism.

Correct. If Congress okays a president receiving a gift, money, title or such from a foreign government, then it is okay. Otherwise, it is not permissible.

For more information.

No. If you read the text, it is only on receiving items from foreign heads of state:

Article I

Section 9 Powers Denied Congress
Clause 8 Titles of Nobility and Foreign Emoluments

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

It's just that all past presidents did their best to not enrich themselves while in office. Carter put his peanut farm in a blind trust to avoid a conflict of interest while he was in office.

The patent is granted by the government in the first place, they don't need to give it away and then buy it back.

The government doesn't own the patent. All the government is saying is a particular idea/concept/formulation/whatever is unique and was created by (fill in the blank). They are not paying the person/company anything for the patent. The person/company pays them.

They can't give away a patent because it's not theirs to give away.

How fast do you think this will fail? Given his track record of business failures, this will be another one added to the list.

Americans are lazy. What else needs said?

Except going to a web site on a mobile phone and trying to find anything useful is too difficult. Simply asking for the information is far easier.

If you're on a real computer then it's a bit easier, assuming there's any semblance of competency to the web site.

If I paste an image into Writer, the right and bottom sides of the image have thin gray lines, but not left and top. Can't get rid of them, either.

This does not happen if I paste the same image into Word so it's obviously related to Writer.

The type of image doesn't matter (jpg, png, etc). It happens to all of them.