Comment Re:A specious assumption, on the face of it (Score 1) 12
American auto manufacturers exclusively make cars which have very little marketability other than in the U.S. itself.
Last year, America's automobile exports were worth $54B.
Comment Re: Great (Score 1) 175
certainly the signage for streets, etc is not in multiple languages...etc.
Subway signage in Tokyo, in multiple languages: https://miro.medium.com/v2/res...
Signage in Europe in multiple languages: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/B42T...
Canadian supermarket sign in French and English: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
Canadian highway sign in English and Squamish: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
A collection of bilingual road signs from New Zealand: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/i...
Welsh and English: https://ars.els-cdn.com/conten...
Here's one from New York for native American tribes - you know, the first people here before white people came and "assimilated" according to you: https://media.advance.net/newy...
Here's a few more, just to show that you're wrong:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/A8J1...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
Why are you talking about things you clearly know nothing of, and can be easily refuted with a Google image search?
Comment Re:They had to find suckers somewhere (Score 1) 119
I wrote two lines of text. You seem to have truncated the second one:
Nobody with any sanity whatsoever would honestly suggest that at this point.
Pay special attention to the qualifier of "being sane".
Comment Re:High price. (Score 1) 34
Because we don't have regulators to hammer them with truth in advertising lawsuits, combined with statute-of-limitations laws that outlast current administrations?
Cynicism has it's place. This isn't it.
Comment Re: You need to care about the gambling (Score 3, Insightful) 78
Cool. So your solution to addiction is "I don't have a problem, therefore it's not a problem for anyone, anywhere."
See how well that works with any other addictive behavior, and the knock-on problems that come from these uncontrolled behaviors:
alcohol abuse
tobacco
cocaine
heroin
crack
meth
casino gambling
All of these things conclusively lead to higher crime rates.
Background
Severe problem gambling is most often related to income producing offences such as larceny and embezzlement. In addition, the high rate of relapse to gambling problems and the link between gambling debts and crime have clinical, forensic and penitentiary implications. Considering the data from the literature presented here I decided to form and empirically verify a hypothesis that incarcerated men with a diagnosis of pathological gambling are characterized by psychopathic personality disorders, alcohol problems and criminality.
Material/Methods
The groups of participants encompassed 90 men 26–52 years of age, serving a criminal sentence. All participants had to fulfil the following clinical criteria: a) be interviewed by a psychiatrist and diagnosed with pathological gambling and/or antisocial personality disorders b) obtain a result in the PCL-R test; c) estimate the relationship between gambling problems and crime. Taking into consideration the abovementioned criteria three patient test groups were formed: Group 1, which included those for whom gambling had led to crime; Group 2, where gambling was a part of a criminal lifestyle, and Group 3, in which the mutual relationship between gambling and crime was unclear.
Results
The participants were diagnosed as pathological gamblers (DSM-IV-TR, ICD-10) and psychopaths (PCL-R). Those tested differed with regard to the intensification of the personality disturbance tested, the co-occurrence of other disturbances, particularly psychoactive addictions, the motivations for taking up gambling, and the type of criminal activity.
Conclusions
The hypothesis was confirmed that incarcerated men with a diagnosis of pathological gambling are characterized by psychopathic personality disorders, alcohol problems and criminality.
The emotion you are feeling is "abject stupidity from rejecting decades of scientific and sociological evidence that you're wrong."
Comment Is it, though? (Score 1, Offtopic) 35
After 13 years of observations and data processing, astronomers have released the largest two-dimensional map of the universe ever assembled
How do we know what other alien civilizations have mapped, and that this is larger?
Comment But but but... (Score 4, Informative) 78
Huh. I thought these guys were all about States Rights.
Apparently that only extends to telling women what they can do with their own bodies?
Comment Re:So what (Score 0) 36
More than that, the seatback display on every Delta flight gives you instructions for how to connect to their real WiFi. If you join some random SSID that doesn't follow the instructions literally in front of your face, you deserve what you bought.
Comment Re:Is Bonta an economist now? (Score 1) 175
Found the guy who hasn't done an interstate move in at least 20 years.
Comment Re:Is Bonta an economist now? (Score 1) 175
So you don't think the Attorney General of California would have the ability to talk to industry experts, economic experts, and legal experts about this?
The industry is based in California, and has a very rich ecosystem of analysts and experts around it.
There's a lot of economic expertise inside and outside of the state government - including countless professors of economics in the University of California system which has several fine schools (UCLA, UC Berkeley).
Yes I'm sure as a lawyer, he didn't actually look at the law before filing a lawsuit. And the court he filed it in, I'm sure didn't bother reading it before accepting it and setting a hearing schedule.
What the hell are you on about.
Comment Re:Paramount is bluffing (Score 1) 175
Lots of assumptions happening there.
This sounds a lot like a professional sports team owner demanding hundreds of millions in stadium renovations or they are taking the team elsewhere.
And municipalities everywhere are learning that it's usually an idle threat, because they can't move the team without league approval, and leagues aren't interested right now in upending media markets they serve.
Comment Re:drop in the bucket (Score 1) 175
When did we decide that governments can just piss away money they don't have
Well, that would be when the municipal bond markets became a thing. And when tax-increment financing supporting urban renewal became a thing.
It might surprise you that it's easier to build shit if you can take out project financing to get the money up front to do the thing, rather than wait 20 years to replace a failing bridge because you have to save up.
Comment Re:drop in the bucket (Score 1) 175
Because that creates a whole bag of different problems that become OUR problem.
This is why governments write antitrust laws.
Comment Re:More evidence we made the right decision (Score 1) 175
So in your world, nobody should ever boycott anything because that's "cutting off your nose to spite your face"
Voting with your wallet is the one bit of leverage that consumers hold over corporations, and you want us to give that up?
GFY.
Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 175
ou then said Hawaii, a state that hasn't voted Republican since 1984!
False. Hawaii re-elected a Republican governor in 2006 to a second term.
They have not had a statewide-elected Republican since that election though.
