That is lines outside - we have no idea how many of those got one.

Never say never. There are some things I hope I never figure out what those wide men are talking about, but this isn’t even in that same league. Maybe I’ll buy one, it remains to be seen if there is some potential use I haven’t thought of today. Probably not, but…

20 stores only. Sold out in minutes. I’m guessing it takes a minute to get from the door to the display, pick one up and get to the checkout. Now people are still in parallel for this, but still I’m guessing 10 per store, with 100 the absolute max - so between 200 and 2000 (could be as low as 20)

Good for you I guess, but I value the space under my bench and so I would never put drawers there. The bench is for clamping things to, and often that means taking the clamp apart and reassembling with half on each side.

You kill their will to fight on - they give up because peace at your terms mean they are more likely to live.

Note that the above is proven false in the real world. Civilians typically see this as proof you are evil and so it is more important to fight on to win. However Russia still thinks the former anyway.

I was thinking about a GE stove for my next replacement before this. I don’t like my current stove, but I’m not sure if the bonus this year will be big enough (well I know it will be big enough, but there are other large expenses with higher priority)

I think anything with internet access should have a lifetime warranty on security. If there is even one of these still in use 60 years from now and a zero-day exploit is discovered they need to fix it at no cost. Perhaps they should be liable for whatever damage was done from the exploit as well. (I’m not sure how to demand this, but I know insurance is very good at figuring out how much money needs to be set aside for things like this: require it before the first device is sold)

There are a lot of bad bus systems in the world. However that isn’t the fault of the but. There some great bus systems proving it can be done.

Trains are nice, but the common bus is the workhorse of all transit systems in the world (or almost all - I know of no exception but I don’t know everything). For most people a simple frequent bus and useful bus routes/transfers would solve most of their transportation needs. Trains are useful for the core trunks that have a lot of people on them (which also need to be the places roads get too congested for a bus anyway)

The point of safety is humans are not perfect. They need to prevent our stupidity in cases where we are likely to be stupid. This has long been known as one of those situations where people don’t realize the danger and so we need to force the correct procedure. You cannot document/warn about an issue unless you can’t do better in other ways.

Will they allow building good alternatives or find reasons to also oppose building them? HSR would compete well in many more markets, but it needs a lot of political support to get it built.

3 homemade tractors that my mom’s uncle made before he died (IIRC in 1984). 1.5, 3, and 12 horsepower, so not really useful machines for any work, but they have meaning. If anyone comes across a “Pearl” tractor let me know, there are about a dozen out there (if not scrapped) that he made and I want the rest.

He also set precedence. A few more cases like this can the cost of going to court becomes cheaper for everyone.

No, if the safety systems can fail like that for any reason it is the fault of the pressure cooker. Unless he intentionally broke the safety systems, or one of the systems was already known to be faulty and he continued to use it. It can never be acceptable for safety systems to fail.

That is part of what a phd can argue about…

I would argue that the registration cost is just a tax and you own it. But remember I’m arguing as a philosopher and not someone who can’t see both sides or even thinks there needs to be one correct side.

What do they need cards for? They are not deciding this over a poker table. They have drones instead.

You can/should write your congressman (or equivalent in your country). Just the threat that if OSS can’t use HDMI congress will open up the laws will get action. In a democracy voters have more power than big money when they care and vote like it.

The city of LA should not get a .com name. They might have a case that la.com should not have a .com either (they look like a tourist .org though if they are not acting like a .org they are scammers) - but this would be a very hard sell in court. The city of LA should have a .gov (which won’t allow them) or .us (which is not organized well - something they should be mad about and pressure to get fixed) name.

Why not? You can’t hold it, but why should that be a limit?

Note, phd’s can easially be written on this subject defending either side. Some of those will say things like domains are not generally property, but for some situations we should treat them like property and in other situations not. I’m not expecting a response. I’m expecting everyone to think about the question.

He only adopted the moniker after failing to get Lamborghini to pay the very high price he wanted for the domain. If he wanted the domain to adopt the moniker he wouldn’t have tried to sell the domain in the first place.