That’s not private jet money. Not even close. A private jet costs about $5k per hour to operate.

I think you are missing the point that overbooking mostly largely benefits consumers by keeping the costs down. The no-show rate is actually over 10% due mostly to last minute changes and missed connections. Conversely, the percentage of people who are bumped from flights without volunteering is .0062%. Airlines…

This was a civil settlement and it was done to get the story out of the news ASAP and doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the legality

Wow. It is quite a stretch to call his CAGE a humanitarian organization. Their charitable works include mostly funding appeals for terorrists already convicted under American and British law (civilian court, not military court) and hosting radical speakers including those who have fought with the Taliban in Iraq and…

Well...people blame Facebook for “fake news,” even though it is just the medium. It’s certainly not much of a leap to blame drone manufacturers for drone attacks.

After systematically making a mockery of this tool by petitioning for a Death Star and Randy Macho Man Savage national holiday, everyone is now outraged that it is gone.

Sadly, you are correct. I was an intern for my congressman while in college. These letters, phone calls and emails are read and answered by low level staffers or college interns and signed with an auto pen machine without ever passing the eyes of the congressman/senator. I had friends who worked on both sides of the…

I am genuinely curious how a regulation like this could be justified to the public. They are penalizing the company for innovation and arbitrarily penalizing consumers along the way.

I get your point but being in a combat environment is not really a first world problem. The other commenters complaining about too many preservatives and Pizza Hut is really the first world problem.

“Most of the increase in uninsured, the CBO said, would come from repealing penalties associated with that mandate”

I understand not liking Uber. I don’t understand the fixation with the constant smear campaign in the Gawker media group. It’s beyond an obsession.

First, the numbers don’t ad up in this case. Did this guy buy a $97k car? It sounds like Kamal made some other poor financial decisions.

GM not in financial distress? You can’t be serious. Do you truly have no recollection that the US government intervened to keep GM out of chapter 11? Just to review the facts, after GM was bailed out by the US government, they have invested $5 billion to expand capacity in Mexico and is in the process moving 5k jobs…

Moving assembly into the US “every now and then” is a mischaracterization. Threat of tariffs could have been the original reason for entry but the practice has steadily continued for over 30 years. Toyota, Honda, and Nissan have steadily increased the number of plants and jobs since the 80s. BMW, VW, and Kia have…

This ignores the fact that the “Big 3" which are fully entrenched with the UAW, have been in severe financial distress and actively moving assembly to Mexico. Meanwhile, foreign auto makers with non-union labor (in the US at least) are in much better financial shape and continue to move assembly into the US.

In fairness to Eddie, I didn’t get the reference either but now that I look at it, they all look strikingly similar.

I am not an ACLU hater but I also don’t regard it with the high esteem that some do(for reason#1 below). I think that most people who do not support the ACLU take issue with their organization for one of the following reasons:

Only 244 people were killed by being hit by a train last year. So, by your logic, stepping in front of a moving train is safer than riding in a car.

Good points but as a parent of a child with a severe peanut allergy I think that my main frustration (almost certainly shared by others) is that they didn’t “adjust their stance accordingly.” More accurately would be “we are now telling you to do the polar opposite and by they way, what we have told you for the last…