Inventory management is hard. Long supply chains mean products have to be made anticipating demand months in the future. Make too little stuff and you miss out on sales. Make too much and you end up with excess inventory that either has to be discounted, or scrapped and taken as a write off.

This seems to be a particular issue in the US. I got very few dings when I lived in the UK, but after I moved to the US, I started getting them all the time.

Autonomous vehicles need to be MUCH safer than human drivers to be accepted, because when they fail, they’ll fail in unhuman ways that will garner excess media attention.

In the US, Debbie Gibson in 1988 was the first woman to write, produce and perform at no. 1 with “Foolish Beat”.

She is a household name in the UK. After she became first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song, with her debut “Wuthering Heights”, everyone there knew who she was (and that’s a country of 60 million people).

‘old man yells at cloud’

You missed producer. She also pioneered the use of hands-free wireless microphones, when she took a small wireless mic and made a harness from coat hanger wire.

Brilliant, but I’ll wait for the carbon fiber edition.

He’s not making those names up. My 3 year old son knows all the dwarf planets by name and recites them frequently.

Stop the candy (from a baby) steal! There was widespread fraud that invalidates these results. People are saying they saw big Nerds drops in Nevada just after midnight. And how is it there are more Kit Kats in Michigan than people? Huh? Huh? Bet you can’t explain that!

The definition is arbitrary. There is no real correct definition of the start of space, apart from the one that says we are already in space, as the Earth is not outside of space. It’s part of it.

I wasn’t meaning to imply there is no self criticism here. I’m simply saying that relative to the UK and what I’ve seen in other European countries there is significantly less in the USA. It also is generally met with backlash that you don’t see in those other Western democracies.

I never understood why America always mentions Pearl Harbor being a surprise attack, as though that makes it somehow worse than it being an attack period.

Why is patriotism in this country always equated with wars and getting wounded? Patriotism means acting in the best interests of your country. Given that our quality of life depends on good governance; law and order; a strong economy; education; healthcare; infrastructure; stable food supply; a thriving culture; and…

,,,our obsession with free expression has produced an art culture far more willing to criticize America than exists basically anywhere else.

Sadly the word “jingoism” isn’t in the American vocabulary. In European countries they know first hand that there’s a point where excessive patriotism becomes destructive. That is jingoism.

Same here. I want my 6 year old (as of Sunday) and 2 year old to grow up to be grounded, well-balanced adults. Consumerism does not deliver happiness. While poverty brings unhappiness, that doesn’t mean the opposite of poverty brings the most happiness.

I very much doubt his life will be “grand”. It’s amazing how people still believe that excess wealth at a young age correlates to happiness, despite all the examples to the contrary. It’s quite amazing the power of human beings to still believe in the myth that great wealth will hand you a happy life on a (silver)…

We don’t allow Ryan’s show in our house. The vulgar consumerism is not something we aspire to.