The problem is manyfold. The largest problems are as follows:

Not unique at all whatsoever.  Everything is driven by the bottom line for the current quarter, in order to drive up stock prices.  Eventually, it bites you, but *never* for the current fiscal quarter.

I’ve owned two Camrys: 

“Do you think Democracy is impossible, because it requires everyone to be willing to fight for it despite self-interest?”

In my eyes, that just underscores how impossible a Utopia is, because it *requires* that *everyone* be willing to fight for it, even if doing so goes against the self-interest of certain individuals.

Taking your example one step farther, look what happened during the space race when NASA switched from McDonnel (Mercury/Gemini) to North American Aviation (Apollo).  There’s something to be said of building on existing designs rather then rushing out a totally new, unproven one.

Self-regulation is what you wanted; who wants to pay more in taxes to regulate companies so this doesn’t happen?

I’d even settle for one of those old MD-10s.

All I’m going to say here is this is *exactly* what happens when you have a corporate culture that chases profits and stock price ahead of all else. Eventually, all corporations end up like this; I’ve seen this culture take root multiple times, and it *always* ends the same way.

“Plus, the work implies that some of these galaxies must be older than the age of the universe—something that’s obviously not possible.”

Understand, the stock market does *NOT* reflect actual value, it reflects the expectation that a company will add/lose value in the future.

Quality is largely going to be determined by the DAC in the headphones themselves.  That’s one reason why I continue to use wired, since the DAC in most phones is far better then the cheap ones that keep getting stuffed in BT headsets.

We’re heading right for our Shadowrun/Cyperpunk corporate run future. I for one welcome our new corporate overlords.

Here’s my thought: As long as Uber/Lyft drivers can not set their own rates, I consider then employees as Uber, not the contractor, is dictating payment terms.

And then he’ll tell you how much it going to cost, and you say “F no, I’m going to find a cheaper guy”.

To be fair, Toyota bet that Hydrogen would be the winner, and it does have it’s advantages over electric.  But no one, including Toyota, invested in the infrastructure, which is why it failed despite overcoming *every* problem electric still has.  So in all fairness, they *did* look at alternatives, but they made the…

We know part 1 is basically Midgar.  Part 2 probably ends at “that” scene.  After that it’s hard to tell how it’ll be broken up.

Spot on. But I argue Tesla tackled the two biggest roadblocks to electric vehicles: Range and lack of a recharging infrastructure.

I have to ask: How is anything in this patent not covered by existing patents?

Essentially, GoG is providing a (now old) dosbox version and a config file necessary to get the game running, often removing bits and pieces that are not strictly needed (setup programs, etc).  It took me a while how to re-enable MT-32 soundtracks for most games, for example, since there’s no in-game option to do so.