It’s rather rich that of the $65m-a-year he’s apparently pumped (or is planing to pump) into Yellow Springs, apparently none of that has gone (or is going, from these reports) towards affordable housing, but instead businesses that stand to financially benefit him.

It’s one thing to be opposed to developments that will…

The Lisson’s make sense, but it seemed pretty clear that they didn’t need the Gemstone money. The plans for the resort were already in play well before they approached Jesse, and with the celebrity backing they have, money doesn’t seem to be the issue (nor do I get the sense they’d want the taint of a gangland-style…

Building a school, namely a public one, is entirely up to the county, the school board, and taxpayers like Dave. The developers have little to nothing to do with it, unless you’re talking about a private school...which still requires the sign-off of the county, the school board, and the tax payers.

If Dave wants a…

That’s my point: other shipyards might be located in areas that simply can’t physically service a yacht that size, due to the draft or the beam relative to the where the shipyards are located.

Given Bezos’ resources, it’s obvious that this shipyard was chosen amongst the few in the world who could build a yacht that…

Appreciate the well thought out response.

1. Stricter reporting requirements make hostile actions more difficult, and increase the likelihood that the target of a potential buyout falls into the hands of an accomodating Japanese company rather than a foreign one. Tightening reporting requirements, regardless of…

The jobs are put into a bind too, because not only do they not want to be sued by customers and shareholders if there’s rampant drug use through the company that’s negatively affecting performance, but also don’t want the government coming down on them if the government believes a they’re contravening federal drug…

Having to report purchases of more than 1 percent of a company, down from 10 percent, is a massive deal when it comes to direct investment. Not only that, but any easing pales in comparison to other countries within the Asia-Pacific region that have been much more conciliatory, for a longer period of time, than Japan…

The UK and the City of London literally sold the London Bridge to an American millionaire in the 1960s.

If a country wants to sell (or dismantle and replace) parts of their infrastructure at the behest of someone willing to pay for it, it’s their national sovereignty and their right to do so.

Also, that Chinese…

The Eiffel Tower is a bad example because France actually tried to sell it for scrap a few times before it became a beloved national monument.

And trust and believe there’s a long history of national monuments being outright sold because of pressing financial needs. Hell, the UK sold the London Bridge to a rich American…

Also, could they not just pilot the yacht to another shipyard and have the masts put on?

Japanese law also makes it really difficult for foreign investors to purchase Japanese companies, so it’s a combination of not taking dumb risks (a few errors such as the Virtual Boy and Wii U notwithstanding) and having a legal and financial paradigm which is built around protecting home-grown industries from too…

Hostile takeovers are notoriously tricky. Not only would it take a lot of money, but given the amount of institutional shareholders that you’d have to individually win over, cultural differences, and the various complications involved with a multinational hostile takeover (because the likely purchaser would either be…

You could compare it to Ghost of Tsushima, but both have very different gameplay and for PLA it’s gameplay supplies enough Pokemon that you’ll never travel more than 2 seconds without finding another one.

You could compare it to Ghost of Tsushima, but both have very different gameplay and for PLA it’s gameplay supplies enough Pokemon that you’ll never travel more than 2 seconds without finding another one.

It’s precisely the argument that was made.

Why would the gameplay of Pokemon matter relative to the gameplay of other games unless the comparison is being made in a simplistic manner that ignores certain facets of all the titles, irrespective of their graphical qualities? What about Pokemon’s gameplay, or the presence…

Counterpoint: there are plenty of games that don’t involve metropolis-like cities that can still feel alive, including BOTW, RDR 1 and 2, Shadow of the Colossus, and plenty of other JRPGS.

So, while the gameplay might be different, it’s a bit of facile argument to say that the gameplay in Pokemon games is so good, that…

The goal is irrelevant if the outcome, given the nature of the system, would be the same either way.

Given that ELO, in this case, is zero sum, and due to the fact that Karjakin ELO rating is lower than Carlsen’s, playing not to lose, playing to a draw, or playing to a win would all have a beneficial effect to…

Or they felt that they’d walk on the hate crime charges and wanted an easy win.

Also, in Georgia, the governor doesn’t have pardoning power, but instead selects members of a pardoning board who then have to be approved by the state Senate.

On top of that, from my reading of the relevant laws, the pardoning board doesn’t…

From my reading, the issue that Merritt and Ahmaud’s mother are having isn’t that they got a deal, it’s that the deal means they’d spend most of the rest of their lives in federal prison, versus state prison in Georgia.

Presumably, if the DoJ’s hate crime case failed, the men would be sent to prison in Georgia…

Thanks for sharing that.

I haven’t had time to really delve into the details since I’m currently at work (hooray insurance industry), but from your post and a few others, it’s making more sense from that perspective than from a purely product-driven one (which is what I, and I’m sure others, were wondering…