You don’t have to be a monopoly to run afoul of antitrust. The test is whether or not you’re big enough to alter the market on your own (or in a cartel of fellow competitors). Then you have to actually go out and try to harm the market. Just being big is not a crime (natural monopolies exist. I wouldn't say Google is…

When people stop buying iPhones. This streaming service, even if it eats $20 billion and shits out nothing in return, would not be a critical blow to the company. Because as long as people will buy $1,100 iPhones with goddamn notches by the millions of units per year, they’ve got more cash than they know what to do…

Goddamn this is some good comment. Reminds me why I even bother to stick around the rotting corpse of Gawker.

A child who is more than 24 months? Sure, especially the closer to 3 they get. Under 24 months? Nope. It’s not there yet. The most they can do is be upset you’re not doing something they want at *that* exact moment.

That is a bad take. Knowing when to do things 100% by the book and when to cut corners on bullshit busywork is an important skill.

UAVs don’t save money in real life. The line items are different, but the bottom line cost is the same or higher. The Global Hawk costs $120 million and it can't even drop bombs.

Concuurency costs, which were already at rounding-error levels as a proportion of the whole program, have been less than estimated. That cost is far less than simply retiring the early model jets any buying more FRP jets in lieu of retrofitting. Which is how it was done before planned concurrency.

Supercruise is a gimmick and, no, the A/C models don’t look the way they do because of the B model life fan, but because there’s only so many ways to back 9 tons of internal fuel & 2 tons of bombs in an airframe that small.

Well, it’s certainly not people, and I let those bastards at Soylent know my displeasure with that fact as soon as I found out.

Kid wasn’t even 2 yet. It can’t grasp “neglect”. That’s too abstract for someone that young. They also don’t get attention starved so much as bored. Kids that age are really only aware of what’s in front of them. We're talking dog-level attention spans here.

Maybe, but 1-2yo’s don’t have that level of thought yet. TBH, they’re kinda like unusually willful dogs that can sorta talk. They live in the now. They might want you to pay attention to them when they see you, but they also *really* wanna push the glowy button too. Depending on which stimuli is most recent is what…

The senators from Maine and Alaska know goddamn well what Bret, and Neil (and all the motherfuckers they voted for at the district and appeals levels) think about Roe. They don’t care. They just don’t want it to be too obvious that tey don’t care. It’s not like these guys can affect them or their families. The rich…

Isn’t “Superman, but black and with a narrative that come with that” pretty much Like Cage?

That face he’s making in the header image? He’s literally staring at the sun. That pic was taken during the eclipse last year. That’s why hes pointing at the sky and cringing. Staring. At. The. Sun. Like the stable genius he is.

It’s not even about oppressed cultures. It’s like, why not? Why not have a fantasy realm with kingodm of white folks next to an empire of black people? Or even a multicultural empire.

Pittsburgh is an okay town, and is a short hop to NYC or Chicago.

You are absolutely wrong. Like every agency, NRO and DoD are legally required to accept the lowest qualified bid. Especially when it's a service like this. 

My personal favorite are Trekkies who complain about Trek “turning SJW”. Like, motherfucker, what did you think this show has been about for the last 50 years?

The DoD cares because Congress has told them to. Musk’s security clearance is at risk, and if the chairman + CEO loses his clearance, the whole company is at risk of losing its clearance. Goodbye posh NRO payloads.