So its an effective tax.

No. That is not how the market works.

That is not how the free market works

Not part of the puzzle unless the airports are pricing space as an effective tax on transportation. Otherwise efficiency can still be achieved by a price cap; just as the increased rents gets passed on into increased prices for goods, so does reduced prices for goods gets transferred into decreased rents. Rents are…

How could there possibly be a question of tax? You bought a capital asset. You sold a capital asset for more than it was worth. You owe tax on the difference.(minus capital losses)

Yea. I said as much when people were suggesting the Mariners pick up Trumbo. Trumbo is going to make only 1.5M less than Nelson Cruz. Who put up 5.0 oWAR with -1.5 dWAR. And he only played a minute in the outfield because the rest of our fielders where shit too. 

I mean. I don’t know what to say. Dean is wrong. Sherman got the ball and that makes it unable to be roughing the kicker. Just like quarterbacks throwing the ball kickers do not receive blanket protection until they have kicked the ball. And if you’re close enough to make a play you cannot get a roughing call unless…

No. He jumps over the path of the ball.... where it would be if it were kicked. That is how they teach you to block field goals because it puts the most mass in front of the kick for the most time.

Baez is great fun to watch. But Robinson Cano is still the best tagger in baseball. Cano’s glove is never waiting for the ball, but moving towards the tag as he catches it. Baez is flashy, but Cano is majestic.

The “F-type stars only live a couple billion years” explanation never sat well with me. If you’re building a structure you either take what you can get, or you build regardless of the age of the star.

The “don’t break your fingers” hold is not about where on the bat you hold it but how you hold it. Where you hold it will always be the center of gravity on the bat, so you can pivot easily with the other hand, and put the ball where you want it to go. The how is by holding it between your forefinger and thumb like…

Unfortunately John Oliver understands US security law and history about as well as the next journalist (which is to say, not at all). He is wrong on Snowden.

Lets ignore the fact that there actually wasn’t any meat to the DNC allegations (The DNC was “biased” against Bernie after he lost, but didn’t do anything to actually prevent him from winning, foment any negative opinions, etc).

Duopoly equilibrium is still lower profits than monopoly equilibrium. And may include money spent to counter the secondary parties.

Consistently applied rules are rules that are less likely to be abused.

Yes. Additionally the rear end of the Volvo is probably unusually strong as there have been models with rear facing seats there (Such having a rear crumple zone would kill them)

Well they say it but they don’t argue it. They’re not aruing manpower costs they’re arguing that security of all phone users would be damaged. They’re arguing brand damage. And then they’re also arguing some weird shit about having to do what China wants as if US court precedent has any bearing on the rest of the…

The Embassy of France isn’t in the United States so no, they should not hand them the keys. But the maker of your lock, if asked by the government, to unlock it, should; yes.

I mean, i understand the want of not having the government being able to search your things. Its nice to have the personal security to be able…

Not going to deal with the rest of the crazy. But you actually believe that the USG should not have access to the contents of a phone that was in possession of a terrorist and that the actual owners of the phone have agreed to let the FBI access and that a judge has signed a warrant for?

Sure, and they are free to make that argument that the request is unreasonable. But that is not the argument they’re making or the argument that is being made in this thread. They’re arguing that there would be irreparable damage to phone security. Which is a lie.