Great post. Creating innovative, market dominating tech is hard, costly, and has a (very, very) high failure rate. That’s why bigger, traditional media companies acquire smaller, innovative companies that have IP that fills their need instead of doing it themselves (e.g., Microsoft bought Skype when it wanted an…

Dying in jail - broke and hated, with the rest of the world pointing and laughing. That’s my dream.

I meant backing away from his “we know nothing” stance, sorry shoulda been clearer.

I think derfita is right in one regard: Putin backing away is a sure sign he knows something that will link Russia hacking to 45s shitshow is coming soon.

I’d say it’s less cultural and more political - he didn’t understand, fully, the stark difference public and private power. He misjudge what 45 could and couldn’t do, and how much push back he’d get, once he was ensconced in, and attempting to destroy, a bureaucracy loyal to the state and not Donny Two-scoops.

Yep - he never realized just how incompetent Trump was. This is his first step in backing away slowly..before launching his Molotov into the mix.

But..but...the definition of “Equality” in the dictionary! This is so like you SJWs! After all, one woman-only showing of a movie is obviously on par with thousands of years of gender based discrimination and exclusion - not only is it exactly like it, but it disproves it too! Just like that black man who called me a…

She’s like any of the Twitter story peddlers - she’s right sometimes, but wrong a lot of times. Nature of the beast.

I was going to say: Lawyers.

Ted Lieu*. He’s been all over Kushner the last few days.

Well, if the FBI loses their chance to break the GOP/Russia connection, it wouldn’t have stopped in 2018. Or 2020. Or 2022...and we still have no ‘guarantee’ HRC wins anyway.

Absolutely, true: No one thought the checks and balances were so vulnerable.

I imagine he viewed the election as the battle and the foundation of the republic as the war.

Try this (seriously, that is one mis-leading headline CNN):

Not if you want the next person up the ladder and to gather evidence on the people those foreign agents were working with (Spoiler: It’s Russia and Team Trump, respectively)

Try this (seriously, that is one mis-leading headline CNN):

Oh noes! It isn’t about men for one showing out of thousands! Won’t someone please think of the men and all they’ve had to suffer through!

The discriminators are all of a sudden so keen on equality. You’ve had your own “white/men/christian/straight only” screenings/society for so long, but you get so upset when (you think) someone is doing the same to you. Huh. “For hundreds of years we’ve shut minorities out, but if they do it (just once), it’s not…

But that’s a false equivalency. It’s like saying one “non-whites only” event is analogous to 400 years of “whites only” Jim Crow. They are both based on race, but not to an equal amount, and most definitely not with an equal impact.

Archery combat is pretty easy to simulate with unmounted archers, but is extremely difficult to stage with mounted archers - the filming techniques looks less realistic in motion*.