It’s shitty either way you spin it. The person who accidentally woke up, that’s awful. But shit happens.

Imagine you’re in a prison. You are always hungry. You get very little to drink. Someone comes in daily and beats you over the head with a truncheon. This goes on for years. Then, one day someone else comes in, gives you a warm pizza, some soda and a back rub.

No ‘well-qualified economist’ would have anything to do with defining ‘comfortable living’ or ‘content’. These are highly subjective terms that don’t have much to do with poverty as anyone with a little common sense might define it. I’m sure a lot of people in Appalachia are content and live comfortably, just as a lot…

So they may or may not come up with solutions, but I am not convinced by your argument that tech people thinking of unique solutions to poverty is a bad endeavor.

Nope. Sorry.

If you want a license to sell a product on a street for which I pay taxes for the maintenance thereof, the only people you get to refuse are those without the means to pay.

Your imaginary friend has no juridiction over me; you can pack your shit and move to a foreign theocracy if you want Sharia law.

What? I said it was a possibility, just like you did. I didn’t say you were one, right? Should I have said “with all due respect”?

There is still a possibility that you are a massive underachiever who is jealous of somebody who’s incredibly successful by doing work that’s meaningful to the human race because he makes you feel like a loser. Of course, I have no proof of that, so it’d be silly for me to throw out that accusation.

Someone’s got to save us from ourselves and since it doesn’t look like we’re in any kind of hurry to do it ourselves, I’m perfectly OK with a slightly kooky, but possibly crazy-like-a-fox billionaire with a capitalistic messiah complex giving it a try.

I’d like to understand how you come up with a statement like that. I think all of the people who opposed a Trump presidency felt that any person who used racist and sexist language the way he did should simply never be in a position of power over other people. So do you just not believe he said vile racist things or…

Some pretty smart people, including Stephen Hawking, have said we need to colonize other planets if we want our species to survive. A lot of people seem to get bent out of shape about Musk’s various visions. I don’t get that. As these things go he strikes me as pretty humble and level headed. Especially when you…

You make no sense. Elon IS doing a considerable AMOUNT to improve and possibly save mankind with clean cars, solar panels, and planetary species-backup. He THINKS these things because they are TRUE, as increasing MOUNTAINS of evidence are showing.

That’s the whole point. It’s like cap and trade but for ZEV vehicles. Traditional car companies essentially subsidize the more innovative, greener car companies to help push the development of these cars along.

Herr Asshat (Love that btw) never really had a chance of bringing coal back. people love to talk about “Obama’s war on coal” but the truth is that what’s really killing coal more than anything else is cheap fracked gas, and given the GOP’s willingness to give the oil and gas industry anything it wants, Coal is pretty…

Believe me, I’m firmly in the camp that the real test of Musk’s genius comes with whether he can actually make a great car and sell it for 30k. The Model S and X are pure rich douchebag toys, just like all $100,000 cars are. And it’s easy (comparatively) to build an electric car when money is no object as it obviously…

It’s actually the Kohler toilet with Apple influenced parody. Headline kinda misleading but was great regardless.

I’ve been wondering about this as well. It’s as though the post was written by someone who was told about the skit by someone who kinda remembered it.

seriously, kept waiting for the headline to be remotely accurate, think they also claimed it was funny too.

fixed that for you. They may have mimicked the 1984 ad, but it was clearly labeled the KOOHL Toilet by KOHLER. No Apple logo/wording anywhere.

Kohler takes issue with your headline calling it an “Apple Toilet”.

The idea that it’s profitable to not give a damn about the script of an American blockbuster spectacle movie because the money’s in foreign markets doesn’t need to be “proven” through an admission to make it real. The evidence is already out there, it’s called “Michael Bay’s career”.