Think how much money was wasted on cars, at all, in those early days. Cars that, at the time, were barely any faster than horses. And what people really wanted wasn’t a car, anyway, but a faster horse.

“because they cut every corner possible” - um, that’s a little spicy.

 I’ll grant that there have been serious issues in the rollout of the flight aid software and some build issues. There is an argument for negligence. That Boeing cut every corner possible with their recent planes is a gross exaggeration. 

Why would anyone want to create a zone for poverty?

Tyler was in my top 3 guesses as his name.

Good ol’ loss-aversion bias.

Dynamic pricing is basically price gauging

This is like reading about someone forgoing fire insurance to save a few bucks and them expecting sympathy when their house burns down. The lady gambled and now her estate is probably shredded paying off the bill, so that’s the way the cookie crumbles.

About 20 years ago, I was on an early morning flight on a small CRJ regional jet from Lexington, KY to Chicago. We taxied out to the runway and then began to take off. As we were accelerating down the runway, just as the nose started to lift, we heard this BANG followed by some shuddering, and then we were up in the…

How are you “seeing” this? The fact you think this has anything to do with the ATT outage shows you don’t even understand the basics of technology.

I wonder what the root cause of the refusal on the part of the AI is to generate Caucasians is?  What was generated is interesting, but identifying the cause and possible solutions is an exciting proposition for the folks that really enjoy that kind of thing.

Optical disks like DVDs and Blu-rays are cheap and durable

How can we get Tesla in the article title about a random ass Satellite?

LBJ is who Trump thinks he is, but LBJ would quite literally beat the shit out of him if they met.

LOL

Kudos to you for trying to find sympathy for this former officer, but I think you’ll see most cannot.  And for good reason.  An officer (former deputy) almost ended the life of a suspect, acting like judge and jury, which seems like most police want to be.  Not a good look.

I actually just read about this, early today. I think two things were involved here, neither of which were mentioned in this article:

“The ship in question is the SS Arlington, which was a World War Two carrier...”

Wrong.

“Corporations and most companies, which includes Google, prioritize profits over people losses”