That’s probably why there is a movement afoot to allow for crowdfunding and include an equity stake (without all of the usual restrictions on being a private investor, like having $1M in net worth).

I’m gonna need a bigger lawn.

“Experiencing nature at its purest” will result in your death. “Nature” is out to kill you.

They are being *smart*, essentially.

“but I’m a vaper”

In before he gets tossed off a plane for writing equations while waiting for takeoff.

The cognitive dissonance is strong in this one.

So, the Crystalline Entity is at the bottom of the trench. Good to know.

pine also disagrees with you.

I spent 15 years traveling mostly internationally for work (business class over the water). While I agree with you for domestic flights (which have the longest single flight time of around six hours) or flights on your own dime, the equation changes drastically when you’re talking about an 10-16 hour single flight, or…

What inequality? You get what you pay for. If you pay for an economy seat and economy service, that’s what you get. Ditto, first class.

So, it’s not an iPhone, it’s an iPhone device. And it’s not a Macintosh, it’s a Macintosh computer.

Prior to Starship Troopers coming out and being #1 on my list (and glad to see that you agree), my personal #1 for a redo was The Running Man. Amazing book, and the movie had essentially nothing to do with it.

When I was 12 (1981-ish?), I did a bike marathon, constituted by a 2-mile street course in which you had 8 hours to do as many laps as you could. Whomever had the most laps in each age bracket won.

Jobs got lucky? Really? Did he get lucky with the original iMac (which saved the company in 1998)? Did he get lucky with the iPod and iTunes? with moving MacOS to the mach kernel? with the iPad?

Market capitalization is stock price x outstanding shares of stock. It has nothing to do with the FMV of Apple’s assets.

Where exactly do these 4chan people think the porn they surf all the time is going to come from after they’ve shamed all the porn actresses out of doing it?

Given the proximity of the Tijuana river (which routinely shuts down Imperial Beach and Ocean Beach when it overflows with sewage), I’m not really sure that’s a deterrent.

We find tunnels here all the time.

“But he put himself before The Brand, and that simply would not do. So the UFC put its foot down on Jones’ head and shot through its own footto hit him. It was petty. It was short-sighted. In the long run, it didn’t help anybody, least of all the UFC.”