Who cares about fast charging laptops? Put that tech in cars.

The plastic tax would have to be insanely high to be effective. The story of California’s plastic bag tax is a cautionary tale. Taxing the bag minimally was ineffective since everyone just paid the extra $2 a grocery trip for the disposable bags. California then tried an outright ban, but had to limit the ban because a large volume of pre-packaged items are already in plastic bags. The limit was based on bag thickness, so all the stores started handing out thicker bags at checkout. Despite the increased durability of the thicker bags, consumers discarded them at the same rate as the old thinner bags. Since each bag was made of more plastic there was more plastic waste than before the tax and ban.

Would you kill an innocent child to get to the people who did and planned this if it was the only way

I’d get better ways.

Hulu was jointly owned by Disney/ABC, Comcast/NBC, Fox, and Warner Bros. Disney bought Fox, becoming the majority stake holder. Comcast and Warner threw in the towel and sold their shares to Disney.

Consolidation would defeat the purpose of decentralized fediverse instances. Instead, I would like to see a method for allowing the automation of cross posting between related communities on different instances. There would not be dependency on a single instance; each mod would retain control of their community; and the segmented communities can connect with one another with ease.

“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…"

“You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”

“No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”

“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”

“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”

“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t people get rid of the lizards?”

“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”

“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”

“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”

“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”

“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?”

“What?”

“I said,” said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, “have you got any gin?”

“I’ll look. Tell me about the lizards.”

Ford shrugged again.“Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them,” he said. “They’re completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone’s got to say it.”

“But that’s terrible,” said Arthur.

“Listen, bud,” said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say ‘That’s terrible’ I wouldn’t be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.”

― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

I wasn’t aware that every year had a wikipedia page…but I tried some others and it kinda seems like it does.

The text in OP’s post is the copied transcript of the letter (including the random number 2 used for citation). It contains no commas and uses an ampersand.

Maybe he wasn’t a fan of any commas.

Zaphod Beeblebrox?

It’s clearly labeled as your salary.

I can see the headline now: Cruise ship loses no passengers; completes route on time

I don’t agree with your interpretation of the word ‘burden.’ A burden doesn’t have to be useless or unfair. A burden can be carried with pride and purpose or a burden can be can be oppressive and demeaning or it can be anywhere in between.

Taxes are also purposefully unfair. Fair would be taxes distributed equally amongst those who benefit from their expenditure. Instead, the cost of supporting society is distributed based on ones ability to bear it.

OP edited an already bad title.

His testimony states that he chose at random which boxes were being moved and that Trump decided how many boxes were enough. Not all the boxes contained classified documents and the testimony states they didn’t know what was in the boxes, those that were returned or retained.

It demonstrates noncompliance with the presidential archiving laws but not necessarily the willful retention of classified materials.

Hawaii’s landmass is spread out across islands. If you smash them all together the size looks like it’d be comparable to Illinois. Colorado, on the other hand, looks a bit large.

A picture of a fully submerged submarine would just be a picture of water.

Yes

Still no, because the timer started with the first release of the first product.

Yes, but now there are 2 versions of Genie with two different copywrite timelines. Both are still currently protected. (I will admit I haven’t looked up if Genie is a registered trademark; still talking about copywrite here.)

Yes, but the Steamboat Willie Mickey Mouse character isn’t the same as the registered trademark of Mickey Mouse…but

Yes, Disney is totally working on that

Yes, this article supports this.

That’s not how that works. 1. Aladdin isn’t an original Disney story. Like Cinderella, it’s an old story and anyone can make a version of it. 2. The timer on the animated film can’t be reset. It’s running and will continue to run. Steamboat Willie is the prime example of this. That version of Mickey is now in public domain, but later versions are not.

The argument isn’t that he was unaware of the law but that he was unaware he was violating it. In order to be convicted of mishandling the classified documents it has to be proven that he did it intentionally. The law is forgiving for accidental mishandling.

The jiggly argument is about not all parts moving at once or in one direction. If you jiggled to the right by taking one 18 inch step to the right, sticking your left arm straight left, waiving your right arm in a complete circle, holding your left foot 3 inches off the ground, and squatting down 10 inches how far have “you” moved?

I’m not a mathematician but if I recall correctly slope is defined the change in y over the change in x. In your formula solved for x, m would represent the inversion of that, the change in x over the change in y.