The oil services industry aint happy either; as they were behind a lot of the platform development etc for offshore work.

That leaves us with two explainations

The Administration irrationally hates wind, no matter who is making money off it. (I doubt this, Plenty of ways to shovel money to Trump cronies)

or

There really is some national security reason. One credible thing I have seen is the turbines interfere with radars and sonars used to watch for low flying enemy aircraft and subs.

Yes but when it comes to a subject like 'Intellectual property' I think it is rather odd to characterize any opinion as 'extreme' at least as far as you are not restoring to violence or something to push that opinion.

If someone said only Chocolate is the only flavor of ice cream with eating, would you describe them as a "Chocolate Extremist"?

Because it is a mature product. You have to sell your brand on something..

Everything else like ice on the door etc has been cloned. You can't really sell on quality. It is to difficult to educate consumers. They are standing there in Lowes' looking at 2 generally identical 22 sq ft units but one costs $300 more. Which one are they leaving with?

In the old days of appliance stores, where you would generally interact with a sales person they might explain that well the INSERT-BRAND has 25% lower failure rate and warranty period 2x as long. You might have got sales that way but now that most appliances are sold either scrolling on Amazon or at DIY place where you're lucky to find and associate and even if you do they won't have a clue about the appliance - you have to sell on gimmicks.

Slapping a big screen on it, and saying it plans your dinner for you is a nice gimmick. Its the kind of thing people will think, hey that's cool, even if they never use it later.

yeah, anal should have been annual, but given we are talking about lawyers, the first auto correct works just as well.

Do we have to abuse every word until its meaningless.

You can call them extremists, when the bomb some data-center, or gun down a group of intellectual property attorneys at the firms anal barbecue.

Until I think we can go with 'activists' or maybe even 'agitators', hell 'criminal offenders' if you wish, but extremists is kind of a weird take.

The problem isn't the Chinese know when you get up in the morning, but it becomes a problem when they know what time General Nuk'em does. Target operations via less then secure IoT stuff are easy enough to imagine, Operations that target a class of interesting are not necessarily impractical either.

What happens when everyone on a base has fit bits and they get hacked? Suddenly there is a lot information about how many people are where when etc that could be actionable intelligence.

Imagine that nice couple that appear to be innocuous embassy employees who help traveling Americans with Passport problems and visa issues; are actually CIA spies. If one of them uses the smart tv in their apartment to call some family back home in Maine at 8pm every night, well you might start to put together they are not a couple at all based on those screen grabs your getting from the TV.

Same thing with mobile phones. They all have cameras now, people take them into secure areas even though they are not supposed to, they take pictures of things even though they are not supposed to. Your foreign operative might drop some QR codes with malicious links around the bars and lunch places near said secure facility and hope to pop phones, grab the picks let AI look for anything interesting..

These ideas might sound like a wild spy novel fiction type stuff, but most of us would have said they same thing about a mass-attack with exploding pagers a couple years ago too!

You can say sure we can control this stuff with policy and what not but the reality is even people who no malicious intent violate policies. That 20-something kids wants to show his buddies the missile he works on snaps a few discrete photos, that former US President 'accidentally' shifts some boxes of classified materials to his garage or a disused room in his resort. People at all levels do stupid stuff with sensitive materials be it paper or electronic. The difference is when sensitive stuff lands on unclassified/insecure electronic systems gets copied or goes missing we way less likely to know.

Because Altman already has Nadella by the short ones.

Microsoft has market cap of something like 3.5T

Microsoft got talked into something like a 30% stake in OpenAI that is worth about 140B.

All and all something in the area of 3-4% of Microsoft's value is the belief OpenAI is worth what its valued at and continues to be invest-able. If OpenAI were to implode, it will show up on Microsoft's balance sheet enough the board might actually start looking for a new CEO..

tariffs are more limited hands off form of taxation than the alternatives.

if you don't want to pay them; buy something domestic or just hold onto your money. Compare that income or property taxes...

The limited hands off government I think we ought to have would eliminate income and property taxes and implement a national sales tax. The America first government I think we ought to have would enact strong tariffs to ensure domestic industry is protected and domestic alternative goods and products are preferred, but leave you free to import French wine and Chinese e-waste if you really really want to and are willing to pay the taxes..

The fact there can be a 40% decline in an entire category and you don't see it on the streets, in the form of empty shelves, shuttered websites etc suggests to me that a lot of economists when the considered tariff impacts wild underestimated the gamification of shopping.

There are ton of people out there that just scroll and a click buy on things they don't need and if they thought about it for more than moment would realize they don't actually really want - they're just bored...They solve that by frequently ordering momentarily interesting crap for $30 because "its cheap."

I don't personally nor do I know anyone who says they miss TEMU or missing the extra few pages of junk to scroll thru first on Amazon one little bit.

I imagine the people who do, still having their needs for the instant gratification of opening a package, any package are met with trash from Dollar General

I think you underestimate how far the country has moved and how quickly. You underestimate the degree to which sexism is a thing of the past and you underestimate how accustomed to a total lack of professionalism in governance we BOTH the first Trump administration and the following Biden Clown show complete with its klepto-cross-dressers had made us.

In 2014 people did care about that stuff. In 2024, buffoonery from candidates and cabinet members is normalized. Heck look at Fetterman in one Senate term I honestly thing most of the country has gone from how did Pennsylvania elect that slob to, dang he is one few actually serious people around!

Norms and expectations are shifting very rapidly.

This entire argument is BS. It is completely undercut by the fact Women seem to be perfectly able to be elected Governor.

America will absolutely vote for a female president. As soon as one runs who isn't a completely unlikable opportunist, empty-headed, or NPC whose politics are whatever is popular this week.

It isn't sexism that has kept women from the White House, all of them who have run have lost for the same reasons all the men who did not get elected lost. (Caveat this applies to the last 40 years or so)

if they went public they'd have to use GAAP for all their financial statements. Given the billions in deals they have inked I'd be almost shocked if the accounting isnt on the creative side currently.

Harder to bilk^H^H^H^H^Hattact sophisticated investors when you can be accurately compared to your peers.

I think if you really look at airport security; you have to realize it is designed to enable response rather than to really prevent.

Sure of some stuff like limiting liquids is done in hopes of stopping bombs on planes etc; but most of the security enhancements are really of the log and collect variety. I assume the security apparatus believes they can spot and identify the terrorists and organized criminals traveling and go pick them up before they attack whatever non-airport target.

Clearly there is no practical way to protect the airport itself. Look at the Boston bombing killing and maiming hundreds can be accomplished with a relatively small device. So walk into the terminal with your carry on bag buy a ticket, hit the security line, usually adjacent to other security lines, with 100s of people in close proximity and boom! A suicide bomber there could have devastating impacts.

The answer put forward is the jihadists would never do that because after 9/11 it would be an admission they are actually less capable then they used to be / western security is better. However looking at Bondi Beach and similar recent terror attacks on soft targets they are in fact pretty impactful in terms of politics and society feeling secure enough to function. I don't expect it to be long before some terror group does decide to strike a busy airport. It won't take more than couple attacks on security lines to make everyone very very afraid to travel again.

That is the problem Archie, you don't need a refreshed you know exactly why but you stubbornly refuse to accept it.

China has a value system completely antithetical to yours. China very much wants Chinese hegemony, in the way the 20th century was the America century.

if you actually give a ***** about anything the things you claim to care about, you should be hellbent on ensuring that does not happen. We all know what you will do though, you'll pretend to care about freedom, democracy, equality etc, while you turn the world over to people that will oppress everyone who isnt Han Chinese and economically at first, violently later anyone who does not agree with the party, no matter where in the world you happen to be.

Hey you get to enjoy your cheap crap today right, and run anound being smug about how bad tariffs are. Honestly you deserve Xi's boot (or leather Wingtip as the case may be) on your neck..