I wouldn't be shocked to learn that was the case. There's not many good guys to be found in that cesspool of desert gods and oil money they call the Middle East.

Given the Israeli government's documented support for Hamas and its indifference to the survival of Jewish hostages, I don't think it throws any cold water at all.

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Given the behaviour we've seen with police body cams, I think we can safely bet such a drone's surveillance footage would be "creatively unreliable".

Canadian engineer Gerald Bull and quite a few Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated by the Israeli government. I'd probably turn my attention for a killing like this first to Israel, or maybe Russia. As far as I know, nobody has come up with any credible evidence that China is running hit squads targeting scientists and engineers in other countries. They're more about letting you develop the tech, then stealing it.

She only missed the memo because she was new to the game. Had it been directed by a more established CEO instead it would have been brushed under the rug. They always protect their own kind, and she wasn't (yet) one of them.

Just wait until we get to see how hard CEOs will pull to defend Elon when Tesla fails to turn in the earnings his bonus is dependent on.

The CEOs aren't spending their own money. If they somehow don't win the arms race, they can always look back and say they needed to spend more. If they can declare themselves winners, they will look brilliant and be able to demand huge pay raises from their companies. Even if they nearly drive their companies to bankruptcy on the matter, they'll have other execs from other companies to point to as examples of people who either did worse, or won by spending more.

It was a good time to be a CEO in January of this year. It's an even better time now.

I was a CWA member throughout grad school. It may be that they just put a lot more effort into the larger companies where their members were employed (think Verizon as one great example) but we didn't see much help from them as grad students. I remember one meeting my first year where we were reminded we could always ask for a union rep anytime we were talking with our PI, and that was about it.

I find youir more than a little amusing. Either your sarcasm game is very strong, or you actually believe competition has anything to do with this.

So our families deserve the risk, but families of the people who create and market carcinogens don't?

Forgive me if I consider people who benefit from poisoning my children to be less than innocent.

ROFL!!! I hadn't seen that. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

These laws they are referring to, they are only fooling themselves when they pretend that they might apply to the richest people in the world. It doesn't matter how "clear" one might think trademark laws to be, when the other side can spend more on lawyers than the GDP of many small nations, you don't have a chance of winning.

All Mars trips that involve landing on Mars will be one way for the foreseeable future. We're likely 200 years away from being able to get someone back from Mars, and that's only if we find a fuel source there.

Thank you for the correction on that. I had always heard it was for the NY Times, until I looked it up on wikipedia.

I would counter though that even with the Times of London being considered a "centre-right" newspaper in the UK, it is still a "far left" paper compared to anything Trump associates himself with.

That Times New Roman is of course named for one of their least favorite newspapers.

Or maybe we should, so we can watch some heads explode and witness the next round of glorious infighting.

That's an understatement. I know I've been predicting the fall of this conservablog for years now but seriously how will we know if there's even someone left to turn out the lights? Some front page articles generate discussions now that are barely longer than ones I've had with my dog.