>>Thatâ(TM)s been 20-plus years coming.

Kinda like unicode support on Slashdot.

>>Bananas are the world's most consumed fruit -- and the fourth most important food crop globally, after wheat, rice and maize.

This sounded wrong to me so I looked it up and it is in fact quite wrong. Either by tonnage produced or by dollars generated, bananas aren't even in the top 10 food crops. After rice, maize (corn) and wheat comes soybeans, potatoes, tomatoes, sugarcane, grapes, apples and onions.

Motor vehicles and tractors had almost no impact on the number of PEOPLE employed in transport and agriculture. The truck drivers union is called the Teamsters because before they drove trucks they drove teams of horses.

you misspelled whiner.

China: The government owns the corporations.
USA: The corporations own the government.

The effect of both is pretty much the same.

Too bad scientists can't create a cure for ignorant morons who don't know the difference between transgenic mice and transgender mice.

>>Was it legal for the Atlantic editor to read the chat, much less publish it? If he weren't a "respected journalist", wouldn't his taking advantage of this mistake be criminal?

If he had sold this info to the enemy, that might be true. He waited until after the bombing was already public knowledge to report on it so "secret" was already out at that point. When government employees leak information to journalists it is the leaker that (potentially) breaks the law, not the journalist.

I don't think anyone is blaming Signal for this screw up. A hammer may be a great tool but if you give it to a moron they will bonk themselves in the head with it.

I believe shows are their priority and focus. For about the cost of a single 2-hour movie you can have an entire season of content. The goal is to keep people watching as long as possible (especially in the ad-supported tiers).

>>How is profit measured when there is no box office nor DVD/on-demand sales?

Same as on TV; viewing numbers (which Netflix keeps to themselves).

Really? People with more than 5th grade vocabulary are artsy-fartsy New York types? Premium (PRE-me-um) means expensive and Mediocre (me-de-O-ker) means average (or as the kids say these days, "mid"). Though a reasonably intelligent person should have been able to guess that from the context even without knowing what those very common words meant.

Apple owns a streaming service; Microsoft does not.

"Hurry up and create this thing that will do your job so I can fire you." For some reason, people aren't highly motivated to dig their own graves.

There are supposed to be additional checks on large transactions which are meant to catch money-laundering, funding terrorism, drug cartels, etc. The fact that this enormous transfer went through even briefly tells you that these aren't working.

>>The real debate is if governments have the right to "shape" consumer choices with policy, subsidies, and the force of law in the aggressive ways they've been doing using taxpayer money.

I agree. The government should stop subsidizing fossil fuel extraction.