Maybe the gift card company is using CrowdStrike software?

Should a human impersonating George Carlin (or anybody, really) be able to profit off of that person's voice, mannerisms or likeness?

This exactly. Hasn't it struck anyone as odd that living on a cruise ship can cost less than living in an apartment?

Someone should mod parent up. It's the only comment on this page that gets steering correct with the Uniwheel.

How about getting rid of ads on podcasts? Having to listen to ads despite paying for their existing "premium" service is maddening.

They may as well be explaining a magic trick to a dog.

Nobody stops you from rolling your own with init.

And a distribution choosing different software eight years ago isn't the same as a private company intruding on your personal computer to change software without consent. And no, EULAs are not consent.

Perhaps the author has shorted Bitcoin and has released this paper to manipulate the price down.

Why not tax emissions (highly), and let the market work out where that pollution should come from. We've already had accurate emissions measurement equipment for years.

Once a year you get your car exhaust measured (as you already doing most states for purposes of inspection), multiply that by the change in odometer, and multiply that by the emissions tax rate.

EVs would pay a tax of zero, which would encourage their adoption. "But power plants pollute!" you might say. That's true, but power plants are already required to buy pollution credits very similar to what I describe above. This seems like an unobtrusive tax, simple, easy for an individual to optimize, and benefits the environment to boot.

I'm not giving Mark Zuckerberg money so he can violate my privacy in order to manipulate me into buying more junk at my expense to further stuff his wallet.

The FairTax deals with this by issuing a "prebate" - an equal cash payment at the start of every year to each individual. Think of it as universal basic income if you like, or as a way to make the first $X of spending be tax-free.

Most podcasts take the form of a bunch of people at a table, each by a mic, who talk about ... stuff. It's unscripted. Unplanned. Shoot from the hip. And, unsurprisingly, it's also very boring. Contrast that to Rogan, who runs a podcast I despise, but who at least has a producer plan set ups to surprise his guest with something about them or their past they'd rather not talk about. To create tension or conflict. Better, think of This American Life, which follows documentary radio format. A subject is chosen for each episode. It's broken into two or three segments with a matching theme. Producers go out and interview people in the field who have something to say and the quotes curated so you get the interesting bits and not a bunch of wandering commentary. Then there's scripted VO to tie everything together.

Podcasters have conflated disorganized talk with produced and informed commentary. And people got better things to do than listen to boring nonsense even if they're stuck in traffic. I mean, there's always music!

I did not buy this on Ebay. I'm the same person who registered the account all those years ago.

Wait. Are you calling me old?!?!

Yeah. Guilty as charged. lol