About $0.45 actually.

When I was in school, the local ice cream chain gave out free book covers. All the cool kids had them.

Given how over-priced text books are these days, I wouldn't be surprised if the issued books cost more than the chromebook.

As I said above, when Mom and Dad get the bill, there will be consequences for the kid. I'm sure if the kid caused a fire at the school and mom got THAT bill, there would be more than a slap on the wrist coming.

I'm sure when Mom and Dad get the bill, they'll make sure there are consequences. There's no need for a judge to get involved for that.

you know, over a decade ago I wrote here that the government will be eliminated, that gold will become defacto currency, that debts will have to be paid and restructured, that laws will have to be rolled back, that government will be scaled down due to self destruction and lack of productivity. This id happening. I postulate that government has no authority and that individual has the right not to be stolen from by the government. The country you speak of used to exist before this giant government and it will exist after it.

Imagine for a moment that government is 100% efficient, so it is that efficient at taking money from Bob to subsidize Jane. The problem is not lack of efficiency, fraud or abuse, the problem is the very concept that Bov should be feeding Jane and that government will enforce that.

In the same way, PCBs aren't TRYING to give people cancer. Sincere but unrealized desire that by-products (or even direct products) of an industry be harmless in no way ethically insulates the company from the very real harms.

First, most of those didn't work their way up through the company to do that. They happened to work a job at the company as a teen or to make beer money for college, then through happenstance ended up hired as an executive after graduation, possibly after working at other places after graduation. You're not going to see the mail room guy gets promoted to lead mail room guy, to mail room manager, etc all the way up to CEO very often.

Next, for every one of those cases, condensed into one neat dreamer article in a magazine, there's a few million others who worked just as hard as mail-room guy or similar and got the heave ho after the CEO gave a speech about a leaner more agile company and cashed in some inflated stock for a new yacht.

Consider something like a $1000 iPhone. How many actual hours of human labor do you suppose go in assembling each phone?

I'd say not even one. Pay that one at $40 and you are talking about 4%. Of course, a more common U.S. hourly for that is more like $20.

The tactic is to pull you just a little bit at a time. Do that long enough and by the time it's done, you can't even see where you started from.

That's also American politics in a nutshell. Emphasis on NUT.

They're not trying to anything. They don't have the conscious or even designed aspect needed to be "trying". They're like the Mirror of Erised in text form. They tell you what you want them to.

Unless there isn't any mechanism because that wasn't the cause of the problem.

Of course it didn't turn into an epidemic. A large portion of the U.S. population was vaccinated against measles before the current nutzery about vaccines started spreading.

But that portion will be smaller and smaller as years of idiocy go by.

RFK has a long history of making poor decisions about health and pretty much everything else. Why would you want to follow his advice?

How would a vaccine or anything else cause a GENETIC seizure condition?

What mechanism do you imagine for it that is more likely than an unfortunate combination of recessive traits or a very unlucky spontaneous mutation?