Wasn't that a Darth Vader line?

... if the USA stopped taxing income. It would be like subsidizing every last business within the borders, all the way down to the little kid's lemonade stand... well, almost. But, Repeal 16. FairTax. Quit having the gov't tromp thru the door, guns drawn, and like Jesse James, take people's money. Tariffs. A luxury tax that would be the FairTax. Anything but "taking." Let people decide to give. And... quit raping American business at every turn.

$2400 instead of $2000? Yes, as long is it meant that customer service didn't have anything harder than a Texas accent to listen to.

"managed a couple of casinos into the dirt"

You build something with the promise from the city for Urban Renewal, then the city doesn't do the urban renewal, and casino patrons and hotel guests have to drive thru some pretty scary streets, mostly expecting to be carjacked at any moment, and are reluctant to be return customers because of that. Now how is that "managing the casino into the dirt"?

Well, the Death Star was back in later films...

Just saw the new Jurassic movie. That was real easy to follow. Of course, it's just a horror movie. But cool.

I carry earplugs routinely, but the IMAX is the one theater that I actually use them for. Other theaters are reasonable. IMAX is quite possibly unhealthy with it sound intensity.

You're not watching on a better sound system.

Saw 2001 during the pandemic, in IMAX. Absolutely awesome, and there's no way in H that you can duplicate that sound at home. I have pioneer at 125 W/channel and speakers that weigh 95 lbs each, and it won't even come close.

Big moviegoer here.

I see many movies. The trailers don't bother me, I actually enjoy them. The ads bother me a little. Just saw "F1" which I found hard to follow, with too much music and not clear enough dialog. Maybe people are watching all these at home so they can turn on subtitles. And I wonder if it's just me that was confused as to who won the last race, Brad Pitt's character or the other principle protagonist? Yeah, I could pay more close attention I suppose, but don't think it should be this hard.

Have recently passed over Lilo and Stitch, since I've never seen an episode. Elio also. I guess it boils down to being extremely busy now with other things, where I used to go see the new movie no matter what, but can't even imagine what either of these could be about. At least "Toy Story" wasn't that hard to figure out. Also don't believe I've seen trailers for either and, as I said, I go to many movies. I just enjoy the theater experience of sitting in the dark, undisturbed, eating popcorn I neither have to make nor clean up, and basically hiding from the world for the duration of the movie. With this criteria, 30 more minutes of any sort of contents can be a plus in the time-killing department.

Match my record: 61 years, and 1 accident 15 years ago from someone dead stopped in the travel lane of Interstate 95 at midnight. Grazed her and damaged my right outside mirror and body work after a hero swerve to avoid hitting her square at 65 mph.

Yeah, it's easy to pass a law at everything you thing might be a problem, or even an opportunity to write more tickets and make more money, without a thought to what might happen because of it. So they don't see a problem with a guy that is suddenly lost 'cuz the exit he was intending to use is closed with an overturned semi, he can't look at the phone to route around it, and also knows that somewhere ahead is "that neighborhood" that you're likely to get carjacked if you're driving anything more valuable than a 1967 MG Midget. Suddenly confronted with an available exit, he attempts to dash across 2 lanes of freeway traffic, causing ANOTHER semi to jackknife while trying not to squish him like a bug, and there's maybe another accident because he couldn't consult his GPS. Oh, and then of course there's carjacking, the unintended consequence of having car alarms on every car that leaves the factory, the bad guys now have to physically overcome you to get your keys in order to get your car, and some of 'em just go ahead and shoot you to guarantee their own safety. And then there's the unintended consequence of all the gun laws that diminish the general population carrying guns, so the carjacker is reasonably confident that the intended victim is not riding around with an AR-15 on his lap, ready to use it against you when you assault him / her.

I think there's lots of problems with reacting to every situation with a new law that looks logical but creates a scorpion's nest of other problems. Should lawmakers be required to study these things first? Is making laws the one acceptable activity that can be done without scientific data on what the world might look like as a result of the law?

I do not believe Garmin uses google data. They said that they contract with some people for their information. I don't remember who, but it wasn't google. Whoever it was, they had a lot of boneheads who appear to see a "road closed" sign on a sideroad and declare an interstate highway to be closed. Idiots.

Earlier this year I had a problem with my Garmin GPSs indicating roads closed, lots of them, when they were not. I had much back and forth with their support folks. They seem to have got the situation under control, because my recent trip was not so plagued with red dots and humongously long reroutes.

But google is not the only one with problems.

Is google making emergencies, or is it folks that are using a single source for the critical function of navigation? There's google, there's waze, there's garmin, there's the car manufacturer's GPSs, and there's cheap Chinese knock-offs. I have 2 Garmin Drivesmart 165's (since I was traversing Alaska and the Dalton Highway, and did not want a single GPS going south to very much hamper my navigation) and can summon google on my phone or via Android Auto, and there's a AAA road atlas in a pouch on the back of my driver's seat.

Is it correct to hyperventilate when a single company has problems?

" failed to manifest? "

How long's it been? 4 months? You feel good with "failed" when he's got another 44 months to make good?

Tax cuts for the wealthy? Trump is aiming at $0 tax for those making less than $150K a year. Is that a tax cut for the wealthy?

Is it needless? Don't we have a gigantic budget deficit? Shouldn't we find every way we can to reduce spending? What's better, cutting radio and radar tech or cutting the benefits to your grandma on social security? See, there's lots worse stuff to pick to cut than radio and radar techs. But something must be cut. We should maybe make the entire air traffic control private, as well as privatizing the TSA checkpoints at airports? The airlines can do that shit, we don't need fed officials pawing thru luggage and maybe people's persons. It's all illegal, of course, with government officials conducting searches without a warrant. Airlines could do it legally, but not the feds. And of course we should abolish the entire IRS and farm that collection task out to the states via the FairTax. There's just so many places we don't need to be spending.