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Zapata in an interview after the crossing indicated his invention calls on lots of core muscles, I assume in order to stay on top of the device. So forget about shouldering a gun on that thing.


Recaptchas audio option for the visually impaired (the headphones icon) is relatively very fast compared to clicking store fronts. Recaptcha will sometimes deny me the audio option, for unspecified reasons which I venture to guess could be challenged in us courts under the ADA (disabilities act.)


Tutanota.com


Going one step further you can have an archaic email address using Juno (still laying, not that you asked) or Bigfoot.com (still works but company resold many times)


Less than you might think.... Drones are (over)priced like jewelry (because they can!) For example, the drone shot down by Iran last month was valued at 85 mil.


> Drones are (over)priced like jewelry (because they can!)

That's a pretty dishonest take. Those drones are incredibly complex.


Well, you could double that and probably be closer. It depends on which Global Hawk was shot down, and when it was purchased.


There are superbeneficial (US-IRS) tax laws that let corps shelter money in fine art. Tax advantage is the prime reason you see fine art hanging in office hallways....


That doesn't remove the actual benefit for people either.


Perhaps not, but the market for industrial antibiotics in everything from cattle-feed to shredded-cheese is huge and begs if not deservesdeserves to be taxed to make page therapy economically feasible. Unless you have another approach to fighting antibiotic resistant infections.


Big Pharm also gets to deduct it's r+d expenses in full. Name an other private industry with that kind of a crutch....


Even the Romans worried. About "who would be there to clean after the janitors" Time for a financial death penalty: state imposed maximum impoverishment as penalty for such corruptions. It's GS types only real fear...


Imagine a marketplace where manufacturers had a duty to fairly disclose their longevity specs to the end user.


Don't all products have the MTBF published as part of it's spec sheet (not to be confused with the marketing specs)?

edit: never mind, I couldn't find the MTBF for my watch after some search.


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