Example? Many times stories/scripts are bought but don't result in a movie, but the reason isn't to prevent anyone else from making the script/story... That makes no literal sense, I need to hear a real-world example. Movies aren't made because book rights are bought as vanity projects that fall apart - can't find a star, too expensive to shoot, can't write a good script, etc. No one pays an author prevent a work from being produced.

Last year I bought an EV with 60 month, zero interest credit. I didn't want a loan, I was prepared to pay cash, but that zero interest loan for 5 years was too good to pass up. Occasionally I consider paying a little extra to bring down the loan balance, but then I realize doing that just reduces the benefit of the zero interest loan.

I'll probably pay it off early someday, but zero interest on a major purchase is very appealing.

How many Apple products are sold to college students who are also taking on massive student debt burdens? There are certainly well-heeled Apple buyers that use the Apple Card for its zero interest credit period (better manage payment schedule) and/or appreciate the small cash back/discount the card offers, but I suspect there are a large number of Apple Card holders that struggle to manage their finances...

Given? It's an anecdote - contractors withholding payment for unacceptable work isn't the same as not paying your credit card bill...

Why, you think lower-income borrowers are better credit risks than, say, a middle-income or higher-income borrowers? Really? Lets just take a moment and think about that...

Recently Donald Trump was in court because NY Attorney General decided that Trump lied about asset valuations, and something, something, lower interest rates, something-something, unfair... Every lender the state decided was cheated explained they weren't lied to, they did their own due-diligence (they don't offer multi-million dollar "liars loans") and were all paid back on time, in full, and would happily do business with the Trump organization again.

Maybe go ask a reporter man which neighborhoods they do the most work in?

Credit cards are unsecured loans, if a borrower defaults, the credit card company has limited ways to try and collect - phone calls, letters, threats - but they can't drive to your house and reclaim that MB Pro you aren't paying towards.

If only there was a way to set display hours and set the device to turn off, say, during the times the room is not used? You could maybe rig a motion sensor to over-ride screen shutdown if there were people in the room outside the frame's normal operating times... but naw, it's impossible...

Please, tell me more about these full-color, 4K resolution e-Ink displays that consume NO power until the image changes... and please, provide pricing info also...

Well, let's see, your counter-product relies on special, loss-leader pricing which occurs once a year, and you gloss over the need to collect the artwork, prepare it for display device (oh, I'm sorry, are all your images proper even fractions ok your devices 4K resolution?), and some sort of computing device to store and serve-up the images, with the requisite hacking/programming to make all work seamlessly... I'm eager to learn about your woodworking/frame making skills to house this collection of pieces, not to mention how you're going to integrate streaming and cable TV reception into the unit.

Perhaps penny-pinching über-geeks from Slashdot aren't their target market for this museum-quality art displaying product?

But, but, it worked so well for Bud Light and Jaguar!

Bud Light - https://nypost.com/2023/04/10/...

Jaguar - https://www.popularmechanics.c...

He simply cut funding, they were free to solicit donations from viewers.

The media marketplace has changed/evolved since the CPB was created, how has it changed/evolved?

I don't want govt owned/funded broadcasters, why do you think it is important for there to be state-funded broadcasters?

My point, we are giving poor people free access to the internet, why are we subsidizing broadcast pbs? Is there a gov't program to give TVs and free antennas to poor people without broadband access?

FOX is self-funded, it goes away the moment people stop watching it.

Well, it's a pretty sad state of affairs if children have to watch PBS after taxpayer-funded K-12 education just to learn to "literally fucking read"

It's a taxpayer-funded shell game.

Gov't funds CPB, which in turn funds public tv stations, who in turn pay PBS for the shows the broadcast between fundraising drives.

Sesame Street is a profitable operation, they sell merch, have a theme park, and collect huge fees from pbs stations to broadcast their shows.

We could cut out a lot of the expense if PBS just went to a streaming model, stop with the transmitters and over the air broadcasts.

I'd be curious to know, what percentage of pbs viewers watch it on over the air broadcasts vs cable tv?

Every American has or can have access to the internet thru various free/subsidized broadband access as well as free/subsidized smartphones, and even internet access subsidized in schools and libraries.

I don't think there is a problem for anyone to get access to PBS/NPR content - is there some benefit to watching PBS/hearing NPR off the public airwaves, or is streaming either acceptable.

The CPB money went to buy programming and run transmitters/studios, that's about it.

I setup a spare computer to pull my emails down via POP3 as a sort of backup, it's a trick I first heard of during Weinergate, when Ms. Weiner had a laptop backup all her emails in the background.

https://komonews.com/news/nati...

The article is about New York City, not the U.S. or the world, and it has literally nothing to do with Imperial vs Metric units of measurement.

Go ahead and mock the Mars rover(?) that slammed into the surface of mars, but be sure and include all the ESA probes and rovers they've sent around our solar system successfully...

Uh, to be clear, the current administration is stopping the practice.

How about foreign nationals living in ANY adversarial country (including China) not be allowed to work on anything related to national defense? If they can't even bother to move to the U.S. let's keep them away from our defense systems? OK?