#1
Stop whining about their platform and build your own.
Posted by: Abu Tablet ||
11/24/2023 11:59 Comments ||
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#2
...when a corporation reaches a certain size it becomes a de facto monopoly. Time and again, this means interstate commerce regulation. In the past, that meant oversight into behavior. Now with Deep State, it means it gets protection.
#3
They are evil. Why would you want another explanation.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
11/24/2023 16:51 Comments ||
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#4
The law in its majesty permits citizen as well as Amazon to erect a little ol' library sorta thingy by the side of the road and make no profit therefrom except eventual rule of the planet! Though of course the HOA, code enforcement, tweakers, and vandals may have something to say about it it you're lethargic and uncreative enough not to have a legal department and the odd branch or two of government in your spare bedroom.
[Townhall] The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is expected to come up before the end of the year and traditionally has become a magnet for unrelated pieces of legislation to be buried in it. It usually passes right at the end of the year and the politicians in Washington can’t help themselves but try to hitch a ride for their pet project into the NDAA.
In other words, it should be of great concern that members who can’t pass legislation under the regular order of business will attempt to tack on unpopular bills to this must pass piece of legislation that contains necessary authorizations for the military. Congress should refrain from making this year’s NDAA a Christmas tree for cronyism and bad policy.
Over the past 60 years, the federal government has repeatedly intervened to save the American auto-making business. In the 1970s and 80s, federal lawmakers set import quotas to keep Japanese cars from cornering the market. In the 1990s, the Clinton administration stepped in to end a strike that supposedly could have put GM out of business. In the 2000s, Washington guided Detroit through a confusing series of legal maneuvers including bankruptcies, reorganizations, and divestments.
Decades of industrial policy may have saved American automakers in a certain sense. But the consequence is a sclerotic industry in which workers for GM, Ford and Chrysler have gone on strike all at once.
In the meantime, Japanese carmakers have opened plants in the United States and set about competing with American automakers by building cars that are more fun to drive and last longer than those manufactured by legacy automakers. This history of American automakers offers a cautionary tale for a new generation of technologies.
Case in point is drone policy. A bipartisan assembly of lawmakers are proposing the American Security Drone Act, aimed at protecting the American-made drone industry. To do so, the bill seeks to restrict the countries where drones for the American market can be assembled.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
