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After being in IT and software development for over 25 years, the only printer brand I bother with any more is Brother. It's unbelievable how much better they are than everyone else. No nonsense drivers and they're not constantly trying to force you to buy expensive ink.

Short term profit > Longevity

Every single time.

Disney+ is similar. Obviously they have the massive library of movies, but their TV shows have been fairly similar to Apple TV.

They freaking cancelled Westworld when it only had one season left in the story.

It's because they didn't buy Cinemax to combine them into a bigger more valuable brand with more IP. They bought out Cinemax to eliminate the competition. And they did it around the same time that all the streaming services started taking off, so they obviously got their asses kicked by Netflix. Cable TV as a whole has really suffered since Netflix and Prime got really big.

It would be more like if Coca Cola randomly decided to rebrand itself as Piss.

Until those companies realize that it provides no value, and drop the added expense because they know their customers won't care.

He renamed a valuable trademark to a letter that he'll never be able to trademark. It's like when Intel tried to trademark the letter I.

Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon

It's just like spending, what was it, 44 billion dollars or something like that to own Twitter, and not even a year later you drop the brand and rename it X. Like, dude, any decent programmer or sysadmin could spin up a copy of Twitter in a few days of work. You paid $44 billion for the brand.

I bet they were equally pissed off when Kmart went out of business.

Because they were born.

You should try looking at it some time. An apartment that was $700 5 years ago is now around $2000 in my area. And this is a low cost of living area where people aren't exactly desperate to live.

If you need losers in order to have winners, we should all be doing really well right now thanks to Trump.

How many 9mm's does that cost?

Rent costs are down year over year for two and a half years straight

You have no idea what you are talking about. Rent has more than doubled. I know people living in shitty 1 bedroom apartments who pay more than twice what I pay for my mortgage on a fairly average house.

Crimes don't just commit themselves! You gotta commit crimes, because if you don't do it, who will?

So other countries have socialized education, and they manage to have better results than our for-profit education system, and that somehow proves that our schools suck and should receive less funding, even though our schools have corporations sucking most of the money out of the system?

McGraw Hill, Pearson, Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin, etc...

the conservative party of fiscal responsibility.

The republican party has never been about fiscal responsibility. Every time the economy crashes, it's the result of republican fiscal policies of spend like crazy but lower taxes so we can't afford to pay for it. The only thing republicans are "conservative" about is social issues like should LGBTQ people be allowed to live.