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WTF does George Bush have to do with Live Aid?

Lots of finger pointing going on. We will probably never know who dropped the ball. And that’s probably by design.

Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

https://www.wired.com/story/meteorologists-say-the-national-weather-service-did-its-job-in-texas/

Sounds like local officials dropped the ball and are looking to deflect blame.

Is there any kind of donation from Nathan’s tied to this contest? Would be nice if it was something like “$1000 to the local food bank for each hot dog eaten.”

That’s like reclassifying coal as “green energy”.

It would be interesting to find out there was more than one Borg queen. Just like insects have hives with their own queen.

Gas taxes are stupid. Switch to taking mileage reading at a yearly car inspection and charge a tax per mile (factoring in car weight).

I read an MSN story that said they were bought by an outfit in the Philippines and then saddled with a bunch of debt. What a waste.

I wonder if the pizza is any better or if they just recycle the chuck e cheese menu.

So glad they got huge tax breaks for this phantom factory.

I don’t think this is really a win. Con’s are a captive target audience and all the groundwork is done for you. I think this is going to backfire as it increases competition for attention and audience.

E3 was designed for journalists to drum up coverage/hype and it cost each exhibitor money to participate. Consumers were the secondary audience.

Cons are primarily designed to sell to the consumer. I would think they’d be thrilled to have DC, Disney, Marvel, etc there to hawk their wares instead of charging them an exhibit fee. Getting free press out of it is a byproduct. More important is the word of mouth and goodwill the appearance generates. Something you’re not going to get from a privately held event designed for journalists.

As does Amazon believe it or not. Of course then you’d have to give Bezos money.