It's probably that they would be paying it without the tax benefits they do for actual employees. So they never bother. In their mind, not getting a tax benefit is the same as banning it. They believe this because they are stupid.

The next question is why.

Full and semi auto weapons are over 100 years old. The AR-15, in particular, is 70 years old. However, we don't see school shootings really pop up until Columbine in 1999, and that happened while the federal assault weapons ban was still in effect.

Of their weapons, only the Hi-point carbine would be covered by the AWB. The company has manufactured a version that skirts around some state level AWBs. The rest of their weapons were pistols and shotguns, would be difficult to ban outright, plus improvised bombs made of commonly available stuff.

We have cultural problem with school shootings, and it didn't start until the late 90s. If it were just availability of certain tech, it would have started decades earlier.

A huge issue is the right wing itself. Several shooters cite conspiratorial nonsense spread by the likes of Alex Jones. At least one of the Columbine shooters was praiseworthy of Nazis in his journal, though the exact motives have been elusive. Regardless, the takeover of John Birch Society thinking on the right plays a role.

If they don't pay out, they're even bigger idiots. It's a bad idea to stiff your own goon squad. But Trump is dumb enough to do that.

They aren't offering huge signing bonuses and student loan forgiveness because of a surplus of volunteers. The core MAGA base isn't that big. A chunk of them are disillusioned over the Epstein Files--maybe not enough to go against Trump, but enough that they won't show up to help, either.

Seems likely. Project 2025 starts with clearing existing federal employees. Phase 2 is filling them with Trump loyalists. They came up with a list of such people.

There is one issue with the plan, though. They seem to be having problems getting those people to commit. ICE is putting up huge incentives to join, and also bringing in people from other agencies who would otherwise be fired. They also put a 22 year old with no national security experience in charge of anti-terrorism at the DHS.

Also, fucking Business Insider for running this obvious tripe.

Not surprising from an outlet created by DoubleClick founders and a guy who is barred from exchanges due to securities fraud.

Those games didn't have the splash that Doom did for this sort of thing.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010105180900/http://www.gamespy.com/legacy/articles/devweek_c.shtm

Mainstream application programmers switched to C in the early 80's. Game developers were slower to switch, because their small teams and focus on performance kept assembly language viable till the following decade. When id Software released DOOM, they surprised much of the industry by having no reliance on assembly code--despite excellent game performance, and by successfully cross-developing the game (in NeXTstep and DOS), then successfully porting it to an astounding variety of platforms.

Because it's true. Here's an article from Tim Sweeney from 2001:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010105180900/http://www.gamespy.com/legacy/articles/devweek_c.shtm

Mainstream application programmers switched to C in the early 80's. Game developers were slower to switch, because their small teams and focus on performance kept assembly language viable till the following decade. When id Software released DOOM, they surprised much of the industry by having no reliance on assembly code--despite excellent game performance, and by successfully cross-developing the game (in NeXTstep and DOS), then successfully porting it to an astounding variety of platforms.

Rollercoaster Tycoon was the last of an era, not a sudden burst of genius.

Before Doom (1993), almost all games were assembly. Doom was a shock to the industry. You could now write a high performance, multiplatform, sophisticated game in a compiled language (C). When I say multiplatform, I don't just mean how it was ported to everything later. It was developed on NextStations first. DOS was the first port. So it proved all of the above immediately on release.

We take for granted that C is performant now, but that wasn't obvious until optimizing compilers got good and someone tried.

Rollercoaster Tycoon (1999) is the last notable title that used ASM. It's impressive in many ways, but it wasn't as much of a standout as it seems now. Six years earlier to its release, that was just how games were done.

It's notable that the only port of Rollercoaster Tycoon was the original Xbox, which was also x86. Nobody wants to rewrite it for anything else.

If these companies wanted to spin up a lobbying and PR group, they would have huge reach.

Which would cause other problems down the line, but they'd crush this particular problem.

A space station is a thing surrounded by nothing. If the nothing is allowed inside, everyone dies.

O'Brian is right. You want a second backup for anything that keeps the nothing out. The Cardassians are subtly showing their disregard for sentient life here.

Which is a good point to keep in mind when people claim there isn't enough land for solar panels.

Even by extremely optimistic assumptions, bioethanol barely helps. It's entirely a corn farming subsidy combined with oil companies pretending their product can be clean. Here's a rundown:

https://youtu.be/F-yDKeya4SU