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Donald Trump has threatened to shut down NBC and other American networks, saying that they peddle fake news.
"With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!" Mr Trump wrote in a tweet.
Mr Trump's tweet came in response to a story written by NBC, which said that Mr Trump had sought to increase America's nuclear arsenal tenfold after taking a look at a briefing slide that showed stead reduction of the US nuclear arsenal since the 1960s. The story cited three officials who were reportedly in the room when Mr Trump made the comments.
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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday October 19 2017, @09:35PM (1 child)
I like an analogy to games. Games have rules and often judges. The stakes are carefully kept relatively low. For instance, almost always the losers are not executed or sacrificed to the gods. Even animal males fighting each other for mates doesn't usually end in death. It's too destructive, and could easily result in no winners because every player ended up hurt too badly.
All this talk of extreme competition under total anarchy, no rules or enforcement at all, simply isn't realistic. Life doesn't always work that way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @09:43PM
You've constructed an extreme straw man.
Indeed, your desire to avoid "extreme competition" is undoubtedly shared by very many people, and thus would results in a law-by-contracts that is similarly risk-averse—perhaps even more so than the law that is crafted today by whimsical, vote-grabbing politicians.