Recent content by Kilrain

Who said they're planning on selling the whole thing? I doubt they could even if they wanted to. But selling off X % of a declining business is better than keeping the whole thing. And I don't think they it would be smart to sell it "more quickly", it would drive down the value per share if...

I know. It makes sense to sell it off in small chunks, to avoid flooding the market and getting a lower price per share. That has nothing to do with my "feeling" about this whole business.

I wouldn't. If the future was bright for Aramco, they wouldn't sell any of it. I could be totally wrong, but to me this smells like trying to unload a declining company.

I don't shop online, at least not physical items. A ticket to whatever now and then, online streaming services, gambling transactions, those things I do online, but not physical items. With the rare exception, I bought a bunch of headphones online maybe five years ago, but that's the most recent...

Wouldn't it be just as easy to shut down the gas supply to whole areas, as shutting down the gas supply to power stations? There are always distribution hubs that can be turned off. More choice is good, but redundancy is also expensive, and in the case of gas, dangerous. When it comes to...

To be fair, putting down new gas lines sounds like a really bad idea these days, especially in earthquake zones. You have to have an electrical grid anyway, so increasing its capacity to cover things like heating and cooking has to be a lot cheaper than putting down an electrical grid AND a gas...

I'm sure you can you find someone who claims to have been hurt by this "trade war", but I doubt most people have noticed anything bad about it, expect for headlines telling them the world is going to end. On a personal note, both our Chinese and our US investments have had almost obscene...

See my edit above.

I think that's conflating two separate issues. I totally agree with getting rid of "bad" immigrants - pretty much anyone who is a drain on society, financially or even culturally, and with having a really high bar for immigrants. Basically, you only want immigrants that are "better" than the...

Sorry, but that sounds like a really dumb idea. It's just unworkable and counter-productive. I could get behind a proposal that stipulates zero net immigration, coupled with requiring immigrants to take an IQ test and score above the current US average, and a requirement that you have to pay a...

Boris could allow the political theater to go on until right before he's "forced" to ask for an extension. Then he can simply resign and say "Your move, remainers", with only a few days for them to do something before the clock runs out and the UK automatically leaves the EU. No one else has a...

Why travel at all? I mean, saying it's better to fly commercial than private is like saying you're a good person if you murder one person, but a bad person if you murder four people. If you're an environment cultist, that is. My carbon footprint is lower than most. I travel well below 2,500...

70-year-old accuses 76-year-old of having done something more than 50 years ago? It's so stupid I hope the 76-year-old sues the 70-year-old for defamation and cleans his clock. I was kicked in the nuts by a boy at school 30+ years ago. It was beyond horrible, I still remember the crippling...

Huh? Drugged-up Afghan harasses/assaults people in the street - I don't condone that. Four guys beating the snot out of him - I don't condone that, either. From my perspective, there are no good guys here. None of these people pass the neighbor test.

Afghans vs. African-Americans brawling in the streets of Stockholm. I don't want anything to do with either side, I don't condone what either side did and I don't like people acting like savages in the street. Everyone involved should have been quickly expelled from the country. No need to lock...