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When is the last time Russian or Chinese produced a movie that became a global "blockbuster"?

How American movies would be blockbusters without Chinese funding and ticket sales?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2017/03/04/how-china-has-taken-over-the-worldwide-box-office-in-2017/

When is the last time you saw any large political protests in the US targeting any foreign leader?

How about Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan?

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/turkey-demands-apology-beating-up-us-protesters

After all, they're the ones who gave Trump the money to build the place!

What did the Russians do?

It is a bit early to tell but considering yesterdays FBI raids and "random internet comments" from people tangentially involved in the industry it appears as if Russians were doing money laundering through Republican campaign consultants. FBI raids office of Republican campaign consultant in Annapolis

We also know that US banks refuse to deal with Trump so he gets his money from Russian "investors". Eric Trump Reportedly Bragged About Access to $100 Million in Russian Money

Given that Russia started to kill off "people involved in the US election hack" soon after Trump was elected it isn't very far fetched that Trump, through Flynn, handed over information about US agents.

Musk is very adverse to AI's doing these functions. Maybe neural laces will give humans enough of an advantage that they stop wanting strong AI.

This might be the most important article you read this week: http://www.vanityfair.com/news...

and also help ensure that topics reflect real world events being covered by multiple news outlets

Since most mainstream news outlets have a pretty strong liberal bias, this will also have the practical effect of burying stories with a conservative bent and highlighting those with a liberal bent (even when the liberal stories are dubious or "fake news," like with the infamous "golden showers" story).

Finds a smart guy (Giuliani) who understands geopolitics and security in general, as well as how to lead a team and get shit done.

And don't forget, he looks great in a dress (these are NOT photoshopped):

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One of the stories: Facebook just ruined Instagram. (2016-08-06)

It amazes me that Facebook and Google and Microsoft and Adobe Systems believe they can use most people's ignorance of technology to abuse customers.

Another story: "The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer.".

Another quote: "The offer was even more impressive given Instagram's size and age. At the time, it had just 13 employees, operating out of a cramped space in the South Park section of San Francisco."

So, put this scumbag in jail so he can continue to surround himself with like minded people.

Such as this guy? Or maybe you meant this guy. Perhaps this guy.

Please tell us oh enlightened one how it's only the left which surrounds itself with like minded people and considers anyone who doesn't think like they do the enemy when day in and day out it is Republicans who use the word enemy to describe people within their own party who didn't back him?

Vent all you want but your words ring hollow when for the last eight years all we've heard is how bad things are, how horrible this president has been, how he should be impeached (for doing his job), and all the other vitriol cast upon him almost solely because of his race, yet none of that falls within your myopic view only the "left" being out of touch. If things are so bad then why suddenly, when not a single thing has changed in the last week, are Republicans suddenly saying the economy is doing well and there are no problems?

Because in a Republican's world if you don't bow down to your leader, if you don't blindly follow the leader, if you don't think like the leader, you're an enemy. Wouldn't want to open a Republican's hypocritical and bigoted mind by listening to others who don't agree, now would we?

...is not so good. Such an app store is more likely to abuse developers than Apple or Google (who themselves are no angels).

...Some Samsung executives saw a path for boosting profits by boldly and illegally fixing prices with competitors in some of their top businesses... competitors secretly got together in what they called “Glass Meetings” at hotels and resorts around the world... Samsung was fined $32 million in the U.S., $21.5 million in South Korea, and $197 million by the European Commission.

..but by 2006 the L.C.D. jig was up. Rumors began circulating among the conspirators that one of the victims of their crime—a company they referred to by the code name NYer—suspected that the suppliers were rigging prices. And Samsung executives presumably feared that NYer could spark a criminal investigation by the U.S. government; after all, NYer—in reality Apple Inc.—was pretty powerful. Samsung ran to the Justice Department under an anti-trust leniency program and ratted out its co-conspirators. But that didn’t lessen the pain much—the company was still forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to settle claims against it by state attorneys general and direct purchasers of L.C.D.’s.

...The decision to fess up to the L.C.D. scheme may not have been driven just by Apple’s suspicions. Samsung was already in law enforcement’s sights: sometime earlier a co-conspirator in another criminal price-fixing conspiracy had given up Samsung. That scheme, beginning in 1999, involved Samsung’s huge business for dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM, which is used in computer memories. In 2005, after it was caught, Samsung agreed to pay $300 million in fines to the U.S. government. Six of its executives pleaded guilty and agreed to serve sentences of 7 to 14 months in American prisons.

Kim Yong-chul, who made his name as a star prosecutor in South Korea before joining Samsung, blew the whistle on what he said was massive corruption at the company. He accused senior executives of engaging in bribery, money-laundering, evidence tampering, stealing as much as $9 billion, and other crimes.

In January 2008, government investigators raided the home and office of Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of Samsung, who was subsequently convicted of dodging some $37 million in taxes. He was given a three-year suspended sentence and ordered to pay $89 million in fines. A year and a half later, South Korean president Lee Myung-bak pardoned Lee.

...a Korean lawmaker claimed that Samsung had once offered her a golf bag stuffed with cash, and a former presidential aide said the company had given him a cash gift of $5,400, which he returned.

Little love between Clintons and Obamas. Obama's campaigned for Clinton, but likely only to try and preserve their legacy, and perhaps for Michelle's political aspirations.

Michelle's political aspirations? According to current evidence, she has none.

The bad part is that there is news that they are now grooming Chelsea to run for office

I would not be surprised if there were evidence of that, but kindly provide some.

I am aware that she has a PhD in International Relations and she is working at the Clinton Global Initiative. That might be a good background for a post in foreign affairs, but I'd have to see more domestic affairs on her résumé before I believed she was going to run for office.

and Obama's wife is acting all political, too.

Perhaps, but would she run for office? Most likely not.

He is hiding his income and taxes

Keeping private is not "hiding". Are you "hiding" your phone number? No? Post it then.

He clearly hates non-white
That's not what his black employees say, nor just that mesh with him picking Omarissa years ago to win The Apprentice (which also meant he would have to work with her).

non-straight non-male people

Trump is the most pro-gay GOP candidate there has ever been, far better for the LGBT community than Hillary would have been.

As for women, well if Trump hates women so much why did he keep hiring them to lead his campaign, including the last one that led him to victory?

He incites violence.

Sorry I'm having trouble seeing the Trump violence over Portland burning, and the fake protestors the DNC hired to mess up Trump rallies.

He knows next to nothing about anything.

And yet he still won, so obviously what he does know is how to find and hire the right people who do know how to accomplish things.

That he's a child molester?

Claimed just before the election, and we are supposed to believe that.... meanwhile Hillary was covering for Bill having sex with under-age females for decades. Don't see you very against that you monster.

What other parts of the Constitution is it time to 'get rid of'???

The first amendment, apparently. Maybe a little of the second amendment. The pesky fourth still needs some trimming, and the fifth gets in the way of mandatory death sentences. Since we're making edits, why not tweak the sixth amendment too?

Trump said he did those things to women WITHOUT their permission, not that they let (your emphasis) him do it. All he said about their action was that he could get away with it (i.e. they wouldn't accuse him or call him out) because of his powerful position.

That is sexual abuse.

I think calling Bill/Hillary (a husband/wife pair) a "tag team" when it comes to extra-marital affairs shows a deep misunderstanding of marriage.

The affair with Lewinski was consensual, btw, unless you aren't believing Monica herself?

http://www.vanityfair.com/news...

Ms. Holmes said in a statement: "We will return our undivided attention to our miniLab platform. Our ultimate goal is to commercialize miniaturized, automated laboratories capable of small-volume sample testing, with an emphasis on vulnerable patient populations, including oncology, pediatrics, and intensive care."

What the fuck is Holmes still CEO? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/... http://www.vanityfair.com/news...

What the fuck is wrong with investors? Well like you and me we have no say what we "invest" in. Instead banks and insurance fund managers decide for us. It's not their money. They don't care. You probably have some of your savings indirectly invested in Teranos and don't even know it, and even if you do too much work to withdraw it and transfer it to an equally incompetent fund across the street. So this shit keeps happening.

Donald Trump was hardly the only guy to invest in Atlantic City gambling and lose money on the thing.

No, but he was the only one to do it in 1995.

Incidentally, just how many people were employed by Hillary in her many businesses?

The difference is that the ones Hillary employed actually got paid. Donald Trump? Not so much.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/do...

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http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

Where is the Snapchat filter that shortens one's fingers so that you look more like Trump? http://www.vanityfair.com/cult...

There's a reason he speaks like Hitler. Trump kept a collection of Hitler's speeches in a cabinet by his bed titled titled, "My New Order" which he read for inspiration.

I've noticed that Hillary has a pattern of using the "most minimal" excuse that will get her by.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news...

Holmes had indeed mastered the Silicon Valley game. Revered venture capitalists, such as Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson, invested in her; Marc Andreessen called her the next Steve Jobs. She was plastered on the covers of magazines, featured on TV shows, and offered keynote-speaker slots at tech conferences. (Holmes spoke at Vanity Fair’s 2015 New Establishment Summit less than two weeks before Carreyrou’s first story appeared in the Journal.) In some ways, the near-universal adoration of Holmes reflected her extraordinary comportment. In others, however, it reflected the Valley’s own narcissism. Finally, it seemed, there was a female innovator who was indeed able to personify the Valley’s vision of itself—someone who was endeavoring to make the world a better place.

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No one actually has to "hack" anything -- just get the thought out there. No matter who wins, stories like this will be cited by the losing side as "proof" the election was "rigged" or "hacked", and that the winner didn't win legitimately.

One side is already making this argument, and is recruiting an army of armed "observers" to stand around polling places and act menacing.

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It's not Wikileaks's role to scan email for viruses...

Yes, it is. See how easy that was to rebut? Now we could get into reasons why one would argue for either position so that this could actually qualify as a discussion rather than a diatribe. Some reasons for it being Wikileak's role: distributing information that actively attacks the recipient, like a smallpox-ridden blanket, and without even warning the recipient of that fact, is counterproductive and morally dishonest. Damaging your audience under the banner of "raw information" while failing to openly disclose one of the more significant aspects of the information... really?

Wikileaks's goal is to provide raw information, unlike that of mainstream journalism.

Well that's a bit of revisionist history, isn't it? I mean, first they redacted information, then they stopped. Yet they still redact source information, because, otherwise, you might be able to determine a source, and that would be bad for Wikileaks.

Wikileak's stated goals vary depending upon the side of Assange's very tiny bed that he woke up on that morning. However, their actions most assuredly represents the personal grudges of Assange himself. Wikileaks does not provide raw information, it provides information curated by Assange for Assange's personal purposes, and you'd do well to remember that.

Yeah looking at the guys other reviews I see a pattern...if its popular? Then its crap. A good example is the way he shat all over "Fury" and I certainly don't remember that one getting a lot of hate, in fact IIRC it was a hit with both moviegoers and critics, Wikipedia says critics by and large praised the movie and IMDB has it at 7.6 out of 10 which is not too shabby.

I can see why fans would be pissed if they are going out of their way to pick reviewers like this guy, its really not hard to skew results when you grab those "artsy fartsy" critics that don't like anything "the peasants" might like. I haven't gone through all his reviews yet but you wanna bet he just gushes over art house foreign flicks, like the critic equivalent of a hipster that can't like anything unless its unpopular? Even his writing style reminds me of early Gene Siskel, back when it was called Sneak Previews, back when it seemed Gene didn't like anything that wasn't playing in an art house.

Suddenly I'm motivated to read reviews again.

Then you should read the Vanity Fair review: " Suicide Squad is ultimately too shoddy and forgettable to even register as revolting. At least revolting would have been something."

Offer a high reward for succeeding for drastically increasing a company's business (or saving it), not for just.....showing up. For example, Marisa Mayer has a golden parachute for $50 odd million dollars. Maybe she would have worked a little harder at turning around Yahoo if she had to move in with Liz Homes because she was going to out on her ass, like all the people she laid off?

Combine that with the fact that working stiffs are supposed to work their asses off for as little as eight bucks an hour...sounds a wee bit elitist.

I think nearly all politicians fall into that category. Including (and esp) H.R.C. That's basically a no-op comment.

Nope.

Olberman went through a nice exercise to apply a standard medical triage test for personality disorder. It's pretty long, but he plays it straight. This GOP candidate clearly falls outside the category of your normal political malfeasance.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news...

Hillary's donors threatened to cut her off if she chose Warren.

The difference is that the loonies don't run the mental institution over here.

Brother, we're getting close.

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He is a great businessman and he will lead america like a business.

Let's just hope he doesn't lead American like one of his own businesses.

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A slashdot summery of a Gizmodo summery of a Vanity Fair article? Is the source really that are to link to when it is the first line of the Gizmodo summery? http://www.vanityfair.com/news...

I've actually suspected that Musk will sell his stake in Tesla around the year 2020. At that point, the Model 3 will be in high volume production and the share price should be very high. I suspect he will use those proceeds to finance the trip to Mars.

They guy plays a long game. Both technically and financially. I suspect Tesla and Solar City are just means to get himself to Mars, where he will retire.

So Greece laying about the budget deficit when joining EU was not Greece fault?

Isn't it true that Stefanos Manos (former Greece minister of finance) said " the Greek national railway was so poorly run and its public employees so overpaid that it would be cheaper for the state to shut down the railway entirely and give every customer taxi fare to their destination." ?

Isn't it true that Tassos Giannitsis (former minister of labor) said "When I told my colleagues in the cabinet about the reforms I was proposingâ"which mind you were not the toughest availableâ"the attitude I got was that I was spoiling the party, They were, like, âeverything is going great right now, why are you bothering us with a problem that may implode in a decade?"

Isn't it true that "the retirement age for Greek jobs classified as "arduous" is as early as 55 for men and 50 for women. As this is also the moment when the state begins to shovel out generous pensions, more than 600 Greek professions somehow managed to get themselves classified as arduous: hairdressers, radio announcers, waiters, musicians, and on and on and on" and "the Greek public-school system is the site of breathtaking inefficiency: one of the lowest-ranked systems in Europe, it nonetheless employs four times as many teachers per pupil as the highest-ranked, Finland's"

The last thing especially is a breathtaking reading. Greeks should not point fingers at anyone until they admit that they screwed up themselves too. Sure it was the upper class that screwed you, the little people. But who voted them in?

They built their entire business on patent infringement.

Yes, Samsung did. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/06/apple-samsung-smartphone-patent-war

Samsung is (or should be) well known for purposely infringing patents with the knowledge that they have the money to fight in court until the situation is no longer relevant. They don't just do it against American companies and in the mobile business, they've been doing it for years in Korea as well.

Samsung is hugely corrupt and rarely follows the rules. They get sued and counter-sue, tie up cases in courts for years, and then when the other company is tired of fighting, they either walk away scot free, or pay a pittance in relation to the profit they made by infringing. Huawei has no way to win this fight, but they're obligated to try for a while, at least.

I would try to stay away from Samsung products on principle, but I can't even buy Apple products without putting money into Samsung's pocket.

Vanity Fair ran a good article a few years ago that goes over it a bit.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news...

Hear hear, well spoken, Bruce. Now only time will tell if they turn off the legal heat on the fans, who are doing for (practically) nothing what the studios can't do with million dollar budgets. I mean, why can't they study the 20 or so good episodes of TOS and and get inspired for a new Trek? Why is the ONLY idea they ever come up with is blow up (or, at best, decommission) the Enterprise, when the Enterprise is really the only reason we go see the show?

"These are the voyages... of bad boy Kirk, his goofy sidekick Spock, and some supporting cast with familiar names; their on-going mission, to beat up aliens, perform outrageous stunts, make awkward wise-cracks, and hop in the sack with every..."

Doesn't sound right, does it?

Been waiting a real long time, decades, for Trek to get its act together, which with Jay Jay has gone from bad to worse. I suppose Trek doesn't inspire as much respect from Mr. Abrams as the Star Wars franchise.

Satan as president would shake things up, too.

That doesn't mean people should vote for him.

Trump is just as shady as the rest but he's also quite plainly a misogynistic narcissist who wants to become president to feed his own ego.

And I'm not pulling the shady bit out of my ass. Look up media reports (ok, yes, vanity fair isn't the best source) of Trump from the 80s/90s when he was doing deals, through the notorious lawyers Roy Cohn and Stanley Friedman, with corrupt judges to get his way in New York real estate.

He and his policies would be a disaster for modern diplomacy. Even if he were an economic boon, which I doubt, that wouldn't matter much if he fucks up foreign relations and what little world peace there is.
Thanks but Bush's administration already did enough damage there and Bush wasn't even a rude person.

All political correctness means is doubletalk for not offending anyone. Being politically correct has nothing to do with corruption.
It mainly has to do with being polite and respectable, though we obviously use it ironically because politicians seem to have issues with telling the bald truth.
Trump isn't politically correct but he's not going to tell the bald truth either. He's many things but he's obviously not an idiot.

I'm not a fan of any of the candidates (even Bernie, as his pleas are too emotional/populist) but how on earth can you like Trump? Even if you, somehow, think he might be a good candidate... how can you like him as a person?

And the cliche "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results"? Yeah, that's not actually the definition of insanity. And never was. It's just a cute way to poke fun at people.

The Senate HATES Cruz.

At the Washington Foundation Press Club’s congressional dinner in February, Graham went a step further by joking about Cruz’s murder: “If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.”

Ask the many journalists who deliberately had it done to them while writing (or broadcasting) about this very subject.

Sure, let's ask them! Guess what? They say that it is torture.

People who have, by your definition, been "actually tortured" - like McCain - say that waterboarding is torture.

In short, it is obviously torture.

And you're scum for repeatedly defending it here.

"...our calculation of that distance would be off by perhaps less than the length of your little finger."

Or, by another measure, twice as long as Donald Trump's middle finger.

That, and carnies.

You can't trust 'em. Nomads. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.

Small hands... short fingers.

Anyone rooting for Hillary should really look at Brazil and consider what a criminal in the presidency could do to our country.

George W. and the Great Recession was a good example that. None of the Wall Street bankers went to prison for cratering the economy. The only person who got charged was a Russian programmer who took home modifications he made to open source software that Goldman Sach claimed were proprietary.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman-sachs-programmer

Trump is winning out because the saner vote is still split.

Saner vote?

Stop insulting us and start addressing the issues. Insulting people is the sure way to get them to dig in their heels.

Trump is winning because the people want him.

In fact, the only ones who don't like Trump are the elites: talking heads, mainstream media, big corporations, and so on. The "establishment". The Republican side is starting to be completely open in their dislike for him.

The Koch brothers started a super pac specifically to combat Trump. A direct quote from Charles Koch about the Republican primary:

"You’d think we could have more influence"

Here on Slashdot, for the last 16 years we've bemoaned the corruption in politics, how campaign money from corporate interests gives us politicians who are for corporations and against the people.

And when someone who runs without taking money from corporations, their response is: "Anyone except HIM!!!"

(A relevant recent political cartoon)

The current hate dejour is "he's not very presidential". As if leading us into war under false pretenses, ordering an American killed using a secret law, or lying about having sex in the oval office is completely unimportant.

Really.

If this keeps up, we're going to get the president we deserve, not the president we need.

Change to what???

A man who once kept Adolf Hitler's books by his bedside, perhaps?

He passed information on to China while there to buy asylum. I can only presume he did the same in Russia, but they are pretty tight lipped about what he has passed onto them.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news...

I do read, do you?

They might have some people with ideas about how to grab blueberries at high speed.

Every billionaire except Elon Musk, who explicitly said recently he wouldn't like to live forever. http://www.vanityfair.com/news...

I wish we could edit posts on here.

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According to Robbins’s lawyer, “the district photographed Robbins 400 times during a 15-day period last fall, sometimes as he slept in bed or was half-dressed. [...] Other times, the district captured screen shots of instant messages or video chats the Harriton High School sophomore had with friends.”

Creepy fucks.

He's also pushing it in Vanity Fair, like the true geek he is.

I don't know. But I do know her husband is a gay black man. (seriously -- the Buddy Fletcher story is pretty interesting).

This (where are my mod points?). Every time the Concorde comes up there comes this flood of chest-thumping off-topic U.S. v. Europe horse shit and arm-chair economists preaching about how money should be spent.

It's a shit article, anyway. Not once does it present any fact establishing that the 747 is being retired. Instead, it alludes to slow sales of the latest refresh of the plane (doesn't mention that the de-facto replacement A380 is also selling slowly - jumbo planes are not hot right now), analog instruments compared to the A380 (apples to oranges, and the debate rages on whether fly-by-wire makes pilots lazy and confused), something about sound, and then multiple paragraphs of anecdotal filler. At the last paragraph, some more unsubstantiated conclusory statements.

The 747 is not going away. It's a proven design, far easier to refresh than start from scratch to meet whatever the market for jumbos comes up with in the future. There's something called the Yellowstone Project to completely refresh Boeing's line, but we may all be in nursing homes before that bears fruit. Today, the biggest problem for the 747 (and the A380) is smaller long-range fuel-efficient mid-size planes like the 777, which are easier to fill (empty seats mean lost revenue). They are also far more comfortable in coach, particularly if you're stuck in the middle aisle.