Writers Strike Officially Over

CNN is reporting that the 100-day Hollywood writers walkout is now officially over. The new contract managed to snag two of the three major points the Writers Guild was looking for. The writers will now have "jurisdiction" for content created especially for new media (Internet, cell phones, etc) and will get paid for the reuse of content on new media when the studios get paid. "Leslie Moonves, chief executive officer of CBS Corp., told The Associated Press, 'At the end of the day, everybody won. It was a fair deal and one that the companies can live with, and it recognizes the large contribution that writers have made to the industry. [...] It's unclear how soon new episodes of scripted programs will start appearing, because production won't begin until scripts are completed, the AP reported. It will take at least four weeks for producers to get the first post-strike episodes of comedies back on the air; dramas will take six to eight weeks, the AP said.'"

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Re:Crisis Averted!

[monoqlith]

Let's say we threw out all of our ethical frameworks, erased civilization and started over. Let's say we sat around a table to come up with a new set of rules for civilization.

Every rational person at the table would agree that a certain set of rights belongs to everyone at the table. We might have to perform the experiment to see, but to name a few that I think would probably come up, right to life, right to live without torture, right to pursue happiness). I think right to health care falls under "right to life," since not having health care could very well bring about your death.

When we refer to human rights, that's just what we mean. From an original position, these are the rights that would produce the stablest framework within which people are free to pursue their rational self-interest.

Human rights might not be a "thing out there in the world," but they exist insofar as they can be rationally discovered and they can be universally upheld.

They were gone?

[nurb432]

I didn't notice a change in tv ... didn't even know they were gone.

tell me again why i care?