Are you sure you aren't overestimating the effects of a very small but very noisy minority? I've never heard of people boycotting Solo, and I'd even heard of the Ep7 boycott which turned out to be literally 2 dudes on Twitter.
Ep7 shows a flashback of Rey being left in the care of Jakku's junk dealer. Leaving a child in the care of the cruel and crooked junk dealer doesn't seem like a decent, responsible, or likely effective way to hide a child (as evidenced by the fact that Rey becomes a lone desert nomad doing underpaid work for said junk dealer). On the other hand, if her parents were space hobos who sold her for space hooch money as Ren describes in Ep8, that makes perfect sense.
Yes I'd say Deadpool 2 was the major competition, in fact I was going to see it the day I went to see Solo but changed my plans because I was bringing a friend who wasn't fond of excessive cursing. Deadpool 2 drew the crowds, the numbersdon't lie.
Maybe that works great for something like Lost where you can jerk the audience around for 6 seasons,
You can only jerk the least intelligent or most patient segment of the audience around for 6 seasons. It was obvious to me within the first season that the show was an intellectual cocktease with no intent to put out, raising tantalizing new mysteries all the time in an attempt to distract you from an almost complete lack of answers and a complete lack of good answers. Which turned out to be exactly what was happening behind the scenes.
The second screen is a removable accessory for the Asus ROG Phone. Could be my next phone, especially if they release a landscape slider keyboard as an accessory...
The trouble is that VC investment is practically unavailable outside of Silicon Valley (and the other "tech hubs") which means you need to have pallets of excess cash lying around to start your company.
The only people who have ever survived cooperating with Microsoft are those like Oracle who always assume that cooperation is a form of preparation for war.
I call this the "Microsoft kiss of death" effect. Particularly unfortunate victims include Palm and Nokia.
It's an easier way to access pirated content than visiting The Pirate Bay and downloading torrent files.
Have you seen how much of a PITA is it to keep those damn Kodi plugins updated to whatever the good working plugins are this month from whatever repo they're hiding on this week? I disagree.
You can have your opinions and we can share facts, but you can't use those facts to discriminate against someone based on an immutable trait like ethnicity. Unless you want to be a racist asshat.
Just as scientific racists hoped that science would justify and enable their racism, technoracists hope that technology will justify and enable theirs. Technoracism is only a couple of years old (about as old as this article), it's only arisen following recent advances in machine learning. The technoracists hope to exploit layered neural networks' inherent ability to launder and obscure the human biases they were trained on, and portray the results of this GIGO effect as being purely logical and therefore somehow justifiable.
The way to pull the rug out from under both scientific racism (which has been enjoying a renaissance recently) and technoracism is use the ethical problems inherent to prejudging people based on immutable traits to argue for why we should never engage in such activities on ethical grounds, no matter how scientifically rigorous or even statistically predictive they may be.
This. Another mistake that helped prevent Trump from collecting his free nobel prize was "altering the deal" with Iran. I called it all the day before yesterday:
You shouldn't be. Trump actually didn't intend or expect to win the presidency, he intended his candidacy to be only a publicity stunt to promote a news network he planned to launch:
They're paying less of their fair share while everyone else has to pay the same or more. This will make them more wealthy at the expense of everyone else. If it looks, walks and quacks like a transfer of wealth...
The economy is doing ell and employment is about the highest it's ever been. He's another Bill Clinton - horrible person, fine President.
The economy is doing well, yes, but as in the Reagan years, the massive and permanent wealth transfer to the 1% will come back to haunt future generations. He's cooked another goose that lays the golden eggs, and again the conservatives are saying "Mmm mmm tasty goose! Such a great decision!"
He will almost certainly go down in history as the worst US president ever on all fronts.
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Are you sure you aren't overestimating the effects of a very small but very noisy minority? I've never heard of people boycotting Solo, and I'd even heard of the Ep7 boycott which turned out to be literally 2 dudes on Twitter.
The "FTC should handle it" argument is indistinguishable from a clever plan to bury any possibility of net neutrality in red tape for a long time:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Came here to say that this is going to be the "HIDE TEH DECLINE!!!1" of the Flat Earther nutjobs...
Ep7 shows a flashback of Rey being left in the care of Jakku's junk dealer. Leaving a child in the care of the cruel and crooked junk dealer doesn't seem like a decent, responsible, or likely effective way to hide a child (as evidenced by the fact that Rey becomes a lone desert nomad doing underpaid work for said junk dealer). On the other hand, if her parents were space hobos who sold her for space hooch money as Ren describes in Ep8, that makes perfect sense.
Yes I'd say Deadpool 2 was the major competition, in fact I was going to see it the day I went to see Solo but changed my plans because I was bringing a friend who wasn't fond of excessive cursing. Deadpool 2 drew the crowds, the numbers don't lie.
This. The timing of the film is what really did it in. If it weren't squished between 2 huge summer blockbusters, it would've sold a lot more tickets.
I watched it on opening night - in a mostly empty theatre - and thought it was a pretty good movie, a lot more fun and less frustrating than Ep8.
No completely. He did throw Snoke under the bus. But Rey's story did not change between Ep7 and Ep8:
https://www.cinemablend.com/ne...
Maybe that works great for something like Lost where you can jerk the audience around for 6 seasons,
You can only jerk the least intelligent or most patient segment of the audience around for 6 seasons. It was obvious to me within the first season that the show was an intellectual cocktease with no intent to put out, raising tantalizing new mysteries all the time in an attempt to distract you from an almost complete lack of answers and a complete lack of good answers. Which turned out to be exactly what was happening behind the scenes.
The second screen is a removable accessory for the Asus ROG Phone. Could be my next phone, especially if they release a landscape slider keyboard as an accessory...
The trouble is that VC investment is practically unavailable outside of Silicon Valley (and the other "tech hubs") which means you need to have pallets of excess cash lying around to start your company.
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
The only people who have ever survived cooperating with Microsoft are those like Oracle who always assume that cooperation is a form of preparation for war.
I call this the "Microsoft kiss of death" effect. Particularly unfortunate victims include Palm and Nokia.
It's an easier way to access pirated content than visiting The Pirate Bay and downloading torrent files.
Have you seen how much of a PITA is it to keep those damn Kodi plugins updated to whatever the good working plugins are this month from whatever repo they're hiding on this week? I disagree.
Nice try. I've addressed this argument before:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
https://slashdot.org/comments....
You can have your opinions and we can share facts, but you can't use those facts to discriminate against someone based on an immutable trait like ethnicity. Unless you want to be a racist asshat.
Just as scientific racists hoped that science would justify and enable their racism, technoracists hope that technology will justify and enable theirs. Technoracism is only a couple of years old (about as old as this article), it's only arisen following recent advances in machine learning. The technoracists hope to exploit layered neural networks' inherent ability to launder and obscure the human biases they were trained on, and portray the results of this GIGO effect as being purely logical and therefore somehow justifiable.
The way to pull the rug out from under both scientific racism (which has been enjoying a renaissance recently) and technoracism is use the ethical problems inherent to prejudging people based on immutable traits to argue for why we should never engage in such activities on ethical grounds, no matter how scientifically rigorous or even statistically predictive they may be.
Reminds me of this short story:
http://www.baen.com/chapters/W...
This. Another mistake that helped prevent Trump from collecting his free nobel prize was "altering the deal" with Iran. I called it all the day before yesterday:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
You shouldn't be. Trump actually didn't intend or expect to win the presidency, he intended his candidacy to be only a publicity stunt to promote a news network he planned to launch:
http://www.newsweek.com/mike-p...
Especially since these things are quite phallic! They'll probably be endangered species by the weekend.
They're paying less of their fair share while everyone else has to pay the same or more. This will make them more wealthy at the expense of everyone else. If it looks, walks and quacks like a transfer of wealth...
He apparently has ended a 70 year war in Korea by mocking the fat, ugly imbecilic dictator on the other side over the internet.
If only! He did indeed have the opportunity to end the war fall into his lap like manna from heaven, yes, because North Korea's nuclear research complex was destroyed in a semi-natural disaster. Then with John "War Fetish" Bolton's help, the fat ugly imbecilic wannabe-dictator snatched crushing defeat from the jaws of free glorious victory by reminding North Korea what happened to Libya (and Gaddafi) along with demonstrating that the USA's word isn't worth jack shit, and now it's all going to fall through. So don't count your chickens before they hatch.
The economy is doing ell and employment is about the highest it's ever been. He's another Bill Clinton - horrible person, fine President.
The economy is doing well, yes, but as in the Reagan years, the massive and permanent wealth transfer to the 1% will come back to haunt future generations. He's cooked another goose that lays the golden eggs, and again the conservatives are saying "Mmm mmm tasty goose! Such a great decision!"
He will almost certainly go down in history as the worst US president ever on all fronts.
It's a shame this can only go to +5!
The very stable genius good brain smartey man.
It's going to be a lightly regulated capitalist economy, they'll have monarchs and serfs by different names whether anybody likes it or not.