Just because shit happens on the production floor doesn't make you a business hack. It's a huge operation, and a man only has 24-hours in a day. The fact that he's motivated enough people to work and invest enough to create and operate both Tesla and Space-X marks him as a pretty incredible achiever. Have you accomplished this much? I sure as fuck haven't!
That doesn't mean he shouldn't take responsibility for fixing problems going on in his factory. But again, give the man credit for at least having a production floor in the US of A. Tim Cook, to compare Apples to Teslas, doesn't have to worry about these things, because he outsources his production to Foxconn in China, and Foxconn handles its worker problems the China way. iPhones get shipped; no worries and certainly no lawsuits from some disgruntled factory worker.
Musk is no business hack... he's produced and continues to produce actual products, innovative products at that, all while he's still young. That's way more than you or I have done, and he's pushed the envelope more than old farts like Ford, GM, or even United Technologies (where's their re-usable, self-landing first-stage rocket booster, for example?) such that they're all playing catch-up. There's still time yet for these charges against Tesla to turn real and call for a response from Musk, or wind up as just another two-bit shake-down. Til then, give the man his due - he's made shit happen while most us just sit around bitching and moaning our lives away.
On the one hand, if these allegations are true, heads should damn roll.
On the other, Tesla is a great target for a he-said-he-said lawsuit. High profile, lots of cash, great timing right before the make-or-break moment where they have to make good on their affordable cars before GM and the other old guys power into the market.
Tesla's got to be a pressure-cooker company right now to get that production up. But if floor management is creating problems like this, there's a huge incentive to for senior management to give a beat-down to the floor managers. No workers, no Tesla 3's, no Tesla... and there goes Elon Musk puttering around dog-faced in a Bolt.
Who the fuck to believe. To my knowledge, these Tesla things are not sticking like the way they stuck on Uber. But who the fuck knows... news and lawsuits are full of bullshit these days, it's not easy to know truth from some Russian kid with a smartphone masquerading as a Texan. All that's reliably true is Tesla has money, and any cheap-suit lawyer would see an opportunity to make a quick settlement out of them, rather than risk more bad press and production delays as they try like mad to make their delivery date.
I would agree that I found the plot lackluster. But the visuals and atmosphere were amazing. Such a cool world.
Leto's performance as Wallace was awful. Not sure how that kind of nutjob could have ever run a company.
Haven't seen it yet, but saw a spoiler that confirmed some of my predictions from 2015 (in short, a more evil corporate bad guy than Dr.Tyrell who wants something from Deckard, new and improved replicants, and of course, what would you expect to happen between Deckard and Rachael that might inspire a sequel?) Sigh. I can hear the pitch in my head at a Hollywood donut shop: "Okay, there's a new bad guy, and he hears that Deckard and a replicant..." It's the first idea you'd get from any first-year writing student for a sequel. Un In Spired, and everything else is just window-dressing.
Sorry, but this is why I hate sequels. The story-writing just goes down the drain; but worse, the writers so often miss what was so good about the original. In the original, Tyrell was ostensibly a bad guy, but he was great. You couldn't help but like him. Wallace, OTOH, even from the previews, is a psycho nut-job from frame one. In the original, J.F. Sebastian was an even more inspired character. Again, morally ambiguous... he creates little people as pets! but utterly sympathetic, kind, generous, and himself suffering from a degenerative disease, a death sentence not unlike the "fail-safe device" of the replicants. Anything like THAT in the new story?
And that DIALOG!
"It's not every day one meets his maker." "...and what can he do for you?" "Can the maker repair what he has made?" "What seems to be the problem?" "Death. Death is the problem."
F U C K ! Dialog, visuals, soundtrack, combining to create an atmosphere around characters you really can't know what they're going to do next. Is Roy going to be reasonable and calculating, or go bat-shit berzerk? Is Pris going to kiss little Sebastian or snap his head clean off his neck? What the FUCK is with that owl? and how can Deckard be so sure he's never retired a human by mistake?
All this is why this sleeper movie 80's movie became a movie you wanted to see again and again. Does the new movie come even close to this? Burn Hollywood, burn.
Do the politicians intend to put MI-5 officers in jail, for trolling for terror intelligence? or will Her Majesty's Government issue a LICENSE for proper people to view terrorist websites?
Stop! You're under-arrest for suspicion of viewing... oh, sorry, you've got a LICENSE to do that.
Wait... it's EXPIRED!!! Stop, you fiend, or I'll blow my whistle!
Easy. A computer big and huge enough that it can someday house his consciousness when his astonishingly healthy body someday craps out, so he can continue to MAGA for all time until America was won so much even his most ardent, NFL-hating MAGA fans are tired of winning. It will be huge. It will be gold. It will be huge and gold, and they will call it the "BFC T-1000" and it will rule and it will be incredible, people, believe me.
Thank you for elegantly demonstrating why capitalism is a curse on our people.
Respectfully, that's not what I said. Sometimes, a lot more times than we give credit actually, Profit=Sales-Jobs works out, when the interests of consumers, employees and business-owners align. In a functioning economy, where you can reliably call Domino's and actually get food in exchange for debit on your bank card, this alignment is happening a lot more often than you think.
It's when people get too greedy, and make-believe that marketing alone, particularly based on clever half-truths and lies, can make them rich without a decent or actual product, do things go sour. The modern trend or fashion of maximizing profits, at the expense of both employees and customers, is what sickens capitalism and leads to dumb ideas like electronic street bodegas, and ridiculous press-releases about "creating jobs" specifically intended to i) waive off government scrutiny and ii) attract more investors (fine print: return on investment not guaranteed).
Capitalism isn't perfect - nothing is, and expecting it to be of course will leave you disappointed, bitter, anti-social, or ranting/raving on Slashdot. Chill. Go to a locally-owned coffee shop, pay the man for a freshly-baked muffin and a hot cup of joe, and realize that business usually works fine, except for a few asshats trying to get rich quick by cheating. If you become aware of the cheating, and consumers voice their opposition, workers choose not to work there, and investors withdraw their support, and maybe even an elected government sends inspectors to expose the bad meat, the cheater goes down in flames, and the delicate balance of interests that we call "capitalism" is working. Capitalism fails only where we tolerate lies, cheating, and dirty little secrets, the same things that fuck up everything everywhere.
You don't negotiate with Trump, unless he's outright giving ground just to spite his own side. Not because he's a 'genius negotiator' - but because his future decisions have almost no relationship with his previous promises.
This, except Trump doesn't have a "side" to spite, except his own. The only thing he cares about, tweets about, speeches about, or discusses with people is how popular he perceives himself. Now that the ride on the Right and the GOP is losing steam, Ryan and that little turtle-head McConnell refusing his calls (Mitch? Mitch? Are you there, Mitch? It's ME! President Trump! The President, you little turd! Goddammit, I can hear you breathing into the phone, you no-neck amphibian!), so maybe it's time to give the Left a try. I mean, shee-itt! He threw the white supremacists a bone for Charlottesville, and what did it get him? Nothing but headaches, damn ingrates, and Bannon being a total two-faced asshole. Even Fox News turning sour, you'd think they'd see the fair-and-balance of it. How can you get a good round of golf in with all that going on? So, why not go 180 on the Paris Accords? Why not go 180 on the debt ceiling? Why not go 180 on the illegal.. uh.. Dream Kids? Shit, if it goes well, and the mean old liberal fake-news start throwing rose petals at him and call him a hero, maybe he'll "re-negotiate" some other stuff, too.
Take a lesson, liberals. With Trump, everything's for sale, for the right price. A front-page Sunday New York Times "Best President Ever", and it'll be "Wall? What Wall? I'd never build a Wall with Mexico, that would fuck up NAFTA!"
This. Nobody gets into this business to create jobs, they do it to sell stuff. THE RULE: Profit = Sales minus Jobs (and other irritating expenses) But TALK and LIES are free, so you can say you're creating jobs if it maybe creates/increases sales. "create jobs" my fanny. Let the record show he talks shit to the public to make his business plan look good.
How long before hipsters (or Hispanic people) in the Mission start torching these?
Please, no fires. Fires lead to riot tanks, rubber bullets, jack-booted free-market police. Be sensible, and clever. A little super-glue and spray-paint works wonders on keypads and other devices, hypothetically of course.
Standing next to it, to help people who can't work it, reset it when it breaks, print coupons when it eats money or mangles the goods, and call the cops when an angry consumer goes insane. Just like the guy standing at the "self-checkout" lanes at your grocery store.
This. $50mil is is like change stuck in the couch of the Federal Government, not enough to do anything but maybe fund a study that will produce a paper in 8 months that nobody will read. And then there's that "up to" part to really let the air leak out of the balloon.
This is a big country, with a huge, interconnected, antiquated power grid that needs complete re-thinking in a world of public and private solar, heat waves, hurricanes, hackers and insecure control equipment, and a population more dependent than ever on a reliable supply of electricity. Of course, the DOE is under the command of a man who pledged to abolish it, so I wouldn't expect any miracles. But "up to $50 million" won't inspire much of anything.
So this means High Sierra is a one-way upgrade, 'cause Sierra (and older) doesn't grok APFS. Well, not totally, but you'd better have a full Time Machine backup before upgrading, and if High Sierra breaks something you like (e.g., old but great Garage Band sound generators, old but great software, some driver for some great thing you use) you'll have to do a complete wipe, including re-formatting the drive, before re-installing Sierra (or older) from scratch and then restoring from Time Machine.
Workable, and thankfully Time Machine and Apple's Recovery Mode works so well, but damn you'd better have a reliable Time Machine drive, and better yet some install media with your last working Mac OS.
As delivery drones fly, they capture all they see on the ground, facial recognition, sell it to data aggregators and TMZ. That's what will get them going in the U.S., air-safety be damned. Money, money, money. Look! there you are, using your lunch break to visit a motel! To stop us from posting who you were with, just text $300 to blackmail of the future.
I cant' think of any sci-fi book or movie that anticipated our skies filled with mad buzzing drones flying around delivering stuff, and maybe killer drones shooting them down or pirate drones bagging them and making off with the loot.
Closest I can think of was Dark Angel, but those were police surveillance drones, not commercial drones.
That's the future for you, always pulling something out of its ass.
I see a pattern forming here. The older games, particularly side-shooters and DOS Doom, had to work within limited resources, so they were built around action and shooting and speed 'cause there just wasn't any room for story and dialog and cut-scenes and total-realism all that cruft they pile onto "modern" games. Doom was just plain madness... the fun kind. The Doom 3 makeover is a good example of modernizing but taking the fun out, 'cause they wanted to tell a story and make you solve puzzles and show off what the engine could do and dark and scary in a predictable way. Doom 2016 was putting the fun back in. Get up, get out, shoot things, glory kills until some horror comes right at you and kills you and you're left in a pool of sweat. That was the thrill of Doom for me, opening that door and seeing/hearing a Baron of Hell for the first time, going "what the fuck is that!!!" before my Doom guy screams and dies. Adrenalin. No talk. We kill.
Article doesn't say. At best it suggests maybe this "currency" will be redeemable at other Russian Burger Czars... Kings. Suspiciously short article, suspiciously short on facts or even news. Hints maybe that Burger Putins might also accept bitcoin, but again, nothing said for sure. Stupid article.
Amazon has blown this acquisition. 'Whole Paycheck' was for those people who like to impress each other with how much the overpay (for the same stuff).
It's pricey, but for a while Whole Foods was the only grocery store chain that didn't suck. Before WF, your A&P, Safeway, Krogers, Food Lion, were all in a race to the bottom, closing in-store bakeries and butchers, closing check-out lanes, sad wilting produce, E. coli meat, and zombie employees shambling over to clean up that mess in aisle number 3.
Profit margins at grocery chains were already razor thin when Wal-Mart announced they'd hop into the business and drive them all down the tube. Whole Foods at least worked to make the experience NOT a trip through the morgue, which probably encouraged the growth of Trader Joe's, Harris-Teeter, and even the big stores to trade up and try to make food shopping suck less.
Yeah, you gotta pay, but nothing's free.
Now, if Amazon can get Whole Foods to deliver my dinner direct by drone, I'd drop some pay to see that.
go ahead and fiddle with the Oreo middle... 'cause there's not a better middle you can fiddle... with.
(worthless cruft taking space in my brain, thanks to 1000's of my most precious hours wasted watching commercial television... and yes, I'll pay you twenty-five bucks if you mow my lawn.)
Sling can add up, sure, but Hulu Live is in beta and looks to provide a better package. And both Sling and Hulu offer free trials so you can see whether it works out for you, and no contracts, so you can start and quit whenever you want, and no cable box rental fees - just use your PC, phone, or get a Roku-type for your TV.
Most TV's still come with a Tuner built-in. Put it to work with an antenna. Often, the HD you receive is better quality than what you get with cable, because most cable providers compress. And even an indoor antenna can be split with coax splitters between multiple TVs. Just need to know if you live near some broadcast towers, and here's help with that.
Infogrames paid big bucks for Hasbro Interactive [wikipedia.org] that had the Atari IP, renaming the company to Atari, and, like its namesake, took a tour through bankruptcy. They're going to squeeze out every last penny out of the Atari IP since that's the only thing they still have after the dot com bust.
So, some corporation that is three times removed from the people who actually created the work are able to prevent the work from entering the public domain.
Ain't capitalism grand?
"Capitalism" has nothing to do with it. This is simple property ownership, and the right to transfer (e.g. sell) that property... far more fundamental than capitalism.
Yes, it seems whack that some corporation that is three times removed from the people who actually created the work are able to prevent the work from entering the public domain, but it's no different than someone three times removed from the people who actually built a house now lives in that house, preventing squatters from moving in, or some kid three times removed from the kid who originally bought a comic book now owns that comic, locked in a closet preventing anyone else from reading it.
Sure, a house or a comic book may seem different from a copyright, but each can be owned by a person, and that person can keep it, share it, hide it, punch it, sit on it, fart on it, or do anything else to it if they want to, including selling it to someone else, and then that new owner can in turn do whatever he wants to do with it.
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Just because shit happens on the production floor doesn't make you a business hack. It's a huge operation, and a man only has 24-hours in a day. The fact that he's motivated enough people to work and invest enough to create and operate both Tesla and Space-X marks him as a pretty incredible achiever. Have you accomplished this much? I sure as fuck haven't!
That doesn't mean he shouldn't take responsibility for fixing problems going on in his factory. But again, give the man credit for at least having a production floor in the US of A. Tim Cook, to compare Apples to Teslas, doesn't have to worry about these things, because he outsources his production to Foxconn in China, and Foxconn handles its worker problems the China way. iPhones get shipped; no worries and certainly no lawsuits from some disgruntled factory worker.
Musk is no business hack... he's produced and continues to produce actual products, innovative products at that, all while he's still young. That's way more than you or I have done, and he's pushed the envelope more than old farts like Ford, GM, or even United Technologies (where's their re-usable, self-landing first-stage rocket booster, for example?) such that they're all playing catch-up. There's still time yet for these charges against Tesla to turn real and call for a response from Musk, or wind up as just another two-bit shake-down. Til then, give the man his due - he's made shit happen while most us just sit around bitching and moaning our lives away.
On the one hand, if these allegations are true, heads should damn roll.
On the other, Tesla is a great target for a he-said-he-said lawsuit. High profile, lots of cash, great timing right before the make-or-break moment where they have to make good on their affordable cars before GM and the other old guys power into the market.
Tesla's got to be a pressure-cooker company right now to get that production up. But if floor management is creating problems like this, there's a huge incentive to for senior management to give a beat-down to the floor managers. No workers, no Tesla 3's, no Tesla... and there goes Elon Musk puttering around dog-faced in a Bolt.
Who the fuck to believe. To my knowledge, these Tesla things are not sticking like the way they stuck on Uber. But who the fuck knows... news and lawsuits are full of bullshit these days, it's not easy to know truth from some Russian kid with a smartphone masquerading as a Texan. All that's reliably true is Tesla has money, and any cheap-suit lawyer would see an opportunity to make a quick settlement out of them, rather than risk more bad press and production delays as they try like mad to make their delivery date.
I would agree that I found the plot lackluster. But the visuals and atmosphere were amazing. Such a cool world.
Leto's performance as Wallace was awful. Not sure how that kind of nutjob could have ever run a company.
Haven't seen it yet, but saw a spoiler that confirmed some of my predictions from 2015 (in short, a more evil corporate bad guy than Dr.Tyrell who wants something from Deckard, new and improved replicants, and of course, what would you expect to happen between Deckard and Rachael that might inspire a sequel?) Sigh. I can hear the pitch in my head at a Hollywood donut shop: "Okay, there's a new bad guy, and he hears that Deckard and a replicant..." It's the first idea you'd get from any first-year writing student for a sequel. Un In Spired, and everything else is just window-dressing.
Sorry, but this is why I hate sequels. The story-writing just goes down the drain; but worse, the writers so often miss what was so good about the original. In the original, Tyrell was ostensibly a bad guy, but he was great. You couldn't help but like him. Wallace, OTOH, even from the previews, is a psycho nut-job from frame one. In the original, J.F. Sebastian was an even more inspired character. Again, morally ambiguous... he creates little people as pets! but utterly sympathetic, kind, generous, and himself suffering from a degenerative disease, a death sentence not unlike the "fail-safe device" of the replicants. Anything like THAT in the new story?
And that DIALOG!
"It's not every day one meets his maker."
"...and what can he do for you?"
"Can the maker repair what he has made?"
"What seems to be the problem?"
"Death. Death is the problem."
F U C K !
Dialog, visuals, soundtrack, combining to create an atmosphere around characters you really can't know what they're going to do next. Is Roy going to be reasonable and calculating, or go bat-shit berzerk? Is Pris going to kiss little Sebastian or snap his head clean off his neck? What the FUCK is with that owl? and how can Deckard be so sure he's never retired a human by mistake?
All this is why this sleeper movie 80's movie became a movie you wanted to see again and again.
Does the new movie come even close to this?
Burn Hollywood, burn.
Do the politicians intend to put MI-5 officers in jail, for trolling for terror intelligence? or will Her Majesty's Government issue a LICENSE for proper people to view terrorist websites?
Stop! You're under-arrest for suspicion of viewing... oh, sorry, you've got a LICENSE to do that.
Wait... it's EXPIRED!!! Stop, you fiend, or I'll blow my whistle!
Otherwise he wouldn't be doing it.
Easy. A computer big and huge enough that it can someday house his consciousness when his astonishingly healthy body someday craps out, so he can continue to MAGA for all time until America was won so much even his most ardent, NFL-hating MAGA fans are tired of winning. It will be huge. It will be gold. It will be huge and gold, and they will call it the "BFC T-1000" and it will rule and it will be incredible, people, believe me.
The Hyperloop is right there on the ground.
How many people live on the ground?
Is that right? I thought Hyperloop would be buried underground, mitigating at least that problem.
At least he said I was charming, and amusing! Win!
Time for coffee and a muffin!
Thank you for elegantly demonstrating why capitalism is a curse on our people.
Respectfully, that's not what I said. Sometimes, a lot more times than we give credit actually, Profit=Sales-Jobs works out, when the interests of consumers, employees and business-owners align. In a functioning economy, where you can reliably call Domino's and actually get food in exchange for debit on your bank card, this alignment is happening a lot more often than you think.
It's when people get too greedy, and make-believe that marketing alone, particularly based on clever half-truths and lies, can make them rich without a decent or actual product, do things go sour. The modern trend or fashion of maximizing profits, at the expense of both employees and customers, is what sickens capitalism and leads to dumb ideas like electronic street bodegas, and ridiculous press-releases about "creating jobs" specifically intended to i) waive off government scrutiny and ii) attract more investors (fine print: return on investment not guaranteed).
Capitalism isn't perfect - nothing is, and expecting it to be of course will leave you disappointed, bitter, anti-social, or ranting/raving on Slashdot. Chill. Go to a locally-owned coffee shop, pay the man for a freshly-baked muffin and a hot cup of joe, and realize that business usually works fine, except for a few asshats trying to get rich quick by cheating. If you become aware of the cheating, and consumers voice their opposition, workers choose not to work there, and investors withdraw their support, and maybe even an elected government sends inspectors to expose the bad meat, the cheater goes down in flames, and the delicate balance of interests that we call "capitalism" is working. Capitalism fails only where we tolerate lies, cheating, and dirty little secrets, the same things that fuck up everything everywhere.
You don't negotiate with Trump, unless he's outright giving ground just to spite his own side. Not because he's a 'genius negotiator' - but because his future decisions have almost no relationship with his previous promises.
This, except Trump doesn't have a "side" to spite, except his own. The only thing he cares about, tweets about, speeches about, or discusses with people is how popular he perceives himself. Now that the ride on the Right and the GOP is losing steam, Ryan and that little turtle-head McConnell refusing his calls (Mitch? Mitch? Are you there, Mitch? It's ME! President Trump! The President, you little turd! Goddammit, I can hear you breathing into the phone, you no-neck amphibian!), so maybe it's time to give the Left a try. I mean, shee-itt! He threw the white supremacists a bone for Charlottesville, and what did it get him? Nothing but headaches, damn ingrates, and Bannon being a total two-faced asshole. Even Fox News turning sour, you'd think they'd see the fair-and-balance of it. How can you get a good round of golf in with all that going on?
So, why not go 180 on the Paris Accords? Why not go 180 on the debt ceiling? Why not go 180 on the illegal.. uh.. Dream Kids? Shit, if it goes well, and the mean old liberal fake-news start throwing rose petals at him and call him a hero, maybe he'll "re-negotiate" some other stuff, too.
Take a lesson, liberals. With Trump, everything's for sale, for the right price. A front-page Sunday New York Times "Best President Ever", and it'll be "Wall? What Wall? I'd never build a Wall with Mexico, that would fuck up NAFTA!"
This. Nobody gets into this business to create jobs, they do it to sell stuff.
THE RULE: Profit = Sales minus Jobs (and other irritating expenses)
But TALK and LIES are free, so you can say you're creating jobs if it maybe creates/increases sales.
"create jobs" my fanny. Let the record show he talks shit to the public to make his business plan look good.
How long before hipsters (or Hispanic people) in the Mission start torching these?
Please, no fires. Fires lead to riot tanks, rubber bullets, jack-booted free-market police. Be sensible, and clever. A little super-glue and spray-paint works wonders on keypads and other devices, hypothetically of course.
A vending machine with a person inside it?
Standing next to it, to help people who can't work it, reset it when it breaks, print coupons when it eats money or mangles the goods, and call the cops when an angry consumer goes insane. Just like the guy standing at the "self-checkout" lanes at your grocery store.
the thing I use it for the most is when I crawl in bed and have to turn out the light
You mean like... the Clapper???
"Alexa, tell me I'm an idiot!"
They better add a few zeroes to that.
This. $50mil is is like change stuck in the couch of the Federal Government, not enough to do anything but maybe fund a study that will produce a paper in 8 months that nobody will read. And then there's that "up to" part to really let the air leak out of the balloon.
This is a big country, with a huge, interconnected, antiquated power grid that needs complete re-thinking in a world of public and private solar, heat waves, hurricanes, hackers and insecure control equipment, and a population more dependent than ever on a reliable supply of electricity. Of course, the DOE is under the command of a man who pledged to abolish it, so I wouldn't expect any miracles. But "up to $50 million" won't inspire much of anything.
So this means High Sierra is a one-way upgrade, 'cause Sierra (and older) doesn't grok APFS. Well, not totally, but you'd better have a full Time Machine backup before upgrading, and if High Sierra breaks something you like (e.g., old but great Garage Band sound generators, old but great software, some driver for some great thing you use) you'll have to do a complete wipe, including re-formatting the drive, before re-installing Sierra (or older) from scratch and then restoring from Time Machine.
Workable, and thankfully Time Machine and Apple's Recovery Mode works so well, but damn you'd better have a reliable Time Machine drive, and better yet some install media with your last working Mac OS.
As delivery drones fly, they capture all they see on the ground, facial recognition, sell it to data aggregators and TMZ. That's what will get them going in the U.S., air-safety be damned. Money, money, money. Look! there you are, using your lunch break to visit a motel! To stop us from posting who you were with, just text $300 to blackmail of the future.
I cant' think of any sci-fi book or movie that anticipated our skies filled with mad buzzing drones flying around delivering stuff, and maybe killer drones shooting them down or pirate drones bagging them and making off with the loot.
Closest I can think of was Dark Angel, but those were police surveillance drones, not commercial drones.
That's the future for you, always pulling something out of its ass.
just don't find them as mindlessly fun.
I see a pattern forming here. The older games, particularly side-shooters and DOS Doom, had to work within limited resources, so they were built around action and shooting and speed 'cause there just wasn't any room for story and dialog and cut-scenes and total-realism all that cruft they pile onto "modern" games.
Doom was just plain madness... the fun kind. The Doom 3 makeover is a good example of modernizing but taking the fun out, 'cause they wanted to tell a story and make you solve puzzles and show off what the engine could do and dark and scary in a predictable way. Doom 2016 was putting the fun back in. Get up, get out, shoot things, glory kills until some horror comes right at you and kills you and you're left in a pool of sweat. That was the thrill of Doom for me, opening that door and seeing/hearing a Baron of Hell for the first time, going "what the fuck is that!!!" before my Doom guy screams and dies. Adrenalin. No talk. We kill.
A czar is an emperor, not a king.
I stand corrected, thank you. Burger Emperor. I want in, I think there's potential there.
Article doesn't say. At best it suggests maybe this "currency" will be redeemable at other Russian Burger Czars... Kings.
Suspiciously short article, suspiciously short on facts or even news. Hints maybe that Burger Putins might also accept bitcoin, but again, nothing said for sure. Stupid article.
Amazon has blown this acquisition. 'Whole Paycheck' was for those people who like to impress each other with how much the overpay (for the same stuff).
It's pricey, but for a while Whole Foods was the only grocery store chain that didn't suck. Before WF, your A&P, Safeway, Krogers, Food Lion, were all in a race to the bottom, closing in-store bakeries and butchers, closing check-out lanes, sad wilting produce, E. coli meat, and zombie employees shambling over to clean up that mess in aisle number 3.
Profit margins at grocery chains were already razor thin when Wal-Mart announced they'd hop into the business and drive them all down the tube. Whole Foods at least worked to make the experience NOT a trip through the morgue, which probably encouraged the growth of Trader Joe's, Harris-Teeter, and even the big stores to trade up and try to make food shopping suck less.
Yeah, you gotta pay, but nothing's free.
Now, if Amazon can get Whole Foods to deliver my dinner direct by drone, I'd drop some pay to see that.
go ahead and fiddle with the Oreo middle...
'cause there's not a better middle you can fiddle... with.
(worthless cruft taking space in my brain, thanks to 1000's of my most precious hours wasted watching commercial television... and yes, I'll pay you twenty-five bucks if you mow my lawn.)
This is completely, absolutely and irrevocably a good idea.
and given how effective a total ban has been on recreational drugs... I'd keep that can of anti-killer-robot spray real handy.
Sling can add up, sure, but Hulu Live is in beta and looks to provide a better package.
And both Sling and Hulu offer
free trials so you can see whether it works out for you, and
no contracts, so you can start and quit whenever you want, and
no cable box rental fees - just use your PC, phone, or get a Roku-type for your TV.
Cable TV still seems lousy to me.
Most TV's still come with a Tuner built-in. Put it to work with an antenna. Often, the HD you receive is better quality than what you get with cable, because most cable providers compress.
And even an indoor antenna can be split with coax splitters between multiple TVs.
Just need to know if you live near some broadcast towers, and here's help with that.
So, some corporation that is three times removed from the people who actually created the work are able to prevent the work from entering the public domain.
Ain't capitalism grand?
"Capitalism" has nothing to do with it. This is simple property ownership, and the right to transfer (e.g. sell) that property... far more fundamental than capitalism.
Yes, it seems whack that some corporation that is three times removed from the people who actually created the work are able to prevent the work from entering the public domain, but it's no different than someone three times removed from the people who actually built a house now lives in that house, preventing squatters from moving in, or some kid three times removed from the kid who originally bought a comic book now owns that comic, locked in a closet preventing anyone else from reading it.
Sure, a house or a comic book may seem different from a copyright, but each can be owned by a person, and that person can keep it, share it, hide it, punch it, sit on it, fart on it, or do anything else to it if they want to, including selling it to someone else, and then that new owner can in turn do whatever he wants to do with it.