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  1. Re:Peter Jackson on Amazon Is Making a 'Lord of the Rings' Prequel Series (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    NZ wanted to maintain the beauty of the landscape, so a lot of the land the sets were made on had to be transformed back to their original state.

  2. Re:Peter Jackson on Amazon Is Making a 'Lord of the Rings' Prequel Series (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    After the travesty of the Hobbit. I would not wish for this.

  3. Re:Who cares about StarTrek HIV+ how is Orville do on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    It's moderately better (aka not quite the worst show currently airing), but that is not saying much.

  4. Re:They're Trying To Milk Subscriptions on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why?
    The entire premise of the show is that Discovery is special and gets to be the only ship with the instantaneous plot advancing device.

  5. Re: "Quit their filthy habit"? on A Japanese Company Is Giving Nonsmokers Longer Vacations (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Lazy people exist everywhere. And often managers notice. But only smokers are across the board taking many more breaks than everyone else.

  6. Pretty sure Portugal is still in the EU, and therefor has Net Neutrality enshrined in law. These packages seem specifically built to operate within the confines of those NN laws.

  7. Re:Wrong on Why Do Web Developers Keep Making The Same Mistakes? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be too sure. A few dozen programmers that program that way, and possibly even teach how to program that way, could fill the web with thousands upon thousands of these common mistakes.

  8. And the Majority of the World Agrees. on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Well 6 billion people would agree with that sentiment.

  9. Cash Does not Even Work on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    In my experience, Canada, when the power is out businesses cannot even sell you anything with cash as they cannot put a transaction through their system, scan the price, or calculate the total and tax without it.

  10. Re:Credit Cards Existed Long Before CC Terminals on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    Paying employees is not even close to an issue. If you are a public facing business, you are still going to have one of the biggest cash reserves around. The problem is not your lack of cash, but everyone elses. People will still pay in cash (you will probably have a big discount for them doing so). And if you run an important business, that supplies the necessities of a post-electrical society you can pay them in said necessities.

  11. Credit Cards Existed Long Before CC Terminals on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Has nobody seen Home Alone 2? Using electricity to process a CC purchase is relatively new. This is a solved problem.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    The problem is not with credit cards, but incompetent cashiers and owners who cannot handle changing situations.

  12. Re:And now skype on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    More likely they just live/work in close vicinity, which is how they found each other to begin with. Whores don't typically go to the next state over to practice their trade. They probably go to the same academic institution that she mentioned.

  13. Re:Mondays are the worst if you make them that way on Mondays Are the Worst, Data Science Proves (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Similarly, for many, it is not that they dislike their job, it is that they dislike doing their job while hungover.

  14. Re:We're jamming on US Prisons Have a Cellphone Smuggling Problem (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So what are you proposing that the prisons hired the telecom corporation for? To physically install the phones and wires and provide the service? So just what Bell will do for 1/1000th of the fee?

  15. Re:We're jamming on US Prisons Have a Cellphone Smuggling Problem (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Luckily, it is actually far more profitable for a person to be on the outside and working, So capitalism guarantees that prison populations will drain out into the general populace and get jobs. I am sure that will start any day now.

  16. In the Butt? on US Prisons Have a Cellphone Smuggling Problem (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So do they actually smuggle phones in, in peoples butts? Are their specially designed phones that fit? OR specialty Goatse level mules? Or do they just bribe guards to sneak them in?

  17. Re: a guard problem, too on US Prisons Have a Cellphone Smuggling Problem (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    All government organizations are serviced by private for profit companies who charge ridiculously inflated prices.

  18. Re:Rehabilitation on US Prisons Have a Cellphone Smuggling Problem (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Citation needed.

    No one keeps to the speed limit when cops are out of sight, have you never driven before?
    No one kills anyone without thinking it is the right thing to do. That is the single cause of 99% of all murders.

  19. Re: a guard problem, too on US Prisons Have a Cellphone Smuggling Problem (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you propose should be charged for a phone call that must be monitored and analysed for content related to past, ongoing, or future illegal acts. How many thousands or tens of thousands of full time employees does that take?

  20. Re:This sounds great until... on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This will be true when government completely removes minimum wage laws and deregulates power and other resource production.

  21. Re:This sounds great until... on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that we are talking about solar panels that priced competitively and overall are far more affordable for the country.
    This companies already exist, they are struggling to be competitive, but are still in the race. Furthermore, the entire point of preferring domestic solar panels is that taken as a whole they are far cheaper.

  22. Re:Yes and no... on Equifax CEO Hired a Music Major as the Company's Chief Security Officer · · Score: 1

    degree in computer science may very well disqualify you from professional programming

    Well if you have a degree in Comp Si you spent the last 3 years of your academic career not programming. So you are not going to be particularly qualified to do programming at that point, unless you have a lot of experience in open source of similar.

  23. Re:Yes and no... on Equifax CEO Hired a Music Major as the Company's Chief Security Officer · · Score: 1

    Typically it has more to do with family and who you know. She probably just knows the CEO from the Jewish community center or one of her direct family members does.

  24. Is it Even Legal on Google Fiber Cuts Kansas City Resident's Internet Access Over 12 Cent Dispute (kansascity.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is it even legal to send out a revised bill asking for more tax money after a sale has been finalized and paid in full, because of some crazy internal accounting scheme that was probably not even public disclosed to the customers?

  25. Re:IDE drive? on Terry Pratchett's Hard Drive Destroyed By Steamroller (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    We had an article about GRR a while ago. I believe his computer is DOS with a floppy drive.

    So yes, basically.