Samsung didn't disable the phones IIRC, it was the carriers. Samsung had a recall long before that point.
BTW, no lawsuit like that would ever go anywhere. Ask the auto manufacturers. Once the mfgr has done a recall and notified the customers of the problem and offered to fix it for free, the customer can't come back later, after not bothering to fix/replace it, and then sue for damages. Any court would immediately dismiss such a case.
Good answer, but that doesn't let you attempt to close it remotely. (And before you ask, no, I don't know my neighbors. Nor do I want to. Luckily I live in a place where I can leave my garage door open without worrying much about people stealing stuff from it, but I can see how others aren't in the same boat.)
Avatar had fantastic 3D and visuals. Plot-wise, it was ok. But it was absolutely worth seeing in the theater (or at least a really good 3D home-theater screen) just because of the 3D.
However, that was in 2009. I don't think there's been any movies like that since, just a whole bunch of lousy movies with lousy 3D.
Depends on the wife. The best strategy is to find this out about her *before* you get married; if she's jealous about you looking at women in a movie, don't marry her. (It's also not a bad idea to just not get married in the first place.)
Holy crap, this isn't rocket science. The device in this article IS NOT A GARAGE DOOR OPENER. It's an add-on which lets you control it remotely, and see if it's open or not. Is this really hard for you to understand?
How do you propose to see if your garage door is open when you're 100 miles away?
You can argue that you don't need that, but that's beside the point. Someone apparently does, or else this company would not exist.
As for thermostats, it's the same thing. Apparently some people like being able to adjust their thermostat remotely, so they can turn up the heat or A/C when they're on the way home, so it'll be warm/cool when they get there. The "dumb" thermostats either make you leave it at one temperature all the time, which either wastes energy or makes it uncomfortable when you get home, or you can get a programmable one but that assumes you have a regular schedule. (Personally I just leave it uncomfortable.)
Yeah, I don't really agree with that one either. At least there, though, they could make the case that it was about safety since they really did have batteries exploding and catching fire. They really should have made replacement batteries for them and repaired the devices; all they had to do was make them slightly smaller so they wouldn't swell and get too confined in the case. This debacle should be a good excuse for banning non-user-replaceable batteries IMO.
The problem with that is: what's your house's IP address? Thanks to DHCP, no one knows. It can change at any time. So you'd have to use some kind of dynamic DNS service to get around that, and now you're talking about it being too difficult for the average idiot^Wuser to set up and use.
For a DIY solution, of course this is entirely doable because DIYers are likely to be more motivated and more technically adept.
Hey, I never said this was a great idea or a must-have product! I'm just pointing out that if the product requirement is to make your garage door opener accessible over the internet, then the device needs to access the internet.
I think the other use-case is if you're not sure if your garage door was accidentally left open. I've done this myself: get in a hurry, drive away too fast without making sure the door fully closes, and due to some yard debris clinging to the door bottom and triggering the safety sensors, it reverses and ends up staying open all day. But FWIW, there's no way in hell I'd buy this asshole's device, nor will I buy anything else that requires some company's servers to be operational. I do think it'd be cool to have some custom device made from an Arduino or something, working with a script on my own website which I can access from my phone.
Bullshit. The device was bricked. The device is utterly unusable without the cloud account that it's linked to, so that's no different than "bricking".
No, making something that someone paid for unusable, after the sale, is NOT justified, ever, for anything. If you want to decline to provide further support because of abusive language, that's fine, even if that means they can't figure out how to get it working on their own, but that's very different from bricking it, which is utterly spiteful.
The whole point of this thing (as I understand it) is to give you access to your garage door from far away, over the internet. Having a locally-connected networked device that can't access the internet would make this impossible.
I agree that giving vendors access to your devices through some cloud interface is very dangerous, but I'm not sure what the alternative is unless you're going to roll your own.
Whether you are after smart light bulbs, thermostats or garage door openers, there are acceptable alternatives that work well, do not need the internet to function, and respect your rights and privacy.
This is factually wrong in this case. The whole point of this device is to allow you to control your garage door from far away, over the internet. I don't think I should have to explain why having an internet connection would be necessary for this to work.
Also, while it is possible for devices to respect your rights and privacy (and still have an internet connection), I think it's probably incorrect to claim that "acceptable alternatives that work well" actually exist. You could "roll your own", which is really what people should be doing more of anyway, but to claim that there really are great privacy-respecting alternatives out there is likely not true. Just because you want a certain product doesn't mean someone is actually going to go to all the trouble to develop and market one for you.
>Won't buy anything that relies on an app for full functionality.
Then this device wouldn't appeal to you anyway. As I understand it, the whole purpose of this device is to give you access to your garage door from your phone, which obviously requires an app (I guess you could technically also do it from a webpage, so I don't know if you'd be OK with that, but this stupid company probably doesn't have a webpage alternative to the app).
What I'd like to see is devices like this which publish their API, so you can make your own server and app if you want to.
This device is not a garage door opener. It's an add-on for one, which connects it to the internet so you can check on the status of your door from a phone app (in case you're worried you forgot to close it).
The company disabled the cloud access to this guy's device, rendering it completely useless for the only thing it's good for. The customer couldn't get remote access working anyway, but that's the only thing that device is for! So instead of fixing his issue, they locked him out of using his own device (maybe some friend could have gotten it working for him), all because he posted a bad review. If you can't see why this is wrong on many levels, I can't help you.
Wouldn't surprise me if GM brings back Pontiac in a few years, now everyone's forgotten how bad they were and only remember it as "hey Granddad had a Ponitiac".
They have to wait for everyone to forget about the Aztek.
And besides, GM shed a bunch of brands because they simply had too many; it was too much corporate overhead, and too many dealerships competing with other GM brands instead of with other automakers. I do have to question why they kept around GMC, since their crap is exactly the same as Chevy's crap, but the overall idea of shedding lesser brands was correct. They really should have just stuck with Chevy, Cadillac, and maybe Buick. Or if they just had to keep GMC, then they should have gotten Chevy out of the truck/SUV business; having differently-branded vehicles that are really the same car with different cosmetics is a stupid idea in this age. Oldsmobile was always a terrible brand name and long past its prime, and no one cared about Saturn any more except for a few die-hards, since the cars were no longer different, but just more badge-engineered Chevies.
Not in the US. We occasionally have disgruntled taxpayers pay their tax bills and such with wheelbarrows of pennies. Debtors do not have the right to set limits on what kinds of US currency they will accept; they can only do this if there's no debt (e.g. they haven't yet sold you the product). Once there's a debt, any US currency is fair game, and they cannot refuse it and then claim non-payment.
If you're thinking of places where they refuse to take high-value bills, those places don't have a debt in place: they simply refuse to complete the transaction if you don't have payment they accept.
A restaurant is under no obligation to accept cash or credit cards as long as the payment methods are known to the customer before the product or service is ordered. Hence "no cheques accepted" signs that some of us are old enough to remember, personal cheques used to be a common method of payment.
I seriously doubt this is legal, at least in the US. Cash is legal tender. You *cannot* refuse to accept it to repay a debt. A check is not legal tender, so businesses have every right to refuse to accept them, just like they can refuse to take Paypal.
When you eat at a restaurant, you get the bill at the end normally, not before you receive the food. So there is a debt there.
Of course, I think it'd be pretty hard to find an example of this in real life. In real life, most restaurants *prefer* cash, because they don't have to pay transaction fees on it, and small restaurants really like it because they can avoid paying taxes on it. It's other methods of payment that are both optional, and generate extra servicing fees. The main things they offer are convenience for the customer, and safety/security for the merchant (carrying a lot of cash around can be dangerous, plus employees can steal it).
I don't think you're understanding just how limited raw materials and energy are, or time for that matter. Raw materials are nowhere near being free, otherwise people wouldn't be talking about asteroid mining. Many things are very limited in supply, even common-seeming ones such as copper. People steal house wiring just for the copper value. With greater demand for electronics, motors (like for electric cars), and housing, copper demand is only going to rise. Even iron is rather valuable, though not as much. All metals are relatively valuable, and that simply isn't likely to change any time soon, both because of the availability of the metal in the Earth's crust, and because of the time/energy needed to extract and refine it. Same goes for landfill mining; we haven't even tried this, but even if we did resort to it it's not going to be free.
Skilled labor via robots will never be free. Someone has to buy the robot, and someone has to maintain the robot. That'll require both parts and skilled labor. The robot will require energy to operate. And as long as capitalism exists, someone will own the robot and require money for its use (for both profit and to pay for the operating costs).
No, we don't need many people to feed everyone, but that's been true for a long, long time. If you don't work in agriculture, you should know this already. All the people writing silly cellphone apps aren't doing anything that's necessary for human survival, they're doing things that are for luxury only. Same goes for many, many other professions: musicians, anyone involved in making movies, anyone involved in space exploration, anyone who works in a restaurant (you can buy food at a grocery store for far less, but you don't get the luxury of someone serving it to you), I could go on and on. Our society long ago evolved past subsistence and agrarian economies.
No, we spend our time pushing data around because there's other things to a modern life than just surviving. You don't *need* to watch a movie, but that industry employs a lot of people because people *want* to watch a movie and be entertained. If the work to produce food and necessary material goods were divided up equally, it wouldn't even work because there's no way you can put a person to work for 1 minute and get any kind of productivity (that's like trying to grow a human baby in 1 month with 9 women). Very little of our society is dedicated to necessary things, and even the seemingly-necessary things are usually far more than we really need: no one needs a 1000 square-foot house, they could do just fine in 200 square feet. No one needs a car, they could take public transit or a bicycle. No one needs a computer at home (or in their pocket), that could be reserved for essential functions only. No one needs to even go to a park or go outside if their job doesn't require it; they can sit home and stare at the walls or talk to each other. Life would be pretty dull if our economy only allowed things that were actually necessary.
We don't want more because of a profit motive. We want more because we're greedy and want more; it's that simple. And that's never going to change. And that's why energy will never be free; people will always be greedy. You can complain about stuff being "useless shit" all you want, but you're a tiny minority; most people *want* more of that stuff, whatever it is, whether it's the latest music, or a new movie, or some new trendy clothing, or some fancy food prepared by an expert chef, or some electronic gadget. In fact, it's rather hypocritical for you to even write such a thing, because you've spent your money on "useless shit": a computer and an internet connection. You don't need that to survive. So why are you even here?
Because I don't want to drive for 5 hours, or worse, buy plane tickets and make hotel reservations, just to go to such a place?
There's decent restaurants all over the place, even in smaller cities and towns (esp. college towns). You might not have a *huge* selection of them, but there's usually some not too far away unless you're really in the sticks. Not so for the fancy theaters; they're just in a few large cities. If you live in a midsize city, you're probably out of luck.
If you even bothered to read the summary, the branded products at Walmart have been given "other cost adjustments". That means they are lower quality products compared to the "same" model at other stores. Walmart is a disease.
It's not that bad. Here, Walmart is competing with Amazon. So even if the Walmart products have corners cut to make them cheaper and crappier, that's still better than stuff on Amazon which is mostly counterfeit these days.
Don't know where you live but I've been in plenty of homes with ALL of those amenities available.
Not mine. I live alone and don't have kids. At a theater, you're basically guaranteed to have at least some of these rich cultural experiences.
It's only a "dry, inhuman experience" if you make it one. That is 100% within your control.
Now that's just plain factually incorrect. You can't force people to be your friend or come over for movie night. But if you live alone, you can just pay $20 or whatever and go to your local theater and be around lots of wonderful people, making all kinds of noise during the theater (and perhaps even shooting at you if you get really lucky!).
And even if you do have friends, or even a significant other or spouse, what if they're all quiet people? What if you don't have any friends who like to talk to the movie, or who have some crazy notion that it's somehow rude to bring young children to violent R-rated movies or to text or talk on the phone during a movie? You can go to your local theater and get this ambiance.
Did you know you are actually allowed to invite people over to your home?
Yeah, I do that, but the problem is that I don't have any friends with screaming kids who want to make their kids sit through violent movies, nor do my friends talk during or to the movie. They all seem to lack that kind of rich culture, and I don't really know how to find such people as friends. But I can go to the theater and be around such people!
Did you just come through a time-warp? It's already happened! Spider-Man is now on its 3rd incarnation (of live-action movies; the Sam Raimi version with Tobey Maguire was the 1st).
I suspect she whouldn't have made it very far without riding on someone's coattails.
She's the daughter of Francis Ford Coppolla. If it weren't for that, she'd be sweeping floors somewhere probably.
I don't know why I would ever shop at Walmart as long as Amazon exists.
Because most of the stuff on Amazon these days is counterfeit, that's why.
There's not much point in buying on Amazon now; you should just go to AliExpress, where you can buy cheap, largely counterfeit junk straight from China without Bezos getting a huge markup.
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Samsung didn't disable the phones IIRC, it was the carriers. Samsung had a recall long before that point.
BTW, no lawsuit like that would ever go anywhere. Ask the auto manufacturers. Once the mfgr has done a recall and notified the customers of the problem and offered to fix it for free, the customer can't come back later, after not bothering to fix/replace it, and then sue for damages. Any court would immediately dismiss such a case.
Good answer, but that doesn't let you attempt to close it remotely. (And before you ask, no, I don't know my neighbors. Nor do I want to. Luckily I live in a place where I can leave my garage door open without worrying much about people stealing stuff from it, but I can see how others aren't in the same boat.)
Avatar had fantastic 3D and visuals. Plot-wise, it was ok. But it was absolutely worth seeing in the theater (or at least a really good 3D home-theater screen) just because of the 3D.
However, that was in 2009. I don't think there's been any movies like that since, just a whole bunch of lousy movies with lousy 3D.
Depends on the wife. The best strategy is to find this out about her *before* you get married; if she's jealous about you looking at women in a movie, don't marry her. (It's also not a bad idea to just not get married in the first place.)
Holy crap, this isn't rocket science. The device in this article IS NOT A GARAGE DOOR OPENER. It's an add-on which lets you control it remotely, and see if it's open or not. Is this really hard for you to understand?
How do you propose to see if your garage door is open when you're 100 miles away?
You can argue that you don't need that, but that's beside the point. Someone apparently does, or else this company would not exist.
As for thermostats, it's the same thing. Apparently some people like being able to adjust their thermostat remotely, so they can turn up the heat or A/C when they're on the way home, so it'll be warm/cool when they get there. The "dumb" thermostats either make you leave it at one temperature all the time, which either wastes energy or makes it uncomfortable when you get home, or you can get a programmable one but that assumes you have a regular schedule. (Personally I just leave it uncomfortable.)
Yeah, I don't really agree with that one either. At least there, though, they could make the case that it was about safety since they really did have batteries exploding and catching fire. They really should have made replacement batteries for them and repaired the devices; all they had to do was make them slightly smaller so they wouldn't swell and get too confined in the case. This debacle should be a good excuse for banning non-user-replaceable batteries IMO.
The problem with that is: what's your house's IP address? Thanks to DHCP, no one knows. It can change at any time. So you'd have to use some kind of dynamic DNS service to get around that, and now you're talking about it being too difficult for the average idiot^Wuser to set up and use.
For a DIY solution, of course this is entirely doable because DIYers are likely to be more motivated and more technically adept.
Hey, I never said this was a great idea or a must-have product! I'm just pointing out that if the product requirement is to make your garage door opener accessible over the internet, then the device needs to access the internet.
I think the other use-case is if you're not sure if your garage door was accidentally left open. I've done this myself: get in a hurry, drive away too fast without making sure the door fully closes, and due to some yard debris clinging to the door bottom and triggering the safety sensors, it reverses and ends up staying open all day. But FWIW, there's no way in hell I'd buy this asshole's device, nor will I buy anything else that requires some company's servers to be operational. I do think it'd be cool to have some custom device made from an Arduino or something, working with a script on my own website which I can access from my phone.
Bullshit. The device was bricked. The device is utterly unusable without the cloud account that it's linked to, so that's no different than "bricking".
No, making something that someone paid for unusable, after the sale, is NOT justified, ever, for anything. If you want to decline to provide further support because of abusive language, that's fine, even if that means they can't figure out how to get it working on their own, but that's very different from bricking it, which is utterly spiteful.
The whole point of this thing (as I understand it) is to give you access to your garage door from far away, over the internet. Having a locally-connected networked device that can't access the internet would make this impossible.
I agree that giving vendors access to your devices through some cloud interface is very dangerous, but I'm not sure what the alternative is unless you're going to roll your own.
Whether you are after smart light bulbs, thermostats or garage door openers, there are acceptable alternatives that work well, do not need the internet to function, and respect your rights and privacy.
This is factually wrong in this case. The whole point of this device is to allow you to control your garage door from far away, over the internet. I don't think I should have to explain why having an internet connection would be necessary for this to work.
Also, while it is possible for devices to respect your rights and privacy (and still have an internet connection), I think it's probably incorrect to claim that "acceptable alternatives that work well" actually exist. You could "roll your own", which is really what people should be doing more of anyway, but to claim that there really are great privacy-respecting alternatives out there is likely not true. Just because you want a certain product doesn't mean someone is actually going to go to all the trouble to develop and market one for you.
>Won't buy anything that relies on an app for full functionality.
Then this device wouldn't appeal to you anyway. As I understand it, the whole purpose of this device is to give you access to your garage door from your phone, which obviously requires an app (I guess you could technically also do it from a webpage, so I don't know if you'd be OK with that, but this stupid company probably doesn't have a webpage alternative to the app).
What I'd like to see is devices like this which publish their API, so you can make your own server and app if you want to.
This device is not a garage door opener. It's an add-on for one, which connects it to the internet so you can check on the status of your door from a phone app (in case you're worried you forgot to close it).
The company disabled the cloud access to this guy's device, rendering it completely useless for the only thing it's good for. The customer couldn't get remote access working anyway, but that's the only thing that device is for! So instead of fixing his issue, they locked him out of using his own device (maybe some friend could have gotten it working for him), all because he posted a bad review. If you can't see why this is wrong on many levels, I can't help you.
Wouldn't surprise me if GM brings back Pontiac in a few years, now everyone's forgotten how bad they were and only remember it as "hey Granddad had a Ponitiac".
They have to wait for everyone to forget about the Aztek.
And besides, GM shed a bunch of brands because they simply had too many; it was too much corporate overhead, and too many dealerships competing with other GM brands instead of with other automakers. I do have to question why they kept around GMC, since their crap is exactly the same as Chevy's crap, but the overall idea of shedding lesser brands was correct. They really should have just stuck with Chevy, Cadillac, and maybe Buick. Or if they just had to keep GMC, then they should have gotten Chevy out of the truck/SUV business; having differently-branded vehicles that are really the same car with different cosmetics is a stupid idea in this age. Oldsmobile was always a terrible brand name and long past its prime, and no one cared about Saturn any more except for a few die-hards, since the cars were no longer different, but just more badge-engineered Chevies.
HR women are the most evil people you will ever meet.
Not in the US. We occasionally have disgruntled taxpayers pay their tax bills and such with wheelbarrows of pennies. Debtors do not have the right to set limits on what kinds of US currency they will accept; they can only do this if there's no debt (e.g. they haven't yet sold you the product). Once there's a debt, any US currency is fair game, and they cannot refuse it and then claim non-payment.
If you're thinking of places where they refuse to take high-value bills, those places don't have a debt in place: they simply refuse to complete the transaction if you don't have payment they accept.
A restaurant is under no obligation to accept cash or credit cards as long as the payment methods are known to the customer before the product or service is ordered. Hence "no cheques accepted" signs that some of us are old enough to remember, personal cheques used to be a common method of payment.
I seriously doubt this is legal, at least in the US. Cash is legal tender. You *cannot* refuse to accept it to repay a debt. A check is not legal tender, so businesses have every right to refuse to accept them, just like they can refuse to take Paypal.
When you eat at a restaurant, you get the bill at the end normally, not before you receive the food. So there is a debt there.
Of course, I think it'd be pretty hard to find an example of this in real life. In real life, most restaurants *prefer* cash, because they don't have to pay transaction fees on it, and small restaurants really like it because they can avoid paying taxes on it. It's other methods of payment that are both optional, and generate extra servicing fees. The main things they offer are convenience for the customer, and safety/security for the merchant (carrying a lot of cash around can be dangerous, plus employees can steal it).
I don't think you're understanding just how limited raw materials and energy are, or time for that matter. Raw materials are nowhere near being free, otherwise people wouldn't be talking about asteroid mining. Many things are very limited in supply, even common-seeming ones such as copper. People steal house wiring just for the copper value. With greater demand for electronics, motors (like for electric cars), and housing, copper demand is only going to rise. Even iron is rather valuable, though not as much. All metals are relatively valuable, and that simply isn't likely to change any time soon, both because of the availability of the metal in the Earth's crust, and because of the time/energy needed to extract and refine it. Same goes for landfill mining; we haven't even tried this, but even if we did resort to it it's not going to be free.
Skilled labor via robots will never be free. Someone has to buy the robot, and someone has to maintain the robot. That'll require both parts and skilled labor. The robot will require energy to operate. And as long as capitalism exists, someone will own the robot and require money for its use (for both profit and to pay for the operating costs).
No, we don't need many people to feed everyone, but that's been true for a long, long time. If you don't work in agriculture, you should know this already. All the people writing silly cellphone apps aren't doing anything that's necessary for human survival, they're doing things that are for luxury only. Same goes for many, many other professions: musicians, anyone involved in making movies, anyone involved in space exploration, anyone who works in a restaurant (you can buy food at a grocery store for far less, but you don't get the luxury of someone serving it to you), I could go on and on. Our society long ago evolved past subsistence and agrarian economies.
No, we spend our time pushing data around because there's other things to a modern life than just surviving. You don't *need* to watch a movie, but that industry employs a lot of people because people *want* to watch a movie and be entertained. If the work to produce food and necessary material goods were divided up equally, it wouldn't even work because there's no way you can put a person to work for 1 minute and get any kind of productivity (that's like trying to grow a human baby in 1 month with 9 women). Very little of our society is dedicated to necessary things, and even the seemingly-necessary things are usually far more than we really need: no one needs a 1000 square-foot house, they could do just fine in 200 square feet. No one needs a car, they could take public transit or a bicycle. No one needs a computer at home (or in their pocket), that could be reserved for essential functions only. No one needs to even go to a park or go outside if their job doesn't require it; they can sit home and stare at the walls or talk to each other. Life would be pretty dull if our economy only allowed things that were actually necessary.
We don't want more because of a profit motive. We want more because we're greedy and want more; it's that simple. And that's never going to change. And that's why energy will never be free; people will always be greedy. You can complain about stuff being "useless shit" all you want, but you're a tiny minority; most people *want* more of that stuff, whatever it is, whether it's the latest music, or a new movie, or some new trendy clothing, or some fancy food prepared by an expert chef, or some electronic gadget. In fact, it's rather hypocritical for you to even write such a thing, because you've spent your money on "useless shit": a computer and an internet connection. You don't need that to survive. So why are you even here?
Luckily all the companies I have wored for where more or less correct.
You obviously made a spelling error here, but I can't figure out if you meant to type "worked" or "whored".
Fuck you. I hope someone shoots you at your shitty cinema.
Because I don't want to drive for 5 hours, or worse, buy plane tickets and make hotel reservations, just to go to such a place?
There's decent restaurants all over the place, even in smaller cities and towns (esp. college towns). You might not have a *huge* selection of them, but there's usually some not too far away unless you're really in the sticks. Not so for the fancy theaters; they're just in a few large cities. If you live in a midsize city, you're probably out of luck.
If you even bothered to read the summary, the branded products at Walmart have been given "other cost adjustments". That means they are lower quality products compared to the "same" model at other stores. Walmart is a disease.
It's not that bad. Here, Walmart is competing with Amazon. So even if the Walmart products have corners cut to make them cheaper and crappier, that's still better than stuff on Amazon which is mostly counterfeit these days.
Don't know where you live but I've been in plenty of homes with ALL of those amenities available.
Not mine. I live alone and don't have kids. At a theater, you're basically guaranteed to have at least some of these rich cultural experiences.
It's only a "dry, inhuman experience" if you make it one. That is 100% within your control.
Now that's just plain factually incorrect. You can't force people to be your friend or come over for movie night. But if you live alone, you can just pay $20 or whatever and go to your local theater and be around lots of wonderful people, making all kinds of noise during the theater (and perhaps even shooting at you if you get really lucky!).
And even if you do have friends, or even a significant other or spouse, what if they're all quiet people? What if you don't have any friends who like to talk to the movie, or who have some crazy notion that it's somehow rude to bring young children to violent R-rated movies or to text or talk on the phone during a movie? You can go to your local theater and get this ambiance.
Did you know you are actually allowed to invite people over to your home?
Yeah, I do that, but the problem is that I don't have any friends with screaming kids who want to make their kids sit through violent movies, nor do my friends talk during or to the movie. They all seem to lack that kind of rich culture, and I don't really know how to find such people as friends. But I can go to the theater and be around such people!
You do know that's going to happen.
Did you just come through a time-warp? It's already happened! Spider-Man is now on its 3rd incarnation (of live-action movies; the Sam Raimi version with Tobey Maguire was the 1st).
I suspect she whouldn't have made it very far without riding on someone's coattails.
She's the daughter of Francis Ford Coppolla. If it weren't for that, she'd be sweeping floors somewhere probably.
I don't know why I would ever shop at Walmart as long as Amazon exists.
Because most of the stuff on Amazon these days is counterfeit, that's why.
There's not much point in buying on Amazon now; you should just go to AliExpress, where you can buy cheap, largely counterfeit junk straight from China without Bezos getting a huge markup.