With the possible exception of Fred who was Capaldi's companion there isn't a single companion in the New Who which would qualify as an inconsequential sidekick who need rescuing all the time. Considering that every Doctor but Capaldi actually had Male (Captain Jack, Mickey, Jackson Lake, Craig, Rory) companions as well as female companions it seems likely to me you've never watched the show.
Well if they're target audience is all of the people who never watched Who before I guess you're right. If they're target audience is all of the people who have been watching Who for the past decade or so or the decades before that, then I think they've really screwed the pouch here.
Lucasfilms seems to have had the same ideas about Star Wars and the audience numbers for Solo pretty much showed them how that worked out.
Amazingly people don't want to watch entertainment that lectures to them. I suspect Jodie Whittaker to be the Sylvester McCoy of the New Who era.
Verity Lambert, the first producer of Doctor Who once described the problems with McCoy's era as being that the production company got the idea that they were smarter and more sophisticated than the fans, and so played down to them.
What she was describing, though she didn't call it that at the time, was that they were condescending to the viewers, acting in a patronizing manner. Practically the definition of both Lucasfilms handing of Star Wars since they've been owned by Disney, and the way Who has been since Capaldi, with its overextended lecturing on the evil of capitalism and in your face LGBT propaganda.
And before anybody goes crazy Captain Jack was Bi and it was handled very well by the show, in a way that was neither lecturing nor an intrusion to the plot. One never felt one was being lecture to because John Barrowman was in a scene.
I suspect in this case (as in many cases) this decision was not made at a very high level. Some mid level manager with hire/fire authority and HR put this together. It looks like his ex-boss no longer works there either. Funny how creating conditions for a potential age discrimination lawsuit and the associated bad publicity can result in you being asked to move along yourself.
Except its not. Oligarchy presupposed control by a small exclusive group. The rich in the United States are not a closed group. While it's not true anyone can become rich, it is true that all one has to do to become rich in the United States is earn lots of money.
Bill Gates parents were rich, and he comes from money. Mark Zuckerberg's parents were professionals, and while no doubt enjoying a good income were not rich. Sam Walton's parents were farmers and his father eventually became an insurance agent.
The point being that it was and is possible to become rich in the United States.There is no permanent moneyed class in the United States. There are also many rich people who managed through bad luck or poor decision making who became poor.
I love to hear about the mythical socialist paradise where hamburgers grow on trees and where from each according to his abilities and to each according to his needs actually works, without the party class which always seems to need more than everyone else, and gets it.
How about we fix IP law so that things enter the public domain in a reasonable amount of time. There should also be an abandonment clause that requires abandoned work (work not available or in print) be given an even shorter amount of time before moving to the public domain.
Right now there is almost 100 years of video records in existence of which only a small part, heavily weighed toward the last 30 years, is available at any price. Much of it will never see the light of day if the media companies have their way, and none of it will ever enter the public domain. This needs to change
This is the same thing that needs to happen in the U.S. And it all starts with being able to control the border, which means a wall.
I'm a big believer in allowing everybody who isn't a criminal or a terrorist to enter the U.S.. Quotas were an abomination imposed on us by Progressive to keep Eastern Europeans, Jews and anyone not white out of the U.S. It's time to get rid of them.
At the same time reasonable requirements, such as those listed by that's-so-kash need to enacted as part of the package. We want immigrants who will add to our diversity while still assimilating to our culture, not people seeking to replace our culture with the same dumpster fire they are trying to get away from.
Yes. Slavery is the result of Communism, because you can't base a government on a lie about human nature.
Humans are fundamentally flawed. A theist would say its because of Original Sin, or the Yin/Yang duality of good and evil, or just because humans are bad. A psychologist might point to the Id as the ethics free core of the human psyche.
The point is that most people when put in a position of power unfettered by external constraints will abuse that power. For every Washington or Cincinnatus there are hundreds of Stalins or Robespierres or Duvaliers.
Dream on. If anything Congress is sitting around right now trying to figure out how they can make next years release of IP to the public domain not happen.
Roseanne is an idiot. She was an idiot decades ago when her original show was on and she hasn't changed.
P.S. there are plenty of conservative actors, some are even starting to "come out" now that studios and media companies are afraid to retaliate against them for the crime of not being liberal.
John McCain is anything but a maverick. He is a Republican in Name Only. He is so far left that when he ran fro president he needed to pick a candidate for vice president so far right that between the two of them not even the most die hard real Republican could hold their nose long enough to vote for him.
As for supporting prostitution, for every fully informed and self-actuating consensual sex worker there are half a dozen who are exploited victims. I have no pity for those who use these victims situation in life to force people to sell themselves. There is a reason slavery was made illegal.
If by conservative you mean that they don't believe it is the role of the physician to aid a confused and temporarily depressed individual in off themselves, then I guess you might be right.
Sure that's why in 2014 52,513 Canadians came to the U.S. for health care. Why over 500,000 Australians went abroad for medical care in 2017. Obviously their medical care must be perfect.
HR would have my head if they thought I made a statement about an ex-employee to someone from another organization. Their standard reply to someone checking up on an ex-employee yes they worked her from XXXX to XXXX. Fulls stop. Policy is that no information on employee performance will be released for any reason.
This is the result of crappy employees suing previous employers because they told the truth about their performance and caused them to lose a future job.
Remember the job of HR is to protect the company from the employees.
So this is the real question as far a Patreon is concerned.
If two people who support their stand to eject questionable content by donating to content creators they support, for every person who leaves in disgust over it, it's a win for them.
If two people leave in disgust for every new patron they get because they support Patreon's new limits it's a loser for them.
Yes woman started entering the workforce in large numbers at the end of WWII.
That is, single women started entering the workforce at the end of WWII. That is instead of immediately marrying. When they got married they quit. As a matter of fact many places went so far as to request married women quit so as not to take jobs away from single women who needed them. And in almost every case jobs were in areas that men did not work and pay was less, because single women did not "need" the high pay that a man who had to support a family needed. (Or at least that was the theory.)
In the 1970's married women started to enter the workforce or women kept working even after they married and had children. This was as a result of second wave feminism
It's amazing to me that people will draw conclusions based on incomplete information that informs their political opinions.
Yeah because sex education as a deterrent to unplanned pregnancies has worked so well for the past 40 years.
The best birth control, abstinence is 100% effective.
The pill is 99.9% effective. That sounds pretty good right? So If you have sex 1000 times, or three times a day for a year you have 100% chance the pill will fail and you will end up with an unwanted pregnancy. Much more likely if you have sex once a day for three years your chance of having an unwanted pregnancy is likewise 100%
No one wants to pretend that sex doesn't exist. They want to acknowledge that sexual intercourse has a consequence. And they want to acknowledge that that consequence is much more acceptable when you have a self-supporting income, are in a stable relationship, and have planned to take on parenthood.
Or you can continue to pretend that sex is some kind of recreational sport and continue contributing to the culture dumpster fire that the sexual revolution has become.
The spoke and hub system is the biggest contributor to airline schedule inflexibility. If I had a dollar for every time I've had a flight from the southern U.S to the west coast delayed because O'Hara, to which I wasn't even going, has some kind of weather related flight delay I could take the sub-orbital transport when it gets here.
Between the airlines and the TSA flying now sucks so much that unless I'm flying to the other coast or internationally I simply refuse to do it any more. I take mileage or a rental and go surface. Half the time when you include the airport TSA gropefest and the inevitable delays I get there with an hour or two when I would have anyway. And I can get a decent meal on the way, arrive stress free and not feel like I need a shower, just because I feel so unclean because I dealt with the airlines.
One of the reasons to use simplified recycling is that on the front end multiple streams is more expensive. I live in a townhouse and keeping two separate containers is space expensive. I don't know where I would keep two more.
Then there is the municipal cost four containers instead of two, four trucks for pickup or trucks with more complicated pickup mechanisms. I don't know about where your at but where I'm at the refuse truck operator never leaves the truck. They hook the can and dump it using a pick up mechanism.
Plus none of this really gets to the problem. Consumers don't understand what is recyclable and what is not. They don't understand because suppliers are not require to clearly label their product packing to identify recyclable packages from those that are not.
The solution starts with a national or international standard for labeling recyclable plastic packages and items. Next comes a federal regulation (at least in the U.S.) setting a goal to meet the standard and offering incentives of some kind to encourage meeting the standard, such as only paying full diary subsidies to companies that meet recycling standards, etc. Most states already require tire recycling, etc.
If we can make recycling simple enough there's money to be made here. Why let China make it?
A big part of the "must work" paradigm is the "I must have this what ever this is. So people take on a big pile of debt to have the car/house/RV/boat/whatever, and now they need the ridiculous salary to keep it all going.
Add to that the "I must work in (the most expensive place on the planet to live), because there are no jobs anywhere else" myth. Right now there are absolutely jobs out there. Many of them are not in the coastal corridors. All kinds of companies exist outside silicone valley and Washington state. If you have a masters degree you can teach. There are teaching jobs all over the U.S. You might not want to do that as a permanent gig, but it can be a nice break, and if you think about it like that you can duck the stress of worrying about academic politics stress.
Heck if you want to teach there are jobs all over the world. Great pay, as long as you go in knowing the limits and environment of such work.
Why would that make a difference? Managers stick together.
Really? You think managers stick together? In most cases other managers are your competition for resources, budget, priority and in some cases even people.
Just as workers know who the other crappy workers are, managers know who the other crappy managers are
Maybe, amazingly, most of the people who are in consideration for being fired actually deserve to be fired. Contrary to what some people seem to think most managers aren't clueless drones. They know what their doing.
I know at my own place of business when someone is put on a personal improvement plan not one of their co-workers are typically surprised. Typically people aren't fired except for grievous cause, like threats of bodily harm to a manager or coworker, or such.
I've seen cases of abusive spouses using double-sided locks (Locks which require keys on both sides) to trap victims. Taking the phone (landline). Etc.
The problem is always the same and so is the answer. Dump the abuser. Be prepared to defend yourself.
Sure get a restraining order. Call police if they break it. But when seconds count the police are only minutes away. So be prepared to defend yourself.
Dimly lit has not part in this. The woman with the bicycle tested positive for a cornucopia of drugs. She was jay-walking, almost certainly saw the car, and probably expected the driver would stop for her, because people generally don't run you over just because you're a duosh bag who steps out right in front of their car in the middle of the block.
She had no idea that the person who was being paid to be monitor the car decide she'd rather be watching Hulu.
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With the possible exception of Fred who was Capaldi's companion there isn't a single companion in the New Who which would qualify as an inconsequential sidekick who need rescuing all the time. Considering that every Doctor but Capaldi actually had Male (Captain Jack, Mickey, Jackson Lake, Craig, Rory) companions as well as female companions it seems likely to me you've never watched the show.
Well if they're target audience is all of the people who never watched Who before I guess you're right. If they're target audience is all of the people who have been watching Who for the past decade or so or the decades before that, then I think they've really screwed the pouch here.
Lucasfilms seems to have had the same ideas about Star Wars and the audience numbers for Solo pretty much showed them how that worked out.
Amazingly people don't want to watch entertainment that lectures to them. I suspect Jodie Whittaker to be the Sylvester McCoy of the New Who era.
Verity Lambert, the first producer of Doctor Who once described the problems with McCoy's era as being that the production company got the idea that they were smarter and more sophisticated than the fans, and so played down to them.
What she was describing, though she didn't call it that at the time, was that they were condescending to the viewers, acting in a patronizing manner. Practically the definition of both Lucasfilms handing of Star Wars since they've been owned by Disney, and the way Who has been since Capaldi, with its overextended lecturing on the evil of capitalism and in your face LGBT propaganda.
And before anybody goes crazy Captain Jack was Bi and it was handled very well by the show, in a way that was neither lecturing nor an intrusion to the plot. One never felt one was being lecture to because John Barrowman was in a scene.
You think CBS and ABC have right wing bias? Maybe compared to the New York Times or Slate. Compared to anybody else, not so much.
I suspect in this case (as in many cases) this decision was not made at a very high level. Some mid level manager with hire/fire authority and HR put this together. It looks like his ex-boss no longer works there either. Funny how creating conditions for a potential age discrimination lawsuit and the associated bad publicity can result in you being asked to move along yourself.
Except its not. Oligarchy presupposed control by a small exclusive group. The rich in the United States are not a closed group. While it's not true anyone can become rich, it is true that all one has to do to become rich in the United States is earn lots of money.
Bill Gates parents were rich, and he comes from money. Mark Zuckerberg's parents were professionals, and while no doubt enjoying a good income were not rich. Sam Walton's parents were farmers and his father eventually became an insurance agent.
The point being that it was and is possible to become rich in the United States.There is no permanent moneyed class in the United States. There are also many rich people who managed through bad luck or poor decision making who became poor.
I love to hear about the mythical socialist paradise where hamburgers grow on trees and where from each according to his abilities and to each according to his needs actually works, without the party class which always seems to need more than everyone else, and gets it.
You have something against Disney?
How about we fix IP law so that things enter the public domain in a reasonable amount of time. There should also be an abandonment clause that requires abandoned work (work not available or in print) be given an even shorter amount of time before moving to the public domain.
Right now there is almost 100 years of video records in existence of which only a small part, heavily weighed toward the last 30 years, is available at any price. Much of it will never see the light of day if the media companies have their way, and none of it will ever enter the public domain. This needs to change
This is the same thing that needs to happen in the U.S. And it all starts with being able to control the border, which means a wall.
I'm a big believer in allowing everybody who isn't a criminal or a terrorist to enter the U.S.. Quotas were an abomination imposed on us by Progressive to keep Eastern Europeans, Jews and anyone not white out of the U.S. It's time to get rid of them.
At the same time reasonable requirements, such as those listed by that's-so-kash need to enacted as part of the package. We want immigrants who will add to our diversity while still assimilating to our culture, not people seeking to replace our culture with the same dumpster fire they are trying to get away from.
Yes. Slavery is the result of Communism, because you can't base a government on a lie about human nature.
Humans are fundamentally flawed. A theist would say its because of Original Sin, or the Yin/Yang duality of good and evil, or just because humans are bad. A psychologist might point to the Id as the ethics free core of the human psyche.
The point is that most people when put in a position of power unfettered by external constraints will abuse that power. For every Washington or Cincinnatus there are hundreds of Stalins or Robespierres or Duvaliers.
Dream on. If anything Congress is sitting around right now trying to figure out how they can make next years release of IP to the public domain not happen.
Roseanne is an idiot. She was an idiot decades ago when her original show was on and she hasn't changed.
P.S. there are plenty of conservative actors, some are even starting to "come out" now that studios and media companies are afraid to retaliate against them for the crime of not being liberal.
John McCain is anything but a maverick. He is a Republican in Name Only. He is so far left that when he ran fro president he needed to pick a candidate for vice president so far right that between the two of them not even the most die hard real Republican could hold their nose long enough to vote for him.
As for supporting prostitution, for every fully informed and self-actuating consensual sex worker there are half a dozen who are exploited victims. I have no pity for those who use these victims situation in life to force people to sell themselves. There is a reason slavery was made illegal.
If by conservative you mean that they don't believe it is the role of the physician to aid a confused and temporarily depressed individual in off themselves, then I guess you might be right.
Sure that's why in 2014 52,513 Canadians came to the U.S. for health care. Why over 500,000 Australians went abroad for medical care in 2017. Obviously their medical care must be perfect.
You're incredibly brave.
HR would have my head if they thought I made a statement about an ex-employee to someone from another organization. Their standard reply to someone checking up on an ex-employee yes they worked her from XXXX to XXXX. Fulls stop. Policy is that no information on employee performance will be released for any reason.
This is the result of crappy employees suing previous employers because they told the truth about their performance and caused them to lose a future job.
Remember the job of HR is to protect the company from the employees.
So this is the real question as far a Patreon is concerned.
If two people who support their stand to eject questionable content by donating to content creators they support, for every person who leaves in disgust over it, it's a win for them.
If two people leave in disgust for every new patron they get because they support Patreon's new limits it's a loser for them.
I guess we'll see which way it goes.
Yes woman started entering the workforce in large numbers at the end of WWII.
That is, single women started entering the workforce at the end of WWII. That is instead of immediately marrying. When they got married they quit. As a matter of fact many places went so far as to request married women quit so as not to take jobs away from single women who needed them. And in almost every case jobs were in areas that men did not work and pay was less, because single women did not "need" the high pay that a man who had to support a family needed. (Or at least that was the theory.)
In the 1970's married women started to enter the workforce or women kept working even after they married and had children. This was as a result of second wave feminism
It's amazing to me that people will draw conclusions based on incomplete information that informs their political opinions.
Coming soon to Britain. Outlawing kitchen knives that have points, plumbing parts, gumbands and nails.
Yeah because sex education as a deterrent to unplanned pregnancies has worked so well for the past 40 years.
The best birth control, abstinence is 100% effective.
The pill is 99.9% effective. That sounds pretty good right? So If you have sex 1000 times, or three times a day for a year you have 100% chance the pill will fail and you will end up with an unwanted pregnancy. Much more likely if you have sex once a day for three years your chance of having an unwanted pregnancy is likewise 100%
No one wants to pretend that sex doesn't exist. They want to acknowledge that sexual intercourse has a consequence. And they want to acknowledge that that consequence is much more acceptable when you have a self-supporting income, are in a stable relationship, and have planned to take on parenthood.
Or you can continue to pretend that sex is some kind of recreational sport and continue contributing to the culture dumpster fire that the sexual revolution has become.
The spoke and hub system is the biggest contributor to airline schedule inflexibility. If I had a dollar for every time I've had a flight from the southern U.S to the west coast delayed because O'Hara, to which I wasn't even going, has some kind of weather related flight delay I could take the sub-orbital transport when it gets here.
Between the airlines and the TSA flying now sucks so much that unless I'm flying to the other coast or internationally I simply refuse to do it any more. I take mileage or a rental and go surface. Half the time when you include the airport TSA gropefest and the inevitable delays I get there with an hour or two when I would have anyway. And I can get a decent meal on the way, arrive stress free and not feel like I need a shower, just because I feel so unclean because I dealt with the airlines.
One of the reasons to use simplified recycling is that on the front end multiple streams is more expensive. I live in a townhouse and keeping two separate containers is space expensive. I don't know where I would keep two more.
Then there is the municipal cost four containers instead of two, four trucks for pickup or trucks with more complicated pickup mechanisms. I don't know about where your at but where I'm at the refuse truck operator never leaves the truck. They hook the can and dump it using a pick up mechanism.
Plus none of this really gets to the problem. Consumers don't understand what is recyclable and what is not. They don't understand because suppliers are not require to clearly label their product packing to identify recyclable packages from those that are not.
The solution starts with a national or international standard for labeling recyclable plastic packages and items. Next comes a federal regulation (at least in the U.S.) setting a goal to meet the standard and offering incentives of some kind to encourage meeting the standard, such as only paying full diary subsidies to companies that meet recycling standards, etc. Most states already require tire recycling, etc.
If we can make recycling simple enough there's money to be made here. Why let China make it?
This.
A big part of the "must work" paradigm is the "I must have this what ever this is. So people take on a big pile of debt to have the car/house/RV/boat/whatever, and now they need the ridiculous salary to keep it all going.
Add to that the "I must work in (the most expensive place on the planet to live), because there are no jobs anywhere else" myth. Right now there are absolutely jobs out there. Many of them are not in the coastal corridors. All kinds of companies exist outside silicone valley and Washington state. If you have a masters degree you can teach. There are teaching jobs all over the U.S. You might not want to do that as a permanent gig, but it can be a nice break, and if you think about it like that you can duck the stress of worrying about academic politics stress.
Heck if you want to teach there are jobs all over the world. Great pay, as long as you go in knowing the limits and environment of such work.
Why would that make a difference? Managers stick together.
Really? You think managers stick together? In most cases other managers are your competition for resources, budget, priority and in some cases even people.
Just as workers know who the other crappy workers are, managers know who the other crappy managers are
No one covers for a crappy manager who is a peer.
Maybe, amazingly, most of the people who are in consideration for being fired actually deserve to be fired. Contrary to what some people seem to think most managers aren't clueless drones. They know what their doing.
I know at my own place of business when someone is put on a personal improvement plan not one of their co-workers are typically surprised. Typically people aren't fired except for grievous cause, like threats of bodily harm to a manager or coworker, or such.
Any technology can be misused.
I've seen cases of abusive spouses using double-sided locks (Locks which require keys on both sides) to trap victims. Taking the phone (landline). Etc.
The problem is always the same and so is the answer. Dump the abuser. Be prepared to defend yourself.
Sure get a restraining order. Call police if they break it. But when seconds count the police are only minutes away. So be prepared to defend yourself.
Dimly lit has not part in this. The woman with the bicycle tested positive for a cornucopia of drugs. She was jay-walking, almost certainly saw the car, and probably expected the driver would stop for her, because people generally don't run you over just because you're a duosh bag who steps out right in front of their car in the middle of the block.
She had no idea that the person who was being paid to be monitor the car decide she'd rather be watching Hulu.
There are no innocent victims here.