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  1. Define "Our" on Our Obsession With Trailers Is Making Movies Worse (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The movie goer is not the consumer of a movie trailer. It's the movie producers that pay for them, and to whom they are designed to appeal. And the use of high budget content in the trailer allows producers to squeeze more value out of that content. If your shelling out Millions for a Blockbuster, it's cheaper and easier to use prime movie content for the trailer. Movie goers dislike it and you'd think that should be enough to stop the practice, but it's not the movie producers that make the trailer. That's a subcontractor. In the subcontractor is just doing Simple cost-benefit analysis. How cheap can I bid on a project that will make the biggest splash. Because of that, they're not going to film additional content. They're going to use the content that exists and the best of it to boot. Because the producer will only buy the cheapest trailer that makes the biggest splash.

  2. Tough talk, but not unwarranted. on Chinese, European Space Agencies In Talks To Build a Moon Base (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is true. The US has burned some bridges with it's foreign policy regarding China. But, before we lament what that means for future opportunities, it's worth recalling why; from the outright theft of IP, to humanitarian concerns regarding political prisoners, religious persecution, Tibet, freedom of navigation in the Global Commons that is the South China Sea, and including their tolerance for the North Korean situation. China may become a player in space exploration, that's unavoidable at this point, but that doesn't mean the US should regret the hard lines it's taken over the years.

  3. Re: It's not just money on FCC Announces Plan To Reverse Title II Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.washingtonpost.com... Trump intentionally picked a chairman who wants to destroy Net Neutrality. As FCC has to be the one to change the rules, not the president. He literally did everything in his power to destroy Net Neutrality.