That's because 99.9% of jury members aren't aware of jury nullification and the true power they wield. Trial lawyers definitely don't want juries to know about that right, either - especially prosecutors - because those jurors become wildcards. If the lawyers even get a hint of a juror knowing about it, they are thrown out of the jury pool during the selection process.
iPhone SE user here, and the GP poster hit the nail on the head with me.
I have an older, perfectly running car with a nice, older, factory Bose stereo that doesn't have Bluetooth connectivity or an AUX jack. To make it work, I wired the Bose to work with a 1/4" jack for a custom AUX connection. Works perfect - but won't work without the 1/4" jack.
I also have an expensive set of Bose QC-25 headphones (no Bluetooth - only wired) with a mic for phone calls.
And I could care less about waterproofing, or wireless charging (glass back? bad idea...)
I thought it was Windows 8, where they tried to go with app-like icons on their desktop and broke their most recognizable UI feature by killing the "Start" button, where they tried to merge the desktop and mobile device OS? All while they broke backwards compatibility with older Windows OSes?
It's the reason so many people stayed on Windows 7 for so long. (Not that Windows 10 and its own issues have helped. Many individual users will be staying with Win7 until the bitter end in 2020).
Straight from the Virginian's, err... South Carolinian, I mean... South Californian's mouth.
We settled that, "we can leave and be better off without the union," debate 160 years ago - and it cost us hundreds of thousands of lost American lives. Only a completely desperate state with a suicide wish would put that on themselves because it would likely be just as bad for everyone the second time around.
And I'd rather not have to have a passport to go to Disneyland or Huntington Beach...
First of all, correlation != causation. There's a reason most coastal states in the US are blue - geographic advantage. Just like the rest of human history, states with coastlines control the ports - the trade lifelines into the continental US. They leech off of the rest of the country by taking their cut (like the Silk Road port merchants of old screwed over others for centuries), then tell us how much being liberal leads to being more successful.
Like I've posted before, move liberals inland 100 miles and see just how liberal they remain over time without the extra "coastal city cash/cut" to fund their ideals.
We're a large, American university - and we're about 2/1 Drupal to WordPress.
With that said, the key isn't which CMS is better. It's which CMS just works for them in terms of saving money and time. While our Drupal build isn't great, many departments use it because there's a pre-built, profile-based, customized version of Drupal that does 95% of what they want - and that's "Good Enough" (TM). They learn to deal with Drupal's UI shortcomings while we try to improve our existing UI to make it as easy for them to do their jobs as possible.
In the meantime, the college has a WordPress system that is very efficient in giving them basic site spinups that match our university's Web standards.
Adam Ruins Everything gives a great/funny history lesson on how jaywalking became a term for an act that wasn't even a crime until the automobile industry saw their new business model threatened around 100 years ago.
In the past, calling someone a "jay" a bad slur, so calling someone a jaywalker back then was more like, "Dumbass-Walker". Now that slur is a legal term. Imagine having to stand before a judge and plea guilty or not guilty to "dumbf**kery".
It's as if they're saying, "Let's at least make a political statement on gun control," statement.
Also, from the tin foil hat department - How far will this go back in Youtube's HQ? While it sounds crazy today, what will the Youtube owners say about working on cars in a decade, when many people are riding around in autonomous cars? What will happen when a "terrorist" uses an old-fashioned car with a steering wheel, gas pedal, and no autobraking system to mow down dozens of people in a random city? Is Youtube going to remove auto mechanic HOWTO videos so we can't modify (or even fix) our own cars? Slippery slope 101.
This accident happened about 1 mile north of Arizona State University's Tempe campus. The Uber cars (grayish SUVs) all look the same and run similar routes around the campus, along Mill and Rural Rd (parallel major roads that run north/south), and Apache Rd (southern border of ASU's Tempe campus) every workday. You kind of know where they're going to turn on what appear to be predefined routes, and they had blended into the car landscape enough to where you'd just think, "There's another Uber," without any novelty.
On those routes, I've never seen one do anything that appeared to be dangerous or erratic in traffic or around pedestrians.
Mill Ave. up near Curry is just across the Salt River bed, is in a patch of undeveloped desert between developments, next to the First Solar headquarters building, a theater, and not too far from a light rail stop.
I'm not saying Uber isn't at fault at all, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was a jaywalker hurrying to catch the light rail. Despite the signage and engineering, people frequently jaywalk near light rail stops along the route.
Aren't a good percentage of the GET parameters floating around out there Google Analytics parameters (i.e. utm_campaign1, utm_a, etc.)? Aren't they just cleaning up their own company's mess?
They should probably make this an optional feature that can be disabled.
BTW - I think this proves that they're tracking everything people do in Chrome. How else could they roll out such a computer paradigm-breaking feature with such confidence (on by default)?
I want this to be investigated as much as anyone, but the feigned shock and surprise from some Americans feels naive. Considering all the meddling (or outright coup d'etats and invasions) our country has been involved in over the last 100 years, this almost feels a little like a sliver of long overdue karmic payback.
More importantly, I don't think those who want this investigation to go on and on (for whatever reason) understand just how pious and insulting it sounds to those who chose Trump. I mean, dark money and political parties put out metric tons of political "ads" every election cycle, and people see through 99% of it. But they couldn't see through Russian propaganda?
Even if Putin himself was posting fake news content to Facebook, this continued coverage wreaks of Russian xenophopia and pious arrogance emanating from the national media and "holier than thou", ivory tower types: "The independents who voted for Trump had to have been influenced by SOMETHING to make such a horrible choice. We're the enlightened ones, so we have a responsibility to make sure everyone foolish enough to not see just how AWFUL Trump would've been as president NEVER make that miscalculation again."
Let's wipe up this spilled milk instead of crying about it.
Per Netflix's Dirty Money, all of the major car manufacturers are putting out cars that break their own emissions standards - and NOBODY in their own governments is doing anything about it. It's as if they've all been bought off.
Maybe the corrupt... er, "green"... German government should go after the lawbreakers before trying radical (and potentially really disruptive) ideas like giving services for free.
BTW - If you haven't seen that Dirty Money episode about Volkswagon, take an hour out and watch it. Amid the surprising depths of dishonesty that higher-level executives will go to turn an ever-bigger profit, the part about the Volkswagon-employed Germans actually considering gassing people (and monkeys) to win a PR war is darkly hilarious.
1) The Microsoft Intellimouse Optical desktop mouse - It was the perfect wired mouse. All of a sudden, Microsoft stopped making them. There are only Chinese knockoffs of inferior quality out there today. Why couldn't we have good things, Microsoft?
2) V6 engines in cars for the middle class - Modern V6 engines deliver a ton of power with much better gas mileage than 15-20 years ago, but you can't get them anymore without buying a pricey luxury/sports car.
3) Nice cars without superfluous technology - Give me a volume knob and a few other knobs for basic controls to go along with the power and comfort of a luxury vehicle. Shove the huge touch screen up someone else's ass.
4) The old Netflix that had good streaming movies. - Not the 198 proof vat of sh** they call "content" today.
5) A stock market that traded securities in larger denominations - eighths (or dimes, maybe?) - not pennies - I wonder if going back to that system would inject a little more stability.
6) Privacy in technology. If it has current running through it in 2018, it probably tracks you. Why can't I go off the "information grid" and still enjoy modern toys? And I should be able to travel without my car manufacturer, insurance company, and governmental agencies tracking me everywhere.
...of participants. If any one of the following participated, it would have an immediate impact:
* Google
* Amazon
* Youtube
* Facebook
* Twitter
* The major porn sites/networks.
* Maybe Ebay and/or PayPal.
Without any of those players, this effort will be forgotten after half a news cycle.
BTW - DuckDuckGo participating is the one search engine that won't make a dent. People that are aware enough of internet-related issues to use DuckDuckGo have likely already written entire treatises about the evils of net neutrality online to spread the word...
Female Uber Drivers Get Paid Less Than Men - Mostly Because They Drive Slower
Men drive faster and get more fares in over the same timeframe, making roughly 3.5% more cash. (The other 3.5% is postulated to be a combination of more work experience due to higher female job attrition, and women working at less profitable times.)
It has nothing to do with a battle of the sexes going on - no matter how inflammatory it can be for some to speculate about.
When you sell out, good business decisions take a back seat to the constant pressure to increase profits - and thus the stock price - at all costs. How many companies have eaten themselves alive to feed investors, and then feed the MBAs/consultants that come in to "fix" things but ultimately just gut the company and run?
The banks just watched millions of homeowners gamble with the bank's money, and it blew up in the banks' faces while debtors walked away from the burst bubble. And that was with tangible collateral - not digital currency.
I guess the banks didn't learn much from the Great Recession.
Good points about Braga, Seth being a fan, etc. It definitely feels like Trek sans teleporters and with different races.
What sets The Orville apart, IMO, is that it keeps the upbeat arc of classic Trek (vs. the gritty, negative, "real" sci-fi view of the future) AND it has imperfect characters flawed in ways that we can relate to today. That makes them more interesting and fun to watch.
We all probably know the guy from the elevator with the music playlist idea, the officer that hates clowns (especially vampire clowns), the couple that fights over one of them not spending quality time at home, the busy professional with spoiled ass children that won't put down their "phone", religious fanatics that you can empathize with but still question their sanity, wealthy snobs that look down on military service with disdain, etc.
I mean, who cares if an orc gets "blooded", or a klingon regains his honor? I do care if there are vampire clowns out there, however. Damn...
With all the interesting sci-fi out there, I'm mostly looking forward to more of The Orville. After a really lame trailer and the first couple of episodes being kind of forgettable, it improved quickly - and by the end was actually thought-provoking at times.
And of course, Ready Player One. I hope Spielberg's adaption doesn't change too much from the book (mild spoiler alert: the method of earning the copper key looks like it has changed some, per the trailer, and I hope the Rush references get left in at least partially), but it looks really promising. And casting the bad guy from Rogue One as the CEO of IOI was a great choice, IMO. Like Alan Rickman before him, that guy seems like he was born to play aristocratic, evil antagonists.
The simplicity of the RT scoring system is a big part of its mass appeal, but it's also its biggest weakness.
Pros: RT helps weed out clunkers/bombs with extreme accuracy. If it's below 25%, it's going to be bad - end of discussion.
Cons: RT scores don't do as good of a job telling you HOW good the non-bomb movies are because it's a binary system (Fresh/Rotten). When 100 critics see a generally satisfying but not great movie, the overwhelming majority still give it a begrudging Fresh - and it ends up with deceiving a "Certified Fresh" score (80%+).
Even movies with high 90s scores can be forgettable. Best example, IMO: Chicken Run (2000). It had a 100% score at the time (since dropped to 97%), so we went to the theater expecting a can't miss, must-see movie. We were totally underwhelmed. It was good but not a "100%" movie, and I haven't watched any of it since.
To be fair, the audience score doesn't get it right all the time or tell you what you need to know, either. Case in point: Guardians of the Galaxy vs. GOTG Vol 2. Most people would agree that the original was superior, but the audience scores are identical at 88% (coincidentally, the different RT scores were better indicators.)
Those audience scores combined with the RT score do give you the best picture of what's going on - but even that still can't tell YOU if you're going to love the movie or not. Until we're all hooked into a "matrix" that literally charts everything we all think and feel while watching a movie and does some kind of genetic/environmental mapping of our lives, our opinions will always just be good as a study of one.
Many critics have probably forgotten how to just sit back and enjoy a movie because they're too grizzled. They've "seen it all" after having to watch 365+ movies a year and then having to superfluously analyze everyone of them - all for a paycheck.
Imagine having to smell a different Yankee Candle every day and having to write a review for it. For 5 years. Then someone walks up with, "Christmas Cookies in Bed," candle and asks you for candle review #1839. What would you say? It may go something like this: "What? Christmas Cookies - in bed? Why?? Imagine the crumbs you'd get in your bed everywhere... And what does the bed smell like? Is it a Motel 6 hooker bed, or a new mattress gassing off fire retardant smell? * Sniff * They didn't get the bed smell I'd expect out of Yankee Candle! And this theme has been done better before. Christmas Cookie. Christmas Eve Cookies. Cinnamon Christmas Surprise. Home for the Holidays. Holiday Ho-Hos, Mrs. Claus's Cookies, Rudolph's Chocolate Chips, and so on... Wait to pick up this candle when it goes on sale, or just wait and smell this candle at your friend's house next season."
Now imagine an average Joe, smelling Christmas Cookies in Bed. They haven't smelled a Christmas cookie candle in a long time, if ever. A lot of Joes are going to say, "Mmmm. Makes me hungry."
This may sound like it's straight out of the Michael Bay playbook, but millions of regular people just want to see 1) some explosions/FX they haven't seen before and 2) some gratuitous sexuality. Tie it together with a charismatic lead or two, an interesting world with a believable plot and some good twists, and tack on a happy (or at least satisfying) ending, and you have a moneymaker.
Bright had those basic elements. It had a modern world with swords/magic, surprising magical disintegrations, a hot chick magically stuck in drywall like a Heavy Metal movie poster, and a Will Smith being the charismatic Will Smith (not the dour Cypher Rage). They even threw in a titty bar guns/kung fu fight for good measure.
Everything else is superfluous, artistic license that's just gravy for statistical outliers like critics who are reaching higher (probably just to stay sane in their jobs).
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That's because 99.9% of jury members aren't aware of jury nullification and the true power they wield. Trial lawyers definitely don't want juries to know about that right, either - especially prosecutors - because those jurors become wildcards. If the lawyers even get a hint of a juror knowing about it, they are thrown out of the jury pool during the selection process.
iPhone SE user here, and the GP poster hit the nail on the head with me.
I have an older, perfectly running car with a nice, older, factory Bose stereo that doesn't have Bluetooth connectivity or an AUX jack. To make it work, I wired the Bose to work with a 1/4" jack for a custom AUX connection. Works perfect - but won't work without the 1/4" jack.
I also have an expensive set of Bose QC-25 headphones (no Bluetooth - only wired) with a mic for phone calls.
And I could care less about waterproofing, or wireless charging (glass back? bad idea...)
Apple needs to know its SE audience.
I thought it was Windows 8, where they tried to go with app-like icons on their desktop and broke their most recognizable UI feature by killing the "Start" button, where they tried to merge the desktop and mobile device OS? All while they broke backwards compatibility with older Windows OSes?
It's the reason so many people stayed on Windows 7 for so long. (Not that Windows 10 and its own issues have helped. Many individual users will be staying with Win7 until the bitter end in 2020).
Straight from the Virginian's, err... South Carolinian, I mean... South Californian's mouth.
We settled that, "we can leave and be better off without the union," debate 160 years ago - and it cost us hundreds of thousands of lost American lives. Only a completely desperate state with a suicide wish would put that on themselves because it would likely be just as bad for everyone the second time around.
And I'd rather not have to have a passport to go to Disneyland or Huntington Beach...
First of all, correlation != causation. There's a reason most coastal states in the US are blue - geographic advantage. Just like the rest of human history, states with coastlines control the ports - the trade lifelines into the continental US. They leech off of the rest of the country by taking their cut (like the Silk Road port merchants of old screwed over others for centuries), then tell us how much being liberal leads to being more successful.
Like I've posted before, move liberals inland 100 miles and see just how liberal they remain over time without the extra "coastal city cash/cut" to fund their ideals.
It's hard to stomach a law meant to curb bad sexual behavior signed by Mr. "Grab 'em by the pussy".
We're a large, American university - and we're about 2/1 Drupal to WordPress.
With that said, the key isn't which CMS is better. It's which CMS just works for them in terms of saving money and time. While our Drupal build isn't great, many departments use it because there's a pre-built, profile-based, customized version of Drupal that does 95% of what they want - and that's "Good Enough" (TM). They learn to deal with Drupal's UI shortcomings while we try to improve our existing UI to make it as easy for them to do their jobs as possible.
In the meantime, the college has a WordPress system that is very efficient in giving them basic site spinups that match our university's Web standards.
We use Pantheon, and it scales up Drupal for traffic/bandwidth without a hitch.
You did notice that he was ripping Drupal AND WordPress, right?
Adam Ruins Everything gives a great/funny history lesson on how jaywalking became a term for an act that wasn't even a crime until the automobile industry saw their new business model threatened around 100 years ago.
In the past, calling someone a "jay" a bad slur, so calling someone a jaywalker back then was more like, "Dumbass-Walker". Now that slur is a legal term. Imagine having to stand before a judge and plea guilty or not guilty to "dumbf**kery".
It's as if they're saying, "Let's at least make a political statement on gun control," statement.
Also, from the tin foil hat department - How far will this go back in Youtube's HQ? While it sounds crazy today, what will the Youtube owners say about working on cars in a decade, when many people are riding around in autonomous cars? What will happen when a "terrorist" uses an old-fashioned car with a steering wheel, gas pedal, and no autobraking system to mow down dozens of people in a random city? Is Youtube going to remove auto mechanic HOWTO videos so we can't modify (or even fix) our own cars? Slippery slope 101.
This accident happened about 1 mile north of Arizona State University's Tempe campus. The Uber cars (grayish SUVs) all look the same and run similar routes around the campus, along Mill and Rural Rd (parallel major roads that run north/south), and Apache Rd (southern border of ASU's Tempe campus) every workday. You kind of know where they're going to turn on what appear to be predefined routes, and they had blended into the car landscape enough to where you'd just think, "There's another Uber," without any novelty.
On those routes, I've never seen one do anything that appeared to be dangerous or erratic in traffic or around pedestrians.
Mill Ave. up near Curry is just across the Salt River bed, is in a patch of undeveloped desert between developments, next to the First Solar headquarters building, a theater, and not too far from a light rail stop.
I'm not saying Uber isn't at fault at all, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was a jaywalker hurrying to catch the light rail. Despite the signage and engineering, people frequently jaywalk near light rail stops along the route.
Aren't a good percentage of the GET parameters floating around out there Google Analytics parameters (i.e. utm_campaign1, utm_a, etc.)? Aren't they just cleaning up their own company's mess?
They should probably make this an optional feature that can be disabled.
BTW - I think this proves that they're tracking everything people do in Chrome. How else could they roll out such a computer paradigm-breaking feature with such confidence (on by default)?
I want this to be investigated as much as anyone, but the feigned shock and surprise from some Americans feels naive. Considering all the meddling (or outright coup d'etats and invasions) our country has been involved in over the last 100 years, this almost feels a little like a sliver of long overdue karmic payback.
More importantly, I don't think those who want this investigation to go on and on (for whatever reason) understand just how pious and insulting it sounds to those who chose Trump. I mean, dark money and political parties put out metric tons of political "ads" every election cycle, and people see through 99% of it. But they couldn't see through Russian propaganda?
Even if Putin himself was posting fake news content to Facebook, this continued coverage wreaks of Russian xenophopia and pious arrogance emanating from the national media and "holier than thou", ivory tower types: "The independents who voted for Trump had to have been influenced by SOMETHING to make such a horrible choice. We're the enlightened ones, so we have a responsibility to make sure everyone foolish enough to not see just how AWFUL Trump would've been as president NEVER make that miscalculation again."
Let's wipe up this spilled milk instead of crying about it.
Forget the Falcon Heavy; I can't wait for the next F**kin Heavylaunch!
Per Netflix's Dirty Money, all of the major car manufacturers are putting out cars that break their own emissions standards - and NOBODY in their own governments is doing anything about it. It's as if they've all been bought off.
Maybe the corrupt... er, "green"... German government should go after the lawbreakers before trying radical (and potentially really disruptive) ideas like giving services for free.
BTW - If you haven't seen that Dirty Money episode about Volkswagon, take an hour out and watch it. Amid the surprising depths of dishonesty that higher-level executives will go to turn an ever-bigger profit, the part about the Volkswagon-employed Germans actually considering gassing people (and monkeys) to win a PR war is darkly hilarious.
From smallest to biggest:
1) The Microsoft Intellimouse Optical desktop mouse - It was the perfect wired mouse. All of a sudden, Microsoft stopped making them. There are only Chinese knockoffs of inferior quality out there today. Why couldn't we have good things, Microsoft?
2) V6 engines in cars for the middle class - Modern V6 engines deliver a ton of power with much better gas mileage than 15-20 years ago, but you can't get them anymore without buying a pricey luxury/sports car.
3) Nice cars without superfluous technology - Give me a volume knob and a few other knobs for basic controls to go along with the power and comfort of a luxury vehicle. Shove the huge touch screen up someone else's ass.
4) The old Netflix that had good streaming movies. - Not the 198 proof vat of sh** they call "content" today.
5) A stock market that traded securities in larger denominations - eighths (or dimes, maybe?) - not pennies - I wonder if going back to that system would inject a little more stability.
6) Privacy in technology. If it has current running through it in 2018, it probably tracks you. Why can't I go off the "information grid" and still enjoy modern toys? And I should be able to travel without my car manufacturer, insurance company, and governmental agencies tracking me everywhere.
...of participants. If any one of the following participated, it would have an immediate impact:
* Google
* Amazon
* Youtube
* Facebook
* Twitter
* The major porn sites/networks.
* Maybe Ebay and/or PayPal.
Without any of those players, this effort will be forgotten after half a news cycle.
BTW - DuckDuckGo participating is the one search engine that won't make a dent. People that are aware enough of internet-related issues to use DuckDuckGo have likely already written entire treatises about the evils of net neutrality online to spread the word...
Female Uber Drivers Get Paid Less Than Men - Mostly Because They Drive Slower
Men drive faster and get more fares in over the same timeframe, making roughly 3.5% more cash. (The other 3.5% is postulated to be a combination of more work experience due to higher female job attrition, and women working at less profitable times.)
It has nothing to do with a battle of the sexes going on - no matter how inflammatory it can be for some to speculate about.
When you sell out, good business decisions take a back seat to the constant pressure to increase profits - and thus the stock price - at all costs. How many companies have eaten themselves alive to feed investors, and then feed the MBAs/consultants that come in to "fix" things but ultimately just gut the company and run?
The banks just watched millions of homeowners gamble with the bank's money, and it blew up in the banks' faces while debtors walked away from the burst bubble. And that was with tangible collateral - not digital currency.
I guess the banks didn't learn much from the Great Recession.
Good points about Braga, Seth being a fan, etc. It definitely feels like Trek sans teleporters and with different races.
What sets The Orville apart, IMO, is that it keeps the upbeat arc of classic Trek (vs. the gritty, negative, "real" sci-fi view of the future) AND it has imperfect characters flawed in ways that we can relate to today. That makes them more interesting and fun to watch.
We all probably know the guy from the elevator with the music playlist idea, the officer that hates clowns (especially vampire clowns), the couple that fights over one of them not spending quality time at home, the busy professional with spoiled ass children that won't put down their "phone", religious fanatics that you can empathize with but still question their sanity, wealthy snobs that look down on military service with disdain, etc.
I mean, who cares if an orc gets "blooded", or a klingon regains his honor? I do care if there are vampire clowns out there, however. Damn...
With all the interesting sci-fi out there, I'm mostly looking forward to more of The Orville. After a really lame trailer and the first couple of episodes being kind of forgettable, it improved quickly - and by the end was actually thought-provoking at times.
And of course, Ready Player One. I hope Spielberg's adaption doesn't change too much from the book (mild spoiler alert: the method of earning the copper key looks like it has changed some, per the trailer, and I hope the Rush references get left in at least partially), but it looks really promising. And casting the bad guy from Rogue One as the CEO of IOI was a great choice, IMO. Like Alan Rickman before him, that guy seems like he was born to play aristocratic, evil antagonists.
The simplicity of the RT scoring system is a big part of its mass appeal, but it's also its biggest weakness.
Pros: RT helps weed out clunkers/bombs with extreme accuracy. If it's below 25%, it's going to be bad - end of discussion.
Cons: RT scores don't do as good of a job telling you HOW good the non-bomb movies are because it's a binary system (Fresh/Rotten). When 100 critics see a generally satisfying but not great movie, the overwhelming majority still give it a begrudging Fresh - and it ends up with deceiving a "Certified Fresh" score (80%+).
Even movies with high 90s scores can be forgettable. Best example, IMO: Chicken Run (2000). It had a 100% score at the time (since dropped to 97%), so we went to the theater expecting a can't miss, must-see movie. We were totally underwhelmed. It was good but not a "100%" movie, and I haven't watched any of it since.
To be fair, the audience score doesn't get it right all the time or tell you what you need to know, either. Case in point: Guardians of the Galaxy vs. GOTG Vol 2. Most people would agree that the original was superior, but the audience scores are identical at 88% (coincidentally, the different RT scores were better indicators.)
Those audience scores combined with the RT score do give you the best picture of what's going on - but even that still can't tell YOU if you're going to love the movie or not. Until we're all hooked into a "matrix" that literally charts everything we all think and feel while watching a movie and does some kind of genetic/environmental mapping of our lives, our opinions will always just be good as a study of one.
Many critics have probably forgotten how to just sit back and enjoy a movie because they're too grizzled. They've "seen it all" after having to watch 365+ movies a year and then having to superfluously analyze everyone of them - all for a paycheck.
Imagine having to smell a different Yankee Candle every day and having to write a review for it. For 5 years. Then someone walks up with, "Christmas Cookies in Bed," candle and asks you for candle review #1839. What would you say? It may go something like this: "What? Christmas Cookies - in bed? Why?? Imagine the crumbs you'd get in your bed everywhere... And what does the bed smell like? Is it a Motel 6 hooker bed, or a new mattress gassing off fire retardant smell? * Sniff * They didn't get the bed smell I'd expect out of Yankee Candle! And this theme has been done better before. Christmas Cookie. Christmas Eve Cookies. Cinnamon Christmas Surprise. Home for the Holidays. Holiday Ho-Hos, Mrs. Claus's Cookies, Rudolph's Chocolate Chips, and so on... Wait to pick up this candle when it goes on sale, or just wait and smell this candle at your friend's house next season."
Now imagine an average Joe, smelling Christmas Cookies in Bed. They haven't smelled a Christmas cookie candle in a long time, if ever. A lot of Joes are going to say, "Mmmm. Makes me hungry."
This may sound like it's straight out of the Michael Bay playbook, but millions of regular people just want to see 1) some explosions/FX they haven't seen before and 2) some gratuitous sexuality. Tie it together with a charismatic lead or two, an interesting world with a believable plot and some good twists, and tack on a happy (or at least satisfying) ending, and you have a moneymaker.
Bright had those basic elements. It had a modern world with swords/magic, surprising magical disintegrations, a hot chick magically stuck in drywall like a Heavy Metal movie poster, and a Will Smith being the charismatic Will Smith (not the dour Cypher Rage). They even threw in a titty bar guns/kung fu fight for good measure.
Everything else is superfluous, artistic license that's just gravy for statistical outliers like critics who are reaching higher (probably just to stay sane in their jobs).