I assumed the audience is teenage boys who want to see a beautiful young woman in a tight body suit to go with the usual battle scenes. I would be curious how many girls watch the movie. But I doubt it's many.
I'm curious why you would think this. The movies more aimed at women than most superhero movies. No doubt many men and boys watch it too, but why would you doubt many girls (or women?) watch it?
I don't trust simple yes/no statistics about movies anyway. I don't necessarily like the same things everybody else likes. I like some hard cult stuff that has no chance to make it in the mainstream, and I'm bored by some mainstream stuff. I only trust reviews that address both why it's a good movie and why it's a bad movie. Anything else is useless.
I do trust reviews from people I know to have similar tastes to my own. I know a number of those people online, and they seem to universally love Captain Marvel, so that puts it high on my list of movies to see.
Yet somehow it's never movies with a white male uni-dimensional Mary Sue that get inundated in these kind of hate campaigns.
Also, the fact that these campaigns start well before anyone has even had the chance to see the movie, show that it has nothing to do with how the character is portrayed in the movie.
I'm not sure how the people trying to sow division profited here, but I'm glad to see that they apparently failed. I'm getting tired of these unhinged hate campaigns against genre movies starring women. If they really only want to see movies starring men, there's still plenty of those around. But apparently they need every movie to be specifically catering to them, and every movie that doesn't feels like a threat to them or something.
So to cheat effectively, you need something to stare at in the middle distance. I think a less conspicuous descendant of Google Glass may provide just that.
I've come to the conclusion that Iron Man and Captain America have reached the end of their arc and are getting in the way of new characters. I expected them both to die in Infinity War. That they didn't but everybody else did (including Spiderman and Black Panther, most notably) was clear evidence that all those deaths will be reversed, but I still think Iron Man and Captain American will be sacrificing their lives to make it happen.
1) They want to be more than they are, adding Facebook type stuff that nobody needs, 2) They want to know more than they need, adding dark patterns to scam you out of more contact info that you're willing to share.
Just enter your CV, connect to co-workers, employers and recruiters, and ignore all the other crap.
It's fairly simple, the truck drivers hear and see the push for enviro-friendly technologies. Electric vehicles are one of these. They figure that the environmentalists will eventually come for their trucks.
And they probably will. And rightly so, if you see some of the dirty smoke these trucks spew. They're not exactly clean machines.
If they want to keep their trucks, they should encourage cleaner trucks.
But Tesla coming out w/ self driving cars - a solution looking for a problem, since most people enjoy driving their cars
I would love to have a self-driving car. The main downside to traveling by car compared to train or other public transit, is that I can't read while driving.
if they're blue collar then odds are good they're not doing so hot economically since blue collar types got hammered in the last recession and never really recovered.
It's a wild guess, but they might even be voting for the party that keeps hammering blue collar types.
I don't have a van or pick-up truck, but I have a tarp over the crate of my cargo bike and often leave groceries (and occasionally something more expensive) in it, and nobody has ever stolen anything.
Before I had the tarp, some assholes would occasionally use it as a trash can, though.
I was not aware that Garwick's "idiot airport guards" are all part of the civil government. Schiphol Airport has a significant military police presence. I assumed that was true for all international airports.
last time i checked, the fcc didn't own outer space
That's absolutely an issue. The more affordable and accessible rocket launches become, the easier it will be for companies to avoid US/Russia/EU regulation and launch from countries that have looser regulation. That could be an advantage when the major powers try to hold back some developments (asteroid mining?), but it can definitely lead to dangerous situations. Particularly in LEO. Maybe LEO does need some binding jurisdiction.
Who's talking about civil entities? I'd be very surprised if an international airport did not have access to armed guards. In those 6 hours, there's even plenty of time to wake up a specialised police or military unit to take out that drone.
I'm surprised that they delay flights for 6 hours and more because of two drones. I understand that they delay flights, but I'd expect them to take out those drones as soon as possible. If they can't do that, that's rather a big vulnerability.
I know the Dutch police has worked on using trained eagles to take out drones (by far the most bad-ass solution to the problem). I've also heard of using some sort of jammer or directed electromagnetic pulse to disrupt drone. But even a well-aimed bullet should solve the problem.
Also, weren't drones supposed to be limited through software so that they can only fly where they're allowed to?
Meaningless? It shows 20,000 years of context. It includes noticeable warm and cold periods in that period, and makes it quite obvious how the current warming is different from all of those fluctuations. I admit it doesn't show 100 million years, but do you think that over those 100 million years, you'd find more than one event with a faster temperature change than today?
I think you'd find at most one, about 65 million years ago.
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I assumed the audience is teenage boys who want to see a beautiful young woman in a tight body suit to go with the usual battle scenes. I would be curious how many girls watch the movie. But I doubt it's many.
I'm curious why you would think this. The movies more aimed at women than most superhero movies. No doubt many men and boys watch it too, but why would you doubt many girls (or women?) watch it?
I don't trust simple yes/no statistics about movies anyway. I don't necessarily like the same things everybody else likes. I like some hard cult stuff that has no chance to make it in the mainstream, and I'm bored by some mainstream stuff. I only trust reviews that address both why it's a good movie and why it's a bad movie. Anything else is useless.
I do trust reviews from people I know to have similar tastes to my own. I know a number of those people online, and they seem to universally love Captain Marvel, so that puts it high on my list of movies to see.
Yet somehow it's never movies with a white male uni-dimensional Mary Sue that get inundated in these kind of hate campaigns.
Also, the fact that these campaigns start well before anyone has even had the chance to see the movie, show that it has nothing to do with how the character is portrayed in the movie.
I'm not sure how the people trying to sow division profited here, but I'm glad to see that they apparently failed. I'm getting tired of these unhinged hate campaigns against genre movies starring women. If they really only want to see movies starring men, there's still plenty of those around. But apparently they need every movie to be specifically catering to them, and every movie that doesn't feels like a threat to them or something.
Ethiopia is predominantly Christian.
So to cheat effectively, you need something to stare at in the middle distance. I think a less conspicuous descendant of Google Glass may provide just that.
I've come to the conclusion that Iron Man and Captain America have reached the end of their arc and are getting in the way of new characters. I expected them both to die in Infinity War. That they didn't but everybody else did (including Spiderman and Black Panther, most notably) was clear evidence that all those deaths will be reversed, but I still think Iron Man and Captain American will be sacrificing their lives to make it happen.
Well, they certainly look spicy, with all those flames and spiky bits.
I don't, but they're not bland either.
comic book superhero bland cgi fests
Comic book, superhero and cgi, yes. But bland? Not really.
Lots of clients find me on LinkedIn.
The problems with LinkedIn are twofold:
1) They want to be more than they are, adding Facebook type stuff that nobody needs,
2) They want to know more than they need, adding dark patterns to scam you out of more contact info that you're willing to share.
Just enter your CV, connect to co-workers, employers and recruiters, and ignore all the other crap.
It's fairly simple, the truck drivers hear and see the push for enviro-friendly technologies. Electric vehicles are one of these. They figure that the environmentalists will eventually come for their trucks.
And they probably will. And rightly so, if you see some of the dirty smoke these trucks spew. They're not exactly clean machines.
If they want to keep their trucks, they should encourage cleaner trucks.
But Tesla coming out w/ self driving cars - a solution looking for a problem, since most people enjoy driving their cars
I would love to have a self-driving car. The main downside to traveling by car compared to train or other public transit, is that I can't read while driving.
if they're blue collar then odds are good they're not doing so hot economically since blue collar types got hammered in the last recession and never really recovered.
It's a wild guess, but they might even be voting for the party that keeps hammering blue collar types.
And they're primarily valuated on how fast they're able to ramp up their production to meet that demand.
That's an unbelievably comfortable place to be in for any company.
You mean they pay some of the highest bribes. There's a lot of oil money in politics.
I'm not sure making them lose their job is going to make them more rational or less angry.
Best response would be to get them some therapy to figure out what's wrong with these people.
They don't need a tow truck. Teslas have a lot of low-end torque and a Model S or X could easily drag those pickups out of the parking spots.
While this is certainly a funny idea, I'm not sure it's legal, and it's definitely an effective way to get into a fight and a lot of other trouble.
Better let some authorities tow them.
I don't have a van or pick-up truck, but I have a tarp over the crate of my cargo bike and often leave groceries (and occasionally something more expensive) in it, and nobody has ever stolen anything.
Before I had the tarp, some assholes would occasionally use it as a trash can, though.
I was not aware that Garwick's "idiot airport guards" are all part of the civil government. Schiphol Airport has a significant military police presence. I assumed that was true for all international airports.
As big as India is, the world is larger than India.
last time i checked, the fcc didn't own outer space
That's absolutely an issue. The more affordable and accessible rocket launches become, the easier it will be for companies to avoid US/Russia/EU regulation and launch from countries that have looser regulation. That could be an advantage when the major powers try to hold back some developments (asteroid mining?), but it can definitely lead to dangerous situations. Particularly in LEO. Maybe LEO does need some binding jurisdiction.
Who's talking about civil entities? I'd be very surprised if an international airport did not have access to armed guards. In those 6 hours, there's even plenty of time to wake up a specialised police or military unit to take out that drone.
I'm surprised that they delay flights for 6 hours and more because of two drones. I understand that they delay flights, but I'd expect them to take out those drones as soon as possible. If they can't do that, that's rather a big vulnerability.
I know the Dutch police has worked on using trained eagles to take out drones (by far the most bad-ass solution to the problem). I've also heard of using some sort of jammer or directed electromagnetic pulse to disrupt drone. But even a well-aimed bullet should solve the problem.
Also, weren't drones supposed to be limited through software so that they can only fly where they're allowed to?
Meaningless? It shows 20,000 years of context. It includes noticeable warm and cold periods in that period, and makes it quite obvious how the current warming is different from all of those fluctuations. I admit it doesn't show 100 million years, but do you think that over those 100 million years, you'd find more than one event with a faster temperature change than today?
I think you'd find at most one, about 65 million years ago.