Because nobody has been able to make any sort of case for the country making any sort of profit from the movie business subsidies.
If we made a profit somehow I'm sure the tourist people would be crowing from the rooftops about it, but instead the talk was all about the jobs that would be lost.
As far as I am concerned, any business that needs taxpayer's money to stay afloat is not really a business.
Walls work great because a country is just like a golf course.
If you go ahead and build the wall around all the ports and airports it will work great. Ports and airports are where the people and drugs come in.
Or like what the movie studios currently do to us here in New Zealand.
We pay 25% of the cost of every "international" film or TV series produced here, with no cap, so James Cameron is going to make a bunch of Avatar movies, and we're going to pay him millions to do it.
The Minister in charge made noises about turning money tap off last year, but quickly backed down because I assume threats were made behind closed doors.
It's not censorship if you (and everyone else) refuse to engage with someone because they're an arsehole.
That's what's known as consequences. Parents teach their children about it before they go to school.
I'm just pointing out that Alex Jones gets shown the door everywhere he goes because he is so thoroughly unpleasant that civilized people can't be bothered with him.
That is not censorship. That is consequences. Your parents taught you that when you were 3. Alex Jones' parents obviously did not and now he has to live in the real world all he can do is whine like a child about it.
Why would anyone give Alex Jones equal access? They guy's an incoherent arsehole, and no civilised person would want to be associated with him.
If he wanted access to any platform I ran, I'd ban him too, because Alex Jones brings with him a whole bunch of unpleasantness, and he just spoils everything for the rest of us.
So you're OK with the US government dictating what US companies do then?
Hmm, sounds suspiciously like you're a communist. Also confused about who makes the rules in your country.
Which is why if the new Chinese investors try to impose their censorship stuff on Reddit, they will lose their money as all the users bugger off to somewhere else.
I'm sure they're not stupid, and are well aware of that too.
I'm so sorry you guys have wound up having to deal with that.
During the recent unpleasantness with the Japanese, my Grandmother lived in a town which had something like 500,000 of your marines come through on R&R.
She, like most of the women of the town made some money doing their laundry, and she was hugely impressed by what a marvelous bunch of young men they were.
That is the reputation Americans have where I live, honest, brave and hardworking. I hope your government don't spoil that, but I can't help feeling you won't really be our friends in a few years.
I don't think you can argue with someone who claims to believe the old "violently imposed monopoly" nonsense.
They are a libertarian, and so they believe in magic.
No, it's really not, and those of us who don't live in the US are a bit worried how you guys have sunk so low so fast.
At some point one of your political parties decided that winning was more important than anything else, and stopped governing in a responsible manner.
They are supported by a bunch of fools like the A/C above, who think that:
High time for Trump's executive branch to apply Andrew Jackson's words: "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.
I stopped going to arcades years ago because all of the arcades near me are owned and staffed by bad-tempered arseholes who hated their customers and never made us feel welcome.
To be fair, it's not really clear in TFA, but it looks like it to me, so I am going to worry about something else for a while.
To the commenters informing me that Linux is a multi-user system I'm not sure what your point is. If this bug needs an attacker to be standing in front of the machine, typing at the keyboard, you're a bit screwed regardless.
They were able to obtain local root shell on both x86 and x64 machines by exploiting CVE-2018-16865 and CVE-2018-16866. The exploit worked faster on the x86 platform, achieving its purpose in ten minutes; on x64, though, the exploit took 70 minutes to complete.
If someone has local access to your machine, you're doing it wrong anyway.
I know systemd is unpopular here, and I get the arguments why, but it has always worked well for me and these bugs seem fairly minor.
I don't live in Canada, but I do live in a couintry with a similar health system.
My wife broke her ankle last year, and the care was both timely, and at no cost. Just like in Canada.
What good is "free" medical care if you can't get a broken bone set for a week, or progress from testing to treatment on a rapid cancer until the cancer has progressed to be beyond treatment?
None of those things happen to those of us who have proper socialised healthcare. If you need treatment, you get it.
Do we have to worry about "co-pays" or "deductables" or paying an ambulance $5,000? No.
Your healthcare system is the worst of all possible worlds.
...Powers that Be decide its good enough and we don't 'need' real meat anymore...
That will happen when the agribusinesses that gobble billions of taxpayer dollars every year in subsidies decide they don't want all that lovely free money.
So, never then.
Didn't I read that home taping was killing music?
That was years ago, and the awful rubbish still hasn't gone away yet.
Seriously guys, get your acts together.
Incompetent. Just like the government of whatever blue state you live in.
Kansas is particularly bad though. The drooling fool Brownback pretty much bankrupted the joint with his "aggressive experiment in conservative economic policy".
It shows just how stupid Republicans are when it comes to running an economy.
Thanks for the link, and I accept that I was incorrect, it is not actually Catholic doctrine to avoid reading the Bible.
Having said that, both of my boys were told during Catholic religious education that talking to a priest was the way to understand the Bible, and is preferable to reading it.
Maybe that's just a Marist thing.
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Because nobody has been able to make any sort of case for the country making any sort of profit from the movie business subsidies.
If we made a profit somehow I'm sure the tourist people would be crowing from the rooftops about it, but instead the talk was all about the jobs that would be lost.
As far as I am concerned, any business that needs taxpayer's money to stay afloat is not really a business.
Walls work great because a country is just like a golf course.
If you go ahead and build the wall around all the ports and airports it will work great. Ports and airports are where the people and drugs come in.
Or like what the movie studios currently do to us here in New Zealand.
We pay 25% of the cost of every "international" film or TV series produced here, with no cap, so James Cameron is going to make a bunch of Avatar movies, and we're going to pay him millions to do it.
The Minister in charge made noises about turning money tap off last year, but quickly backed down because I assume threats were made behind closed doors.
It's not censorship if you (and everyone else) refuse to engage with someone because they're an arsehole.
That's what's known as consequences. Parents teach their children about it before they go to school.
I'm just pointing out that Alex Jones gets shown the door everywhere he goes because he is so thoroughly unpleasant that civilized people can't be bothered with him.
That is not censorship. That is consequences. Your parents taught you that when you were 3. Alex Jones' parents obviously did not and now he has to live in the real world all he can do is whine like a child about it.
The A/C above would like to turn that on it's head though. Clearly a communist.
Show me where Alex Jones has equal access.
Why would anyone give Alex Jones equal access? They guy's an incoherent arsehole, and no civilised person would want to be associated with him.
If he wanted access to any platform I ran, I'd ban him too, because Alex Jones brings with him a whole bunch of unpleasantness, and he just spoils everything for the rest of us.
So you're OK with the US government dictating what US companies do then?
Hmm, sounds suspiciously like you're a communist. Also confused about who makes the rules in your country.
Which is why if the new Chinese investors try to impose their censorship stuff on Reddit, they will lose their money as all the users bugger off to somewhere else.
I'm sure they're not stupid, and are well aware of that too.
I'm so sorry you guys have wound up having to deal with that.
During the recent unpleasantness with the Japanese, my Grandmother lived in a town which had something like 500,000 of your marines come through on R&R.
She, like most of the women of the town made some money doing their laundry, and she was hugely impressed by what a marvelous bunch of young men they were.
That is the reputation Americans have where I live, honest, brave and hardworking. I hope your government don't spoil that, but I can't help feeling you won't really be our friends in a few years.
I don't think you can argue with someone who claims to believe the old "violently imposed monopoly" nonsense.
They are a libertarian, and so they believe in magic.
Is that how government is supposed to work?
No, it's really not, and those of us who don't live in the US are a bit worried how you guys have sunk so low so fast.
At some point one of your political parties decided that winning was more important than anything else, and stopped governing in a responsible manner.
They are supported by a bunch of fools like the A/C above, who think that:
High time for Trump's executive branch to apply Andrew Jackson's words: "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.
is a reasonable way to run a country.
Or, they're well aware that not much has changed since the 1990's, because it was not very long ago.
If they were to set up in the city I live in, they would use 100% hydro-electric electricity, so it would use no fossil fuels.
... the story. Which was hollow and nonsensical anyway
That is every single superhero movie ever (almost).
He must have known that going in.
That eliminates the need to buy state legislatures; all you have to buy is Congress and get them to draft some watered down laws.
That just sounds like good old fashioned capitalist efficiency to me.
If you don't like it, buy your own senators.
Tidal's major shareholder is (surprise, surprise) Beyonce's husband.
She is paying herself.
I stopped going to arcades years ago because all of the arcades near me are owned and staffed by bad-tempered arseholes who hated their customers and never made us feel welcome.
To be fair, it's not really clear in TFA, but it looks like it to me, so I am going to worry about something else for a while.
To the commenters informing me that Linux is a multi-user system I'm not sure what your point is. If this bug needs an attacker to be standing in front of the machine, typing at the keyboard, you're a bit screwed regardless.
They were able to obtain local root shell on both x86 and x64 machines by exploiting CVE-2018-16865 and CVE-2018-16866. The exploit worked faster on the x86 platform, achieving its purpose in ten minutes; on x64, though, the exploit took 70 minutes to complete.
If someone has local access to your machine, you're doing it wrong anyway.
I know systemd is unpopular here, and I get the arguments why, but it has always worked well for me and these bugs seem fairly minor.
My wife broke her ankle last year, and the care was both timely, and at no cost. Just like in Canada.
What good is "free" medical care if you can't get a broken bone set for a week, or progress from testing to treatment on a rapid cancer until the cancer has progressed to be beyond treatment?
None of those things happen to those of us who have proper socialised healthcare. If you need treatment, you get it.
Do we have to worry about "co-pays" or "deductables" or paying an ambulance $5,000? No.
Your healthcare system is the worst of all possible worlds.
...Powers that Be decide its good enough and we don't 'need' real meat anymore ...
That will happen when the agribusinesses that gobble billions of taxpayer dollars every year in subsidies decide they don't want all that lovely free money.
So, never then.
Didn't I read that home taping was killing music?
That was years ago, and the awful rubbish still hasn't gone away yet.
Seriously guys, get your acts together.
Incompetent. Just like the government of whatever blue state you live in.
Kansas is particularly bad though. The drooling fool Brownback pretty much bankrupted the joint with his "aggressive experiment in conservative economic policy".
It shows just how stupid Republicans are when it comes to running an economy.
Thanks for the link, and I accept that I was incorrect, it is not actually Catholic doctrine to avoid reading the Bible.
Having said that, both of my boys were told during Catholic religious education that talking to a priest was the way to understand the Bible, and is preferable to reading it.
Maybe that's just a Marist thing.