To be fair, Hollywood has done a good job of having taxpayers subsidise their business model for a long time now.
Hollywood accounting is a real thing. They also get tax breaks and direct subsidies from the various places movies are made.
Frankly I'm still pissed off about the $50 million my country paid to Warner Bros. to get them to finish the Hobbit nonsense over here.
As if the $billion or so profit is not enough. Also, the end result was rubbish.
Good lord, that's a deep dive into one of the weirdest recesses of the Internet I have seen since Time Cube.
9/10 for strangeness 1/10 for logic.
Someone mod this +1 Weird, quick!
In my experience it is usually some board directive that the company "must" do some stupid thing or other.
Yes, it is often to make more money for the shareholders.
A couple of times during my career an announcement like this has made me go and look for another job.
I have worked at a couple of companies that have tried similar things, and what happens is that the people who can, leave, as soon as they line up a new job.
The boss is left with a bunch on numpties that can't get a job anywhere else.
The one that stood out was in the 1990's where the employer decided that everyone was available for weekend work with no notice, and (pre cell phone days) you were expected to provide a phone number for where you were going to be.
As soon as he yelled at one of my colleagues because she had spent the day at the beach with her kids I resigned.
Two others resigned that day with me, and several others left the following week.
That's what will happen with these things.
Good Lord there are a lot of idiots confusing weather with climate, then setting the straw men up.
I suppose if your team has decided its view, you have to stick to it not matter how wrong it is.
In the UK corporations do not control the government like they do in the US.
I am not claiming there is no corruption, but it is not part of the system.
...they keep supporting and electing the SAME leftist cronies.
How do you account for the massive subsidies paid by Wisconsin to Foxconn to build a factory, (which they're not really even going to honour anyway), or are you suggesting Scott Walker is a "leftist"?
The reality is that your system of government in the US is open to the highest bidder, and if this Mr. Dixon has a problem with New York providing Amazon with subsidies, but not his business, then he should do what Amazon has done, and buy some politicians.
Oh Good Lord, what a massive overreaction.
I certainly did not "revel" in the bloke's misfortune. I did note however, that for a presumably clever person he had not thought his backup strategy through at all.
No-one needs to be a systems admin or even any sort of expert at all to consider the possibilities. There was nothing stopping him leaving one of his drives in his office drawer, or with his Mum or a mate.
Calm down now.
I saw a news item a couple of years ago about a bloke who had his car stolen, with his laptop bag in it.
In the bag were 7 (seven!) USB drive copies of his Thesis. He thought he had backed them up, but he had only made copies.
I have very little sympathy for these sorts of people though.
Unfortunately Disney is going to milk this for every penny they can...
You're right, of course, but really that's been happening since the mid-1990's with Marvel and DC stuff.
They have found a formula that works, so they just change the suit the protagonist wears but nothing else.
The free market probably would fix this.
Fortunately for you Americans, your government has been paid by the ISPs to never have to deal with a free market ever again.
Oh, and you also have to subsidise their network upgrades.
It's a way of keeping profits private while socialising the expenses.
I was given a DJI Spark as a present, and found it can't be flown without creating a DJI account.
My first assumption was that any data I created would be insecure in some form.
I don't use mine as anything other than a toy, and you shouldn't either.
I'm pretty sure the plan is for the Telcos to buy the content providers.
Charter bought Time Warner Cable after Comcast were blocked. That won't be the last buyout.
...hopefully it will alleviate some of the problems.
I don't see why it would. The people who currently have control of your Internet infrastructure will also get control of 5g.
Competition is not allowed.
Cortana still doesn't work in my country (or maybe it's because of my language settings).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining or anything.
Still, it seems odd that they can't even roll it out to other English speaking countries, but then Microsoft does a lot of weird things.
It looks to me like everyone is catching on to the Hollywood model of demanding massive subsidies to make a movie in your town.
Pretty soon we will be having to pay the boss to come to work every day.
Amazon are looking for subsidies. The new HQ will go to the city that pays the most. The staff will receive the lowest amount of money Amazon can possibly pay them.
Why would Amazon care if their staff are living in a cardboard box under a bridge?
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Josh Mandel is a Republican, and has no qualifications to be treasurer so the chances he understands the implications of this are roughly zero.
To be fair, Hollywood has done a good job of having taxpayers subsidise their business model for a long time now.
Hollywood accounting is a real thing. They also get tax breaks and direct subsidies from the various places movies are made.
Frankly I'm still pissed off about the $50 million my country paid to Warner Bros. to get them to finish the Hobbit nonsense over here.
As if the $billion or so profit is not enough. Also, the end result was rubbish.
Good lord, that's a deep dive into one of the weirdest recesses of the Internet I have seen since Time Cube.
9/10 for strangeness 1/10 for logic. Someone mod this +1 Weird, quick!
... in order to achieve what?...
In my experience it is usually some board directive that the company "must" do some stupid thing or other.
Yes, it is often to make more money for the shareholders.
A couple of times during my career an announcement like this has made me go and look for another job.
I have worked at a couple of companies that have tried similar things, and what happens is that the people who can, leave, as soon as they line up a new job.
The boss is left with a bunch on numpties that can't get a job anywhere else.
The one that stood out was in the 1990's where the employer decided that everyone was available for weekend work with no notice, and (pre cell phone days) you were expected to provide a phone number for where you were going to be.
As soon as he yelled at one of my colleagues because she had spent the day at the beach with her kids I resigned.
Two others resigned that day with me, and several others left the following week.
That's what will happen with these things.
Good Lord there are a lot of idiots confusing weather with climate, then setting the straw men up.
I suppose if your team has decided its view, you have to stick to it not matter how wrong it is.
In the UK corporations do not control the government like they do in the US.
I am not claiming there is no corruption, but it is not part of the system.
...they keep supporting and electing the SAME leftist cronies.
How do you account for the massive subsidies paid by Wisconsin to Foxconn to build a factory, (which they're not really even going to honour anyway), or are you suggesting Scott Walker is a "leftist"?
The reality is that your system of government in the US is open to the highest bidder, and if this Mr. Dixon has a problem with New York providing Amazon with subsidies, but not his business, then he should do what Amazon has done, and buy some politicians.
Then you're a sociopath.
Oh Good Lord, what a massive overreaction.
I certainly did not "revel" in the bloke's misfortune. I did note however, that for a presumably clever person he had not thought his backup strategy through at all.
No-one needs to be a systems admin or even any sort of expert at all to consider the possibilities. There was nothing stopping him leaving one of his drives in his office drawer, or with his Mum or a mate.
Calm down now.
That's because you thought about the possible risks. I mean meteor strike is not that likely, but house fire could be.
I saw a news item a couple of years ago about a bloke who had his car stolen, with his laptop bag in it.
In the bag were 7 (seven!) USB drive copies of his Thesis. He thought he had backed them up, but he had only made copies.
I have very little sympathy for these sorts of people though.
...and the politicians buy into it wholeheartedly...
Of course they do, it's how your system of government is funded.
You scratch my back I'll scratch yours.
Unfortunately Disney is going to milk this for every penny they can...
You're right, of course, but really that's been happening since the mid-1990's with Marvel and DC stuff.
They have found a formula that works, so they just change the suit the protagonist wears but nothing else.
According to Hollywood, that's not helping creators.
Since when were copyright laws about helping creators?
Wow.
I wasn't thinking of it in quite that way, but you're right.
The free market probably would fix this.
Fortunately for you Americans, your government has been paid by the ISPs to never have to deal with a free market ever again.
Oh, and you also have to subsidise their network upgrades.
It's a way of keeping profits private while socialising the expenses.
I was given a DJI Spark as a present, and found it can't be flown without creating a DJI account.
My first assumption was that any data I created would be insecure in some form.
I don't use mine as anything other than a toy, and you shouldn't either.
I'm pretty sure the plan is for the Telcos to buy the content providers.
Charter bought Time Warner Cable after Comcast were blocked. That won't be the last buyout.
...hopefully it will alleviate some of the problems.
I don't see why it would. The people who currently have control of your Internet infrastructure will also get control of 5g.
Competition is not allowed.
Sure. Instead of using a kilo and define it as 1 .00 KG
Cortana still doesn't work in my country (or maybe it's because of my language settings).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining or anything.
Still, it seems odd that they can't even roll it out to other English speaking countries, but then Microsoft does a lot of weird things.
It looks to me like everyone is catching on to the Hollywood model of demanding massive subsidies to make a movie in your town.
Pretty soon we will be having to pay the boss to come to work every day.
Or for those of us who don't live in either the US or Liberia we will be able to weigh anything.
Private companies are just as shambolic and bone-headed as government.
Amazon are looking for subsidies. The new HQ will go to the city that pays the most. The staff will receive the lowest amount of money Amazon can possibly pay them.
Why would Amazon care if their staff are living in a cardboard box under a bridge?