That happens when you stop making a movie because you have an idea and start to come up with an idea because you have to make a movie. The first 8 or 10 movies were great because they were organic and worked on at the pace that they needed to be worked on. Since Disney bought them, it’s been more about ‘Pump out a new…

But by all indications, it was marketing that let it down, not the movie itself. No one knew what it was about and all the marketing seemed to try and act grassroots and word of mouth when it wasn’t.

It “could be”? It already is. I’ve done installs of a piece of software called Transpara that uses GPUs to scan mammograms to look for anomalous things. It works great.

I don’t think it’s necessarily that, but when there hasn’t been an installment since the 80's worth seeing (Crystal Skull was universally panned by critics and viewers), no one even knows who Indiana Jones IS anymore. Star Wars is still everywhere and that started in the 70's. People know what it is. All Indiana Jones…

I think there were casual goers that won’t go anymore. You don’t need to rent a movie anymore when it’s on some streaming service for ‘free’. Or if you do rent it, it’s $5, not $20 per ticket. It’s tough to justify the costs just to pacify children. When it was $5-6 a ticket? Sure lets take the 2 kids and then it’s…

I loved it as a kid and recently watched it with my 10 year olds. They also loved it, even though it was comical to them that there was just a warehouse full of criminal teenagers smoking cigarettes and skateboarding.

Also, most holdouts deal with rookie contracts, where A) the player does NOT get to decide where they work or make any decision, and B) doesn’t get to negotiate their contract due to the rookie wage scale. Look at running backs right now. The average RB salary in the league is LESS than that of a kicker at the moment.…

There’s a specific provision for that called the non-football injury list. If on that list, the player MUST miss at least the first 4 games of the season, and that player is entitled to no salary (though the team CAN pay them if they choose to) while on the list. If in the last year of a contract (including options),…

No shit... that was my point. There’s provisions in the CBA where holding out is allowed, so automatically saying ‘HOLDING OUT IS NOT HONORING YOUR CONTRACT’ isn’t an ignorant take.

NFL players are ALLOWED to hold out (in certain scenarios). It’s in the CBA that takes precedence over the individual player contracts. If the players have to honor their contracts, do you get po’d when teams cut players to save money and/or cap space? HONOR YOUR CONTRACT, right?

I grew up in a cluster of four small towns in a row with populations of 3100, 2500, 3300, and 450. In the mid 90's we had both a school shooting in 1993 (https://www.mcall.com/1993/05/25/upper-perkiomen-sophomore-shot-to-death-in-classroom-teen-tells-police-taunts-led-to-plan-to-kill-classmate/) and another 6th…

It would be nice if they added a different tier. One 15 second, non skippable ad every 15 minutes of viewing. Make it $5/month. I’d absolutely do that. What I don’t like is having a pre-roll ad and then 3 ad breaks in an 8 minute video, ALL WITH THE SAME DAMNED ADS. Do the advertisers not understand that the quickest…

Everyone should listen to ‘The Set’. Theres 3 more episodes to come, but it’s a 10 part podcast series about the late 80's/early 90's NYPD police corruption scandals and the Mollen Commission to try and clean it up. They say right in the open hearings that the NYPD has a 20 year cycle of rampant corruption, clean up…

It would be glorious. We’d get to see how many people simply vote R because it’s what they do, and how many people are dyed in the wool Trumpers. And then be sad when Trump gets more votes than a run of the mill GOPer. Not that most of them are much better, but still.

Christie seems to be flinging shit at both of them constantly. He could be just as disillusioned with the whole swing right as everyone else and is just there to cause chaos. This is a guy that ate ice cream with Obama because... why the fuck wouldn’t you? 

Those types of things already exist. 18650s, 13400s and the like. Which work great for things in a certain form factor, but not so much slab sized/styled devices.

I just hope that someone a little more benign, like Christie, ends up picking up while they fight each other. Christie is an asshole, no doubt, but he’s a manageable asshole, and isn’t afraid to talk to people of the other party. The bad thing is, because he’s seen as ‘reasonable’, if he somehow gets the nomination,…

So Canada and parts of California are on fire, other parts of California are under water. The Northeastern US is under water, Korea is under water, Spain is under water. Italy was under water 8 weeks ago, and now the entire Mediterranean is going to be 40c (118F) in the coming days. And all of this is just in the past…

F’real. They keep getting in trouble for doing illegal shit and the punishment is.... give us 10% of the money you *stole* from your customers and we’ll call it good.

It sure does! That’s why I said ‘depending on the outcome’. But maybe you didn’t get that far before rage replying.