I wish it were us doing it, but at least it’s being done. Good for China.

The fear is that a corporation gains enough power and influence over the government to the point that there is no difference between the two. At that point they remove the ability for you to not do business with them, and can prevent competition from ever forming.

The government, per its mission statement and bylaws, is accountable to the populace. A corporation, per its mission statement and bylaws, is accountable to nobody but its stockholders.

“The thing is a church subsists off voluntarily contributions and can do nothing but guilt you into filling a pew. You volunteer for it.”

Can we just seed some of these into space with every mission, just for kicks? Who knows, maybe in a billion years Mars tardigrades will dig through our remnants and wonder about us

I’ve had a special love for Jupiter and its system of moons ever since I did a science project on it in the 5th grade. Seeing these images start to pour in from Juno has been pretty exciting. I’m a kid again!

If they’re going to shove a shitload of advertisements and product placement down my throat then yes, they damn well better not be charging me for it too.
But they are, and they would be, so, I didn’t watch any of it. At all.

Actually, the build from “horror of the week” to “episodic goodness” is exactly the kind of thing that would rope me in!

If you give it a bit of time (it starts off on a little shaky ground) it becomes one of the best stories on Television, at least for seasons 1-5.

Forget Law & Order, it will take the reanimated spirits of Marshal Dillon and Miss Kitty to stop the Winchester boys.

Oh so they did it once 20 years ago. Never mind, PROGRESS HAS BEEN ACHIEVED.

Salty Drunk Sailor: Ah yes, the Fourni islands, more commonly known as Shipwreck cove, shipwreck bay, wooden bottom sound, or shipwreck’s shipwreck.

I couldn’t resist...

Sorry, you’re a fucking idiot. Franken isn’t perfect but the only reason why you’re calling this a witchhunt is because it’s gaming related and you feel threatened for some reason.

Well, the bronze coins were also “completely untouched” so apparently they also used bricks of metals as daily currency rather than individual coins.

Compound interest.

That’s OK. They’ll make more.

“life-sized bronze statues of gods”

I like the staue hand giving the middle finger. Probably to the damned Germanians.