I agree with you: they’re cutting off their nose to spite their face. That said, Citadel has “we want this to be a global franchise like the Marvel movies“ written all over it. Someone at Amazon really wants it to happen and to have directors in India writing about the India-based team and writers in China writing…

Yeah, but did they get Mexico to pay for it? 

If we truly lived in a capitalist society, this sort of thing would self-correct. As you conclude, it is unlikely that your CEO adds 15% in value to the company's revenues and increased ROI to shareholders every year. 

THIS. I am pretty sure that if boards cared to do so, they could outsource or automate CEOs in the same way that they have outsourced labour. Is anyone seriously convinced that an Indian or Chinese CEO couldn’t do the same quality job for half as much? They don’t even have to do as good a job so long as the savings in…

Or she is a human foundling who is there to “test” the quality of humanity’s heresy within the many competing factions within the Covenant before deciding on eradication and genocide. Let's see what the show runners... SHOW us. 

I’m in a totally separate industry, but I have to agree with you. I’ve been in non-union and union shops, and the difference was double the pay, an HR department and management that listened to employee complaints (both individually and collectively!), and way better medical benefits. Sure, there are complaints about…

They’ve had the training, so the company can point to it and say they made an effort to show staff “good behavior” thereby avoiding liability, but how much of it sinks in with staff and is embraced as meaningful? How much of staff (and management) view this as “just another boring politically correct goody two shoes…

Herbert makes it pretty clear that the Bene Gesserit were unsure of when all the appropriate genetic traits and natal environment would align to produce their (controlled) Kwisatz Haderach. Hence the testing by Mohaim. As indicated in the appendices, nobody could predict some of the individual human moments. This is a…

Accessibility applies to disability, but also to a game that my young child and I can both enjoy at the same time. He can play and experience it on easy mode and I can play it on hard. We can share a narrative and overcome common adversity together. Not everything has to be Dark Souls or Meat Boy. I can play against…

They’ve changed things to reduce some of the FOMO. Sure, you won't get the cool cosmetic armour from certain seasons or events, but most of the guns and exotic armour can be unlocked through grinding new simple quests. Some of the solo adventures can still be completed, and the Vaulted stuff will probably eventually…

I guarantee Florida land managers are aware of the issue. There will always be prohibited animals and plants moving across the boundaries, but this will promote responsible behavior in the future. Folks who get tired of their mile monitor and "accidentally" lose it in the canal will now have to take a little…

The headline is misleading. Florida may have ANOTHER species of mosquito that can vector yellow fever, but other members of genus Aedes (like the ubiquitous A. aegypti, or “tiger mosquito”) are capable vectors. 

This was actually worse than season I of Iron Fist. It was so slow and meandering and without either character development or action in the first three episodes that I can watch no farther. There are so many other better things out there to watch that I do not want to waste time on boring television. 

Almost four years into the Biff Tannen Timeline, and it is horrible to look back on this moment and lament our collective losses. Ms. Schlafly was a visionary, albeit one who eagerly embraced our current dystopia. She beat the ERA and brought us to an inconceivable world where Trump could win an election.

I remember Usenet and flame wars and the origins of Godwin's Law. Things haven't really changed for the worse, we've just lowered the gateways to entry. 

No truer Scotsman than you. 

The phrase that you are looking for to describe taro is a “canoe culture” plant. And given the number of species of indigenous birds, reptiles, mollusk, fish, and insects that the Polynesian peoples made go extinct well before the arrival of either European or Asian seafarers, I’d say that they had the exact same…

So basically this is similar to the “mod capacity” system from Warframe, where the accumulated experience/use of the item (armour, gun, pet) allows you to add more perks. Warframe has a level cap on mod capacity, and you have to hunt for each mod, with certain enemies and activities being more or less likely to drop…

That was a convincing and contrite apology from someone who did something genuinely awful, embraced his shame, and then owned up to it with no expectation of grace. While I would not forget his misbehavior, I would be willing vote forgive after an apology like that.

CBP is not the agency responsible for inspecting propagative material coming into the country. CBP inspects non-propagative plant-material intended for consumption. The USDA inspects propagative plant material intended for planting in the ground. The quarantine requirements for Quercus (oak) can be found in the Plants…