Yes, if you haven't completely deduced the biological mechanisms behind something I suppose you can't, in principle, be certain that it isn't really magic at work. Given that there's absolutely no reason to think that it is magic, and it never has turned out to be on any other occasion, that hardly seems to amount to…

That'll be the theme of the 2017 Cobra remake.

I think you mean a GJI where someone splices together every time Hawkeye says "the" in the movie, overlayed with the Jurassic Park soundtrack.

The most upvoted (hence, by the rules, winning) caption on the last one they did was a somewhat off-colour joke about Angelina Jolie's mastectomy. Suspect that was part of the reason it was quietly pulled, although there's obviously been a lot of other AVC changes since.

His first tour of duty was as a Forward Air Controller, boots very much on the ground, with those involved trying very hard to stop the information leaking. His second tour was flying an attack helicopter in combat. Not exactly a set of risk-free photo ops.

"The kids, the younglings…"

So to note the obvious, Emily as an assassin seems a little at odds with her finishing up the previous game as ruler of a (different) city-state. I suppose the likely bet is her being deposed or something, but I like the idea that she's actually just on an official visit, where she spends her nights taking horrible…

The recommendation will of course be to seek the professional services of one experienced in the art of magical curses.

He didn't claim to be an "expert on women's thoughts", he claimed to know something about what kind of country music they (on average, obviously) prefer. As someone whose job is specifically analysing the makeup and listening preferences of country music listeners. And no, people aren't obliged with to agree with…

Except the social media backlash doesn't seem to be saying much about the data: disagreeing whether country audiences skew female, or female listeners prefer male artists, or asking about how big a sample he used or whatever. Instead it's calling him a douchebag, misogynist, saying he "called women tomatoes" and…

Do you really think that's the case here? He's not some professional rabble-rouser expounding on topics at random; making recommendations to radio stations based on marketing data seems to be essentially his job. As for "convincing himself", are you saying he made up the part about the death threats?

True (and now I've watched some of the 8 minutes clip that got posted, which confirms that he's basically a satellite specialist guy), but it also doesn't seem like an especially nefarious pastime. And the general impression seems to be that it's presented as, at best, a bit of a soulless profit-seeking thing Cooper…

No, not necessarily. As with other comment, given more detail I'm not really sure what job puts you in the Middle East and then later supervising a satellite launch. I just found the automatic conflation of "defence contractor" with "combat mercenary" (when my guess is that even in a war zone there's far more…

My point is not that armed Blackwater people were there to deliver mattreses, it's that "defence contractor" covers a very wide range of things, an awful lot of which (I suspect the majority) is decidedly non-combat stuff.

It kind of sounds like you think Cooper is some Blackwater type. I haven't seen the film, but isn't "defence contractor" rather more likely to be someone in charge of supplying bases with mattresses or the like?

Or there's this measure: According to the BLS, average annual entertainment spending in 1984 (older tables are categorised differently) was $653 for those under 25 (no better age breakdown, unfortunately). Corresponding figure for 2013 (most recent year available) is $1243 (no inflation adjustment). Looking up…

The range wasn't 18-20, it was 18-30, so roughly in the middle is roughly double the cost. Buy one CD at a time and pay standard shipping and that's still only $16. Make a bigger order or have Prime and shipping is less or nothing, I get similar numbers (i.e. around $12 for the most popular buys) looking at Best…

So the idea is that, even though music has actually got significantly cheaper over time, the disposable income of younger people has dropped even more, making it less affordable? I suppose that's possible (tough one to find data on), but it doesn't seem very likely to me.

My sole 2 exposures to Letterman were in the 90s: a show he did from London and his Oscar hosting. Must admit both left me not really seeing the appeal.

Google suggests an album in 1970 cost around $3-5, or around $18-30 in 2015 money. Top 10 CDs at Amazon average around $12.