Remember how people were like “the Saudi investors are gonna come after Musk soon with all their money he’s flushing down the toilet.”

I literally was responding to a guy by saying not everything he liked in-office was liked by everyone else, is it really so hard to imagine the same about work from home?

Okay, I will engage with this once in good faith, because I do think there are people like you who genuinely do better in an in-person environment, and I DO think that despite the advances in teleconferencing technologies since the pandemic, the idea that zoom etc can completely supplement all the lost benefits of…

Arnold was the best part of Dark Fate; his sense of humor, comedic timing, and humanity was actually really refreshing considering how otherwise humorless the rest of the movie is (which is unfortunate because like a lot of latter-day sequels, the plot and action has this weightless, tangled feeling where every scene…

Not too cynical. Frankly I didn’t really understand the upside of companies doing this anyway. It’s good for consumers to have an extra access point for support, but it seemed like just a way for companies to expose themselves only to people complaining.

As others have said, yes, they do, if they have investors, which they almost certainly do.

I’d like to remind everyone that high-end collectibles are a giant money laundering and tax evasion scam* and if at any point you read about some collectible in the news, 99.99999% chance you’ve already missed it and you’re gonna get rubed.

The Rick Astley George Michael love child of your dreams

If a character is meant to look animated (i.e. clearly not a “real” character, say Pixar characters), then facial animations (and designs, and vocalizations) SHOULD BE EXAGGERATED.

but one of them is literally the child of a death watch leader (and is played by the same actor).

Yes, you’re right, it’s more complicated with adapted works. Obviously a separate contract would have to be made with the author of the work being adapted, who would retain all copyright to their book.

The movie example was simply to show the different standards in similar industries; for literary authors, they almost always retain the copyright to their work (as you said, for film adaptations they would only be licensing the film rights to a studio).

I just wonder what the standard practice is in the tattooing industry. Like, if I go into a tattoo parlor and ask them for a contract that assigns all rights to me, are they gonna laugh me out of the shop, even if I’m willing to pay extra for it?

Is it such total standard practice in the tattooing world that the artist retains the copyright on their work, and is a work-for-hire agreement (and material release) not an option? I get tattoo artists wanting to keep their copyrights (clearly it’s working well for them) but especially for famous people like LeBron…

I have been saying that all progressive single white CIS males should just go from purple/red state to state and just carpet bag the hell out of the elections. So much better than doing charity work abroad. I’d donate money to that fund. 

That’s a terrible price for 3 GB. I pay 15/month on TMobile Prepaid 3gb (Simple Connect Plan), which tops out at 35/month for 12gb. My wife pays 40 a month for Verizon prepaid 5gb, with a 5/mo discount for autopay, and another 10/mo loyalty discount (27.55 total with taxes and fees).

This would be nice in theory and back when checked luggage wasn’t an extra fee.

I loved my ipod touch; It came free with my iMac, and those two were the first apple devices I owned. I used the touch primarily as a web browsing device and gaming device, never having had a dedicated mobile gaming device nor smartphone up until that point (as far as a media player goes, I was used to non-apple…

You’re gonna pay around double for a dumb TV, and they lack a lot of other features that come standard on TVs now. That Samsung and Sceptre you linked don’t have HDR, for example. The ad revenue subsidizes the cost of the smart TV.

The hard G people pronounce the “are you a robot” COPT-K-HA