I love jokes like these, where the joke only works becuase the words work out in such a way that it’s just funny... Maybe a linguist or writer knows some technical reason why “Blaffair to Rememblack” just sounds so ridiculous (maybe something with the alteration being at the beginning of one work but the end of the…

sure, technically he didn’t need Isaiah’s permission in any legal sense, but that’s not the point. He probably should have asked what Isaiah felt about it on a personal level first. Personally I was wondering how he was able to get the Smithsonian to change the exhibit that quickly and how they were able to give the…

He wasn’t just a meek archtect, he was a bleeding heart liberal architect. Literally, he says “my heart bleeds a little for these guys” referring to the crazy hippy / druggy criminals who raped his wife and daughter. The movie goes out of it’s way to own the libs by making his pre-psychopathic killer form almost…

Honestly the 2000 election wasn’t stolen. You could make the argument that the result in Florida was so close that there is no way to truly know who won, becuase the election process itself is not perfectly accurate. But they counted those ballots several times and while the end total fluctuated, they never counted it…

Damn now I need to go check mine out becuase I believe it has 4 lugs...

In theory, yes. but it’s one ship’s worth of stuff and a shit ton of stuff needs to keep going through there. Egypt could literally sink that ship and the rest of the world would look the other way, at least publicly. Privately everyone would be pissed and it would be made clear diplomatically that it can’t be…

With a fuck up of this magnitude, nobody takes any responsibility. The pilot may be punished privately but I guarantee you the SCA won’t do anything publicly becuase that directly implicated the SCA.

OK, substitute “Hilary” for “antifa”.

Mid level executives screw with stuff in every industry, if they didn’t screw with stuff they’d have nothing else to do and sooner or later people would realize that they aren’t needed. 

To be fair, Avatar’s ticket prices were inflated by the increased cost of 3D and IMAX, and it absolutely deserves to take credit for that. I dropped over $30 to take my son to see it and felt that it was money well spent. So you really can’t inflation-adjust for things like that. And it’s gotten worse since then as…

honestly the AVClub has always been snark heavy, and I’m talking about going back to the 90's here. I mean, they had a recurring column named “the hater” dating back to 2006, so they weren’t exactly trying to hide it. Friday buzzkill was another that was pretty damn heavy on the post-modern internet snark. the…

I’ll be there watching it on the biggest screen I can find, and I fully expect Cameron to fulfil his promise of making me shit my pants. 

The things it, both takes are right. It was a HUGE blockbuster that hasn’t had a big impact, but I think it’s a matter of the technical limitations of watching it at home more than any fault in the movie itself. Seeing it in 3-D one IMAX was a hell of an experience. The only other movie that comes close as far as far…

I agree, it’s a spot-on parody but IMO it’s a weak point of the episode. To be fair, I usually find that sort of sitcom antics to be very tedious and the steamed clams segment was a good enough parody that I enjoyed it when I would normally hate it. So I can appreciate why everyone else loves it, even though it’s just…

he’s legally presumed innocent and that’s entirely appropriate becuase that’s a constitutional right. But when you methodically kill someone on video over the course of 9 fuckin minutes, the rest of the world has a right to act like you’re guilty of murder, even though you’re not legally guilty (yet).

Well he’s internet famous now, right?

Yeah, obviously there are a whole lot of complexities and risks once you apply JIT to actual production. What I was describing is the broad overview of why JIT makes such a big difference to cost efficiency and in practice you do have to have some back stock on hand even though that presents a drag on the entire…

OMG that dash! So many rectangles! so many flat surfaces and straight lines! a digital display but analog HVAC knobs... and it looks like it could fill in as the dash of a bond villian’s deep sea submarine. This might be the most 80's dash I’ve ever seen and I love it.

Yeah obviously you ramp down your ordering, but at the same time you’re ramping up ordering for something else, becuase you’re always trying to grow the business and make more product to sell. in fact, the problem gets worse as you grow. If sales fall and production gets scaled back the problem goes away but in that…

It’s not the space, it’s the cost of the parts, which is essentially a complete loss. imagine you have enough parts to build 100 cars sitting in the back of a factory - that might be 4 million dollars sitting in the warehouse. Sure, you might use those up in a week and sell the cars you make with them for a huge…