In early 1800's rural Japan, a white person might as well have been from another planet.

And $10k is cheap for aerospace. Anything project which involves airborne hazard will cost a company at least $1 million just to starting thinking about it.

My company has a subsidiary that made and installed most of these seatback entertainment things some years back. Anything that remotely touches an airplane is super expensive. The business case for these things went away as soon as airlines realized every other person was carrying their own screen device anyway.

I wanted a E-class wagon vs the E-class sedan I have now, but it was $10k more for the same specs so it was vetoed purely on financial grounds.

It’s not like these types of movies make big bank in China anyways. Stuff like Pacific Rim and Transformers are what sells over there.

Is South Park even watched in China? It seems like the sort of stuff that wouldn’t be culturally compatible to begin with.

I traded in a 2008 stripper Outback after 8 years of service (~90k miles). Nothing broke except for a crimp in the wire that connected to the light on the hatch. Real solid car. I bought it new for $19k, and the dealer sold it within 2 days for $13k.

Yeah, expectations were never going to be met. It still got 7 Oscar noms, and probably just lost narrowly to Dances with Wolves for Best Picture.

I made a virtual bet with myself that the very first post in this article will contain the word “vagina” in it and I was not disappointed.

That’s the small stuff. They now operate or right out own 20% of Europe’s seaports - one of them being Greece’s largest port.

She got something just because it’s a lady cop.

I’ve lived for many many years in large cities where there are rows of identical buildings with identical looking doors.

It was surprising/not surprising the number of Trump support FB friends who reply to comments on the local news affiliate comment threads - with the same theme and variations of sympathy for their fellow white women brethren and disdain for people who don’t buy the post-incident “regret”.

From what I’ve heard from parents who’ve looked into adopted both local and overseas, it’s an exponentially higher amount of work and money to adopt local.

There’s got to be a solid reason why at least 4 Muslim countries have already had female heads of state decades before the US has even had one. Hillary had a 30-year handicap of 24/7 negative agitprop against her, but the misogyny definitely plays a huge part.

And then when John Cena did The Marine, which I vaguely recall as being about the current fight in Afghanistan, they actually repurposed several scenes from Rambo III (mostly helicopters flying and A-rabs being blowed up) which was extremely and poetically ironic.

Even back in the 80s, the anti-union vitriol was telling the average American that lazy assembly line workers were getting paid $20/hr to turn a few nuts and bolts on a car - outrageous! I guess the “numbers” are just being adjusted for inflation.

How does that work? Don’t you just have to cough up that $6k when next April rolls around?

150 people from the mainland already immigrate to Hong Kong every day.

If it was really clearly defined, there’d be no need for Constitutional scholars, attorneys, or courts.