The issue with that is that with broad cable packages, the popular channels essentially subsidize the niche channels that have a small enough audience that it would be literally impossible for them to afford to continue operating purely by the support of their audience and advertising. As a result, moving to a la…

So Russia retaliating in a way that harms its own citizens in the process is the sanctions punishing them? And that doesn't address the latter part of how you claim the sanctions wouldn't harm oligarchs. The Magnitsky Act infuriated the affected parties because so many of their assets were held in out of the country…

The Russian sanctions aren't directed at the country as a whole. They're individualized sanctions targeted at specific people or entities that are shown to support Russian cybersecurity attacks, human rights violations, Syrian arms trading, or governmental corruption by freezing their assets held in US financial…

There's some kind of licensing issues with the images and clips used on the big screens, is why I heard that's never happened. Which is a ridiculous reason, but international copyright law and licensing agreements are weird.

But they're the three worst states in large part because of the failures of the Reconstruction, aren't they?

http://disq.us/p/1kzihc6

Three.

You're in luck, it seems: http://disq.us/p/1kto6lv

I dunno, one thing I like about Rick and Morty's portrayal of nihilism is it's not just negative nihilism. Morty's one of the few characters I can think of who's got a perspective of positive nihilism - that the lack of innate meaning in the universe isn't automatically a source of despair, but can in fact be a source…

That's not really a twist, I'd say, but more of a reveal. A plot twist has to be something that recontextualizes everything that came before, that shows that the audience understanding of events wasn't just incomplete, but completely wrong. The aliens being there to abduct instead of invade doesn't recontextualize…

I won't hear you besmirch the deep lore of Home Improvement for the SNES. That's a bridge too far.

The latter.

Scaramucci isn't replacing Spicer, he's being appointed communications director. That's a different position, that's the person that runs the White House media campaigns and contributes to speech writing. Spicer resigned because he was against the appointment.

Emmerich and Devlin hated SG-1 and its spinoffs, so if they're involved with this, it won't be paying any attention to those anyway.

Most of the time when someone gives their opinion in a long-form piece of writing, they are actually giving their opinion. It's all but guaranteed when they are doing it as part of their job. You can freely disagree with it, but the idea that they're lying about it is silly.

Wasn't the six people thing around as an idea before RTD since the TARDIS had six separate stations and the Doctor had to always run between them, it just wasn't official until that episode?

You know exactly how fast the photon is getting there. c. Because it's a photon. :P

"Strunk and White" is pretty well singularly responsible with polluting writing advice with tons of ridiculous largely-fake grammar "rules" anyway, so I'm okay with their disapproval.

It is what they said, literally so. :P

You've been beaten to it anyway.