Exactly. They can still do show panels and talk about the show and themselves, field audience questions (no matter how cringe that always turns out to be), signings, etc. They’re not really allowed to talk much about an upcoming season and always skirt around any type of spoilers. Fans will go see their favorite…

Why would they have to be promoting their shows? I am not sure how a q&a session about your life would be promoting one specific thing. And a meet and greet session surely wouldn't. During the last writers strike a bunch of actors and writers did live stage shows and that didn’t seem to violate any union rules.

You whippersnapper! I’ve only been to the Con once, many years ago. A friend and I just decided, on the day. We just showed up, paid our $12(?) to get in, and spent a few hours walking around to the booths. Those were the days… now it’s like trying to get tickets on the Space Shuttle.

Not to mention that everyone going bought their tickets/booked and prepaid everything months ago so the convention itself will be just fine.

If the writers strike goes on long enough and the actors strike happens, you might have famous actors and writer (who don’t normally do that sort of thing) showing up at these types of cons as themselves for Q&A events and autograph/photo sessions. I know from reading Bruce Campbell’s various books that that you can…

This sounds crazy, but once upon a time, Comic-Con was not a movie/television trailer delivery mechanism, but a place to meet comic creators, buy comics and nerd schwag and similar stuff.

None of that is impacted by either a writers or actors strike.

I mean, I’m pretty sure the Dragon capsules use essentially touch screen iPads.

The solution to these problems may involve butter and garlic.

Freaks of nature? I mean, dude is speaking as an expert on the subject:

Drugs are a helluva drug.

When that happens you can negotiate a buyout, or just get sued for breach of contract and (probably) settle. There may even be specific clauses in the contract that state how much it would cost him to get out of it. You can’t just walk away without consequences. (unless the contract says you can)

This now-redundant thought exercise was brought to you by Yellowfoot.

She had more lifeboats than the British Board of Trade required at the time. She was designed so that she would be the lifeboat in case of a disaster 

Boy is that Lochridge guy happy he stuck to his guns in this matter. Being fired from that role is the best thing to happen to him in his whole life. 

My new theory. These people didn’t pay $250k to go see the Titanic wreckage. They paid it to disappear and they are all fine on some island somewhere.

File this one under “profit motivates the private sector to deliver better and cheaper results than the public sector”

The OceanGate CEO definitely isn’t going to listen now.

It mean ... Java *IS* pretty awful. 

“Apparently, these coding guides pose “a threat to the rehabilitation of inmates” or guards.”

Were they even asked to provide evidence of this ever happening?  Are the guards secretly cyborgs?

If the prisoners educate themselves with useful skills, they may be able to keep themselves out of “the system” upon their release. That System is run for profit, you can’t have your moneymakers running off and getting their life back!!!