If your business model relies on the copyrighted material owned by other people, and you do not build in a way of paying them for the usage, then you do not have a business model. The idea that SoundCloud has now gotten in bed with “big record labels” and that’s what’s “screwing over” these smaller users, is absurd.…

I’m as caffeine dependent/addicted as they come. However—coffee is still delicious. It’d lose a particular umph, but even caffeine less it would be awesome.

Its called liking the taste of it, the warmth, the comfort. Beleive it or not it keeps my Asthma in check. Think about it, probably Americas biggest comfort ‘food’.

Exactly. Plenty of companies make (and at least some people drink) non-alcoholic versions of normally alcoholic beverages. There’s a market for this, too.

Lawyer here, what she did absolutely does not meet the criminal standard to have committed stalking and/or harassing. And what he did is not sexual assault. What we have here is a creep being a creep and then being shamed for being a creep. A/K/K poetic Justice.

Also...at most jobs, if you called one of your users (or customers) stupid for asking an honest question - which is what you’re doing here - you’d be canned immediately. Consider yourself very lucky. (Sure makes me question Jez, though).

You don’t have to call these people stupid. i know it’s the internet but still

Two billion Asian people with the requisite performance experience and abilities and interest to appear in a major film?

It’s about actor availability and interest; it’s about budget and who’s asking for what; it’s about pleasing the studio and “so-and-so owes us one more movie, you need to find a role for her in this” or “we’re thinking of so-and-so for another giant movie later next year but first we need to see how he does in an…

It’s not “specificially” Korean, though. Of course it’s definitely a common Korean surname and I definitely pictured that character as Korean-American when I first read the book, but it’s never explicitly stated, and that is where I am having trouble with the outrage over it.

Ray Park is an actor from Glasgow- played Darth Maul. Pretty sure he’s white.

I’m with Space Moth on this one. He was OUTSIDE in public. The analogy would be you walking around your yard naked. I think folks have a right to take pics of you if you are in your yard walking around naked.

You wouldn’t cast any of those dudes because the character Ejiofor is playing is named Venkat Kapoor in the book. He’s Indian American, and there’s a scene where he specifically mentions his Hindu faith.

For what it’s worth, I just searched my digital copy for “Korean” and “Korea,” and there were no results.

Well, exactly. Assuming that someone named “Mindy Park” is Korean is just as bad as whatever whitewashing this movie is being accused of. In a book, unless it’s specifically indicated in some way, it’s up to the reader to fill in those kinds of gaps with their own baggage and prejudices and preconceptions.

I just read this book twice in a row and there is zero mention of Mindy Park being Korean-American. I’ll re-read it again to make sure, but I’m fairly certain there’s not a single indicator of whatever her ethnicity might be.

Whitewashing with a black actor. It seems there was a pretty fair variety of ethnicity in the movie. People just want something to bitch about

not simple. your knee-jerk pc reaction is what is simple.

So by your logic if I’m in my private residence and open the blinds and curtains to my living room window and expose my naked body and people can see me, I can sue anyone who in public view can take pictures because my house shields me from my own imbecility?

Ah, I see. The Coens should make up a story. And in that story, since they are free to invent any characters and any plotlines they want to, they should also feel free to do whatever they want with the general social and cultural setting in which the story occurs. And what they should want to do is to include at least…