The Inventory is supposed to be entirely independent from editorial.

The Inventory is supposed to be entirely independent from editorial.

Given how the prequels played out, his final moment in Jedi strikes me as essentially him hacking the same flaws he always did. He let concerns about his family get in the way of what his rational brain tells him is his duty.

Could the 2FA notification potentially have come from an attempt to reset the password instead?

Honestly my biggest suspicion is that there’s been so many years without real oversight and organization with regard to the accounting that they wouldn’t even have to be doing anything explicitly nefarious. They’re simply just so badly run money-wise that they have no idea what they’re actually spending.

When it comes to the military-industrial complex, the number of rank-and-file soldiers strikes me as the least of the military’s worries. Start at the top, not the bottom. Force each and every branch to complete a full audit and repay misappropriated funds. Scrutinize weapons research that throws absurd amounts of…

I don’t know if anyone is going to care, but I’m not so sure about the copyright issues involved in emulating those old apps. Just because they came from a free promotional CD from the time doesn’t necessarily provide someone the rights to make those programs available to download from another site.

FYI: there was a second Ewok movie made for television. 

Subtitles are also useful for the hard-of-hearing. It’s not solely about translation. 

I don’t know how it works for TV, but film contracts have to state the number of movies being shot (per SAG since the 1980s).

It’s too bad Netflix doesn’t share numbers, as it would be interesting to see whether the binge-able season drop or HBO’s episode-by-week approach leads to a greater change in overall subscribers. 

It’s not entirely clear from the books what the state of the world the first humans of The Witcher left behind actually was. Or even how they got to the continent in the first place.

FYI: moral whataboutism is generally more associated with Soviet propaganda than US behavior. It was used to deflect legitimate criticisms of the Soviet status quo by equating it to admittedly-bad-but-not-quite-as-bad elements of the US.

SciFi to SyFy was also done because they couldn’t trademark the former. 

That’s true, though enough negative online buzz can impact sales even from those people just reading instead of participating. When the complaint is primarily about the sticker price, however, that can have an influence on sales that screws with ordinary supply/demand/price curves.

Customers (and therefore retailers) tend to complain about nonstandard pricing, though it’s not clear whether those complaints actually yield sales losses. If customers simply “voted with their wallets” as to whether they think a given game is worth its sticker price, rather than buying it anyway then taking to social…

I will say that, while I generally like the idea of having management walk in the shoes of the people they supervise, in some fields the skills and education required of management are vastly different than those needed for their reports.

For everyone getting caught into arguments over the morality of 60 versus 70 dollar games, remember also that there’s another factor at play: price velocity.

I will say that what Huxley writes is a *vastly* different dystopia than what others have portrayed. In fact, for the vast majority of its residents, it’s absolutely utopian.

Technically there is a way to bypass the constitutional process to eliminate the electoral college’s power: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

You mean Garland. Gorsuch got the seat.