But the whole reason why airlines over book flights is because of duplicate bookings. It’s more common for business flyers to double book flights to provide themselves with some schedule flexibility than the scenario discussed in the post above (tickets purchased through corporate accounts have less restrictions on…

This stunt is one of the reasons WHY airlines overbook in the first place

Daylight savings time in the winter? The later sunset would be nice, but the sun wouldn’t rise until 8:30am.

I think it might be insurance fraud. Due to the high cost of replacing air bags, even a car with otherwise very minor damage can be totaled by insurance between the airbag replacement drives up the repair costs so much. There’s still tons of very valuable parts left that the insurance company intends to get money out…

The reviews are actually making me rethink seeing this at all. TLJ wasn’t perfect, but it set up some interesting things:

So of course, plenty of diehards (and cast members) wanted to turn the Death Star on him. To their presumed relief, the reins have been passed back to J.J. Abrams

The only way Palpatine’s return would be interesting to me is if they brought back Clive Revill and someone Marjorie Eaton-ish to play the role and didn’t even attempt to explain it.

I genuinely don’t know what they could’ve done to steer this home in a satisfying manner. What expectations could they subvert? Have the heroes lose? Have Rey fall to the dark side? Have everyone just decide “maybe screw this” half-way through the movie and give up? Have Kylo Ren talk to the audience half way through…

Admittedly, I’ve not seen Last Jedi since opening night, but I think you’re misremembering the broadcasts. As someone else points out, the broadcasts were to call for help before the attack and then no one stayed once Luke walked out to stare down the First Order.

Sounds like a JJ Abrams movie, alas. Honestly, this is how I felt about TFA, and based on the interviews in the last few weeks, about what I expected from this movie. JJ is trying to cram two movies into one. Say what you will about TLJ (and on the whole, I don’t like it), a lot of the structural problems with the…

I saw this film, and did not enjoy it. If you see it and do, that’s great. Despite my personal feelings, I would never begrudge someone gleaning 140 minutes of enjoyment out of this hard, cruel existence.

If Kennedy had worked more with Johnson then yeah maybe he would’ve been more successful getting his legislation passed. He didn't though, and Johnson ended up being the one to do all the heavy lifting to get the Kennedy stuff through. I think it's long overdue that everyone who obsesses over JFK just admit to…

Thank you. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills whenever I hear people talk about how “subversive” The Last Jedi was. Like, it’s the same damn movie as all the others! I don’t dislike it because it’s different, I dislike it because it’s the same played-out formula they’ve been drip-feeding people since the 80's but they…

Honestly, as soon as I heard that Abrams was coming back it pretty much killed all of my expectations for the movie.

I sincerely hope everything is lost but then the Ewoks rise as the true heroes and they "yub nub" their way to galactic peace before becoming an evil Ewok and Jawa empire for the next trilogy.

I had a long running issue with Fedex. They seemed to just deliver to a random address near my house, usually missing by 2-3 houses. This was really fun when they misdelivered my 75lb smoker, which I then lugged home on my shoulders. It was less fun when it was my wife’s IVF medicine that we had to have because we had…

Being unhappy with how your work turns out and wanting to change it is not petty and spiteful. If he were indeed doing it solely to somehow screw his ex out of royalties, that would indeed be petty and spiteful, but I’ve not only seen no evidence that’s the case, I’ve seen evidence that it isn’t.

It doesn’t make sense, though. Even if it were true that tinkering with the movies somehow harms her (something for which I’ve seen no evidence, only baseless assumptions and assertions that are sometimes easily proven false, like the statement George / Lucasfilm are somehow erasing Marcia’s contributions and have…

While a lot of modern TVs have some issues that’s not the bulk of the problem. The laserdiscs were transferred for and encoded in NTSC/PAL analog video standards (as were early DVDs). Which to be frank aren’t particularly high quality. There were serious shortcomings in terms of color, clarity, contrast and some base…

Even if it’s true that they don’t have the original negatives or whatever, which is bullshit because they’ve already changed Han shooting Greedo scene at least three times now, all they really need to do is edit out some of the most egregious changes. Restore the Greedo scene, cut the Jabba scene in ANH, ESB is pretty…