“private business has the right”

People’s anger isn’t that a guy was attacked by a polar bear and another person killed the bear to save the guy’s life. Everyone understands that.

Speeding, for the person with poor time management that thinks they’re more important than everyone else.

WTF?

You are dumb bud.

California was the first state to really limit emissions and require fuel efficiency, so when the Clean Air Act, and act of Congress passed by Nixon, CA was granted an exemption from the general rule that states can’t pass different standards. In part, this was due to politics, but it was also due to the fact that CA,…

California’s regulations apply only to cars sold in California and other states that voluntarily opt in.  

There, they are used in traditional Asian medicines, making them a valuable commodity.

Cool.  I hope they died screaming as the lions tore their guts out.

I think you’re jumping to a conclusion on the sexual assault. The mouse told Syd something.

At the risk of being redundant myself (I just posted about how I didn’t like Joi above), I found bringing AI into the mix to be an unnecessarily redundant concept that only served to dilute the underlying themes of the film and Blade Runner in general. It drew an unneeded, and spurious, parallel between AI and…

My problem with K’s arc (and the point of the film in general) is that replicants have been portrayed as being human from the start, including in the first film. This isn’t some revelation. I mean, you can retread the same themes from a different perspective and make them feel fresh, but this movie didn’t do that for…

Leave it to Roy Batty himself to accurately summarize and affirm my feelings about the sequel. May there always be #tearsinrain

Is it widely known that Rutger Hauer himself came up with “All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain?” I only recently found out. The speech has its own wikipedia page.

I wholeheartedly agree with Hauer. While Blade Runner asked us what makes someone human, and answered that it was empathy for others that elevates you from a soulless robot (whether natural born or vat-grown) to a person, 2049 seems to imply that being human means having kids. That’s a terrible answer, and also a…

Beth and Charles should find a different job that doesn’t require them to watch media and write about it, because they “have better things to do” than watch sci-fi movies.

Also, this show is not for you if you want your SF served to you on a spoon. It rewards engagement.

I think this is another example of a basic theme running through io9 for a while now — that its staff members are openly contemptuous of the very topic they are nominally covering, and the very audience they are nominally serving.

I’m 6'2" and in the ND, both soft top and RF, I’m unable to fit in it with the top up. Tears me up :(

I noticed that on a lot of forums the NC seemed to be the best fitting for taller people. From what I could gather it goes like this. NC>ND>NB>NA