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  1. 3 hours ago, bamachine said:

    I just hope that Amazon does not try and make them go cheap on the production.

    Don’t think that will be a problem.  Amazon opened up the checkbook for Man in the High Castle which was a huge risk. 

    Expanse already has a built in audience and critical acclaim. 

  2. 4 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    I hope so too. My concern is that democracy may die and the destroyers will rewrite the history books. 

    If you want to rewrite the history books, you first have to know how to read them. 

  3. I have a relative who said he voted for Trump because “he’s a real fighter who is not afraid.”

    this has to be one of the worst comparisons I’ve ever heard. 

    Based just on his twitter feed, if Trump was in a boxing match, the moment somebody popped him on the nose and drew a little blood, he’d be squealing like a pig and screaming at the ref to end the fight because his opponent was cheating. 

    Even Jimmy Carter wasn’t a wimp like Trump is. 

  4. 3 hours ago, GRHorn said:

    He's so racist his son in law personally helped work on prison reform bill.  That sonofabitch.  I think at this point it's a given that he'll improve quite a bit on the Black vote in 2020. 

    He’s son-in-law’s dad is very acquainted with the inside of a prison cell. 

  5. 20 minutes ago, krutov said:

    and they say irony is dead.

    I’m laughing that Republicans are spending so much time and effort defending a group of people that seemed to keep hanging out with Russians. 

    I can remember when it was the Dems who were the Russian-lovers. 

  6. 1 hour ago, retread said:

    You just have to shake your head that a sizable portion of our electorate laps up these word salads as fact. 

    When it comes from his lawyers/hangers-on, I think it’s less about the electorate, and more about them making sure he knows they publicly support him.  There may come a time where they need a pardon. 

  7. 3 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    The role os slavery is not to be discounted.  The Southern states were adamantly opposed to a strong, central government but they wanted one strong enough to put down slave rebellions.  That's not much different rom where the Right is now.  They're against a strong government except when it suits them.

    Also Indians. They needed local militias in the frontier states. 

  8. 15 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    As a part of the 1918-1925 Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, the US sent 11,000 troops to Eastern Siberia to fight the Red Rooskies. Several hundred dead GIs resulted.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War

    Thank you for your service.  You guys probably didn’t get much of a parade when you came back home since the WWI vets probably overshadowed you. 

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  9. 44 minutes ago, Eastwood said:
    1 hour ago, LongestHorn said:
    It is my understanding this was the result of Wagner having the incentive of collecting a cut of that oil but the bad intel.  They did not bargain for the American military combat experience.  IMO they did not think we were still there.  We watched Russian vehicles cross the Euphrates on pontoon bridges back in September.  I'm not sure, but I believe Russians were simply going for broke.
     

    Even still, I'm surprised they got smoked that bad.

    I’m not surprised. This is one of those scenarios where they call “Broken Arrow” (or whatever the term is these days when an American unit is about to be overrun) which means that every available air asset drops what they are doing and is put under command of whoever is handling targets in that area. 

    And given that they knew Russians were involved, it probably took on even more added significance. 

  10. 14 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    I hate to say this but Obama does need to take some responsibility for the political climate that gave us Trump.  America obviously had a serious problem that was being neglected by the Obama administration.  

    Hillary.  Fucking idiot Dem leaders pushed the one candidate designed to bring out a lot of people who might not normally vote. 

  11. 2 hours ago, elfenix said:

    fox signed zazie beetz to a 3 movie deal for this, so maybe an x-force and maybe a domino movie

    Yeah, that's why I mentioned her coming back, because she was the only one I knew of that had a movie deal (and that made a lot of sense, since she was probably on the cusp of her breakout and they wanted to make sure and lock her in).

    Of course, the actors playing NTW, Colossus, etc. are probably not too busy.

  12. 9 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

    So Netflix doesnt give a share per view?

     

    I think some of it, or a lot of it, is lump sum paid up front for the rights.   Netflix signed a big deal with Disney, and that's ending this year.  I think Coco (also coming in June), Last Jedi and Black Panther will be the last of the major Disney movies on Netflix, since next year the agreement is over.  Thor Ragnarok is also coming out in June, and I think Black Panther later in the year.

    In households with say a couple and their teen kids, Netflix would lose money if they were paying per view.  I can only imagine how many times some kids have watched some of the Disney/Pixar movies on Netflix.

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  13. Watching this play out, there are actual American companies, larger companies - some famous newspapers/media conglomerates, etc. who are blocking access to the Europeans because they are not GDPR-compliant.

    I see a lot of people basically saying "this is just shitty Europeans trying to dictate what American companies do and they didn't give them enough time and it's too expensive."  

    A few problems with that.  We've actually had two years to prepare for this, and technically, even longer, since it's been clear that this was going to happen at some point over the past 5 years.  Also, It's actually some pretty fucking common sense stuff, things like notifying within 72 hours of a data breech, being transparent about the data being collected, etc.  Things that should already be a part of these companies' policies.

    I think the real reason why these companies are blocking European traffic and claiming they can't do GDPR is one of two things:

    1. Shitty infrastructure that they don't want to update, or rather don't want to pay to update.  I can buy this to an extent, although I think having shitty infrastructure will bite them in the ass at some point, but yeah, I can see plenty of companies looking at the revenue from European traffic and not wanting to bother with spending more to update the software.

    2. I think some of these companies do not want to openly post what they do with customer's data.  Nobody wants the public to know they are selling user information to advertisers and marketing agencies.

  14. 3 minutes ago, LongestHorn said:

    USAF does not provide daylight AC 130 support to ground troops.  This is part of the problem.  Operators come to depend on this protection when the shit hits the fan.  Some of this is shared resentment.

    They’re fucking stupid if they expect an armed cargo plane to cover them in broad daylight. 

    Maybe they should use some of their influence and try to help keep the A-10s around. 

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  15. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    I generally oppose metal detectors and a TSA type entry setup because the collective cost is outrageous, and the logistics are terrible. Imagine walking up to the airport security line with 1,000 people in front of you, and we have to get them all in and to class in 20 minutes. No way.

    That and it creates an extremely attractive chokepoint for a would-be killer.

    The better doors on the classroom thing should be a given.  It's like locking cockpit doors after 9/11 (or pre-9/11 if you were El Al).

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