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byblackraven14250
12, 2015 @06:17AM
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Attached to: Daredevil TV Show Debuts; Early Reviews Positive
That's higher than most non-network shows, like Breaking Bad
I looked up info about this, and it was around $3m per episode in season 4 for BB. Mad Men was somewhere between $2m and $2.5m. $3.3m, as per the Netflix deal, seems on the high end, but not out of the ordinary, especially for a Marvel property rather than a random one-off show. Also to consider is that it's a Netflix show, which AFAIK usually have higher budgets than the Marvel deal (House of Cards is $4.5m, OITNB is just under $4m, Marco Polo was $9m). Netflix almost getting into HBO territory with their spending on shows.
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byblackraven14250
il 04, 2015 @06:37PM
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Attached to: Are Bug Bounties the Right Solution For Improving Security?
Do you think everyone only owns one hat?
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byblackraven14250
h 31, 2015 @04:27AM
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Attached to: Microsoft Rolls Out Project Spartan With New Windows 10 Build
The other thing I'd like to point out is that the majority of people who hear the code names (rather than the release names) are in tech circles. Windows has a reputation for bloat in said circles, so calling it "spartan" is likely an attempt to appeal to the tech crowd.
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byblackraven14250
rch 25, 2015 @08:44PM
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Attached to: Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home
Remove those laws and the free market would push Comcast right out the door.
Unfortunately, infrastructure doesn't work the same way as other businesses. Those laws are an impediment, but they're definitely not the thing that when removed will create a surge of new providers.
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byblackraven14250
ch 14, 2015 @11:34PM
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Attached to: How To Execute People In the 21st Century
Anyone who has breathed a little too much from a can of whipped cream and passed out could have told you it would be a pleasant way to go.
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byblackraven14250
ch 14, 2015 @11:25PM
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Attached to: How To Execute People In the 21st Century
And that nobody is willing to supply the Propofol should tell you that some nation is stuck in the deep and dark past on this issue (and apparently has some problems with manufacturing some medical drugs...).
It's the EU saying "we don't agree with your stance on the death penalty, therefore we're going to do whatever we can to stop you". Meanwhile, they're ignoring the fact that all the other methods that were used in the past are just going to come back, since they're the second best option, and cause shortages in hospitals.
That's not even getting into the arguments about life vs. death, or reformation of prisoners. If I were guilty of some horrific crime with no chance of ever being free again, I'd sure as hell rather be put to death than be locked in a cell until I gradually die of more natural causes. Life in prison vs. death isn't even the right framing for the argument - it's a slow, confined, drawn out death vs an expedited death. I've never seen a logical reason for holding someone for a life sentence without parole besides the inaccuracy of the justice system. That's a problem, for sure, but is in no way affected by whether the death penalty exists or not.
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byblackraven14250
ch 14, 2015 @07:29AM
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Attached to: FAA Says Ad-Bearing YouTube Drone Videos Constitute "Commercial Use"
Big businesses are also big enough to find their preferred equilibrium between upfront costs and liability in case of disaster.
FTFY.
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byblackraven14250
rch 11, 2015 @10:49AM
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Attached to: Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available
I think he's going more for the "here's just one random example" than "here's the specific example I'm excited about".
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byblackraven14250
06, 2015 @07:24AM
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Attached to: Robocops Being Used As Traffic Police In Democratic Republic of Congo
I think it's just so great to see such a stereotypically 3rd world country supporting people learning engineering in that manner.
On the other hand, I think it's disturbing that 3rd world engineers are making the more developed areas of DRC, like the ones with giant robotic cops, look like they're living in a futuristic dystopian police state. The concept of having a towering robotic overlord giving me instructions and watching my every move doesn't sit that well, and I'm not from bumfuck nowhere, DRC, where substantial portions of the population believe in sorcery and animism. They just added a cop lookalike shell to things we'd consider normal, like traffic lights and roadway monitoring cameras, but in the process made those concepts far more disturbing.
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byblackraven14250
ch 05, 2015 @04:38AM
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Attached to: White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills
Just because your personal identifiers were collected does not mean they constitute data used to draw conclusions. I don't understand why you would amplify such untruthful, misleading statements on this matter; are you motivated by partisanship?
They don't really have a bearing on the study. They would, however, absolutely be covered by the proposed law (HR 1030), which is the problem here. If your SSN, DOB, or anything else is collected, it's required to be publicly accessible online. It is, for the purposes of the law, a "recorded factual material" that needs to be "specifically identified" if it's "scientific and technical information" used to support any "covered action" (which is almost everything the EPA does). There is no exception for personally identifiable data in this section.
IANAL, however, I am unable to find a (legal) definition for the term "scientific and technical information" (or "technical information", or "scientific information") in Title 42. If there's no definition somewhere in there, or somewhere else applicable that I'm not looking, this bill is a Supreme Court case waiting to happen, and the EPA will lose multiple years of being able to do nearly anything beyond their current capabilities thanks to litigation. Once that's over, the EPA may still have to provide personally identifiable information, depending on how the court rules.
It looks like simple legislation, since it's only 2 pages, but it leaves open a ton of questions that need to be resolved through litigation if it is passed.
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byblackraven14250
h 03, 2015 @06:39PM
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Attached to: Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial
I don't know if Russia is a good place for someone like Snowden who likes to expose government corruption.
It is if he only exposed the US government's secrets, and doesn't intend on exposing more about Russia.
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byblackraven14250
ary 23, 2015 @09:22PM
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Attached to: Is Sega the Next Atari?
They're also the only 3D Sonic titles that didn't suck. Panzer Dragoon didn't get a Dreamcast game either, IIRC.
As for the other games you mention, there's quite a few that weren't really "Dreamcast" games, but rather arcade ports - that's basically what kept the DC from having effectively zero third-party support, since they got amazing, accurate ports of what could be argued as the best arcade games out there at the time. Specifically, that relationship between NAOMI and Dreamcast also garnered them Capcom's support, and Capcom was churning out an incredible number of hits and absolutely in their prime years around that time. MvC2, SoulCalibur, Resident Evil, Power Stone, Street Fighter. Two of those were in the over-a-million group for DC (which is only 7 games), the third is one of the most popular fighting game series of all time, if not the most popular, and the fourth is one of the other contenders for that title.
Without Capcom, Dreamcast would have been truly dead to quality, exclusive third party mass-market development. There were other quality titles out there, like Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver and Tony Hawk, but they weren't exclusive (both were ported from PSX) and as a result didn't bring enough to the Dreamcast to make it THE console to own.
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byblackraven14250
ary 23, 2015 @08:49PM
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Attached to: Is Sega the Next Atari?
Yeah, the thing is, I only ever remember playing the one from Sonic Adventure. Looking it up, there's quite a few games that had either no minigame and/or no ingame functionality.
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byblackraven14250
ary 23, 2015 @09:55AM
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Attached to: In Florida, Secrecy Around Stingray Leads To Plea Bargain For a Robber
There really has to be some sanity here: the weapon must be able to cause grievous bodily harm in order to justify heavy sentences. A BB gun doesn't qualify unless a butter knife, Bic pen, and flexible drinking straw count as well.
Stab someone with a butter knife or Bic pen, and you'd still be charged with the same "assault with a deadly weapon".
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byblackraven14250
ary 23, 2015 @09:51AM
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Attached to: In Florida, Secrecy Around Stingray Leads To Plea Bargain For a Robber
So I don't it being relevant who runs the prison providing it abides by standards.
You mean the standards set by the politicians who are paid by the private prison lobby? That's the situation we have today.
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