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Comment Re:How do they know? (Score 1) 266

There is probably an easy answer, but how do other editors know a persons sex, gender, or orientation? I've never been asked that when editing anything on Wikipedia.

They don't - at least, most of the time. You can guess, based on an editor's nickname, but even then, what if my nickname was a name usually used by the opposite gender?

Anyone who has their edits questioned doesn't have to tell people their gender. Likewise, they don't know the gender of the people questioning their edits.

Are there more men than women editing WIkipedia? Undoubtedly. Perhaps it's just due to the fact that you need to spend a lot of your free time in front of a computer screen to become an effective editor, and more of the people that spend their free time that way are men than women. Just a hunch.

Comment Re:Wikipedia is a lost cause (Score 4, Insightful) 266

Personally, I think that Wikipedia should become a platform for anyone to create lists of curated versions of articles. If you're looking at an article on evolution, you could choose to view and cite specific revisions of that article approved by an authority you trust, be that a scientist or a theologian.

Yes, let's encourage people to only get their own opinions fed back to them, regardless of reality. Make Wikipedia exactly like cable news, sounds like a GREAT idea.

Comment Re:They might have the size to push back (Score 1) 72

What detriment?? Studios are making money. Theater chains are making money. Actors and crew are making money. People are clearly being entertained and still going to the theaters in record numbers, despite all the home entertainment options that have cropped up in the last decade. What detriment?

I don't even know what the "kitchen" is supposed to represent in your analogy, and I don't think you do either.

Comment Re:Bankruptcy (Score 1) 72

The theaters are charging exactly the amount that people are willing to pay. If you think they'd lower the prices on concessions if the studios suddenly let them keep more than half of the ticket sales gross, you're a naive fool. The studios know that they make tons of money on concessions, and that's precisely why they can get away with keeping all the proceeds on a blockbuster, because they know the theater still won't go out of business.

In other words, you have it completely backwards, "FYI". And the only people that are to blame for "high" ticket prices AND concessions prices are... you guessed it, the people buying those things at those prices.

Comment Re:Bankruptcy (Score 1) 72

They also still get $9 for a bucket of popcorn that costs .25 to make, or similar profit margins on anything that people buy at the concessions. Outside of opening weekend for blockbuster movies, there's tons of empty seats at every showing, so getting people inside, where most will spend extra money, is a huge side benefit to this supposed bargain.

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