and half a world away, another butterfly does too.

not nearly as exciting. boo, science!

...perhaps it sends the message that what you are able to do, and what you continue to do effectively is more important than what on-paper tests you've passed.

the board member did not effectively research the candidate...whether or not the CEO works out in the end is of no consequence.

it is, and it isn't.

if we weren't so pedantic, the buffers wouldn't have the need to store anything.

insightful modifier is insightful.

no problem at all - it's just that the fine point of the paramount mouthpiece is being missed and ignored.

I guess it really depends on how LCK formed his venture...but i'd say for the sake of this argument, any value he paid to himself was salary...not profit.

profit is what belongs to the organization after salary/lease/interest/tax is paid. in this case, it sounds like there was zero profit, although LCK made a tidy salary. in order to "monetize" the project, it would have to show a profit, which it did not, because LCK didn't fudge around with a budget - he didn't need to.

it's a fine point, but that's the idea behind the paramount statement...technically correct, but fundamentally flawed.

while this is a subtle sarcastic jab at the big studio, it's not far from correct, but it isn't entirely insightful, either.

to monetize is to turn a profit. If Louis CK paid all of the salaries of all the workers (including himself), paid all appropriate fees and whatnot, and sent all of the surplus from the gross proceeds to charity, he didn't monetize. Al Perry is right in saying that he didn't monetize, because there was nobody to turn that profit over to.

HOWEVER, his assertion that profit should drive art/entertainment is what we should take issue with. profits are for corporation or group-funded ventures, not individually founded enterprises. the whole corporation=person loophole has killed his perception.

how many shoggoths?

maybe they're worried that the windmills will loosen the soil, and they'll all take off, eh?

well now - my simple-minded interpretation of this request makes me wonder - if you provide an unencrypted copy of anything, how do they expect to verify that what you're giving them is what's in the encrypted document/folder/partition?

if they aren't compelling the accused to provide the passphrase, and that can still be kept secret, then the actual encryption itself is still an 'untrustworthy' variable...isn't it?

"no, this is the only file in there...'thr33 littl3 piggi3s.txt'. I promise."

surely i'm missing some finer point here, but the point of the encryption+passcode is to keep the payload unknown, and unknown=unverifiable in my world.

you're right. that IS weird. he should have been arrested for that alone.

i'm building an ER in a zeppelin.

this both gives me the chills, and doesn't.

no, *that's* what they want you to think.

Say what they mean, mean what they say.

One thing I've always noted about TMBG is that they don't appear to ever sell out or take direction from anyone. Even when they have commercial tie-ins (malcom, mickey mouse clubhouse) it's still obviously TMBG-originated material.

This interview was no different.

that video validated every single nightmare i've ever had