Apparently the studios finally realized that SAG-AFTRA wasn't going to budge on the issue of "free forever" digital zombies, and caved. Undoubtedly, the movie-going/TV-watching public's overwhelming support for the actors' position on the use of their likenesses and voices "in perpetuity" helped convince them.
But I suspect it was the thought of all that lovely money they weren't making that ultimately turned the tide
Jack's smirking reven observed:
[...] there are no more "laws" in science, just theories that best explain observations.
Leading gardyloo to respond:
Excuse me? That's not at all how scientists use those terms. How are
Not to speak for jsr - who's doing a perfectly adequate and well-modulated job of that by himself, but what I took him to mean is, "There are no more new laws in science." Because he's correct. There aren't.
The scientific community stopped employing the term "law" to describe theories that have withstood significant testing early in the 20th century, because it had become outdated. You know, much like the term "natural philosopher" is no longer used to identify scientific researchers, and for much the same reason.
That's why, for instance, it's still referred to as Einstein's Theory of General Relativiy, rather than as Einstein's Law of General Relativity, despite the core equation having withstood a century of testing, without in any way being disproved in the process.
Meanwhile, the menagerie of 19th century "laws" remains in the lexicon as laws. Because progress
"Subscribers" is a plural noun.
That means the state-of-being verb you're contracting should be "are," not "is" - which, in turn, means that sentence should read "There're near two million subscribers to SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service, with CEO Elon Musk announcing Thursday that it has "achieved breakeven cash flow..."
I'm not one of your haters, but, c'mon. This is grade school grammar you're dealing with. It's simply not all that difficult to get it right
Demonically fashionable
Disco Ninja noted:
The pilot episode of DS9 via flashbacks explores the personal experience of Captain Sisko (though he was a commander in the pilot) during the battle of Wolf 359.
The captain of a naval vessel is always referred to as "Captain," regardless of his actual rank. Likewise, a visitor or passenger whose actual rank is captain on a naval vessel is accorded a courtesy promotion to admiral for the duration of his/her visit, so as to remove any possibility of confusion over who is in command of the ship.
This is one of the many, MANY points of military culture that every Star Trek iteration since TOS reliably gets wrong.
As for Amimojo's praise of SNW's "faithfulness" to TOS, I'd note that - as just one example - in S02E09, Captain Pike refers to the ship as having a crew of 200, whereas TOS established repeatedly that the Enterprise crew numbered 425. (And that, according to canon, Kirk inherited command of the exact same physical NCC-1701 that Pike commands in SNW.)
I grind my teeth over the plethora of writing sins in every episode - and, at that, it's by far the best version of ST since Enterprise
$38,000?
Just how stupid do you have to be to pay $380 for ONE year's domain registration, much less 100x that amount for a century's worth - from a company that might very well be out of business decades before your registration expires?
In fact, given how idiotic this offer appears, it could easily be mismanaged into the ground by the middle of next week
93 Escort Wagon confessed:
In honor of which, my favorite Far Side cartoon.
My favorite has always been this one.
Not that it's an easy choice, mind you
What a profoundly stupid TROLL.
FTFY
jonsmirl blathered thusly:
Yes, don't rip existing people off without permission - some people will refuse, others will be happy to be paid to be an AI voice model.
Way to be completely oblivious to the current situation, jonsmirl.
One of the key reasons that SAG/AFTRA went on strike is that big studios (for which read "Disney") already incorporate language into their contracts with actors that requires them to sign over the rights to use their "voice and likeness" in perpetuity. That means "until the heat death of the Universe."
In a recent interview, Samuel L. Jackson stated that all actors should "cross that shit out" of the contracts they're offered, as he does. But he's Samuel L. freakin' Jackson. He can do that, and Disney will hire him anyway, and meet his salary and other demands, too.
Young actors just starting their careers may not have that option, because the big studios regard them as completely interchangeable. If one of them objects to having their voice and image digitally captured for the studio's use in perpetuity and without additional recompense to them for future uses, their careers are going to be a whole lot shorter than they would be if the studios were required to pay them for their wholly-digital appearances in future productions.
That - among other issues - is why they went on strike. Because the big studios (especially Disney) are already demanding the right to use their digital likenesses and voices in perpetuity without paying them another dime. As things stand today, it's part of the boilerplate language in actors' contracts.
It's abusive and should be illegal - but the psychopathic, MBA studio execs don't care that it's blatantly abusive, because, at the moment, it's not illegal
Eupubor provides a page which page which links to the current version of a DRM-removal plugin for Calibre, and provides instructions on how to install and and use it
gosso920 theorized:
Somebody at Burger King Thailand ordered waaaay too much cheese, and needs to sell it before it spoils.
It's American cheese. It won't even have spoiled by the time the Sun becomes a red giant
Huge, evil company buys big, evil company
How about "animation for grown-ups"
https://slashdot.org/~RickRussellTX speculated:
I suspect this is news because of the way it allows people to bypass corporate and K-12 school web filters.
Nonsense.
It's news because of the way it allows ordinary peasants to bypass paywalls. That makes it, defacto, a tool to circumvent technological protections for IP - which is a Federal felony under the CFAA.
Not that Microsoft's executrons are in any danger of doing jail time for that, but there is an extremely remote risk that the company itself could be fined for "making available" such utility
t0qer opined:
What a day to not have mod points. I don't see anything wrong with your comment. It's an actual quote, actual facts. The only troll/flamebait I see here is the CEO. If mods want to be mad at anyone, be mad at the CEO who said and did this stuff. CEC-P is just pointing out what was said and done.
So, "everyone else who isn't a delusional lefty was right" somehow isn't trolling?
You and I clearly have different definitions of the term.
The facts are facts. The quote is real - but the spin CEC-P puts on it is purely political.
The CEO's claim about diversity was an obvious smokescreen, as his denigration of "old, white men" makes clear. He was unquestionably a psychopath who hired and retained only people who wouldn't contradict him. Another "reality distortion field" MBA asshat, who was clearly convinced he could bend the laws of submarine engineering to his dominating will, and prove all the experts wrong, merely because he needed them to be wrong.
The dichotemy here is not between left and right. It's between sane and delusional
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