Because most cinemas are multiplexes, and that much extra work doesn't scale (pay three kids to work at the concession stand, or 12 to individually patrol each of the screens?). There's a duplex cinema in my town that has the concessions right betwixt the two rooms, with a window in the back whence you can order, but I can't imagine the Benthamian clusterf@%! that would create at a decaplex.

And yet Waterworld eventually got into the black ...

And price-by-the-carload admission. At least, when I was a kid and you could put three or four of them in the back seat where they all fit with just g**damned seat belts.

By "reserved seating", do you mean the complete BS practice of selling out all the tickets to a film ahead of time so that there's no room at the inn for me when I'm the only person in the fscking building? Because that has no place in a movie theatre setting -- that only makes sense for live events, like a concert or play, where there are professional performers whom you have to make enough money to pay a specific amount to those humans; films, however, are already paid for n showings or a percentage of the ticket price -- I'm not entirely sure, but I've seen movies where I was the only person in the cinema, and they still ran the thing, so it has to be worth doing, and you don't need to sell out the house beforehand to make it worth showing a movie.

A movie theatre should be a place you can go to when you have an hour and a half to spend, and they accommodate your $20, not something you have to plan three weeks ahead and hope you can get a vacation day for -- because it's a passive, prefab entertainment (unlike a football game or a comedian) that I can get the same exact same thing out of by watching it at home (it's McDonald's, not Morimoto).

You forgot Congressmen.

Actually, it's 0.00. But many of the 2400 articles they sampled were less than 10 years old. Noticeably, the rate jumps up to 2.58% in 2002, and then continues to climb a pretty steady by 0.365%/year after that, with a slightly higher uptick between 2006-07.

I'm not entirely sure what to take away from that, but it does seem that the more articles WP adds, the less people care about writing them properly.

TFA measured "Average misspellings as percentage of sampled content", up from 0 in 2001 to over 6% now.

Or that the "D" guy is really an "A" (just look how much work he's got to do!), but the "A" man is really an "F" because in expecting to get paid for doing three times as much as everyone else he "displays a persistent bad attitude". Hell, in my last job they literally stuck me in a broom closet for an office so that when hiring decisions came up (I was a temp for 2 years) they could give preference to the girls who took sick days to get laid or the guy who, when he was actually in the office instead of jail, went around asking if unicorns were real.

"I am maintaining the integrity of being real" (TFA quote) is exactly what Bigfoot needs to be telling more reporters.

Because the men programming the systems never have another opportunity to hear a woman's voice telling them what to touch.

Or you could just middle click.

You've clearly never looked at a photo of a girl on MySpace or a dating website. Phones are always held in front of bathroom mirrors, so it all works out.

The whole point of state universities is to put your HR bimbo's favourite football team at the top of your resume so that she doesn't have to read any qualifications or make a critical decision. If they stop taking all the local lugs, how will anyone ever get hired?

That would come out to £2548.28. And here I thought £2000 was a literal ton of money.

(Note that while handing it over would be your civic duty, you can probably get a helluva lot more from a private collector.)

Which means there was an 11 year period where the fax was every bit as useful as it is today.