Comment Re:One hundred *billion* dollars? (Score 0) 103
Don't forget the F-35!
Don't forget the F-35!
Yeah, I could use one of those too.
I always feared Big Brother's spy camera would come to my house.
What I never even *dreamed* is that not only would we accept it when it came, but that we would voluntarily pay $500 for it and even hook it up to our cable box and home network so it could monitor that too.
Duh, he was that announcer on Saturday Night Live.
And he worked at Blizzard too??
You're right that the Superman aspect of his memorial is indeed trivial. It's so trivial that DC (or any company in their right mind) would have simple approved it with a rubber stamp and maybe (at most) issued a simple statement about how tragic his death was.
It was only by denying such a simple and trivial request that DC's *FUCKING CLUELESS* legal/public relations people turned this into a story, not about a kid's tragic death, but about a company so callous and clueless that it would deny something so simple and decent that wouldn't have even cost them a dime--just out of reflex, it seems. What could have been a simple story about DC letting the Superman symbol be used for a small memorial for a child who died tragically has once again turned into a story about the clueless leadership at DC and raised more questions about the culture-of-clueless-fuckup that seems to so thoroughly pervade that company and every decision they make.
Of course, it also doesn't help that Superman is a classic symbol of human decency--a symbol that DC has sullied yet again with greed and callousness.
Maybe at some point after they're all finally out companies, agencies, colleges, etc. will finally realize that using SSN's as their unique identifiers of choice is dangerous.
Or continue to collect that princely sum of $20,000/year that DC agreed to pay them after the lawsuit forced them to.
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They must have the same guy in charge of their PR that they have in charge of their movie division.
Not to mention that Uber drivers probably aren't paying as much as $1 million for a single taxicab license.
You have to understand the complex mathematics of Airbus' futuristic engineering:
!pilot = !pilot-salary
Planes land with zero visibility all the time.
Yeah, but only when they HAVE to, not because someone thought a cool new gadget would be fucking flawless.
Because it's like my grandpa used to say about volunteers: "Sonny, you can't fire someone for doing a bad job if they're doing it for free. Also, don't trust the jews or coloreds with money."
Are these water-resistant? I wash my hands a lot and would hate to throw $200 away on a watch that's going to die a quick death when exposed to a little water.
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