Goodwill? In Hollywood?

You must be joking.

And you guys thought the reason for adding Internet connectivity to appliances was to help the NSA.

Come see the Battle of the Appliances! Coming to a home near you!

GE toaster takes out Amana microwave. LG dryer attacks the Hoover vacuum. People run to the streets in terror!

Micheal Bay to direct the movie!

Were they having trouble getting warrants for those sorts of investigations? Even a judiciary that isn't effectively a rubber stamp usually pays attention to that kind of thing.

I wonder how the law treats having all your cheap Romanian labor work via thin clients, so the data never actually reside in Romania?

It's more about they only have the resources to make and promote a certain number of movies, and if it doesn't get a good enough return, it's a poor usage of limited resources. That's why a film can be a disappointment even if it DOES make back it's budget on the opening weekend.

How is it jingoistic when the the US government is actually dumber than the idiot protagonists? If it's propaganda for anything, it's not taking anybody too seriously.

While it's not cinematically exceptional and doesn't featuring astounding writing, the Interview is quite insightful in regards to politics. Also, within the film, trashy media was used to make the world a better place, and the violence that was so controversial was actually not that important to the overall plot, so complaining that it's trashy is kind of pointless in a film whose message is that the dick joke pen is mightier than the sword.

Foundation and Empire? With Gates as the Mule?

Perhaps we could confuse the issue by chanting 'Hosts file'.

Authoritarians have infiltrated both the Republican and Democratic parties, emphasizing different aspects to allow them to feign a tug-of-war. To try and blame a single party is to ignore the underlying problem.

True; but it's all in the same state of free-fall, so the gravity is effectively irrelevant for the purposes of stress on the structure. The amount of atmosphere that it is travelling through, on the other hand, might be enough to make itself felt.

Pretty much identical to what happened to 'Polaroid'. Every corpse has its maggots, I suppose.

Didn't get that model of the Enterprise for Christmas, did we?

It would certainly solve problems. It would finally get people around here to shut up about the flying cars already.

It's that last 10% that really gets you.