It's about poles (huhuh)

The phone companies own all the poles. Part of their public charter for using a bunch of land and easements says they have to lease space on the poles to other companies. The cable companies pay the phone companies who pay the government. Exactly how that all works out is different nearly everywhere.

You know that most TV shows are now shot in Canada, right? And, in most action films, most of the action takes place in eastern Europe, where it's a lot easier and cheaper to pull permits to film in cities. More film scenes are shot in Georgia than California these days. Three production studio lots have closed or gone bankrupt in Hollywood over the last few years. Paramount was talking about leaving or downsizing a couple of years ago, but the state gave them a huge tax break to stay.

So, nobody cares where films are shot. The studios will go wherever it's cheapest, and the actors will stay in a nice hotel for a few months then go back to California.

Everybody thought the film would be a total loss, so I'd expect that $50M is all up-front money, and they aren't getting any points. My understanding of how actor's contracts work is that their points were most likely bought out too, so I don't think anyone is getting any profit the film will make except the distributor. Keep in mind the actors have all already been paid at this point, that's what the film's budget was for. The question is, if their points were already bought out by having WB shelve the movie, do they still get them if they un-shelve it. It's all contract stuff.

That being said, the film is *just* breaching into profitability for the distributor ($100 million gross profit split 50% with the theaters equals $50 million, which is what the distributor paid.) I'd wager WB is never getting their $20 production delta back, but might make it up in merchandising rights.

Possibly because they were working for a large landowner whom provided certain services in exchange for their work. If you want to subsistence farm, you need to work a LOT. Most Amish farmers, for example, work 10-14 hour days year-round.

I hadn't heard of Grawn, but I do know Chum's Corner and, right next door, Interlochen, one of the best performing arts schools in the midwest.

For the vast majority of human history, the only options were to grow food or starve to death. If you have to work to survive now, what would the other option be? Other people work to provide you with food, clothes, internet, energy, and entertainment and you don't have to do anything?

You are absolutely free to go back to subsistence farming if you want. It's backbreaking awful work and nobody wants to do it, but you'll own everything you make (except for what you have to give up for property taxes of course)

If the crash happened in some other county the joke would be funny, but this happened in Grand Traverse. Check out the median home price there. Mission Point is home to a few wineries, and Boeing execs from Chicago have their summer homes there. A few years ago Traverse City built a new pier that can accommodate the larger yachts, as that was apparently a problem.

Assuming other countries haven't already deployed space weapons. We know Russia has military jamming satellites in very high orbit. I've always assumed that there have been some kind of satellite in orbit that can be weaponized, even if it's a regular military communications satellite that just happens to have some extra maneuvering fuel and a couple of extra thrusters that can be rammed into other satellites.

From what I've heard, they scan for open WiFi networks and auto-connect to upload data. They don't tell you that they are doing this.

My son went through high school having been assigned a total of three whole-book reading assignments. Most of his reading assignments were newspaper articles, short stories, or single chapters of books. When I went to high school, I was expected to read at least two books every summer, then several more per English class.

It's a choice made by teachers. My younger daughter had one teacher had her class read four books throughout the year. It was middle school, so they were shorter young adult books, but she had read more than my son did throughout all of high school in one class.

Best I've ever used is the old Syntrillium CoolEditPro, before Adobe screwed it up in the later versions of Audition.

Second best is Live. It's fairly intuitive for doing basic things. It gets iffy when doing more complicated track layouts, but all DAWs do.

It's competition. Keeps everyone on their toes. So now you have Boeing, SpaceX and Blue Origin all competing for contracts. Having one vendor is how you get Boeing's Starliner budget blowing up by 50% and nine years overdue. Why execute when the government will just keep paying you money as there's nowhere else to go? Keep in mind, most of the companies that built the old space capsules, and the space shuttle, are all part of Boeing now.

Then why support said hardware longer than any other cell phone manufacturer? They could have been just like Motorola or Samsung or Blackberry and provided two years of software updates then abandoned it. Seven years later my 11 Pro is on the latest version of iOS. Crap my 5S got an out-of-band security update a year after they dropped official support for it entirely. That's ten years after it was released, and seven years after they stopped selling it. Here's another fun anecdote. I bought a dirt-old $50 Intel iMac with a firewire port to play with some equally old firewire audio gear. Plugged in a network cable, started up holding CMD-OPT-R, and it happily connected to Apple's server, downloaded and installed the latest version of MacOS X for itself. This thing is old enough to vote and Apple still will install an OS on it.

Let's be honest, you're going to be using a Linux box for that stuff, even if Apple still sold a big tower with a bunch of slots.

It's funny people keep bringing this up. After seven years I'm still using my iPhone 11 Pro and see no need to replace it. In the same time frame my coworker has gone through two Galaxy S phones. The first hasn't had an OS update in four years. The second isn't going to get the latest OS update, so he's looking to upgrade again.

Cell phones used to have a usable life of a year or two. Motorola would completely stop supporting Razers after two years. You might get two years of device support from Blackberry, maybe a bit more if you were using their server software. Nokia was a bit better, Samsung was a bit worse. Apple supporting software updates for five to seven years on consumer devices is unheard of.