A witness swears that you robbed him. The police arrest you and haul you in to court. Would you like to be able to cross examine the witness? Or would you be fine with that person staying anonymous because your real accuser is the prosecutor and you are welcome to "face your accuser?"
It's not a newspaper's job to hide facts
This is the really weird thing about the whole mess. The whistleblower laws protect a whistleblower from government retaliation, but do not guarantee anonymity. There is no law against government officials naming him. There's definitely no law against media naming him, and you would think his name and background would be highly relevant to the story. And yet the media keeps stumbling over themselves to cover this up in a way contrary to their alleged core mission.
No price cuts for you.
This is not true. I've done software work for a hospital billing company and yes, the charges were set to high multiples of what Medicare would pay. But if someone was self-pay, they instantly got something like a 66% discount, which brings it back down closer to what commercial insurers would pay.
That there exist crazy people sound likes a fully general argument against doing or saying anything that might set off crazy people. In the case of the pizza place, the crazy guy was there to "save kids." What's the crazy guy's motivation for going after Ciaramella? It can't just be "he did bad political stuff towards Trump," because that covers millions of other people who have not been harmed by crazy Trump supporters.
And as the AC said, the fact no one has gone after Ciaramella despite his name being frequently published in the sorts of place where Trump supporters are is pretty strong evidence that Ciaramella has nothing to fear from Trump supporters.
Also, the whistleblower protection laws shield them from retaliation and the like. There is no guarantee of anonymity. And it certainly wouldn't apply to the media if there were. That the media also goes well out of their way to avoid naming the guy is also pretty strong evidence of media bias. You've got one of the biggest stories of the year and they don't want to name names?
Those parents don't keep the photos of little Bobby in the bathtub in a folder marked "BAD STUFF" though.
I thought there was an article on Slashdot a few months back about how shitty the cybersecurity of crackers is? Just because they know how to break into somebody else's shit doesn't mean they bother being smart about securing their own.
Not knowing things is fine. My problem with her is that she has no motivation to go on the adventure to fight the space nazis. Luke has 5 explicitly stated motivations to go on the adventure: 1) he hates Tatooine, (planet farthest from the bright center of the galaxy), 2) he's interested in space politics ("you know of the rebellion against the empire?!"), 3) he wants to fly military ships (tells Owen and Beru he wants to "join the academy"), 4) he wants to bang his sister, 5) he wants to learn the ways of the force and learn more about his father. So when Obi-Wan says "you should come with me to Alderaan" his choice makes sense.
The only thing Rey ever expresses is her desire to stay on Jakku and wait for her parents. So when she rescues Finn and hears about the mission to get the droid back to the Resistance, she should say "oh, great, you take the robot I'mma go wait for my fam." Since she has no reason to go on the adventure, J.J. has the bad guys attack, forcing her into the next scene. Repeat when they get away and are safe with Han. She would go back to planet and let Finn and Han go on with the droid if given the chance to choose, so J.J. has the gangsters attack.
She never gives any indication that she cares about space politics, or fighting, or the force. Nothing but her parents, and nothing she's doing has anything to do with her parents. She's doing the Star Wars stuff because she's in a Star Wars movie. I haven't seen RoS yet, but I have no idea how to finish the sentence, "I can't wait to see Rise of Skywalker so I can learn if Rey finally accomplishes her goal of ______." I don't know what goes in the blank.
Mario Odyssey sold over 15 million copies so far. That's far from dead.
Video games are not dead. There are lots of amazing games out, more than I could ever possibly play.
"Here’s what I think I know. J.J. wrote Episode VII, as well as drafts for VIII & IX," Ridley said.
Ridley is speculating. Johnson would be in a better position to know definitively. Either Ridley's speculation is wrong, or Johnson was flat out lying in a direct interview.
It's very obvious that Disney expected Johnson to pick up the draft Abrams had left for him and had the basic outline ready before he wrote a single word.
Abrams did not leave Johnson a script, an outline or anything like that.
How much of the story of “The Last Jedi” was dictated to you, either by events in “The Force Awakens” or by Lucasfilm?
I had figured there would be a big map on the wall with the whole story laid out, and it was not that at all. I was basically given the script for “Episode VII;” I got to watch dailies of what J. J. was doing. And it was like, where do we go from here? That was awesome.
So there’s no one telling you that your film has to contain certain plot points, or that certain things have to be achieved by its end?
Nothing like that. But it’s the second film in a trilogy. The first film got these characters here. This second movie has to dig into and challenge these characters. I wanted this to be a satisfying experience unto itself. I didn’t want it to end with a dot, dot, dot, question mark.
This is the problem with Abram's "Mystery Box" style of writing. He thinks it doesn't matter what's in the box, so long as the audience is presented with a mystery, they'll be happy to see it solved. No, the mystery matters.
Also, Johnson smashed the box, anyway.
The problem with Rey is that she's a shitty character with no motivation or reasonable explanation for her omnicompetence. Then the marketing department sells this as "strong female character." They didn't bother writing a good character because they thought having a female character was all that mattered.
But Star Wars should be retarded easy to get right. There's piles of EU source material. Pick the best of those things.
And then you've got the thing where they saw something in the first movies, and now that becomes the Standard Way of Doing All Things Forever. Obi-Wan wore a desert hermit robe in A New Hope because he was a desert hermit. Then when George is figuring out what the Jedi should wear in the prequels, he has them all wearing desert hermit robes. No, those were not Jedi robes. They were desert hermit robes. There's no reason for the Jedi to be wearing desert hermit robes in the giant techno city world at the height of their power and prestige.
In the Mandalorian, Mando keeps his bounties encased in carbonite for delivery because that's how Boba Fett transported Han in Empire. No. The carbonite facility was part of the gas mining operation on Bespin, and not standard issue bounty hunter stuff. Vader was experimenting on Han to see if the facility could even be used for this purpose at all so he could freeze Luke and bring him to the emperor.
Anyone is going to seem like a dud next to Harrison Ford. He is literally one of the most charismatic people on the planet.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
