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Comment Re: Paramount is bluffing (Score 1) 80

They could just flee to Canada though. A lot of production is done there these days because it's cheaper.

The question is, will Canada let them play the same accounting games they play here? Because the reason we won't miss them when they're gone is that movie studios are well known for accounting tricks that make it look like they are losing money when they aren't so they don't have to pay their full tax burden.

Comment Re: Landfills are such a bad idea (Score 1) 165

I live in a crappy house. It's a deco that was built the thirties and it has significant quake damage.

The place I live in is technically a city, but it has small town written all over it. E.g. *I* made the best map of the town (which we needed for CERT) because they are too small to have anyone who can do GIS better than I learned in a few days of monkeying with QGIS. Plus all the other stuff I've mentioned, like they still page firefighters with a siren

Comment Re:Is Bonta an economist now? (Score 3, Insightful) 80

Not sure what credentials Bonta has to determine how the media and entertainment industry is supposed to operate but he sure seems to be confident in his private opinions.

They're supposed to FOLLOW THE LAW. Bonta is qualified to speak to that. Who the fuck are you? Nobody? 10-4, good buddy.

Comment Re: potentially criminal act (Score 1) 108

Ad Hominem does exist, but suggesting or outright saying that someone is too stupid to understand an argument is not ad hominem.

Ad hominem means "from a person" and it is specifically making the argument that some person's argument is incorrect because of something unrelated about them.

This is the opposite! This is saying that something is true because someone's argument is allegedly bad. It is just an insult.

If the statement is "you're wrong because you're stupid" then it's Ad Hominem.

If it's "you're stupid because you're wrong" then it's just an insult.

It's still shitty as insults are for responding to insults, not arguments. When someone has resorted to them for any other purpose then they are generally conceding the point, as it's an announcing that they have no further argument.

When Diogenes said that in a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face, it was an insult, but it was apt enough. Insults have their place. But it wasn't a substitute for an argument :)

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