The point is that people are investing vast sums of money to create elaborately-packaged boxed sets that are simply too vast to be actually enjoyed (apparently, the new boxed set Thunderbirds will include heavily restored footage that simply wasn't capable of being included in earlier releases), and upscaling a puppet show to 4K and still have it watchable is far from trivial -- those puppets were never made to be seen on such large screens at such high resolution. The scale of investment into making this publicity stunt and boxed set is incredible, the cost of the set isn't low, and the value of the material that's in the set - even to die-hard fans - isn't nearly as great.

Goblin/Guardian: The Lonely and Great God is an even more extreme example and includes 270 minutes of backstage footage, a large pack of publicity photos, scripts, and a tacky plastic sword. It's an extremely limited edition special collector's edition and the resale market is pricing it as though it includes a couple of solid gold ingots. People will certainly binge-watch the episodes once or twice, which will undoubtedly be in much higher resolution than the rare streamed versions, but not even the afficados will be watching all the making-of footage and the scripts will doubtless be on the Internet somewhere. Unlike high-end sci-fi, though, the storyline is simple so the difference between the scripts and fan-produced transcripts won't be vast. (It was a very good storyline, I was impressed, but it was hardly a case where the tiny nuances matter.) But K-Drama is milled in unimaginable quantities, so much so that many series just can't pick up any kind of audience and are abandoned. It's not produced for repeated watching and the odds of any show, however good, being repeatedly watched (the way fans repeatedly watch LoTR or SW) is essentially zero. But someone had to trawl through all the footage to put together the set, make the booklets, etc, and that wasn't cheap. The boxing is elaborate.

The importance of storytelling is high, but none of these are sophisticated stories. They're all pretty much on-par with Smith of Wooton Major - a great little read, but not one I'd pay £500 for, even if they did throw in a plastic sword. I'm not convinced anyone is buying these sets for the content, even though the content is enjoyable.

The degree of investment is phenomenal, the sophistication of presentation is exceptional, and the fans are buying in quantity. I'm just not sure what the benefit is, on either side.

When there are billions of dollars on the line, that is going to draw some very, very well-resourced attacks. I don't know if that's what happened here, or if Jaguar's defenses and mitigation plans were just THAT bad. But making a public example this disastrous, of a company that well-known, is like a huge shot in the arm to the extortion industry.

When the Taliban has a more progressive stance on abortion than you do... maybe you're on the wrong side of history? Unlike Republicans, the Taliban allows abortion in certain circumstances.

Iranians refer to themselves as Persians, and prefer to be called that. They are rightfully proud of their heritage, the great Persian empire. That being said, half the Iranians I went to college with were decent (read "westernized") people, while the other half were complete dogmatic jerks.

I might have a huge cultural bias here, but if you're idea of politeness consists of lying to people, and then expecting them to argue with you, then your culture sucks. Of course, I am one of those idiots that takes everything literally, and I believe in being blunt about everything as well. How do you train logic to deal with something illogical? (Remember the one question Spock couldn't answer: "How do you feel?" I was rolling on the floor laughing at that, the best line ever in any Star Trek movie. Then I looked around the theater... and nobody else thought it was funny.)

Heck, I'm pretty sure an AI is running slashdot!

Microsoft mice and keyboards are now made by Incase, not Microsoft. I have like the Microsoft mouse and keyboard in the past, but like I said, I'm pretty sure they bought the rights to those designs from someone else. My only problem with Microsoft keyboards have been related to "Pepsi syndrome", i.e. they stop working when you spill champagne on them.

Pretty sure the Holy Bible contains much more interesting hallucinations. The Talmud was originally a compendium of human knowledge, much of it from oral folklore. So a lot of it was based on observation, albeit not on double blind testing.

Now explain why Santa Claus discriminates against poor kids.

Something like "E pur si muove!"

Remember: The Vatican forgave Galileo! It only took them 359 years. "And yet it moves!" (E pur si muove!)

Some of the best philosophers of all time were Catholic monks. For all the harm they have done, they Catholic Church as also been the most prolific patron of the arts. Many brilliant scientists still believe in God. There are links, but they are more tangential than direct.

My experience at Microsoft is that they are much better at buying hardware that works than they are at designing hardware themselves that works. They have better software talent than hardware talent. That being said, I'm not the person to judge how great the Microsoft “butt hinge with butt straps” patent is... (That's a real patent, but apparently it was filed with the wrong company name.)

Pretty sure that there are scientific journals that anybody can buy their way into, just like "Who's Who". The peer review comes from people reading the journal, I don't think there is much prior review of submissions. If everyone was acting in good faith, then not weeding out wild ideas too early would be a GOOD thing. Throwing out lots of ideas an letting the marketplace of ideas decided was a societal good... until we came up with technology that is much, much faster than humans at writing up wild ideas. The flip side is that with that much AI slop out there, any journal that accepts AI slop is going to be flooded with slop. In the interest of remaining in business, they are going to have to do some serious filtering of submissions now... which was probably the point of the original article.