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Comment Re: Paramount is bluffing (Score 1) 111

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) 168

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:Excuses sound a little... fishy? (Score 1) 115

I had to look up the rules for larger "mandatory" vessels... and the result surprised me. Large vessels are required to have VHF radios and maintain a watch, but not on channel 16! They're required to maintain a watch on two channels, the bridge-to-bridge channel, 13, and the Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) channel, which varies from location to location. I guess the theory is that if there are distress signals that the vessel needs to respond to, they'll be routed to the VTS channel by the Coast Guard.

Either way, it sounds like Zuck's crew wasn't maintaining the required radio watch.

If they were monitoring the Coast Guard VTS channel and the boat that came to help was monitoring channel 16, the latter could easily have arrived before the Coast Guard forwarded the request to the VTS channel.

So I would say it is at least somewhat plausible, but only if his yacht falls into that larger vessel category.

So... I dug some more.

Yes, his vessels (both of them, the yacht and its tender) fall into the large vessel category but Frederick Sound has no VTS, so both were legally obligated to be listening on channel 13 and channel 16. And large vessels aren't allowed to use one dual-channel radio like small vessels do (mine does!); they have to have two separate radios monitored by two separate people. This isn't because dual-channel radios are unreliable, but because they don't want the crewman who's using one radio to communicate to miss messages on the other channel due to task loading. It's about keeping the two crewmen unencumbered enough to effectively monitor both.

I've never learned much about radio requirements of large vessels, so this was interesting :-)

Comment Re:Is Bonta an economist now? (Score 3, Insightful) 111

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.

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