Slavery for me, not for thee.

The attacked country has to request help.

All it takes to make it legal is proper attribution. There are actually publishers that can do this for you. You upload your song, provide all of the proper attribution, and they will blast it out to every platform.

Easy and legal.

All the money I’ve let slip through my fingers…

Fuck that.

Locked in with only a TV to keep him company with Kimmel and Colbert on a loop.

I wish locked-in syndrome for him

It has matured, like milk left in the summer sun.

I can’t speak for anywhere else, but here in Canada, emergency response team is not a full time job (except in the largest metro areas). Members do regular police work until an emergency.

And even if the cities with full time ERT, they rarely respond as a full team. They are often dispatched to assist constables for other duties. It’s very rare for a full rollout of a tactical ERT team here. And even more rare that shots are fired.

Edit: I am in no way a police expert, but I learned a lot when I worked on a rollout of a body camera program.

Alien is an interesting case study.

Dan O’Bannon wrote the screenplay for the movie Dark Star. It was not a great movie. He took his core concept, wrote a new version with less comedy and more horror and that became Alien.

You’re right.

I think a lot of people here are missing the point. It should not be, “I like this thing so remake it”, it should be “this thing had a great idea but the execution was awful so remake it”.

Krill, absolutely. The original was fun but not good.

Enemy Mine was a great movie and should be left untouched.

The Last Starfighter is an interesting one. I don’t think it would benefit from a remake, but because the entire movie is split between the live action scenes and the cheese 80s CG scenes, you could easily replace the space battles with a new version and leave the rest alone.

Or shorten public domain back to a reasonable level.

It does to me. I expected it to be crap. Happy surprise it wasn’t terrible.

I would be much happier if they threw out the fucking cat book.

Every movie now is predictable because they all follow the exact same structure. It annoys me when I can predict what the next scene is going to be. Genuine surprise is rare.

For anyone who doesn’t know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Cat!:_The_Last_Book_on_Screenwriting_You’ll_Ever_Need

“Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen”

• President Pudding Brain

Of course

Get fucked cunt.

What a nonsensical point.

Since you like links;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

“form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that following the logic of a contrary proposition or argument would lead to absurdity”

I need to add

You are setting up a false equivalence. There is a vast difference between a baseless, unprovable fantasy (like alien clones) and evaluating a public figure’s actions based on a well-documented history of psychological projection.

When someone constantly accuses their opponents of staging events and has a documented history of projection, it creates a lack of trust. The reason people question the narrative is because of that history, not because they are entertaining fantasies about the Matrix or alien clones. Equating a discussion about someone’s known behavioral patterns to science fiction doesn’t address the core issue of trust.

More than one thing can be true.

Trump could have staged it.

He could be taking advantage of the situation to push an agenda.

Both can be true at the same time.

The reason so many people are quick to believe is because Trump has a history of projection where he accuses other people of doing things that he himself would or has done. And Trump and his followers have accused so many others of false flag or staged events.

CONSTANTLY

So when you have a history of a guy who’s face shows up under “psychological projection” in the dictionary, constantly accusing others of things, you can credibly believe that he would do those things himself.

I’m not saying this was a staged event, and I have no idea of the reality. But I 100% believe this is a thing he would do.

You know what else will save Linux? Not being in the US.

I know it’s not common knowledge, but there are as many as 3 or maybe even 4 other countries.