Rob Reiner had talent, no one denies that - he also turned into a raging political gate-spewing jerk as he qualified for an AARP membership.
He made many excellent movies, more than I can count on both hands, but towards the end... uh, he was 'polarizing'
His audience loves that. He has a team of writers. The late show is a corporate product, not an artistic one. He's at the helm, but it's less of a reflection of his personal ideas and more what his producers think the audience wants. You don't like it? Well...it has a huge audience...
Not huge enough to turn a profit. Not huge enough to keep him on the air. But sure, it's 'huge'.
I suspect his foray into screenwriting is to keep him occupied/employed as he rides out a non-compete clause that will keep him off TV for a year or more... that's just a hunch, and that this project started to take form before his cancellation was announced works against my hunch, but honestly, it think it went from fun idea to kick-around with Jackson to a possible job once he found out his show was being cancelled.
You may want to explore the decision to cancel Late Night w/ Colbert - a show that loses tens of millions of dollars a year doesn't need government interference to be cancelled.
I suspect the reason Colbert is still on the air today, finishing out the season, is because the network would probably lose as much (or more) in severance packages to various staff, talent, the production company and the affiliates that would suddenly have a 90 minute hole in their schedule.. That and at the time of the decision they had nothing to put in it's place...
Look at the cost, look at the ratings, look at the contracts involved - its was nothing more than a solid business decision.
He has some experience writing for TV, again, back in the day.
Writing a segment for "The Daily Show" or a monologue for "The Colbert Report" is one thing, writing (or having significant input) into a quarter-billion dollar project is a bit different.
He's teamed up with his son, and other successful screen writers, so it's not like he'll be writing the adaptation of the six chapters he loves so much by himself.
Remind me, how big is his writing staff on his current interview/entertainment show? My research indicates he has a writing staff of about 20.
I question how much writing he's done since he 'broke out' as a celebrity on "The Daily Show"...
He's got some comedic talent to be sure, but this isn't going to be a comedy movie, is it?
You realize that this change has zero effect on any router, no matter its country of origin, that was on the market last Friday (before this change went into effect) will still be available for as long as the MFG chooses to keep selling them, right?
Lost in the story, every currently approved router is unaffected:
As outlined below, today’s action does not impact a consumer’s continued use of routers they
previously acquired. Nor does it prevent retailers from continuing to sell, import, or market router
models approved previously through the FCC’s equipment authorization process. By operation of
the FCC’s Covered List rules, the restrictions imposed today apply to new device models.
Source: FACT SHEET: FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made
Consumer Routers, Prohibiting Approval of New Models
This order only impacts new routers.
Those industries are responsible for almost 90% of all CO2 emissions.
Is the "Fossil Fuel Industry" actually responsible for "almost 90% of CO2 emissions" or are the customers that buy the fossil fuels and turn them into CO2 emissions responsible?
I think the issue is the consumer, not the producer...
TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne said in a statement that the company renounced offshore wind development in the United States in exchange for the reimbursement of the lease fees
Trump admin is simply returning the money TotalEnergies paid the Biden Admin for some off-shore windmill leases. Seems reasonable to me, the company has found something else to do with the money.
TotalEnergies purchased a lease for its Carolina Long Bay project in 2022 for about $133 million. It aimed to generate more than 1 gigawatt there, enough to power about 300,000 homes. It purchased the lease off New York and New Jersey, also in 2022, for $795 million.
The Government is simply refunding the money the French company already paid for the leases.
Women hold the highest divorce rate
Please, explain.
While heterosexual marriages are comprised of both a man and a woman, and a gay marriage involves two men, are you saying that lesbian marriages are much more likely to end in divorce than both 'straight' and 'gay (2 men)' marriages?
Interesting.
Fulop said he had stopped using Waymo for a time after the January attack and would avoid the service at night unless the company changed its policy of not intervening when a hostile person threatened riders.
What should Waymo do in such cases?
Drive away, potentially hitting/injuring the attacker?
Deploy some anti-attacker device, say a loud noise, blinding lights, noxious gas, tear gas, etc?
Provide defensive weapons to the passengers?
Seriously, what is Waymo supposed to do? It's easy to say "they should do more", but I want to know what, specifically, they should/could do...
At least the article was not: "Dynamic pricing labels are easier for the most vulnerable segments, especially women, children and the elderly to survive."
The real impact will be the elimination of the low-wage worker that used to run around the store changing price tags to match current specials, removing expired specials, and generally make sure everything is marked on the shelves.
Question - Are grocery stores required to post prices on shelves?
Once upon a time, stores had inventory behind the counter, and a clerk handed you items and told you the price...
Then we put product out on the floor - self-serve, and each item was individually priced...
Then we put price tags on the shelves, to reduce the labor involved in pricing items individually...
Now we are going to have centrally-updated shelf tags...
At every change, there were likely vocal opponents that believed it was a scheme to screw the consumer, but the screw never materialized.
If a store ever got caught changing prices during open hours it would kill the trust the store built-up with the customers - no sane business would risk it.
I worked in IT at a large grocery chain, the margin on items is hella-small, typically 2-3%, and while I worked there someone sent us a pre-press copy of a competitor's upcoming advertisement in the local paper. My employer called the police, alerted their competitor, and went all-in telling employees that we don't do things like that and won't tolerate any employees caught doing something similar.
Grocery stores are profitable, but most of their energy is invested in lowering costs to keep prices low, lower than competitors.
Grocery stores are a volume/efficiency play
The answer is simple, regulate the price tags the same way gasoline pump prices are regulated -they can change once per day.
As a practical matter, I'd be more concerned about physicalb(static) price tags being wrong/out of date than I would be concerned about dynamic pricing facilitated by electronic tags.
If prices start changing, customers can take a picture of the electronic tag and demand that price at the checkout.
You're right, Walmart has a history of offering their goods at the upper end of the price spectrum, no one goes to Walmart to save money...
I believe the law is applied to the OS, not the product as a whole - the OS needs to supply user age info it collects from the user to the applications running on it, and GrapheneOS is refusing to provide that response.
The requirement is not just the collection of age info, it is also the ability of the OS to provide that captured age info on demand by any running application - at least that's how I understand this situation.
How many Brazilian computer users are running Windows 11, compared to running earlier editions no longer sold (Win10 and earlier?)
I wonder if the law is only on products offered for sale after March 17, or if it applies to any operating system in use after March 17 - the latter would be very, very difficult to enforce.
In the long run, every program becomes rococco, and then rubble. -- Alan Perlis
