Nobody learned and everyone is still running this crap. And McAfee/Trellix. My work laptop behaves like a machine from 2002 because all of the "security" software constantly eating resources. It would be expensive for companies to actually care about security, so they just all run the same garbage so when they get hacked they can just say..."Whaaat? It's not OUR fault. We were following 'industry standard best-practices'. Don't blame us".

Inconvenience is not an excuse for ignoring the law. If I have a business idea and the only way I can implement it is by breaking the law, it means I can't do that thing. It doesn't mean I can just ignore the law that is stopping me from doing what I want.

It's so rare that Disney is the good guy these days...

Well, they are the same people who keep blocking efforts to end child marriages, so that tracks.

Outer space violates anti-DEI policies by being almost entirely black.

At no time in the past have corporate execs showed such little interest in whether something actually works before betting their entire businesses on it. Hey, they can get free labor...who cares if it's only 30% quality? What's the worst that could happen? The business collapses and they still get to walk away with millions of dollars?

Netflix makes some of the absolute worst movies out there. 95% of Netflix original movies are completely unwatchable. They've adhered to the quantity over quality strategy for years. Making their movies 10% better is like throwing a thimble of water on a forest fire.

"Who asked for this?" Marketing people who wanted a way to get people to watch ads while they watched a movie in the theater.

I saw it in IMAX a couple of days ago and really enjoyed it. I can see it very possibly getting an animated feature nomination, but if it gets nominated for best foreign film, I'll eat my left foot. That's not the type of movie that gets nominated for that category at all.

If I had mod points right now, you definitely get one.

Do know evil.

There's 2 major things you are missing here. MoviePass had to pay the full ticket price for every person who went to see a movie. When Regal/AMC provides the ticket to their own theater, they only have to pay out the cost that goes back to the studio. So, if the ticket normally costs $10, MoviePass had to pay the full $10, while a theater will only have to pay $5-6. The other major factor that makes this plan profitable for the theaters is that most of their profits come from concession sales. Giving out the tickets gets the customer in the door. A $7 drink makes back all of the money they lost on the ticket price. Another $7-20 on popcorn and/or candy adds nothing but profit. In fact, this was part of MoviePass's long-term strategy. They wanted to hit up the theaters for a percentage of their concession sales in return for the added traffic they were sending to the theaters. Of course, the theaters realized they could just make all that money for themselves by running their own plans. MoviePass's model wasn't feasible...for MoviePass. But it is for theater owners.

It's mostly sports. Most people who still subscribe to these live TV services are doing so because they want access to their favorite live sports, which mostly is unavailable any other way...at least legally.

Yes, it definitely SHOULD be (and this coming from someone who only has a TV package for watching sports). It's the most expensive non-premium channel cable companies carry. But it's actually in the contract that ESPN (and ESPN2) have to be part of the base package. Carriers can't charge extra for it or put it into its own tier. ESPN wants to make sure they are paid for every single subscriber, not just the ones who are interested in it. And the carriers go along with this because they know they wouldn't exist trying to sell their service without ESPN.

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Christian Sewing
CEO - Deutsche Bank - Germany
Born: 1970, Germany

Annual: $9,837,410.00
Monthly: $819,784.17
Weekly: $189,180.96
Daily: $37,836.19

How much do you think the average Deutsche Bank employee is making? The ones he thinks should work longer and harder? Do you think their average annual salary is more or less than this guy makes in 2 days?