I don't want a home cine. I just want to hook up my TV and watch movies on it like we always did in the 1980's and 1990's. I don't want to have to do advanced research to be able to hear. My dad and my father-in-law really don't want to have to do research.

The results most people are looking for is not theater quality surround sound.

Adopting socialism to own the Sauds.

Who cares if the Saudis "win"?

The episode is "presented by Geico" because it costs CBS so much to host the video at Youtube. Geico presumably paid the costs.

Bitcoin Gold is a fork of the original Bitcoin. Don't use it unless you know what you're doing.

Trump put in National Space Directive 4 for the Defense Department to work with Congress on establishing a Space Force. And he's been talking about it for longer than that. And the House and Senate have been working on what it looks like in the National Defense Authorization Act for months. It's not a surprise.

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Ok boomer.

Texting before/instead of calling isn't cumbersome. It's just good manners because me having to interrupt what I'm doing to take a phone call is insanely cumbersome. If you're calling out of the blue it had better be because somebody is dead. If not, send a text. And don't text to say "call me" - say what you want to talk about, so I can prioritize it.

These stats are pretty dubious. I can hit the "I believe" button for some, like a 23% drop in electricity costs. One day in five not in the office... sure, a one in four drop in electricity is close. But a drop in paper usage of over half? That's either not accurate, or it's not attributable to taking Friday off. It could be "we cancelled the meeting on Friday where everyone brought a ream of printed materials (that no-one read)," but tying that to a day off isn't believable.

The more important number is the near-40% increase in production. And the reason it's not believable is they're going to try a four-day workweek again, but only next summer. If I'd tested the workforce and got a 40% increase in production by giving them a day off a week, I'd keep the change permanent. Right away.

Now, why wouldn't they make it permanent immediately? Well, it could be labor laws, which make all kinds of things illegal. Or it could be that they really think it's something else, like the fewer meetings that the article mentions. But it stretches credulity to say that you can get a 2/5 increase in production while dropping hours by 1/5, and the company doesn't make that change permanent, immediately.

I am not a cinemaphile at all, and I've noticed it. "Hey, why the heck does this show look like a soap opera? What gives?"

If both Trump and the democrats are criticizing this and talking about regulating or prohibiting it, we should be extremely suspicious. Anything the government dislikes that much is bad for them and good for us.

Twitter is down, and I didn't know what to do with myself, so I came here.

The cost of file sharing is much more sustainable. We should eliminate copyright so libraries can make video works available to everybody.

I used to patrol Wikipedia getting rid of self promotion and spam. But I got tired of dealing with Wikipedia policies being so ridiculous.

Also, on Android there's already a great app called Screentime that parents can use to manage their children's devices. I think it's pretty lousy and hypocritical of Apple to introduce a similar feature with the exact same name. Do they believe in intellectual property and trademarks or not? Do they want theirs respected?

This sounds a little bit confused and muddled. I can't tell if the motivation here is:

1. App developers might be spying on your kids
2. Apple already has a feature to do this and doesn't want competition.
3. It's legitimate for a business to know everything that happens on their devices, but not legitimate for a parent to know everything that happens on their child's devices.

None of those endears Apple to me, and my wife just read this story and said, "Well, that seals it - our kids won't have any Apple devices."