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The days when Microsoft was the Evil Empire... I don't miss them (or catering to Internet Explorer), but they have been overtaken by the current crop of Evil Empires. The new age of turning your consumers into the product has done indescribably greater harm, and appears next to impossible to...

The defining statements of this entire mess have been NSO proclaiming that both 1) its software has never been used to hack the reported victim list, and 2) it has no awareness whatsoever of how nations use its software. These conflicting nonsensical statements make it clear that NSO operates...

The signposting is a bit weak at times - they should explain certain things as they go along, such as Aiel essentially being a warrior society of one-person armies, and that they invaded the continent over an insult by one nation cutting down a sacred tree. There is a whole depth to the story...

That Perdue statement makes me want to vomit. If the funds are so desperately needed, for a crisis that your company created, why don't you just freely donate them?

A misinformed consumer is easily parted from their money. Idiocy? No. Greed? Yes.

Many politicans are sociopaths, and people are willing to elect them. Honestly, it's scary how easy it is. A little hate, a little social exclusion, and we're off the races on a ridiculous set of policies guaranteed to result in thousands of deaths. And nobody is accountable, least of all the...

There has to be a challenge somewhere, otherwise what's the point of calling it a "sport"? There is no profit in boring.

It's a tricky concept - is he a psychopath or a redeemable man? The movie leaned towards the second by showing his reaction to killing someone who he appeared to respect. From there, redemption is not a massive leap though it will take a lot of work to be believable. I think they'll mine heavily...

Doubtful. Time travel as described is just not realistic. If you want to be slightly more imaginative, your atoms may occupy all possible places in time and your perception of a flow is an illusion due to entropy. Time travel is then irrelevant - there is no travel possible. You are always there.

Men can sense women chanelling (a kind of chill or goosebump feeling), but not the other way around. So...the opposite of Logains' description. I assume Nynaeve has been promoted in script terms to ta'veren to explain the raging sun (vs freezing arctic) comment, or they just decided the audience...

Logain is a minor character until very many books down the road, but the audience's musing would have been rewarded in a sense...

I think it is a pity that they haven't intro'd more of the central history to explain the stakes. The Dragon being responsible for sealing the Dark One back into its prison, and the Dark One's final act of vengeance being to corrupt the male aspect of the One Power (leading to insanity), is kind...

That was IBM's sales pitch. I'm not which sells better for investors, Google's gun jumping or IBM's modesty. We might need a psychologist to answer that one.

BF often just changes things that aren't broken, just for the sake of it. Losing the simple class system is a massive loss. I can already feel the pull towards some mashup of LMG and Engineer (my usual preferred classes for suppression and being a complete PITA for vehicles), and I haven't...

With planning inevitable for Hubble's successor (for visible light), I hope they learned a lot from from Webb. This has cost far too much in money and years, and it's not even possible to service it if anything goes wrong. This approach seems like a dead end for future telescope proposals - I...

I'm sure having your baby explode (intentionally) weighs heavily on driving costs down too. Watching SpaceX put together rockets over Youtube still feels like reality diverted us to the Twilight Zone sometimes.

BO's perpetual planning has really left them in a terrible place right now. Reputationally, the accumulation of lost contracts, scheduling delays, competitor successes, and rocket delivery complaints (unofficial, of course), don't add up to a company you want to throw cash at. Well done, Astra.

This is where I get lost. Compared to most Sci-Fi shows, I found the writing sharp, and the directing was more than adequate. Set and location design was fantastic. I'm not sure where the problem is other than people want it to compare badly to the anime series.

Fight choreography felt just fine here - in fact, I'd go so far as to call it excellent. It is definitely style over substance in places, but it doesn't go overboard. Some might prefer a more grounded fluid choreography, but wasn't this an anime series? Speaking of...I've never seen the anime...

The new model is global, and Hulu is not. Netflix, Prime and Disney+ have benefited from taking in money directly from outside the US. The US market is less than 50% of Netflix's revenue, and they are pouring money into international content too to bolster that. They remain far ahead of the...