IMHO, "most popular" is the default. I'm not sure how others feel, but that's how I see it.

perfect, thanks!

I have no idea how I got this in my head, but I thought Rackham was supposed to be Turkish? I was so confused about the face tattoos until I realized he was supposed to be a Pacific Islander.

I thought the issue was that they were classified as 501(c)(4) organizations which, at least nominally, are supposed to promote "social welfare". Including political campaigning and raising money for your ideological brethren is a pretty broad reading of the law, I think.

Well done. Are you by chance aware of any counter-attacks U.S. government or companies are conducting against Chinese or other attackers? I think it's warranted considering how much they try to steal and destroy on our end of it.

Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to enlighten us on this!

I find this doubly hilarious because Rubio's religion, Catholicism, has recognized that evolution is true. His pandering to ignorance is likely for political reasons, but it is quite amusing.

My mother is among them, I know your pain. I like to bring it up with her though, because the pope is an absolutist monarch and has complete say over his peasant masses, so she usually has to concede...small consolation.

Is it too much to hope for a re-do of the prequels?

That was all part of the experience. It was to show you what the internet looked like ages ago...

I think Netflix learned some lessons over the last couple years. A year or two ago they got burned by the big studios who demanded enormous compensation to license their content. Then, the whole "qwikster" debacle infuriated a lot of its customers. Early last year (I think) Starz pulled their lineup from Netflix. So, they mused that if they got into the content business they can cut out the middle men in studios/production companies and not pay more licensing fees. Logically, this is really the only way they can stay in business with ~$10/month subscription fee. They will have to become a content creator in their own right to make it work. I'm not saying this is the best way for this to happen, but I honestly don't see how else Netflix can keep doing what they're doing.

This is true, the only other streaming service I think of is Amazon Plus, so for now that aren't that many players. The thing that frustrates me the most are distributors like HBO. I love HBO shows...almost all of them really. But guess what? I can't watch a single fucking episode of ANYTHING unless I sign up for their premium cable package OR INDIVIDUALLY buy each season or TV show collection on my own. Would it not be better for HBO to simply license its content out to services like Netflix instead of locking their stuff up in a vault? I don't know, I guess I'm not their accountant either though.

Thanks!

How quickly nature can destroy what man took years to build.

I think the "next big thing" won't strictly apply to consumer tech. It will likely be in energy, manufacturing, robotics, transhumanism, genetics, or medicine. Who knows, really? We're living in a transition period. I think many of us feel the same way that the people who lived through the beginning of the Industrial Revolution feel. Dislocated, confused, somewhat aloof to all these lightspeed changes that are happening all around us. If someone told me 10 years ago that we would be on the cusp of manufacturing basic car parts in my own garage for my driverless car, I wouldn't understand how that would be feasible. We're heading into uncharted waters here BLOB, hold onto your butt!

Lol, there is definitely reason to be conservative in this case I think...

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