axeil posted:

Goodbey creepy pajama man, no one will miss you

awesmoe posted:

resigning lets him dodge the house ethics committee investigation that was going on

twice burned ice posted:

10x that Farenthold is the latest 'victim' of the #metoo movement.


Thank god that creepy gently caress finally is gone.

Gyges posted:

From SAG

Who is entitled to receive residuals?

All performers hired under or upgraded to a principal performer agreement whose performance remains in the final product. This includes performers, professional singers, stunt performers, stunt coordinators, pilots, dancers employed under Schedule J and puppeteers.

quote:

Dividing up revenues generated by soaring sales of DVD's becomes contentious issue in egotiations over new three-year film and television contract between producers, represented by Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, and combined bargaining teams of Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Radio and Television Artists; dispute has raised possibility of actors' strike; consumers, who in 1996 spent $6 billion buying VHS tapes and $9.2 billion renting them, will spend $24.5 billion buying and renting DVD's and VHS tapes in 2004, and nearly 80 percent of that will go to studios through their home entertainment division; studios have refused to change home video residual formula for creative talent guilds, which puts only fraction of pennies of each DVD sale into hands of most actors, writers and directors;
...
To understand just how the formula works in the age of DVD sales, however, look at Dave Chappelle, star of "Chappelle's Show" on Comedy Central. Mr. Chappelle's show is wildly popular on cable -- a limited audience compared to network television -- with around three million viewers. Last February, Paramount Home Entertainment, part of the Viacom conglomerate that owns Comedy Central, bundled Mr. Chapelle's first 12 episodes into a DVD boxed set. It shipped just 35,000 sets to the nation's video retailers. "Paramount just dumped the DVD out there," said an executive who helped broker the initial employment deal between Mr. Chappelle and Comedy Central and who spoke on the condition of anonymity. To the amazement of studio executives, sales of the boxed set, which included many of the words that were bleeped when the shows were broadcast, had reached 2.2 million units by the end of November, and had returned close to $37 million in wholesale revenues to corporate parent Viacom. Mr. Chappelle's reward was a renegotiated deal with Comedy Central that will also earn him several dollars for each future boxed set of DVD's sold, paying him a total of around $25 million a year. The reward for the rank-and-file actors who performed on "Chappelle's Show"? They will divide 12 cents for every DVD sold

Ague Proof posted:

He was already ein sexmonster but his district is super super Republican.

I'm guessing their internal polls were troubling enough.

Nth Doctor posted:

Why? He announced in December he wasn't running again this year.

canepazzo posted:

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/982363921238589441

W...what

canepazzo posted:

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/982363921238589441

W...what

canepazzo posted:

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/982363921238589441

W...what

Flip Yr Wig posted:

Out of curiosity, do you mean this as a general (and justly earned) insult, or is there some actual dirt on his academic qualifications going around that I haven't heard about yet? please dish

Chimp_On_Stilts posted:

assume Shucks is speaking in bad faith until proven otherwise.

Rinkles posted:

that last bit's pretty redundant

VitalSigns posted:

Do stunt performers get paid in a percentage of sales (no). Only big name actors can get contracts like that, other than them it's the executives and shareholders who suck up all the extra profit from DVD sales abroad.

VitalSigns posted:

Do stunt performers get paid in a percentage of sales (no). Only big name actors can get contracts like that, other than them it's the executives and shareholders who suck up all the extra profit from DVD sales abroad.

Anyway glad liberals can stop pretending to care about the welfare of a guy in China when discussing trade policy, they don't.

I don't think IP shouldn't exist (if we're going to stick with capitalism anyway) (although I do think copyrights ought to return to their original length rather than being extended every time Disney needs to keep its IP out of the public domain), I'm just pointing out an example of the inconsistency and hypocrisy in the arguments for free trade, where sweatshops abroad and unemployment at home are defended as charitable endeavors to help the Chinese, but the welfare of the Chinese goes out the window the instant they do something a capitalist doesn't like.

Timby posted:

I'm watching CNN right now, and is Wolf Blitzer completely shithoused? He's barely competent with people.

CascadeBeta posted:

You idiot. You loving moron.

Trump didn't put the tariffs on China to improve working conditions.

Gyges posted:

From SAG

Who is entitled to receive residuals?

All performers hired under or upgraded to a principal performer agreement whose performance remains in the final product. This includes performers, professional singers, stunt performers, stunt coordinators, pilots, dancers employed under Schedule J and puppeteers.

VitalSigns posted:

Duh.

However if we hadn't been so eager to let capital crush US labor and take advantage of sweatshops we probably wouldn't be talking about it because an orange idiot wouldn't have been the only major party candidate in decades talking about how much the US worker is getting hosed.

skylined! posted:

lol the owning is sizzling

vitalsigns is a bad poster

Party Plane Jones posted:

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/982354102989418503

theflyingorc posted:

it is far better to be a worker in china or india now than it was 20 or 30 years ago

enraged_camel posted:

man, im getting ready to buy a house and it would be great if the stock market stopped going down

just kidding. i am getting ready to buy a house but i hope the whole thing crashes and burns even if it affects me negatively!

Timby posted:

I'm watching CNN right now, and is Wolf Blitzer completely shithoused? He's barely competent with people.

BobTheJanitor posted:

This is actually really neat, and I'm not sure what popehat's freaking out about. (Unless the joke is 'this is what it would read from my subvocalizations' and I'm just reading the tweet wrong.)

BobTheJanitor posted:

This is actually really neat, and I'm not sure what popehat's freaking out about. (Unless the joke is 'this is what it would read from my subvocalizations' and I'm just reading the tweet wrong.)

As an anti-social cowering baby who would die of embarrassment at the idea of shouting at my phone in public, the idea of being able to invisibly issue hands-free commands and receive audible responses that only I can hear is fantastic. I mean, it would need to be less obvious than that big face covering white strip, but I'm sure that's just the prototype version.

Also, it's too bad this technology is coming a little too late for Stephen Hawking, as something like this would have essentially allowed him to hold real time conversations.

Push El Burrito posted:

Azhais posted:

Yeah, if you're going to just scream endlessly about the potential abuses of a new technology, start with this instead:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/darpa-funded-prosthetic-memory-system-successful-in-humans-study-finds

Lead out in cuffs posted:

Re: Peterson, and in support of Lowtax's new neck, I give you:



E: at least, once it's cleared its way through the forums or whatever needs to happen. It's on the list of smilies already at least.

BobTheJanitor posted:

Also, it's too bad this technology is coming a little too late for Stephen Hawking, as something like this would have essentially allowed him to hold real time conversations.

Uncleanly Cleric posted:

Tell me you aren't in the Seattle market. Our property taxes have gone up 20% in 3 years...

Hollismason posted:

So how long before that device is used to get confessions

enraged_camel posted:

im in austin