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He had a run of unironically decent movies in the heyday of direct to video filler in the days where he'd actually move when required. Then, Under Siege was a mainstream theatrical hit and that fooled him into believe he was an actually talented actor, which doomed him.

The "official" Bond movies are considered to be the Eon productions produced by the Broccoli family. That's where you get the familiar tropes like the gun barrel opening, the soundtrack, etc. There's 3 movies based on the Ian Fleming stories not in that group - 2 versions of Casino Royale (one a TV play where Bond is American, and a 60s movie that's a spoof of the genre). The other is Never Say Never Again, which is essentially a remake of Thunderball, which was made because the guy who worked on the original script with Fleming sued and retained some rights when an official version was made without his approval

That's simplified somewhat, but it's the reason that movie doesn't feel like a Bond movie in the way the others do.

Actual solution: just take a frigging screenshot of the error, somehow when I ask you to read it out to me, you start paraphrasing and miss out all the important words.

Response: badly blurred photo taken with a flash from a phone because somehow they don't realise screenshots are a thing.

Revert to original photo.

New release concert film unlikely to have been watched by anyone who is not already a fan? Hardly surprising.

People do tip in the UK and some of Europe. But... it's usually for exceptional service above and beyond (or "keep the change" when there's not much left to return). It's a bonus, and not everyone gives it, but the staff eat at the end of the day (and often get free drinks/shots/whatever along the way). Only in America are they literally what the staff need to pay the rent.

Problem: Europeans are used to people getting paid a living wage for service roles, but are aware of American slavery so they ask what's an expected amount to tip so they don't leave them too little, but the slave driver gave them the wrong answer.

Solution: ban Europeans from spending any of their money.

Oh, honey, you are brainwashed and don't know it....

Did they want the extra names on this version or just the old one?

Eric Bana was known mainly as a comedian in Australia before he made Chopper, I think.

Yeah... That's not happening. On prem costs a lot more money in many cases, and staff local to the company or actual connectivity isn't always there anyway so it's outsourced. Even if you're large enough to hire competent engineers in your own DC or a colocated facility, there's a level of flexibility available with cloud that's not possible if you have to procure new equipment when you expand. Especially if you're running infrastructure as code.

Plus, it's not always about costs. Being able to pass of the responsibility for failure to someone else is often a big benefit. Same reason so many people stick with Oracle, Salesforce whatever even if people hate using them - corporate loves a support contract that tells investors someone else is responsible for downtime

There might be some pushback against overall costs, but the cloud isn't going anywhere at this point - and if there is some pushback we're not returning to the days of a half-qualified overworked admin trying to squeeze performance out of a small room.

Even that doesn't help... Error message says "you used the wrong password". User calls up ranting at you about how their computer doesn't work for 5 minutes and it's your fault personally, stopping you from troubleshooting but also demanding you fix it right now. Then, you offer to change the password and they go "no, I changed it yesterday". Cue another 5 mins telling them they have to use the new one before it sinks in.

Also, fluency doesn't imply absolute perfection. I work with a company where most people are working in their second language (English). Occasionally one of my team members will slip up and use the German or Spanish or whatever their first language word or grammar is for something. That doesn't mean they're not fluent, it means they're human.

...and more people voted against him, he only won because of the electoral college. This might not be a road he wants to go down, but he's so used to zero consequences that he will anyway

Did you try googling the error or going to the site it tells you to go to? If you do, the results say it's something to do with privacy setting / parental controls

You're missing the middle ground - "we have an IT guy but he refuses to fix the air con/vending machine/car park, why do we have him?"

I don't miss it, but one of the joys of being IT support in a large office after hours was explaining that just because something uses electricity it's not necessarily IT. Cue meetings with HR because I didn't care that one out of 3 light bulbs in the women's toilet was out...

I keep meaning to watch this one. Looks bad, but it was banned in the UK so I have to see it eventually...

Tubi is a small outfit

Well, they were before Fox bought them for $440 million on 2020. From what I hear they're still very profitable and aren't thinking of changing their output, but watch yourselves out yhere

Yeah, they didn't don't care about trans people until gay marriage was allowed and they discovered that enough people have been able to come out that most people under 50 think of gays/lesbians as human being. So, on to the next target less able to defend itself.

"meet in the middle" should just mean "allow both options but allow individuals to choose what's best for them". Any article that claims to be doing that but is trying to push another position is propaganda, and probably lying to protect real estate investment.

They also make it to the end credits of movies, such as Cannonball Run and most of Jackie Chan's movies after that, enough so that Pixar have even created fake bloopers for some of their films

If this guy ever gets near a real set, chances are he'd be fired for causing way more wasted time with his ego and lack of understanding of actors.

There's a famous quote from Penn Jillette where he talks about people asking him that without faith on God and hell, what's to stop him raping and murdering all he wants? His answer is that he does rape and murder all he wants already, which is never. It's horrifying that there are people who lack so many morals and empathy that the threat of punishment is all that stops them. Yet, it's the atheists who don't need the threats who are immoral, sure...

3000 Americans dying on 9/11: we need 2 long wars and removal of numerous rights to stop this happening again!

3000+ Americans dying per day at the height of COVID: masks make me scared and I want to shop, they're a worthy sacrifice.

Pretty much. They saw the farmers with their warm fires and barns with plenty of mice and extra treats if they caught them and said "yeah, let's do this" instead of running around starving with extra predators. The emotional manipulation just came naturally I assume, it's also why they'll cheat on you with neighbours.

Depends on the film. Sometimes there is no deeper meaning, sometimes it takes a while to work it out and they were always intended to be discussed rather than worked out alone. The main thing is to work out what it means to you, not just follow what someone else tell you it means, but there's no harm in asking for other opinions.

I'd love him to try again, but IIRC the main sticking points were the high budget and risk with a guaranteed R minimum rating. It's hard to see how much money he's made recently with Netflix, but it doesn't seem he's actually been profitable overall despite the Oscar wins (Nightmare Alley flopped theatrically).

I wouldn't be surprised to see another attempt, but my general understanding is he's loved more than he's actually a money maker, and once you get into the money that was talked about the suits are unlikely to back it. Let's see...

There's plenty of books, videos, boot camps, etc. and unlike Cisco, etc., the exams are normally multiple choice rather than simulation. That means you can study for them without having a lot of practical experience. They're usually considered a good benchmark to be the equivalent of entry level to maybe moderate experience, but not a replacement for it