J Aitken

Is this another ongoing to run parallel to Scorched, or a mini series?

Recognize her own song in a "name that tune" contest against Anne Hathaway?

Interesting. I was under the impression Quebecor/Lebonfon sourced their paper from Resolute which mainly harvests in BC and Quebec. Mind you its been years since I've sent a project to em. We usually print in China now.

The dumb thing about the pipeline is that the stuff is printed in Canada, so you get hit with the 25% shipping it south, only to ship it back up to Canadian stores.

No. That would be this movie.

Some actors who I don't want to get sued by are very particular about unretouched footage being leaked, and even how many people get to see it in production.

The best part is when I'm listening to something downplaying the work while actively working on a shot for that production.

It's kind of like the gutter in comics. Sometimes you are forced to be an active participant whether you like it or not, and your imagination determines your culpability.

I keep an emergency pack at my desk just in case.

Local bears and deer like to let em sit for a while until there's enough fermentation to get a buzz on. Watching drunk animals is quite entertaining.

I'll just stack it with the two boxes of Carrion Empire I bought when I swore I was going to start playing Age of Sigmar. That's how this hobby works, right?

The proposed contract says that writers can use Ai if they choose to but cannot be forced to, and studios have to disclose the use of Ai to writers doing rewrites. So a studio cannot author their own Ai, but they can option it from an outside writer.

Yes, but the posts in question weren't all links to news sites. Some were just posts made by users.

These were individual posts, not news posts.

Right up there with yawn induced tongue cramps. Don't know when that became a thing.

James Fell uses hate emails, tweets and fb messages to market his sweary history books, sender info redacted of course. Always good for a laugh.

The graph you show would also take into account the substantial drop in rent in Vancouver and Toronto when people left and could work remote. When they were forced back into the office, the rents were well above what they were when they left.

As I said, rents went up as soon as legally possible. Many large cities passed rent control legislation during the pandemic. Most of those bills were removed last year. Some even removed previously existing rent control. As soon as that happened, rent jumped a ton in most middle to large cities.

The Feds are looking at another interest rate hike because our inflation is terrible. The heads of our major grocery chains were called before Parliament to answer for the prices we are seeing in our stores that defy the known costs in the supply chains.

March-Dec 2020 the initial CERB ran. The more lax EI ran until last year. Canadians are so pissed at the rapid rise and lack of reset in the cost of living that the Conservatives are looking at a Federal majority next election based on current polls.

Simple supply and demand. If people have more money to spend, some will be willing and able to pay more than others for the same thing. A seller can charge more. Bread and milk in corner stores went up substantially in my town.

Through the initial program, March 20, 2020, and it continued until Sept. 26. Then they rolled it into the Employment Insurance program where you could get almost an extra year at 2k pretax a month.

Maybe it didn't happen where you live, but as soon as that lockdown money started being dispersed, prices went up on all kinds of things that weren't affected by supply issues. The handouts stopped, but the prices didn't fully reset because the market showed it could bear it.

If a market has an increase of $200 in their budget, sellers will increase prices accordingly. When the Canadian government did 2k a month, rents all over the country went up as soon as legally possible. My house value almost doubled. This was still going on long after lockdowns were lifted.

It doesn't change the curve at all, it just shifts it. This has already happened in the countries that did a temporary UBI during lockdown. Prices went up because purchasing power went up, and it's not going down to the levels it was before. They went up as high as the market could bare.

When your code doesn't work and you have no idea why, or when your code does work and you have no idea why. Equally frustrating.

I believe his point is that without a control on necessities it is meaningless. If everyone gets 2k a month to start in UBI, landlords can just raise rents and food and staples can just be raised to pick up the slack in disposable income.

This is my favorite Cagney film. It was one of the first dvds I ever bought from TCM.

I worked for a game studio that helped on their new game engine. While the people in the trenches at Amazon were great, the total lack of industry minutia/jargon comprehension by management and stakeholders was baffling and disillusioning.

Exactly what I needed to fill my Heavy Metal hole. I wish it wasn't just a one-shot. A quarterly anthology would be awesome, but I know the metrics on anthologies aren't usually the best in the long run.