Presumably he still needs to be elected as a minister of parliament, or whatever they call their equivalent, though, to be in the running for PM, right? Does his constituency just...not care that he's been under a very public corruption investigation for a while?

As a kid, its very bored dudes looking at fields all day and slowly shuffling around when I'd rather they were showing anything else. It didn't help that "Sunday after cartoons" was prime Golf time.

Golf isn't a mainstream sport. The only reason broadcast even cares about it is its a small audience that's very, very lucrative to target advertising at, since they're willing to throw lots of money away at random luxury goods. So viewing numbers are pretty much always going to be terrible for it; most people don't care, and if anything despise the sport.

There's a difference between media meant for children, and media meant for families. I can't actually think of very many "classic" animated films that are specifically meant for children; most things targeted at children are generally reviled (see: Caillou), or at best tolerated (ex: Barney), because in targeting exclusively children, they usually give up anything even resembling a plot, or anything else of value to anyone over the age of 10. But the Oscars are notorious for having its members literally just ask their children what their favorite things were when it comes to voting for the animation categories, both on nominations and winners, so its not at all surprising that something where the dialog is nothing but platitudes was still nominated.

Honestly the notion that animation is solely the domain of small children is offensive. And Oscar recognition of that false idea doubly so.

He trained Garoppalo, who's already been tossed by the wayside by the same team, so I don't know how much value his "training" actually has.

And with that, the last of the old guard is gone. It's a shame to realize the News Hour is essentially dead now, almost literally. And somehow Robin McNeil is outliving almost everyone else.

I have a couple of smart devices, and a couple of the features are useful. Being able to shout "where's my phone?!" and have it start just ringing is super convenient. Being able to set quick timers, especially when I'm cooking, and don't have a free hand is nice. And I've set up one smart light switch in my garage; the switch is in a spot that's not near any doors (its technically over a workbench), and its difficult for my wife to reach, so adding voice controls to it makes it actually useful.

The Nevers was DOA. Joss Whedon was radioactive before the premiere, when all the drama regarding Justice League was coming out. Then he went and doubled down on his woe-is-me schtick 8 months after the premiere, and no one was buying the bs he peddled, so there's no chance WB would have picked it up again, even without Zaslav's axe of destruction carving a path through programming.

That's why I'm surprised. Murder I know is state, but "assassination of sitting federal officials" I'd think would be covered by federal law; there's a bunch of things you can do that are "covered" by a state crime that have a federal equivalent when either something crosses a state line, or federal officials are involved. It's especially surprising considering they apparently have made going after the family members of federal officials a crime, when going after the elected federal officials themselves in general isn't. Especially frustrating because I'm sure its against federal law to go after federal judges or FBI agents. But looking it up, even going after the sitting President isn't a particular federal crime...or at least wasn't until 1965, I'm not sure. Aaaaand now I'm on a list.

That covers the attempt on her husband, but it doesn't cover that this was an attempt on the Speaker. Not a particularly effective one, but its a brazenly admitted one. Though its a pleasant surprise to hear that there is a Federal crime for going after family of officials.

I'll admit, I was confused by the headline, and the article doesn't go out of its way to clarify, that that's why he's not being prosecuted at least for attempted murder, given the hammer to the head. Though I'm also a little surprised (attempted) assassination is not a Federal crime at all.

Not even. We've seen other companies tackle VR, and we've seen other's tackle "Online virtual world that's just a replacement for a real world". Both of them have been massive failures, because at their core, there's no main stream reason for either. Sure, most people can enjoy VR for 30 minutes, but to most people shoving a heavy appliance on their face that 100% blocks their view isn't something they want to do every day. And most people don't want to have a fully 3d avatar to do their online meetings. Combining them doesn't turn this into something most people want. He's taken two dead end technologies and combined them, and is surprised they're not printing money like they do in the books he read growing up.

Fun fact, even in France, a stop sign says "Stop". Just about the only place you'll find "Arret" signs is Quebec.

I get what you're saying...its also a problem to be close to the size/weight of any US coin. But even in the US, the Susan B. Anthony itself was a problem; some vending machines would register it as a quarter, and it became a problem in in-person transactions both ways, with some people not even realizing the Anthony was a dollar coin (similar to the problems some people have spending $2 bills), and other people mistakenly giving it out instead of quarters. So Canada was trying to match the design (bad on its own) of a poorly made design (compounding the problem). There's a reason they only ever bothered minting the Susan B. Anthony for 4 years, and eventually replaced it with the Sacagawea dollar.

The Susan B Anthony Dollar coin, that was famously phased out of existence because both people and vending machines had problems differentiating it from a quarter?