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Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Everything Wrong With John Wick Chapter 2
I hesitate to even post this. John Wick and John Wick Chapter 2 are two of the best movies I have seen in recent memory. I guess CinemaSins says that no movie is without sin.
Shot Caller | Official Trailer
Release date is TBD. I can't really find a reliable source. I think the studio has moved the release date a few times now for whatever reason. Probably Summer 2017.
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An Old Tradition
Barbara Walters did a story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict.
She noted that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.
She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walked behind their husbands, despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime and women seemed happy to maintain the old custom.
Ms. Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, "Why do you still abide by an old custom, that you once tried so desperately to change?"
The woman looked Ms. Walters straight in the eyes, and without hesitation said, "Land mines."
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True Ownership
GM has joined with John Deere in asking the government to confirm that you literally cannot own your car because of the software in its engine.
Like Deere, GM wants to stop the Copyright Office from granting an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that would allow you to jailbreak the code in your car’s engine so that you can take it to a non-GM mechanic for service, or fix it yourself. By controlling who can service your car, GM can force you to buy only official, expensive parts, protecting its bottom line.
As Consumerist quips, GM wants you to know that the car in the driveway is “literally not your father’s Oldsmobile.”
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