And "corn" used to just mean grain.
You're right but they are kinda right. Airlines borrowed heavily from ships because the largest aircraft were seaplanes. The pilot captains then were dressed up like sea captains to fit the theme.
That explains the uniform. I couldn't find an exact reason for the name but it seems it comes from "port of entry". Big airports are ports of entry and then all the smaller ones copied the name.
Hagia Sophia = Holy Wisdom. It's the really big Cathedral the Byzantine's built in Constantinople.
Surprisingly a bunch of that money actually is taxed. The LDS or Mormon Church has two sides, "the church" and the business side that has been around ever since they moved to Utah.
Basically the Mormons moved to Utah (which was part of Mexico at the time) and the church was the government and the bank because there was literally nothing in Utah (outside of Native Americans).
The church then ran literally everything and eventually sold some things and kept others.
Now the church owned businesses still exist (like the billion dollar mall they built in SLC) but they don't use "church" money for that and the money from the businesses is taxed like any other because it's not actually part of the church, just owned by the church. Those companies do make post tax "donations" to the church though so it's not like it's completely separate.
Now if that's actually how things go I don't know, but the Mormons owning a lot makes more sense when you remember their church was also a government for a while.
Should they? Probably not but companies also control hundreds of billions so it's not just a religious problem.
I don't really trust any organization with closed books to have hundreds of billions in cash. Way too much power without oversight.
I think it's like smiling, or being excited. You can't really do too much if it's authentic, but when it's faked it often comes off as really fake.
It's old, but this should be what you need link
I think most people who feel the "speed up of time" do a lot of the same things every day and so when they look back on it it all runs together. As a kid you are growing and changing so much that when you look back it's a lot easier to tell the differences.
So it really depends. If all you do all day is the same thing as yesterday you won't really notice when 500 years go by because you're still stuck in sliver in League.
You do realize that you can have both a water crisis and increased flooding right?
It's the worst of both worlds. You run out of ground water, and then when the monsoons hit harder you get flooding that destroys the infrastructure that is used to store water long term.
Also I was talking long term like 50-500 years from now. Climate change changes things over 100+ years, and is all about large changes. That is the difference between "climate" and "weather" which is short term.
America becomes a desert
Why do so many people think climate change = world desert.
In fact the US South will should get a lot more rain and flooding as increased temperatures in the gulf lead to more evaporation and more water coming north in clouds.
Climate Change is about change, more rain, less rain, rain at weird times, etc. Along with temp, weather, storms, etc.
In fact climate change will be a great thing for some areas of the world ironically as they will get better weather.
The issue is more we built with X climate/weather model in mind and when it's not X a lot of things just won't work as well. But X can be a lot of different things.
We are gonna witness water crisis soon in future
Climate change actually will increase rainfall in large sections of the world. The US south will actually get a lot more rain going forward as warmer ocean water in the gulf of Mexico (which is directly south to the US south) will increase evaporation.
The funny thing is I bet the monsoons in south-west India will probably get stronger and they're going to struggle with increased flooding.
Also I don't know why so many people think climate change = world desert. Some places will get less rain, and some will get more. People get screwed because we build expecting things not to change.
I swear I know trees with better problem solving skills than some people I know.
Yup, WAY WAY too many comments of people saying "We need to be nice to the AI now so it doesn't take over!" or "This scares me because "insert robots from a movie" could happen next year!"
Most people are real dumb when it comes to tech and it's basically magic to them. If you don't believe me ask someone to explain how their cell phone or computer works.
It's scary how uncurious so many people are and so they live in a world that they don't and refuse to understand.
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GW's prices are ridiculous! It's insane how much they charge
also grimdank
Buys literally everything
Box office is split between the studio and the theaters. Generally overall 50/50 in the US, 60/40 (studio geta 40%) outside the US and as low as 25% studio take in China.
So $405 million is instantly split at least in half.
Also you need to add in prints and advertising which for this big of a movie usually is at least $100 million.
Now you end up with a cost of $250-350 million and at most $203 million coming back.
Really that's not awful if the total cost is around $250M but real bad if it cost $350M to make and market as you do have toys, dvd/blue ray, online rentals, etc.
TLDR: Theaters take at least 50% of the global box office. I don't know how everyone seems to forget this. "Box office" = total ticket sales not the amount the studio gets.
People Make Games made a video about all of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGIGA8taN-M - 2hr 30 mins long.
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Two things can be true at once: 1) Robert can be a creative genius that is a bully and a terrible boss to work under. 2) Ilmar (along with other shareholders) stole the company from right under Robert's and Rostov's noses and are using these claims of bullying to make their firing look less suspicious.
To me it seems like it was stolen, but the people that it was stolen from are also on the whole not great people.
I sometimes think a lot of people on this subreddit are really bad with money and don't know what a budget is.
It's funny because I wonder how this moaning and groaning on price would go over in other hobbies full of 25-45 year old men. Golf? Motorcycles? Classic Cars? Watches? Boating? Fishing? Ski/Snowboarding? etc.
Warhammer subs are the only one I see where there is constant moaning about price. People spend $10k on a watch that is less accurate then a $25 dollar one because they like how it looks.
I wonder if Warhammer attracts more people with less money and/or with very poor impulse control. So many "piles of shame" because some people just have to buy literally everything.
If you want to 3d print go right ahead. If you think the hobby is overpriced your right, but a lot of hobbies are way overpriced.
Like anything you should budget, look at what you are spending and compare it with how much joy it brings so you can make an informed decision. You shouldn't whine and moan about how expensive it is and then go out and buy literally every big box GW puts out and act like you are forced to.
Also I think this sub forgets how many people who buy are over 30 and can afford a hobby. I'm over 30 and have spent over $1,000 on Warhammer because I like it but it's still WAY cheaper then my road bike, and that's not even in the same category as car guys or my boss who went 50/50 on a $100,000 wake/surf boat.
Could it be cheaper? Sure, but when your market is 30-45 year old men there is A LOT of money that can made. Just think about how much a single driver (golf) goes for. It sure doesn't cost $500-1500 to make but they sell them all the time.
Yeah that's their point. It just recently made it back to the same population as it had in around 1900.
In that time London went up 4 million, NYC went up 5 million.
Massive difference in housing pressure when you "grow" back to what you had in the past vs needing to build housing for millions of more people.
As someone else said pensions can be risky because if a company folds you loose 50% - to all of your pension.
Non-gov. pensions are not some sure 100% fail safe thing.
That was also my first thought. Cut someone's hand, they burn down your house.
It makes more sense when you realize the laws were originally about food and from a time when people took food weights seriously because you could starve to death.
A "bakers dozen" exists because by law bread had to weigh at least X amount. Anything under and you'd get in serious trouble. If they found out you had been "weighing down" you bread with sawdust or other stuff they might hang you. (This is about European/UK laws pre-US, but that's where we get our laws from).
When 99% of your life as a farmer/peasant in a small town revolves around the weight of food (buying, selling, harvesting, etc) you better believe the laws keeping it fair were strict.
Mess with food and you get revolts, civil wars, and unrest.
"laying pipe" is American English slang for sex.
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