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  • If you mean compilation soundtracks-

    Baby Driver

    Last Night in Soho

    Guardians of the Galaxy (the first one)

    Back to the Future


    If we’re taking scores –

    LOTR as already mentioned.

    Loki Season 1

    Sneakers (1992) if I’m in the right mood.

    Just about any John Williams: A New Hope, Last Crusade, Empire of the Sun, Far and Away, etc etc

    Star Trek VI: TUC (the overture, especially)

    Tron: Legacy

    Finding Nemo

    Wreck -it Ralph



  • You have to see the huge logical leap you’re making in your main point, right?

    Just because some of Jesus’ disciples believed they saw a resurrected Jesus isn’t scientific proof that he was resurrected. It just means they believed he did.

    You’re searching for facts in a realm of faith. Either you believe or you don’t. If you only believe in something that is proven, then you don’t have faith, just conviction.

    “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Heb 11:1










  • $250 is a rounding error for most international business travelers. That’s the cost of one moderately nice business dinner for 3 people. Between airfare, hotels, and meals, that’s less than 10% of the cost of almost all international business trips, with the possible exception of some quick jump from Toronto to Detroit for a lunch meeting.

    Same for a lot of international leisure travelers.

    This is a filter to keep ‘the poors’ away





  • Outside of the awesome ‘national parks’ answer from someone else, I would have to assume the best cost-to-surface-area purchase in the world would be really cheap land in the American West, Australian outback, Russian tundra, Canadian North, etc. Assuming it doesn’t have oil on it, some of those areas, land practically given away. Sometimes you can get governments to pay you to take it on and try to do something useful with it.

    If you consider that ownership usually includes mineral rights for miles under the ground, this really starts to look like the obvious choice of your looking for volume, not just area.




  • As a photographer and the spouse of a writer, they are making massive profits off of a product that wouldn’t exist if they didn’t train it. By the very way the technology works, there’s a little bit of our work scattered in everything they do. If I included a sample of a piece of music in a song I recorded, or included a copyrighted painting in the background if a movie I was making, is would have to get a license. Why is this any different?

    They should have done something more like a commodity license as it exists in music:

    The composer of a song cannot prevent a new artist from recording a cover of their music if it has been previously released. The original composer is legally forced to grant them a license (hence “compulsory license”). But that license is at a pre-negotiated minimal rate. The new artist is free to try to negotiate a lower rate if the composer agrees. But the original composer can’t stop the new artist from recording a cover. And the new artist has to pay them for it.

    Unfettered access is granted and the composer gets their share. Win-win.