Ace Midnight

Yeah, Tightrope.

That was during that Hollywood "rediscovery" of Louisiana in the early 80s. Southern Comfort, The Toy and Tightrope were all relatively big pictures for their day and both set and shot heavily in Louisiana.

By the late 80s it was relatively routine (Everybody's All American, Steel Magnolias, Sex, Lies and Videotape, Blaze), but this was during this sort of initial discovery of Louisiana as a "cheaper to film it there than reproduce it in Hollywood" period (and of course, prior to the generous film tax subsidies more common now, pioneered by Louisiana in 1992).

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small pecker energy

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Not so much a band name, but would be a good album name.

If we are choosing from the main 4 series (TOS, TNG, DS9 and VOY) - the All-Star team looks like this:

Captain: Kirk
Science/XO: Spock
Operations/helm: Data
Security/weapons: Worf (DS9 Worf is better than TNG Worf #Facts)
Engineering: Scotty
Medical officer: McCoy
Comms: Uhura

#Dealwithit

Picard had his moments - and certainly more "admiral" material and diplomat than (real) Kirk. But, (real) Kirk was a better guy in a fight or uncertain situations.

You want Kirk in command if the $hit hits the fan.

Ask it about the Overton window

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11 years old

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You're correct. They had/have a new one on order.

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Id bet there are 2 million in the LA area alone. Not including San Diego or north and central Cal.

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I mean - let's be logical about it. The very, very "low" estimate is in the range of 10m for the nation. If that's true, roughly 1/3 would be in CA and another 1/3 in TX.

The "high" estimate is in the mid-20s to as much as 30. So, a reasonable estimate for CA and TX would be, roughly, 3 to 8 million.

2 million isn't crazy "high" - it's "I'd be shocked if it was that low."

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Today, most hydrogen is extracted from natural gas, a process that adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

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FFS, why not just use LNG then?


FFS...

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But they aren’t. The owners are making money. It’s no different than the movie tax credits and the Hollywood accounting practices. The key is properly packaging your product, then finding the lowest cost help available that qualify. If the movie takes off you make a killing. But the worst case scenario is it fails and the company folds…but that doesn’t happen until the producers get their salaries.

Look at Yale entertainment. They ran up $50 mil in liabilities and are about to declare bankruptcy…yet throughout their tenure the producers were the first paid and pulled in $175k/mo for their efforts.

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A cynical person might consider this money laundering.