According to Rules 2 and 3 of the official Academy Awards Rules, a film must open in the previous calendar year, from midnight at the start of January 1 to midnight at the end of December 31, in Los Angeles County, California, and play for seven consecutive days, to qualify, except for the Best International Feature Film, Best Documentary Feature, and awards in short film categories. The film must be shown at least three times on each day of its qualifying run, with at least one of the daily showings starting between 6 pm and 10 pm local time.
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The Best International Feature Film award does not require a U.S. release. It requires the film to be submitted as its country's official selection.
Actual rules are linked by the Wikipedia page a PDF.
Perhaps this could tax the huge data centers being built in the USA, which tend to get huge local tax incentives. But, if I had a data center I was trying to kit out, this would encourage me to setup shop any place other than the USA. (Latency matters, but not equally for everything.)
Ugh, definitely one of those passages where the translation matters. Several versions of the Bible are no where near suggesting the soldiers are attacking him, nor using "lēstēs". Granted the Bible has been heavily edited over the centuries, and I cannot read the original.
Didn't Nancy Regan, wife of former USA President Ronald Regan, did this as well. (Ronald was apparently not mentally fit for the last few years as well.)
"But if the "single entity" does not buy enough (because the government cut the budget), THEN PEOPLE DIE!" - something I vaguely remember from debates one time the US considered possibly offering something approaching centralized health care.
I don't know how the fuck it works. I assume the "single entity" just buys more and the government doesn't cut the budget?
No written records, but "we" have found bones and pottery.But yes, it is all extremely unclear and one should not draw many conclusions or generalities from those.
According to "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow, if one were in the Americas, it could have been pretty okay. Depending on the tribe, a selfish person could have been exiled and many people's competed to be generous.
Rousseau and the European Enlightenment struggling against the weight of the Catholic Church, may have presented an overly negative view on life long ago. (Source is also "The Dawn of Everything".)
Keep a 13-inch TV around?