Stuff that isn't happening by mistake.
Those episodes HAD to broadcast on the intended date in order for the pattern to match.
That is a deliberate act they're responsible for.
But WHY should YOU care?
Support Your Troops and buy more Thin Mints.
Just don't ask you to do anything INCONVENIENT.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/amazon-reviews-inside-murky-world-pay-play/story?id=58591525
ABC News
Amazon reviews: Inside the murky world of pay-to-play
By SOO YOUN Oct 19, 2018, 2:54 PM ET
Jeff, a home builder in Lasalle, Illinois, said he bought a battery adapter for his cordless drill on Amazon, and it worked for about an hour before it broke.
So Jeff, who asked that his last name not be used in this story, wrote a review saying just that.
He said the third-party seller emailed him later, asking him to delete the review in exchange for a $30 Amazon gift card. The seller also asked how to improve the product, according to emails Jeff shared with ABC News.
"I figured, Why not? That would cover my loss on the adapter," Jeff wrote in an email. "I ended up changing it to a positive review because I couldn’t delete it. Seller did thank me and sent me a code for Amazon. Sure enough there was a $30 credit in my acct. I was leery of this somehow being a scam but figured I could always put a bad review back up."
(MORE: New concerns about fake reviews on Amazon)
Amazon has been criticized over the credibility of customer reviews as the number of third-party sellers using its platform has skyrocketed, creating a potential cottage industry of fake reviews.
The third-party seller who supplied Jeff's battery adapter didn't immediately respond to an email request for comment.
Recently, Amazon fired an employee for sharing customers' email addresses with a third-party vendor, though it didn't provide details on who the seller was or where it was located. In a statement to The Wall Street Journal, the company also said it was "supporting law enforcement in its prosecution."
It's unclear how questionable such pay-for-play tactics are in the world of e-commerce, assuming they don't explicitly violate the terms and conditions laid out by a company like Amazon, whose Anti-Manipulation Policy states that "any attempt to manipulate reviews, including by directly or indirectly contributing false, misleading or inauthentic content, is strictly prohibited."
"When you hear about a commercial reaction like that, it sounds shady," said Simeon Siegel, an analyst at Instinet, a tech-focused firm that's part of Nomura Securities. "But would we feel the same way if a restaurant manager comped a meal after someone complained? Should we be thinking about it through an old-school lens, when some sort of compensation would be implicit?"
In September, Amazon confirmed the company was investigating a Wall Street Journal report that employees had offered to disclose sales data and delete negative consumer reviews for third-party sellers in exchange for payment. It's unclear whether the recent termination was related to that investigation.
(MORE: Amazon investigating allegations workers were paid for confidential data, deleting bad reviews)
Amazon didn't respond to a request for comment, but the company's Anti-Manipulation Policy also states: "Customers trust that they can shop with confidence on Amazon. Reviews provide a forum for sharing authentic feedback about products and services -- positive or negative."
The company also told the Journal that sellers found to be in violation of its customer review policy would face discipline. "We have zero tolerance for abuse of our systems and if we find bad actors who have engaged in this behavior, we will take swift action against them," a company statement read.
"Reviews allow e-commerce to bridge the gap of brick-and-mortar stores -- it allows customers and brands to reach a larger audience," Siegel said. "But one part of the equation is the ability to try to make it right."
http://www.tv.com/shows/wayward-pines/exit-strategy-3386650/recap/
tv.com
Wayward Pines Season 2 Episode 4
Exit Strategy
Aired Wednesday 9:00 PM Jun 15, 2016 on FOX
EPISODE RECAP
Xander makes his way to a stream and drinks. Something moves up behind him and grabs him from behind, holding a knife to Xander's throat. It's Adam Hessler, and he asks if Xander is a nomad.
Pilot Movie 1: The Six Million Dollar Man - DVD video
07 March 1973
00:51:18
Steve Austin: Look, I will not work for the OSO, period!
Oliver Spencer: Why? Why? Because you had an experience this afternoon that made you feel a little like, oh, some kind of a Frankenstein monster, eh? And now you hold the OSO responsible for those feelings simply because we gave you those two legs and that arm and that eye to see out of? That what you're talking about, eh? That's what you're feeling? Well, let's cut through this nonsense. We're pressed for time. If the OSO were an artillery outfit we would very simply pick up the telephone and call a foundry and have a cannon designed and built for us. We are not, however, an artillery outfit. We do need a different kind of weapon. A weapon that is potentially far more destructive than a cannon. It must be mobile and self-propelled in the field, under any circumstances over any terrain. It must be able to reprogram itself in the field on the basis of new information and altered circumstances. It must have superior strength, stability, and utter dependability. Now those were our specifications.
Steve Austin: And I'm the result.
Oliver Spencer: You are the result.
Steve Austin: One robot.
Oliver Spencer: No, actually, we would've preferred a robot. A robot doesn't have emotional needs and responses. You do. We have you because you are the optimum compromise in the present state of technology, Mr. Austin. A cybernetic organism. Part machine, part human being. The cyborg. Yes, we've had to settle for that.
Steve Austin: [ with his natural left-hand violently back-hand slaps the crap out of Oliver Spencer ]
Oliver Spencer: Mr. Austin. We didn't order you into the lifting body you were testing. We didn't order it crashed. We merely picked up the pieces and unlike Humpty Dumpty put you back together again. In some ways I think even better than before.
Steve Austin: If only these feelings of mine wouldn't keep getting in the way, right?
Oliver Spencer: Yeah, something like that.
Steve Austin: You know, you're more of a robot than I am.
http://www.tv.com/shows/wayward-pines/exit-strategy-3386650/recap/
tv.com
Wayward Pines Season 2 Episode 4
Exit Strategy
Aired Wednesday 9:00 PM Jun 15, 2016 on FOX
EPISODE RECAP
Later, Kerry parks in the street and reads the file on Xander and the resistance. She then goes into the ice cream parlor where Xander works, and says that Jason is still deciding what to do about Xander. Kerry warns that Jason knows that Xander's loyalty to the First Generation is less than complete... and still worthy of punishment. However, Xander surviving has made him a hero. Xander says that he isn't going to make any trouble, but Kerry isn't convinced. She wonders how he survived outside of the fence
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_War_Medal
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-outer-limits-1963/second-chance-21552/trivia/
tv.com
The Outer Limits - Original Season 1 Episode 23
Second Chance
Aired Monday 8:00 PM Mar 02, 1964 on ABC
Control Voice: (opening narration) When fear is too terrible, when reality is too agonizing, we seek escape in manufactured danger, in the thrills and pleasures of pretending... in the amusement parks of our unamusing world. Here, in frantic pretending, Man finds escape and temporary peace, and goes home tired enough to sleep a short, deep sleep. But what happens here when night comes? When pretending ends, and reality begins?
- posted by Kerry Burgess 1:15 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 19 October 2018
