Interesting Links for 14-09-2012

[andrewducker]

• How Buzz Aldrin's communion on the moon was hushed up
  (tags: moon religion space astronauts )
• Intel predicts 10GHz chips by 2011 (the first comment is _awesome_)
  (tags: intel technology speed )
• A Dozen Android Features Missing From iOS
  (tags: iphone ios android )
• Publishers Hate Money, Clearly (Stross, Doctorow and Tor all try to do the

Comments

[woodpijn]

"Vue Cinemas, where a regular popcorn and soft drink costs £8.25, say food and drink is an optional extra and customers are free to take their own snacks in."

Interesting. I thought you weren't allowed to bring your own food and drinks in, and a few years ago we read through the small print on the website and confirmed this. But it must have changed recently; the only restriction I can find on the website now is "Hot food brought from outside of the cinema may not be consumed on the premises."

[andrewducker]

That's my understanding too. Or I can assure you I'd be in there with my own, nicer, cheaper, food!

[channelpenguin]

I have always taken my own snacks in to cinemas. I absolutely doubt the legality of any attempted bans on such. (though, I could well be wrong!)

[cartesiandaemon]

Hm. I think most people smuggle stuff in and they selectively enforce it as a form of market segmentation.

I never questioned that it was legal -- it's their private building, why can't they exclude on whatever criterion they like as long as its not discriminating against a protected class, or fraud, or whatever?

I guess there could be anti-monopoly rules that apply (eg. microsoft not allowed to prevent you using non-IE browsers with windows), but it seems really unlikely to apply to food+cinema in a single building in a single commercial transaction.

[ipslore]

"But before he was Cosmo, he was Derek*.
...
*His name is not actually Derek."
I am amused.