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Showing that the country does not take it lightly when the upper-class behaves badly, a South Korean court just handed down a prison sentence of one year for the former Korean Air executive who went into an infamous “nut rage” over improperly served macadamias on a flight in December last year.

The former vice president at Korean Air, Cho Hyun-ah (who is also the daughter of the airline’s chairman) was convicted today of violating aviation safety law and received a one-year prison sentence, reports the New York Times.

During the December incident, she ordered a Korean Air plane taxiing at Kennedy International Airport in New York to go back to the gate to deplane the chief steward. This, after she was apparently so angry that a first-class flight attendant had served macadamia nuts in a bag and not in a plate, after failing to ask Hyun-ah for permission to serve them first.

The Seoul district court ruled that her actions had illegally forced the flight to change its route by going back to the gate, and that her conduct could’ve exposed passengers to potential danger.

“She forced the plane to turn around as if it were her own private plane,” Judge Oh Seong-u said in announcing the sentence.

Hyun-ah wrote a letter of repentance that was read to the court, where she apologized and described her adjustment to prison life.

“I know my faults and I’m very sorry,” she wrote.

The judge also noted that her tantrum damaged the “national image” of the country, after it was reported widely in media outlets around the world.

“It is doubtful that the way the nuts were served was so wrong,” he said, adding that berating and physically assaulting the crew members had violated their “human dignity.”

Former Korean Air Executive Gets One-Year Sentence in ‘Nut Rage’ Episode [New York Times]

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With Steven "I don't care for Aliens" Hansen out traveling for work, it's the perfect time to talk about today's free Alien Infestation update for Broforce. We knew to expect good things after seeing the explosive Bro Dredd gif, and this trailer confirms it: '80s action fans are in for a treat.

"Considering that it's only two months late, we're decidedly improving at delivering content," said Free Lives' Evan Greenwood in a press release. Good, good. I'm holding off on playing Broforce as best I can until it's closer to being finished. Early Access and I don't get along too well.

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If you haven't watched all or any of this year's Oscar Best Picture nominees (American Sniper, The Imitation Game, Birdman, Selma, Boyhood, The Theory of Everything, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Whiplash), let Digg catch you up on approximately 982 minutes of movie watching time with this humorous 4-minute summary.

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HBO is still being stingy with the details on its upcoming standalone streaming service, but this morning the network’s CEO did give some vague idea of what the pricing would be.

“It’s a premium product and it will be priced accordingly,” HBO CEO Richard Plepler told industry analysts early on Wednesday, according to Variety.

That would seem to indicate that the $15-20/month estimate that many prognosticators have put on the service is accurate, as it would be about double the cost of Netflix and Hulue ($8/month each), Amazon Prime ($99/year, which comes out to $8.25/month), and about the same as Dish’s recently launched Sling TV, which charges $20/month.

The question is whether or not HBO programming is worth that much. After all, the presumably less expensive Netflix and Amazon have only recently gotten into the original programming game and have already won over critics and fans with originals like House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, and Transparent.

“It’s true there’s a plethora of competition out there, but it’s also true that more is not better,” admitted Plepler. “Only better is better.”

He believes that HBO’s exclusive content like Game of Thrones and True Detective will be enough to woo the hoped-for 10 million users to the new service.

“I like our hand a lot,” said Plepler. “We’re going to get a first look at most everything that we want to make an investment in, in terms of content.”

But what about HBO’s recent decision to give Amazon Prime access to the vaunted HBO library? Prime subscribers don’t need HBO, or even pay-TV, to watch the full archive of shows like The Sopranos or Thw Wire.

According to Plepler, this decision to open up the HBO vault to others has only expanded interest in the network’s new content, saying that the availability of HBO shows on Amazon Prime “only has a catalytic effect of driving people back to the network.”

AOL's dial-up subscription business was responsible for making it one of the most successful global internet companies of the 1990s. And yet, 20 years later — after joining Time Warner for eight years, buying several prominent websites, and undergoing countless other transitions as a digital media company — AOL's dial-up service endures: In its fiscal fourth quarter of 2014, AOL still had more than 2.2 million subscribers. 

To be clear, most subscribers get more than just internet service — some of its subscribers also pay for support and other services. AOL offers several plans, and its average revenue per user actually increased in the fourth quarter to $21.18, up from $20.01.

Based on company data charted for us by BI Intelligence, AOL's 2.2 million subscribers generated 24% of the company's total revenue last year ($606.5 million of the $2.53 billion million total)*, and the number of people leaving the service each month has been in decline, which is pretty impressive considering the subscriber base isn't that large these days. The 2.2 million dial-up subscribers are just a fraction of the ~27 million users AOL had in its heyday, but those dial-up subscribers are still providing a lot of the company's revenue.

*(Correction: This article originally misstated AOL's annual revenue and the percentage due to subscriptions. We regret the error.)

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