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Guerrilla Drive-Ins
An anonymous reader submits "A NY Times story yesterday talked about a new fad sweeping the underground: guerrilla drive-ins. Essentially, someone sets up a DVD player, LCD projector, and wireless transmitter next to any blank wall (preferably on someone else's property - to make it more fun), and people come to watch movies. As you would expect, the movie studios aren't too thrilled." The idea that this is a notable fad reminds of when the residents of Doonesbury's Walden jokingly informed intrepid reporter Roland Burton Hedley, Jr. ("Rollie") about imaginary trends in the college drug scene. On the other hand, anything that knocks down the price of projectors is fine with me!
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Banana flavoured popcorn anybody?
I'm not the only one who had to re-read the headline am I?
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The embarassing thing for the parent is that upon reading the carefully selected "deciets" you'll find that most are small nit-picking, and others are gross assumptions. This all seems incredibly hypocritical.
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in relation to the parent post in which it was a reponse to. It's a called a "tangent." If you don't want to waste moderation points on tangents then that's your business.
"It is the responsibility of the mods to keep this kind of bantering and obvious trolling off of the comment boards."
I didn't realize that countering someone's opinion that showing F9/11 all over town was a good idea, is trolling. Just because you don't agree with me, doesn't make me a troll.
He said it was a good movie, I said it was a bad movie. We're all entitled to our opinions.
You also don't get excellent karma by posting "off-topic tripe" all over Slashdot.
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Facts, even statistics, need not be dull; they are often just treated in a dull manner. If my tinfoil hat had shown up yet (still on back order), I'd say that They (insert whatever group you want) had planned it that way...having someone old, white, and monotonous talk about important things. They have someone young, hip, and beautiful talk about the entertaining, uninformative junk, and what do people watch?
I agree with you about Moore basically being entertaining propaganda (he's the liberal answer to Rush Limbaugh), but I should warn that saying "most voters have no attention span...are susceptible to propaganda...etc" is a very dangerous thing to say to oneself. If you listen to the people most would consider complete lunatics, at the far right and left of the political spectrum, you'll notice that one of the main credos of both sets are, "People are sheep. If they really thought about things and had the right facts presented to them, they'd be on my side. Too bad $OTHERSIDE, which owns the media and controls the government, has brainwashed them. It's up to me to present the facts they obviously missed, so they can put $MYGROUP in power." It apparently never occurs to such groups that people might not like their extreme ideas or think they're the right ones.
This type of thinking is elitism in one of its nastiest forms, could be (not sure yet) slowly spreading towards the mainstream, and is setting us toward a path of dictatorship, either by the left or right wing (both types of dictatorship are equally bad, I assure you). What other alternative is there to a dictatorship if the people's decisions or way of thinking are not respected?
Although I'm sure a lot of important information drops below the radar screen, oftentimes it's only unimportant to people because people prioritize based on how close the news is to them, not because they're incapable of making good decisions without being told what to do. The fellow poisoning dogs near their neighborhood and the nasty car accident last night get first priority. The guys in suits talking about the economic indicators in dreary voices get last. FOX is not popular because it distributes propaganda; it often doesn't mention politics at all. FOX is popular because it shows people what they are interested in and presents it in an interesting way. Convince people that your news hits them close to home or is worth thinking about, and you've convinced them that your news is worth listening to.
Long rant, I know, and somewhat off your topic, but I've been thinking about it a while and decided to try to formulate it. Feel free to disagree.
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