Slashdot Mirror
Sci-Fi on the Cheap
lowbudgetfun writes "NYTimes.com is reporting on the Sci-Fi channel's huge investment (28 films for $21 million) for original B movies. Includes quotes from B Movie hero, Bruce Campbell." I especially liked this line from the article: "Shot on budgets ranging from $1 million to $2 million, Sci Fi's movies are made in money-saving locales like Bulgaria, Romania and Missouri."
What's funny about Bulgaria? Hee hee hee! Get this -- it's full of -- no, seriously -- it's full of guys who when you say it's a cheap place to make a movie
*snort*
Ha ha, sorry, milk went up my nose.
Anyway, these guys, when you say it's a cheap place to make movies, hee hee hee, they totally get all offended and post semi coherent posts on Slashdot! Haw haw haw! No, I shit you not, they really do do that! Hee hee hee... oh, those guys!
No, seriously, I saw one do it today. Ah, those guys kill me.
Cheap place to make a movie, too.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
So, poor people are homophobic, and too stupid to murder their own babies when its for their own good. Congratulations! That is the most retarded and ignorant statement I've read on /. today!
Lets compare Missouri to neighboring Blue State Illinois. MO's unemployment rate: 5.6%, just above the national average. Il: 5.8%. Mean average anual salary in Missouri is $34,130. Il: $38,360. You might think that $4,230 means something until you factor in the cost of living, which is 93.6% for MO compared to 112% for Il. That means it's 18.4% cheaper to live in Missouri than in next-door Illinois - a blue State. While we're on the subject, health costs are lower in Mo compared to Il (105.8, 112.3, 100 = baseline).
Seems to me that Illinois is a poorer state. And they voted for Kerry.
As to this notion that welfare helps poor people, go into any southern urban area and speak to families that are trying to get ahead on public assistance. Welfare laws are structured in a way that keeps the poor down. Want to own property? You won't get welfare in 44 out of 50 states. Trying to get an education? Most welfare programs won't pay for anything more than vocational training, so you can get a nice manufacturing job that pays a 'living wage'. Got children? WIC will pay for food, but it won't pay for diapers, day care, or baby clothes. So you'll have ignorant fat naked babies. Oh, I forgot. You were supposed to abort them.
Seriously. Get a clue. Don't spout such ignorant sweeping generalizations as this.
Sources: Sperling, US Government Bureau of Labor Statistics,
And, having grown up in a town of 750 people in the midst of said country, I can say that anyone with half a brain would take the availability of the tuna and pesto (and other inducements - like people of *gasp* other cultures, lively theatre, a variety of music (beyond country *and* western)) over the overrated joys of Jeebus and NASCAR any day. Given the fact that the blue states overwhelmingly support the red states with their tax dollars, we are waiting with bated breath for the day that you get tired enough of our degenerate culture to seceed again. This time, we'll let you go so you can form the theocratic, cousin-loving, gay-hating, chicken-farming nation you've always wished for.
That is all.
Man, I'm sure glad they tossed Farscape, Lexx, and The Invisible man to make room for all this new goodness. I just hope Serenity doesn't get the can...