He was talking about it being a box office flop ($31 million in 10 days - not good), and how that relates to studios making big money on some films while losing millions on others. He wasn't commenting on the content of the film at all. But thanks for thinking that the rest of us cared about your off-topic review of some movie unrelated to the one being discussed.
It's kind of like saying that if you make a movie about people rebuilding after losing a war you have to pay royalties to Margret Mitchell because she wrote "Gone With The Wind".
Agreed, and I actually think it's even less similar than that; it'd be like saying if you made any historical epic romance film set in the Civil War, your source material was "Gone With the Wind." One may have inspired the other, but to call it "source material" is a really long stretch.
At least, with government (in theory, in a democracy), you can vote out the guys who force you to do things. You have no such choice when corporations get big enough to force things on you and have swallowed up and/or wiped out all their competitors.
Until you can show me an example of me taking a quote or factoid totally out of context (or rather, acting like a parrot because he didn't even come up with it) to advance a political agenda, I'd disagree with your "you're no different" playground slam. Thanks for contributing, though.
I think you missed that poster's point; in earlier decades nobody in the white house would have tolerated a chairman Mao ornament on the Christmas tree. This administration not only tolerated it but it was consistent with the comments of one of their communications people... Anita Dunn was caught on tape singing the praises of chairman Mao.
No, that might be your point. The original poster's point (read it) was to advance the idea that the "media" praises and fawns over Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao, and that proof of that is provided by a tiny piece of one tree ornament, out of 800, with a picture of Mao on part of it - totally out of context; you have no idea if the ornament had a theme or what that theme might be, but your "everything Democrat is Communist" attitude doesn't allow for any kind of actual analytical thinking. Much like your Anita Dunn comment - you don't know that she was quoting GOP strategist Lee Atwater because whatever blog you picked up that smear from didn't bother to mention it either.
You're all alike. Take whatever tidbit you can out of context, throw them all against the wall and claim that's proof of whatever wacky conspiracy theory you're advancing. Meanwhile, you lost the ability to have a logical thought long ago, because you only read that which supports your already-concrete view of how things are and should be. A shitload of people disagree with you, and quite of few of them view you as a nutcase. It's highly unlikely that you're smarter and more well-informed than ALL of them, isn't it?
Or maybe it's because it's not "one of Obama's close advisers", but one of his debate coaches that served as White House communications director for 7 months. Oh, and also because she was ironically quoting GOP strategist Lee Atwater, but you missed that while you were watching the Glenn Beck show - probably because his out-of-context attack didn't mention that key tidbit.
Unlike you, I'm willing to enlighten a dim-witted mind. Here, you should try reading this:
Are you fucking kidding me? A close-up of a Christmas tree ornament, on the White House tree one year, that was painted by someone in a community organization (one of 60 that the 800 ornaments were sent to), and it includes a microscopic reproduction of Mao on it, among other pictures on that same ball - and that's your support for the argument that "the media is fawning over Mao"?
Get a grip, dude. You're living in an alternate reality where everyone that doesn't agree with you must be looking to install a Communist dictatorship, and you need psychiatric help.
20+ years ago, they were sneering at Bush Sr for being "too much of a wimp to invade Iraq"....For those of us who don't have a 30-second memory span like the amnesiacs on the Left, their hypocrisies are plain for anyone to see.
Yeah, like that Leftist Dick Cheney, imagine if he was in a position of power later and had a chance to re-invade Iraq! Things could've really gotten hairy.
Your history re-write is amazing both in its chutzpah and inaccuracy. Please list some examples of prominent, relevant, left-wing politicians that were screaming for an attack deep into Iraq in 1991. I'd be amazed to see any.
Agreed 100%, and since you didn't address his Solyndra comment (Solyndra, the rallying cry of the GOP!) let's point out that there were 63 energy companies funded by the federal government under same program. 5 of them went bankrupt. A failure rate of 8%.
I can live with 92% of the companies funded going on to succeed. When's the last time you picked 63 companies on the stock market and made money on 92% of them? The Solyndra nonsense as a talking point for Obama-haters is ridiculous.
The summary is mostly to blame here, because it leads you to believe the exact opposite of what's happening in the NJ state legislature - namely, that the bills introduced are all to RESTRICT drone usage in NJ. Even the least restrictive proposal seeks to require a warrant for their use and outright bans them for use in traffic or speed limit violation instances. The most restrictive seeks to ban them completely from the state.
Thanks for jumping the gun, everyone, and assuming that there's going to be speeding tickets handed out via drones in NJ. Blame slashdot if you want, but in the end, you're the morons for not RTFA.
It will be interesting to see what the pirates and posers do.
Quite the opposite. Pirates, as always, will download a copy (provided by um, you know, "them") that will run on your machine without phoning home to Adobe, and it will only be a minor inconvenience to install it properly, which is pretty much the way it is now with pirated copies of CS6. Real professionals will be the only ones experiencing a difference, both in how they pay and what it takes to keep the program running, and it will be interesting to see what THEY do.
Why was this not modded up informative? I've never driven a RHD vehicle, so I did not know. There's no reason to assume the whole vehicle isn't mirrored.
Probably because the AC post before him was so obviously a joke to 90% of us, that some guy missing the joke doesn't deserve to be modded up, according to the mods. (they're right)
I saw that as well - it was up for about 8 hours (at least) while all other sources were saying 2, and then 3. That rag will take any piece of sensational info they get from any source and just run with it, though. It seems more important to them to be "first" rather than accurate.
I don't get how anyone marks this comment as "troll". Seems pretty neutral to me, politically, so I guess some mod didn't like the comment that multinationals are natural given our entire world being interconnected.
Slashdot Mirror
There's a big difference between a Google+ feed and search results for regular Google searches. But thanks for conflating the two.
Yeah, those iOS games are obviously doomed, no one is buying them. Also, they have no wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
He was talking about it being a box office flop ($31 million in 10 days - not good), and how that relates to studios making big money on some films while losing millions on others. He wasn't commenting on the content of the film at all. But thanks for thinking that the rest of us cared about your off-topic review of some movie unrelated to the one being discussed.
Using James Cameron's opinions on acting ability is a bit like asking Vince McMahon his opinion on Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling.
It's kind of like saying that if you make a movie about people rebuilding after losing a war you have to pay royalties to Margret Mitchell because she wrote "Gone With The Wind".
Agreed, and I actually think it's even less similar than that; it'd be like saying if you made any historical epic romance film set in the Civil War, your source material was "Gone With the Wind." One may have inspired the other, but to call it "source material" is a really long stretch.
On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, per capita income is over $90,000/year, and well over $100K/household on average.
But yes, in most other parts of the country, he's way off. Perhaps he lives in Manhattan and has a skewed sense of what people make.
At least, with government (in theory, in a democracy), you can vote out the guys who force you to do things. You have no such choice when corporations get big enough to force things on you and have swallowed up and/or wiped out all their competitors.
Until you can show me an example of me taking a quote or factoid totally out of context (or rather, acting like a parrot because he didn't even come up with it) to advance a political agenda, I'd disagree with your "you're no different" playground slam. Thanks for contributing, though.
I think you missed that poster's point; in earlier decades nobody in the white house would have tolerated a chairman Mao ornament on the Christmas tree. This administration not only tolerated it but it was consistent with the comments of one of their communications people... Anita Dunn was caught on tape singing the praises of chairman Mao.
No, that might be your point. The original poster's point (read it) was to advance the idea that the "media" praises and fawns over Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao, and that proof of that is provided by a tiny piece of one tree ornament, out of 800, with a picture of Mao on part of it - totally out of context; you have no idea if the ornament had a theme or what that theme might be, but your "everything Democrat is Communist" attitude doesn't allow for any kind of actual analytical thinking. Much like your Anita Dunn comment - you don't know that she was quoting GOP strategist Lee Atwater because whatever blog you picked up that smear from didn't bother to mention it either.
You're all alike. Take whatever tidbit you can out of context, throw them all against the wall and claim that's proof of whatever wacky conspiracy theory you're advancing. Meanwhile, you lost the ability to have a logical thought long ago, because you only read that which supports your already-concrete view of how things are and should be. A shitload of people disagree with you, and quite of few of them view you as a nutcase. It's highly unlikely that you're smarter and more well-informed than ALL of them, isn't it?
Or maybe it's because it's not "one of Obama's close advisers", but one of his debate coaches that served as White House communications director for 7 months. Oh, and also because she was ironically quoting GOP strategist Lee Atwater, but you missed that while you were watching the Glenn Beck show - probably because his out-of-context attack didn't mention that key tidbit.
Unlike you, I'm willing to enlighten a dim-witted mind. Here, you should try reading this:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/16/beck.dunn/index.html
Are there any birth certificates we should be looking for, as long as you're dispensing political advice based on nonsense?
I don't know about those other ones, but certainly Mao.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/23/white-house-christmas-decor-featuring-mao-zedong-comes/
Are you fucking kidding me? A close-up of a Christmas tree ornament, on the White House tree one year, that was painted by someone in a community organization (one of 60 that the 800 ornaments were sent to), and it includes a microscopic reproduction of Mao on it, among other pictures on that same ball - and that's your support for the argument that "the media is fawning over Mao"?
Get a grip, dude. You're living in an alternate reality where everyone that doesn't agree with you must be looking to install a Communist dictatorship, and you need psychiatric help.
20+ years ago, they were sneering at Bush Sr for being "too much of a wimp to invade Iraq" ....For those of us who don't have a 30-second memory span like the amnesiacs on the Left, their hypocrisies are plain for anyone to see.
Yeah, like that Leftist Dick Cheney, imagine if he was in a position of power later and had a chance to re-invade Iraq! Things could've really gotten hairy.
Your history re-write is amazing both in its chutzpah and inaccuracy. Please list some examples of prominent, relevant, left-wing politicians that were screaming for an attack deep into Iraq in 1991. I'd be amazed to see any.
Agreed 100%, and since you didn't address his Solyndra comment (Solyndra, the rallying cry of the GOP!) let's point out that there were 63 energy companies funded by the federal government under same program. 5 of them went bankrupt. A failure rate of 8%.
I can live with 92% of the companies funded going on to succeed. When's the last time you picked 63 companies on the stock market and made money on 92% of them? The Solyndra nonsense as a talking point for Obama-haters is ridiculous.
Did you cry to Henry Ford about how all the buggy whip manufacturers would go out of business?
So how do you fix sarcasm comprehension?
The summary is mostly to blame here, because it leads you to believe the exact opposite of what's happening in the NJ state legislature - namely, that the bills introduced are all to RESTRICT drone usage in NJ. Even the least restrictive proposal seeks to require a warrant for their use and outright bans them for use in traffic or speed limit violation instances. The most restrictive seeks to ban them completely from the state.
Thanks for jumping the gun, everyone, and assuming that there's going to be speeding tickets handed out via drones in NJ. Blame slashdot if you want, but in the end, you're the morons for not RTFA.
It will be interesting to see what the pirates and posers do.
Quite the opposite. Pirates, as always, will download a copy (provided by um, you know, "them") that will run on your machine without phoning home to Adobe, and it will only be a minor inconvenience to install it properly, which is pretty much the way it is now with pirated copies of CS6. Real professionals will be the only ones experiencing a difference, both in how they pay and what it takes to keep the program running, and it will be interesting to see what THEY do.
Wait.... people buy Photoshop??
YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfTxXYE4yFY
Why was this not modded up informative? I've never driven a RHD vehicle, so I did not know. There's no reason to assume the whole vehicle isn't mirrored.
Probably because the AC post before him was so obviously a joke to 90% of us, that some guy missing the joke doesn't deserve to be modded up, according to the mods. (they're right)
I saw that as well - it was up for about 8 hours (at least) while all other sources were saying 2, and then 3. That rag will take any piece of sensational info they get from any source and just run with it, though. It seems more important to them to be "first" rather than accurate.
I don't get how anyone marks this comment as "troll". Seems pretty neutral to me, politically, so I guess some mod didn't like the comment that multinationals are natural given our entire world being interconnected.
You're speaking from the point of view of the worker. Given the choice of the two, I'd prefer to be the guy with the big budget.
"beer taste on champagne budget".
Still, that probably beats having it the other way 'round.
I think you need a sarcasm detector, son.