I remember reading a Kerouac book where he said "comparisons are odious". He was into Buddhism, fwiw.
http://www.litkicks.com/Texts/...
'I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining any angers or gratitudes or anything, and I say, like 'Japhy Ryder, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha,' then I run on, say to 'David O. Selznick, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha' though I don't use names like David O. Selznick, just people I know because when I say the words 'equally a coming Buddha' I want to be thinking of their eyes, like you take Morley, his blue eyes behind those glasses, when you think 'equally a coming Buddha' you think of those eyes and you really do suddenly see the true secret serenity and the truth of his coming Buddhahood. Then you think of your enemy's eyes.'
'That's great, Ray,' and Japhy took out his notebook and wrote down the prayer, and shook his head in wonder. 'That's really really great. I'm going to teach this prayer to the monks I meet in Japan. There's nothing wrong with you Ray, your only trouble is you never learned to get out to spots like this, you've let the world drown you in its horseshit and you've been vexed... though as I say comparisons are odious, but what we're sayin now is true.'
Kerouac might have repeated that elsewhere. I sort of remember him saying it to a friend in a different set of comments, but I read the quote decades ago. Lol, needless to say, it stuck with me.:)
I'm leery of that kind of marketing speak. Many of us appreciate, and recognize, the incremental gains in IQ by the technological advance and innovations of the leaders in the field. Talk to me about better black levels, and increased contrast, etc., and I start thinking about my path to an upgrade.
Anyway, I've wondered if content providers ever thought of dealing with piracy in a different way. Maybe include a big "This show is provided courtesy of Kraft Foods", or something like that, at the beginning, and only really go after the pirates who edit that out.
Product placement has at times gotten extensive enough at times to be considered being an embedded commercial. I saw a Warehouse 13 episode where they basically stopped the show so Claudia could walk people through the virtues of her new Toyota Prius. White Collar did the same with a Ford Taurus, with Peter, the FBI agent, giving a demonstration of how its automatic anti-collision system worked.
I don't know, maybe release a "here you go" version of TV shows that have an "Advertiser's cut" where some extra scenes are added that have even more product placement.
We could have an episode of Fringe where the show stops so Walter could extoll the virtues of a candy he enjoys. Oh wait, they already did that.:) Lol, so just add in more of the same, and get your money up front from the advertisers. "Millions of people will see your candy being enjoyed in pirated episodes!".
He wrote that one novel that was arguably very strongly feminist, though IIRC the protagonist was originally to have been a gay man. It had everything... sex with ghosts, instead of a tattoo getting a miniature cuckoo clock, human like android assassins.
Lol, give me a minute, the title is coming to me....:)
P.S. You might enjoy this: http://www.nyrsf.com/racism-an...
He's been there, done that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), a nonprofit association of professional science fiction and fantasy writers."
Writers, not the fans, though of course writers can be considered fans as well.
It was an excellent addition to his body of SF novels. Everything in it could have been told using a more traditional premise. His multitude of admirers didn't question it as being a worthy candidate for the Hugo. It reminds me of Bug Jack Barron by Spinrad in so far as what it had to say about the lengths people will go to to extend life, and how sordid the whole practice of immortality for some, at the expense of others, can get.
The style was much different of course. Just beautiful, and I can only think of Zelazny at his best being as captivating with the vibe of people butting into godhood.
But yeah, the Hugo awards can be open minded when excellent writers stretch the definition of SF.
I think Herbert had a character refer to the Fremen as sometimes being a bit "fey" due to their spice consumption. Sort of like how in many cultures certain individuals are credited with being gifted. "I had the dream" is something among Italian-Americans you hear from people who sense an impending death.
Also in Dune Messiah we had the Reverend Mother who messed around with the Tarot Cards. The sense I got was that they amplified a rudimentary prescience.
I also got the sense that Herbert was implying everyone on Dune, partly due to its spice in the air, could both sense, and felt compelled to dance to, the winds of change.
"He draws a conclusion favorable to his ego, and then works backwards from there, constructing an argument to justify it."
If he DREW a conclusion then his conclusion is not the starting point. If she read what he said she'd have seen it's chock full of observation.
Maybe she meant to say, "He states an opinion, couched as a reasoned argument, and launches a tirade from there.". But then there would be more of an expectation that she'd be refuting what he actually said.
It's almost like she draws a conclusion that's favorable to her world view, and then starts her criticism from there.
Almost.;)
And an outfit like Netflix, just like HBO, has to also measure in whether a show is bonding viewers to its brand. By bonding I mean is the loss of the show a deal breaker for resubscribing the service, and does it bring in new subscribers. A show like Daredevil might bring in new subscribers, but if its spinoffs/related titles only appeals to viewers unlikely to unsubscribe for any reason then those shows are held to a different standard.
Deadwood and Rome were shows that were "worldwide hits" for HBO but as the series went on, and the costs went up, HBO crunched the numbers and very quietly didn't renew the shows. Quietly because immediately announcing "Cancelled!" could mean some people respond by cancelling HBO. With the Sopranos HBO got cute by increasing the hiatus between seasons. I suspect this was a factor with Game of Thrones as well though that show's producers claimed a desire to film in the winter is the cause.
When a show is a hit everyone involved wants more money. Money that goes to salary and those with a stake can end up getting diverted from the quality feel of the show. I suspect this was a factor in the last season or two of BSG. Everybody got champagne tastes while the show stabilized around delivering Budweiser profits.
Sense 8 was very popular among a niche of customers who aren't typical Netflix loyalists so I was a bit surprised at its cancellation. But having watched some episodes I got the sense its production costs were in line with the beautiful imagery that was on screen, so ultimately I can see how Netflix would be nervous about its numbers. JMS, of B5 fame, was involved with the Waschowski sisters, so that fan base was also invested.
http://jmsnews.com/forums/foru...
'Amazon's bankers from Goldman Sachs then "stressed several times" that the increase to $42 represented Amazon's "best and final offer."'
"Amazon.com expected that the company would not approach other potential bidders while the company was negotiating with Amazon.com."
Though I suppose that leaves a lot of details that still need to be settled. Or maybe not, the article doesn't say.
Maybe Amazon means "while an offer is on the table".
Dr. Ernest G. Napolitano, and two of my aunts worked for him in his office there. Snappy dresser, and I got some hand me down suits. So call me biased.:)
http://www.nycc.edu/news/newsi...https://www.nycc.edu/pdfs/give...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
He was one of two first chiropractors in NY, and he and the other fellow took turns bailing each other out of jail as the local medical establishment kept getting them locked up.
So I had a good opinion of chiropractors before I ended up needing one. I call what I received "the mother of all adjustments". I got all the prep work done first, X-rays, diathermy, session on the bed with the rollers, and finally the adjustment. I had been suffering from a numbness in the arm that had me shaking it and pummeling it to make the tingling go away when I was in bed. Pain in the neck and back, numbness going down the leg. I was working as a clam digger at the time.
Anyway, so now I'm getting pegged down onto the table. My doctor was a big guy, an athlete, and kept repositioning the pegs to make them tighter and tighter. It finally felt like they were grinding against my hips. He then put a towel under my neck and began rotating my neck while telling me to relax, and breathe in and out. That went on until I was pretty well zoned out. He then pulled up on the towel, and the crack I got could be heard all around the room. There were gasps from the other patients. I felt it down my ribcage as though it had been separated. My back got straightened out, and the pain and numbness was gone.
I later saw Doctor Napolitano at a wedding, and he remembered my chiro as being a good student, and a good basketball player. Lol, it was cool to be able to drop the name of the person who signed my chiro's diploma when I next saw him on a followup. He remembered my aunts as well, as they collected tuition payments.
A few years later I had to all but carry my brother in due to his back being in agony and his spine being out of line. Some diathermy treatments, the rollers, and then an adjustment, and he was back to clamming again, which he still does today, at the age of 63. I know other clammers that use chiropracters, as do a number of gym rats. "If your spine is line, then you'll feel fine", and for otherwise healthy people whose exertions put their back out of whack, a chiropractor can be a sound choice for a fix.
One last anecdote. Dr. Nap was something of a local legend when he practiced, his office was always full, and he'd have a line out the door, and stretching to the sidewalk. Lol, those were some damn fine suits that I was gifted with.:)
People who read bad reviews, and went anyway, liked the movie at a higher % than that of the reviewers. This is surprising because...?
I watch Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich action films. I generally like them, as do the rest of the people in the audience. Is this shocking, even though some of their films were generally panned?
All kidding aside, there's a human element that society won't willingly abandon. Certainly not the powers the be, though they rarely directly interact with the long arm of the law.
Which reminds me... https://pjmedia.com/trending/2...https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Undoing all the damage to it would entail a good amount of manual labor, and the good/bad news is that it would provide decades worth of work for a substantial number of people.
With enough robotics, and prudent management, we can make some serious inroads into becoming a more scarcity free culture, and being able to subsidize such work.
http://time.com/4279538/low-fa...
"In a new study published in the journal Circulation, Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian and his colleagues analyzed the blood of 3,333 adults enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study of Health Professionals Follow-up Study taken over about 15 years. They found that people who had higher levels of three different byproducts of full-fat dairy had, on average, a 46% lower risk of getting diabetes during the study period than those with lower levels. “I think these findings together with those from other studies do call for a change in the policy of recommending only low-fat dairy products,” says Mozaffarian. “There is no prospective human evidence that people who eat low-fat dairy do better than people who eat whole-fat dairy.”"
http://holisticsquid.com/skip-...
"the skimming process not only strips the milk of essential saturated fats, fat-soluble vitamins A, D, and K2 and healthy cholesterol; but also most reduced fat milks have powdered non-fat milk added which contributes toxic nitrates and oxidized cholesterol."
So nobody has any leaks of the years Trump spent in government service? Nothing about the drone strikes he asked for? I'd love to hear the excuse for that!:sarcasm:
Sony XBR X800D, 43 inches, 650 dollars, and pretty sweet. I bought one. One caveat is that even the latest HDMI spec doesn't allow 3840 x 2160 at ten bit with 4:4:4 chroma subsampling, it doesn't have the bandwidth. The panel is ten bit but for PC use I had to choose between outputting at ten bit or 4:4:4. Either way looks great, but I went with 4:4:4 (within nVidia's Control Panel. And the Sony itself needs set its HDMI to enhanced output to enable seeing the option for 4:4:4 chroma subsampling in the nVidia Control Panel). But the limitation doesn't feel like an issue for any content I watch. The other minor caveat is that its brightness limitations mean HDR won't be as spectacular with the effects that depend on lots of brightness. You need to spend more money on a bigger set to get that as well, it seems.
Great review here: http://www.rtings.com/tv/revie...
AVS members owners forum here: http://www.avsforum.com/forum/...
I posted some of my impressions there.
Thanks for posting that. Hopefully the smear will serve a good purpose eventually, when people see the depths that will be sunk to so as to scare people away from not voting for "the lesser of two evils".
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I remember reading a Kerouac book where he said "comparisons are odious". He was into Buddhism, fwiw. http://www.litkicks.com/Texts/... 'I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining any angers or gratitudes or anything, and I say, like 'Japhy Ryder, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha,' then I run on, say to 'David O. Selznick, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha' though I don't use names like David O. Selznick, just people I know because when I say the words 'equally a coming Buddha' I want to be thinking of their eyes, like you take Morley, his blue eyes behind those glasses, when you think 'equally a coming Buddha' you think of those eyes and you really do suddenly see the true secret serenity and the truth of his coming Buddhahood. Then you think of your enemy's eyes.' 'That's great, Ray,' and Japhy took out his notebook and wrote down the prayer, and shook his head in wonder. 'That's really really great. I'm going to teach this prayer to the monks I meet in Japan. There's nothing wrong with you Ray, your only trouble is you never learned to get out to spots like this, you've let the world drown you in its horseshit and you've been vexed ... though as I say comparisons are odious, but what we're sayin now is true.'
Kerouac might have repeated that elsewhere. I sort of remember him saying it to a friend in a different set of comments, but I read the quote decades ago. Lol, needless to say, it stuck with me. :)
Not just soft, but absorbent.
I'm leery of that kind of marketing speak. Many of us appreciate, and recognize, the incremental gains in IQ by the technological advance and innovations of the leaders in the field. Talk to me about better black levels, and increased contrast, etc., and I start thinking about my path to an upgrade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Anyway, I've wondered if content providers ever thought of dealing with piracy in a different way. Maybe include a big "This show is provided courtesy of Kraft Foods", or something like that, at the beginning, and only really go after the pirates who edit that out. Product placement has at times gotten extensive enough at times to be considered being an embedded commercial. I saw a Warehouse 13 episode where they basically stopped the show so Claudia could walk people through the virtues of her new Toyota Prius. White Collar did the same with a Ford Taurus, with Peter, the FBI agent, giving a demonstration of how its automatic anti-collision system worked. I don't know, maybe release a "here you go" version of TV shows that have an "Advertiser's cut" where some extra scenes are added that have even more product placement. We could have an episode of Fringe where the show stops so Walter could extoll the virtues of a candy he enjoys. Oh wait, they already did that. :) Lol, so just add in more of the same, and get your money up front from the advertisers. "Millions of people will see your candy being enjoyed in pirated episodes!".
He wrote that one novel that was arguably very strongly feminist, though IIRC the protagonist was originally to have been a gay man. It had everything ... sex with ghosts, instead of a tattoo getting a miniature cuckoo clock, human like android assassins.
Lol, give me a minute, the title is coming to me .... :)
P.S. You might enjoy this: http://www.nyrsf.com/racism-an...
He's been there, done that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... "The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), a nonprofit association of professional science fiction and fantasy writers." Writers, not the fans, though of course writers can be considered fans as well.
It was an excellent addition to his body of SF novels. Everything in it could have been told using a more traditional premise. His multitude of admirers didn't question it as being a worthy candidate for the Hugo. It reminds me of Bug Jack Barron by Spinrad in so far as what it had to say about the lengths people will go to to extend life, and how sordid the whole practice of immortality for some, at the expense of others, can get. The style was much different of course. Just beautiful, and I can only think of Zelazny at his best being as captivating with the vibe of people butting into godhood. But yeah, the Hugo awards can be open minded when excellent writers stretch the definition of SF.
I think Herbert had a character refer to the Fremen as sometimes being a bit "fey" due to their spice consumption. Sort of like how in many cultures certain individuals are credited with being gifted. "I had the dream" is something among Italian-Americans you hear from people who sense an impending death. Also in Dune Messiah we had the Reverend Mother who messed around with the Tarot Cards. The sense I got was that they amplified a rudimentary prescience. I also got the sense that Herbert was implying everyone on Dune, partly due to its spice in the air, could both sense, and felt compelled to dance to, the winds of change.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Too bad you didn't write Mei's commentary. Your argument holds more water than hers.
"He draws a conclusion favorable to his ego, and then works backwards from there, constructing an argument to justify it." If he DREW a conclusion then his conclusion is not the starting point. If she read what he said she'd have seen it's chock full of observation. Maybe she meant to say, "He states an opinion, couched as a reasoned argument, and launches a tirade from there.". But then there would be more of an expectation that she'd be refuting what he actually said. It's almost like she draws a conclusion that's favorable to her world view, and then starts her criticism from there. Almost. ;)
And an outfit like Netflix, just like HBO, has to also measure in whether a show is bonding viewers to its brand. By bonding I mean is the loss of the show a deal breaker for resubscribing the service, and does it bring in new subscribers. A show like Daredevil might bring in new subscribers, but if its spinoffs/related titles only appeals to viewers unlikely to unsubscribe for any reason then those shows are held to a different standard. Deadwood and Rome were shows that were "worldwide hits" for HBO but as the series went on, and the costs went up, HBO crunched the numbers and very quietly didn't renew the shows. Quietly because immediately announcing "Cancelled!" could mean some people respond by cancelling HBO. With the Sopranos HBO got cute by increasing the hiatus between seasons. I suspect this was a factor with Game of Thrones as well though that show's producers claimed a desire to film in the winter is the cause. When a show is a hit everyone involved wants more money. Money that goes to salary and those with a stake can end up getting diverted from the quality feel of the show. I suspect this was a factor in the last season or two of BSG. Everybody got champagne tastes while the show stabilized around delivering Budweiser profits. Sense 8 was very popular among a niche of customers who aren't typical Netflix loyalists so I was a bit surprised at its cancellation. But having watched some episodes I got the sense its production costs were in line with the beautiful imagery that was on screen, so ultimately I can see how Netflix would be nervous about its numbers. JMS, of B5 fame, was involved with the Waschowski sisters, so that fan base was also invested. http://jmsnews.com/forums/foru...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
'Amazon's bankers from Goldman Sachs then "stressed several times" that the increase to $42 represented Amazon's "best and final offer."' "Amazon.com expected that the company would not approach other potential bidders while the company was negotiating with Amazon.com." Though I suppose that leaves a lot of details that still need to be settled. Or maybe not, the article doesn't say. Maybe Amazon means "while an offer is on the table".
Dr. Ernest G. Napolitano, and two of my aunts worked for him in his office there. Snappy dresser, and I got some hand me down suits. So call me biased. :)
http://www.nycc.edu/news/newsi...
https://www.nycc.edu/pdfs/give...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
He was one of two first chiropractors in NY, and he and the other fellow took turns bailing each other out of jail as the local medical establishment kept getting them locked up.
So I had a good opinion of chiropractors before I ended up needing one. I call what I received "the mother of all adjustments". I got all the prep work done first, X-rays, diathermy, session on the bed with the rollers, and finally the adjustment. I had been suffering from a numbness in the arm that had me shaking it and pummeling it to make the tingling go away when I was in bed. Pain in the neck and back, numbness going down the leg. I was working as a clam digger at the time.
Anyway, so now I'm getting pegged down onto the table. My doctor was a big guy, an athlete, and kept repositioning the pegs to make them tighter and tighter. It finally felt like they were grinding against my hips. He then put a towel under my neck and began rotating my neck while telling me to relax, and breathe in and out. That went on until I was pretty well zoned out. He then pulled up on the towel, and the crack I got could be heard all around the room. There were gasps from the other patients. I felt it down my ribcage as though it had been separated. My back got straightened out, and the pain and numbness was gone.
I later saw Doctor Napolitano at a wedding, and he remembered my chiro as being a good student, and a good basketball player. Lol, it was cool to be able to drop the name of the person who signed my chiro's diploma when I next saw him on a followup. He remembered my aunts as well, as they collected tuition payments.
A few years later I had to all but carry my brother in due to his back being in agony and his spine being out of line. Some diathermy treatments, the rollers, and then an adjustment, and he was back to clamming again, which he still does today, at the age of 63. I know other clammers that use chiropracters, as do a number of gym rats. "If your spine is line, then you'll feel fine", and for otherwise healthy people whose exertions put their back out of whack, a chiropractor can be a sound choice for a fix.
One last anecdote. Dr. Nap was something of a local legend when he practiced, his office was always full, and he'd have a line out the door, and stretching to the sidewalk. Lol, those were some damn fine suits that I was gifted with. :)
People who read bad reviews, and went anyway, liked the movie at a higher % than that of the reviewers. This is surprising because ...?
I watch Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich action films. I generally like them, as do the rest of the people in the audience. Is this shocking, even though some of their films were generally panned?
All kidding aside, there's a human element that society won't willingly abandon. Certainly not the powers the be, though they rarely directly interact with the long arm of the law. Which reminds me ... https://pjmedia.com/trending/2...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
No fears about loyalty until the rebels learn how to reprogram them. And if they're networked they're open to a remote Cylon takeover. :)
Undoing all the damage to it would entail a good amount of manual labor, and the good/bad news is that it would provide decades worth of work for a substantial number of people. With enough robotics, and prudent management, we can make some serious inroads into becoming a more scarcity free culture, and being able to subsidize such work.
http://time.com/4279538/low-fa... "In a new study published in the journal Circulation, Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian and his colleagues analyzed the blood of 3,333 adults enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study of Health Professionals Follow-up Study taken over about 15 years. They found that people who had higher levels of three different byproducts of full-fat dairy had, on average, a 46% lower risk of getting diabetes during the study period than those with lower levels. “I think these findings together with those from other studies do call for a change in the policy of recommending only low-fat dairy products,” says Mozaffarian. “There is no prospective human evidence that people who eat low-fat dairy do better than people who eat whole-fat dairy.”" http://holisticsquid.com/skip-... "the skimming process not only strips the milk of essential saturated fats, fat-soluble vitamins A, D, and K2 and healthy cholesterol; but also most reduced fat milks have powdered non-fat milk added which contributes toxic nitrates and oxidized cholesterol."
So nobody has any leaks of the years Trump spent in government service? Nothing about the drone strikes he asked for? I'd love to hear the excuse for that! :sarcasm:
Sony XBR X800D, 43 inches, 650 dollars, and pretty sweet. I bought one. One caveat is that even the latest HDMI spec doesn't allow 3840 x 2160 at ten bit with 4:4:4 chroma subsampling, it doesn't have the bandwidth. The panel is ten bit but for PC use I had to choose between outputting at ten bit or 4:4:4. Either way looks great, but I went with 4:4:4 (within nVidia's Control Panel. And the Sony itself needs set its HDMI to enhanced output to enable seeing the option for 4:4:4 chroma subsampling in the nVidia Control Panel). But the limitation doesn't feel like an issue for any content I watch. The other minor caveat is that its brightness limitations mean HDR won't be as spectacular with the effects that depend on lots of brightness. You need to spend more money on a bigger set to get that as well, it seems. Great review here: http://www.rtings.com/tv/revie... AVS members owners forum here: http://www.avsforum.com/forum/... I posted some of my impressions there.
Have the drone play Flight of the Valkrie to ensure a response. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Thanks for posting that. Hopefully the smear will serve a good purpose eventually, when people see the depths that will be sunk to so as to scare people away from not voting for "the lesser of two evils".