It seems like nowadays some federal agency steps in and declares that they're the governing authority on something, that their decisions are law, and everyone should obey.
Yes because those federal agencies were created by Congress who then gave them the authority. The NLRB didn't pop into existence out of the ether.
Aren't our lawmakers elected?
Yes, and then they create agencies to which they delegate duties. Federal agencies are a new thing to you? Hate to break it to you but they've existed for over two hundred years.
They can't "blanket" stop all circumstances where someone would be filming, that doesn't make all filming at work legitimate or legal though.
And yet the neither the summary nor the title said or implied any such thing. The summary even explicitly says in the fourth sentence:
(Local laws, however, could still come into play in certain situations, as several states require the consent of two parties in order for a conversation to be recorded legally.)
is that it seems a strange new world where the creator of a work is locked out of its further development simply because a corporation stepped in with $4B's and bought all rights and control of it.
How is that strange? If you sell control of something to someone else they tend to... take control of it.
In other words, when a work of art becomes too popular it is in danger of becoming a mere franchise.
That happened decades before Disney bought Lucasfilm.
For the sake of argument, if we are going to use ticket sales as the judge of quality The Phantom Menace wins hands down adjusted for inflation. In 2015 dollars it made around $1.4 billion.
Disney basically gave you the finger in a respectful way and did what they wanted (which is to market to the lowest common denominator who likes explosions and action). They don't care about telling a story. They want $$$$$$$$$$$..
Because Lucas only ever made fine art and only marketed Star Wars to the snobbiest of snobs. He also only did it for artistic integrity and never for the money which is why he's so poor and starving. All the merchandise, games, novels, etc. and constant movie rehashes were done purely for art and never so he could rake in another couple of billion dollars. Damn that Disney for turning Star Wars into a money-making machine rather than keeping it pure and only for art! *rolls eyes*
Care to elaborate on what was supposedly edgy and chance taking about the film? Other than a some racists getting butthurt over a black stormtrooper, the movie was standard formulaic, Disney movie. And even the thing about casting a black guy in a prominent lead role to the chagrin of Internet racists isn't really taking much of a chance. Even that new Fantastic Four movie beat them to the punch on that.
Say what you want about Lucas, but at least his prequels tried something new
Other than having people act primarily in front of green screens and a massive overuse of CGI there wasn't really anything that new about the prequels. Stilted, terribly-written dialogue, bad acting and annoying characters were all pretty old concepts by the time the prequels were made.
What's the problem? As long as the targets aren't Congress members
Maybe you should have kept reading past the first sentence? To quote the second sentence of the summary
In the process, the agency ended up eavesdropping on "the contents of some of their private conversations with U.S. lawmakers and American-Jewish groups" about how to sabotage the Iran Deal.
It's not different from people advocating for higher rate of taxation on those, who are richer than they themselves. I of-course, find all levels of taxation abhorrent
And yet all that has happened by lowering tax rates on the wealthy has been stagnate wages for the lower and middle classes for going on 30 years when adjusted for inflation and extreme wealth-concentration at the very top. On the other hand, when top marginal rates were vastly higher, real wages grew for all, there was far more economic prosperity and there wasn't such an extreme concentration of wealth.
Basically you're advocating a policy that only benefits the wealthy and they're laughing all the way to the bank at your naivete thinking they would ever "trickle-down" any money to you.
These congresscritters only have themselves to blame since they laid the very foundation for this to happen with things like the Patriot Act. I'll shed crocodile tears for the lot of them.
It would. It would avoid running AVG invasionware masquerading as Virus Protection.
Except that the issue at hand has nothing to do with running anything as Administrator. It's about the AVG installer installing an insecure Chrome extension.
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It seems like nowadays some federal agency steps in and declares that they're the governing authority on something, that their decisions are law, and everyone should obey.
Yes because those federal agencies were created by Congress who then gave them the authority. The NLRB didn't pop into existence out of the ether.
Aren't our lawmakers elected?
Yes, and then they create agencies to which they delegate duties. Federal agencies are a new thing to you? Hate to break it to you but they've existed for over two hundred years.
They can't "blanket" stop all circumstances where someone would be filming, that doesn't make all filming at work legitimate or legal though.
And yet the neither the summary nor the title said or implied any such thing. The summary even explicitly says in the fourth sentence:
(Local laws, however, could still come into play in certain situations, as several states require the consent of two parties in order for a conversation to be recorded legally.)
is that it seems a strange new world where the creator of a work is locked out of its further development simply because a corporation stepped in with $4B's and bought all rights and control of it.
How is that strange? If you sell control of something to someone else they tend to... take control of it.
In other words, when a work of art becomes too popular it is in danger of becoming a mere franchise.
That happened decades before Disney bought Lucasfilm.
Because no movie prior to TPM ever had racing scenes. *rolls eyes*
Isn't he simply the Lucas of game adaptation movies?
Ticket sales seem to say who cares George Lucas.
For the sake of argument, if we are going to use ticket sales as the judge of quality The Phantom Menace wins hands down adjusted for inflation. In 2015 dollars it made around $1.4 billion.
Disney basically gave you the finger in a respectful way and did what they wanted (which is to market to the lowest common denominator who likes explosions and action). They don't care about telling a story. They want $$$$$$$$$$$..
Because Lucas only ever made fine art and only marketed Star Wars to the snobbiest of snobs. He also only did it for artistic integrity and never for the money which is why he's so poor and starving. All the merchandise, games, novels, etc. and constant movie rehashes were done purely for art and never so he could rake in another couple of billion dollars. Damn that Disney for turning Star Wars into a money-making machine rather than keeping it pure and only for art! *rolls eyes*
Even with the money made, the investment is still in the red. Remember, they paid $4b for the rights.
Which is completely different than claiming the movies are loss leaders.
You're right that its not a loss leader, but its not going to be worth the investment on the movies alone.
And no one said otherwise.
Care to elaborate on what was supposedly edgy and chance taking about the film? Other than a some racists getting butthurt over a black stormtrooper, the movie was standard formulaic, Disney movie. And even the thing about casting a black guy in a prominent lead role to the chagrin of Internet racists isn't really taking much of a chance. Even that new Fantastic Four movie beat them to the punch on that.
Say what you want about Lucas, but at least his prequels tried something new
Other than having people act primarily in front of green screens and a massive overuse of CGI there wasn't really anything that new about the prequels. Stilted, terribly-written dialogue, bad acting and annoying characters were all pretty old concepts by the time the prequels were made.
And so does George especially when he's on a mission to "improve" an old film.
Whoosh? That was sort of their whole point. It was lamenting the lack of real filmmakers rather than regurgitators.
I don't think you know what a "loss leader" means. Exactly which Star Wars movie has been unprofitable?
The thing is they were not explicitly spying on congress
And yet they still did which is in violation of the law.
What's the problem? As long as the targets aren't Congress members
Maybe you should have kept reading past the first sentence? To quote the second sentence of the summary
In the process, the agency ended up eavesdropping on "the contents of some of their private conversations with U.S. lawmakers and American-Jewish groups" about how to sabotage the Iran Deal.
Which is why the summary clearly states that the were snooping on conversations that involved "US lawmakers".
Couldn't even bother to read the summary? It clearly states they were snooping conversations that included US Lawmakers aka members of Congress.
It's not different from people advocating for higher rate of taxation on those, who are richer than they themselves. I of-course, find all levels of taxation abhorrent
And yet all that has happened by lowering tax rates on the wealthy has been stagnate wages for the lower and middle classes for going on 30 years when adjusted for inflation and extreme wealth-concentration at the very top. On the other hand, when top marginal rates were vastly higher, real wages grew for all, there was far more economic prosperity and there wasn't such an extreme concentration of wealth.
Basically you're advocating a policy that only benefits the wealthy and they're laughing all the way to the bank at your naivete thinking they would ever "trickle-down" any money to you.
These congresscritters only have themselves to blame since they laid the very foundation for this to happen with things like the Patriot Act. I'll shed crocodile tears for the lot of them.
How cute that you think this will only be applied to ISIS. Naivete at its finest.
Oh no! Don't post such scary things. CEOs of tech companies all over the world are practically peeing themselves with worry!
It would. It would avoid running AVG invasionware masquerading as Virus Protection.
Except that the issue at hand has nothing to do with running anything as Administrator. It's about the AVG installer installing an insecure Chrome extension.
Trollololol.
Wrong. Wanna try again?
My best security tip, don't run as Administrator.
Cool story, brah. How would that have any effect at all on the issue at hand?