What he's against is Apple making it so that you would need a backdoor to extract nearly any information on the device, a backdoor that he thinks is a bad idea. He's arguing against making everything encrypted.
As opposed to the corporate connected felon who will CERTAINLY get us nuked, and nuke a few countries of her own just to show she can?
After all, between Trump and Hillary, only Hillary has actually started any wars.
I don't know, Trump is the one who is openly advocating nuclear weapon proliferation in southeast Asia, which may actually be the very worst political idea I've heard yet in my 40 years.
It sounds like they're saying "another Chernobyl" like some people say we'll have "another 9/11." They mean, general nuclear accident. And then set the bar for "accident" so low that couldn't possibly be wrong. 50% is pessimistic, by their standards I'd say 90%+
Well, the bar here for "a Chernobyl" is amazingly low. An accident is "an unintentional incident or event at a nuclear energy facility that led to either one death (or more) or at least $50,000 in property damage." That can be... that can be almost anything. A death OR property damage.
So any unintentional incident that does more than $50,000 in property damage? Do you know how easy it is to do $50k in property damage especially in a facility like that?
And even if you take Chernobyl and Fukushima together they still have lower amount of death's or shortened lifespans than coal does per year. The anti-nuclear movement is about fear, not facts.
I believe in nuclear energy generation and wish we had more of it. That said, most people who are "anti-nuclear-power" are not pro-coal and do not recommend replacing nuclear power with coal plants. They're usually the "solar/wind/tidal" groups.
Don't need that many to be truly in the know. Remember, he's purged the military before, people who have been found to be too secular, too pro-constitution etc, and replaced with people loyal to him, via his party.
But given the Turkish military's history of coups whenever a leader tries to do what Erdogan does, I don't think he needed to try to orchestrate one -- a situation that could have easily backfired as it might have succeeded. If he knew one was coming anyway, all he had to do was be ready for it.
You may recall that 9/11 happened before the war in Iraq. Bush ran on a domestic program and war was thrust upon his administration by Bin Laden, al Qaida, and the Taliban.
9/11 and Afghanistan were thrust upon the administration. Even the benefit of hindsight doesn't give us much choice there. Iraq was the war that Bush really -wanted- to fight, and chose to fight.
"Mission Accomplished" referred to the mission performed by the aircraft carrier where that banner was displayed as it was returning home.
BS. Mission Accomplished referred to the end of the military operation in Iraq. It's kindof why George Bush piloted his own fighter jet onto the carrier -- not to celebrate one carrier's job being done.
The whole appeal of Netflix is that it's a monthly sub, not PPV.
Tough, the studios own all the content, and they're in love with PPV. In the "bad old days" of DVD, the technical limitations of the mediums made it so they didn't have as much control as they've gained now. But since they want PPV, they control who can distribute and under what terms. They're quite happy to starve Netflix for content because Netflix doesn't want to go PPV or charge everyone $20/month more or something like that.
I wonder what this judge will go after next? Some cars don't have built in tracking or remote disable (like OnStar), so lets ban all cars that can't be tracked "since it does not lend itself to the enforcement of judicial decisions."
You can follow a car. You can track one quite easily.
Indeed. From http://convergenciadigital.uol... "More than that, the judge considers that if it is not possible to break the encryption, the service itself must be prohibited, since it does not lend itself to the enforcement of judicial decisions."
Should ban curtains (or any other window coverings) on windows too.
Unnecessary, there are many, many ways around that.
Part of the reason is that Amazon agreed to the Hollywood price scheme -- pay per view, with each title having its own price, which was usually extremely expensive (I've seen $8 for a new movie release in HD -- that's for a 24-hour stream). What Netflix wanted for its customers, the model that Netflix was built on that people loved, was the ability to stream anything in the catalog at anytime without extra fees, only the flat monthly charge. Well first, the studios hate that model, their story is STILL that the DVD and your ability to rent it, loan it out, etcetc, absolutely screwed the movie studios. The reality may be the exact opposite, but that's still the movie studio story -- unless the consumer is paying top dollar per title, the studios are getting fucked. So Netflix's streaming catalog is terrible, absolutely terrible, though their DVD rental catalog is still fantastic (and I prefer playing a movie on Blu-Ray rather than streaming any day..), and it's all because the studios don't WANT to cut a deal with them, at least not at the prices that Netflix or their customers would find acceptable. So of course, they're starting Netflix for content, which is why their streaming selection is so shitty.
I liked the cracked.com take on it which was written when the trailers for Jurassic World and the new Terminator movie came out. It pointed out six big mistakes that many CG-heavy movies make, and many times it's not just the effects shots that are to blame for why it looks unrealistic. Summarized: 6) Lack of visual restraint where you can make objects move in unrealistic ways when everything else in the movie obeys the laws of physics. 5) Color grading nightmares. Jurassic World had this dreary blue/grey sheen over every shot, digital or not. It made the whole movie look poor. 4) CGI was originally used as a last resort. Entire scenes weren't created CG, you had, say, close-ups of the T-Rex from Jurassic Park using animatronics, and that gave CG artists a baseline to match when lighting their digital creatures. 3) Most films forget a camera needs to exist. In wholly-digital shots, many directors feel the need to zip the virtual camera around in ways we couldn't possibly move -- and again, it just adds to sense of unrealism. I liked the Misty Mountains bridges/etc sequence from the first Jackson Hobbit movie as an example. 2) Uncanny Valley -- this can be triggered by miniatures as well. We also knew when CG didn't look quite right, so Jurassic Park did the smart thing by hiding most of it in the rain and dark. Some of the daytime outdoor scenes look terrible by today's standards, while the T-Rex rain attack still holds up. 1) I'm not sure the author really made his point well here, but it was something about how big effects sequences should have a build-up (first two Jurassic Park movies) and awe.
Refute this - Tell me why you think I'm wrong.... The leading cause of "racism" is contact with blacks.
Sure, I'll feed a troll. Why not. The damage is already done.:-)
I have found exactly the opposite. It's very easy to hate an "other" that you don't have contact with. After all, you can listen to whatever story you want, believe whatever version of reality someone else tells you that melds with your preconceptions. If you don't talk with black people, then maybe you'll never realize the "thug-gangstas" are a minority of a minority.
You don't have to go back as far as the civil rights era to see the phenomenon in action either. You can see it with the increasing acceptance of homosexuals and such. It's easy to just feed into the same old inherited bigotry and stories of what gay people are like; a little harder when your own son or daughter comes out of the closet.
No. 2001 was one of the first 'eye candy' movies. It suffered from it. Can you stay awake through the space docking sequence?
There were quite a few movies in the era that moved much more slowly than movies now do. I somewhat prefer the long takes of yesteryear to the current "cut every 1.5s" trend.
'Forbidden Planet' was an old movie with about the right amount of special effects (and a beautiful pair of tits!)
Maybe I got distracted by the tits! I was very young when I first saw it, and I found the Creature of the ID to be absolutely amazing. Watched it again yesterday, and the ID monster leaves a LOT to be desired. The practical effects and the matte paintings are still fantastic, but the lasers and the ID creature during the fight used low-budget Disney animation (not kidding -- they contracted out to Disney). https://www.rogersrocketships....
I would love to see an updated version, but the matte paintings were just so good I'm worried a remake would ruin the effect.
Oh yes, Forbidden Planet suffered from a wretched soundtrack. Bad for the time, bad by today's standards. It was very experimental, but as with most experiments, you'll have some hits and some misses.
Don't forget the deregulation of slavery again: 0 minimum wage, forced work, whips, chains... And it's all their fault that they're slaves and do nothing to improve their living conditions (like, say, kill you).
Tisk tisk, what hyperbole! All we need are the Pinkertons to sweep in without any reprisal to themselves and club some heads when the workers rise.
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That was a shame, about Sanders. Not counting those bullshit "superdelegates" he was holding his own extremely well with actual, real voters. .
Then they should have voted for him.
There's a tower in New York with his name on it.
You know, something that you'll never come close to accomplishing.
And this is... a worthy accomplishment? That is actually something we should teach our children to emulate?
Fragnet, AC, come on, can't we both admit that BOTH Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are horrible excuses of presidential candidates?
What he's against is Apple making it so that you would need a backdoor to extract nearly any information on the device, a backdoor that he thinks is a bad idea.
He's arguing against making everything encrypted.
As opposed to the corporate connected felon who will CERTAINLY get us nuked, and nuke a few countries of her own just to show she can?
After all, between Trump and Hillary, only Hillary has actually started any wars.
I don't know, Trump is the one who is openly advocating nuclear weapon proliferation in southeast Asia, which may actually be the very worst political idea I've heard yet in my 40 years.
It sounds like they're saying "another Chernobyl" like some people say we'll have "another 9/11." They mean, general nuclear accident. And then set the bar for "accident" so low that couldn't possibly be wrong. 50% is pessimistic, by their standards I'd say 90%+
Well, the bar here for "a Chernobyl" is amazingly low. An accident is "an unintentional incident or event at a nuclear energy facility that led to either one death (or more) or at least $50,000 in property damage." That can be... that can be almost anything. A death OR property damage.
So any unintentional incident that does more than $50,000 in property damage? Do you know how easy it is to do $50k in property damage especially in a facility like that?
And even if you take Chernobyl and Fukushima together they still have lower amount of death's or shortened lifespans than coal does per year. The anti-nuclear movement is about fear, not facts.
I believe in nuclear energy generation and wish we had more of it. That said, most people who are "anti-nuclear-power" are not pro-coal and do not recommend replacing nuclear power with coal plants. They're usually the "solar/wind/tidal" groups.
Don't need that many to be truly in the know. Remember, he's purged the military before, people who have been found to be too secular, too pro-constitution etc, and replaced with people loyal to him, via his party.
But given the Turkish military's history of coups whenever a leader tries to do what Erdogan does, I don't think he needed to try to orchestrate one -- a situation that could have easily backfired as it might have succeeded. If he knew one was coming anyway, all he had to do was be ready for it.
You may recall that 9/11 happened before the war in Iraq. Bush ran on a domestic program and war was thrust upon his administration by Bin Laden, al Qaida, and the Taliban.
9/11 and Afghanistan were thrust upon the administration. Even the benefit of hindsight doesn't give us much choice there. Iraq was the war that Bush really -wanted- to fight, and chose to fight.
"Mission Accomplished" referred to the mission performed by the aircraft carrier where that banner was displayed as it was returning home.
BS. Mission Accomplished referred to the end of the military operation in Iraq. It's kindof why George Bush piloted his own fighter jet onto the carrier -- not to celebrate one carrier's job being done.
Oh, and a followup. Are you in the US? Because Netflix is the international distributor for Better Call Saul in some territories.
Hmm, Better Call Saul has Netflix original badge for me
It is an AMC series, however, Netflix purchased exclusive streaming rights.
The music industry (sortof) learned that lesson, I'm pretty sure the movie studios are never going to surrender that point.
Netflix's selection is absolute crap. Is Amazon somehow able to do worse?
The whole appeal of Netflix is that it's a monthly sub, not PPV.
Tough, the studios own all the content, and they're in love with PPV. In the "bad old days" of DVD, the technical limitations of the mediums made it so they didn't have as much control as they've gained now. But since they want PPV, they control who can distribute and under what terms. They're quite happy to starve Netflix for content because Netflix doesn't want to go PPV or charge everyone $20/month more or something like that.
I wonder what this judge will go after next? Some cars don't have built in tracking or remote disable (like OnStar), so lets ban all cars that can't be tracked "since it does not lend itself to the enforcement of judicial decisions."
You can follow a car. You can track one quite easily.
Indeed.
From http://convergenciadigital.uol...
"More than that, the judge considers that if it is not possible to break the encryption, the service itself must be prohibited, since it does not lend itself to the enforcement of judicial decisions."
Should ban curtains (or any other window coverings) on windows too.
Unnecessary, there are many, many ways around that.
Part of the reason is that Amazon agreed to the Hollywood price scheme -- pay per view, with each title having its own price, which was usually extremely expensive (I've seen $8 for a new movie release in HD -- that's for a 24-hour stream). What Netflix wanted for its customers, the model that Netflix was built on that people loved, was the ability to stream anything in the catalog at anytime without extra fees, only the flat monthly charge. Well first, the studios hate that model, their story is STILL that the DVD and your ability to rent it, loan it out, etcetc, absolutely screwed the movie studios. The reality may be the exact opposite, but that's still the movie studio story -- unless the consumer is paying top dollar per title, the studios are getting fucked. So Netflix's streaming catalog is terrible, absolutely terrible, though their DVD rental catalog is still fantastic (and I prefer playing a movie on Blu-Ray rather than streaming any day..), and it's all because the studios don't WANT to cut a deal with them, at least not at the prices that Netflix or their customers would find acceptable. So of course, they're starting Netflix for content, which is why their streaming selection is so shitty.
Well, this was back in the 50s, right? I'd say just about anything synthesizer-based was experimental back then.
I liked the cracked.com take on it which was written when the trailers for Jurassic World and the new Terminator movie came out. It pointed out six big mistakes that many CG-heavy movies make, and many times it's not just the effects shots that are to blame for why it looks unrealistic. Summarized:
6) Lack of visual restraint where you can make objects move in unrealistic ways when everything else in the movie obeys the laws of physics.
5) Color grading nightmares. Jurassic World had this dreary blue/grey sheen over every shot, digital or not. It made the whole movie look poor.
4) CGI was originally used as a last resort. Entire scenes weren't created CG, you had, say, close-ups of the T-Rex from Jurassic Park using animatronics, and that gave CG artists a baseline to match when lighting their digital creatures.
3) Most films forget a camera needs to exist. In wholly-digital shots, many directors feel the need to zip the virtual camera around in ways we couldn't possibly move -- and again, it just adds to sense of unrealism. I liked the Misty Mountains bridges/etc sequence from the first Jackson Hobbit movie as an example.
2) Uncanny Valley -- this can be triggered by miniatures as well. We also knew when CG didn't look quite right, so Jurassic Park did the smart thing by hiding most of it in the rain and dark. Some of the daytime outdoor scenes look terrible by today's standards, while the T-Rex rain attack still holds up.
1) I'm not sure the author really made his point well here, but it was something about how big effects sequences should have a build-up (first two Jurassic Park movies) and awe.
Refute this - Tell me why you think I'm wrong. ... The leading cause of "racism" is contact with blacks.
Sure, I'll feed a troll. Why not. The damage is already done. :-)
I have found exactly the opposite. It's very easy to hate an "other" that you don't have contact with. After all, you can listen to whatever story you want, believe whatever version of reality someone else tells you that melds with your preconceptions. If you don't talk with black people, then maybe you'll never realize the "thug-gangstas" are a minority of a minority.
You don't have to go back as far as the civil rights era to see the phenomenon in action either. You can see it with the increasing acceptance of homosexuals and such. It's easy to just feed into the same old inherited bigotry and stories of what gay people are like; a little harder when your own son or daughter comes out of the closet.
No. 2001 was one of the first 'eye candy' movies. It suffered from it. Can you stay awake through the space docking sequence?
There were quite a few movies in the era that moved much more slowly than movies now do. I somewhat prefer the long takes of yesteryear to the current "cut every 1.5s" trend.
'Forbidden Planet' was an old movie with about the right amount of special effects (and a beautiful pair of tits!)
Maybe I got distracted by the tits! I was very young when I first saw it, and I found the Creature of the ID to be absolutely amazing. Watched it again yesterday, and the ID monster leaves a LOT to be desired. The practical effects and the matte paintings are still fantastic, but the lasers and the ID creature during the fight used low-budget Disney animation (not kidding -- they contracted out to Disney).
https://www.rogersrocketships....
I would love to see an updated version, but the matte paintings were just so good I'm worried a remake would ruin the effect.
Oh yes, Forbidden Planet suffered from a wretched soundtrack. Bad for the time, bad by today's standards. It was very experimental, but as with most experiments, you'll have some hits and some misses.
Sure it is work, but it isn't valued work. It is the high value of their vanity - they get paid by the level of cheer.
It sure seemed to be valued by her listeners -- they were willing to pay quite a bit of money to listen.
You're ignorant propaganda yet another reason people are fed up with the left and why Trump is doing so well.
"Running more money through the government is a rotten idea" is left-speak these days?
Don't forget the deregulation of slavery again: 0 minimum wage, forced work, whips, chains... And it's all their fault that they're slaves and do nothing to improve their living conditions (like, say, kill you).
Tisk tisk, what hyperbole!
All we need are the Pinkertons to sweep in without any reprisal to themselves and club some heads when the workers rise.