From the sound of it Sony wants a Meaner and leaner attack dog that does more damage and costs less.
Yeah, so they can ensure they stop all those evil pirates from streaming The Interview at home before it hits theatre...oh, Sony did what?!?
(Yeah, kind of a bitch to take that hypocritical stance now that Sony themselves have set precedent with first-run screenings, regardless of the reason.)
That's not a hypocritical stance. Their stance has always been that the movie owners dictate when and how movies are distributed. If they want to put it up on streaming before or during a theatrical release, it's entirely their choice and doesn't smack of hypocrisy.
I think it shows the peril of smart people thinking they're smarter than people who make medicine their career, and that they "know better" because they've done the research through anti-vax site.
In other words, being intelligent is no defense from doing stupid shit.
yes. absolutely. Don't exercise. Smoke. Eat shitty food. Become 100 pounds overweight. Then expect me to pay for your diabetes medicine and lung surgery. Fuck no
No one expects you to do shit. I do expect insurance companies to take care of those they ensure
In other words, you DO expect us to pay for them. If you're asking someone other than the person who gets sick to pay for the treatments, then you're asking all of us to. Neither insurance companies nor governments are pools of magic money, that money comes from insured folks and tax payers.
Diagnoses of autism have climbed in part because we're a little more lax about what constitutes "autism." Fifty years ago someone would have been called "slow" or a "dullard," not autistic. I'm not saying this accounts for all the rise of diagnoses, but our our diagnostic standards have changed over the decades.
Jenny McCarthy says they cause autism. She's a celebrity so obviously she knows more than all of the doctors in the world right?
Her child wasn't even autistic. She couldn't even get that part right. He has Landau–Kleffner syndrome, and now that he doesn't show autism symptoms, she says that chelation therapy cured her son. Every statement she makes just gets worse.
Even Reagan's own advisers didn't believe in trickle-down, calling it "Voodoo Economics." We've had 30+ years to see that the trickle-down system is a failure.
I do like the format for the TV series. The last two seasons have borrowed equally from books 3, 4, and 5. Everyone has actually been getting character advancement.
I take it that you have not read the Wheel of Time...:)
I have done the rereading 6 or 7 times, and don't need to do that again for the rest of the series.
The Wheel of Time books are really easy to reread. First, you read all of book 1 cover to cover. That one is pretty well written with a good pace. Then for all the other books, read the first chapter, skip the next 600 pages where nothing of consequence happens, then read the last 3 chapters where all the mind-blowing developments occur. I've yet to decide if book 2 and 3 fall into the "read all of it" or "skip most of it" camp.
If a vehicle is in poor repair then it shouldn't be on the road in the first place.
Well are YOU going to pay for them to get a new car? Most people with junkers on the road don't have them for style points. It's because they have just enough money so that they aren't using that car as their primary residence.
Catherine Schell went the Seven of Nine route. Initial assumption was that she was just the eye candy, but she displayed some acting chops and character development as well.
The other major addition to Space: 1999 Season 2, "Tony," maybe not so much. He was put in there to be action boy.
Hey, we don't want a stray nuclear explosion to send the moon off on a fantastical but low budget trip across the universe, requiring some really bad acting and 1970s styles to come back into fashion!
1970s music was awesome. Its color palette, not so much.
Martin Landau's acting in the series was excellent, Barbara Bain's was competent. Barry Morse was quite good in his season as well.
The idea behind IoT is that it's a desirable goal to have in the first place. I don't think it is -- it's just another vector for attacks, just another target for malware, and another way for things to draw steadily more power over time.
As an aside, I think that allowing compressed files to be expanded with the execute bit set is also a security hazard...just one that's probably worth the cost
I'm generally fine with that, but I am very much against putting '.' in the PATH, as I've seen others do.
The thing is real hackers have been doing this shit for years.
True, but this is the point where it gets "momentum" in society. A tipping point, like going from an Internet where most people are technologists or students, to an Internet that contains everyone, including your grandmother.
Or at least, that's the presumption. IoT is overall a terrible idea, adding almost no real value while opening up every day objects to hacking.
You're not going to see an immediate drop in quality, especially with products that were designed when Jobs was still at Apple. That's a long pipeline, and any 2015 product has been in development for years. What you may eventually see is no revolutionary new product announcements. We haven't seen anything new that's taken the world by storm like the ipod, iphone, MacOSX, etc for some time.
I'll mention one thing I quickly noticed: I don't think Jobs would have approved the current crop of TV ads. Those things are just horrible.
We don't get mad when TCP/IP is used in an authoritarian country. At some point Facebook is like any other infrastructure on the internet--it's a conduit
We don't get mad at neutral protocols any more than we get mad at a hammer. We do get mad at people who attack others with hammers, much as we get mad at Facebook for facilitating censorship.
I used to receive ATSC digital HD broadcasts with a smallish antenna that I placed on my desk that was by my front window. Total space footprint was less than a cubic foot. But yes, I'm just speaking of the local affiliates (equivalent to starter cable). At least back then, maybe only Discovery Channel did any over the air broadcasts.
I won't say it didn't get drop-outs, but if I had line of sight to the broadcast tower it would probably have been much better.
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From the sound of it Sony wants a Meaner and leaner attack dog that does more damage and costs less.
Yeah, so they can ensure they stop all those evil pirates from streaming The Interview at home before it hits theatre...oh, Sony did what?!?
(Yeah, kind of a bitch to take that hypocritical stance now that Sony themselves have set precedent with first-run screenings, regardless of the reason.)
That's not a hypocritical stance. Their stance has always been that the movie owners dictate when and how movies are distributed. If they want to put it up on streaming before or during a theatrical release, it's entirely their choice and doesn't smack of hypocrisy.
You do realize that MPAA promotes a fascist system, not a capitalist one, don't you?
His point is that the ideal answer to fascism is not communism/totalitarianism.
I think it shows the peril of smart people thinking they're smarter than people who make medicine their career, and that they "know better" because they've done the research through anti-vax site.
In other words, being intelligent is no defense from doing stupid shit.
Using fear to motivate someone is called terrorism.
Bullshit. That's not what 'terrorism' means at all. We suffer from enough dilution of that term, don't make it worse.
yes. absolutely. Don't exercise. Smoke. Eat shitty food. Become 100 pounds overweight. Then expect me to pay for your diabetes medicine and lung surgery. Fuck no
No one expects you to do shit. I do expect insurance companies to take care of those they ensure
In other words, you DO expect us to pay for them. If you're asking someone other than the person who gets sick to pay for the treatments, then you're asking all of us to. Neither insurance companies nor governments are pools of magic money, that money comes from insured folks and tax payers.
Diagnoses of autism have climbed in part because we're a little more lax about what constitutes "autism." Fifty years ago someone would have been called "slow" or a "dullard," not autistic. I'm not saying this accounts for all the rise of diagnoses, but our our diagnostic standards have changed over the decades.
Jenny McCarthy says they cause autism. She's a celebrity so obviously she knows more than all of the doctors in the world right?
Her child wasn't even autistic. She couldn't even get that part right. He has Landau–Kleffner syndrome, and now that he doesn't show autism symptoms, she says that chelation therapy cured her son. Every statement she makes just gets worse.
Still - those studies are weak at best and the proof is provided by those that stand to benefit greatly by widespread use of vaccines.
All of humanity?
Even Reagan's own advisers didn't believe in trickle-down, calling it "Voodoo Economics." We've had 30+ years to see that the trickle-down system is a failure.
I do like the format for the TV series. The last two seasons have borrowed equally from books 3, 4, and 5. Everyone has actually been getting character advancement.
I take it that you have not read the Wheel of Time... :)
I have done the rereading 6 or 7 times, and don't need to do that again for the rest of the series.
The Wheel of Time books are really easy to reread.
First, you read all of book 1 cover to cover. That one is pretty well written with a good pace.
Then for all the other books, read the first chapter, skip the next 600 pages where nothing of consequence happens, then read the last 3 chapters where all the mind-blowing developments occur.
I've yet to decide if book 2 and 3 fall into the "read all of it" or "skip most of it" camp.
The people outside the special economic zone that is the bay area are the real America,
Safe the "real America" bullshit. It didn't work for Sarah Palin, it sure as hell won't work for you.
If a vehicle is in poor repair then it shouldn't be on the road in the first place.
Well are YOU going to pay for them to get a new car? Most people with junkers on the road don't have them for style points. It's because they have just enough money so that they aren't using that car as their primary residence.
Catherine Schell went the Seven of Nine route. Initial assumption was that she was just the eye candy, but she displayed some acting chops and character development as well.
The other major addition to Space: 1999 Season 2, "Tony," maybe not so much. He was put in there to be action boy.
Hey, we don't want a stray nuclear explosion to send the moon off on a fantastical but low budget trip across the universe, requiring some really bad acting and 1970s styles to come back into fashion!
1970s music was awesome. Its color palette, not so much.
Martin Landau's acting in the series was excellent, Barbara Bain's was competent. Barry Morse was quite good in his season as well.
Really though, are you going to trust a photo supplied by ISIS? This is Islamic propaganda.
Yes, the idea is that this time has come.
The idea behind IoT is that it's a desirable goal to have in the first place. I don't think it is -- it's just another vector for attacks, just another target for malware, and another way for things to draw steadily more power over time.
As an aside, I think that allowing compressed files to be expanded with the execute bit set is also a security hazard...just one that's probably worth the cost
I'm generally fine with that, but I am very much against putting '.' in the PATH, as I've seen others do.
The thing is real hackers have been doing this shit for years.
True, but this is the point where it gets "momentum" in society. A tipping point, like going from an Internet where most people are technologists or students, to an Internet that contains everyone, including your grandmother.
Or at least, that's the presumption. IoT is overall a terrible idea, adding almost no real value while opening up every day objects to hacking.
You're not going to see an immediate drop in quality, especially with products that were designed when Jobs was still at Apple. That's a long pipeline, and any 2015 product has been in development for years. What you may eventually see is no revolutionary new product announcements. We haven't seen anything new that's taken the world by storm like the ipod, iphone, MacOSX, etc for some time.
I'll mention one thing I quickly noticed: I don't think Jobs would have approved the current crop of TV ads. Those things are just horrible.
And of course, every purchase made at an Apple Store has the regular state sales tax deducted from the purchase, as normal.
I'd say the Shakers come pretty close.
Is that where the phrase "shakedown" comes from, when someone extorts a higher-than-normal fee?
Oh, you mean Islam's Prophet Muhammad?
Most people don't recognize him as a prophet at all.
It's a title. I call Elizabeth II "Queen Elizabeth" even if she's not my queen. Same with Prime Minister David Cameron.
We don't get mad when TCP/IP is used in an authoritarian country. At some point Facebook is like any other infrastructure on the internet--it's a conduit
We don't get mad at neutral protocols any more than we get mad at a hammer. We do get mad at people who attack others with hammers, much as we get mad at Facebook for facilitating censorship.
I used to receive ATSC digital HD broadcasts with a smallish antenna that I placed on my desk that was by my front window. Total space footprint was less than a cubic foot. But yes, I'm just speaking of the local affiliates (equivalent to starter cable). At least back then, maybe only Discovery Channel did any over the air broadcasts.
I won't say it didn't get drop-outs, but if I had line of sight to the broadcast tower it would probably have been much better.