I'd argue that Hollywood only makes the impact that it does because the studios have the money to throw at global releases.
Precisely, that's the cultural hegemony. Well that, and there are lots of Americans who think that dubs sound funny (they're usually right) but also don't like watching non-English films with subtitles.
Game of Thrones doesn't make me mad about their language use, since even though it's British-ish, it takes place in a fictional land so its language customs shouldn't necessarily reflect a specific Earth region.
Build a pyrolytic converter to break down waste plastic into oil. This is a cheap and simple process that can break down all waste plastic even the stuff the recyclers wont take like plastic grocery-shopping bags. It can be profitable too.
Just curious, if this is true, then why wouldn't recylcers take them if they could make a profit from it?
I always find it really jarring when TV shows that are supposed to be set in the UK or at least use British English most of the time suddenly throw in Americanisms. Game of Thrones does it about once an episode, with things like "mad" instead of "angry" or "done" instead of "finished".
Which is amusing since almost everyone in the cast aside from Peter Dinklage is native British.
Yes of course, but the AC's not talking about cultural open-mindedness, or that there is great stuff from other cultures because obviously there is. He's talking about cultural hegemony.
The Mario movie was terrible, but there was a good reason. The filmmakers went for a grittier, darker tone (think Tim Burton's Batman) and it focused on family -- Mario's relationship with Luigi. Just a few weeks before filming, the studio stepped in a demanded an entire new script. The new script was extremely half-baked and not what the filmmakers or actors originally signed on to do. The sets were already made, and it feels like there's a total disconnect between the surroundings and the actors, because the sets were designed for a different movie.
Bob Hoskins says it's the worst thing he ever did, he hated working in the movie, and the whole thing was a nightmare. Leguizamo said that the studio pushed for a family-friendly film while the directors wanted something more adult. He and Hoskins were frequently drunk on set to get through it, knowing the film was going to be bad. Dennis Hopper (Koopa) also mentioned it being a nightmare, with the directors both being control freaks who wouldn't talk before making decisions. His 5 weeks scheduled turned into 17 weeks.
Gummi Bears (Disney's Adventures of the) - Since this is from the 80s, it's likely locked in Disney's vault
I see it currently available on DVD on Amazon.
Smurfs - little blue dudes from a magical forest. I preferred the original narration intro over the shortened doom & gloom intro.
I liked the UNICEF Smurf promo, made with permission of Peyo's estate. Now why couldn't they have THAT in the live-action movie?
I've seen those. Those Super Mario episodes (The Super Mario Bros Super Show) must have been extremely low budget. Usually, there would be a pretty bad live action segment followed by a terrible cartoon.
I have a fondness for ol' wrestler Lou Albano as Mario. The live-action segments were pretty terrible, showing Mario and Luigi's home life. I still remember when Madonna was the guest star of the live action segment and she was pretty shamelessly trying to sleep with both of them. Even when I was 12 I knew that was pretty damned inappropriate.
Googling around, "3-5 million" or so seems to be the lower threshold for 'really large city.' 1.5m seems to be the upper end for "mid-size" city. "Small city" is more like half a million or less.
And then you'll get into arguments about whether you should include the metro area or just the city proper.
Fascism is a perversion of socialism, at least in 1930s Germany. It was the Socialist German Workers' Party, an attempt to lure workers away from Communism using anti-bourgeois and anti-capitalist rhetoric to bring in those attracted to Communism away by providing an alternative. They saw the capitalistic system as being dominated by Jews, a way to introduce the left-leaning towards nationalism and racism. Anton Drexler founded it as a way to synthesize volkisch nationalism with economic socialism to gain support from the lower and middle classes. The DAP promoted profit-sharing instead of Socialism to create a German "peoples' community" without class or party lines. They were opposed to non-nationalist political movements, like the Communist Party of Germany. Adolph Hitler was originally recruited by the Barvarian government to infiltrate the DAP, but he ended up impressing them with his oratory skills and was persuaded by Drexler to join. They were not anti-socialist, they were anti-Bolshevik. Hitler was not a Socialist, but party leaders were -- they added "Socialist" to the new party name "National Socialist German Workers' Party" over his objection.
Hitler worked through the 1920s to accumulate more power for the DAP and the NSDAP and Nazi Germany dropped all of its trappings of socialism or even fascism, and became totalitarian.
"Linux" isn't hard. What becomes hard is when you're dealing with other agencies that use proprietary products. Or there a specialized task that you need done that is only solved by a proprietary product. If you're on Windows, you throw a little money at it to buy the product, and you're done. On Linux you're.... what, booting up a virtual environment to run Windows? Paying a contractor to write a replacement, which is expensive, time-consuming, may not work, and may not be legal? When all you need to do is write a report to send other people in the city... hey, no problem. But once you need niche solutions for niche problems, your options dry up.
Linux has a "the chicken or the egg" problem. Without a sizable desktop user pool in whatever industry you're trying to switch over, all these proprietary products won't be written for Linux. Without proprietary products, industry is handicapping themselves by moving to Linux. It's a tough problem to solve, and that's why it hasn't really been solved yet.
Sounds like whining. Remember when Linux was available on PS3? I did not personally use it, but - surprise - I ran into people who did, and never would have been exposed to Linux except for that. And they got pretty pissed when Sony took it away, to the extent that one just stopped accepting PS3 updates
I was super-excited to install Linux on my PS3. Was I pissed that Sony remove the feature? Eh, only a little. The thing is that I had already made my peace with Linux on the Playstation -- it was crappy experience and I was long over it. It was that thing that you repartitioned your drive for (I upgraded the PS3 drive) to install Yellow Dog, played with a few hours, and never touched again. You were not given access to all the cell processors' resources, and the GPU was mostly locked away. All of this is presumably so that the platform couldn't be used for game piracy (or emulators). Those limitations imposed by the hypervisor made PS3 Linux not terribly useful for most people. If you were hyped up thinking of the things you could do with it, imagining it'd be like Linux installed on your PC... oh, that was some brutal disappointment.
YDL on PS3 got some short term attention when people clustered them for scientific number crunching, but it was quickly passed by the PC market.
I could do that on a Playstation 3 as well, but it was pointless since the hypervisor locked you out out of many of the hardware resources that you would need to really do useful things... or create any application that would compete with Sony's core games business.
"Linux" on a Galaxy means nothing. "Linux" on a Galaxy with full access to the hardware, able to run Android programs and connect to AT&T / Verizon / et all just like an AT&T-branded phone... now that might be something.
Why is this modded -1? He/she disputes OPs points and goes into detail. Just because you disagree with what he/she said doesn't make it a -1. That's the problem with slashdot.
I'd say that his repeated assertion is that everyone who isn't a giant nerd-lord (I might be a giant nerd-lord...) not be allowed to touch a computer is, by this point, flamebait.
Stock photos suck, but the human brain stores information in various ways, and images sometimes give us context we need that a sentence would be insufficient for, context we can much more quickly absorb than a paragraph of explanation.
IE: "A story about Louis C.K. Hmmm, did I ever see him in anything? I can't remember but the name sounds vaguely familiar." *sees picture* "Oh, THAT guy.. yeah, I remember now, I saw him on some comedy special a few years ago."
The real solution of our problems can come when we can get people to give up on the belief in statism. Which has no moral validity. Nor does it solve any problem.
"The government" is the only real alternative to "gangs which enforce their own laws." You get one of the two. You're not getting a third option.
And people still say that the deep state doesn't exist.
The "deep state" is one of those vague-sounding phrases that means whatever you really want it to mean, and you can blame just about any action on it without needing any proof that the "deep state" exists. The wonderful thing about conspiracy theories is that any evidence of them is damning, and lack of evidence is even more proof of the influence they wield.
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I'd argue that Hollywood only makes the impact that it does because the studios have the money to throw at global releases.
Precisely, that's the cultural hegemony. Well that, and there are lots of Americans who think that dubs sound funny (they're usually right) but also don't like watching non-English films with subtitles.
Game of Thrones doesn't make me mad about their language use, since even though it's British-ish, it takes place in a fictional land so its language customs shouldn't necessarily reflect a specific Earth region.
B. Energy from Wasted Oil-Based Plastic
Build a pyrolytic converter to break down waste plastic into oil. This is a cheap and simple process that can break down all waste plastic even the stuff the recyclers wont take like plastic grocery-shopping bags. It can be profitable too.
Just curious, if this is true, then why wouldn't recylcers take them if they could make a profit from it?
There's not much logic involved in this thread.
Could you be more specific about what he got wrong?
Can I mod this +1, Flamebait? Or +1, Troll?
I always find it really jarring when TV shows that are supposed to be set in the UK or at least use British English most of the time suddenly throw in Americanisms. Game of Thrones does it about once an episode, with things like "mad" instead of "angry" or "done" instead of "finished".
Which is amusing since almost everyone in the cast aside from Peter Dinklage is native British.
Yes of course, but the AC's not talking about cultural open-mindedness, or that there is great stuff from other cultures because obviously there is. He's talking about cultural hegemony.
Ain't that kinda redunderant?
In the sense that a Xerox copier is redunderant.
The Mario movie was terrible, but there was a good reason. The filmmakers went for a grittier, darker tone (think Tim Burton's Batman) and it focused on family -- Mario's relationship with Luigi. Just a few weeks before filming, the studio stepped in a demanded an entire new script. The new script was extremely half-baked and not what the filmmakers or actors originally signed on to do. The sets were already made, and it feels like there's a total disconnect between the surroundings and the actors, because the sets were designed for a different movie.
Bob Hoskins says it's the worst thing he ever did, he hated working in the movie, and the whole thing was a nightmare. Leguizamo said that the studio pushed for a family-friendly film while the directors wanted something more adult. He and Hoskins were frequently drunk on set to get through it, knowing the film was going to be bad. Dennis Hopper (Koopa) also mentioned it being a nightmare, with the directors both being control freaks who wouldn't talk before making decisions. His 5 weeks scheduled turned into 17 weeks.
Bob Hoskins is dead, they'll have to settle for Ron Jeremy.
Gummi Bears (Disney's Adventures of the) - Since this is from the 80s, it's likely locked in Disney's vault
I see it currently available on DVD on Amazon.
Smurfs - little blue dudes from a magical forest. I preferred the original narration intro over the shortened doom & gloom intro.
I liked the UNICEF Smurf promo, made with permission of Peyo's estate. Now why couldn't they have THAT in the live-action movie?
I've seen those. Those Super Mario episodes (The Super Mario Bros Super Show) must have been extremely low budget. Usually, there would be a pretty bad live action segment followed by a terrible cartoon.
I have a fondness for ol' wrestler Lou Albano as Mario. The live-action segments were pretty terrible, showing Mario and Luigi's home life. I still remember when Madonna was the guest star of the live action segment and she was pretty shamelessly trying to sleep with both of them. Even when I was 12 I knew that was pretty damned inappropriate.
Googling around, "3-5 million" or so seems to be the lower threshold for 'really large city.'
1.5m seems to be the upper end for "mid-size" city.
"Small city" is more like half a million or less.
And then you'll get into arguments about whether you should include the metro area or just the city proper.
Fascism is a perversion of socialism, at least in 1930s Germany. It was the Socialist German Workers' Party, an attempt to lure workers away from Communism using anti-bourgeois and anti-capitalist rhetoric to bring in those attracted to Communism away by providing an alternative. They saw the capitalistic system as being dominated by Jews, a way to introduce the left-leaning towards nationalism and racism. Anton Drexler founded it as a way to synthesize volkisch nationalism with economic socialism to gain support from the lower and middle classes. The DAP promoted profit-sharing instead of Socialism to create a German "peoples' community" without class or party lines. They were opposed to non-nationalist political movements, like the Communist Party of Germany. Adolph Hitler was originally recruited by the Barvarian government to infiltrate the DAP, but he ended up impressing them with his oratory skills and was persuaded by Drexler to join. They were not anti-socialist, they were anti-Bolshevik. Hitler was not a Socialist, but party leaders were -- they added "Socialist" to the new party name "National Socialist German Workers' Party" over his objection.
Hitler worked through the 1920s to accumulate more power for the DAP and the NSDAP and Nazi Germany dropped all of its trappings of socialism or even fascism, and became totalitarian.
Munich is not a "small city," it just isn't a behemoth.
I concur. Linux should be easy.
"Linux" isn't hard. What becomes hard is when you're dealing with other agencies that use proprietary products. Or there a specialized task that you need done that is only solved by a proprietary product. If you're on Windows, you throw a little money at it to buy the product, and you're done. On Linux you're.... what, booting up a virtual environment to run Windows? Paying a contractor to write a replacement, which is expensive, time-consuming, may not work, and may not be legal? When all you need to do is write a report to send other people in the city... hey, no problem. But once you need niche solutions for niche problems, your options dry up.
Linux has a "the chicken or the egg" problem. Without a sizable desktop user pool in whatever industry you're trying to switch over, all these proprietary products won't be written for Linux. Without proprietary products, industry is handicapping themselves by moving to Linux. It's a tough problem to solve, and that's why it hasn't really been solved yet.
Sounds like whining. Remember when Linux was available on PS3? I did not personally use it, but - surprise - I ran into people who did, and never would have been exposed to Linux except for that. And they got pretty pissed when Sony took it away, to the extent that one just stopped accepting PS3 updates
I was super-excited to install Linux on my PS3. Was I pissed that Sony remove the feature? Eh, only a little. The thing is that I had already made my peace with Linux on the Playstation -- it was crappy experience and I was long over it. It was that thing that you repartitioned your drive for (I upgraded the PS3 drive) to install Yellow Dog, played with a few hours, and never touched again. You were not given access to all the cell processors' resources, and the GPU was mostly locked away. All of this is presumably so that the platform couldn't be used for game piracy (or emulators). Those limitations imposed by the hypervisor made PS3 Linux not terribly useful for most people. If you were hyped up thinking of the things you could do with it, imagining it'd be like Linux installed on your PC... oh, that was some brutal disappointment.
YDL on PS3 got some short term attention when people clustered them for scientific number crunching, but it was quickly passed by the PC market.
I could do that on a Playstation 3 as well, but it was pointless since the hypervisor locked you out out of many of the hardware resources that you would need to really do useful things... or create any application that would compete with Sony's core games business.
"Linux" on a Galaxy means nothing. "Linux" on a Galaxy with full access to the hardware, able to run Android programs and connect to AT&T / Verizon / et all just like an AT&T-branded phone... now that might be something.
Thanks, AC! I couldn't tell by looking at the comment bar who wrote this. I'm glad I had a social-skills-challenged AC to help me figure it out.
Why is this modded -1? He/she disputes OPs points and goes into detail. Just because you disagree with what he/she said doesn't make it a -1. That's the problem with slashdot.
I'd say that his repeated assertion is that everyone who isn't a giant nerd-lord (I might be a giant nerd-lord...) not be allowed to touch a computer is, by this point, flamebait.
Stock photos suck, but the human brain stores information in various ways, and images sometimes give us context we need that a sentence would be insufficient for, context we can much more quickly absorb than a paragraph of explanation.
IE: "A story about Louis C.K. Hmmm, did I ever see him in anything? I can't remember but the name sounds vaguely familiar." *sees picture* "Oh, THAT guy.. yeah, I remember now, I saw him on some comedy special a few years ago."
Why do you believe you should be able to decide what it or isnâ(TM)t interesting, as opposed to the content creator?
The "content creator," that is, article writer, usually had no input in whether any images are used with the piece or which ones are used.
The real solution of our problems can come when we can get people to give up on the belief in statism.
Which has no moral validity. Nor does it solve any problem.
"The government" is the only real alternative to "gangs which enforce their own laws." You get one of the two. You're not getting a third option.
This is an absolutely fantastic post, absolutely not worth the Troll tag.
And people still say that the deep state doesn't exist.
The "deep state" is one of those vague-sounding phrases that means whatever you really want it to mean, and you can blame just about any action on it without needing any proof that the "deep state" exists. The wonderful thing about conspiracy theories is that any evidence of them is damning, and lack of evidence is even more proof of the influence they wield.