This morning I saw on the news that Trump had met with Kanye.
Of course he met with Kanye. Trump loves the attention of the rich and famous. They're both clinical narcissists so they understand each other that way. That at least makes it possible for an NEA position. Kanye projects not just competence, but hyper-competence, as in "you people are idiots because you don't understand my incredible genius." That is absolutely the sort of person Donald Trump is.
But just meeting doesn't mean anything will come of it. He met plenty of times with Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani too.
Someone asked if a cabinet position was discussed, and he didn't say.
I've found over the last few months that Trump loves to play the guessing game. IE, he wants to keep you guessing. He's not going to play the standard politician reassurance role. He will not confirm or deny cabinet positions until he wants to make the announcement himself. If he said "I'm not nominating this bonehead" then you could keep asking that question of various boneheads to whittle the candidate list down. Instead, he's not going to confirm or deny a cabinet choice until he wants you to know.
If they "rebel", he will just shut down the entire department. If they do a job worth doing (energy does not), then he will reform it with new people.
Care and maintenance of our nuclear weapons stockpile isn't a job worth doing? Shit, talk about a low-IQ response. I'm glad Trump will be in charge instead of AC.
Trump played people exceptionally. The biggest crazy moment in the whole election campaign to me was Trump swindling people into thinking he's not one of the elitists that they railed against. That he's not in the top 1%.
But this is really a part of a larger Republican narrative, one that Ayn Rand promoted: this notion that "elite" refers ONLY to government insiders, and people who use government power to influence business. For them, a businessman, no matter how wealthy, cannot be considered "the elite." That label can only be applied to the big bad government.
Once it became apparent that the FBI was in the sack for Hillary,
Really? Well they sure did a shit job of it. The "November Surprise" of Anthony Weiner's laptop did exceptional damage. Did they just change their minds?
a man of Trump's age is unlikely to be seeking a second term,
That's what I used to think of John McCain as well. I figured a vote for McCain was a vote for President Palin, since the chances were decent that she would take over midterm, but he's still kicking. I've not reason to think Trump won't be still kicking in four years too.
Likewise: under the deal the US auto industry suffers, but all Americans get cheaper cars.
When you're out of work, you can't afford even a cheap car. We've made enough of those deals along the lines of "sacrifice jobs, but cheaper goods," that the jobs losses have piled up.
"The people they're fighting are other Muslims" - that's not the important bit. The important bit is the corollary: almost all the people who are in the front lines fighting against ISIS are Muslims.
They're also all humans, so we ought to kill all humans, everywhere.
Boy, I think Warren would have turned her down (and for we know, she might have). I don't think Elizabeth Warren would want her political career hitched to Hillary's cart. Maybe she wasn't ready; she refused to run.. was it because she wasn't ready? She thought she would have a better chance as a senator? She didn't want to run against Hillary? If the latter, I'll bet she's regretting that decision now..
Maybe Samsung themselves are floating the rumor to find out how the reaction will be. Will people be saying "Yyyayaaay, thinner phone!" or will they be saying "!#$$!%, no headphone jack?"
Yeah, Jill and Gary seemed to have no idea what the President does. That's what sucked the worst. The only other person on the ballot in my state was the Peace and Freedom Party candidate.
You have a point. I suppose Bernie would have been a more interesting pick. On one hand, I was happy that she chose someone I'd have rather had as President, but that probably says more about my expectations for her than anything else.
I feel like this is what came of adding the Politics section. All of that nonsense that was posted during the fallout from the Columbine Massacre, and then the "Bush Defeats Gore" story got far more comments than the previous record-holder. Slashdot editors found that politics stories got views and hits, and the technology decline on Slashdot began.
Yup. When we saw Snakes on a Plane, we were pretty lit. And most of the other people in the theatre (which was not many people) were drunk also. Pretty sure it was fun for all. Unless there were a few people in there that weren't drunk. In which case, worst movie and experience of their lives.
I wasn't drunk, but it was still pretty fun. As the lights went down at the start, the whole theater was chanting "Snakes! Snakes! Snakes! Snakes!"
2: 2015 included 2 major outliers. Jurassic World and Star Wars Episode VII:The Force Awakens.
They count just as much as any other movie does. 2002 may have been a peak, or that might have been the outlier. If you look at the box office receipts adjusted for inflation for the last 20 years, the total adjusted box office each year has been between $10b - $13b, 2002 being the sole exception.
Box Office Mojo has additional data going back to 1980, but those years all look similar as well. The movie industry will have sold more tickets in 2016 than it did for any year between 1980 - 1988.
The biggest change between then and now has been the death of the small and medium budget films. Those don't get made anymore. Now, only micro-budget films and mega-budget films get approved. Very very little in the $10m-$100m gets made now.
You sound like a complete asshole. WhyTF should anyone hang onto ancient and obsolete technologies just to accommodate the media companies?
The BluRay is superior to streaming in every way other than "I want it this minute." Now, I want it this minute is pretty compelling, I'll certainly grant that. I've definitely had my movie-watching desires foiled by lack of access.
But with a BluRay rental, I get better sound and picture, the download doesn't max out my Internet connection nor does it count towards my ISP data cap (which most ISPs have even if they refuse to tell you about it), I don't get "buffering" whenever I try to seek, I usually get some decent extras, I don't have to subscribe to five online services to get a decent library, and I have a far better chance of finding niche, less popular, or foreign offerings.
Some of those are technical limitations, some are business limitations imposed by an ISP, and some are limitations imposed by the content owners. That last one in particular is a reason to dislike streaming; streaming sucks because all the power is back in the hands of the big content companies, and their practices are anti-customer.
That's a human thing, not a conservative thing. Ask almost anybody about the horrible thing that $PERSON_THEY_SUPPORT did, and the answer is almost ALWAYS going to be, "but $OTHER_GUY did the same thing!" Ask them about something they personally did, and they'll complain about something you did. It comes down to education (or lack thereof) and emotion--most people cannot think critically anymore, have no desire to do so, and allow their emotions to rule their arguments.
Everyone has to 'win' an argument. When you're arguing with someone, you're picking a side, and supporting that side in every way you can is paramount. Eroding that side is weakness. Admitting the other side has good arguments is weakness. Your side good, other side bad. Black and white thinking is important. Shades of gray are "wishy washy" and again, weak.
And here again we see the goddamn problem. You're presented with a fair argument, outlined in easy-to-reply-to numbers, and your only response is "bu-bu-but Hillary lol."
In his defense, he's just parroting the (successful) strategy of the Man Who Can Do No Wrong, our President-Elect. Trump's never made a mistake, and if he ever said anything wrong, it's because some asshole misled him. The buck doesn't stop with him, it's always someone else's fault.
If there really and truly were a reasonable chance that a catastrophic anthropologically caused climate change was occurring, wouldn't the people studying the problem be advocating an effective reduction in CO2 emissions on a Global Scale? The European Union is Reducing Emission, The United States is Reducing Emissions, Russia is Reducing Emissions; do you know who isn't, China is Increasing Emissions and India is Increasing Emissions! Every day of delay compounds the problem, but we'll let 2.5 billion people Reducing Emission, when they feel like getting around to it.
This is pretty much the reason why George W. Bush backed the US out of the Kyoto accords -- it was slanted to punish the first world, while India and China had no imposed limits. In other words "the US has to pay for the rest of the world to modernize, because the US has money to spare, right?"
Really? All the people who see fake historical patterns between Trump and Nazi Germany can't see the historical pattern of letting countries get forcible annexed just to keep peace for our time
Yeah, Trump should be really taking it to Putin for Russia's forcible annexing of parts of the Ukraine. Something tells me that's not going to happen.
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This morning I saw on the news that Trump had met with Kanye.
Of course he met with Kanye. Trump loves the attention of the rich and famous. They're both clinical narcissists so they understand each other that way. That at least makes it possible for an NEA position. Kanye projects not just competence, but hyper-competence, as in "you people are idiots because you don't understand my incredible genius." That is absolutely the sort of person Donald Trump is.
But just meeting doesn't mean anything will come of it. He met plenty of times with Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani too.
Someone asked if a cabinet position was discussed, and he didn't say.
I've found over the last few months that Trump loves to play the guessing game. IE, he wants to keep you guessing. He's not going to play the standard politician reassurance role. He will not confirm or deny cabinet positions until he wants to make the announcement himself. If he said "I'm not nominating this bonehead" then you could keep asking that question of various boneheads to whittle the candidate list down. Instead, he's not going to confirm or deny a cabinet choice until he wants you to know.
If they "rebel", he will just shut down the entire department. If they do a job worth doing (energy does not), then he will reform it with new people.
Care and maintenance of our nuclear weapons stockpile isn't a job worth doing? Shit, talk about a low-IQ response.
I'm glad Trump will be in charge instead of AC.
Trump played people exceptionally. The biggest crazy moment in the whole election campaign to me was Trump swindling people into thinking he's not one of the elitists that they railed against. That he's not in the top 1%.
But this is really a part of a larger Republican narrative, one that Ayn Rand promoted: this notion that "elite" refers ONLY to government insiders, and people who use government power to influence business. For them, a businessman, no matter how wealthy, cannot be considered "the elite." That label can only be applied to the big bad government.
Once it became apparent that the FBI was in the sack for Hillary,
Really? Well they sure did a shit job of it. The "November Surprise" of Anthony Weiner's laptop did exceptional damage. Did they just change their minds?
a man of Trump's age is unlikely to be seeking a second term,
That's what I used to think of John McCain as well. I figured a vote for McCain was a vote for President Palin, since the chances were decent that she would take over midterm, but he's still kicking. I've not reason to think Trump won't be still kicking in four years too.
and the email thing which Colin Powell did the same thing but never got blamed for it because he never ran for president
Whoa! Colin Powell ran his own email server at his house? Do you have a source for that? Because that's pretty big news.
Likewise: under the deal the US auto industry suffers, but all Americans get cheaper cars.
When you're out of work, you can't afford even a cheap car.
We've made enough of those deals along the lines of "sacrifice jobs, but cheaper goods," that the jobs losses have piled up.
Nice story, but you've kinda missed the point.
"The people they're fighting are other Muslims" - that's not the important bit. The important bit is the corollary: almost all the people who are in the front lines fighting against ISIS are Muslims.
They're also all humans, so we ought to kill all humans, everywhere.
Boy, I think Warren would have turned her down (and for we know, she might have). I don't think Elizabeth Warren would want her political career hitched to Hillary's cart. Maybe she wasn't ready; she refused to run.. was it because she wasn't ready? She thought she would have a better chance as a senator? She didn't want to run against Hillary? If the latter, I'll bet she's regretting that decision now..
Maybe Samsung themselves are floating the rumor to find out how the reaction will be.
Will people be saying "Yyyayaaay, thinner phone!" or will they be saying "!#$$!%, no headphone jack?"
You think Apple wants to save you money????
Apple is happy to save you the money that you're not paying to Apple.
Yeah, Jill and Gary seemed to have no idea what the President does. That's what sucked the worst. The only other person on the ballot in my state was the Peace and Freedom Party candidate.
You have a point. I suppose Bernie would have been a more interesting pick.
On one hand, I was happy that she chose someone I'd have rather had as President, but that probably says more about my expectations for her than anything else.
I feel like this is what came of adding the Politics section. All of that nonsense that was posted during the fallout from the Columbine Massacre, and then the "Bush Defeats Gore" story got far more comments than the previous record-holder. Slashdot editors found that politics stories got views and hits, and the technology decline on Slashdot began.
Sorry your wife won't let you install iTunes :(
If he was using Windows, I wouldn't recommend installing iTunes either. Apple's Windows ports are horrible resource-hogging systems killers.
Yup. When we saw Snakes on a Plane, we were pretty lit. And most of the other people in the theatre (which was not many people) were drunk also. Pretty sure it was fun for all. Unless there were a few people in there that weren't drunk. In which case, worst movie and experience of their lives.
I wasn't drunk, but it was still pretty fun. As the lights went down at the start, the whole theater was chanting "Snakes! Snakes! Snakes! Snakes!"
2: 2015 included 2 major outliers. Jurassic World and Star Wars Episode VII:The Force Awakens.
They count just as much as any other movie does. 2002 may have been a peak, or that might have been the outlier. If you look at the box office receipts adjusted for inflation for the last 20 years, the total adjusted box office each year has been between $10b - $13b, 2002 being the sole exception.
Box Office Mojo has additional data going back to 1980, but those years all look similar as well. The movie industry will have sold more tickets in 2016 than it did for any year between 1980 - 1988.
The biggest change between then and now has been the death of the small and medium budget films. Those don't get made anymore. Now, only micro-budget films and mega-budget films get approved. Very very little in the $10m-$100m gets made now.
Does anybody watch movies anymore? They ran out of stories 20 years ago.
So did books. Music certainly doesn't have anything to say that wasn't already said many times before.
Couldn't find the 'free' option. By 'free' do you actually mean something you have to pay for (by subscription)?
Correct, "Stream on Amazon Prime for free" made no sense.
You sound like a complete asshole. WhyTF should anyone hang onto ancient and obsolete technologies just to accommodate the media companies?
The BluRay is superior to streaming in every way other than "I want it this minute." Now, I want it this minute is pretty compelling, I'll certainly grant that. I've definitely had my movie-watching desires foiled by lack of access.
But with a BluRay rental, I get better sound and picture, the download doesn't max out my Internet connection nor does it count towards my ISP data cap (which most ISPs have even if they refuse to tell you about it), I don't get "buffering" whenever I try to seek, I usually get some decent extras, I don't have to subscribe to five online services to get a decent library, and I have a far better chance of finding niche, less popular, or foreign offerings.
Some of those are technical limitations, some are business limitations imposed by an ISP, and some are limitations imposed by the content owners. That last one in particular is a reason to dislike streaming; streaming sucks because all the power is back in the hands of the big content companies, and their practices are anti-customer.
That's a human thing, not a conservative thing. Ask almost anybody about the horrible thing that $PERSON_THEY_SUPPORT did, and the answer is almost ALWAYS going to be, "but $OTHER_GUY did the same thing!" Ask them about something they personally did, and they'll complain about something you did. It comes down to education (or lack thereof) and emotion--most people cannot think critically anymore, have no desire to do so, and allow their emotions to rule their arguments.
Everyone has to 'win' an argument. When you're arguing with someone, you're picking a side, and supporting that side in every way you can is paramount. Eroding that side is weakness. Admitting the other side has good arguments is weakness. Your side good, other side bad. Black and white thinking is important. Shades of gray are "wishy washy" and again, weak.
And here again we see the goddamn problem. You're presented with a fair argument, outlined in easy-to-reply-to numbers, and your only response is "bu-bu-but Hillary lol."
In his defense, he's just parroting the (successful) strategy of the Man Who Can Do No Wrong, our President-Elect.
Trump's never made a mistake, and if he ever said anything wrong, it's because some asshole misled him. The buck doesn't stop with him, it's always someone else's fault.
If there really and truly were a reasonable chance that a catastrophic anthropologically caused climate change was occurring, wouldn't the people studying the problem be advocating an effective reduction in CO2 emissions on a Global Scale? The European Union is Reducing Emission, The United States is Reducing Emissions, Russia is Reducing Emissions; do you know who isn't, China is Increasing Emissions and India is Increasing Emissions! Every day of delay compounds the problem , but we'll let 2.5 billion people Reducing Emission, when they feel like getting around to it.
This is pretty much the reason why George W. Bush backed the US out of the Kyoto accords -- it was slanted to punish the first world, while India and China had no imposed limits. In other words "the US has to pay for the rest of the world to modernize, because the US has money to spare, right?"
Really? All the people who see fake historical patterns between Trump and Nazi Germany can't see the historical pattern of letting countries get forcible annexed just to keep peace for our time
Yeah, Trump should be really taking it to Putin for Russia's forcible annexing of parts of the Ukraine. Something tells me that's not going to happen.
So all we need to do is kick the Chinese into a well then.
It was a cute scene, but in the end that decision didn't work well for the Athenians who were all slaughtered.