If you live in a time when TV was always second behind TV.
Actors would take roles in TV series only if they were desperate or already gave up the chance of an actual celebrity acting career.
Enter HBO and Netflix showing that TV does not have to be cheap and low quality.
For your approval - Game of Thrones. Even if you don't like it (and I'm not all that wild about it) It looks and reads a lot better than the hollywood dreck coming out these days.
while old-school cinema is presenting us with nothing than the 15th superhero remake. Or 80s remake. (star Trek, Ghostbusters anyone?)
Funny - I was going to compare GOT and the abysmal Ghostbusters 2016 in another post. But as I've said before, since I've seen averything they put out before, I don't need to see them again.
Given the convergence of video and film production and the ubiquity of digital distribution the distinction between "Television" and "Cinema" is becoming harder to define.
It's like the music industry fighting the internet all over again. With likely the same result.
What's keeping these movies out of theaters is not a lack of interest among theatergoers, but a decision by Netflix to shore up their content monopoly.
I'm all for keeping walled gardens out of the Oscars. This is has nothing to do with venue, but universal access to venue.
The really cool people don't have TV's at all, you insensitive clod.
It is unfair though that the same movie can be up for an Oscar and an Emmy. If Netflix wants an Oscar then they need to show the film in a cinema.
Differential analysis - fear of competition.
If the demand is that theaters or GTFO of our turf, it will merely continue Hollywood's problems. It's been so long since my family has gone to a movie - and I find myself watching more and more streaming only.
why not? Apple does the same, copying is a very successful business model.
There is a big difference between "copying" and just producing technology in a form that people want.
It's like no one was allowed to produce rubber tires, because someone invented wooden wheels a long time ago, and rubber wheels are just copying the real invention.
Good for you. As with absolutely everything in human physiology there is a statistical distribution of requirements, and for some people it is higher than the mean, and for some it is lower. Maybe you are just on the low end.
I am sure this does not apply to you, that your sleep-time estimates over time are absolutely accurate, but it is well known by sleep researchers that people in general are very bad about estimating how much they sleep.
I think I'm just going to post that 8 hours isn't enough, that you'll die if you get less than 12 hours a night.
Whenever Slashdot mentions that lack of sleep is a killer of people, and that it is a ticket to an early death - I'm foolish enough to mention my personal sleep needs.
The real fun starts when first people tell me I'm "lucky" then that I'm conforming to some weird idea that lack of sleep pleases some meme of western man, then the subtle and not so subtle inferences that I'm lying.
Well, I'm not lucky, nor am I bragging. And dissembling about the time I spend sleeping strikes me as both silly and weird. If I was going to lie about some personal physical attribute, it would be something better than the amount of sleep I get.
Anyhow, I have seen the light. A new study has shown that if you don't get at least 12 hours of sleep every night, your peen will fall off. And if you don't have one, one will grow on you. 8^)
>"The current trend of obsessing and fixation and stress over not getting "enough sleep"? I sleep 5 hours a night. I go to bed when I'm tired, and don't use an alarm clock to wake up. I wake up feeling refreshed. I'm alert all day except for about 10 minutes around 3 PM. "
Indeed. It isn't as much the quantity of sleep that is important as much as the quality. I used to be like you. But now I can sleep for 6 hours, 8 hours, 10 hours, or 12 hours and still hardly waken and feel completely unrefreshed and tired. The sleep study was useless because I don't have "apnea" or "restless leg syndrome", which are apparently the only two things they know how to treat. All they could do was say my deep sleep was severely fragmented and send me on my way. "60 alpha intrusions into delta sleep every hour." And after 20 years of it, I can attest that it does adversely affect memory and seems to create or worsen other health issues.
That sucks big time. No physical possibilities like sciatica or there's a wear and tear issue on a spinal column disk that and make your arms need constant shifting through the night? I'm no medical doctor, but pain might factor in for kicking out of deep sleep.
You are not fooling anyone, you are not in the "middle" between anti-black and anti-white mobs, you're just an asshole trying to spread division through manufactured narratives.
Finally, we found out who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?
It's not a waste of time, otherwise evolution would have removed it. There's a number of species that sort of remove sleep effectively: aquatic mammals/some birds sleep with half their brain and with one eye closed for mostly avoiding being eaten while asleep and for the aquatic mammals to be able to breathe; however they are still sleeping, so it is required in ways we don't fully understand yet, and TFA might be a clue.
Well, first thing is that unless sleep is the one exception in variance, it isn't likely that every single human needs the exact same amount of sleep. In addition modern health practices have taken many people into an age when evolution doesn't matter that much. Another way of saying that more people live longer, but the extremes are still pretty much the same - the longest lived have a genetic predisposition.
Regardless, if this study is any indication, I've been dead about 20 years now, as I only sleep 5 hours a night, and dream a lot.
infections in the brain such as P. gingivalis or Herpes(HSV1) travel along the nerve cells into the brain and cause inflammation (Protein plaques) to build up. Cannabis is also known to reduce inflammation.
Well then - Let's get baked for our health! I am sold....
So if I spend 12 hours a day in a Ketamine-induced stupor, I can lower my risk of Alzheimer's disease? Of course, when you do that, you greatly increase your risk of a bathtub-induced drowning.
This whole thing is bullshit. I hate to use the correlation is not causation meme, but the whole thing is like "Sitting increases your likelihood of death. I mean, it's not like people who are already dying can't often do much more than sit.
My 5 hours a night should have killed me 20 years ago to hear the "get more sleep" crowd. Yet I feel good with 5, and don't use an alarm clock to wake me up. I've slept that much since high school, and if it kills me, at least I'll have been awake and alert more than most.
The current trend of obsessing and fixation and stress over not getting "enough sleep"?
I sleep 5 hours a night. I go to bed when I'm tired, and don't use an alarm clock to wake up. I wake up feeling refreshed. I'm alert all day except for about 10 minutes around 3 PM.
So am I supposed to use drugs or something? Get addicted to something because it's healthy?
Unless and until judges roundly throw out insane lawsuits against libraries, streaming content providers, and other all-access/equal-access purveyors of information, we will have these idiotic lawsuits along the lines of "my kid went to the library and found a book on explosives and blew his leg off, so I blame the library, not my own shitty parenting skills".
I've long thought that there needs to be a GTFO court that screens cases, and if they are stupid, issue a writ of "Get The Fuck Out".
The serial suer, the people who think that knowledge is bad like your example, and the plain frivolous would be candidates for a writ of GTFO.
What about a pro vaxxer losing a child? And trying to sue? Oh wait, thatâ(TM)s happened, a thousand times over, wiht the us government paying out over 4 million dollars in damages
Indeed. Formalize it, put the skin color in as variable and it becomes immediately obvious. It is the approach that is wrong, regardless of who applies it to whom.
This is, of course, far from obvious to the "us vs. them" crowd, where "us" is always the virtuous ones (and often the victims) and "them" is always the bad guys.
In fact, I find the far left and far right to be almost identical. The Far right went crazy when the US had the audacity to elect the Kenyan Terror baby as president, and blew their collective gasket when horror of horrors, he was re-elected.
Now the far left has simply repeated the insanity. Let us hope that cooler heads will prevail.
I can seem the attraction of that stance though: No need to reflect, no need to change anything on your side, no need to actually understand anything and you are always on the righteous side.
Exactly. I am always confounded over people who are so unable to form their own thought parroting one party line or another.
This is the one place where I actually discriminate: I think stupid people like these should not be allowed to direct where a society is going.
I have zero problem with that idea. I think that critical thinking should be taught (as far as that is possible) and civics must be re-introduced into school curriculums. At least then we can get a good idea of which people are capable of thinking.
Jeff Bezos got the letter and said, "OK, good point. Fuck anti-vaxxers. Let them go on Infowars and spread their bullshit. I don't have to carry them in my store."
A thousand times this.
I don't quite get how our Slashdot Fringer crowd seems to think that they can force people to carry things they don't want to carry. The same people would be wailing and moaning if someone infringed upon their freedom to say and do what they want.
If its such a bellwether of free thinking, perhaps our fringers can rent server space and disseminate this forbidden knowledge. The Slashifreedoms or something like that.
It's not about changing any ones mind but trying to prevent the conspiracy theories from spreading.
It is more about Amazon protecting their butts against the coming lawsuits.
One of these Anti-Vaxxer parents is going to lose a child, have an epiphany about how they were mislead, and sue the platforms where they got their information. Probably within the next 5 years.
It will be complicated, between sympathy for the poor child, and widespread desire for the parent to be jailed
While I don't agree with the anti-vaccine crowd, the last thing we need is for Amazon / Google / Facebook to become the arbiters as to what we think, see, and hear. Having everyone think in lockstep is far more dangerous than the anti-vaccine movement imho.
The usefulness of vaccines and the understanding of that fact is hardly a fascist demand for all only being allowed to think in one way.
Where do we draw the lines in the war on truth? Should we allow blatantly false information on economic competitors? Should say Tesla be allowed to post false statistics on Ford, claiming they are killing people?
The stats are in, the data is real. Vaccines prevent illness and death in children. This is not political opinion, this is fact.
In the end, Amazon is almost certainly protecting their ass. One of these days, some parent is going to lose a child to an easily preventable childhood disease. In the time honored tradition of money salving all wounds, Amazon will be sued as promoting anti-vaxxing.
Could be an anti-vaxxer or normal parent even.
And as the latest fraudster Andrew Wakefield knew in his conspiracy to make millions off of sympathy - it is really easy to invoke sympathy in a jury when there is a child involved.
Finally, Amazon is not the government. If they don't want video about unicorns, they are well within their rights to scrub their service of unicorns.
If you wish to have lot's of anti-vaxx info out there so that we aren't brainwashed sheep, you could always rent some server space and put up Anti-Vaxx videos. Other possibilities are flat earth, moon landing conspiracies, chemtrails, and birth certificates vids. Funny how free thinking has become belief against facts.
This form of "anti racism" is just as racist as what they pretend to fight. The only way to not be racist is to ignore race. Note to IBM: Racism does not get any less despicable when you change who you target.
A good note to everyone regarding the present practice of racism. The white supremacists are an easy and obvious target. Yup, racist as all hell.
But the far left actor/actress spouting off about how much they hate "white dudes" is no different. Evergreen University students demanding a "No Whites day" and demanding a professor who refused to participate in it be fired.
These students should certainly be able to protest. They make a fundamental mistake however. By engaging in activities that are themselves clearly race based, they show their similarity to the white people they hate. They give the egregious white supremacists an excellent tool of rebuttal. No difference - White supremacists hate "people of color", and these far left "anti white" people are just two sides of the same coin.
And people in the middle like me who believe that if a person makes judgments about others based on the amount of melanin in their skin and it's supposed relationship to the artificial concept known as race , they are racist. Any other interpretation is simply exposing one's racist tendencies.
Slashdot Mirror
If you live in a time when TV was always second behind TV.
Actors would take roles in TV series only if they were desperate or already gave up the chance of an actual celebrity acting career.
Enter HBO and Netflix showing that TV does not have to be cheap and low quality.
For your approval - Game of Thrones. Even if you don't like it (and I'm not all that wild about it) It looks and reads a lot better than the hollywood dreck coming out these days.
while old-school cinema is presenting us with nothing than the 15th superhero remake. Or 80s remake. (star Trek, Ghostbusters anyone?)
Funny - I was going to compare GOT and the abysmal Ghostbusters 2016 in another post. But as I've said before, since I've seen averything they put out before, I don't need to see them again.
Given the convergence of video and film production and the ubiquity of digital distribution the distinction between "Television" and "Cinema" is becoming harder to define.
It's like the music industry fighting the internet all over again. With likely the same result.
I'm all for keeping walled gardens out of the Oscars. This is has nothing to do with venue, but universal access to venue.
The really cool people don't have TV's at all, you insensitive clod.
I'm not sure what the solution is
The solution is simple. Stop watching shitty awards shows. Thankfully, the masses are starting to take my advice.
But where are we going to get our mandated dose of SJW goodness?
It is unfair though that the same movie can be up for an Oscar and an Emmy. If Netflix wants an Oscar then they need to show the film in a cinema.
Differential analysis - fear of competition.
If the demand is that theaters or GTFO of our turf, it will merely continue Hollywood's problems. It's been so long since my family has gone to a movie - and I find myself watching more and more streaming only.
why not? Apple does the same, copying is a very successful business model.
There is a big difference between "copying" and just producing technology in a form that people want.
It's like no one was allowed to produce rubber tires, because someone invented wooden wheels a long time ago, and rubber wheels are just copying the real invention.
Good for you. As with absolutely everything in human physiology there is a statistical distribution of requirements, and for some people it is higher than the mean, and for some it is lower. Maybe you are just on the low end.
I am sure this does not apply to you, that your sleep-time estimates over time are absolutely accurate, but it is well known by sleep researchers that people in general are very bad about estimating how much they sleep.
I think I'm just going to post that 8 hours isn't enough, that you'll die if you get less than 12 hours a night.
Whenever Slashdot mentions that lack of sleep is a killer of people, and that it is a ticket to an early death - I'm foolish enough to mention my personal sleep needs. The real fun starts when first people tell me I'm "lucky" then that I'm conforming to some weird idea that lack of sleep pleases some meme of western man, then the subtle and not so subtle inferences that I'm lying.
Well, I'm not lucky, nor am I bragging. And dissembling about the time I spend sleeping strikes me as both silly and weird. If I was going to lie about some personal physical attribute, it would be something better than the amount of sleep I get.
Anyhow, I have seen the light. A new study has shown that if you don't get at least 12 hours of sleep every night, your peen will fall off. And if you don't have one, one will grow on you. 8^)
>"The current trend of obsessing and fixation and stress over not getting "enough sleep"? I sleep 5 hours a night. I go to bed when I'm tired, and don't use an alarm clock to wake up. I wake up feeling refreshed. I'm alert all day except for about 10 minutes around 3 PM. "
Indeed. It isn't as much the quantity of sleep that is important as much as the quality. I used to be like you. But now I can sleep for 6 hours, 8 hours, 10 hours, or 12 hours and still hardly waken and feel completely unrefreshed and tired. The sleep study was useless because I don't have "apnea" or "restless leg syndrome", which are apparently the only two things they know how to treat. All they could do was say my deep sleep was severely fragmented and send me on my way. "60 alpha intrusions into delta sleep every hour." And after 20 years of it, I can attest that it does adversely affect memory and seems to create or worsen other health issues.
That sucks big time. No physical possibilities like sciatica or there's a wear and tear issue on a spinal column disk that and make your arms need constant shifting through the night? I'm no medical doctor, but pain might factor in for kicking out of deep sleep.
You are not fooling anyone, you are not in the "middle" between anti-black and anti-white mobs, you're just an asshole trying to spread division through manufactured narratives.
Finally, we found out who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?
An electric 4WD should use wheel motors and completely avoid the whole differential and drive shaft clearance issues.
Imagine the extra clearance - damn.
I managed to get high centered in my wife's Jeep a couple days ago. Her interior is similat to mine, but she has less clearance.
It's not a waste of time, otherwise evolution would have removed it. There's a number of species that sort of remove sleep effectively: aquatic mammals/some birds sleep with half their brain and with one eye closed for mostly avoiding being eaten while asleep and for the aquatic mammals to be able to breathe; however they are still sleeping, so it is required in ways we don't fully understand yet, and TFA might be a clue.
Well, first thing is that unless sleep is the one exception in variance, it isn't likely that every single human needs the exact same amount of sleep. In addition modern health practices have taken many people into an age when evolution doesn't matter that much. Another way of saying that more people live longer, but the extremes are still pretty much the same - the longest lived have a genetic predisposition.
Regardless, if this study is any indication, I've been dead about 20 years now, as I only sleep 5 hours a night, and dream a lot.
infections in the brain such as P. gingivalis or Herpes(HSV1) travel along the nerve cells into the brain and cause inflammation (Protein plaques) to build up. Cannabis is also known to reduce inflammation.
Well then - Let's get baked for our health! I am sold....
So if I spend 12 hours a day in a Ketamine-induced stupor, I can lower my risk of Alzheimer's disease? Of course, when you do that, you greatly increase your risk of a bathtub-induced drowning.
This whole thing is bullshit. I hate to use the correlation is not causation meme, but the whole thing is like "Sitting increases your likelihood of death. I mean, it's not like people who are already dying can't often do much more than sit.
My 5 hours a night should have killed me 20 years ago to hear the "get more sleep" crowd. Yet I feel good with 5, and don't use an alarm clock to wake me up. I've slept that much since high school, and if it kills me, at least I'll have been awake and alert more than most.
I sleep 5 hours a night. I go to bed when I'm tired, and don't use an alarm clock to wake up. I wake up feeling refreshed. I'm alert all day except for about 10 minutes around 3 PM.
So am I supposed to use drugs or something? Get addicted to something because it's healthy?
Next, do a partnership with Jeep and build a trail rated Jeep/Tesla doodad.
Unless and until judges roundly throw out insane lawsuits against libraries, streaming content providers, and other all-access/equal-access purveyors of information, we will have these idiotic lawsuits along the lines of "my kid went to the library and found a book on explosives and blew his leg off, so I blame the library, not my own shitty parenting skills".
I've long thought that there needs to be a GTFO court that screens cases, and if they are stupid, issue a writ of "Get The Fuck Out".
The serial suer, the people who think that knowledge is bad like your example, and the plain frivolous would be candidates for a writ of GTFO.
What about a pro vaxxer losing a child? And trying to sue? Oh wait, thatâ(TM)s happened, a thousand times over, wiht the us government paying out over 4 million dollars in damages
https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/vaccine-compensation/data/monthly-stats-aug-2018.pdf
Shit happens.
A lot more shit happened before vaccines.
But hey - why get vaccinated? No one gets those diseases anymore, amirite?
Indeed. Formalize it, put the skin color in as variable and it becomes immediately obvious. It is the approach that is wrong, regardless of who applies it to whom.
This is, of course, far from obvious to the "us vs. them" crowd, where "us" is always the virtuous ones (and often the victims) and "them" is always the bad guys.
In fact, I find the far left and far right to be almost identical. The Far right went crazy when the US had the audacity to elect the Kenyan Terror baby as president, and blew their collective gasket when horror of horrors, he was re-elected.
Now the far left has simply repeated the insanity. Let us hope that cooler heads will prevail.
I can seem the attraction of that stance though: No need to reflect, no need to change anything on your side, no need to actually understand anything and you are always on the righteous side.
Exactly. I am always confounded over people who are so unable to form their own thought parroting one party line or another.
This is the one place where I actually discriminate: I think stupid people like these should not be allowed to direct where a society is going.
I have zero problem with that idea. I think that critical thinking should be taught (as far as that is possible) and civics must be re-introduced into school curriculums. At least then we can get a good idea of which people are capable of thinking.
Jeff Bezos got the letter and said, "OK, good point. Fuck anti-vaxxers. Let them go on Infowars and spread their bullshit. I don't have to carry them in my store."
A thousand times this.
I don't quite get how our Slashdot Fringer crowd seems to think that they can force people to carry things they don't want to carry. The same people would be wailing and moaning if someone infringed upon their freedom to say and do what they want.
If its such a bellwether of free thinking, perhaps our fringers can rent server space and disseminate this forbidden knowledge. The Slashifreedoms or something like that.
It's not about changing any ones mind but trying to prevent the conspiracy theories from spreading.
It is more about Amazon protecting their butts against the coming lawsuits.
One of these Anti-Vaxxer parents is going to lose a child, have an epiphany about how they were mislead, and sue the platforms where they got their information. Probably within the next 5 years.
It will be complicated, between sympathy for the poor child, and widespread desire for the parent to be jailed
It will be like Vegas: so long as there's a buffet with crab legs, people won't care what is being done to them.
WHAT? No shrimp?
While I don't agree with the anti-vaccine crowd, the last thing we need is for Amazon / Google / Facebook to become the arbiters as to what we think, see, and hear. Having everyone think in lockstep is far more dangerous than the anti-vaccine movement imho.
The usefulness of vaccines and the understanding of that fact is hardly a fascist demand for all only being allowed to think in one way.
Where do we draw the lines in the war on truth? Should we allow blatantly false information on economic competitors? Should say Tesla be allowed to post false statistics on Ford, claiming they are killing people?
The stats are in, the data is real. Vaccines prevent illness and death in children. This is not political opinion, this is fact.
In the end, Amazon is almost certainly protecting their ass. One of these days, some parent is going to lose a child to an easily preventable childhood disease. In the time honored tradition of money salving all wounds, Amazon will be sued as promoting anti-vaxxing.
Could be an anti-vaxxer or normal parent even.
And as the latest fraudster Andrew Wakefield knew in his conspiracy to make millions off of sympathy - it is really easy to invoke sympathy in a jury when there is a child involved.
Finally, Amazon is not the government. If they don't want video about unicorns, they are well within their rights to scrub their service of unicorns.
If you wish to have lot's of anti-vaxx info out there so that we aren't brainwashed sheep, you could always rent some server space and put up Anti-Vaxx videos. Other possibilities are flat earth, moon landing conspiracies, chemtrails, and birth certificates vids. Funny how free thinking has become belief against facts.
This form of "anti racism" is just as racist as what they pretend to fight. The only way to not be racist is to ignore race. Note to IBM: Racism does not get any less despicable when you change who you target.
A good note to everyone regarding the present practice of racism. The white supremacists are an easy and obvious target. Yup, racist as all hell.
But the far left actor/actress spouting off about how much they hate "white dudes" is no different. Evergreen University students demanding a "No Whites day" and demanding a professor who refused to participate in it be fired.
These students should certainly be able to protest. They make a fundamental mistake however. By engaging in activities that are themselves clearly race based, they show their similarity to the white people they hate. They give the egregious white supremacists an excellent tool of rebuttal. No difference - White supremacists hate "people of color", and these far left "anti white" people are just two sides of the same coin.
And people in the middle like me who believe that if a person makes judgments about others based on the amount of melanin in their skin and it's supposed relationship to the artificial concept known as race , they are racist. Any other interpretation is simply exposing one's racist tendencies.
The internet is not private. VPN's are pretend security.
What I think they are they'll save money on salt, and lose it on medical bills. The ones I've seen are nice and slippery when wet.