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  1. Re:Congratulations, Verizon on Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 3, Informative

    Contract law states otherwise.

    Any change made to a contract by one party is grounds for the other parties to void the contract with zero penalties.
    Regardless of what may be written in the contract concerning contract changes.

  2. Re:Bitch on Pirate Bay, IsoHunt Blocked In India · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sudo make me a fucking sandwich..

  3. Re:US, nobody gives a shit on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 1

    The bands don't get charged the venues do. Any venues that have live performances get stung with the charge.

  4. Re:Well that and if your lucky like I am on Millions of Subscribers Leaving Cable TV for Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    This place pisses me off sometimes. See i post here most often on entertainment industry topics. As that is the industry i work in as a rigging grip. I continually get modded down for FACTS by people looking in from the outside. Told i have no clue what i am talking about by people who again are looking in from the outside.

  5. Re:Well that and if your lucky like I am on Millions of Subscribers Leaving Cable TV for Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    Nothing like getting modded down for a FACT for the industry i work in by people who only are looking in from the outside

  6. freeeeeedom on More Malicious Apps Found On Google Play · · Score: 1

    H'm the freedom to do whatever I want within the law. With the risk of something possibly going wrong.
    Or
    Being ruled with an iron fist. With little chance of anything going wrong. But no guarantee.

  7. perhaps you should get out of the country more on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    Only us lazy Americans have few manuals left. Many other countries still prefer them.

  8. Re:Just turn off the car? on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    That's what gets me about most of the posts. Car and driver did a test after this happened pressing the brakes will always win. Which every driver should know brakes stop the vehicle. Turning off the engine shifting in to neutral all unnecessary.

  9. Re:Just turn off the car? on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    Cars did used to be available without power steering. In fact power steering is only really needed when stopped or at low speed. A child could steer a car without power steering at anything above 20

  10. Re:Not a problem on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of the Clinton BJ. We were all up in arms over here in the states. Yet my European friends were like what's the problem.

  11. well on F-18 Fighter Jet Crashes Into Virginia Apartment Complex · · Score: 1

    now I know why my scanner app alerted me to 2700 listeners in Virginia beach yesterday.

  12. Re:Well that and if your lucky like I am on Millions of Subscribers Leaving Cable TV for Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    It is a sad state of affairs when people like me who make a living off of the industry. Will only torrent airing shows. I will purchase DVD's of my favorites

  13. Re:Well they would on Microsoft: 'Unlikely' Credit Card Details Lifted From Xbox 360s · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well at least MS denies it. Apple just covers it up.

  14. Re:Well that and if your lucky like I am on Millions of Subscribers Leaving Cable TV for Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    This is true. I cant remember the law and am to lazy to look it up that was on the books for a while in the 80's that stated how many minutes of comercails could be in each hour. Once the law was removed/expired the time crept up to the current 16.

    Even without the law the comercail time has crept up over the years.

  15. Re:Well that and if your lucky like I am on Millions of Subscribers Leaving Cable TV for Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    Directors work hard to film as close to 44 minutes as possible. That is way you get so little in added footage on DVD's.

  16. Re:Well that and if your lucky like I am on Millions of Subscribers Leaving Cable TV for Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    Regardless as was stated above very few shows. In fact BG was the only show mentioned that has reedited episodes for longer run times. so my original point stands. You only get 44 minutes on 95%** of television shows.

    Just FYI i don't do IT. what i do is rigging grip for concerts television film and trade shows. So i am not an outsider looking in. This topic is dead center of the industry i call home.

    **wanted to put 99 here but i know more then one director has to of reedited for longer run times.

  17. Re:Well that and if your lucky like I am on Millions of Subscribers Leaving Cable TV for Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    DVDs do not count, the director can do whatever they want with DVD's with almost zero opposition.

  18. Re:Well that and if your lucky like I am on Millions of Subscribers Leaving Cable TV for Streaming Services · · Score: 0

    Sorry it does not work that way. Unless you have access to the cutting room floor. A show that was cut for 15 minutes of comercails does not magicly become an hour long if the comercails are removed. Most television film in north America is cut for 44 minutes.

  19. Re:Not gonna happen on Should There Be a Sci-Fi Category At the Oscars? · · Score: 1

    Nope. i heard it from j michael straczynski. Which means its not true In your eyes.

  20. Re:Not gonna happen on Should There Be a Sci-Fi Category At the Oscars? · · Score: 1

    If you say so, I am a Rigging Grip. My experience does not jive with your experience.

    Indie is lucky if it pays off.

  21. I see how you are on Should There Be a Sci-Fi Category At the Oscars? · · Score: 2

    Just ignore Babylon 5. Probably to old for you.

  22. Re:Not gonna happen on Should There Be a Sci-Fi Category At the Oscars? · · Score: 1

    All that drivel makes money. If you were an investor you would probably be like most and insist your invested company keep doing what continues to make but loads of cash. You know rehashing the same old crap over and over.

    Those that only want the fresh new stories are welcome to only invest in the small independent stuff. You know the films that are about as likely to make money as winning the lottery. Oh sure we have several independent films that become blockbusters each year. Out of how many independent films made each year.

  23. Not gonna happen on Should There Be a Sci-Fi Category At the Oscars? · · Score: 0

    The Academy has stated repeatedly that it does not consider Sci-Fi to be real work. That Sci-Fi is for children and being for children is not worth giving the top awards too.

  24. Re:Hmmmmm on Self-Guided Bullet Can Hit Targets a Mile Away · · Score: 1

    Sure do, TFA even says so.

  25. Re:Shit Happens on Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected. I don't have a version anymore.

    My memory kind of gets fucked up when recalling things i read almost three decades ago