Also there is a huge logical fallacy in the articles argument, which is that you will subscribe full-time to these services instead of switching every few months.
When I first used Netflix streaming, I held the plan for about a year. Since then I subscribe for ~2 months per year because I've already exhausted their core catalog. They have some content I am not getting elsewhere, but I dont need a 24/7/365 plan to consume it.
Amazons non-prime model is pay as you go, while their prime model is tied to more than just streaming video. Disney can do the first and that would be great, but they cant do the second at all. They are going for the Netflix model and that just isnt going to land 24/7/365 business.
Piracy is the better experience precisely because of the artificial monopolies granted. It isnt just the local cable company artificial monopolies (franchise agreements) granted by government, but also the content owner artificial monopolies (perpetual copyright) that have also been granted by government.
Everything produced before 2003 would now be public domain under the original copyright law in America. These new proposed streaming services like Disney's would have no teeth under 14 year copyrights.
As far as I can tell the teeth Disney currently has is based on Star Wars and Marvel properties, yet a lot of that should already be public domain. For Star Wars, only episode 3, episode 7, and that silly tweener movie would still be copyrighted. For Marvel several of the X-Man movies, Spiderman, and other assorted would already be public domain.
I think its just that sometimes change due to market forces is pretty slow. In the case of cable television, change away from them is slow because the cable market has never really been free. The market has to route around government intervention itself in this case, and its still a long road ahead.
Impulse-purchased their Wireless Headset H300 without checking reviews.
Turns out if you let the battery run down, you can never charge it again, bricking the headset. The other issues are minor in comparison, although it is those other issues (having to be re-paired with their USB wart every few days, using a windows-only utility) that led me to read about this big one.
That reminds me of the Crysis pre-order and special-edition bonus item of an "Amphibious APC" that only those that pre-ordered or got the collectors edition were supposed to have.
Except the company fucked up and had no way to tell the difference between the pre-order/special-edition keys and the regular purchaser keys. So in the end everybody got the "Amphibious APC" which was a big "FUCK YOU, SUCKERS!" for everybody that pre-ordered or spent extra for the special-edition.
They will fire founders who are failing and bring in professionals to actually deliver on the original idea.
I dont think they restrict themselves to the original idea. When they are booting the guy that couldnt deliver [X], they bring in someone that will make the best of whats left, and no longer give a shit if [X] comes out the other end or not. If the first guy fails, then the plan has already failed. The sunk costs arent chased because that whole line of thinking is a fallacy.
Thats how you end up with things like "snuggies" and "spray-on hair." These werent the intended goal. They were not [X]. These were the recovery mission.
Startups exist because it is not just a matter of having the money. The founder has a very important role. Otherwise investors you be hiring people to create the products, not buying shares of high risky companies owned by people they barely know...
I spend a lot of time at poker tables in casinos, and if you play the right games at the right limits you will encounter filthy rich business owners, and here you can talk to them with their guard down.
A common theme when asking serially successful businessmen about how to be a successful businessman: Hire great people. The skill of starting a successful business is identifying the people necessary to make it work and then getting them on board. Elon Musk for instance is good at getting great engineers on board.
I think the reason that high tech crowdfunded products are so popular isn't due to the inherent foolishness of the people who back them, but because of the failure of established technology companies to actually meet market demand.
Is it a failure to meet market demand when the technology just isnt there yet?
Remember that video compression scammer that was peddling bullshit high quality video on 56K modems? Video compression technology STILL isnt there decades later even after massive improvements. The demand for it continues to be there. Some things just arent possible in actuality regardless of "the demand" for those things.
I think the root of the "crowd funding problem" is the simplicity in engaging in it. Lots of people are just dumb. Crowd funding makes it simpler than ever to throw money at wishful thinking. On a dollar basis, it is far simpler than even playing the lottery.
But this could easily be fraud. I say show your work or it IS fraud. If your failed attempts to do the thing that you said you were going to do and took money to do are not documented for public scrutiny, then thats a very serious thing.
Invest in a corporation and the corporation wastes the money, there will be a court case, and jail time may be served. Not so for crowd funding because its indemnified up front with "investors are warned about this risk a gazillion times."
I don't see Nazi groups destroying property and setting cars on fire over a speech at a college.
The speech at Berkeley was supposed to be on Toxic Feminism of all things. The truth doesnt matter to these leftists, which is why Milo the homosexual Jew with the black boyfriend that wants to talk about feminism is a nazi white supremacists and therefore Berkeley has to be destroyed to prevent him from talking.
they tried just that in Boston and a few dozen showed up.
Looked to me like the "few dozen" that showed up at Bostons free speech rally were a bunch of hippies and anti-gmo people. While they were talking about hippy things and gmo's, the counter protesters were screaming "Nazis!", "Fascists!", and "Racists!"
You dont understand. This guy thinks the Democrats are also right wing because they arent Marxist enough. He is a classic Antifa representative. Anything that isnt Marxist is fascism in his book. Capitalism is fascism in their book.
It is exactly this. The solution to "the problem" of Free Speech is MORE Free Speech.
That idiot that drove his car into a crowd in Charlottesville was not exercising free speech.
There was so much violence on both sides before this happened that the police had already declared an unlawful assembly several hours before the vehicular homicide. The UCLU has condemned Charlottesville for "dispersing" the declared unlawful assembly in a manner that forced the two groups already committing violence together.
This is bullshit because he didn't just make an error. People know when they are guessing. People that pretend to not be guessing when they know that they are, are dishonest fucks. It is not simply an error. Its an intent to mislead not on the "fact" given (which could have accidentally been right, and many people just as dishonest as this fuck are more often right about their facts than wrong), but on this dishonest fucks claim of knowledge.
What can this guy now do when he really does know something, that doesn't look exactly like this case where he was just fucking guessing while presenting the case that he knows something? When you are guessing you are supposed to communicate that fact. Its the only way to distinguish. He is incapable of being involved in an honest discussion because there is nothing he can do to indicate when he really knows. He is a fucking dishonest fuck.
When you pretend to know something that you know that you dont know, you should definitely be modded down, as a troll, as a dishonest fuck, doesnt matter the reason.
You assumed the person you were talking to was wrong even though you had no direct knowledge of them being wrong, and declared a fact that wasn't. Fuck off liar piece of shit. You are the enemy of rational discourse. Your involvement is discussions is harmful because you dont give a fuck about veracity. You only give a fuck about what claims you can get away with.
or anyone who claims to be a fascist or anti-fascist (aka, communist)
All the Marxist "class struggle" is baked right into the Antifa rhetoric, but is now under the guise of identity politics. Still treating people as groups. Still ignoring the individual.
When your only importance is defined by what group you can be classified as belonging to, you arent important at all. In fact, you don't matter one bit.
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Also there is a huge logical fallacy in the articles argument, which is that you will subscribe full-time to these services instead of switching every few months.
When I first used Netflix streaming, I held the plan for about a year. Since then I subscribe for ~2 months per year because I've already exhausted their core catalog. They have some content I am not getting elsewhere, but I dont need a 24/7/365 plan to consume it.
Amazons non-prime model is pay as you go, while their prime model is tied to more than just streaming video. Disney can do the first and that would be great, but they cant do the second at all. They are going for the Netflix model and that just isnt going to land 24/7/365 business.
Piracy is the better experience precisely because of the artificial monopolies granted. It isnt just the local cable company artificial monopolies (franchise agreements) granted by government, but also the content owner artificial monopolies (perpetual copyright) that have also been granted by government.
Everything produced before 2003 would now be public domain under the original copyright law in America. These new proposed streaming services like Disney's would have no teeth under 14 year copyrights.
As far as I can tell the teeth Disney currently has is based on Star Wars and Marvel properties, yet a lot of that should already be public domain. For Star Wars, only episode 3, episode 7, and that silly tweener movie would still be copyrighted. For Marvel several of the X-Man movies, Spiderman, and other assorted would already be public domain.
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The cord cutting black market (pirating) is the best experience of them all which is evidence that government is at the core of the problem.
I think its just that sometimes change due to market forces is pretty slow. In the case of cable television, change away from them is slow because the cable market has never really been free. The market has to route around government intervention itself in this case, and its still a long road ahead.
Woops that should be Wireless H600
Impulse-purchased their Wireless Headset H300 without checking reviews.
Turns out if you let the battery run down, you can never charge it again, bricking the headset. The other issues are minor in comparison, although it is those other issues (having to be re-paired with their USB wart every few days, using a windows-only utility) that led me to read about this big one.
He was the only one fighting for 8 out of those rounds.
If by "fighting" do you mean "not doing shit other than getting himself tired" ... you are right.
This is why Mayweather is the best boxer in history. Most of the time he is avoiding while his not-so-great opponent is being avoided.
That reminds me of the Crysis pre-order and special-edition bonus item of an "Amphibious APC" that only those that pre-ordered or got the collectors edition were supposed to have.
Except the company fucked up and had no way to tell the difference between the pre-order/special-edition keys and the regular purchaser keys. So in the end everybody got the "Amphibious APC" which was a big "FUCK YOU, SUCKERS!" for everybody that pre-ordered or spent extra for the special-edition.
They will fire founders who are failing and bring in professionals to actually deliver on the original idea.
I dont think they restrict themselves to the original idea. When they are booting the guy that couldnt deliver [X], they bring in someone that will make the best of whats left, and no longer give a shit if [X] comes out the other end or not. If the first guy fails, then the plan has already failed. The sunk costs arent chased because that whole line of thinking is a fallacy.
Thats how you end up with things like "snuggies" and "spray-on hair." These werent the intended goal. They were not [X]. These were the recovery mission.
My general rule is:
NEVER PLEDGE MONEY TO A KICKSTARTER
This rule hasn't failed me yet.
Startups exist because it is not just a matter of having the money. The founder has a very important role. Otherwise investors you be hiring people to create the products, not buying shares of high risky companies owned by people they barely know...
I spend a lot of time at poker tables in casinos, and if you play the right games at the right limits you will encounter filthy rich business owners, and here you can talk to them with their guard down.
A common theme when asking serially successful businessmen about how to be a successful businessman: Hire great people. The skill of starting a successful business is identifying the people necessary to make it work and then getting them on board. Elon Musk for instance is good at getting great engineers on board.
I think the reason that high tech crowdfunded products are so popular isn't due to the inherent foolishness of the people who back them, but because of the failure of established technology companies to actually meet market demand.
Is it a failure to meet market demand when the technology just isnt there yet?
Remember that video compression scammer that was peddling bullshit high quality video on 56K modems? Video compression technology STILL isnt there decades later even after massive improvements. The demand for it continues to be there. Some things just arent possible in actuality regardless of "the demand" for those things.
I think the root of the "crowd funding problem" is the simplicity in engaging in it. Lots of people are just dumb. Crowd funding makes it simpler than ever to throw money at wishful thinking. On a dollar basis, it is far simpler than even playing the lottery.
If the shipped product turns out massively enjoyable - just like VCS you are rewarded with more than what you invested.
Not true. If the product turns out to be massively enjoyable, then I will be able to buy the product even if I did not partake in crowd-funding it.
Investing is risky.
But this could easily be fraud. I say show your work or it IS fraud. If your failed attempts to do the thing that you said you were going to do and took money to do are not documented for public scrutiny, then thats a very serious thing.
Invest in a corporation and the corporation wastes the money, there will be a court case, and jail time may be served. Not so for crowd funding because its indemnified up front with "investors are warned about this risk a gazillion times."
Maybe these 300 people should be considered enemies of freedom and privacy.
I've read the act.
If you did, you would have read the transmission provision.
But you didn't, which is why you missed it. More important however is that you are a fucking liar claiming to have read it.
..and by nazi's they mean people like the homosexual jew with the black boyfriend.
I don't see Nazi groups destroying property and setting cars on fire over a speech at a college.
The speech at Berkeley was supposed to be on Toxic Feminism of all things. The truth doesnt matter to these leftists, which is why Milo the homosexual Jew with the black boyfriend that wants to talk about feminism is a nazi white supremacists and therefore Berkeley has to be destroyed to prevent him from talking.
they tried just that in Boston and a few dozen showed up.
Looked to me like the "few dozen" that showed up at Bostons free speech rally were a bunch of hippies and anti-gmo people. While they were talking about hippy things and gmo's, the counter protesters were screaming "Nazis!", "Fascists!", and "Racists!"
Socialism isnt good enough for the Marxists known as Antifa.
You dont understand. This guy thinks the Democrats are also right wing because they arent Marxist enough. He is a classic Antifa representative. Anything that isnt Marxist is fascism in his book. Capitalism is fascism in their book.
It is exactly this. The solution to "the problem" of Free Speech is MORE Free Speech.
That idiot that drove his car into a crowd in Charlottesville was not exercising free speech.
There was so much violence on both sides before this happened that the police had already declared an unlawful assembly several hours before the vehicular homicide. The UCLU has condemned Charlottesville for "dispersing" the declared unlawful assembly in a manner that forced the two groups already committing violence together.
Making errors does not make one a troll.
This is bullshit because he didn't just make an error. People know when they are guessing. People that pretend to not be guessing when they know that they are, are dishonest fucks. It is not simply an error. Its an intent to mislead not on the "fact" given (which could have accidentally been right, and many people just as dishonest as this fuck are more often right about their facts than wrong), but on this dishonest fucks claim of knowledge.
What can this guy now do when he really does know something, that doesn't look exactly like this case where he was just fucking guessing while presenting the case that he knows something? When you are guessing you are supposed to communicate that fact. Its the only way to distinguish. He is incapable of being involved in an honest discussion because there is nothing he can do to indicate when he really knows. He is a fucking dishonest fuck.
When you pretend to know something that you know that you dont know, you should definitely be modded down, as a troll, as a dishonest fuck, doesnt matter the reason.
You assumed the person you were talking to was wrong even though you had no direct knowledge of them being wrong, and declared a fact that wasn't. Fuck off liar piece of shit. You are the enemy of rational discourse. Your involvement is discussions is harmful because you dont give a fuck about veracity. You only give a fuck about what claims you can get away with.
or anyone who claims to be a fascist or anti-fascist (aka, communist)
All the Marxist "class struggle" is baked right into the Antifa rhetoric, but is now under the guise of identity politics. Still treating people as groups. Still ignoring the individual.
When your only importance is defined by what group you can be classified as belonging to, you arent important at all. In fact, you don't matter one bit.