No they are not. They're gray instead of full color with the Netflix or Redbox logo. Lately, they've even started including an intro that says (if memory serves) "This is just a rental version, asswipe, if you want all the extras, you'll have to buy your own copy. Thanks for giving Hollywood another chance to squeeze more money out of you, fuckwad."
Slashdot is traditionally a bad place for language nazism, but the wording in this summary is just plain weird.
With a data center on the Avenue of the Americas, CoreSite Realty escaped the worst the storm had to offer.
When I first read this sentence I thought: a real estate company with a data center? Then I looked at the company website and discovered that they just call themselves "CoreSite"; no "Realty". So allow me to ask: Huh?
If somebody compared me to an egomaniacal, ethics-free, self-righteous jerk whose only real talent was as a pitchman, I'd be really offended. "Visionary" my ass.
I don't share your love of Avatar (well made, but too long, and there's something lame about the save-the-earth preachiness in a movie that's at the center of a billion-dollar marketing effort), but I agree that this is a great time to be a movie buff. As you say, the access is mind-boggling.
I never buy disks for recent movies, so I don't actually know, but I can't believe they'd pull this no-FF crap on disks that were for sale. I've only ever noticed the issue on those gray rental-only discs you get from Redbox and Netflix.
Last time I used Pirate Bay, I got a nasty email from my ISP. Not gonna do it again without a VPN account, and for the number of movies I watch, it's not worth the trouble.
If you read my post all the way through, you'd have noticed the part where I said I could bypass the crap.
Right, I can't spare an extra $1000 for a business class ticket, and that means I want to be miserable. If I could pay a little extra and get a slightly more comfortable seat, I would. But I don't have that option.
You say it's about respecting the constitution, but you only seem to care about Constitutional issues when they inconvenience you. I don't like security theater or retroactive copyright either, but I don't make them sole determinant of who I'll vote for. There are bigger issues.
Look, if your boss is telling you that you have to bring your absentee ballot to work so he can make sure you voted the right way, send a copy of the memo to the fuzz. Problem solved.
Even though I was 12 years old when I saw it, the ejector seat in Goldfinger impressed me as the dumbest gadget ever. "OK, Bond, we've killed two of your Bond Girls in absurd ways, now get in the back of this truck." "Oh gee, is it OK if I drive myself?" "OK, we'll have a henchman accompany you, just promise us you don't have an ejector seat."
Even dumber (though more low tech) is the part where the limousine gets reduced to a metal cube for no obvious reason.
Well, you can always come 20 minutes after the announced showtime. When you rent it on disc, you'll get the same half hour of ads, and they'll disable fast-forward to make you watch it.
A clever person can get around this crap, but the sheer arrogance of an industry that wants to treat you like Alex being brainwashed makes me crazy.
I'm saying it isn't "insurance" and so calling it that is silly, and it's a remarkably poor way to run a health system to boot.
I agree on both points. But it's the word we have and the system we have. Obama had to sweat blood just to get a few basic fixes in place, so don't hold your breath waiting for something rational.
Here in greater Portland, we have "Clackistanis", tea party types from Clackamas county just south of PDX. They object to "Portland Creep" which is code for regional planning and regionally funded transportation infrastructure (bridges, light rail, but of course freeways are fine). Just as the national TP is a bunch of fringe types who exist mainly because fossil fuel interests need to push an anti-ecology agenda, the Clackistanis exist mainly because local timber families are sitting on forests that they'd like to turn into suburbs. Very un-Canadian.
The Clackistani doctrine that is wierdest is that light rail spreads crime. They cite a burglary hotspot in downtown Gresham, which is the eastern end of the light rail system. The idea of burglars schlepping their swag home on the late train is amusing — until you realize the unstated (and very racist) assumption that these burglaries are all committed by residents of North Portland, the biggest African-American community in Oregon, and also an important light rail nexus.
Do you really want to live in a country where everybody's polite and everybody has health insurance? And the federal police wear silly red uniforms? And gay marriage is legal?
They even have decent transit in some of the cities. Bunch of commies.
How would you have won? Invade North Vietnam? Even assuming that didn't start WW III (imagine what we would have done if the Soviets had invaded one of our satellites) all that would have done is extended the guerrilla war that was already bleeding us dry.
The closest we could ever come to a victory in Vietnam is to get the Saigon regime strong enough to hold off the other side without 500,000 Americans to back them up. That's what Nixon tried to do. He gave them one of the biggest air forces on the planet and trained and equipped an ample army. But the Republic of Vietnam was just a cadre of corrupt people who thought that the country was still a French colony and who had no support in the countryside. (And dropping more bombs on that countryside than we dropped on Germany during WWII did nothing to enhance their popularity.) As soon the last American left, South Vietnam collapsed with a speed that shocked even Hanoi.
There are several things wrong with your understanding of how health insurance works. First off, it's not just about paying for unforeseen stuff. A typical insurance plan will pay for preventive care because it saves them money in the long run. And they negotiate with providers to get services for a lower cost. Somebody who doesn't have insurance does get these benefits.
And then there's the psychology of it. I've been nauseous for several months. I didn't go to the doctor because I've had nausea before and it always went away, and hey doctor's visits cost $150. Finally bit the bullet and went. Now, it's not one of those conditions that you need to catch early in order to avoid expensive treatment — but it might have been.
And when I say "day-to-day" I don't mean flu shots. I mean all the stuff that isn't covered by catastrophe-only policies. Like the endoscopy I had done a couple weeks ago that ran $2500 to find out if my chronic nausea is a symptom of ulcers (it wasn't). Or the ultrasound I probably should have, but it would probably just verify my doctor's guess that something's wrong with my gall bladder, so I'll just take my anti-nausea pills ($300/month) and see if not eating fatty foods makes me feel better. Or the colonoscopy I've been putting off for several years (standard for somebody my age) because what use is a cancer screening if I can't afford the hospital bill?
OK, it's a lame post, but he's got a point. The guy doesn't want to quit his day job, but he wants to start a business that what will take a lot of work to get up and running. Finding money, buying hardware, designing infrastructure and systems, billing and supporting customers. The notion that he can do all this in his spare time is purely amateur thinking.
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No they are not. They're gray instead of full color with the Netflix or Redbox logo. Lately, they've even started including an intro that says (if memory serves) "This is just a rental version, asswipe, if you want all the extras, you'll have to buy your own copy. Thanks for giving Hollywood another chance to squeeze more money out of you, fuckwad."
Ballmer's a good pitchman?
Slashdot is traditionally a bad place for language nazism, but the wording in this summary is just plain weird.
With a data center on the Avenue of the Americas, CoreSite Realty escaped the worst the storm had to offer.
When I first read this sentence I thought: a real estate company with a data center? Then I looked at the company website and discovered that they just call themselves "CoreSite"; no "Realty". So allow me to ask: Huh?
But was it coincidence or careful planning?
"Coincidence"? I think you mean "luck".
Wasn't talking about the movie itself.
http://www.technologytell.com/gaming/52322/mcdonalds-giving-avatar-big-mac-thrill-cards-with-big-mac-purchases/
Plus, he'll need to screw over all the people who worked with him, so that only he gets rich.
If somebody compared me to an egomaniacal, ethics-free, self-righteous jerk whose only real talent was as a pitchman, I'd be really offended. "Visionary" my ass.
I don't share your love of Avatar (well made, but too long, and there's something lame about the save-the-earth preachiness in a movie that's at the center of a billion-dollar marketing effort), but I agree that this is a great time to be a movie buff. As you say, the access is mind-boggling.
You obviously have different priorities than previous repliers who complain about GCC licensing. Is licensing at all an issue for you?
I never buy disks for recent movies, so I don't actually know, but I can't believe they'd pull this no-FF crap on disks that were for sale. I've only ever noticed the issue on those gray rental-only discs you get from Redbox and Netflix.
Last time I used Pirate Bay, I got a nasty email from my ISP. Not gonna do it again without a VPN account, and for the number of movies I watch, it's not worth the trouble.
If you read my post all the way through, you'd have noticed the part where I said I could bypass the crap.
Right, I can't spare an extra $1000 for a business class ticket, and that means I want to be miserable. If I could pay a little extra and get a slightly more comfortable seat, I would. But I don't have that option.
I passed your post on to Ellen and Portia, and they rolled their eyes and said, "Buy your own porn, dude."
You say it's about respecting the constitution, but you only seem to care about Constitutional issues when they inconvenience you. I don't like security theater or retroactive copyright either, but I don't make them sole determinant of who I'll vote for. There are bigger issues.
Look, if your boss is telling you that you have to bring your absentee ballot to work so he can make sure you voted the right way, send a copy of the memo to the fuzz. Problem solved.
Even though I was 12 years old when I saw it, the ejector seat in Goldfinger impressed me as the dumbest gadget ever. "OK, Bond, we've killed two of your Bond Girls in absurd ways, now get in the back of this truck." "Oh gee, is it OK if I drive myself?" "OK, we'll have a henchman accompany you, just promise us you don't have an ejector seat."
Even dumber (though more low tech) is the part where the limousine gets reduced to a metal cube for no obvious reason.
Well, you can always come 20 minutes after the announced showtime. When you rent it on disc, you'll get the same half hour of ads, and they'll disable fast-forward to make you watch it.
A clever person can get around this crap, but the sheer arrogance of an industry that wants to treat you like Alex being brainwashed makes me crazy.
I'm saying it isn't "insurance" and so calling it that is silly, and it's a remarkably poor way to run a health system to boot.
I agree on both points. But it's the word we have and the system we have. Obama had to sweat blood just to get a few basic fixes in place, so don't hold your breath waiting for something rational.
Here in greater Portland, we have "Clackistanis", tea party types from Clackamas county just south of PDX. They object to "Portland Creep" which is code for regional planning and regionally funded transportation infrastructure (bridges, light rail, but of course freeways are fine). Just as the national TP is a bunch of fringe types who exist mainly because fossil fuel interests need to push an anti-ecology agenda, the Clackistanis exist mainly because local timber families are sitting on forests that they'd like to turn into suburbs. Very un-Canadian.
The Clackistani doctrine that is wierdest is that light rail spreads crime. They cite a burglary hotspot in downtown Gresham, which is the eastern end of the light rail system. The idea of burglars schlepping their swag home on the late train is amusing — until you realize the unstated (and very racist) assumption that these burglaries are all committed by residents of North Portland, the biggest African-American community in Oregon, and also an important light rail nexus.
Do you really want to live in a country where everybody's polite and everybody has health insurance? And the federal police wear silly red uniforms? And gay marriage is legal?
They even have decent transit in some of the cities. Bunch of commies.
Shut up or be he'll smite you.
How would you have won? Invade North Vietnam? Even assuming that didn't start WW III (imagine what we would have done if the Soviets had invaded one of our satellites) all that would have done is extended the guerrilla war that was already bleeding us dry.
The closest we could ever come to a victory in Vietnam is to get the Saigon regime strong enough to hold off the other side without 500,000 Americans to back them up. That's what Nixon tried to do. He gave them one of the biggest air forces on the planet and trained and equipped an ample army. But the Republic of Vietnam was just a cadre of corrupt people who thought that the country was still a French colony and who had no support in the countryside. (And dropping more bombs on that countryside than we dropped on Germany during WWII did nothing to enhance their popularity.) As soon the last American left, South Vietnam collapsed with a speed that shocked even Hanoi.
There are several things wrong with your understanding of how health insurance works. First off, it's not just about paying for unforeseen stuff. A typical insurance plan will pay for preventive care because it saves them money in the long run. And they negotiate with providers to get services for a lower cost. Somebody who doesn't have insurance does get these benefits.
And then there's the psychology of it. I've been nauseous for several months. I didn't go to the doctor because I've had nausea before and it always went away, and hey doctor's visits cost $150. Finally bit the bullet and went. Now, it's not one of those conditions that you need to catch early in order to avoid expensive treatment — but it might have been.
And when I say "day-to-day" I don't mean flu shots. I mean all the stuff that isn't covered by catastrophe-only policies. Like the endoscopy I had done a couple weeks ago that ran $2500 to find out if my chronic nausea is a symptom of ulcers (it wasn't). Or the ultrasound I probably should have, but it would probably just verify my doctor's guess that something's wrong with my gall bladder, so I'll just take my anti-nausea pills ($300/month) and see if not eating fatty foods makes me feel better. Or the colonoscopy I've been putting off for several years (standard for somebody my age) because what use is a cancer screening if I can't afford the hospital bill?
I've fulfilled all three of those roles as well as more.
Yeah, and I'll bet you worked a lot of 14-hour days. This guy doesn't even want to give up his day job.
OK, it's a lame post, but he's got a point. The guy doesn't want to quit his day job, but he wants to start a business that what will take a lot of work to get up and running. Finding money, buying hardware, designing infrastructure and systems, billing and supporting customers. The notion that he can do all this in his spare time is purely amateur thinking.
Noah's Ark benefited from divine intervention, Titanic suffered from security-as-a-feature idiots.