I can see the need for AV on general-purpose devices like computers where user input can be VERY difficult to predict and it's hard to keep users from screwing everything up by starting a program they shouldn't. But how in the world is this possible in a walled-off environment like a TV where you can literally ONLY run whatever the maker lets you?
Samsung, if you have a security problem in your walled garden, YOU screwed up. Fix the problem instead of slapping a band-aid on it!
Because that's what steers buyer decisions. People don't understand what their TVs can do. To them, HDMI is about the same as DLNA, four letters that their TV "has". Or doesn't have. But having is better than not having. So what these people do is to compare TVs by the little cards that are attached to them, and by the checkboxes that are ticked on each of them. And if there's one TV with 6 checkboxes ticked it's better than the one with 5 checkboxes ticked. Which checkboxes? Why should he care, he doesn't know what the things that are ticked there are anyway.
But it has one checkbox tick more! So it is better!
Let them have their locked-in TVs and smartphones. It's not like we have to use them, and if it makes them happy, at least they don't stumble into our turfs.
That's why I call VPs "Assassination insurance". Take a look back through history up to Johnson and realize that ALL VPs since Kennedy's assassination were essentially tools to convince a potential assassin that if you off HIM, you'll get THAT ONE instead. And you don't want that!
Wow, I didn't even know I live in a socialist hellhole. Despite the country having been ruled by socialists (with a 4 year interruption in the late 60s) from 1950 to about 1999. And looking back, only afterwards it started to come down quite a bit. The capital is still ruled by the socialist party (until about a decade just by themselves, now in a coalition with the Green Party) and has been on the top spot of the Mercer Quality of Living Survey for quite a while now (IIRC about a decade).
I guess we have very different experiences with Socialism.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I am not that convinced. Lies sell if they're presented louder and more often than reality. And since people concerned with the truth usually have real jobs that keep them busy, what you get to hear the most is the loudmouths that don't but need a scapegoat to pretend it's not because they're pathetic losers but because the Illuminati and Teh Elitez are keeping them down.
The orthodoxy I'd expect to be questioned the most is probably what we consider reality. You know, the stuff scientists and all those other Illuminati and Freemasons force us to believe.
I'm against unnecessary and excessive vaccination. For example I would never get a malaria shot in Sweden if I don't plan to leave the country.
Vaccination and the question whether to do it is a matter of probabilities. How likely is it to contract the disease, how severe and likely are the consequences of the disease, how severe and likely are the consequences of the vaccine. And with MRR, probability is heavily on the "get it the fuck NOW" side.
In the original GB you had 4 very different characters that served their purpose. Venkman was the loudmouth asshole and the (deserving) recipient of all the "bad" things that happen to them. Had Slimer hit Ray instead of Peter, we'd have felt bad for him, but Peter was by then already established as a bit of an asshole, so him getting slimed good was "deserved" (one of the problems I had with the 2016 version, when the ghost spewed at her she did not deserve this in any way... anyway).
Ray had some child-like qualities and he was the cute one. You didn't want anything bad to happen to Ray, he was nice. Really, really nice. He was funny and he was the one where the horror aspect really hit hard because, like I said, you felt for him. You wanted him to be safe.
Egon was the ivory-tower, geeky scientist type of guy. The comical egghead that takes the whole thing serious the most of them all. Basically he was the explanation where all the stuff comes from (kinda like Holtzman in the new one), kinda aloof but not in a bad way.
And finally, and this was a really big deal back then, Winston was the audience character. You need someone like that in a movie that deals with lots and lots of technobabble and scienc-y stuff. Egon would never have done the Twinkie scene with, say, Ray because there wasn't anything to be said between them. They knew. But neither Winston nor the audience did, and through him we got to understand what's going on. This was basically the identification figure we had in the movie. And, and this was a big deal in the 80s, he was black.
That doesn't work out in the new one. Holtzman works as some kind of goofy Egon type character, the two other scientist women are basically interchangeable (I honestly did not really identify any kind of fleshed out character in any of them) and Patty was IMO the worst kind of stereotype you could come up, she was literally the black bitch mama from da hood. And that really ruffled me the wrong way.
Why couldn't the black character be a scientist this time?
The USA is based on the freedom to be as stupid as you want to be, then sue someone for your own stupidity and hope that you find 12 dimwits too stupid to weasel out of jury duty to think "that could have been me!"
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I can see the need for AV on general-purpose devices like computers where user input can be VERY difficult to predict and it's hard to keep users from screwing everything up by starting a program they shouldn't. But how in the world is this possible in a walled-off environment like a TV where you can literally ONLY run whatever the maker lets you?
Samsung, if you have a security problem in your walled garden, YOU screwed up. Fix the problem instead of slapping a band-aid on it!
Yet strangely the news were more informative and the programming was generally better...
This would require smart customers. Have you ever met one?
But ... but ... but ... CHECKBOX TICK!
Because that's what steers buyer decisions. People don't understand what their TVs can do. To them, HDMI is about the same as DLNA, four letters that their TV "has". Or doesn't have. But having is better than not having. So what these people do is to compare TVs by the little cards that are attached to them, and by the checkboxes that are ticked on each of them. And if there's one TV with 6 checkboxes ticked it's better than the one with 5 checkboxes ticked. Which checkboxes? Why should he care, he doesn't know what the things that are ticked there are anyway.
But it has one checkbox tick more! So it is better!
Let them have their locked-in TVs and smartphones. It's not like we have to use them, and if it makes them happy, at least they don't stumble into our turfs.
That's why I call VPs "Assassination insurance". Take a look back through history up to Johnson and realize that ALL VPs since Kennedy's assassination were essentially tools to convince a potential assassin that if you off HIM, you'll get THAT ONE instead. And you don't want that!
Just like they did when they used their parents' cable subscription with the TV in their own room!
Wow, I didn't even know I live in a socialist hellhole. Despite the country having been ruled by socialists (with a 4 year interruption in the late 60s) from 1950 to about 1999. And looking back, only afterwards it started to come down quite a bit. The capital is still ruled by the socialist party (until about a decade just by themselves, now in a coalition with the Green Party) and has been on the top spot of the Mercer Quality of Living Survey for quite a while now (IIRC about a decade).
I guess we have very different experiences with Socialism.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I am not that convinced. Lies sell if they're presented louder and more often than reality. And since people concerned with the truth usually have real jobs that keep them busy, what you get to hear the most is the loudmouths that don't but need a scapegoat to pretend it's not because they're pathetic losers but because the Illuminati and Teh Elitez are keeping them down.
The orthodoxy I'd expect to be questioned the most is probably what we consider reality. You know, the stuff scientists and all those other Illuminati and Freemasons force us to believe.
The real mystery is why people invested a hell of a lot of time and effort to build that thing in the first place.
And neither of them is stupid enough to use it to get stones somewhere else.
Talk about most intelligent species...
That's the bit that's interesting to me. How do they know that going back accounts for 19 or 10 percent of the traffic?
I'm against unnecessary and excessive vaccination. For example I would never get a malaria shot in Sweden if I don't plan to leave the country.
Vaccination and the question whether to do it is a matter of probabilities. How likely is it to contract the disease, how severe and likely are the consequences of the disease, how severe and likely are the consequences of the vaccine. And with MRR, probability is heavily on the "get it the fuck NOW" side.
Yeah, but it doesn't work that well here, since we DO know better social media platforms than FB.
Well, back then movies had a plot. What's the redeeming feature of today's movies?
It's not like there's any sensible alternative.
In the original GB you had 4 very different characters that served their purpose. Venkman was the loudmouth asshole and the (deserving) recipient of all the "bad" things that happen to them. Had Slimer hit Ray instead of Peter, we'd have felt bad for him, but Peter was by then already established as a bit of an asshole, so him getting slimed good was "deserved" (one of the problems I had with the 2016 version, when the ghost spewed at her she did not deserve this in any way... anyway).
Ray had some child-like qualities and he was the cute one. You didn't want anything bad to happen to Ray, he was nice. Really, really nice. He was funny and he was the one where the horror aspect really hit hard because, like I said, you felt for him. You wanted him to be safe.
Egon was the ivory-tower, geeky scientist type of guy. The comical egghead that takes the whole thing serious the most of them all. Basically he was the explanation where all the stuff comes from (kinda like Holtzman in the new one), kinda aloof but not in a bad way.
And finally, and this was a really big deal back then, Winston was the audience character. You need someone like that in a movie that deals with lots and lots of technobabble and scienc-y stuff. Egon would never have done the Twinkie scene with, say, Ray because there wasn't anything to be said between them. They knew. But neither Winston nor the audience did, and through him we got to understand what's going on. This was basically the identification figure we had in the movie. And, and this was a big deal in the 80s, he was black.
That doesn't work out in the new one. Holtzman works as some kind of goofy Egon type character, the two other scientist women are basically interchangeable (I honestly did not really identify any kind of fleshed out character in any of them) and Patty was IMO the worst kind of stereotype you could come up, she was literally the black bitch mama from da hood. And that really ruffled me the wrong way.
Why couldn't the black character be a scientist this time?
Well, a dead kid sure is less work than an autistic kid, I can see their motivation...
Really? People fled TO the Ukraine.
Where did they come from? Elbonia?
Say, did people also have polio? Or smallpox?
The USA is based on the freedom to be as stupid as you want to be, then sue someone for your own stupidity and hope that you find 12 dimwits too stupid to weasel out of jury duty to think "that could have been me!"
That's the new American dream, people!
Dead kids can't fuck.
Rest assured that they will suddenly start demanding that you save their little precious. If they'd just die quietly, I wouldn't complain so much.
If they could only off their own spawn that way, I'd say let them.