"Denton filed an emergency motion seeking to stay enforcement of the verdict against him pending appeal, but the judge in the Florida case on July 29 refused." -- Chicago Tribune
Gawker never got to appeal the decision, the bankruptcy was caused by being forced to pay the penalty which crushed them and their legal efforts to stage an appeal.
Yes, in a specifically shopped for court, to a notoriously fanatical judge who has almost every decision reversed on appeal, who imposes a fine so large that it intentionally bankrupts your opponent and then refuses to stay that fine while you pursue an appeal. Ta daaaaaa, Ju$tice.
It was newsworthy precisely because of who Hogan portrayed himself to be as a public figure. Exactly the same as when it's newsworthy that your youth minister gets caught with a trans teenager having sex in a public bathroom.
First of all, our schools have been "failing" our students because moronic Republicans on the education boards insist on "teaching the controversy" of their invisible sky man over evolution, and insisting that there has been no debate over climate change. Then throw in the numerous tax cuts that under fund the schools while they try to smooth talk us into believing that charter schools will be more than ponzi schemes to milk even more wealth out of the system. I'm seriously waiting for the conservative push to teach the Flat Earth "controversy".
Your biased lecture against colleges neglect that there are quite a number of alternative conservative colleges which are still quite happy to indoctrinate students and teach women that they are lesser beings to be raped and tossed aside as whores if they dare to question their role in the conservative lifestyle.
The truth is that conservatives hate education. Educated people ask questions and conservatism doesn't like to be questioned. It's an article of faith, like religion, and questions highlight the many conflicting inconsistencies that patch it together. Plus kids go to college, get a degree and then look back at the rural economic wasteland their conservative parents have surrounded themselves with and immediately go live somewhere they can get a job, typically the big scary liberal city.
Very few shows can sustain a credible story over multiple seasons of 22-26 episodes. You end up with a couple of arc episodes, then endless filler where nothing changes until the next arc episode, or they go on holiday break or the mid-season break, then they do a cliffhanger episode with all kinds of story changes, then it returns from break and nothing happens again for several episodes. The shows that work best for that kind of schedule are the one where it's mystery of the week or creature of the week and 2 minutes of significant story arc hidden between commercial breaks where a character learns a "very important moral", until the next episode and they're right back where they were.
Not to mention have you considered that a "60" minute episode on TV is more like 40 after commercials, so for every 5 broadcast episodes, you're only getting 4 or less anyway. Half hour broadcasts are even less.
I'd much rather the writers/producers decide they have a story they want to tell, they need X number of episodes to tell it and that's how many Netflix buys. It ends up with much tighter and focused stories.
The problem is with the production side, as the article says. Traditionally the stars and production company make a show and lowball the cost to get it on the air. They take lower salaries, cheaper locations, etc. Then if the ratings get big they renegotiate their contracts for better pay, more return per episode, better quality episodes.
With Netflix's attitude towards ratings, it makes it harder for production to do this. They still have to meet certain costs on production, but then if Netflix only says "It's a hit!" with no metrics, they can't judge what kind of leverage they have for renegotiation.
Then again, Netflix mostly skips the idea of pilot episodes and orders entire seasons, so less risk on the production side to start with.
Most British programs change the stars every few episodes. Dr. Who calling it regeneration just made it easier to keep the same basic character. It's rarer for them to have both a long running show and a stable cast throughout the run.
Considering the typical British "season" is 6 to 8 episodes, I don't know why they burn through casting so quickly.
A good pair of leather shoes can last a decade. Plus you can get them made to your foot and the money goes to a local shop and not $200 to Nike who pays $3 to a Chinese manufacturer for making them.
Well, we sure can't make America Great by moving all the wealth into the hands of an elite few and then using high level AI robots to replace all the non-specialized workers either.
Keurig already had a large install base that isn't affected by the barcodes, plus there's not a huge number of alternatives for the machines themselves. It's apples and oranges.
Soo.. they say Amazon stifled competition.. but the parts of their contracts that they objected to were the "show us your other deals and give us the same deal" clauses that keeps prices consistent across retailers and prevents publishers from making sweetheart deals like they did with Apple. I don't see how that stifle's competition, per se.
Here's the thing that truly pisses me off about publishers.. say you want to get into a series, the latest book is #50.. first off good luck finding the other 49, but if you do they cost the same amount as #50. It makes it not worth your time even picking up #50 and getting yourself involved in a series that will cost a fortune and a lot of time to track down.
Amazon published e-books typically the first in the series is $2, then it gradually goes up to whatever the newest book costs. They understand selling the first few books cheap to get a reader hooked on a series will pay off down the line.
David Chilton; James Redfield; K.A. Tucker; Michael J. Sullivan; H.M. Ward; Barbara Freethy; Lisa Genova; Amanda Hocking; Hugh Howey; E.L. James.. all millionaires off Amazon self published ebooks. If you're an author and you aren't making money you're marketing yourself wrong or you're writing in a genre that isn't popular.
Not that everyone is guaranteed to be a millionaire, but it seems like the most successful books on Amazon are trashy romances, sci-fi and fantasy serials. Also superhero and recently literary-RPG seems popular.
The majority of the self-published book writers on Amazon sell their first book for $1 or $2. It's a cheap way to decide if they're a decent writer, and most of them have rather large series of books. I don't expect Shakespeare levels of literature when I'm buying a $4 sci-fi adventure novel, just fun and decent.
I agree with you on the pricing. You can tell that publishers are deliberately trying to keep ebooks less attractive than paper, especially when an ebook can be the same cost as a hardcover book, then when it finally drops it's still more expensive than the paperback.
I just tend to buy more self published and small publisher books now, the ones that keep their prices under $4., as a bonus they typically skip the DRM nonsense too. Rather than waiting 7 years between sequels they're more like 1 year or less or have multiple ongoing series that you can binge on.
Just because you're a liberal or even a globalist doesn't mean you don't care about copyrights and having your work taken without pay or attribute. Lots of artists are liberals and don't appreciate being taken advantage of.
That 'soy DNA' could easily have come from the umami taste additive they use and the sample just had a particularly large amount in it. They didn't specify their sample sizes, could have just been a swab of the exterior of the meat.
They can make all the comparisons they want, if they refuse to publish their methodology then they know they done screwed up.
Fact is they wrote a poorly researched click-bait article and they're gonna have to pay.
It doesn't matter. Regardless of what so called filler used, you can tell from the different texture when it's that high a proportion. The CBC "study" is worth less than toilet paper.
For one, they had the test done at a wildlife center, not a food laboratory. Second, plant and animal cells are different sizes and contain different amounts of DNA, CBC won't release their methodology for determining percentages from their samples.
Somebody's about to get a legal footlong over a judge's desk.
People lie. To themselves, to their doctors, to the computer. They'll put in their symptoms, get a bad diagnosis and start shopping for something a little better by tweaking their symptoms, etc.
The miracle is that anyone gets a proper diagnosis ever.
TRS-80 CoCo here. Plus I had the tape cassette drive, those weird joystick controllers and a dot matrix printer. I had to work for that tape cassette, retyping in all the programs by hand got old.
Honestly though, I had more fun playing with their BASIC than just about any other programming language.
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"Denton filed an emergency motion seeking to stay enforcement of the verdict against him pending appeal, but the judge in the Florida case on July 29 refused." -- Chicago Tribune
Gawker never got to appeal the decision, the bankruptcy was caused by being forced to pay the penalty which crushed them and their legal efforts to stage an appeal.
Yes, in a specifically shopped for court, to a notoriously fanatical judge who has almost every decision reversed on appeal, who imposes a fine so large that it intentionally bankrupts your opponent and then refuses to stay that fine while you pursue an appeal. Ta daaaaaa, Ju$tice.
It was newsworthy precisely because of who Hogan portrayed himself to be as a public figure. Exactly the same as when it's newsworthy that your youth minister gets caught with a trans teenager having sex in a public bathroom.
First of all, our schools have been "failing" our students because moronic Republicans on the education boards insist on "teaching the controversy" of their invisible sky man over evolution, and insisting that there has been no debate over climate change. Then throw in the numerous tax cuts that under fund the schools while they try to smooth talk us into believing that charter schools will be more than ponzi schemes to milk even more wealth out of the system. I'm seriously waiting for the conservative push to teach the Flat Earth "controversy".
Your biased lecture against colleges neglect that there are quite a number of alternative conservative colleges which are still quite happy to indoctrinate students and teach women that they are lesser beings to be raped and tossed aside as whores if they dare to question their role in the conservative lifestyle.
The truth is that conservatives hate education. Educated people ask questions and conservatism doesn't like to be questioned. It's an article of faith, like religion, and questions highlight the many conflicting inconsistencies that patch it together. Plus kids go to college, get a degree and then look back at the rural economic wasteland their conservative parents have surrounded themselves with and immediately go live somewhere they can get a job, typically the big scary liberal city.
Yeah.. no.
Very few shows can sustain a credible story over multiple seasons of 22-26 episodes. You end up with a couple of arc episodes, then endless filler where nothing changes until the next arc episode, or they go on holiday break or the mid-season break, then they do a cliffhanger episode with all kinds of story changes, then it returns from break and nothing happens again for several episodes. The shows that work best for that kind of schedule are the one where it's mystery of the week or creature of the week and 2 minutes of significant story arc hidden between commercial breaks where a character learns a "very important moral", until the next episode and they're right back where they were.
Not to mention have you considered that a "60" minute episode on TV is more like 40 after commercials, so for every 5 broadcast episodes, you're only getting 4 or less anyway. Half hour broadcasts are even less.
I'd much rather the writers/producers decide they have a story they want to tell, they need X number of episodes to tell it and that's how many Netflix buys. It ends up with much tighter and focused stories.
I take it you have no understanding of the word "most".
The problem is with the production side, as the article says. Traditionally the stars and production company make a show and lowball the cost to get it on the air. They take lower salaries, cheaper locations, etc. Then if the ratings get big they renegotiate their contracts for better pay, more return per episode, better quality episodes.
With Netflix's attitude towards ratings, it makes it harder for production to do this. They still have to meet certain costs on production, but then if Netflix only says "It's a hit!" with no metrics, they can't judge what kind of leverage they have for renegotiation.
Then again, Netflix mostly skips the idea of pilot episodes and orders entire seasons, so less risk on the production side to start with.
Most British programs change the stars every few episodes. Dr. Who calling it regeneration just made it easier to keep the same basic character. It's rarer for them to have both a long running show and a stable cast throughout the run.
Considering the typical British "season" is 6 to 8 episodes, I don't know why they burn through casting so quickly.
A good pair of leather shoes can last a decade. Plus you can get them made to your foot and the money goes to a local shop and not $200 to Nike who pays $3 to a Chinese manufacturer for making them.
Well, we sure can't make America Great by moving all the wealth into the hands of an elite few and then using high level AI robots to replace all the non-specialized workers either.
Keurig already had a large install base that isn't affected by the barcodes, plus there's not a huge number of alternatives for the machines themselves. It's apples and oranges.
Soo.. they say Amazon stifled competition.. but the parts of their contracts that they objected to were the "show us your other deals and give us the same deal" clauses that keeps prices consistent across retailers and prevents publishers from making sweetheart deals like they did with Apple. I don't see how that stifle's competition, per se.
So your response is that you have to use the Apple ecosystem because you're tied to Apple's ecosystem?
You've apparently never used iTunes then.
Here's the thing that truly pisses me off about publishers.. say you want to get into a series, the latest book is #50.. first off good luck finding the other 49, but if you do they cost the same amount as #50. It makes it not worth your time even picking up #50 and getting yourself involved in a series that will cost a fortune and a lot of time to track down.
Amazon published e-books typically the first in the series is $2, then it gradually goes up to whatever the newest book costs. They understand selling the first few books cheap to get a reader hooked on a series will pay off down the line.
David Chilton; James Redfield; K.A. Tucker; Michael J. Sullivan; H.M. Ward; Barbara Freethy; Lisa Genova; Amanda Hocking; Hugh Howey; E.L. James.. all millionaires off Amazon self published ebooks. If you're an author and you aren't making money you're marketing yourself wrong or you're writing in a genre that isn't popular.
Not that everyone is guaranteed to be a millionaire, but it seems like the most successful books on Amazon are trashy romances, sci-fi and fantasy serials. Also superhero and recently literary-RPG seems popular.
Bookbub.com is a good place, they send out an email every day with a selection of bargain books.
The majority of the self-published book writers on Amazon sell their first book for $1 or $2. It's a cheap way to decide if they're a decent writer, and most of them have rather large series of books. I don't expect Shakespeare levels of literature when I'm buying a $4 sci-fi adventure novel, just fun and decent.
I agree with you on the pricing. You can tell that publishers are deliberately trying to keep ebooks less attractive than paper, especially when an ebook can be the same cost as a hardcover book, then when it finally drops it's still more expensive than the paperback.
I just tend to buy more self published and small publisher books now, the ones that keep their prices under $4., as a bonus they typically skip the DRM nonsense too. Rather than waiting 7 years between sequels they're more like 1 year or less or have multiple ongoing series that you can binge on.
Just because you're a liberal or even a globalist doesn't mean you don't care about copyrights and having your work taken without pay or attribute. Lots of artists are liberals and don't appreciate being taken advantage of.
That 'soy DNA' could easily have come from the umami taste additive they use and the sample just had a particularly large amount in it. They didn't specify their sample sizes, could have just been a swab of the exterior of the meat.
They can make all the comparisons they want, if they refuse to publish their methodology then they know they done screwed up.
Fact is they wrote a poorly researched click-bait article and they're gonna have to pay.
It doesn't matter. Regardless of what so called filler used, you can tell from the different texture when it's that high a proportion. The CBC "study" is worth less than toilet paper.
For one, they had the test done at a wildlife center, not a food laboratory. Second, plant and animal cells are different sizes and contain different amounts of DNA, CBC won't release their methodology for determining percentages from their samples.
Somebody's about to get a legal footlong over a judge's desk.
People lie. To themselves, to their doctors, to the computer. They'll put in their symptoms, get a bad diagnosis and start shopping for something a little better by tweaking their symptoms, etc.
The miracle is that anyone gets a proper diagnosis ever.
TRS-80 CoCo here. Plus I had the tape cassette drive, those weird joystick controllers and a dot matrix printer. I had to work for that tape cassette, retyping in all the programs by hand got old.
Honestly though, I had more fun playing with their BASIC than just about any other programming language.
3 liters per kilo of material in low humidity conditions seems like a lot.