That the AMC CEO said it is worrisome -- it shows he doesn't care one bit about presentation. And if he doesn't, then his underlings won't, either.
Good for AMC, it'll only accelerate their demise. I've not been happy with their presentation for a long time now.. I stopped going to AMC completely.
Maybe they can do what some theaters did back in the smoking era - a lot of the cinemas back home (Puerto Rico) that were built in the late 70's early 80's had a glassed-in standing-room-only section at the very back where you could smoke, then return to your seat in the auditorium.
Funny thing is, Cinemark doesn't have this problem.. I go to one from time to time, I don't see a sea of glowing phones during the feature. Maybe the snipe featuring self-absorbed teens lost in the screen and calling them out as mindless has something to do with it? I can't find it anywhere, but it starts "It's movie night and the big screen beckons, but the small screen won't go away"
It's anvilicious, with bits like "Watch the movie on this giant screen made for movies." And, "Go away, pocket screen"
More alarming than the hack is the following bit in TFS:
[Feinstein and Burr are both working on a new bill to limit the use of encryption in consumer technology, expected to be made public in the weeks to come.]
The "hack", as I understand, was on an 5C, which is weak by comparison to the 5S and beyond. Non-event.
But the bit I quoted? Really? Limit what encryption consumers can have? I find that more alarming than "old-ass insecure phone got cracked."
I hope this dies a flaming painful death before it goes anywhere.
Let me get this straight -- people who care about correctness and doing things right are assholes?
I completely disagree. Yes, people who constantly correct others in a rude way can come across as arrogant condescending assholes. They also can come across as Insufferable Know-it-alls.
But you know what? I consider people who don't care about being correct to be assholes, and if they bitch when corrected, I consider them to be coddled unique snowflake assholes. I guess that makes me an asshole.
So to the author of this study and all the lemmings who will parrot its findings for the next thousand years, I have to say "My god, it's full of assholes!"
Wear a proper IWB (Inside-The-Waistband) holster, use some brains when you dress, and you won't "get made."
A winged IWB holster + a loose t-shirt = invisible. Still need to be a bit mindful to not let the t-shirt ride up. It won't, under most conditions. But if you slouch deep into a reclined chair, it can happen.
Too many people just shove the piece in their pocket or jam it in their waistbands without a holster. That's just looking to get made, or worse, have a negligent discharge.
And oh yeah... select a piece suitable for carry for your size and circumstances. This is no time for what you want to carry, it's time for what you can carry.
Well done! I"m a "normal" but have had diabetics as relatives and co-workers, so I know of the hassles and dangers..
I didn't mention coffee / tea because slashdot being a tech site and all... it's a given we all ingest mass quantities of caffeine in various forms =o)
I *think* it was in Bloom County or other Berkeley Breathed comic, but someone reffered to pepsi as "malted battery acid"
I have a one-liter hydroflask for the house and disc golf, and a 16-ounce Bubba with a barrel shape for the car (so as to fit the minuscule cupholder in my car)
Bottle water is a racket. Don't feed the plastic monster
As for soda.. completely kicked the habit after spending some time in a hospital. When I came back I found I couldn't stand the taste of any of them.. except for Boylan's Birch Beer. So I cut soda out cold turkey.
Fruit drink? Rarely. An Izze here, a smoothie there, but those are maybe one once a month.
Lexus of some sort, it was a car, not an RX wagon.
Parked at McDonald's in Miami, a white van pulls up, not a minute later a guy from the van pops the door with his hand and just drives away. Security camera recorded it.
I'm still on a 4-inch 5S because I so dislike Big Fat Phones.
More power to Apple if they build a new one with a mechanically stabilized camera. I'll buy it a few months after it comes out -- to allow any bugs to be shaken out.
Hell, I would love a 3.5 inch phone. I still feel that was the most practical format for one-handed operations.
The govt isn't a black box, and even if it were you can always vote it out.
It is a black box, you and I cannot see into the deepest inner workings, and voting out those inner workings is nigh impossible.
I don't like to sound defeatist, but our government is unchangeable in the short and medium term. I think effective change will take a century from now.
Vote out the President? That's just a sham, a show. Go right ahead, vote for any cocksucker you want -- it won't matter.
We don't have a century. So what is there to do?
Change the bottom FIRST, America. Fix that and the rest will follow.
Say rather there are no rear blind spots. Oddly enough, there are still two blind spots left. Your roof posts on either side of your front windshield.
Your point is a valid one, but IMO, one would have to be an anorexic witch doing a tail-stand on a broom to hide in the shadow of A-pillar and C-pillar. Even motorbikes and bicycles are visible in those areas on my mini - and that car has really fat pillars.
Still, be vigilant and don't take anything for granted. Look twice.
I trust my life to automated landing systems every time I fly in an airliner. This is decades-old tech now.
I'm all for a self-driving, car, really. And, for the record, I am a petrosexual, the scream of a v-12 or a wankel rotary is the best song there is. Sings like Sinatra, drinks like Deano!
The sad reality is that most drivers are ill-equipped to drive. Let them be shuttled around in their little autodriving cocoons.
What I would like is a hybrid system -- I will take full control and responsibility while the road is open, winding and plain old fun, but I will let Otto have it when the road is grid-like and traffic snail-like.
Best of both worlds! This isn't about retaining control, it's about enjoying the drive, a concept non-petrosexuals cannot and will not understand. Driving can be fun! That's why little underpowered sports cars are made! That's why little overpowered sports cars are made! Sadly, most people cannot even begin to comprehend the joys of driving.
As for driver aids, I'm all for it. Driver aids will help all, including myself. I will admit to nearly departing my lane while gawking at an interesting car to my left. I will admit being caught off-guard and braking at the very last moment. I will admit to starting a lane change without spending two seconds to look in the mirror to see if there's someone in my mirrors * Shit happens. Most crashes are pilot error, both up there, and down here!
* I firmly believe there is no such thing as blind spots, not when the seat and mirrors are properly set up. This is non-negotiable, it is trigonometry. A properly set-up car has no blind spots. But that won't help if the driver doesn't look in the goddamned mirrors in the first place. That's why I begrudgingly welcome driver aids.
That's one thing Reagan was so good at -- inspiring, leading, setting tone.
How far things have de-evolved since his presidency. I think the 80's is the point where the downward trajectory of the USA in general started to get steeper. Billary sent it nearly vertically down, and it's been like that ever since. It just took almost 20 years for his (Billary's) bad policy and real-estate shenanigans to fully manifest.
It's going to take twice that long to fix. If it can even be fixed.
We need a leader again. Someone who can instill confidence.
You honestly believe that Trump is going to protect American jobs?
Oh hell no. I'm surprised he isn't having them made in Vietnam or China or India.
No. The question in my mind is simple: Vote for an insider who's lived in the political machine for decades -- wife of a two-term president -- or vote for the crazy outsider who spouts racism, intolerance and a populist message which happens to resonate with a lot of people who perceive the current situation to be the fault of everyone in Government.
Trump's is a powerful message, unfortunately it brings to mind similar vitriol spouted in the early third of the last century by someone who thought like that, spoke like that, and obtained power and carried out his narrow vision.
The difference between then and now, there and here, is our system of government. If you think Obama got cock-blocked at every turn, should Trump win, they'll do the same to him. They'll do the same to Billary, too.
So in a sense, our crazy-ass, broken political machine may well end up saving our sorry asses from our own misguided decisions.
After all.... the top gets rotated to present the illusion of change. Nothing really does change. The president can set tone, inspire and lead (or fail utterly to do it).. but the president cannot simply dictate "build a wall" or "throw 'em all out."
You're saying that outright racism, sexism, and inciting violence is OK because you bought some computer gizmo made in Mexico? Sorry, but you'll have to bring that conversation over to Infowars or somewhere where there are more of your people hanging out.
How much of that is bluster and bullshit to get votes? Part of Trump's appeal is indeed that brash, demented attitude. He's going after the people that have lost jobs, people who perceive the problem is "them". Whomever "them" may be. Those different than us.
If you think about it, what trump is doing is no different than what Nancy Reagan did to get the extreme religious right-wingnut support to get Reagan elected twice. Yeah. Before her, the GOP wasn't the right-wingnut-dominated quagmire it is now.
As for infowars.. sorry, I've seen that site and I just boggle at what people will think and believe. I've worked with loons that believe that stuff. Illuminati, huge conspiracies, etc. The truth is much more mundane -- do unto others before they do unto you. It's all about the cash, baby.
That's right. Tell us all how superior you are. Tell us how we're stupid, or racist.
It will only make it more sweet when you're crying your fucking eyes out over President Trump.
Superior? If I were "superior" I wouldn't live with the Sword of Damocles over my head. Will I have a job next year?
You really think Billary is for "Make America Whole Again?" -- that's the slogan she's using as of this morning.
If you believe that, then i have a magnificent bridge I'd like to sell you, in Brooklyn.
She's as old-school nasty fuck-you-in-the-ass-with-no-reacharound as her husband was, as Trump is, as all of these motherfuckers are.
I'd still like to see a rank outsider vs. one who has been in the political machine for decades. Maybe a political newb at the helm will do better than an "experienced" helmsman/woman.
Besides, this is all theater. FIRE THE FUCKING CONGRESS AND SENATE. That's where the real cancer is. Rotating the top every 4 or 8 years is just to present the illusion of change.
If that witch is the nominee, I'll be voting for trump.
Fuck you. You're an asshole.
Such eloquence. I'm speechless at the depths of your thoughts on the subject.
The 90KVA UPS we bought, from an American name? Hecho en Mexico. The 12-ton chiller from the same name? Hecho en Mexico. Godddamn it, those USED to be built here before NAFTA!
So you'd rather see Billary -- whose strong support of NAFTA helped send jobs out of the USA in droves -- at the helm?
You'd rather see her -- and her strong support -- for Mass Incarceration for minor petty offenses? She strongly supported that -- and now her hubby is openly admitting it was a mistake. You'd want to see Billary try something similar?
I remember all that. Do you?
I'd rather see Trump in the office than Billary. He may seem crazy, but I get the impression he'd snap to moderate fairly easily, with the right cabinet and coaching.
Am I also worthy of a Fuck You? C'mon, let's hear it! Show us the depths of your insightful thoughts!
It's more of a "fuck you, I've got mine" mentality rather than a serious problem solving mindset.
On the other hand, many people are fed up with rampant freeloading and sucking at the Govt's teat and what many see as runaway Federal government getting in their shit.
And by the by, the Democrats also have a long history of helping the big rich corporations get bigger and richer. That's not the exclusive domain of the Republicans. Both sides do this. Some make more noise about it, to attract votes.
Why? Because business has so much more money than us, their influence is disproportionate to their numbers. It's not For the People, it's For the People's Masters.
Bottom line, the whole thing is broken and needs to be rebuilt from the keel up. First the bottom, then work upwards till you reach the top. This time make it so the bigger you are (as a corporation) the less influence you have, as compared to John Q. Public. Give The People the most influence.
I think it's plain, now.. no one should have any secrets. Not you, not me, not your lover, not my friend, not the government nor industry nor banking nor religion.
We should be able to know every thought each and every one of us have, as soon as we have it. Something like a mandatory cleartext Facetwat for the massess. Something as communistic as a Borg collective. Ooh wouldn't that rankle the US Government!
Heh.
There's no way in hell a secret-less society could even begin to function.
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Paper towels beat air blowers and air blades in cleanliness?
Sometimes the old ways are better than the new ways.
That the AMC CEO said it is worrisome -- it shows he doesn't care one bit about presentation. And if he doesn't, then his underlings won't, either.
Good for AMC, it'll only accelerate their demise. I've not been happy with their presentation for a long time now.. I stopped going to AMC completely.
Maybe they can do what some theaters did back in the smoking era - a lot of the cinemas back home (Puerto Rico) that were built in the late 70's early 80's had a glassed-in standing-room-only section at the very back where you could smoke, then return to your seat in the auditorium.
Funny thing is, Cinemark doesn't have this problem.. I go to one from time to time, I don't see a sea of glowing phones during the feature. Maybe the snipe featuring self-absorbed teens lost in the screen and calling them out as mindless has something to do with it? I can't find it anywhere, but it starts "It's movie night and the big screen beckons, but the small screen won't go away"
It's anvilicious, with bits like "Watch the movie on this giant screen made for movies." And, "Go away, pocket screen"
More alarming than the hack is the following bit in TFS:
The "hack", as I understand, was on an 5C, which is weak by comparison to the 5S and beyond. Non-event.
But the bit I quoted? Really? Limit what encryption consumers can have? I find that more alarming than "old-ass insecure phone got cracked."
I hope this dies a flaming painful death before it goes anywhere.
Let me get this straight -- people who care about correctness and doing things right are assholes?
I completely disagree. Yes, people who constantly correct others in a rude way can come across as arrogant condescending assholes. They also can come across as Insufferable Know-it-alls.
But you know what? I consider people who don't care about being correct to be assholes, and if they bitch when corrected, I consider them to be coddled unique snowflake assholes. I guess that makes me an asshole.
So to the author of this study and all the lemmings who will parrot its findings for the next thousand years, I have to say "My god, it's full of assholes!"
Wear a proper IWB (Inside-The-Waistband) holster, use some brains when you dress, and you won't "get made."
A winged IWB holster + a loose t-shirt = invisible. Still need to be a bit mindful to not let the t-shirt ride up. It won't, under most conditions. But if you slouch deep into a reclined chair, it can happen.
Too many people just shove the piece in their pocket or jam it in their waistbands without a holster. That's just looking to get made, or worse, have a negligent discharge.
And oh yeah... select a piece suitable for carry for your size and circumstances. This is no time for what you want to carry, it's time for what you can carry.
Dunno why but this article smacks of advertising.
Well done! I"m a "normal" but have had diabetics as relatives and co-workers, so I know of the hassles and dangers..
I didn't mention coffee / tea because slashdot being a tech site and all... it's a given we all ingest mass quantities of caffeine in various forms =o)
I *think* it was in Bloom County or other Berkeley Breathed comic, but someone reffered to pepsi as "malted battery acid"
Vacuum steel bottles and water.
I have a one-liter hydroflask for the house and disc golf, and a 16-ounce Bubba with a barrel shape for the car (so as to fit the minuscule cupholder in my car)
Bottle water is a racket. Don't feed the plastic monster
As for soda.. completely kicked the habit after spending some time in a hospital. When I came back I found I couldn't stand the taste of any of them.. except for Boylan's Birch Beer. So I cut soda out cold turkey.
Fruit drink? Rarely. An Izze here, a smoothie there, but those are maybe one once a month.
Lexus of some sort, it was a car, not an RX wagon.
Parked at McDonald's in Miami, a white van pulls up, not a minute later a guy from the van pops the door with his hand and just drives away. Security camera recorded it.
Car was found later, no signs of forced entry.
I'm still on a 4-inch 5S because I so dislike Big Fat Phones.
More power to Apple if they build a new one with a mechanically stabilized camera. I'll buy it a few months after it comes out -- to allow any bugs to be shaken out.
Hell, I would love a 3.5 inch phone. I still feel that was the most practical format for one-handed operations.
The govt isn't a black box, and even if it were you can always vote it out.
It is a black box, you and I cannot see into the deepest inner workings, and voting out those inner workings is nigh impossible.
I don't like to sound defeatist, but our government is unchangeable in the short and medium term. I think effective change will take a century from now.
Vote out the President? That's just a sham, a show. Go right ahead, vote for any cocksucker you want -- it won't matter.
We don't have a century. So what is there to do?
Change the bottom FIRST, America. Fix that and the rest will follow.
This shit is going to steer me to a Mac, or maybe push me to a return to Linux.
MS has become more arrogant than Apple and Google put together, and that is saying something.
Full disclosure, I like apple, and frankly almost despise google. I think I have a new hate sink.
I've always thought of it, for some reason, as involving rope and a flagpole. o.O
..so they can hoist their own petard themselves.
Seriously, US Gov't -- keep digging, you'll finish your grave soon 'nuff.
Say rather there are no rear blind spots. Oddly enough, there are still two blind spots left. Your roof posts on either side of your front windshield.
Your point is a valid one, but IMO, one would have to be an anorexic witch doing a tail-stand on a broom to hide in the shadow of A-pillar and C-pillar. Even motorbikes and bicycles are visible in those areas on my mini - and that car has really fat pillars.
Still, be vigilant and don't take anything for granted. Look twice.
... yes, he can.. and has. And we're still paying the check for Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, WWII, WWI... we're paying for our forebears' wars.
Basically, we're always at war.
I trust my life to automated landing systems every time I fly in an airliner. This is decades-old tech now.
I'm all for a self-driving, car, really. And, for the record, I am a petrosexual, the scream of a v-12 or a wankel rotary is the best song there is. Sings like Sinatra, drinks like Deano!
The sad reality is that most drivers are ill-equipped to drive. Let them be shuttled around in their little autodriving cocoons.
What I would like is a hybrid system -- I will take full control and responsibility while the road is open, winding and plain old fun, but I will let Otto have it when the road is grid-like and traffic snail-like.
Best of both worlds! This isn't about retaining control, it's about enjoying the drive, a concept non-petrosexuals cannot and will not understand. Driving can be fun! That's why little underpowered sports cars are made! That's why little overpowered sports cars are made! Sadly, most people cannot even begin to comprehend the joys of driving.
As for driver aids, I'm all for it. Driver aids will help all, including myself. I will admit to nearly departing my lane while gawking at an interesting car to my left. I will admit being caught off-guard and braking at the very last moment. I will admit to starting a lane change without spending two seconds to look in the mirror to see if there's someone in my mirrors * Shit happens. Most crashes are pilot error, both up there, and down here!
* I firmly believe there is no such thing as blind spots, not when the seat and mirrors are properly set up. This is non-negotiable, it is trigonometry. A properly set-up car has no blind spots. But that won't help if the driver doesn't look in the goddamned mirrors in the first place. That's why I begrudgingly welcome driver aids.
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!!"
That's one thing Reagan was so good at -- inspiring, leading, setting tone.
How far things have de-evolved since his presidency. I think the 80's is the point where the downward trajectory of the USA in general started to get steeper. Billary sent it nearly vertically down, and it's been like that ever since. It just took almost 20 years for his (Billary's) bad policy and real-estate shenanigans to fully manifest.
It's going to take twice that long to fix. If it can even be fixed.
We need a leader again. Someone who can instill confidence.
This is such a catch-22. That ineffective Congress is the back-check against nutjob presidents, yet it's also the stone around our collective necks.
This must be what a two-screw ship driven by a nutter feels like.. port engine full ahead, starboard full astern. Lots of foam, no motion.
You honestly believe that Trump is going to protect American jobs?
Oh hell no. I'm surprised he isn't having them made in Vietnam or China or India.
No. The question in my mind is simple: Vote for an insider who's lived in the political machine for decades -- wife of a two-term president -- or vote for the crazy outsider who spouts racism, intolerance and a populist message which happens to resonate with a lot of people who perceive the current situation to be the fault of everyone in Government.
Trump's is a powerful message, unfortunately it brings to mind similar vitriol spouted in the early third of the last century by someone who thought like that, spoke like that, and obtained power and carried out his narrow vision.
The difference between then and now, there and here, is our system of government. If you think Obama got cock-blocked at every turn, should Trump win, they'll do the same to him. They'll do the same to Billary, too.
So in a sense, our crazy-ass, broken political machine may well end up saving our sorry asses from our own misguided decisions.
After all.... the top gets rotated to present the illusion of change. Nothing really does change. The president can set tone, inspire and lead (or fail utterly to do it).. but the president cannot simply dictate "build a wall" or "throw 'em all out."
You're saying that outright racism, sexism, and inciting violence is OK because you bought some computer gizmo made in Mexico? Sorry, but you'll have to bring that conversation over to Infowars or somewhere where there are more of your people hanging out.
How much of that is bluster and bullshit to get votes? Part of Trump's appeal is indeed that brash, demented attitude. He's going after the people that have lost jobs, people who perceive the problem is "them". Whomever "them" may be. Those different than us.
If you think about it, what trump is doing is no different than what Nancy Reagan did to get the extreme religious right-wingnut support to get Reagan elected twice. Yeah. Before her, the GOP wasn't the right-wingnut-dominated quagmire it is now.
As for infowars.. sorry, I've seen that site and I just boggle at what people will think and believe. I've worked with loons that believe that stuff. Illuminati, huge conspiracies, etc. The truth is much more mundane -- do unto others before they do unto you. It's all about the cash, baby.
That's right. Tell us all how superior you are. Tell us how we're stupid, or racist.
It will only make it more sweet when you're crying your fucking eyes out over President Trump.
Superior? If I were "superior" I wouldn't live with the Sword of Damocles over my head. Will I have a job next year?
You really think Billary is for "Make America Whole Again?" -- that's the slogan she's using as of this morning.
If you believe that, then i have a magnificent bridge I'd like to sell you, in Brooklyn.
She's as old-school nasty fuck-you-in-the-ass-with-no-reacharound as her husband was, as Trump is, as all of these motherfuckers are.
I'd still like to see a rank outsider vs. one who has been in the political machine for decades. Maybe a political newb at the helm will do better than an "experienced" helmsman/woman.
Besides, this is all theater. FIRE THE FUCKING CONGRESS AND SENATE. That's where the real cancer is. Rotating the top every 4 or 8 years is just to present the illusion of change.
Fuck you. You're an asshole.
Such eloquence. I'm speechless at the depths of your thoughts on the subject.
The 90KVA UPS we bought, from an American name? Hecho en Mexico. The 12-ton chiller from the same name? Hecho en Mexico. Godddamn it, those USED to be built here before NAFTA!
So you'd rather see Billary -- whose strong support of NAFTA helped send jobs out of the USA in droves -- at the helm?
You'd rather see her -- and her strong support -- for Mass Incarceration for minor petty offenses? She strongly supported that -- and now her hubby is openly admitting it was a mistake. You'd want to see Billary try something similar?
I remember all that. Do you?
I'd rather see Trump in the office than Billary. He may seem crazy, but I get the impression he'd snap to moderate fairly easily, with the right cabinet and coaching.
Am I also worthy of a Fuck You? C'mon, let's hear it! Show us the depths of your insightful thoughts!
It's more of a "fuck you, I've got mine" mentality rather than a serious problem solving mindset.
On the other hand, many people are fed up with rampant freeloading and sucking at the Govt's teat and what many see as runaway Federal government getting in their shit.
And by the by, the Democrats also have a long history of helping the big rich corporations get bigger and richer. That's not the exclusive domain of the Republicans. Both sides do this. Some make more noise about it, to attract votes.
Why? Because business has so much more money than us, their influence is disproportionate to their numbers. It's not For the People, it's For the People's Masters.
Bottom line, the whole thing is broken and needs to be rebuilt from the keel up. First the bottom, then work upwards till you reach the top. This time make it so the bigger you are (as a corporation) the less influence you have, as compared to John Q. Public. Give The People the most influence.
None, I hear all the voices, all the time as I twitch merrily down the road! Whhhoooeeeee!
I think it's plain, now.. no one should have any secrets. Not you, not me, not your lover, not my friend, not the government nor industry nor banking nor religion.
We should be able to know every thought each and every one of us have, as soon as we have it. Something like a mandatory cleartext Facetwat for the massess. Something as communistic as a Borg collective. Ooh wouldn't that rankle the US Government!
Heh.
There's no way in hell a secret-less society could even begin to function.