riiiiiiiiight, what Orwellian utopian society are you living in? 4/5 of those ISPs are the media companies that also make up the MPAA or have incredibly vested interests in them. The ISP can pass the cost (re: losses) off onto customers and to the media company filing the claim.
Here's the problem, who taught her to cry in the first place? Did you sit down with her and have a great downpour to show her what crying is and how it works? Of course not. Crying is instinctual and used as a response to high stress situations of pain, anger, rage, desperation etc. She did not have to cry because you responded quickly enough to preempt it, however, had you waited it out and not responded, at some point she would have began crying depending on the attention she needed. My daughter didn't cry all the time either, but she did cry when she needed attention and we did not respond quickly enough.
The point is, making a noise, pointing, or otherwise drawing some form of attention to either a concrete or abstract entity can be taught but is innate in numerous species of animal and insects. The condition of gaining a response to these acts is what is learned. If i point at dog, I am drawing attention to it, if I point at dog and my "parent" says the word "Dog" that then becomes the learned response.
Yes but in essence, we as humans are "programmed" do do exactly the same. Our parents will point at pictures, objects, people etc and make sounds which are then converted by our brains into words that label the image, object, person etc.
oh my god, all people are helpless little flowers. We have to do it FOR THE CHILDREN...
Give me a fucking break. If having your ass and breasts rated on facebook is horrible for the girls getting 1's and 2's, how about the girls getting 10's? I mean shit, you might as well go arrest Mark Z as well as the people at http://hotornot.com/.
It would do nothing. Not all of the bribes that go out are monetary in the sense of an exchange of funds. Promises to select x person for abc company's board after their time in office, appointments within the corporation for friends and relatives, even just calling up the right people to help pave the way for your dipshit son to get into Harvard/Yale/other ivy league drone factory will work.
I do actually think of it from their point of view. The problem is, even when I do, I realize it's the wrong way of looking at the overall issue and were I the head of a studio, would already have been making these changes to move my studio into the 21st century. Hell the most simple option, and one they have yet to take, is to just release the movie on netflix and/or on demand same day as theaters. Sure the monetary gains from theaters goes down, but it's already trending that way, however, you give the people that want to see your movie ever more compatible methods of doing so. Cater to your audience and not your wallet, you will make more money in the long run.
Sure, but the majority of movies I've seen recently were taking directly from screener DVD's not cams. So, no, they cant just relay on theaters to make the money. The entire theater system is just another middleman in a long series of middlemen before some bullshit new 3-d movie that you didn't want to see in 3-d gets to you.
For most of the US, moving out of country or even to another area just isn't feasible. Additionally, who is to say that the new area doesn't have the same ISP's or that you are breaking your contract with your ISP and get an early termination fee.
The simple fact is, we should not be tolerating this behavior from ISPs. If your utility providers sent you a letter stating that your power/water/gas will be throttled because you used more than some arbitrary allotment this month and you couldn't shower, heat your home, cook, wash clothes etc till your next billing cycle, you would be outraged and the shit would get changed fast.
Eliminate caps entirely. Bill me based on usage just like my other utilities, but make it reasonable, not $5 per MB used. I have a decent setup, I can track bandwidth use on my local network and divvy up the bill between my roommates just fine.
Why should I be forced to get dressed, drive 20 mins to a half decent theater, pay $11.00 to sit in an uncomfortable arena with unwashed heathens and their screaming infant children that they couldn't afford a babysitter for when I can just grab it via torrent or stream or direct download before it even hits the theater and watch it in comfort, drinking beer WITH the ability to pause for lav breaks in my home theater?
Here is my idea for the new movie studio model:
Make the movie
Put movie on server
Make pay for watching website
Allow people to purchase credits to your website
On release, the movie is made available on the site
Make partial credit refunds available at increments in the film. (f.ex. I watch 5 mins and stop, i get 100% back, I watch 30 mins and stop, I get 50% credit back)
Charge a REASONABLE amount for credits or monthly memberships
This makes it so that now you do not have to wait to launch movies at varying times across the world in thousands of theaters. You do not have to "print" films either on actual film or even in the retarded digital formats/protection schemes used in digital theaters anymore, just charge a theater a slightly higher monthly price.
I can tell you right now that I would be far more willing to use this type of system than paying in the theaters, waiting 6 months or so for it to hit on demand or netflix, or "pirating" something from the studios.
until your ISP nails you for exceeding your bandwidth. I've gotten letters from Comcast for "exceeding" my bandwidth on an "unlimited" account by watching Hulu and netflix. I have/had my bandwidth throttled regularly for it and I really don't even watch that much. 2-3 shows a week, maybe 1-2 movies a week.
Honestly, raising tolls is the wrong way to go. In a great many areas, there are oftentimes many ways of avoiding them altogether. Thus, raising the toll will just increase the number of people avoiding it. Unless you put a toll on every road, in which your traffic situation would be...nightmarish to say the least.
Not when you live in places like Atlanta, where the mass transit system is so fucked, you can't get where you need to go on time and for most of the metro area, you can't even get mass transit. Let's lay it out for you like this.
Atlanta has 1 large mass transit system called Marta. Marta operates above and underground rail systems. Here is the map. That nice grey oval surrounding the system is I285 aka the perimeter. Now, you would think that this system would cover the areas. It doesn't.
To the north, Cobb county denied MARTA the ability to transport people into/out of the county and Cobb introduced CCT, a bus system that runs from a few places in Cobb, most very inconvenient, to only 2 places on the MARTA line. CCT runs only Monday through saturday and stops at 10pm ish. Does not operate on Sunday.
To the east, you have Dekalb and Gwinette counties. Dekalb has a hell of alot of MARTA traffic, While Gwinette, the largest county in the metro area, did the exact same thing that Cobb county did, except for 2 things: Fewer buses, and MORE inconvenient bussing areas.
To the south, you have Clayton and Henry counties. Guess what, they did the EXACT same as Gwinette and Cobb.
Where I live, only a few miles outside of the perimeter, there is no public transportation. None. To even use the system, I have to drive from my house to inside the perimeter, park at a station and then ride to 5-Points which is the hub station. Then catch whatever train I need to that will take me as close as I can get to my destination, then catch a bus or hoof it to where I need to go. This sounds all well and good, except that for me to get from the closest train station to me is roughly a 20 min drive, then between waiting on the train to show up, ride to 5 points, swap trains and ride north, it can take upwards of 2+ hours.
When I lived in south Fulton, in order to be at work at 7am, I had to catch a 4:45am bus, take an hour ride to the station, then 40 odd mins to get to downtown. VS a 15-20 min drive 30, if there was traffic.
So saying it's a luxury for a place like NYC where I have lived in the past, sure. No car needed in most places, and cabs are everywhere. But in other places, you are completely fucked without a car.
Not true, in Georgia, you have to be insured in order to get a license. Even if you do not own a vehicle. Or be sponsored by someone who does, which only works for people under the age of 18 iirc.
On quite a few newer vehicles it can be read automatically. Hell my car is 7 years old and when I take it in for my emissions test every year, they read it automatically. You don't have to rely on the vehicle owner's word for the numbers, you could quite simply have the tax agent LOOK at the odometer when they are doing the tag paperwork.
And I thought my view of public transit was skewed. I hate our transit system in Atlanta, but I have also ridden public transit in Chicago, Chattanooga, New York, LA, San Francisco, and numerous other places. The only times I have ever been leery of riding the bus is when it went into extremely low income areas. Even then, being ON the bus wasn't an issue, the getting off it in those areas was. I rode MARTA for years, both buses and trains into and out of high crime areas and I can count on one hand the amount of incidents I have seen. Usually involving someone drunk or some stupid kids getting into a fight and that's pretty much it. MARTA has it's own funded police and they do a pretty decent job of making sure you are relatively safe when riding the system.
Additionally, I cannot fathom why people are so hinged on public transportation having to be above ground. The only real places that need to be above ground for trains is the stations. For buses, its the streets as normal.
actually they are to ensure that the goods the truck is carrying are the correct goods and not contraband, as well as ensure that those trucks meet proper weight regulations when crossing into another state. Taxes paid are to the state from the driver's company.
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riiiiiiiiight, what Orwellian utopian society are you living in? 4/5 of those ISPs are the media companies that also make up the MPAA or have incredibly vested interests in them. The ISP can pass the cost (re: losses) off onto customers and to the media company filing the claim.
Of course you realize that even though YOU do not vote for the morons, they may get elected anyhow and will STILL be representing you...
Here's the problem, who taught her to cry in the first place? Did you sit down with her and have a great downpour to show her what crying is and how it works? Of course not. Crying is instinctual and used as a response to high stress situations of pain, anger, rage, desperation etc. She did not have to cry because you responded quickly enough to preempt it, however, had you waited it out and not responded, at some point she would have began crying depending on the attention she needed. My daughter didn't cry all the time either, but she did cry when she needed attention and we did not respond quickly enough.
The point is, making a noise, pointing, or otherwise drawing some form of attention to either a concrete or abstract entity can be taught but is innate in numerous species of animal and insects. The condition of gaining a response to these acts is what is learned. If i point at dog, I am drawing attention to it, if I point at dog and my "parent" says the word "Dog" that then becomes the learned response.
Which is another way of them pointing to themselves. Either way, it's a method for drawing attention to a specific object, place, or thing.
Yes but in essence, we as humans are "programmed" do do exactly the same. Our parents will point at pictures, objects, people etc and make sounds which are then converted by our brains into words that label the image, object, person etc.
oh my god, all people are helpless little flowers. We have to do it FOR THE CHILDREN...
Give me a fucking break. If having your ass and breasts rated on facebook is horrible for the girls getting 1's and 2's, how about the girls getting 10's? I mean shit, you might as well go arrest Mark Z as well as the people at http://hotornot.com/.
It would do nothing. Not all of the bribes that go out are monetary in the sense of an exchange of funds. Promises to select x person for abc company's board after their time in office, appointments within the corporation for friends and relatives, even just calling up the right people to help pave the way for your dipshit son to get into Harvard/Yale/other ivy league drone factory will work.
I do actually think of it from their point of view. The problem is, even when I do, I realize it's the wrong way of looking at the overall issue and were I the head of a studio, would already have been making these changes to move my studio into the 21st century. Hell the most simple option, and one they have yet to take, is to just release the movie on netflix and/or on demand same day as theaters. Sure the monetary gains from theaters goes down, but it's already trending that way, however, you give the people that want to see your movie ever more compatible methods of doing so. Cater to your audience and not your wallet, you will make more money in the long run.
Sure, but the majority of movies I've seen recently were taking directly from screener DVD's not cams. So, no, they cant just relay on theaters to make the money. The entire theater system is just another middleman in a long series of middlemen before some bullshit new 3-d movie that you didn't want to see in 3-d gets to you.
For most of the US, moving out of country or even to another area just isn't feasible. Additionally, who is to say that the new area doesn't have the same ISP's or that you are breaking your contract with your ISP and get an early termination fee.
The simple fact is, we should not be tolerating this behavior from ISPs. If your utility providers sent you a letter stating that your power/water/gas will be throttled because you used more than some arbitrary allotment this month and you couldn't shower, heat your home, cook, wash clothes etc till your next billing cycle, you would be outraged and the shit would get changed fast.
Eliminate caps entirely. Bill me based on usage just like my other utilities, but make it reasonable, not $5 per MB used. I have a decent setup, I can track bandwidth use on my local network and divvy up the bill between my roommates just fine.
Here is my idea for the new movie studio model:
This makes it so that now you do not have to wait to launch movies at varying times across the world in thousands of theaters. You do not have to "print" films either on actual film or even in the retarded digital formats/protection schemes used in digital theaters anymore, just charge a theater a slightly higher monthly price.
I can tell you right now that I would be far more willing to use this type of system than paying in the theaters, waiting 6 months or so for it to hit on demand or netflix, or "pirating" something from the studios.
until your ISP nails you for exceeding your bandwidth. I've gotten letters from Comcast for "exceeding" my bandwidth on an "unlimited" account by watching Hulu and netflix. I have/had my bandwidth throttled regularly for it and I really don't even watch that much. 2-3 shows a week, maybe 1-2 movies a week.
and as one, the world cried out just a single word... RICO.
I can't wait till a few Governors, Congressmen, Senators, Justices get hit because their kids downloaded content.
depending on the area, it may work. In alot of areas, its going to create far more congestion. Places like Atlanta just couldn't handle it.
Laura Lane gave the BJ iirc. Halle just watched excitedly.
Honestly, raising tolls is the wrong way to go. In a great many areas, there are oftentimes many ways of avoiding them altogether. Thus, raising the toll will just increase the number of people avoiding it. Unless you put a toll on every road, in which your traffic situation would be...nightmarish to say the least.
The difference is, you could avoid tollways using surface streets. You can't avoid a direct tax on your mileage.
and unfortunately driving is a luxury
Not when you live in places like Atlanta, where the mass transit system is so fucked, you can't get where you need to go on time and for most of the metro area, you can't even get mass transit. Let's lay it out for you like this.
Atlanta has 1 large mass transit system called Marta. Marta operates above and underground rail systems. Here is the map. That nice grey oval surrounding the system is I285 aka the perimeter. Now, you would think that this system would cover the areas. It doesn't.
Where I live, only a few miles outside of the perimeter, there is no public transportation. None. To even use the system, I have to drive from my house to inside the perimeter, park at a station and then ride to 5-Points which is the hub station. Then catch whatever train I need to that will take me as close as I can get to my destination, then catch a bus or hoof it to where I need to go. This sounds all well and good, except that for me to get from the closest train station to me is roughly a 20 min drive, then between waiting on the train to show up, ride to 5 points, swap trains and ride north, it can take upwards of 2+ hours.
When I lived in south Fulton, in order to be at work at 7am, I had to catch a 4:45am bus, take an hour ride to the station, then 40 odd mins to get to downtown. VS a 15-20 min drive 30, if there was traffic.
So saying it's a luxury for a place like NYC where I have lived in the past, sure. No car needed in most places, and cabs are everywhere. But in other places, you are completely fucked without a car.
Not true, in Georgia, you have to be insured in order to get a license. Even if you do not own a vehicle. Or be sponsored by someone who does, which only works for people under the age of 18 iirc.
On quite a few newer vehicles it can be read automatically. Hell my car is 7 years old and when I take it in for my emissions test every year, they read it automatically. You don't have to rely on the vehicle owner's word for the numbers, you could quite simply have the tax agent LOOK at the odometer when they are doing the tag paperwork.
Wouldn't matter. A federal tax would be a flat rate based on mileage driven regardless of the places where it was driven.
And I thought my view of public transit was skewed. I hate our transit system in Atlanta, but I have also ridden public transit in Chicago, Chattanooga, New York, LA, San Francisco, and numerous other places. The only times I have ever been leery of riding the bus is when it went into extremely low income areas. Even then, being ON the bus wasn't an issue, the getting off it in those areas was. I rode MARTA for years, both buses and trains into and out of high crime areas and I can count on one hand the amount of incidents I have seen. Usually involving someone drunk or some stupid kids getting into a fight and that's pretty much it. MARTA has it's own funded police and they do a pretty decent job of making sure you are relatively safe when riding the system.
Additionally, I cannot fathom why people are so hinged on public transportation having to be above ground. The only real places that need to be above ground for trains is the stations. For buses, its the streets as normal.
actually they are to ensure that the goods the truck is carrying are the correct goods and not contraband, as well as ensure that those trucks meet proper weight regulations when crossing into another state. Taxes paid are to the state from the driver's company.
underground rail system. No condemnation needed. Above ground rail system, only need enough land for support pylons.