You saw a movie in the theater, or you didn't see it at all. Further on, you saw it in the theater, or you waited a few years for it to come out on VHS for rental. These days, you see it in the theater, or wait for it to hit Netflix in a matter of months. I'd rather wait a few months and view it in the comfort of my own home, than to go sit with a bunch of ill-mannered heathens, watch 20 minutes of previews, and then shield my eyes from the glow of a hundred cell phones...
I was very surprised that theaters stayed in business after home video became commonplace. I think their business actually grew; I suppose people like to go out.
As for the ill-mannered heathens, I wait until a movie has been out for 2+ weeks, then go on an off night. I occasionally get surprised (~100 people at Sherlock last night), but usually there are only 5-10 people present, no cut-ups or screaming babies.
I agree with every part of this, but the problem is the same as in every area of commerce today: the execs make the decisions and the execs are some of the most arrogant and boneheaded people out there. There is no meritocracy there and the Peter principle is the guiding force.
They will continue to act on their beliefs and not listen to the real people that matter, the people paying the money, until it is too late.
I suspect instead that it's marketing, accounting, and legal that make all the decisions that define a movie.
We have consistently discovered that the IPCC's reports on GW are too conservative. Everything is happening faster than the "alarmists" have been predicting.
FYI:
In fact there are no predictions by IPCC at all. And there never have been. The IPCC instead proffers “what if” projections of future climate that correspond to certain emissions scenarios. There are a number of assumptions that go into these emissions scenarios.
None of the models used by IPCC are initialized to the observed state and none of the climate states in the models correspond even remotely to the current observed climate.
Must not criticize this Nobel Peace Price winner, it would make quite a lot of people feel very stupid when they first treat him as the next messiah ("Jesus was also a community organizer", remember?) and then critizise him.
Yeah, 'cause nobody ever criticizes Obama.
Liberals detest him almost as much as right-wing radio talkshow hosts do.
I won't be voting for him, because his silence is effectively an endorsement of the previous administration's war crimes.
Useless fact: One of those Concerned Christians was the very first girl I kissed, way back in kindergarten, Anne Marie Biondo. I guess nobody expects their first crush to join a cult that tries to end the world...
Far as I can tell, there's no subsequent compelling meme AFTER this when (not if!) we all survive with the same dullness as Y2K. Sux o be a new age writer then!!
Don't be foolish; something dreadful is going to happen in 2013. Just subtract 879 and turn the result up-side down.
879 is upsidedownish for "six late", probably a clue about the nature of the mishap. If you add the digits of 2013, or of 879 (recursively), you get six.
Or maybe it's "sixel ate" - it doesn't pay to be too specific about your numerology.
Don't say you haven't been warned. Send money fast.
Now it turns out that insects, and evolution, are smarter than we thought
Did they really just write that, really?. While we're at our peak of evolutionary misconceptions, why not sign it all away to Intelligent Design and say god wanted a better insect because it was christmas and Jebus didn't have any friends to play with.
God is only inordinately fond of beetles, not insects in general.
Hm, I thought "science" was about provable results from repeatable experiments, not making guesses about things that supposedly happened millions of years ago.
Nope. Science is about making inferences about nature from whatever evidence we can find or afford to produce.
Well, considering that humans didn't arrive in South America until around 15,000 years ago
So many anomalous finds have turned up over the past 20 years that whatever-ologists are abandoning that traditional view. IIRC, they're now saying maybe as much as 25,000 YBP.
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You saw a movie in the theater, or you didn't see it at all. Further on, you saw it in the theater, or you waited a few years for it to come out on VHS for rental. These days, you see it in the theater, or wait for it to hit Netflix in a matter of months. I'd rather wait a few months and view it in the comfort of my own home, than to go sit with a bunch of ill-mannered heathens, watch 20 minutes of previews, and then shield my eyes from the glow of a hundred cell phones...
I was very surprised that theaters stayed in business after home video became commonplace. I think their business actually grew; I suppose people like to go out.
As for the ill-mannered heathens, I wait until a movie has been out for 2+ weeks, then go on an off night. I occasionally get surprised (~100 people at Sherlock last night), but usually there are only 5-10 people present, no cut-ups or screaming babies.
I agree with every part of this, but the problem is the same as in every area of commerce today: the execs make the decisions and the execs are some of the most arrogant and boneheaded people out there. There is no meritocracy there and the Peter principle is the guiding force.
They will continue to act on their beliefs and not listen to the real people that matter, the people paying the money, until it is too late.
I suspect instead that it's marketing, accounting, and legal that make all the decisions that define a movie.
We have consistently discovered that the IPCC's reports on GW are too conservative. Everything is happening faster than the "alarmists" have been predicting.
FYI:
In fact there are no predictions by IPCC at all. And there never have been. The IPCC instead proffers “what if” projections of future climate that correspond to certain emissions scenarios. There are a number of assumptions that go into these emissions scenarios.
None of the models used by IPCC are initialized to the observed state and none of the climate states in the models correspond even remotely to the current observed climate.
- Kevin Trenberth, IPCC lead author 2001 and 2007
http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2007/06/predictions_of_climate.html
OK, We have consistently discovered that the IPCC's projections on GW are too conservative. My bad.
So, basically... There is no evidence the range has shifted at all.
The article I read showed maps, 'then' and 'now'.
SOPA is just the latest "Change" that we got from Obama.
Doesn't anybody find it strange that There are no protests against Obama's wars?
Must not criticize this Nobel Peace Price winner, it would make quite a lot of people feel very stupid when they first treat him as the next messiah ("Jesus was also a community organizer", remember?) and then critizise him.
Yeah, 'cause nobody ever criticizes Obama.
Liberals detest him almost as much as right-wing radio talkshow hosts do.
I won't be voting for him, because his silence is effectively an endorsement of the previous administration's war crimes.
It's like walking in on your best friend banging your wife, he looks up and says, "sorry, dude. I'm almost finished." then continues until done.
In an old shaggy-dog joke, King Arthur goes on a long rant at the queen for her lack of fidelity, and then says:
"And as for you, Sir Lancelot, the least you could do is stop while I'm talking."
Where are those global warming naysayers now, huh?
Don't worry, they won't be going anywhere.
GoDaddy.com originally supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) but quickly recanted its position when the call of a boycott circulated.
Nothing like money-at-stake to reveal whether someone has a spine.
Fall for your own troll, did you?
It's a bit telling that the entire website seems geared towards selling the magazine issue.
Surely you didn't think we could have an end of the world without someone trying to make a buck off it.
Why would we want to restart humanity?
I think his interest is in the effort, not the result.
Thanks for the reminder - I always forget to stock up on clothes hangars before an apocalypse.
Then they marched up to a well trained army of Turks and were butchered.
Some problems have a way of solving themselves.
Not "impression", rather certainty.
That your reality is the subset of reality specified by Naturalism, doesn't make it what reality actually is.
Sigh... nothing's more pathetic than a cult member trying to posture as an intellectual.
Useless fact: One of those Concerned Christians was the very first girl I kissed, way back in kindergarten, Anne Marie Biondo. I guess nobody expects their first crush to join a cult that tries to end the world...
Maybe your kiss pushed her over the edge.
First kisses can be really awkward, you know.
Far as I can tell, there's no subsequent compelling meme AFTER this when (not if!) we all survive with the same dullness as Y2K. Sux o be a new age writer then!!
Don't be foolish; something dreadful is going to happen in 2013. Just subtract 879 and turn the result up-side down.
879 is upsidedownish for "six late", probably a clue about the nature of the mishap. If you add the digits of 2013, or of 879 (recursively), you get six.
Or maybe it's "sixel ate" - it doesn't pay to be too specific about your numerology.
Don't say you haven't been warned. Send money fast.
Music with pan pipes? Are you serious?
That's so that, rather than regretting the end of the world, he'll be eager for it.
lol I just found out a few days ago that they are banned in Australia due to their benzene content :)
That's too bad. Otherwise Mad Max could squeeze them for fuel after the apocalypse.
Yeah, I know. Mexico is a heavily Catholic country. You can't walk two blocks without bumping into a priest.
They hang out at Starbucks?
Yeah, the Chicxulub crater is an interesting discovery. But what does it have to do with the Mayan calendar stuff?
The Maya lived in the Yucatan. Their miners or diviners may have discovered something troubling.
Were there dinosaurs around before the impact who had a calendar whose low-order digits went to zero on the Big Day?
Probably they ignored the warnings that God hates Phagosaurs, and got punished for their tolerance.
Now it turns out that insects, and evolution, are smarter than we thought
Did they really just write that, really?. While we're at our peak of evolutionary misconceptions, why not sign it all away to Intelligent Design and say god wanted a better insect because it was christmas and Jebus didn't have any friends to play with.
God is only inordinately fond of beetles, not insects in general.
Is this a surprise, that nature can route around humans?
Insects treat pesticide as damage, and route around it?
Like Walmart shoppers.
We wanted a car/computer analogy, you insensitive clod!
Hm, I thought "science" was about provable results from repeatable experiments, not making guesses about things that supposedly happened millions of years ago.
Nope. Science is about making inferences about nature from whatever evidence we can find or afford to produce.
Well, considering that humans didn't arrive in South America until around 15,000 years ago
So many anomalous finds have turned up over the past 20 years that whatever-ologists are abandoning that traditional view. IIRC, they're now saying maybe as much as 25,000 YBP.