And what prevents Disney from creating more Mickey Mouse cartoons is that they have no incentive to be creative anymore since no one alive today at Disney was involved in those early cartoons, no one today had to do anything particularly creative to succeed at Disney.
Consider that Disney's only films of note for the last 20 years have been Pixar movies, and that virtually every other thing they've done has been completely forgettable? Of course the irony is Disney's major successes after Mickey Mouse and crew were almost all public domain fairy tales. No, there is not a lot of creativity going on at Disney anymore. This is what happens when you can milk a dead teat.
I won't go into the eventual disappearance of Mickey Mouse from popular culture as the generations that grew up with a living creator of the art around pass away. The drivel that Disney puts out now as original material, aside from the Pixar stuff, is eminently forgettable. They're digging their own grave as an organization by creating a scenario where they can perpetually rest on their laurels.
Because the media and GOP only refer to Paul's supporters with loaded words like "army"
I prefer "Jackbooted thug" myself. But that's only because I saw how Rand Paul's staff comported themselves here in Kentucky. Like jackbooted thugs. Like son, like father I assume.
Ugh. The LOTR cartoon by Ralph Bashki was a complete abomination. He didn't animate that movie. He had actors play the scenes and then he traced over their images. Some of the laziest, sloppiest work I've ever seen from an artist. Bashki was also responsible for the abortion that was Cool World which I think was the last time anyone bothered giving that idiot a budget.
I would say that Bashki probably set the LOTR franchise back a couple of decades in popularity with just how horrible of a movie it was. There's a reason it bombed -- it was nothing but a vanity project anyway. He had zero respect for the material he was handling.
Why a license is necessary, or why it is an open-source guitar. The basic functionality of a guitar is well beyond reach of any patents or copyrights. And I read your website -- cheap guitars can be had for under $100 these days that are very good for a beginner. Basses are a little more but still, I can have a copy of Jaco Pastorius' bass for $275.
I suppose there is some larger scheme here that I am missing. I know I couldn't play a guitar that looked like that. I would spend more time disentangling it from my clothes and cables than playing it!
And he doesn't have any quotes from companies that are doing what he claims.
I work for a largish healthcare firm. $6b fortune 500 company. We are doing it. The magic is Citrix, which insulates you from your end user's environment. We aren't yet to bring your own laptop except for a few folks in IT, but I see it coming soon.
Most amazing myth I ever heard about the US is that of the "working poor". People who have a regular job or even two AND still can't keep themselves fed and housed
Yeah, it happens all the time here. It's the consequence of 30 years of Reagan's supply-side nonsense. Congress only raises the minimum wage every decade or so, while our cost of living goes up like a rocket.
It is like plate sized hamburgers
I went to Mexico on honeymoon with my 2nd wife. We went to a cute little restaurant in a mall in Cancun, and I ordered fajitas. I was startled to see how tiny the tortillas were, and I actually took pictures to prove it.
There are absolutely plate-sized hamburgers here. I usually eat half and take the rest home for later.
I assume you are being funny. But in case you are not, yes it is all fucking real.
Harry Reid (D) sponsored President Obama's Job bill in the Senate, then voted AGAINST it.
Reid's vote was procedural so that it could be voted on again. You really need to invest time in understanding how our legislative bodies work before letting right-wing idiots (who don't) get you into a frothy dudgeon about them.
wtf has the doomsday clock got to do with climate change?
Because all intelligent adults recognize it as a threat to the continued existence of our civilization, that's why. Since it is in fact already happening and already damaging large sections of our ecosphere, and may run away at some point if unchecked and re-map our entire climate.
But, hey just keep listening to that fat retard Rush Limbaugh and hoping it will go away.
The saddest part about the whole climate debate is that neither side behaves rationally anymore
There is no "other side" to the climate debate. There is a widely accepted set of facts, and there are professional doubters employed by the industries who stand to lose money if they are required to behave with even a smidgeon of responsibility towards the communities they are polluting and damaging with their pollutants.
There is no fucking "other side" to this debate. Climate change IS NOW HAPPENING. There is no longer any reason to dispute this subject because the signs are obvious. I grew up in Colorado in the 1970's and 1980's. When I go back there now, it is totally fucking unambiguous to me that on a global scale the temperature is rising. Look up from your feet at some previously snow-capped mountains -- it's not that damn hard.
Large-scale glaciers calving off into icebergs. The polar sea is now navigable for greater and greater periods of the year. If anything the prognostications of climate scientists have been overwhelmingly vindicated well ahead of schedule.
If you think there is another "side" to this, I would like you to produce the science that they are doing. Scientific papers, evidence -- ANY DAMN THING that contradicts the current accepted model.
I submit you will find exactly DICK in that regard. Except for the fictional natterings of Bjorn Lomborg (not a climate scientist in any way shape or form) you are not going to find much.
But if you do, bring it, mofo. Bring it the fuck on.
These guys are dirty and they have been caught with their pants down.
No, they aren't, and no, they haven't.
And no, I'm not wasting my time with this because like most intelligent adults I already understand that having doubts is what people who are right do. Having doubts is scientifically valid. It's how science gets done, not religion.
Having no doubts and exuding false confidence is what people who are wrong do all the time.
In other words, shove those fucking emails up your ass. They do not mean what you desperately wish they mean. Global warming is a done discussion. Governments and corporations are already moving to adapt -- except for a few parasites like the Koch brothers (who are funding much of the anti-science "research" that you are lapping up so eagerly), who simply need to be pried off our nation's neck and burned like the blood-ticks that they are.
I was taught in a communications course that over 90% of the "information" in a conversation is transmitted visually. We read each others' faces and body language.
My hobby is leading a rock band. I have noticed that people really don't hear as much of what we're doing as we think we are -- they are watching how we act on stage. This became apparent when we did a multi-band show one time and though the other bands were musically just as good as we were, we got a rousing ovation because my guitarist and I were jumping around on stage and cracking jokes. And the observations from the audience overwhelmingly confirmed -- it was how we behaved that sold our performance. We were good, we knew it, and we showed it.
So when you remove that element, that body language that will tell most people if you actually buy the bullshit you're selling, it frees you to sell far more bullshit.
Sociopaths and social manipulators don't even understand that what they're doing is wrong which is why one of the easiest ways to identify those folks is probably by their supernally smooth lying skills. Think about how charismatic TV preachers are, and think about how almost universally these folks turn out to be con-artists and frauds.
The fact is, the park is privately owned by entities who have taken tens of millions in public subsidies on the agreement that it is allowed to remain open to the public. As I stated several times, like many things the rich think they own, the public actually paid for it for them.
And I think if you want to get serious about "ownership," then I would say he who pays owns. That's us.
And from what I've read the Democrats aren't willing to cut anything unless taxes are raised to the point that nothing has to be raised
That's because the public overwhelmingly does not want them to do so. This is known as "listening to your constituents."
The GOP have listened to Grover Norquist, who is ONE constituent.
It kind of falls in nicely with the 1% vs. the rest of us issue that is pretty clearly established as our biggest political issue of this era.
The fact is that you cannot raise taxes high enough to eliminate the deficit.
Clinton did. In fact, the math and the facts overwhelmingly demonstrate that Bush's tax cuts on the rich are the primary structural driver of our deficit. The other being the wars that Bush dragged us into for no reason.
Entitlements will consume 100% of revenue eventually unless the are radically reformed.
This is also known as a lie. Social Security could be made solvent for another 75 years by simply raising the cap on taxes for those making more than 106k. Medicare can be made solvent by ending the ridiculous conditions imposed on it by Bush's part D abomination that the government cannot negotiate for lower drug prices.
The shame is that clearly the Democrats are not interested in any compromise because any entitlement reform, however badly needed for the good of the nation
. . . so you need to steal my Social Security benefits to pay off Bush's wars? To hell with that bullshit. I EARNED MY MOTHERFUCKING SOCIAL SECURITY. That money IS MINE. I am not giving it up so that some gold-plated CEO can have his second motherfucking yacht.
The shame is that the Republicans are listening to Grover Norquist and very obviously not hearing a single word the public has to say, which is, in a nutshell:
* The public opposes the supercommittee âoemaking hundreds of millions of dollars in spending cuts to Medicare and Medicare through increasing beneficiary costs,â 76-19. A majority, 52 percent, strongly opposes these cuts.
* The public supports the supercommittee âoeincreasing taxes on wealthy Americans and corporations,â 66-31. A majority, 52 percent, strongly support these tax increases.
Democracy may be inconvenient to your ideology, but we are the majority and you are not. If you have a smidgeon of respect for it (which by your previous posts I can tell, you really don't) you will accept that an deal with it.
But, if like many Republicans you actually do NOT respect Democracy, the great thing is you are still going to just have to gag on that thing, and fucking deal with it. I do not care. Your movement and their ridiculous opinions do not matter anymore in US politics. The truth of this will become clear to you next year when we the 99% take your unearned power and rip it right the fuck out of your hands.
How on earth do you say that it's racist to say something about a black person but not racist to say exactly the same thing about a white person.
The fact that you are looking for an excuse, any LAME excuse to justify your slurs against Obama means that it is you who has the issue here.
It would be very revealing if you were to decry the nasty, unnecessary invective. Instead, you look over at someone else and cry "but HE did it first!!!"
Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one else is doing it.
Those who hunt around (or "nut-pick") for behavior that's supposedly just as bad as what you're decrying . . . they're looking for an excuse to do what they're already going to do.
Just because someone calls poorly written signs "TEAbonics", does not mean these are from a TEA Party rally.
Uh, the overwhelming majority of the poorly-spelled (and very RACIST) signs that have enjoyed such hilarious prominence in the media are in fact signs from Tea Party rallies.
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. It's a fundamental inability to accept the facts. Your movement is composed of illiterate racist assholes. Deal with it.
Also the owners of the park have received tens of millions of dollars of public funds. It is effectively a public park. Like most things the rich think they own, we actually bought it for them.
$20.1 million in government subsidies, primarily since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, according to a new report by Good Jobs New York. Meanwhile, as previously reported, Brookfield itself received about $460,000 in subsidies for the building since Sept. 11.
So, it's privately owned in name only, in reality it is apparently subsidized by those bloodsucking, useless suckfly taxpayers.
Oh, did I call you a complete assshole yet? ASSHOLE!
and believe me, it's horrible job with brutal hours and inconceivable stress
We don't believe you and even if we did, we DO NOT FUCKING CARE.
Your social antipathy cuts both ways, pard. Go cry in a bag of money if you don't like your job, or alternatively shut the fuck up while you are still ahead.
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And what prevents Disney from creating more Mickey Mouse cartoons is that they have no incentive to be creative anymore since no one alive today at Disney was involved in those early cartoons, no one today had to do anything particularly creative to succeed at Disney.
Consider that Disney's only films of note for the last 20 years have been Pixar movies, and that virtually every other thing they've done has been completely forgettable? Of course the irony is Disney's major successes after Mickey Mouse and crew were almost all public domain fairy tales. No, there is not a lot of creativity going on at Disney anymore. This is what happens when you can milk a dead teat.
I won't go into the eventual disappearance of Mickey Mouse from popular culture as the generations that grew up with a living creator of the art around pass away. The drivel that Disney puts out now as original material, aside from the Pixar stuff, is eminently forgettable. They're digging their own grave as an organization by creating a scenario where they can perpetually rest on their laurels.
I prefer "Jackbooted thug" myself. But that's only because I saw how Rand Paul's staff comported themselves here in Kentucky. Like jackbooted thugs. Like son, like father I assume.
Ugh. The LOTR cartoon by Ralph Bashki was a complete abomination. He didn't animate that movie. He had actors play the scenes and then he traced over their images. Some of the laziest, sloppiest work I've ever seen from an artist. Bashki was also responsible for the abortion that was Cool World which I think was the last time anyone bothered giving that idiot a budget.
I would say that Bashki probably set the LOTR franchise back a couple of decades in popularity with just how horrible of a movie it was. There's a reason it bombed -- it was nothing but a vanity project anyway. He had zero respect for the material he was handling.
Why a license is necessary, or why it is an open-source guitar. The basic functionality of a guitar is well beyond reach of any patents or copyrights. And I read your website -- cheap guitars can be had for under $100 these days that are very good for a beginner. Basses are a little more but still, I can have a copy of Jaco Pastorius' bass for $275.
I suppose there is some larger scheme here that I am missing. I know I couldn't play a guitar that looked like that. I would spend more time disentangling it from my clothes and cables than playing it!
I work for a largish healthcare firm. $6b fortune 500 company. We are doing it. The magic is Citrix, which insulates you from your end user's environment. We aren't yet to bring your own laptop except for a few folks in IT, but I see it coming soon.
Just like we shouldn't let banks gamble with our money on the stock market . . . and for just as good a reason!
Yeah, it happens all the time here. It's the consequence of 30 years of Reagan's supply-side nonsense. Congress only raises the minimum wage every decade or so, while our cost of living goes up like a rocket.
I went to Mexico on honeymoon with my 2nd wife. We went to a cute little restaurant in a mall in Cancun, and I ordered fajitas. I was startled to see how tiny the tortillas were, and I actually took pictures to prove it.
There are absolutely plate-sized hamburgers here. I usually eat half and take the rest home for later.
I assume you are being funny. But in case you are not, yes it is all fucking real.
Reid's vote was procedural so that it could be voted on again. You really need to invest time in understanding how our legislative bodies work before letting right-wing idiots (who don't) get you into a frothy dudgeon about them.
Because all intelligent adults recognize it as a threat to the continued existence of our civilization, that's why. Since it is in fact already happening and already damaging large sections of our ecosphere, and may run away at some point if unchecked and re-map our entire climate.
But, hey just keep listening to that fat retard Rush Limbaugh and hoping it will go away.
I just searched on my local YaCy install for tentacle hentai.
I somehow ended up on the front page of Daily Kos.
There is no "other side" to the climate debate. There is a widely accepted set of facts, and there are professional doubters employed by the industries who stand to lose money if they are required to behave with even a smidgeon of responsibility towards the communities they are polluting and damaging with their pollutants.
There is no fucking "other side" to this debate. Climate change IS NOW HAPPENING. There is no longer any reason to dispute this subject because the signs are obvious. I grew up in Colorado in the 1970's and 1980's. When I go back there now, it is totally fucking unambiguous to me that on a global scale the temperature is rising. Look up from your feet at some previously snow-capped mountains -- it's not that damn hard.
Large-scale glaciers calving off into icebergs. The polar sea is now navigable for greater and greater periods of the year. If anything the prognostications of climate scientists have been overwhelmingly vindicated well ahead of schedule.
If you think there is another "side" to this, I would like you to produce the science that they are doing. Scientific papers, evidence -- ANY DAMN THING that contradicts the current accepted model.
I submit you will find exactly DICK in that regard. Except for the fictional natterings of Bjorn Lomborg (not a climate scientist in any way shape or form) you are not going to find much.
But if you do, bring it, mofo. Bring it the fuck on.
No, they aren't, and no, they haven't.
And no, I'm not wasting my time with this because like most intelligent adults I already understand that having doubts is what people who are right do. Having doubts is scientifically valid. It's how science gets done, not religion.
Having no doubts and exuding false confidence is what people who are wrong do all the time.
In other words, shove those fucking emails up your ass. They do not mean what you desperately wish they mean. Global warming is a done discussion. Governments and corporations are already moving to adapt -- except for a few parasites like the Koch brothers (who are funding much of the anti-science "research" that you are lapping up so eagerly), who simply need to be pried off our nation's neck and burned like the blood-ticks that they are.
I was taught in a communications course that over 90% of the "information" in a conversation is transmitted visually. We read each others' faces and body language.
My hobby is leading a rock band. I have noticed that people really don't hear as much of what we're doing as we think we are -- they are watching how we act on stage. This became apparent when we did a multi-band show one time and though the other bands were musically just as good as we were, we got a rousing ovation because my guitarist and I were jumping around on stage and cracking jokes. And the observations from the audience overwhelmingly confirmed -- it was how we behaved that sold our performance. We were good, we knew it, and we showed it.
So when you remove that element, that body language that will tell most people if you actually buy the bullshit you're selling, it frees you to sell far more bullshit.
Sociopaths and social manipulators don't even understand that what they're doing is wrong which is why one of the easiest ways to identify those folks is probably by their supernally smooth lying skills. Think about how charismatic TV preachers are, and think about how almost universally these folks turn out to be con-artists and frauds.
The fact is, the park is privately owned by entities who have taken tens of millions in public subsidies on the agreement that it is allowed to remain open to the public. As I stated several times, like many things the rich think they own, the public actually paid for it for them.
And I think if you want to get serious about "ownership," then I would say he who pays owns. That's us.
That's because the public overwhelmingly does not want them to do so. This is known as "listening to your constituents."
The GOP have listened to Grover Norquist, who is ONE constituent.
It kind of falls in nicely with the 1% vs. the rest of us issue that is pretty clearly established as our biggest political issue of this era.
Clinton did. In fact, the math and the facts overwhelmingly demonstrate that Bush's tax cuts on the rich are the primary structural driver of our deficit. The other being the wars that Bush dragged us into for no reason.
This is also known as a lie. Social Security could be made solvent for another 75 years by simply raising the cap on taxes for those making more than 106k. Medicare can be made solvent by ending the ridiculous conditions imposed on it by Bush's part D abomination that the government cannot negotiate for lower drug prices.
. . . so you need to steal my Social Security benefits to pay off Bush's wars? To hell with that bullshit. I EARNED MY MOTHERFUCKING SOCIAL SECURITY. That money IS MINE. I am not giving it up so that some gold-plated CEO can have his second motherfucking yacht.
The shame is that the Republicans are listening to Grover Norquist and very obviously not hearing a single word the public has to say, which is, in a nutshell:
Democracy may be inconvenient to your ideology, but we are the majority and you are not. If you have a smidgeon of respect for it (which by your previous posts I can tell, you really don't) you will accept that an deal with it.
But, if like many Republicans you actually do NOT respect Democracy, the great thing is you are still going to just have to gag on that thing, and fucking deal with it. I do not care. Your movement and their ridiculous opinions do not matter anymore in US politics. The truth of this will become clear to you next year when we the 99% take your unearned power and rip it right the fuck out of your hands.
Better get used to that.
The fact that you are looking for an excuse, any LAME excuse to justify your slurs against Obama means that it is you who has the issue here.
It would be very revealing if you were to decry the nasty, unnecessary invective. Instead, you look over at someone else and cry "but HE did it first!!!"
Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one else is doing it.
Those who hunt around (or "nut-pick") for behavior that's supposedly just as bad as what you're decrying . . . they're looking for an excuse to do what they're already going to do.
In other words, you're pathetic.
Wow. You're also very immature, in addition to being completely misinformed about every aspect of what is going on in the world.
It must be nice to be you. Ignorance IS bliss.
Yes. I really do wish the former Confederate states would accept that they lost the Civil war and get the fuck over it.
But, they keep waving their racist flags and saying their racist things.
Hint: you are looking in the wrong direction on this issue. Try a mirror.
Uh, the overwhelming majority of the poorly-spelled (and very RACIST) signs that have enjoyed such hilarious prominence in the media are in fact signs from Tea Party rallies.
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. It's a fundamental inability to accept the facts. Your movement is composed of illiterate racist assholes. Deal with it.
Full of shit, full of shit, full of shit.
Also the owners of the park have received tens of millions of dollars of public funds. It is effectively a public park. Like most things the rich think they own, we actually bought it for them.
Like many things the wealthy of America clutch to their chests with greed, Zucotti Park is heavily subsidized by public monies, asshole.
So, it's privately owned in name only, in reality it is apparently subsidized by those bloodsucking, useless suckfly taxpayers.
Oh, did I call you a complete assshole yet? ASSHOLE!
Maybe because, just like you, most Americans are blissfully ignorant of the multitude of crimes Bush Junior committed.
Or, maybe just like you they have no respect for the rule of law.
You say this as if it is gospel, despite the fact that LESS money is going into public education than ever before.
It's almost as if you have an ideological axe to grind, and don't give a ripe shit about the facts.
We don't believe you and even if we did, we DO NOT FUCKING CARE.
Your social antipathy cuts both ways, pard. Go cry in a bag of money if you don't like your job, or alternatively shut the fuck up while you are still ahead.