":) Exactly!. Here comes the end of McDonalds/BurgerKing/KFC/..."
Make a Vegan drivethrough and I'll be glad to stop going to any of those. I'm a pretty adventurous cook at home, but in the working hours I don't have time to bother.
"if only people knew what happened to their favorite cow/hen from the time it was 'medically-pleasent put to sleep' in the 'farm' till it reached their 'low-carb' bun/plate, they would all go vegan:D"
"All"? Ever the optimist. I've seen the videos, read the books, and I still don't care much. I do generally love animals, but there's a big distancing in the majority of peoples minds between animals bred to be companions and those bred for food production.
If PETA spent their cash on convenience, food-science, and distribution methods for better fast-food alternatives, they'd be much more effective in saving animal lives. Of course, they'd get less in the way of income as their ALF-crowd donations disappear.
"Noreover, why remove the link to parent (which, unlike the reply link, I actually would use from time to time)?"
Absolutely. I have no idea why that's done.
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Your comparison is invalid? CDDB charged for access to all the files contributed, IMDB remains absolutely free for all the same consumer information one can post.
Consider your payback the ability to access any of that information, and its continuous uptime.
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In addition, posting images that they do not own the copyright for.
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"Movies are shared culture, and despite how the MPAA likes to assert property rights to every dimension of commercial film, movies are more than simply business. The stories they borrow from and the stories they tell are all public knowledge and are not owned by anyone."
I'm glad that you speak for all artists everywhere, however regardless of the MPAA's abuses, art is not by default and in the strictist terms public domain.
Concessions must be made, and the wealthy benefactors have often had requirements througout the ages, regardless of the individual or the party that sponsors the creative expression.
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# Agent information and other data has been moved off of the free IMDb site and onto IMDbPRO, which I refuse to use.
There's little real need for the non-industry to know agent information.
# To insert data into this database, such as photographs of my favourite actors, costs money. This was supposed to be a free site.
It's absolutely free to use. A site of that size can't live off of goodwill, sunshine, and gumdrops. I'll take a bit of annoyance to have it retain the useful information.
# Flagrant product placement. Virtually every "article" on IMDb's front page is a paid advertisement. Most "articles" are just used to link to Ama$on items.
They are a resource, not a content provider. There are thousands of useful review sites What else do you want? If you really want to complain about sucking the corporate teat, at least bitch about AICN, IMDB makes no pretenses of objectivity.
# IMDb has given nothing back to the community; rather it takes from the community (the poor) and gives to a large e-tailer (the rich).
It provides a huge service to the community. They don't owe *you* specifically a damn thing.
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"bigness + age != niceness."
It's still a very nice and useful service, but bigness + self-sustaining does require a bit less in the way of nicety.
"What kind of people honestly go out and spend almost 1,000$ USD on a card every year?"
The kind of people you're not in the target market of.
"What benefits are there?"
At the risk of sounding like a marketing-bot (which I am *not*) The greater utility of having tomorrow's performance today. What kind of techno-geek are you, that trashes the early adopters? They pay the premium that gives you cheaper performance later!
Without the initial waste their money, you'd be spending a lot more in the long-run.
Are you serious? "Everyone else is using it" is *the* draw for a social networking site. Its interface is decent, and it handled the Friendster migration without the same level of outages.
"Not really. Human relationships react in such-and-such a way. This can be analyzed by the scientific method and we can then use this information to see how we should date."
Considering the dearth of nature/nurture data to take into account, let alone the context you would need to place both into, that would be a fool's errand to give any non-common sense ideas or dating "strategies".
What works for one will *never* work for every. The attempt to discover a simplistic "scientific" and universal dating mechanism will end up just as effective as the astrologists.
"That reminds me of a documentary on american dogs: some have their cemetary, their family doctors (with weekly visits), their own manicurists, special trainers to keep them in good shape, and birth/death certificate with special social numbers... want me to tell about majordomes and houses (bigger than my dad's) as well as their own catholic church?"
Don't forget the pet psychiatrists, antidepressants, psychics/pet mediums, met masseuses, and executive chefs!
It's an issue of scale and purity, I imagine. With synthesis possible we finally have the amount of unadulterated material that we need to carry on larger experiements.
Yeah, but the video games are symptomatic, and not causal in this circumstance. I've heard mildly autistic children rambling on about star wars, various cartoons, and harry potter.
From this last post you certainly seem to understand this, but others often unthinkingly accept anecdotal evidence like this to further their ideological/political ends.
Perhaps you would like to explain how letting a child under 18 (or 16) have a glass of wine with a meal in a trusted family environment will necessarily lead to any of the claims those with "hard-earned experience" may make.
Hint: The most effective cultural prevention for alcohol abuse provides for strong social stigma on public *drunkenness*, not for public consumption of alcohol.
Of course, its a combination of (in no particular order) MADD's political neotolerance stance, parents' naive prevention of children from any *healthy* interactions with alcohol (wine or the occasional beer with dinner) and to a lesser extent advertising and certain twelve-step attitudes that creates the US's unrealistic taboos and obsession with alcohol.
"It's the idiot masses that keep the wheels of society turning. They're the ones doing all the work that puts food on your table. The soeciety would collapse without them. On the other hand, people who think themselves very smart (such as yourself) and everyone else beneath them, usually contribute nothing but occasional genocide, mass-sterilization program or other form of evil and injustice with no purpose other than glorifying themselves in their own eyes."
The masses are certainly important, however claiming that the self-ascribed elite "usually" contribute nothing or nothing but evil is a specious assumption. These broad and baseless claims don't help your cause.
"Oh, and I'm sure that they love hearing from smug assholes such as you.
And I have to ask - how, exactly, does one outthink (which is the proper spelling, btw) a problem? Problems don't think, it's therefore impossible to outthink one.
Did you perhaps mean 'solve'?"
By "outthink" I implied that I have the capacity to resolve most any non-proprietary issues.
I've supported computer users in various positions for nearly ten years now, from your average grandmother-on-the internet end user to begin with, and now primarily government/military contractors.
It's not a "smug asshole" thing to hate talking to a subpar 1st tier staff, and that does not imply that I'd be rude to them or talk down.
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":) Exactly!. Here comes the end of McDonalds/BurgerKing/KFC/..."
:D"
Make a Vegan drivethrough and I'll be glad to stop going to any of those. I'm a pretty adventurous cook at home, but in the working hours I don't have time to bother.
"if only people knew what happened to their favorite cow/hen from the time it was 'medically-pleasent put to sleep' in the 'farm' till it reached their 'low-carb' bun/plate, they would all go vegan
"All"? Ever the optimist. I've seen the videos, read the books, and I still don't care much. I do generally love animals, but there's a big distancing in the majority of peoples minds between animals bred to be companions and those bred for food production.
If PETA spent their cash on convenience, food-science, and distribution methods for better fast-food alternatives, they'd be much more effective in saving animal lives. Of course, they'd get less in the way of income as their ALF-crowd donations disappear.
"Noreover, why remove the link to parent (which, unlike the reply link, I actually would use from time to time)?"
Absolutely. I have no idea why that's done.
Your comparison is invalid? CDDB charged for access to all the files contributed, IMDB remains absolutely free for all the same consumer information one can post.
Consider your payback the ability to access any of that information, and its continuous uptime.
In addition, posting images that they do not own the copyright for.
"Movies are shared culture, and despite how the MPAA likes to assert property rights to every dimension of commercial film, movies are more than simply business. The stories they borrow from and the stories they tell are all public knowledge and are not owned by anyone."
I'm glad that you speak for all artists everywhere, however regardless of the MPAA's abuses, art is not by default and in the strictist terms public domain.
Concessions must be made, and the wealthy benefactors have often had requirements througout the ages, regardless of the individual or the party that sponsors the creative expression.
# Agent information and other data has been moved off of the free IMDb site and onto IMDbPRO, which I refuse to use.
There's little real need for the non-industry to know agent information.
# To insert data into this database, such as photographs of my favourite actors, costs money. This was
supposed to be a free site.
It's absolutely free to use. A site of that size can't live off of goodwill, sunshine, and gumdrops. I'll take a bit of annoyance to have it retain the useful information.
# Flagrant product placement. Virtually every "article" on IMDb's front page is a paid advertisement. Most "articles" are just used to link to Ama$on items.
They are a resource, not a content provider. There are thousands of useful review sites What else do you want? If you really want to complain about sucking the corporate teat, at least bitch about AICN, IMDB makes no pretenses of objectivity.
# IMDb has given nothing back to the community; rather it takes from the community (the poor) and gives to a large e-tailer (the rich).
It provides a huge service to the community. They don't owe *you* specifically a damn thing.
"bigness + age != niceness."
It's still a very nice and useful service, but bigness + self-sustaining does require a bit less in the way of nicety.
The free shuffle offer is *way* too tempting, I hope the selection's decent enough.
"What kind of people honestly go out and spend almost 1,000$ USD on a card every year?"
The kind of people you're not in the target market of.
"What benefits are there?"
At the risk of sounding like a marketing-bot (which I am *not*) The greater utility of having tomorrow's performance today. What kind of techno-geek are you, that trashes the early adopters? They pay the premium that gives you cheaper performance later!
Without the initial waste their money, you'd be spending a lot more in the long-run.
Are you serious? "Everyone else is using it" is *the* draw for a social networking site. Its interface is decent, and it handled the Friendster migration without the same level of outages.
"Not really. Human relationships react in such-and-such a way. This can be analyzed by the scientific method and we can then use this information to see how we should date."
Considering the dearth of nature/nurture data to take into account, let alone the context you would need to place both into, that would be a fool's errand to give any non-common sense ideas or dating "strategies".
What works for one will *never* work for every. The attempt to discover a simplistic "scientific" and universal dating mechanism will end up just as effective as the astrologists.
If anyone brings up the "ladder theory" at this point, I will stab them to death.
"That reminds me of a documentary on american dogs: some have their cemetary, their family doctors (with weekly visits), their own manicurists, special trainers to keep them in good shape, and birth/death certificate with special social numbers... want me to tell about majordomes and houses (bigger than my dad's) as well as their own catholic church?"
Don't forget the pet psychiatrists, antidepressants, psychics/pet mediums, met masseuses, and executive chefs!
It's an issue of scale and purity, I imagine. With synthesis possible we finally have the amount of unadulterated material that we need to carry on larger experiements.
Yeah, but the video games are symptomatic, and not causal in this circumstance. I've heard mildly autistic children rambling on about star wars, various cartoons, and harry potter.
From this last post you certainly seem to understand this, but others often unthinkingly accept anecdotal evidence like this to further their ideological/political ends.
If the kid's not grounded in reality, he's going to fall victim to any immersive medium. Better keep him away from television, movies, and literature.
Your anecdotal evidence also doesn't hold true for the majority of the game-playing audience.
Perhaps you would like to explain how letting a child under 18 (or 16) have a glass of wine with a meal in a trusted family environment will necessarily lead to any of the claims those with "hard-earned experience" may make.
Hint: The most effective cultural prevention for alcohol abuse provides for strong social stigma on public *drunkenness*, not for public consumption of alcohol.
Of course, its a combination of (in no particular order) MADD's political neotolerance stance, parents' naive prevention of children from any *healthy* interactions with alcohol (wine or the occasional beer with dinner) and to a lesser extent advertising and certain twelve-step attitudes that creates the US's unrealistic taboos and obsession with alcohol.
"It's the idiot masses that keep the wheels of society turning. They're the ones doing all the work that puts food on your table. The soeciety would collapse without them. On the other hand, people who think themselves very smart (such as yourself) and everyone else beneath them, usually contribute nothing but occasional genocide, mass-sterilization program or other form of evil and injustice with no purpose other than glorifying themselves in their own eyes."
The masses are certainly important, however claiming that the self-ascribed elite "usually" contribute nothing or nothing but evil is a specious assumption. These broad and baseless claims don't help your cause.
The pay-episodes, yes. I'm sure content providers will toy around with free episodes with the commercials intact, though.
Yes, I really have no idea who would be daft enough to claim or imagine that OO is locked into its own document types.
Oh, "signal processing". That explains everything!
Would you care to explain what sort of signal processing they're using?
Exactly. Creative leads with bells, whistles, and marketing, not with soundquality.
Remote mine detonation would certainly be a decent use of these machines, once they become cheap enough to be properly disposable.
"Oh, and I'm sure that they love hearing from smug assholes such as you.
And I have to ask - how, exactly, does one outthink (which is the proper spelling, btw) a problem? Problems don't think, it's therefore impossible to outthink one.
Did you perhaps mean 'solve'?"
By "outthink" I implied that I have the capacity to resolve most any non-proprietary issues.
I've supported computer users in various positions for nearly ten years now, from your average grandmother-on-the internet end user to begin with, and now primarily government/military contractors.
It's not a "smug asshole" thing to hate talking to a subpar 1st tier staff, and that does not imply that I'd be rude to them or talk down.