Faces of Death, not for me. I'm a wee bit too lilly livered. But I don't know if I'd go so far as to call it vile. That woman walking into the train probably goes a long way in teaching people to be aware of their enviroments, for one. But even more generally, death is a part of life, and I suppose it's only natural that some people would want to explore aspects of it. It's nice that they've got an outlet to do it safely. My queseyness shouldn't be an obstical to someone else's morbid curiosity. Who knows, maybe there's wisdom to be found in the weird and unusual ways people leave the world, sometimes on video tape.
If your kid grows up and manages to kill just one mime. I'll consider myself lucky to live in a world where people like you are still raising kids. You're doing God's work.
Shouldn't there be a "horizon" to your part of the Kazaa network?
Not to mention multiple downloads, new versions, hard drive crashes, new computers, multiple computers, etc. It's not like McDonald's ever served 99 billion different individuals.
And the answer they'd get back would be a "Yes" with caveat. People will pay for something, if its more valuable than the money they're paying out and isn't available elsewhere (google's cache included) for less. They've chosen to compete in a marketplace where most of the content is free, and already encompases nearly every fine gradiation of the human experience. A tough way to make money to be sure.
Unless they're planning on going the SCO route, and intend to sue other content providers for "dumping."
Not really, "Do unto other as they would advocate doing unto you."
I don't advocate anything regaurding your speech other than you pay for it like everyone else. Simply, you stand by what you say and I'll stand by what I say. See, it's symetric. By that same token I would like him to stand by what he said, and did. Which of course he didn't because far from being a hardcore anarchist, he's just a disenchanted pussy. He should have rolled the dice, or fought the government's attempts exert any influence over him. But he didn't. He talks big, but at the first sign of any challenge he folds like the Flash at an oragami contest.
If he thinks murder is so great, he should just go get himself murdered and see if it's everything he thinks it is.
I think it's a great rule. Sort of Zen. Everything and nothing at once. But back to people who are pro random bombings, yeah, not a lot of people would show up to that pity party for a number of reasons, and those that do, are doing so simply to make a point (badly). Being that he's around 20, an MRI might not be a bad idea. Wonder how good he is at math. You know?
Our annhilation of the native americans worked out pretty good for most of us too, but I don't think it's nessecarily a great thing to make a habit of it.
It's also worth nothing that one wasn't able to criticize the government back then, and doing so got one a punishment frequently equivalent to having blown something sky high.
Look, speech of all sorts isn't free. You're held to task for what you say. He was saying something pretty far out there. Advocating actions which would inevitably lead to peoples violent deaths, and he provided a step in that direction. Should it be protected? Well not by me, he was indirectly advocating my murder. F him. Is he a dipshit kid who's mostly harmless and talking out of his ass? Yeah, if you're taking bets. Is this a case of our social network which normally works against natural selection actually comming close to aiding it? Yeah. To bad it didn't finish the job. There are already too many idiots, the world should be more dangerous, especially for the goof balls like this kid. But he didn't even want to find out if a judge or jury thought his speech was protected and free. He crapped out, some anarchist he turned out to be. I guess when convictions try to cross the harsh road of reality they don't always make it to the other side.
I mean that idealism and golden rule crap is a nice sentiment and all, but it's just not practical. Maybe I'm too cynical, or maybe I'm just pragmatic, but I find a silver rule along the lines of "Do unto other as they advocate doing to you." to be far more functional.
Would a more comical and effective form of protest have been to provide a way for visitors to send the president a snack pack of Rolled Gold Pretzels? Someone might still get killed, but he could hardly be blamed.
Plenty of watchable movies available are at prices much cheaper than CD's. Oh and I just bought Equilibrium, and already owned Hard Boiled (no one watches that for the dialogue), Better Tomorrow series, so feel free. And I'd be happy to hear your thoughts on don't miss albums. Albums with just one increadible song after another. Far fewer and far between these days. Now most movies on the other hand don't have one truly great chapter, or two, and the rest just trash, plenty of the CD's sold now days do. I'll just neglect to indulge in stuff outside of my demographic like nsynch or spears as they more or less are equivalent to unappologetic chick flix like kate and leopold. (On a statistical level I think interjecting my tastes into the discussion is fine. As I, like most people, have a variety of tastes which, quite normally, change dramatically over time, and thus, while different than average are still probably average in their difference. While finding a person who just liked homogonized crap and was totally happy with that alone, I would consider highly unusual, to the point of being presented with such an individual, I would assume they were lying about their preferences.)
It's worth noting that the life time gross of Blade Runner, was a modest 31 million, including the re-issue which wouldn't have happened without the video popularity. The budget was 28 million. So in re-examining the facts it turns out that Blade Runner LOST MONEY before video recipts started pouring in. Wow. VHS, LD, and DVD made Blade Runner, which was otherwise a flop, a huge hit. (Well mostly just VHS.) But none the less. The vast majority of money earned by that particular movie was well after it was ushered out of the box office by patrons and critics alike.
But I'm your more interested in your implied claim that people don't choose between music and movies when spending their entertainment dollar. For me it seems quite obvious they do, as stores that sell music more often than not sell movies as well.
Oh and it's not much trouble to show that small silvery discs about 5 inches across that encode their data in bits, and sell for a price that is within an order of magnitude of each other (typically between 5 and 25 dollars). Much like Apples and Oranges, DVD's and CD are much more the same than different. So please don't worry about me.
Cheapest DVD's I've bought were 4 bucks, cheapest CD's 6. Before tax. But acctually I was comparing near similars. Suicide Kings is a completely sweet movie chocked full of entertainment goodness, 6 bucks, and not just at Target, it's 8 at Tower, 7 at Silver Platers (I bought it at 13 years ago), I didn't do a more complete survey. But a single album runs somwhere between 30 and change and 45 minutes, where Suicide Kings runs 90 or so. But let's get back to that album which probably only has one or at most two decent songs on it. That's getting into a couple of bucks a minute territory, where SK, is in pennies a minute. And those entertainment products compete against each other in the same marketplace for the same dollars. They are entertainment choices one makes. They might be apples and oranges, but their all roundish, sweet, colorful, fruit. When one is at a groccer looking for sustinance and is forced to choose between apples and oranges, one not only consideres personal predilictions, but the relative prices and condition of the fruit.
Most people just don't know how sweet SK is, and just assume that it's too cheap to be good. But that pricing appears to be the trend. Costco a while back had a selection of WB movies for 5 bucks each!! Heat, The Matrix, Bladerunner, Shawshank too I think! Name the last super popular albums, even those that were just popular after the fact, like Bladerunner, through their cult status that got vastly cheaper. Even an expensive DVD for me rarely costs more than 20, Windtalkers and Blackhawk down being notable exceptions, but those were three disc sets. Never bought a 3 CD set, but 2 cd sets have ROUTINELY run 26.99.
It is worth noting that in many cases I enjoy and will thus buy "popular" movies, but have stopped listening to the radio (except C89.5 Seattle) because it's sucked for a decade now, but even the occasional obscure movie which I enjoy is available from a wider selection of retailers than the obscure music I enjoy.
Which is interesting, because I'm sure I own many more movie titles that most people find unfamiliar than say albums of bands. You'd be surprised how hard it can be to find a missing TMBG album, a band seemingly everyone has heard of. They did Conan, Nightline, Dexter's Laboratory, and Tiny Toons, but I can't just walk into Tower and take it in the ass to get the Christmas album? It's not like they haven't ever been on MTV.
Music makers do get a cut of lucrative tour revenues, no? Don't they get paid for air-play? And didn't they sue the girl scouts of america for singing Happy Birthday without a licence? Oh, and when their songs are used in movies? And movie soundtracks? Seems like they've got a lot of revenue avenues to fall back on.
For many films, income from sales and rentals is the income. Bladerunner for instance, or Army of Darkness (how many DVD versions does a movie need?) And don't get me started on movie compilation sets, where you get 2, 4 or even 10 movies at one go. I've seen the 4 movies go at 10 bucks not even on clearence, the 10 packs at 20. Guilty pleasures to be sure, but what's a Tiffany album go for these days? New, even as part of a "Tour de Mall" Debi Gibbson - Tiffany box set?
But hey, at the end of the day one can always just remember that DVD's cost more to produce than CD's, and movies cost more to make than albums.
(I know that someone's going to mod this down as a flame or a troll but I don't care. People have to see that taking something without ever intending to pay for it isn't the way to reward the few artists that they enjoy.)
Not that other people haven't said it by now, and many more won't...but anyway.
There have been numerous people who've taken things without ever intending to pay for them over the years who've done me a great favor by doing so, and other people small favors. First there was the guy who gave my roomate a pirated copy of Apollo 18. My first exposure to _The_Greatest_Band_of_All_Time_, a pair of johns that have provided me with many hours of entertainment. Now, I own nearly ever album they've ever made, some are just hard to find retail, and Long Tall Weekend of course came out when I didn't have a broadband connection. But the same guy loaned the same roomate a bootleg of Bare Naked Ladie's, If I Had A Million Dollars. It was too funny so I bought Gordon based on the strength of that one bootleg song. And naturally all the other albums followed. Then there is the dorm neighbor who made me a copy of that Alpha Team song Go Speed Go. And I looked for that song on CD for two years before I found it retail. (I really should have just bought it on line. But I didn't know it was Alpha Team or the name of the song was Go Speed Go) I ended up buying the Saturday Morning Cartoon CD because it had "a" Speed Racer song on it, and now I also have a total of four versions of the Alpha Team Go Speed Go on two different compilation CD's.
All those copies were from people and to people none of whom had any initial intention of buying any more of the music. No one ever intended that someone eventually pay the artists for that music. And look what happened. It's pretty lucky for everyone but my wallet that there are so many people out there so willing to share the artists they enjoy with other interested parties.
Not every good done in the world is intended to be so, nor should it be.
Last CD's I bought were when the Wherehouse Music near me closed. Because I could afford to be adventerous and investigate the limits of my eclectic tastes at 6 bucks a shot. But truly my money mostly goes into DVD's and movies. While CD prices have been rising for the most part, DVD's have been crashing. Suicide Kings for 6 bucks at Target, that is just F'd up. It's too good to be that cheap. I don't recall ever having said something similar about any CD. Hell even the triple DVD of Blackhawk down costs less than most double CD sets, and already has seen a considerable amount of replay. Other people being equally clever have no doubt noticed this entertainment value disparity. Because seriously, when it's 20 dollars for some crappy new top forty album which has one song which is worth listening to, with a shelf life of a year or 19 dollars for some new T2 special edition in a fancy metal case, seriously what kind of choice is that? Obvious. At least to me.
Maybe it's time for the monopoly to start looking at cost control. While they might own music distribution, they don't own all entertainment on disc, so their price fixing would tend to make the a little short term money, but drive people to other media over the longer term.
"The Chad" claims to be a "business savant." On his chaddeckard.com site. It's got to be idiot savant because part of his business sense had him trolling p2p forum as part of his master plan. If I want blood, I don't turn to stones, and if I want money, I'm not turning to people who make a habbit of not paying for stuff. I'll leave that business to the check cashing places and repo-men.
Starbuck and Boomer are Females now (just for the sake of the femist cause!)!!!
I guess someone doesn't watch his daily interval of anime.
Which frequently goes a little something like:
Wake Up.
Strech luxuriantly in light clingly sleep clothes.
Playful lesbian tickle fights.
Giggles.
Talking.
Explosions.
Shower Scene.
Existential Monologue.
Follow up on a clue.
Miracle of technology.
Our heroine cowboys the fork up.
More bigger explosions.
Talking which diminishes todays victory...
...and sets up next weeks episode.
Add work for washed up strippers working off their simply adequate implants to that list, and it comes pretty damn close to what Battlestar Galactica appears to be.
(I always thought anyone on slashdot who didn't keep up with their daily anime and 80's music intervals would be summarily retired by Christian Bale.)
Is it really surprising? Hell, look at OJ. The DNA made the fact of whether he did it or not, a non question. But what did the jury decide the case on? We like OJ, he's famouns and used to run fast. That prosecutor is a shrill bitch, and why the hell is she using gerry curl? That Johnny Cochran is so nice, the cadence of his speech is almost hypnotic....zzzz.
Like so many things in life, it's a popularity contest. Even much of science is like that, the only difference is, in science the scale is weighted such that, eventually, the truth will be selected regaurdless of its original popularity. (QM for example).
In deference to the Pennsylvania judge, I've found it's rarely a horrible mistake to ask questions, even stupid ones. It's when you don't ask, and just assume, that trouble seems to do most of its sneaking up. And given the variation as to what qualifies as a match depending on geography, there certainly seem to be some questions worth asking.
Juries of laymen aren't going do well in months what takes scientists years, and occasionally decades, of dogged pursuit to accomplish. Maybe it's a less than encouraging commentary on how we see ourselves and our peers, but I doubt very seriously whether it actually changes much.
Your problem is zone pricing. It has more to do with oil companies trying to control costs and population growth in your area. Find where a new shell station went in against maybe a Cheveron or other competitor in your local area. Chances are they're having a price war to attract new customers, and the older station is following suit.
That said, however, in my Econ class the theory went that a dollar halved in its buying power about every nine and a half years. But I assume much of that is due to changes in the market basket. Like computers are cheaper, but now the standard might be multiple computers, and the addition of other goods such as DVD players, DVD libraries, internet connections, Tivo's and associated services.
Even if media companies, those who traffic in ever more available ideas, are able to score at a rate ten thousand times that of punk kids, they're still screwed. There are a lot of punk kids. Now they're going to grow up idolizing a spoonless Ted, hating The Man, singing avril lavigne's lates singles "He Connected Thru The Exploit of My Heart" and "1 0w3d j00 (Like A Linux Box)"
UBI's made some of the worst games I've ever seen. Including the only game I've ever seen crash an 8-bit nintendo. If a game looks interesting, but it's got their logo, I put down the box of plague and move on.
A horrible company employing horrible people who should be subjected to cruise missle attacks, or worse.
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Faces of Death, not for me. I'm a wee bit too lilly livered. But I don't know if I'd go so far as to call it vile. That woman walking into the train probably goes a long way in teaching people to be aware of their enviroments, for one. But even more generally, death is a part of life, and I suppose it's only natural that some people would want to explore aspects of it. It's nice that they've got an outlet to do it safely. My queseyness shouldn't be an obstical to someone else's morbid curiosity. Who knows, maybe there's wisdom to be found in the weird and unusual ways people leave the world, sometimes on video tape.
If your kid grows up and manages to kill just one mime. I'll consider myself lucky to live in a world where people like you are still raising kids. You're doing God's work.
Fact: "A Gelgameck vagina is three feet wide and filled with razor sharp teeth."
Shouldn't there be a "horizon" to your part of the Kazaa network?
Not to mention multiple downloads, new versions, hard drive crashes, new computers, multiple computers, etc. It's not like McDonald's ever served 99 billion different individuals.
And the answer they'd get back would be a "Yes" with caveat. People will pay for something, if its more valuable than the money they're paying out and isn't available elsewhere (google's cache included) for less. They've chosen to compete in a marketplace where most of the content is free, and already encompases nearly every fine gradiation of the human experience. A tough way to make money to be sure.
Unless they're planning on going the SCO route, and intend to sue other content providers for "dumping."
Hey dude. That ship was sinking. He saw an escape hatch and took it. No mystery. ...
:)
Maybe he was a Mossad agent sent to make slashdot overconfident. Tricky. Very Tricky.
I think we both share the same fantastic taste in music.
Not really, "Do unto other as they would advocate doing unto you."
I don't advocate anything regaurding your speech other than you pay for it like everyone else. Simply, you stand by what you say and I'll stand by what I say. See, it's symetric. By that same token I would like him to stand by what he said, and did. Which of course he didn't because far from being a hardcore anarchist, he's just a disenchanted pussy. He should have rolled the dice, or fought the government's attempts exert any influence over him. But he didn't. He talks big, but at the first sign of any challenge he folds like the Flash at an oragami contest.
If he thinks murder is so great, he should just go get himself murdered and see if it's everything he thinks it is.
I think it's a great rule. Sort of Zen. Everything and nothing at once. But back to people who are pro random bombings, yeah, not a lot of people would show up to that pity party for a number of reasons, and those that do, are doing so simply to make a point (badly). Being that he's around 20, an MRI might not be a bad idea. Wonder how good he is at math. You know?
Our annhilation of the native americans worked out pretty good for most of us too, but I don't think it's nessecarily a great thing to make a habit of it.
It's also worth nothing that one wasn't able to criticize the government back then, and doing so got one a punishment frequently equivalent to having blown something sky high.
Look, speech of all sorts isn't free. You're held to task for what you say. He was saying something pretty far out there. Advocating actions which would inevitably lead to peoples violent deaths, and he provided a step in that direction. Should it be protected? Well not by me, he was indirectly advocating my murder. F him. Is he a dipshit kid who's mostly harmless and talking out of his ass? Yeah, if you're taking bets. Is this a case of our social network which normally works against natural selection actually comming close to aiding it? Yeah. To bad it didn't finish the job. There are already too many idiots, the world should be more dangerous, especially for the goof balls like this kid. But he didn't even want to find out if a judge or jury thought his speech was protected and free. He crapped out, some anarchist he turned out to be. I guess when convictions try to cross the harsh road of reality they don't always make it to the other side.
I mean that idealism and golden rule crap is a nice sentiment and all, but it's just not practical. Maybe I'm too cynical, or maybe I'm just pragmatic, but I find a silver rule along the lines of "Do unto other as they advocate doing to you." to be far more functional.
Would a more comical and effective form of protest have been to provide a way for visitors to send the president a snack pack of Rolled Gold Pretzels? Someone might still get killed, but he could hardly be blamed.
Plenty of watchable movies available are at prices much cheaper than CD's. Oh and I just bought Equilibrium, and already owned Hard Boiled (no one watches that for the dialogue), Better Tomorrow series, so feel free. And I'd be happy to hear your thoughts on don't miss albums. Albums with just one increadible song after another. Far fewer and far between these days. Now most movies on the other hand don't have one truly great chapter, or two, and the rest just trash, plenty of the CD's sold now days do. I'll just neglect to indulge in stuff outside of my demographic like nsynch or spears as they more or less are equivalent to unappologetic chick flix like kate and leopold. (On a statistical level I think interjecting my tastes into the discussion is fine. As I, like most people, have a variety of tastes which, quite normally, change dramatically over time, and thus, while different than average are still probably average in their difference. While finding a person who just liked homogonized crap and was totally happy with that alone, I would consider highly unusual, to the point of being presented with such an individual, I would assume they were lying about their preferences.)
It's worth noting that the life time gross of Blade Runner, was a modest 31 million, including the re-issue which wouldn't have happened without the video popularity. The budget was 28 million. So in re-examining the facts it turns out that Blade Runner LOST MONEY before video recipts started pouring in. Wow. VHS, LD, and DVD made Blade Runner, which was otherwise a flop, a huge hit. (Well mostly just VHS.) But none the less. The vast majority of money earned by that particular movie was well after it was ushered out of the box office by patrons and critics alike.
But I'm your more interested in your implied claim that people don't choose between music and movies when spending their entertainment dollar. For me it seems quite obvious they do, as stores that sell music more often than not sell movies as well.
Oh and it's not much trouble to show that small silvery discs about 5 inches across that encode their data in bits, and sell for a price that is within an order of magnitude of each other (typically between 5 and 25 dollars). Much like Apples and Oranges, DVD's and CD are much more the same than different. So please don't worry about me.
Cheapest DVD's I've bought were 4 bucks, cheapest CD's 6. Before tax. But acctually I was comparing near similars. Suicide Kings is a completely sweet movie chocked full of entertainment goodness, 6 bucks, and not just at Target, it's 8 at Tower, 7 at Silver Platers (I bought it at 13 years ago), I didn't do a more complete survey. But a single album runs somwhere between 30 and change and 45 minutes, where Suicide Kings runs 90 or so. But let's get back to that album which probably only has one or at most two decent songs on it. That's getting into a couple of bucks a minute territory, where SK, is in pennies a minute. And those entertainment products compete against each other in the same marketplace for the same dollars. They are entertainment choices one makes. They might be apples and oranges, but their all roundish, sweet, colorful, fruit. When one is at a groccer looking for sustinance and is forced to choose between apples and oranges, one not only consideres personal predilictions, but the relative prices and condition of the fruit.
Most people just don't know how sweet SK is, and just assume that it's too cheap to be good. But that pricing appears to be the trend. Costco a while back had a selection of WB movies for 5 bucks each!! Heat, The Matrix, Bladerunner, Shawshank too I think! Name the last super popular albums, even those that were just popular after the fact, like Bladerunner, through their cult status that got vastly cheaper. Even an expensive DVD for me rarely costs more than 20, Windtalkers and Blackhawk down being notable exceptions, but those were three disc sets. Never bought a 3 CD set, but 2 cd sets have ROUTINELY run 26.99.
It is worth noting that in many cases I enjoy and will thus buy "popular" movies, but have stopped listening to the radio (except C89.5 Seattle) because it's sucked for a decade now, but even the occasional obscure movie which I enjoy is available from a wider selection of retailers than the obscure music I enjoy.
Which is interesting, because I'm sure I own many more movie titles that most people find unfamiliar than say albums of bands. You'd be surprised how hard it can be to find a missing TMBG album, a band seemingly everyone has heard of. They did Conan, Nightline, Dexter's Laboratory, and Tiny Toons, but I can't just walk into Tower and take it in the ass to get the Christmas album? It's not like they haven't ever been on MTV.
Music makers do get a cut of lucrative tour revenues, no? Don't they get paid for air-play? And didn't they sue the girl scouts of america for singing Happy Birthday without a licence? Oh, and when their songs are used in movies? And movie soundtracks? Seems like they've got a lot of revenue avenues to fall back on.
For many films, income from sales and rentals is the income. Bladerunner for instance, or Army of Darkness (how many DVD versions does a movie need?) And don't get me started on movie compilation sets, where you get 2, 4 or even 10 movies at one go. I've seen the 4 movies go at 10 bucks not even on clearence, the 10 packs at 20. Guilty pleasures to be sure, but what's a Tiffany album go for these days? New, even as part of a "Tour de Mall" Debi Gibbson - Tiffany box set?
But hey, at the end of the day one can always just remember that DVD's cost more to produce than CD's, and movies cost more to make than albums.
(I know that someone's going to mod this down as a flame or a troll but I don't care. People have to see that taking something without ever intending to pay for it isn't the way to reward the few artists that they enjoy.)
Not that other people haven't said it by now, and many more won't...but anyway.
There have been numerous people who've taken things without ever intending to pay for them over the years who've done me a great favor by doing so, and other people small favors. First there was the guy who gave my roomate a pirated copy of Apollo 18. My first exposure to _The_Greatest_Band_of_All_Time_, a pair of johns that have provided me with many hours of entertainment. Now, I own nearly ever album they've ever made, some are just hard to find retail, and Long Tall Weekend of course came out when I didn't have a broadband connection. But the same guy loaned the same roomate a bootleg of Bare Naked Ladie's, If I Had A Million Dollars. It was too funny so I bought Gordon based on the strength of that one bootleg song. And naturally all the other albums followed. Then there is the dorm neighbor who made me a copy of that Alpha Team song Go Speed Go. And I looked for that song on CD for two years before I found it retail. (I really should have just bought it on line. But I didn't know it was Alpha Team or the name of the song was Go Speed Go) I ended up buying the Saturday Morning Cartoon CD because it had "a" Speed Racer song on it, and now I also have a total of four versions of the Alpha Team Go Speed Go on two different compilation CD's.
All those copies were from people and to people none of whom had any initial intention of buying any more of the music. No one ever intended that someone eventually pay the artists for that music. And look what happened. It's pretty lucky for everyone but my wallet that there are so many people out there so willing to share the artists they enjoy with other interested parties.
Not every good done in the world is intended to be so, nor should it be.
Last CD's I bought were when the Wherehouse Music near me closed. Because I could afford to be adventerous and investigate the limits of my eclectic tastes at 6 bucks a shot. But truly my money mostly goes into DVD's and movies. While CD prices have been rising for the most part, DVD's have been crashing. Suicide Kings for 6 bucks at Target, that is just F'd up. It's too good to be that cheap. I don't recall ever having said something similar about any CD. Hell even the triple DVD of Blackhawk down costs less than most double CD sets, and already has seen a considerable amount of replay. Other people being equally clever have no doubt noticed this entertainment value disparity. Because seriously, when it's 20 dollars for some crappy new top forty album which has one song which is worth listening to, with a shelf life of a year or 19 dollars for some new T2 special edition in a fancy metal case, seriously what kind of choice is that? Obvious. At least to me.
Maybe it's time for the monopoly to start looking at cost control. While they might own music distribution, they don't own all entertainment on disc, so their price fixing would tend to make the a little short term money, but drive people to other media over the longer term.
In his comment he claims to be the victim of a DoS attack. Pleading,
AmeriTech, the basset hound teasing out the trail, can be reached by slashdot readers at ameritechtech@dslr.net (as was his stated preference).
"The Chad" claims to be a "business savant." On his chaddeckard.com site. It's got to be idiot savant because part of his business sense had him trolling p2p forum as part of his master plan. If I want blood, I don't turn to stones, and if I want money, I'm not turning to people who make a habbit of not paying for stuff. I'll leave that business to the check cashing places and repo-men.
I guess someone doesn't watch his daily interval of anime.
Which frequently goes a little something like:
Wake Up.
Strech luxuriantly in light clingly sleep clothes.
Playful lesbian tickle fights.
Giggles.
Talking.
Explosions.
Shower Scene.
Existential Monologue.
Follow up on a clue.
Miracle of technology.
Our heroine cowboys the fork up.
More bigger explosions.
Talking which diminishes todays victory...
...and sets up next weeks episode.
Add work for washed up strippers working off their simply adequate implants to that list, and it comes pretty damn close to what Battlestar Galactica appears to be.
(I always thought anyone on slashdot who didn't keep up with their daily anime and 80's music intervals would be summarily retired by Christian Bale.)
Not knowing where you're going isn't lost. That's exploring. Not being able to get back, that's lost.
Is it really surprising? Hell, look at OJ. The DNA made the fact of whether he did it or not, a non question. But what did the jury decide the case on? We like OJ, he's famouns and used to run fast. That prosecutor is a shrill bitch, and why the hell is she using gerry curl? That Johnny Cochran is so nice, the cadence of his speech is almost hypnotic....zzzz.
Like so many things in life, it's a popularity contest. Even much of science is like that, the only difference is, in science the scale is weighted such that, eventually, the truth will be selected regaurdless of its original popularity. (QM for example).
In deference to the Pennsylvania judge, I've found it's rarely a horrible mistake to ask questions, even stupid ones. It's when you don't ask, and just assume, that trouble seems to do most of its sneaking up. And given the variation as to what qualifies as a match depending on geography, there certainly seem to be some questions worth asking.
Juries of laymen aren't going do well in months what takes scientists years, and occasionally decades, of dogged pursuit to accomplish. Maybe it's a less than encouraging commentary on how we see ourselves and our peers, but I doubt very seriously whether it actually changes much.
I think you vastly overestimate the amount of blow he was able to accumulate during his forty years of youthful indiscretions.
How big was the largest flaw you could tolerate with those calculations? (Not to mention the effect of radiation and space junk)
Your problem is zone pricing. It has more to do with oil companies trying to control costs and population growth in your area. Find where a new shell station went in against maybe a Cheveron or other competitor in your local area. Chances are they're having a price war to attract new customers, and the older station is following suit.
That said, however, in my Econ class the theory went that a dollar halved in its buying power about every nine and a half years. But I assume much of that is due to changes in the market basket. Like computers are cheaper, but now the standard might be multiple computers, and the addition of other goods such as DVD players, DVD libraries, internet connections, Tivo's and associated services.
Even if media companies, those who traffic in ever more available ideas, are able to score at a rate ten thousand times that of punk kids, they're still screwed. There are a lot of punk kids. Now they're going to grow up idolizing a spoonless Ted, hating The Man, singing avril lavigne's lates singles "He Connected Thru The Exploit of My Heart" and "1 0w3d j00 (Like A Linux Box)"
UBI's made some of the worst games I've ever seen. Including the only game I've ever seen crash an 8-bit nintendo. If a game looks interesting, but it's got their logo, I put down the box of plague and move on.
A horrible company employing horrible people who should be subjected to cruise missle attacks, or worse.
And there was this time the implimentor was drunk. Turns out he's an angry drunk. This story really brought back memories. :)