From I've heard, this is not like the Aqua Teen Hunger Force situation at all.
She clearly wanted to provoke a reaction. She was holding clay in her hand, she was wearing a circuit board that may have looked like a bomb and she WENT INTO AN AIRPORT.
Hello?
Do we automatically defend every artistic tech person or only the sane ones?
Unless some other information comes forward, this artist wanted to be arrested.
Although your post is flamebait, I somewhat agree. I am sick of hearing about guys like Musk and Levchin who became rich by creating a company that treated customers HORRIBLY and had questionable financial and legal activities, some of which PayPal was fined millions for and some which are still being examined.
But none of that seems to matter, now that they're rich and making big toys? I disagree.
Each year thousands of Chinese citizens are put to death under a legal system plagued with corruption and secrecy. While the rest of the world moves toward abolition, Chinese authorities only continue to expand the application of the death penalty. According to reports, an average of 15,000 people per year were executed, judicially or extrajudicially, by the government between 1997 and 2001...
Not saying this is a bad idea, but it's an odd suggestion when anyone who has used Apple products for years knows that Steve is stingy. He's stingy about batteries, stingy about updates... That's just Apple.
So it's kind of a suggestion on par with: "I think Microsoft should give up on Explorer and support Firefox."
Look at a dozen random wishlists and you'll find the same pattern.
Customer tried wishlist on December 11, 2002. Added Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Never used wishlist function again.
I am Mrs. Branson, a wife of embattled President of war torn Liberia, Mr. Branson. My husband just stepped down as President of Liberia some months ago, but matters were not helped when UN Special War Crimes Court for Sierra Leone indicted my husband for war crimes in June last year, demanding his prosecution.
Currently I and my husband have been granted asylum in Nigeria, but I relocated my two sons immediately in July 2003 to Sao Tome (a small oil rich island off the coast of West Africa).
Early last year, he entrusted some large quantities of diamonds to me. He told me if anything happened to him, I should use it to take care of myself. Fearing its detection due to the volume, my son (Williams) traveled to South-Africa with the diamonds...
It's the end of Firefly because Fox owns the rights to the series and WON'T LET Sci-Fi make the series
This is about ten percent true and keeps getting more distorted to the point where it resembles the folklore in "The Man They Call Jayne." If another net wants to pick-up Firefly, they'll have to work it out (read: pay) Fox. This is the SAME SCENARIO that Arrested Development may go through if it ends up on Showtime or if Futurama airs new episodes on Cartoon Network or elsewhere.
Sorry. There is no evil Fox henchman keeping this show from returning. Regardless, Josh is not going to do Firefly on Sci-Fi for the same budget they do Stargate. Ever. Maybe it's wrong to criticize his artistic choice on that. But there is some fantasy that someone else is keeping this show from returning. It's mostly Josh. He is not going to do it below a certain budget.
See my comment below regarding Josh's poutiness. Why would you make such a comment to be published on the release date of your DVD? It's called passive-aggressiveness. As in, "You didn't behave the way I wanted, so no more Firefly for you!"
This is the end of Firefly because Josh has too much ego to work on a lower budget.
Call it artistic integrity if you want, but I call it being pouty. There are plenty of people who love Firefly and wouldn't care what channel it's on, but cable and the Sci-Fi channel is just beneath Josh Whedon.
"But Majoras was quick to emphasize that the most important part of the settlement is that it sends a warning to companies that they cannot hire telemarketers and then turn their backs on whether or not the rules are followed."
The damage to their brand image is considerable. It's easy to wave that off (re: people's short memories) but they are spending $30 million *just* for their new DVR ad campaign. And they're not doing that on a lark.
Believe me, this hurts them. It's not about the fine. It's about the black eye.
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Do you know how a bomb is supposed to look like?
Do you?
I mean, are you daft? IEDs look like fucking cordless telephones and duct tape. No one knows what a "bomb" looks anymore.
From I've heard, this is not like the Aqua Teen Hunger Force situation at all.
She clearly wanted to provoke a reaction. She was holding clay in her hand, she was wearing a circuit board that may have looked like a bomb and she WENT INTO AN AIRPORT.
Hello?
Do we automatically defend every artistic tech person or only the sane ones?
Unless some other information comes forward, this artist wanted to be arrested.
And she was.
If you don't restrict the argument to chicken eggs, then it is... exactly the same argument. What came first, the pre-chicken or the pre-chicken-egg?
This isn't a question of "When did chickens evolve to their present state?"
If a chicken that wasn't born out of an egg is considered a chicken, then the chicken came first. One of those chickens eventually hatched an egg.
If a chicken that wasn't born out of an egg is not considered a chicken... then only the first egg it produces is a chicken. Then the egg came first.
It's just semantics...
I guess I forgot to run them through Babelfish a few times?
Although your post is flamebait, I somewhat agree. I am sick of hearing about guys like Musk and Levchin who became rich by creating a company that treated customers HORRIBLY and had questionable financial and legal activities, some of which PayPal was fined millions for and some which are still being examined.
But none of that seems to matter, now that they're rich and making big toys? I disagree.
Which means... he was there when PayPal was even worse.
I wouldn't get on a rocket with Musk or Max Levchin. I consider them both to be egregiously unethical.
Troll? Wha?
- When a CNET reporter used Google's own search to write about CEO Eric Schmidt, Google banned CNET for a year.
- A Google employee was handled brusquely and terminated after blogging about his experiences.
- Many meta search engines that provide a valuable service by combining search results have been banned from using Google by its lawyers.
The list goes on...
Each year thousands of Chinese citizens are put to death under a legal system plagued with corruption and secrecy. While the rest of the world moves toward abolition, Chinese authorities only continue to expand the application of the death penalty. According to reports, an average of 15,000 people per year were executed, judicially or extrajudicially, by the government between 1997 and 2001...
Not saying this is a bad idea, but it's an odd suggestion when anyone who has used Apple products for years knows that Steve is stingy. He's stingy about batteries, stingy about updates... That's just Apple.
So it's kind of a suggestion on par with: "I think Microsoft should give up on Explorer and support Firefox."
True, but... ya know??
Look at a dozen random wishlists and you'll find the same pattern. Customer tried wishlist on December 11, 2002. Added Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Never used wishlist function again.
Troll? In a thread about dangerous ideas? Interesting paradigm.
Pick a list of people to ask that isn't the same !@$%^&* names again and again.
Rudy Rucker? Stewart Brand? Danny Hillis?
FOR !@$%^&* SAKE, I am so sick and tired of hearing from these people.
There are so many legitimately fascinating brilliant thinkers, writers, artists, poets, scientists, and on and on living on this planet.
How is this for a DANGEROUS IDEA? PICK SOME NOVEL NAMES.
Sheesh.
He writes: "The basic-cable budget sometimes shows in the production..."
Um... seriously, where did he see this?
Unfortunately, Buchheit kept interrupting to mention advertisers based on what Doerr and Diamond were talking about.
Members of Congress:
I am Mrs. Branson, a wife of embattled President of war torn
Liberia, Mr. Branson. My husband just stepped down as President
of Liberia some months ago, but matters were not helped when UN
Special War Crimes Court for Sierra Leone indicted my husband
for war crimes in June last year, demanding his prosecution.
Currently I and my husband have been granted asylum in Nigeria,
but I relocated my two sons immediately in July 2003 to Sao Tome
(a small oil rich island off the coast of West Africa).
Early last year, he entrusted some large quantities of diamonds
to me. He told me if anything happened to him, I should use it
to take care of myself. Fearing its detection due to the volume,
my son (Williams) traveled to South-Africa with the diamonds...
It's the end of Firefly because Fox owns the rights to the series and WON'T LET Sci-Fi make the series
This is about ten percent true and keeps getting more distorted to the point where it resembles the folklore in "The Man They Call Jayne." If another net wants to pick-up Firefly, they'll have to work it out (read: pay) Fox. This is the SAME SCENARIO that Arrested Development may go through if it ends up on Showtime or if Futurama airs new episodes on Cartoon Network or elsewhere.
Sorry. There is no evil Fox henchman keeping this show from returning. Regardless, Josh is not going to do Firefly on Sci-Fi for the same budget they do Stargate. Ever. Maybe it's wrong to criticize his artistic choice on that. But there is some fantasy that someone else is keeping this show from returning. It's mostly Josh. He is not going to do it below a certain budget.
See my comment below regarding Josh's poutiness. Why would you make such a comment to be published on the release date of your DVD? It's called passive-aggressiveness. As in, "You didn't behave the way I wanted, so no more Firefly for you!"
This is the end of Firefly because Josh has too much ego to work on a lower budget.
Call it artistic integrity if you want, but I call it being pouty. There are plenty of people who love Firefly and wouldn't care what channel it's on, but cable and the Sci-Fi channel is just beneath Josh Whedon.
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Troll? Huh?
Rip off people, lie, cheat, do WHATEVER IT TAKES to make billions... ...then give a lot of it away to receive praise.
Time Magazine, how stupid are you.
"But Majoras was quick to emphasize that the most important part of the settlement is that it sends a warning to companies that they cannot hire telemarketers and then turn their backs on whether or not the rules are followed."
The damage to their brand image is considerable. It's easy to wave that off (re: people's short memories) but they are spending $30 million *just* for their new DVR ad campaign. And they're not doing that on a lark.
Believe me, this hurts them. It's not about the fine. It's about the black eye.