Sorry, your antagonism against "ripping someone off" falls false when you consider that 85% of the downloaders when given the choice between not seeing the movie, and paying full price, would not see the movie. The availability of the download does not affect the sale because it never was going to happen in the first place.
Fuck, a lot of people couldn't see it because it wasn't ever released in their area for fucks sake. How does that download from bumfuck Oklahoma from some guy who can't possibly see the movie equal a "rip off"?
So shave a few more percent off that number for those dumb OKies.
Until you hollywood cock-gobblers start making analysis on something other than puffed up numbers, you have no moral leg to stand on. FUCKING NONE.
The only difference between most downloads of movies and waiting around to happen to catch it on HBO or something is the timing. That's it. No extra dollars go anywhere, no missing dollars not there that would have come in other situations.
You just can't stand to see someone get something for nothing when the other side of the equation means "no sale" at all. NEITHER side of that equation equals a sale.
First, comparing a movie from the 80's that has had 20 years to make money with one that has been out for 2 is a fallacy.
Second, ticket prices, fees, number of theaters are all different the farther you go back.
Three, they fucked up on the distribution (as stated many times in this discussion already), how many of the movies had a limited release on limited theaters? I see maybe ONE like that. So they missed a huge hump of ticket sales they could have had. Either they failed somehow during distribution, or some master plan went wrong somewhere.
FURTHERMORE, a lot of those movies are STILL being traded hand over fist in P2P even now. Yet they are record-breakers. By your dumb fuck standards, they should be losses.
Either way, you list means shit.
So no, YOU would be wrong about the reasons for the remarkably poor performance.
Their profit sucked because something the guys that made the movie sucked. Plot, distribution, timing, something...
You mean, they are Photoshopping pollution out of the pictures like they did in the olympics?
Or do you mean wiping out animals or moving 1 million people without concern for any ethics just for appearances?
Or forcing people at gun point to stop their businesses so the electricity could be used to light a stadium?
I noticed the chinese are up to their same old deceptive shit during the olympics.
There is a lot of grass roots green energy usage, but that's due to the fact there's a lot of extra labor around and areas where subsistence agriculture type living makes a hot shower once a week a friggin miracle. It's harder to run cars on sunlight than it is to heat a barrel of water.
You know, for actual monetary damage, Farmville, Mafia Wars, Yahoo games and similar games probably do more economic damage to worker productivity than MMOPRGs ever could.
Actually, the idea that the guns come predominantly from the US is an outright lie.
Look at the pictures yourself.
The ejection ports are always down (making the guns sit up on the charging handle sometimes, or forward assist in the case of the Armalite style guns)
Facing the port down will also hide the status of the weapon as fully auto or semi-auto.
FULL auto guns are very expensive and very hard to get in the US. The idea that they are being bought through legit means (which is what gun control would control) is outright false.
IT. IS. A. FUCKING. LIE.
The badass guns the bad guys are getting come from the Mexican military, and the militaries and smuggling operations out of South American countries.
The guns they have traced are a small percentage of the ones seized, and the Mexicans have not turned any of them over to US authorities for examination in any credible way. IF these were purchased guns, having the serial number would make it EASY to find out where they came from.
In conclusion, IF the guns are coming from the US it's a "theft of gun" problem, not a "gun control problem"
The guns are in fact, coming from MEXICO itself, and it's a "theft of guns from military" problem, or gasp! maybe, gosh, dunno, just more government corruption and propensity to take bribes.
Tightening the gun control screws on law-abiding citizens (the only people additional laws affect) will do NOTHING to stop additional guns getting into the hands of Mexican gangs.
Anybody that does believe that, is a moron. Anybody that says that, is a LIAR.
Exactly - there's always a presumption of guilt for the man.
And many people will accuse a raped woman of bringing it on themselves and inviting the rape.
No, no they don't. The problem is you, Mrs. Anonymous Coward are the shrill feminist type that fails to make the distinction between:
Blame for the rape placed on the woman "asking for it"
And:
Frank discussion of the risks that were being taken at the time, that were essential or contributing components to the situation; which were also OPTIONAL.
For example; a person gets too drunk to realize getting a ride home from the four nice men that they met at the bar while in a foreign city isn't a good idea. Getting drunk: optional. Doing it in a foreign city: optional, going to the foreign city: optional. etc.
Yes, rape is bad, and the four nice men could have simply not violently violated all the orifices they did, but getting stinking drunk in a foreign city was STILL a necessary condition for the problem. People talk about THAT. That's not "blaming the victim" that's "learning from some dumbass' mistake".
Another example, pointing a loaded gun at one's face. We all laugh and point when some dumbass Darwins himself doing that. Yes, guns are dangerous and it sucks to get shot, but, there is a strong element of the victim's own behavior that set up the situation.
You, little twat ass feminists UTTERLY FAIL TO MAKE THAT FUCKING DISTINCTION. Just too stupid, maybe. I dunno.
So, discussion of risks gets marked down as "blame" when it is not that, it's discussion of risks.
Discussion of risks is a really good way to make things better. So it will be everywhere. But it's not labeled like that. It's mis-labeled as blame, when it is not.
People forget peanut allergies and celiac's disease were almost nil until the mid-eighties. What happened in the 80's? Genetically modified food was introduced to the market. Today you can't hardly buy grain/fruit/vegetables that aren't GM and both allergies and celiac's are now considered normal. The fact is it's companies like Monsanto and Cargill that are causing this.
Everything above is an outright lie.
(Not to mention bad science post ergo hoc propter hoc is not a valid argument to draw conclusions on, as it is necessarily incomplete and therefore flawed.)
Celiac was not diagnosed because medical universities didn't teach about it, so doctors encountering it were essentially ignorant of the disease.
You talk like the average glenn beck sperm swallowing douchebag.
Without further evidence, I can only conclude you are also a liar. "Spoke up plenty". Hah.
Slashdot records every comment ever posted, go dig out some of this "spoke up".
Until then, you are a liar.
And this is a perfect example of what the Tea Party movement is sick and tired of - a government that at all levels has forgotten that it exists solely at the pleasure of the citizens it rules. "Government is good - trust us" liberals have been telling us for years, ignoring the weight of all of human history that testifies loudly to the contrary. You twits forgot that liberty is the exception in the history of the world, and that oppression is the rule. And now you have the nerve to bitch about the size of the cage that you build around your own goddamned self? Fuck all you big-government apologist asshats.
And if the motorcyclist had exercised his "rights" he'd be 100% dead. And you know it. It's like a pedestrian who has right-of-way on a cross walk on a busy street....right and dead is not preferable to wrong and alive in 99.99999% of cases.
Yes, anonymous tard-face, thanks for stating the obvious.
The behavior of the police officer created the dangerous situation in which the motorcyclist may end up dead, even if it is after the cops kill him for drawing on a pig that drew on him first.
What if there were two motorcycles that looked alike? And the second one (just going to get milk down the block) got drawn on? Who then draws on, and shoots the cop, henceforth is shot by the other cop on the scene.
In that situation, the cop is 100% the cause of the problem.
Is this shown in the video or what's the source? That'd shed a lot of light on the situation if true.
It's in the video, but you have to watch pretty closely.
At 3:00, Graber turns around to look at the vehicle behind him. It's hard to make out the vehicle clearly from the video, and there's no audio at that point, but it's a pretty safe assumption that the reason he looked behind him was either because he saw flashing lights in his rear-view mirror, or he heard sirens, or both. Then, as he's getting off the motorcycle, he looks back and we get a better view of the vehicle that was following him. At 3:34 we can see that it has lights on it, although it's still hard to tell if they're flashing or not, and at 3:36 we see the logo on the door, making it more apparent that this is a marked patrol car.
And all of this is in addition to the fact that he had been driving recklessly at speeds of up to 127 mph, and clearly knew that he was breaking the law. In that situation, if someone pulls you over and draws a gun, the first thought in your head is likely going to be that the person is with the police, not a random carjacker.
And NONE OF THIS FUCKING MATTERS to the fact he's facing 16 years of federal prison, not for speeding, not for popping wheelies, etc. etc.
It's for DARING to be in contempt of cop by putting the video on the internet. And to a certain extent, recording the video.
Furthermore, if the wrapped pigs were that close, what does THIS pig need to jump out with his gun for?
Plainclothes should be a backup role or ignore traffic issues, or one of these days one of them is going to get plugged over it.
Acting appropriately would be to tail the guy as long as is safe, and let the UNIFORMED police do the stop.
Some random guy pulling a gun (which is what the video looks like is occurring) and chasing someone, boxing them in, is grounds for JUSTIFIED SHOOTING of that person. Trying to get away is a much milder and very sensible response to what the aggressive asshole in the car was doing.
Someone saying they are a cop, does not make them a cop.
The cop is stupid because he let his ego get him into a situation that could get him shot for no reason.
Secondly, fuck your talk about traffic stops. This is not about traffic stops. This is about a corrupt police officer, in a corrupt department, backed by a corrupt district attorney.
Losing this case will result in more dead cops. When it gets to the point that what is what should be a big ass speeding ticket and loss of license instead turns into a trumped up charge that will result in life destroying federal prison sentences. Some people will just shrug, and then open fire on the cops.
Speeding is small potatoes compared to what this case could do in the long run. I know Slashdot is full of nearly autistic detail picking dumbshits, but come on, see the big picture for once.
Dynamite has 7.5 MJ/kg of energy. (7.5 million Joules per kilogram)
A megawatt rings in at 1 million joules per second.
A 32 megawatt laser has the power output then, compared to four kilograms of dynamite.
Even assuming spherical energy dispersal, and a very short beam burst, the target is still taking on a significant portion if not more than a kilogram of dynamite.
Which, will significantly increase the engineering requirements for survival the incoming warhead.
Sure, there may be counter measures, however, who do you think the US Navy will be up against that has a couple billion to throw at this _ONE_ method of attacking ships every couple years.
These things will be very effective at keeping the tin-pot-dictator of the week from getting a hit on one of our ships.
Also, I find your assumptions about efficiency and such laughable. The laser weapon consists of six beams (6 kilowatts each) which is well within the output of deployed weapon systems for more than a decade.
No. Complaining about a solution that may not work over one that definitely won't because the one that is a "maybe" is unknown is stupid egghead bullshit.
There's a reason you fucking nerds never get laid. Sometimes you just gotta cut your losses and deal with the fat chick.
The criticism of "what will it do to migratory patterns" is hopelessly detail oriented in a big picture that should be very obvious.
Out of 70k turtle babies, only a handful of them will survive in non-oil soaked condition in the first place.
The ecologists do not have legit concerns. They are simply doing what dumb narrow minded over specialized dorks do and should in this case, be ignored.
The US already throws people in jail using laws like this.
There are also adequate penalties for interfering with an investigation (which your example seems to be about).
However, an ordinary innocent citizen can be thrown in jail for doing nothing more than using a camcorder to record police officers visiting the neighbor next door. As happened to an open carry advocate last year, or as happened to that kid recording himself on his motorcycle that got jumped (at gunpoint) by an asshat police officer that didn't identify himself while running the guy off the road for speeding. The kid is in jail for making the recording, not for the speeding.
The principles and specific laws of the United States say they can take photographs without written permission from some bureaucrat you fucking fascist.
They should get in as much trouble as they can, then sue the shit out of the City, Metro Authority and police.
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Sorry, your antagonism against "ripping someone off" falls false when you consider that 85% of the downloaders when given the choice between not seeing the movie, and paying full price, would not see the movie. The availability of the download does not affect the sale because it never was going to happen in the first place.
Fuck, a lot of people couldn't see it because it wasn't ever released in their area for fucks sake. How does that download from bumfuck Oklahoma from some guy who can't possibly see the movie equal a "rip off"?
So shave a few more percent off that number for those dumb OKies.
Until you hollywood cock-gobblers start making analysis on something other than puffed up numbers, you have no moral leg to stand on . FUCKING NONE.
The only difference between most downloads of movies and waiting around to happen to catch it on HBO or something is the timing. That's it. No extra dollars go anywhere, no missing dollars not there that would have come in other situations.
You just can't stand to see someone get something for nothing when the other side of the equation means "no sale" at all. NEITHER side of that equation equals a sale.
Your list of numbers proves nothing.
First, comparing a movie from the 80's that has had 20 years to make money with one that has been out for 2 is a fallacy.
Second, ticket prices, fees, number of theaters are all different the farther you go back.
Three, they fucked up on the distribution (as stated many times in this discussion already), how many of the movies had a limited release on limited theaters? I see maybe ONE like that. So they missed a huge hump of ticket sales they could have had. Either they failed somehow during distribution, or some master plan went wrong somewhere.
FURTHERMORE, a lot of those movies are STILL being traded hand over fist in P2P even now. Yet they are record-breakers. By your dumb fuck standards, they should be losses.
Either way, you list means shit.
So no, YOU would be wrong about the reasons for the remarkably poor performance.
Their profit sucked because something the guys that made the movie sucked. Plot, distribution, timing, something...
Look! You pissed of the sino-apologist by lumping them with the cow-worshipers!
You should give it a rest, it's too obvious.
Here, let me fix your sig for you:
\-.-/
Now they eyes slant in the correct way.
The chinese have a consistent track record of cutting ethical and environmental corners, and doing business based on bribes.
There's no reason to believe this particular project will be any different.
You mean, they are Photoshopping pollution out of the pictures like they did in the olympics?
Or do you mean wiping out animals or moving 1 million people without concern for any ethics just for appearances?
Or forcing people at gun point to stop their businesses so the electricity could be used to light a stadium?
I noticed the chinese are up to their same old deceptive shit during the olympics.
There is a lot of grass roots green energy usage, but that's due to the fact there's a lot of extra labor around and areas where subsistence agriculture type living makes a hot shower once a week a friggin miracle. It's harder to run cars on sunlight than it is to heat a barrel of water.
So... Rule #35? No matter what it is, there's some loser somewhere addicted to it?
You know, for actual monetary damage, Farmville, Mafia Wars, Yahoo games and similar games probably do more economic damage to worker productivity than MMOPRGs ever could.
Actually, the idea that the guns come predominantly from the US is an outright lie.
Look at the pictures yourself.
The ejection ports are always down (making the guns sit up on the charging handle sometimes, or forward assist in the case of the Armalite style guns)
Facing the port down will also hide the status of the weapon as fully auto or semi-auto.
FULL auto guns are very expensive and very hard to get in the US. The idea that they are being bought through legit means (which is what gun control would control) is outright false.
IT. IS. A. FUCKING. LIE.
The badass guns the bad guys are getting come from the Mexican military, and the militaries and smuggling operations out of South American countries.
The guns they have traced are a small percentage of the ones seized, and the Mexicans have not turned any of them over to US authorities for examination in any credible way. IF these were purchased guns, having the serial number would make it EASY to find out where they came from.
In conclusion, IF the guns are coming from the US it's a "theft of gun" problem, not a "gun control problem"
The guns are in fact, coming from MEXICO itself, and it's a "theft of guns from military" problem, or gasp! maybe, gosh, dunno, just more government corruption and propensity to take bribes.
Tightening the gun control screws on law-abiding citizens (the only people additional laws affect) will do NOTHING to stop additional guns getting into the hands of Mexican gangs.
Anybody that does believe that, is a moron. Anybody that says that, is a LIAR.
Justice seems to only apply to the rich these days.
I would say that getting off with little or no punishment applies to the rich.
Justice is supposed to be blind and applied to all equally. Today's legal system has proven that wrong.
The legal system has NEVER done what the theory says it does on that aspect.
It probably never will, until we are ruled by the great Iron Masters the Machines!!!
Exactly - there's always a presumption of guilt for the man.
And many people will accuse a raped woman of bringing it on themselves and inviting the rape.
No, no they don't. The problem is you, Mrs. Anonymous Coward are the shrill feminist type that fails to make the distinction between:
Blame for the rape placed on the woman "asking for it"
And:
Frank discussion of the risks that were being taken at the time, that were essential or contributing components to the situation; which were also OPTIONAL.
For example; a person gets too drunk to realize getting a ride home from the four nice men that they met at the bar while in a foreign city isn't a good idea. Getting drunk: optional. Doing it in a foreign city: optional, going to the foreign city: optional. etc.
Yes, rape is bad, and the four nice men could have simply not violently violated all the orifices they did, but getting stinking drunk in a foreign city was STILL a necessary condition for the problem. People talk about THAT. That's not "blaming the victim" that's "learning from some dumbass' mistake".
Another example, pointing a loaded gun at one's face. We all laugh and point when some dumbass Darwins himself doing that. Yes, guns are dangerous and it sucks to get shot, but, there is a strong element of the victim's own behavior that set up the situation.
You, little twat ass feminists UTTERLY FAIL TO MAKE THAT FUCKING DISTINCTION. Just too stupid, maybe. I dunno.
So, discussion of risks gets marked down as "blame" when it is not that, it's discussion of risks.
Discussion of risks is a really good way to make things better. So it will be everywhere. But it's not labeled like that. It's mis-labeled as blame, when it is not.
You twats are not helping.
People forget peanut allergies and celiac's disease were almost nil until the mid-eighties. What happened in the 80's? Genetically modified food was introduced to the market. Today you can't hardly buy grain/fruit/vegetables that aren't GM and both allergies and celiac's are now considered normal. The fact is it's companies like Monsanto and Cargill that are causing this.
Everything above is an outright lie.
(Not to mention bad science post ergo hoc propter hoc is not a valid argument to draw conclusions on, as it is necessarily incomplete and therefore flawed.)
Celiac was not diagnosed because medical universities didn't teach about it, so doctors encountering it were essentially ignorant of the disease.
You talk like the average glenn beck sperm swallowing douchebag. Without further evidence, I can only conclude you are also a liar. "Spoke up plenty". Hah. Slashdot records every comment ever posted, go dig out some of this "spoke up". Until then, you are a liar.
"SWAG" is an acronym.
"Swag", is a term used in modern times to be freely given stuff, enough you need a bag for it. Usually logo bearing marketing crap.
And this is a perfect example of what the Tea Party movement is sick and tired of - a government that at all levels has forgotten that it exists solely at the pleasure of the citizens it rules. "Government is good - trust us" liberals have been telling us for years, ignoring the weight of all of human history that testifies loudly to the contrary. You twits forgot that liberty is the exception in the history of the world, and that oppression is the rule. And now you have the nerve to bitch about the size of the cage that you build around your own goddamned self? Fuck all you big-government apologist asshats.
That and negros winning elections.
And if the motorcyclist had exercised his "rights" he'd be 100% dead. And you know it. It's like a pedestrian who has right-of-way on a cross walk on a busy street....right and dead is not preferable to wrong and alive in 99.99999% of cases.
Yes, anonymous tard-face, thanks for stating the obvious.
The behavior of the police officer created the dangerous situation in which the motorcyclist may end up dead, even if it is after the cops kill him for drawing on a pig that drew on him first.
What if there were two motorcycles that looked alike? And the second one (just going to get milk down the block) got drawn on? Who then draws on, and shoots the cop, henceforth is shot by the other cop on the scene.
In that situation, the cop is 100% the cause of the problem.
Is this shown in the video or what's the source? That'd shed a lot of light on the situation if true.
It's in the video, but you have to watch pretty closely.
At 3:00, Graber turns around to look at the vehicle behind him. It's hard to make out the vehicle clearly from the video, and there's no audio at that point, but it's a pretty safe assumption that the reason he looked behind him was either because he saw flashing lights in his rear-view mirror, or he heard sirens, or both. Then, as he's getting off the motorcycle, he looks back and we get a better view of the vehicle that was following him. At 3:34 we can see that it has lights on it, although it's still hard to tell if they're flashing or not, and at 3:36 we see the logo on the door, making it more apparent that this is a marked patrol car.
And all of this is in addition to the fact that he had been driving recklessly at speeds of up to 127 mph, and clearly knew that he was breaking the law. In that situation, if someone pulls you over and draws a gun, the first thought in your head is likely going to be that the person is with the police, not a random carjacker.
And NONE OF THIS FUCKING MATTERS to the fact he's facing 16 years of federal prison, not for speeding, not for popping wheelies, etc. etc.
It's for DARING to be in contempt of cop by putting the video on the internet. And to a certain extent, recording the video.
Furthermore, if the wrapped pigs were that close, what does THIS pig need to jump out with his gun for?
Plainclothes should be a backup role or ignore traffic issues, or one of these days one of them is going to get plugged over it.
It doesn't seem to me like Maryland's Prosecutor is remotely interested in following the law.
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy on the side of an interstate off ramp.
So why is there still a case? Oh, yeah, corrupt cops in Maryland.
Acting appropriately would be to tail the guy as long as is safe, and let the UNIFORMED police do the stop.
Some random guy pulling a gun (which is what the video looks like is occurring) and chasing someone, boxing them in, is grounds for JUSTIFIED SHOOTING of that person. Trying to get away is a much milder and very sensible response to what the aggressive asshole in the car was doing.
Someone saying they are a cop, does not make them a cop.
The cop is stupid because he let his ego get him into a situation that could get him shot for no reason.
Secondly, fuck your talk about traffic stops. This is not about traffic stops. This is about a corrupt police officer, in a corrupt department, backed by a corrupt district attorney.
Losing this case will result in more dead cops. When it gets to the point that what is what should be a big ass speeding ticket and loss of license instead turns into a trumped up charge that will result in life destroying federal prison sentences. Some people will just shrug, and then open fire on the cops.
Speeding is small potatoes compared to what this case could do in the long run. I know Slashdot is full of nearly autistic detail picking dumbshits, but come on, see the big picture for once.
And then post it on YouTube. ;)
They are only trying to suggest it's illegal to tape in public as a side effect of the real message.
The real message, is you do not disrespect cops in the police state of Maryland.
The trial, and uproar will be the deciding factor of whether it works or not.
Because, in that situation, on the bike, with a small pistol, you shoot for the center of mass numbnuts.
Two to the gut, one to the chest cavity.
Considering the cops I see, the gut is the easiest shot.
Head shots are for noobs and video games.
The control system is external so it has the benefit of a side-view comparison of the flight path and motion.
They'll need to come up with vertically binocular vision and a bit more computer power on board before this thing is useful.
Right now it's one part of a bigger system.
Dynamite has 7.5 MJ/kg of energy. (7.5 million Joules per kilogram)
A megawatt rings in at 1 million joules per second.
A 32 megawatt laser has the power output then, compared to four kilograms of dynamite.
Even assuming spherical energy dispersal, and a very short beam burst, the target is still taking on a significant portion if not more than a kilogram of dynamite.
Which, will significantly increase the engineering requirements for survival the incoming warhead.
Sure, there may be counter measures, however, who do you think the US Navy will be up against that has a couple billion to throw at this _ONE_ method of attacking ships every couple years.
These things will be very effective at keeping the tin-pot-dictator of the week from getting a hit on one of our ships.
Also, I find your assumptions about efficiency and such laughable. The laser weapon consists of six beams (6 kilowatts each) which is well within the output of deployed weapon systems for more than a decade.
No. Complaining about a solution that may not work over one that definitely won't because the one that is a "maybe" is unknown is stupid egghead bullshit.
There's a reason you fucking nerds never get laid. Sometimes you just gotta cut your losses and deal with the fat chick.
The criticism of "what will it do to migratory patterns" is hopelessly detail oriented in a big picture that should be very obvious.
Out of 70k turtle babies, only a handful of them will survive in non-oil soaked condition in the first place.
The ecologists do not have legit concerns. They are simply doing what dumb narrow minded over specialized dorks do and should in this case, be ignored.
The US already has laws like this.
The US already throws people in jail using laws like this.
There are also adequate penalties for interfering with an investigation (which your example seems to be about).
However, an ordinary innocent citizen can be thrown in jail for doing nothing more than using a camcorder to record police officers visiting the neighbor next door. As happened to an open carry advocate last year, or as happened to that kid recording himself on his motorcycle that got jumped (at gunpoint) by an asshat police officer that didn't identify himself while running the guy off the road for speeding. The kid is in jail for making the recording, not for the speeding.
The US is not as free as you think it is.
The principles and specific laws of the United States say they can take photographs without written permission from some bureaucrat you fucking fascist. They should get in as much trouble as they can, then sue the shit out of the City, Metro Authority and police.