You snark... but that page has 11 scripts from itself, 1 from assets.adobetm.com, 1 from brightcove, 1 from apis.google.com, 1 from ajax.google.com, and one from platform.twitter.com.
The amount of shit which comes in the form of Javascript is mind boggling.. let alone all of the web bugs and beacons for the assholes who run the analytics companies.
Basically they intentionally write their pages so they pretty much don't work unless you're allowing the other crap to run. So, yes, I think the GP has a perfectly valid point. You don't need javascript to display the basic text of your story or do your page layout.
It's just garbage written by lazy people who are beholden to advertising companies.
Fortunately, with enough plugins, you can block this crap
Pretty much exactly this. In 1998 or so, home theater was exotic and for the well heeled.
Nowadays you can have a decent system for not that much, and larger screen TVs are pretty common.
Unless you like uncomfortable seats, random crowds, and overpriced tickets and food... why would you?
When X-Men first came out on DVD, it sold more money in retail sales for the DVD than the leading ticket sales in the box office.
This did two things: it made the studios realize how big the demand was for superhero movies when they were well done, and it made them see just how big the home market had become.
Since then the shift has probably been pretty steady. I know it has for me.
Gee, let's see... I can go to a place where my feet stick to the floor, where I have limited leg room, and the annoying teenager in front of me is texting the whole time.
Or I can buy the Blu Ray, watch it in the comfort of my own basement, which has a reasonable size screen, surround sound, recliners, and the availability of beer.
The home theater experience is now much better in a lot of ways. I used to only go to watch the really big block buster films... now I just wait 3-4 months until I can buy it and watch it at home. By the time you buy the tickets and the over-priced concession food... it's not even cost effective any more.
Watching a movie in the cinema these days is no longer an enjoyable experience. Precisely because it isn't as comfortable and under my control as in my own home.
Nobody should be surprised at this... because in the last 10 years almost everybody has a big screen TV and surround sound. Precisely because the cinema experience is expensive and can be annoying.
I haven't watched a movie in the cinema in several years now, and that's unlikely to change soon.
Why with opposable thumbs you could build something which flashes in big giant neon letters that the Indian government is stupid and reactionary, and meddling with things they can't even grasp.
Just like every other fucking moronic government in the world.
A lie, used to establish the basis of precedent, and to continue to act as if you are "winning".
No, not chump change at all. The kind of "not chump change" that should get you RICO charges. Because this is about as "corrupt organization" as you can get.
Nothing the *AAs have ever told us about copyright is based in fact, and they've used those lies to bully laws into existence which favor them. It's really time to start applying actual criminal charges to these organizations. Because they really are corrupt oligarchies who demand influence over the law.
Some of these clowns need serious jail time. And every politician who is paid for by them has sold us up the river to enrich themselves.
So, just fucking great, we have huge multinationals lying in public, and paying the politicians to get what they want.
It has always been meaningless. It's a voluntary thing which says nothing at all, and isn't legally binding. It's complete drivel. It's something the industry put out to give the illusion of giving a shit about what we want.
Want to prevent tracking? Don't let the packets happen in the first place. Use things like NoScript, Request Policy and HTTP Switchboard to deny the access entirely.
Treat this stuff like the shit that it is... intrusive advertising and tracking about everything you do.
The only way to win is block as much of this crap from your browser as you can. You don't owe these companies this data, and the less you provide to them the better.
And when they whine and bitch about their revenue stream and their terms of service... well, too damned bad. You aren't required to pull in any packets you don't wish to.
Once you start using these blocking plugins, you'll be amazed at just how much crap is actually embedded in most every page. One some sites, literally dozens of 3rd parties... none of whom give a shit about your Do Not Track setting. So just block them entirely.
If we do it, Sony is one of the companies who helped pay for the law which says you and I would have to pay massive amounts of statutory damages, with additional punitive damages for having done it on purpose.
I want Sony to receive the same magnitude of punishment as they would insist we receive.
Because I really despise multinationals when they argue both sides of the same legal argument as it benefits them.
There's too much retcon in Trek to suggest that the canon might be immutable.
Not gonna lie.. had to look up retcon.
Vulcan was destroyed by time traveling angry Romulans. There is no 'ret' to 'con'... they wiped out the future history of pretty much everything about James T Kirk, Spock, The Federation,,, the canon was burned so completely they have a lot of room to do anything they want.
Like, for example, the theme song to Enterprise
LOL, I didn't see Enterprise until it was in syndication... and once you got over 'nipple Vulcan' and up to at least the middle of season two I actually started to like it. But, yeah. It wasn't for everybody, and took a while to find its footing.
They made exciting movies, but I don't want to watch them again, because they had no substance.
Well, I won't argue the point. It was escapism and action since I'm a fan of both. However, the market wants that, and it sells tickets... because most people have no substance.
But, sooner or later, we can hope that someone will remember they're making a Star Trek, and that Roddenberry had some really great vision, and to try to stick with that.
In the meantime, I will accept a romantic relationship between Spock and Uhura as a placeholder, and some really good action sequences.
Yes, I want Trek to tackle big issues. But, dammit, I want action sequences, and sex with green chicks. And the first two have done that.
The third is now so completely freed from specific expectation that they (hopefully) will make an awesome movie which satisfies a lot of people. If they don't... well, then Star Trek has pretty much turned into Star Wars, and will be driven into the ground in the same way.
So, I liked the first two of the reboot, and they're still in the process of establishing the "new" Trek universe. But look at where that took Marvel with both the Avengers and X-Men. They have all the room they need to define it and run with it. We have Earth, and we have Klingons in a now very explicitly alternate universe... and that's a *lot*.
If you put it in the hands of people who are fans, they'll make good movies if you let them. So while I'm afraid Star Trek movies will become simply action/space opera... I really hope they do something more. But, if the best they do is some action films... well, I might buy them in the sale bin of DVDs.
I guess I disagree that they are "acting like assholes" by regulating resources on their property to benefit their business.
Except communications spectrum and devices aren't their fucking resources to regulate or control.
And the FCC has long said you can't block someone else's signal, especially just to boost your own business.
In your car analogy... this isn't Ford's stall. Marriott do not own the airwaves. Marriott has to use it under the same damned terms as the rest of us.
And those terms explicitly don't allow what they're trying to do.
Dude, you're far too wedded to the canon you've built up as something immutable.
As a long time Trek geek... I like the fact that they basically burned the canon and made it so they can do anything they want to.
Because now they can focus on making (hopefully good) movies without every nerd in the world going apeshit and whining that something isn't consistent with the original series or some bit of fanboi Trek porn they read.
No, entrenching the right for corporations to act like assholes to maximize their profits means you live in an oligarchy.
Which is far worse than living in a socialist state.
You sure as hell don't live in the free market state most Americans seem to believe in either.
Perhaps this is "Corporate Assholes" trying to monetize their investment in their hotel property and make money as most businesses are created to do?
Basically they want an exemption from FCC regulations in order to get customer lock in. They want to be able to block competing services so customers have no choice but to pay them money.
There's a huge difference between wanting to have their own service, and wanting the ability to block someone else's.
But, hey, enjoy your corporate douchebag overlords.
Actually its the mark of a statist/totalitarian masquerading as a Conservative
Yawn, whatever. This is the same "no true Scottsman" crap, because there is no universal definition, and I suspect among themselves 'conservatives' can't agree on a definition.
Hate the sin, NOT the sinner
See, the problem is you still define it in terms of your own damned religion.
So, I'll go with "hate the religious idiot, not the religion".
Any 'Conservative' or religious person who wishes to outlaw stuff on the basis of their religion is worthy of as much contempt as the Taliban, and are little different in my opinion. They're just someone who thinks their religious beliefs should be entrenched in law, and who want reality to be defined in terms of their beliefs.
But, unmistakably, a lot of people who are 'conservatives' (whatever the heck that means) are opposed to government restricting rights, unless it's to impose their own beliefs. And then they're totally fine with it.
So, to exercise my freedom of speech... to hell with your religion. You are free to believe what you like in private, but leave the rest of us alone.
Back in August, Marriott, business partner Ryman Hospitality Properties and trade group the American Hotel and Lodging Association asked the FCC to clarify when hotels can block outside Wi-Fi hotspots in order to protect their internal Wi-Fi services.
"We need rent seeking and the ability to limit outside competition so we can maximize profits."
Sorry, but this is just corporate assholes asking to be treated as special.
And, of course, government will hand it right over to them, because all politicians worship at the altar of corporate profits being entrenched into law. Even the ones who claim to be in favor of free markets.
The only free market is how much the fucking lobbyists pay to buy laws. Because that avoids public scrutiny.
Well, then why don't Conservative parents fuck off, do their own parenting, and not insist on foisting laws on the rest of us to keep care of their children?
Outlawing everything you find personally objectionable or that you don't want your children to see if the mark of an asshole.
They wont need to collect the trash since they will be floating in international waters with no regulations, they will just throw it overboard and let us deal with it.
And they will claim that if the free market desires cleaning this stuff up, it will find an optimal solution.
Because they'll be just as deluded on their floating Ayn Rand Utopia as they are in real life.
Ayn Rand... providing a manual and justification for being an epic douchebag and a rabid moron for decades.
Ah, but remember, it cost a lot to make a massively profitable movie look like it lost money. A small independent film might not have the resources to commit fraud on such a scale as the Hollywood guys do.
It's like Wall Street, the small player lacks the ability to rob people nearly as efficiently as the big players do.
Remember, this movie might not be a "major blockbuster", so there might not have been as much money allocated to the "hide the money" campaign.
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You snark ... but that page has 11 scripts from itself, 1 from assets.adobetm.com, 1 from brightcove, 1 from apis.google.com, 1 from ajax.google.com, and one from platform.twitter.com.
The amount of shit which comes in the form of Javascript is mind boggling .. let alone all of the web bugs and beacons for the assholes who run the analytics companies.
Basically they intentionally write their pages so they pretty much don't work unless you're allowing the other crap to run. So, yes, I think the GP has a perfectly valid point. You don't need javascript to display the basic text of your story or do your page layout.
It's just garbage written by lazy people who are beholden to advertising companies.
Fortunately, with enough plugins, you can block this crap
I see what you did there ...
LOL ... no, my basement (ok, me and the wife) ... the man cave as I call it.
Pretty much set up for being an office and a media room with a fireplace.
My mother never had such a cool basement. :-P
Pretty much exactly this. In 1998 or so, home theater was exotic and for the well heeled.
Nowadays you can have a decent system for not that much, and larger screen TVs are pretty common.
Unless you like uncomfortable seats, random crowds, and overpriced tickets and food ... why would you?
When X-Men first came out on DVD, it sold more money in retail sales for the DVD than the leading ticket sales in the box office.
This did two things: it made the studios realize how big the demand was for superhero movies when they were well done, and it made them see just how big the home market had become.
Since then the shift has probably been pretty steady. I know it has for me.
Why would I go to the theater?
Gee, let's see ... I can go to a place where my feet stick to the floor, where I have limited leg room, and the annoying teenager in front of me is texting the whole time.
Or I can buy the Blu Ray, watch it in the comfort of my own basement, which has a reasonable size screen, surround sound, recliners, and the availability of beer.
The home theater experience is now much better in a lot of ways. I used to only go to watch the really big block buster films ... now I just wait 3-4 months until I can buy it and watch it at home. By the time you buy the tickets and the over-priced concession food ... it's not even cost effective any more.
Watching a movie in the cinema these days is no longer an enjoyable experience. Precisely because it isn't as comfortable and under my control as in my own home.
Nobody should be surprised at this ... because in the last 10 years almost everybody has a big screen TV and surround sound. Precisely because the cinema experience is expensive and can be annoying.
I haven't watched a movie in the cinema in several years now, and that's unlikely to change soon.
Yarg! It's time to outlaw opposable thumbs.
Why with opposable thumbs you could build something which flashes in big giant neon letters that the Indian government is stupid and reactionary, and meddling with things they can't even grasp.
Just like every other fucking moronic government in the world.
I was thinking long rifles might be a good start.
To hell with a political solution. Let's go for a nice practical one.
A lie, used to establish the basis of precedent, and to continue to act as if you are "winning".
No, not chump change at all. The kind of "not chump change" that should get you RICO charges. Because this is about as "corrupt organization" as you can get.
Nothing the *AAs have ever told us about copyright is based in fact, and they've used those lies to bully laws into existence which favor them. It's really time to start applying actual criminal charges to these organizations. Because they really are corrupt oligarchies who demand influence over the law.
Some of these clowns need serious jail time. And every politician who is paid for by them has sold us up the river to enrich themselves.
So, just fucking great, we have huge multinationals lying in public, and paying the politicians to get what they want.
Of course Do Not Track is meaningless.
It has always been meaningless. It's a voluntary thing which says nothing at all, and isn't legally binding. It's complete drivel. It's something the industry put out to give the illusion of giving a shit about what we want.
Want to prevent tracking? Don't let the packets happen in the first place. Use things like NoScript, Request Policy and HTTP Switchboard to deny the access entirely.
Treat this stuff like the shit that it is ... intrusive advertising and tracking about everything you do.
The only way to win is block as much of this crap from your browser as you can. You don't owe these companies this data, and the less you provide to them the better.
And when they whine and bitch about their revenue stream and their terms of service ... well, too damned bad. You aren't required to pull in any packets you don't wish to.
Once you start using these blocking plugins, you'll be amazed at just how much crap is actually embedded in most every page. One some sites, literally dozens of 3rd parties ... none of whom give a shit about your Do Not Track setting. So just block them entirely.
If we do it, Sony is one of the companies who helped pay for the law which says you and I would have to pay massive amounts of statutory damages, with additional punitive damages for having done it on purpose.
I want Sony to receive the same magnitude of punishment as they would insist we receive.
Because I really despise multinationals when they argue both sides of the same legal argument as it benefits them.
So, once again, if we do this we get crushed under the heel of a team of lawyers.
But a multinational like Sony does it and I bet they'll just dicker and claim some bullshit like fair use they routinely deny exists.
I sincerely hope Sony has to pay a massive fine for this ... something on par with what we'd get beat down with.
Not gonna lie .. had to look up retcon.
Vulcan was destroyed by time traveling angry Romulans. There is no 'ret' to 'con' ... they wiped out the future history of pretty much everything about James T Kirk, Spock, The Federation ,,, the canon was burned so completely they have a lot of room to do anything they want.
LOL, I didn't see Enterprise until it was in syndication ... and once you got over 'nipple Vulcan' and up to at least the middle of season two I actually started to like it. But, yeah. It wasn't for everybody, and took a while to find its footing.
Well, I won't argue the point. It was escapism and action since I'm a fan of both. However, the market wants that, and it sells tickets ... because most people have no substance.
But, sooner or later, we can hope that someone will remember they're making a Star Trek, and that Roddenberry had some really great vision, and to try to stick with that.
In the meantime, I will accept a romantic relationship between Spock and Uhura as a placeholder, and some really good action sequences.
Yes, I want Trek to tackle big issues. But, dammit, I want action sequences, and sex with green chicks. And the first two have done that.
The third is now so completely freed from specific expectation that they (hopefully) will make an awesome movie which satisfies a lot of people. If they don't ... well, then Star Trek has pretty much turned into Star Wars, and will be driven into the ground in the same way.
So, I liked the first two of the reboot, and they're still in the process of establishing the "new" Trek universe. But look at where that took Marvel with both the Avengers and X-Men. They have all the room they need to define it and run with it. We have Earth, and we have Klingons in a now very explicitly alternate universe ... and that's a *lot*.
If you put it in the hands of people who are fans, they'll make good movies if you let them. So while I'm afraid Star Trek movies will become simply action/space opera ... I really hope they do something more. But, if the best they do is some action films ... well, I might buy them in the sale bin of DVDs.
Except communications spectrum and devices aren't their fucking resources to regulate or control.
And the FCC has long said you can't block someone else's signal, especially just to boost your own business.
In your car analogy ... this isn't Ford's stall. Marriott do not own the airwaves. Marriott has to use it under the same damned terms as the rest of us.
And those terms explicitly don't allow what they're trying to do.
Dude, you're far too wedded to the canon you've built up as something immutable.
As a long time Trek geek ... I like the fact that they basically burned the canon and made it so they can do anything they want to.
Because now they can focus on making (hopefully good) movies without every nerd in the world going apeshit and whining that something isn't consistent with the original series or some bit of fanboi Trek porn they read.
Wow, if you're gonna be a grammar nazi, you should at least endeavor to fact check your own crap.
Because you're completely wrong.
No, entrenching the right for corporations to act like assholes to maximize their profits means you live in an oligarchy.
Which is far worse than living in a socialist state.
You sure as hell don't live in the free market state most Americans seem to believe in either.
Basically they want an exemption from FCC regulations in order to get customer lock in. They want to be able to block competing services so customers have no choice but to pay them money.
There's a huge difference between wanting to have their own service, and wanting the ability to block someone else's.
But, hey, enjoy your corporate douchebag overlords.
Yawn, whatever. This is the same "no true Scottsman" crap, because there is no universal definition, and I suspect among themselves 'conservatives' can't agree on a definition.
See, the problem is you still define it in terms of your own damned religion.
So, I'll go with "hate the religious idiot, not the religion".
Any 'Conservative' or religious person who wishes to outlaw stuff on the basis of their religion is worthy of as much contempt as the Taliban, and are little different in my opinion. They're just someone who thinks their religious beliefs should be entrenched in law, and who want reality to be defined in terms of their beliefs.
But, unmistakably, a lot of people who are 'conservatives' (whatever the heck that means) are opposed to government restricting rights, unless it's to impose their own beliefs. And then they're totally fine with it.
So, to exercise my freedom of speech ... to hell with your religion. You are free to believe what you like in private, but leave the rest of us alone.
"We need rent seeking and the ability to limit outside competition so we can maximize profits."
Sorry, but this is just corporate assholes asking to be treated as special.
And, of course, government will hand it right over to them, because all politicians worship at the altar of corporate profits being entrenched into law. Even the ones who claim to be in favor of free markets.
The only free market is how much the fucking lobbyists pay to buy laws. Because that avoids public scrutiny.
"we're all gonna die! we're all gonna die"
I hope they learned a lot. :-P
Well, then why don't Conservative parents fuck off, do their own parenting, and not insist on foisting laws on the rest of us to keep care of their children?
Outlawing everything you find personally objectionable or that you don't want your children to see if the mark of an asshole.
And they will claim that if the free market desires cleaning this stuff up, it will find an optimal solution.
Because they'll be just as deluded on their floating Ayn Rand Utopia as they are in real life.
Ayn Rand ... providing a manual and justification for being an epic douchebag and a rabid moron for decades.
Ah, but remember, it cost a lot to make a massively profitable movie look like it lost money. A small independent film might not have the resources to commit fraud on such a scale as the Hollywood guys do.
It's like Wall Street, the small player lacks the ability to rob people nearly as efficiently as the big players do.
Remember, this movie might not be a "major blockbuster", so there might not have been as much money allocated to the "hide the money" campaign.
Well, technically they only control the container which creates a solution from whatever liquid you put into the coffee maker.
You would, for example, be perfectly free to put beer in your Keurig to brew coffee with.
Or pee in someone else's.
Wow, where do I get one of those cards?
My machine would constantly be broken. ;-)
In the world where you get paid by adcash.com.