this is what i originally wanted to know...whether the money went to players or a different organization. thank you for clearing it up.
As for the previous comment, i do not mean to judge, and you points are very valid - i understand what you are saying.
I guess i blew it out of proportion - this is not the type of thing that is going to start a revolution. Thank you for your ideas.
i guess my definitions of working hard for the things i have do not include hitting a ball. other's view that as more difficult, so i suppose it's going to be a matter of opinion in that.
i might add that in one point in my life, i did not have anything but the clothes i was wearing and a pack of cigarettes. so i do know what that's like.
i will admit i don't follow sports of any kind, but, aren't these the same kind of people that just stopped playing because they felt they weren't making enough money? well that was the players, but are these the same people?
I think these people should be stripped of all their worldy possesions, and forced to live in poverty for a few years, so that their sense of reality can be re-adjusted.
the titanium balls that were supposedly 'fuel' containers - were actually not titanium.
The Russian government, in order to reduce expenses, actually purchased these containers from the Hatfields, it was surplus distillery equipment... and being so, it was used as such - i'm sure that tests on the surving, floating balls will show high levels of alcohol in them.
since no one has mentioned wargames, i think i will.... so now that that's over... many people have brought up the past run of 'techno' movies (and lest we not forget Hackers - cheezy, but johnny lee miller and angelina jolie - how can you go wrong) anyway - the technocyber movies of yester-decade and today are for a different audience. suspense and action to your average lunkhead american means 'when is that car going to blow up' or 'i wonder if the police will catch them' of course it always blows up and the police never catch them (if you're supposed to like the police, then they always do catch them). regardless, suspense for the more tech savy is aparently ryan fillipe sitting infront of a monitor, wondering if he can code/hack fast enough....'can he get that IP?' two different audiences, two different movies (one with a plot and one without... i'll let you decide). apples and oranges. In another 20 years when (perish the thought of being that old) the kids (10-20) of today are older, the real popular action movie will be the techo type...most of the lunkheads will be dying out - but there will still always be some around. and as long as they are, and someone has more money than they know what to do with, there will be the classic blow'em'up movie. over the next decade+ you will see more of these techno movies, and less of the vandamme etc...
remember also - movies: 50% business, 50% "i have enough money to do whatever i want i don't care if it sucks, i want to play!"
1) it will not happen in the us for a long long long LONG time. This is part of the "last mile" problem that telcos isps, pretty much everyone and their dog has been wondering about for the last umm ever. there was a compnay in houston that was planning on pushing fiber to the door... but not serving as an ISP - only the physical connect to the telco.
2) to build an infastructure like that is very expensive and time consuming, not to mention that when you drive dowtown - that orange paint on the road with those little arrows means that fiber is going in, and you won't be able to drive anywhere anymore.
3) ISP powerline stuff is a great idea, the network is pretty much built, but running fiber from pole to pole is not a good idea, that's why a vast majority of it is burried in the ground.
with the way the economy is now, the fact that telcos, IXC's etc... are now pretty much being punished by the same people that financed them a little while back - no one is going to build anything super great like this... not for a long long time. there are other issues (legal) surrounding last mile as well....
from a business stance on USEN, they should have rolled out with a 10mbs and a 100mbs service, offering the allusion of choice to the customer, and they still could have charged the US$40 for 10mbs.
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this is what i originally wanted to know...whether the money went to players or a different organization. thank you for clearing it up. As for the previous comment, i do not mean to judge, and you points are very valid - i understand what you are saying. I guess i blew it out of proportion - this is not the type of thing that is going to start a revolution. Thank you for your ideas.
i guess my definitions of working hard for the things i have do not include hitting a ball. other's view that as more difficult, so i suppose it's going to be a matter of opinion in that. i might add that in one point in my life, i did not have anything but the clothes i was wearing and a pack of cigarettes. so i do know what that's like.
i will admit i don't follow sports of any kind, but, aren't these the same kind of people that just stopped playing because they felt they weren't making enough money? well that was the players, but are these the same people? I think these people should be stripped of all their worldy possesions, and forced to live in poverty for a few years, so that their sense of reality can be re-adjusted.
the titanium balls that were supposedly 'fuel' containers - were actually not titanium. The Russian government, in order to reduce expenses, actually purchased these containers from the Hatfields, it was surplus distillery equipment... and being so, it was used as such - i'm sure that tests on the surving, floating balls will show high levels of alcohol in them.
since no one has mentioned wargames, i think i will.... so now that that's over... many people have brought up the past run of 'techno' movies (and lest we not forget Hackers - cheezy, but johnny lee miller and angelina jolie - how can you go wrong) anyway - the technocyber movies of yester-decade and today are for a different audience. suspense and action to your average lunkhead american means 'when is that car going to blow up' or 'i wonder if the police will catch them' of course it always blows up and the police never catch them (if you're supposed to like the police, then they always do catch them). regardless, suspense for the more tech savy is aparently ryan fillipe sitting infront of a monitor, wondering if he can code/hack fast enough....'can he get that IP?' two different audiences, two different movies (one with a plot and one without... i'll let you decide). apples and oranges. In another 20 years when (perish the thought of being that old) the kids (10-20) of today are older, the real popular action movie will be the techo type...most of the lunkheads will be dying out - but there will still always be some around. and as long as they are, and someone has more money than they know what to do with, there will be the classic blow'em'up movie. over the next decade+ you will see more of these techno movies, and less of the vandamme etc... remember also - movies: 50% business, 50% "i have enough money to do whatever i want i don't care if it sucks, i want to play!"
1) it will not happen in the us for a long long long LONG time. This is part of the "last mile" problem that telcos isps, pretty much everyone and their dog has been wondering about for the last umm ever. there was a compnay in houston that was planning on pushing fiber to the door... but not serving as an ISP - only the physical connect to the telco. 2) to build an infastructure like that is very expensive and time consuming, not to mention that when you drive dowtown - that orange paint on the road with those little arrows means that fiber is going in, and you won't be able to drive anywhere anymore. 3) ISP powerline stuff is a great idea, the network is pretty much built, but running fiber from pole to pole is not a good idea, that's why a vast majority of it is burried in the ground. with the way the economy is now, the fact that telcos, IXC's etc... are now pretty much being punished by the same people that financed them a little while back - no one is going to build anything super great like this... not for a long long time. there are other issues (legal) surrounding last mile as well.... from a business stance on USEN, they should have rolled out with a 10mbs and a 100mbs service, offering the allusion of choice to the customer, and they still could have charged the US$40 for 10mbs.