I don't know how well it's doing as a business, but there are many advantages to renting from Netflix rather than the big chain stores. They let you keep movies as long as you want. They have a far larger inventory than any brick and mortar store. Blockbuster is great if you're looking for domestic new releases, or you need to rent something in a hurry, but they blow half-digested-popcorn-chunks if you're looking for foreign or old (and by old I mean, older than a couple of years) movies.
Plus they actually have NC-17 stuff. Most Hollywood and Blockbusters won't rent those, or carry only censored versions. Personally, I prefer to be treated like an adult.
No bullying victim ("nerd" or not) deserves to be bullied based on their behavior, any more than any rape victim deserves to be raped based on what they were wearing.
Ah, a time honored and classic logical fallacy.
I do think a bloody nose is a fair exchange for, say, telling an insecure nine year old he's a moron in front of his peers.
I don't think rape is a fair exchange for wearing skimpy clothing. But of course you knew that would likely be the case. However, being unable to form a valid argument, you preferred to simply imply that I'm in favor of rape.
So are you trolling, or just a total and complete asshole?
Why bother asking? It appears that merely expressing an opinion contrary to your own is sufficient to mark me as both in your eyes.
Being a nerd, remember getting mistreated by bullies back in school?
I remember that many people who were bullied weren't nerds. (Not that geeks ever notice anyone's suffering but their own.) I remember that some of those who were nerds acutally did things to deserve bullying. And whether they did or not, I note that many of these geeks develop an excruciatingly irritating victim complex that they use in a passive-aggressive fashion to manipulate others throughout their adult lives -- ironically making them worse social rejects as adults than they were as children.
thus opening the path for you again taste the bitterness of injustice
What bitter injustice do most nerds face? Are they barred from the best country clubs? Do they need affirmative action to get a job? Is half the geek population rotting in jail? Has anyone attempted to ethnically cleanse them?
Or has their dot-com stock not done as well as they had hoped, thus crushing their plans to retire at age 30.
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This classic AFU post does a very good job of explaining why that's nothing to be peeved about. Worth a read.
I don't know how well it's doing as a business, but there are many advantages to renting from Netflix rather than the big chain stores. They let you keep movies as long as you want. They have a far larger inventory than any brick and mortar store. Blockbuster is great if you're looking for domestic new releases, or you need to rent something in a hurry, but they blow half-digested-popcorn-chunks if you're looking for foreign or old (and by old I mean, older than a couple of years) movies.
Plus they actually have NC-17 stuff. Most Hollywood and Blockbusters won't rent those, or carry only censored versions. Personally, I prefer to be treated like an adult.
Ah, a time honored and classic logical fallacy.
I do think a bloody nose is a fair exchange for, say, telling an insecure nine year old he's a moron in front of his peers.
I don't think rape is a fair exchange for wearing skimpy clothing. But of course you knew that would likely be the case. However, being unable to form a valid argument, you preferred to simply imply that I'm in favor of rape.
So are you trolling, or just a total and complete asshole?
Why bother asking? It appears that merely expressing an opinion contrary to your own is sufficient to mark me as both in your eyes.
I remember that many people who were bullied weren't nerds. (Not that geeks ever notice anyone's suffering but their own.) I remember that some of those who were nerds acutally did things to deserve bullying. And whether they did or not, I note that many of these geeks develop an excruciatingly irritating victim complex that they use in a passive-aggressive fashion to manipulate others throughout their adult lives -- ironically making them worse social rejects as adults than they were as children.
thus opening the path for you again taste the bitterness of injustice
What bitter injustice do most nerds face? Are they barred from the best country clubs? Do they need affirmative action to get a job? Is half the geek population rotting in jail? Has anyone attempted to ethnically cleanse them?
Or has their dot-com stock not done as well as they had hoped, thus crushing their plans to retire at age 30.