Maybe I'm wrong to be bothered by this - but I think it is sad that I'm seeing it in so many places being presented as a humorous story. I would posit that if you can't see the humor in legislation allowing blind people to shoot potentially lethal firearms, that you have become too sensitive to the issue for your own good.
I know for a fact that my friend who is wheelchair bound would laugh his ass off if he heard, for example, that the Olympics would allow people like him to compete by, say, strapping a wheelchair to a legged individual. For him and for me, part of the way we deal with the challenges he faces is by the ability to see the humor that presents itself.
The vital difference in the case is that network television gets permission from the studio or production companies in order to edit them down, and generally it's the studios that do the editing. The same goes for movies shown in transit, like on long-haul busses or airplanes, who show a cleaned-up version of movies while the trip is in progress. Airlines and bus lines don't do any editing, they rely on whomever their distributor is to do that.
Cleanedit et al. are doing unauthorized editing, and reselling the product. This is sale of a derivative work, without permission from (and more to the point, compensation to) the studios or whoever holds copyright.
An argument could be made to fair use that a person who buys a disc is within their right to create an edited family friendly version on her own.
I guess now, their only options are to
a) not buy the entertainment.
b) elect politicians who make it legal or who make the depicted acts illegal.
I see at least two more options:
c) buy the disc, and edit it down as stated.
d) pressure the studios/production companies to release an 'edited for content' version of their disc, similar to the one distributed to the venues stated above
On the contrary, most film studios require scripts to be written in a precise format, including the use of Courier. It has to do with that if action and dialogue are typed out in the specific format, then one page's worth of typing generally becomes one minute's worth of on screen action. Of course, not every page is an exact minute, but it tends to balance out over the course of the screenplay.
It's also an entrenched format which no one in the industry cares nearly enough to change.
If I own a DVD, it's well within my rights if I don't want to see it all the way through, mute some parts, hear some parts in a provided alternate language track, watch it backwards, or skip over parts I don't want to see. Consider: if I feel that the best way to experience looking at a painting I own is to look at it standing on my head, no one has any right to criticize. You may think me silly, but you can't say I can't do that, even if you painted it.
Censorship implies that there is a third party (such as the government) interceding and preventing the original art from being shown. In the case of the Brigham Young University viewing of Schindler's List, it is censorship because it wasn't a private viewing by a home video owner, but a public showing, and BYU wanted to censor what it considered offensive. That is a case where the artist has a right to prevent a showing.
On-the-fly editing is not censorship. If I choose to see the film in such a manner as I see fit, the director has no right to say I can't, because I'm not imposing my view onto others, like BYU was by wanting to show a film deviating from the artist's vision.
By extension, I think ClearPlay is perfectly legal. ClearPlay is not distributing any version of the film, it is providing a method of playing studio-made DVDs while editing on the fly. The viewer and owner of the disc needs to agree that she wants to see the film in the way proscribed by ClearPlay (by paying the service fee ClearPlay charges), and therefore I consider it legitimate.
For what it's worth, I wouldn't pay a monthly fee for access to editing filters I can't save or edit myself. I WOULD buy a player or playing software that would allow me to impose my own filter.
OK, ok, I'm in the minority of fans, to be sure, but, I actually dug the Fox TV movie version...well, except for that whole Eric Roberts as the Master thing. Ew. I for one would like to see Who with an actual budget, as opposed to 'the endless gravel quarries.'
But I could definitely see Anthony Stewart Head as a Doctor, and if they managed to key into the intelligent Buffy writing rather than the stuff they've been pumping out lately.
Million Sterling-Pound Question: Will there be continuity between old series (and/or TV movie) and new series, or is this a tabula raza/reimagining thing? I would imagine the second would be easier, considering all the frigging episodes and books in existence that are considered BBC-official.
The good news: For once, a government entity came to communicate with someone who wasn't really doing it harm, but actually good, and managed to realize that.
The bad news: They still haven't quite understood the situation yet, based on the article taken from the City of Battle Creek page:
Spam refers to a computer prank that causes multiple duplicate emails, sometimes several hundred at once, to clog up the recipient's mail server.
Ok, this is just a rant, but come on, an actual, printed book of the high scores of video games? Where they actually research and try to track down names of people who played a game years ago?
Now, I've heard of some pretty inane shit being published in book form, but this is the only thing that I've seen that doesn't have any use for the content, unless the scores are entertaining in some way.
No, wait, I take it back. I suppose if your name is in the book, you can show it to your friends, but if the book is as large as it's represented on the web site, that doesn't make you all that special, and if it's smaller, that's not exactly going to make copies fly off the shelves.
I did see a book based on old arcade games, talking about what they were like, who produced them, but that was somewhat usable information, if only for nostalgia or wierd fact using conversation.
Ok, that's my soapboxing for this month. Feel free to fire at will, mods.
Go to the Cornell University website. I have yet to find a reference to the "Centre for Reproductive Health and Infertility." Note the spelling, taken from the Guardian article referenced. A search for Womb on the website doesn't produce anything remotely talking about artificial wombs, either.
Apparently Pay-Per-View is more popular than I thought it was, for it to have competition. However I don't see much of a future for either limited-use medium. Divx didn't fare that well, and you'd think that would serve as a lesson, unless their research suggests that the general populace shied away due to Big Brother concerns than a lack of enthusiasm in the "delivery method."
In any case, I fail to see how this will improve on both Pay-Per-View and rental. Only a limited amount of material is available to PPV (usually the stuff that's been in the video rental places for a while), and I doubt that any who would make a trek to a rental store, most of which would have the full permanent version DVDs for rent, would really mind a return trip, especially if the temp DVDs just have the movie and not any special features. (After all, would the studios be likely to put special features on a temp DVD?)
I still don't understand what's so evil about C#. If you don't want to use it, you don't have to. But personally, I find that not using C# leaves a sizable gap in several different keys, meaning a lot of stuff comes out just sounding wrong.
Sure, I could make the well-used comment that as if learning Klingon wasn't quite geeky enough...
But I won't. Instead, I will remind people that those who laugh at, say, a Klingon computer language, and then, go back to work on making Linux work on their Atari 2600, ought to reconsider their opinion.
There's a small difference between the two. As I understand it, when you set off a metal detector, they lead you over to a secluded area, where they localize where the problem area is using a smaller baton in case your belt buckle set you off, and, failing that, strip search you. With Thermal Imaging as a lie detector, it's really hard to tell if you're lying about something specific, whether it be the fact that you have a bomb in your suitcase, or you're going to attempt a hijacking, or if you have more than $500 (random figure) of foreign booze instead, or if you're flying to see your mistress rather than on a business trip. There's no intermediate step (i.e. no mini baton to tell what you're lying about) without more permanent detainment.
At least in your scenario, you're allowed to keep driving the BMW until it breaks down for whatever reason. This is a case of the company (TiVo) enforcing the changes on whoever it could connect to, in order to milk more money from those who refuse to pay for something you get in your daily paper or the Internet. That would be like BMW sneaking mechanics into your garage at night to take out your muffler and converter, and then forcing you to buy their new integrated part...and if you stop paying them ten bucks a month, they sneak the mechanics in and take it out.
"...As we begin to see and tolerate more of it, it requires nakeder people doing more outlandish things to attract our attention. Eventually it will hit a wall, as humans can only get so naked and provocative."
There may be a barrier, but I don't see it being broken here in America anytime soon. After all, women are still forced to be covered up (by something, if not by clothes) and there may come a day where the ad ALL advertisers want to be able to use (as described by the late Bill Hicks) may come about...
For the unknowing, the ad goes something like this: Imagine you're watching a commercial on TV...it's a close up of a woman's face, obviously happy...the camera pulls out....she's topless...the camera pulls out even more...she's totally nude...legs spread, showing everything Nature gave her (and I mean everything) with her hand stroking what should be the center of attention for every heterosexual male watching....and two words appear on the screen on either side of her hand: "DRINK COKE"
So as you might see...even though I doubt I will see an ad like that in my lifetime (never say never) we still have a ways to go before sex in advertising (or anywhere else) is considered passe. After all...as the MPAA or Madison Avenue can tell you, sex sells.
My goodness....that's it...
Congrats, Gearhead...you've stumbled onto it! That MUST be the reason that ALL YOUR BASE is funny again...it's a counter-measure by the Geek Offensive against Carnivore!
I'm in AWE...the tactic is just so simple and yet so devious...by pretending that bit is funny...and spreading it all over...even if it isn't funny to the general populace...it's funny to Geeks, who "we all know are weird and don't make sense!"
I've sorely underappreciated the bit of mistranslated dialog. I will have to be more careful in the future.
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Apparently, you've not seen very many gas station restrooms.
This makes as much sense to me as signing up for a free poke in the eye.
Hold out for the blow to the head.
I know for a fact that my friend who is wheelchair bound would laugh his ass off if he heard, for example, that the Olympics would allow people like him to compete by, say, strapping a wheelchair to a legged individual. For him and for me, part of the way we deal with the challenges he faces is by the ability to see the humor that presents itself.
The vital difference in the case is that network television gets permission from the studio or production companies in order to edit them down, and generally it's the studios that do the editing. The same goes for movies shown in transit, like on long-haul busses or airplanes, who show a cleaned-up version of movies while the trip is in progress. Airlines and bus lines don't do any editing, they rely on whomever their distributor is to do that.
Cleanedit et al. are doing unauthorized editing, and reselling the product. This is sale of a derivative work, without permission from (and more to the point, compensation to) the studios or whoever holds copyright.
An argument could be made to fair use that a person who buys a disc is within their right to create an edited family friendly version on her own.
I see at least two more options: c) buy the disc, and edit it down as stated. d) pressure the studios/production companies to release an 'edited for content' version of their disc, similar to the one distributed to the venues stated above
On the contrary, most film studios require scripts to be written in a precise format, including the use of Courier. It has to do with that if action and dialogue are typed out in the specific format, then one page's worth of typing generally becomes one minute's worth of on screen action. Of course, not every page is an exact minute, but it tends to balance out over the course of the screenplay.
It's also an entrenched format which no one in the industry cares nearly enough to change.
Ok, here's my opinion on it.
If I own a DVD, it's well within my rights if I don't want to see it all the way through, mute some parts, hear some parts in a provided alternate language track, watch it backwards, or skip over parts I don't want to see. Consider: if I feel that the best way to experience looking at a painting I own is to look at it standing on my head, no one has any right to criticize. You may think me silly, but you can't say I can't do that, even if you painted it.
Censorship implies that there is a third party (such as the government) interceding and preventing the original art from being shown. In the case of the Brigham Young University viewing of Schindler's List, it is censorship because it wasn't a private viewing by a home video owner, but a public showing, and BYU wanted to censor what it considered offensive. That is a case where the artist has a right to prevent a showing.
On-the-fly editing is not censorship. If I choose to see the film in such a manner as I see fit, the director has no right to say I can't, because I'm not imposing my view onto others, like BYU was by wanting to show a film deviating from the artist's vision.
By extension, I think ClearPlay is perfectly legal. ClearPlay is not distributing any version of the film, it is providing a method of playing studio-made DVDs while editing on the fly. The viewer and owner of the disc needs to agree that she wants to see the film in the way proscribed by ClearPlay (by paying the service fee ClearPlay charges), and therefore I consider it legitimate.
For what it's worth, I wouldn't pay a monthly fee for access to editing filters I can't save or edit myself. I WOULD buy a player or playing software that would allow me to impose my own filter.
Somehow, mentioning this episode of Penny Arcade seems appropriate.
OK, ok, I'm in the minority of fans, to be sure, but, I actually dug the Fox TV movie version...well, except for that whole Eric Roberts as the Master thing. Ew. I for one would like to see Who with an actual budget, as opposed to 'the endless gravel quarries.'
But I could definitely see Anthony Stewart Head as a Doctor, and if they managed to key into the intelligent Buffy writing rather than the stuff they've been pumping out lately.
Million Sterling-Pound Question: Will there be continuity between old series (and/or TV movie) and new series, or is this a tabula raza/reimagining thing? I would imagine the second would be easier, considering all the frigging episodes and books in existence that are considered BBC-official.
The good news: For once, a government entity came to communicate with someone who wasn't really doing it harm, but actually good, and managed to realize that.
The bad news: They still haven't quite understood the situation yet, based on the article taken from the City of Battle Creek page:
Spam refers to a computer prank that causes multiple duplicate emails, sometimes several hundred at once, to clog up the recipient's mail server.
They are getting better, though.
What is it?
Ok, this is just a rant, but come on, an actual, printed book of the high scores of video games? Where they actually research and try to track down names of people who played a game years ago?
Now, I've heard of some pretty inane shit being published in book form, but this is the only thing that I've seen that doesn't have any use for the content, unless the scores are entertaining in some way.
No, wait, I take it back. I suppose if your name is in the book, you can show it to your friends, but if the book is as large as it's represented on the web site, that doesn't make you all that special, and if it's smaller, that's not exactly going to make copies fly off the shelves.
I did see a book based on old arcade games, talking about what they were like, who produced them, but that was somewhat usable information, if only for nostalgia or wierd fact using conversation.
Ok, that's my soapboxing for this month. Feel free to fire at will, mods.
When this happens, I sense a frosty day in Tartarus. (sp?)
Gee, could this mean we could see Windows on CVS sometime soon? Bet it would do wonders for 'tightening their security.'
Go to the Cornell University website. I have yet to find a reference to the "Centre for Reproductive Health and Infertility." Note the spelling, taken from the Guardian article referenced. A search for Womb on the website doesn't produce anything remotely talking about artificial wombs, either.
Apparently Pay-Per-View is more popular than I thought it was, for it to have competition. However I don't see much of a future for either limited-use medium. Divx didn't fare that well, and you'd think that would serve as a lesson, unless their research suggests that the general populace shied away due to Big Brother concerns than a lack of enthusiasm in the "delivery method."
In any case, I fail to see how this will improve on both Pay-Per-View and rental. Only a limited amount of material is available to PPV (usually the stuff that's been in the video rental places for a while), and I doubt that any who would make a trek to a rental store, most of which would have the full permanent version DVDs for rent, would really mind a return trip, especially if the temp DVDs just have the movie and not any special features. (After all, would the studios be likely to put special features on a temp DVD?)
I still don't understand what's so evil about C#. If you don't want to use it, you don't have to. But personally, I find that not using C# leaves a sizable gap in several different keys, meaning a lot of stuff comes out just sounding wrong.
Sure, I could make the well-used comment that as if learning Klingon wasn't quite geeky enough...
But I won't. Instead, I will remind people that those who laugh at, say, a Klingon computer language, and then, go back to work on making Linux work on their Atari 2600, ought to reconsider their opinion.
There's a small difference between the two. As I understand it, when you set off a metal detector, they lead you over to a secluded area, where they localize where the problem area is using a smaller baton in case your belt buckle set you off, and, failing that, strip search you. With Thermal Imaging as a lie detector, it's really hard to tell if you're lying about something specific, whether it be the fact that you have a bomb in your suitcase, or you're going to attempt a hijacking, or if you have more than $500 (random figure) of foreign booze instead, or if you're flying to see your mistress rather than on a business trip. There's no intermediate step (i.e. no mini baton to tell what you're lying about) without more permanent detainment.
>when is herbert and everyone since finally going to realize, the fremen are BLACK.
Quoth Jay: "I don't buy it."
At least in your scenario, you're allowed to keep driving the BMW until it breaks down for whatever reason. This is a case of the company (TiVo) enforcing the changes on whoever it could connect to, in order to milk more money from those who refuse to pay for something you get in your daily paper or the Internet. That would be like BMW sneaking mechanics into your garage at night to take out your muffler and converter, and then forcing you to buy their new integrated part...and if you stop paying them ten bucks a month, they sneak the mechanics in and take it out.
Say, could this be the reason why Sega stopped supporting it suddenly? Unexplained crashes? :-)
There may be a barrier, but I don't see it being broken here in America anytime soon. After all, women are still forced to be covered up (by something, if not by clothes) and there may come a day where the ad ALL advertisers want to be able to use (as described by the late Bill Hicks) may come about...
For the unknowing, the ad goes something like this: Imagine you're watching a commercial on TV...it's a close up of a woman's face, obviously happy...the camera pulls out....she's topless...the camera pulls out even more...she's totally nude...legs spread, showing everything Nature gave her (and I mean everything) with her hand stroking what should be the center of attention for every heterosexual male watching....and two words appear on the screen on either side of her hand: "DRINK COKE"
So as you might see...even though I doubt I will see an ad like that in my lifetime (never say never) we still have a ways to go before sex in advertising (or anywhere else) is considered passe. After all...as the MPAA or Madison Avenue can tell you, sex sells.
My goodness....that's it...
Congrats, Gearhead...you've stumbled onto it! That MUST be the reason that ALL YOUR BASE is funny again...it's a counter-measure by the Geek Offensive against Carnivore!
I'm in AWE...the tactic is just so simple and yet so devious...by pretending that bit is funny...and spreading it all over...even if it isn't funny to the general populace...it's funny to Geeks, who "we all know are weird and don't make sense!"
I've sorely underappreciated the bit of mistranslated dialog. I will have to be more careful in the future.