Any rebuttal to your comment, even a very half-assed one, and especially the personal attack kind (!), is likely to get you, the parent poster, modded down. Happened to me many times, the mods are basically encouraging flamewars.
That's just basic "blame the victim" stupidity: The mod choice says "flamebait", and idiots mod down the person getting flamed.
You're paying the ISP to transfer the data, Hulu is providing the content which is supported by the ads. If you're paying the ISP for data, and paying Hulu for the content, then having to watch the ads seem to be a pretty poor deal.
Ads crept up in cable content, and now they're even include inside the story lines ("this new [brand name] has this feature which will help us solve the case!"), and they intend to have you paying to watch ads again soon.
it is particularly annoying to have your hopes raised and then dashed.
Which is why it should be common courtesy to link directly to hulu; or failing that to warn that the content is embedded-hulu when posting a "this is a really cool video that we all want to see" link. Ok, in a perfect world all the Fox executives would be killed by the shock of a sudden attack of self-awareness, but failing that, courtesy would be nice
Or it's that the target audience of the story is American users of Hulu and thus it is only targeted to one group.
How is that targeted? By putting it on the WORLD wide web? By not saying anywhere: This is only for people currently within the 50 united states of america? Or should people just do what you do: assume that for everything, the target audience is you?
Hulu has been shit talking about delivering content outside of the US since day one, and now there's a fucking misleading headline implying that this is what's going on, but it's not. It applies to you: GOOD FOR YOU, you have accomplished the achievement of being born on the right side of the borders that apply to this corporation and to stay within those borders, you must be very proud of yourself for such a feat, but don't go saying that this headline was clearly targeted only at people like you, because that's just clearly not the case.
i hate that kind of defeatist, "nature/god knows best" attitude. everything you have right now is thanks to people who believed they could do better than nature, and they did. yes, you shouldn't do lines of coke to be better at your job, because that is a hack.
But you should chew on a coca leaf if you're trekking up south american mountains ranges, where the leaves grow: Because it's a natural remedy for altituted sickness. Hacks your sea-level body for high altitude performance, it does.
The thing with ASCII is that it's easy to write on standard keyboards, and does not require a specialized layout.
Once someone can cram the necessary unicode symbols into a keyboard so that I don't have to remember arcane meta-codes or fiddle with pressing five different dead keys to get one symbol, I'm all for it.
I have a key just for the letter ù on my keyboard, and I know only one word that uses that letter: the french word for 'where'. Worse, there's a key for the accent, so there's no need to have a key for that letter-accent combination. Pleasepleaseplease make it the variable declaration symbol! Get this thing some use!
I was attempting to make a linguistic joke, nothing more.
I use a lot of bold, italics and exclamation points when I want to make a comment sound more funny without including a smily. The extra formatting takes the place of a funny voice or comedic timing; otherwise it's hard to tell a text joke appart from textual criticism.
It's okay, your brain probably tried to wipe season 1 from your memory, and alas, as a consequence, you conflated that shit sandwich with season 2, which wasn't nearly as bad, not the least because of the truly great episode "Q Who".
Thanks for your understanding; on the plus side: I can now say I'm a FORMER trekkie;)
The question comes down to whether this is a Treaty, which would require the advice and consent of 2/3rds of the Senate, or whether it's an Executive Agreement
Is it torture, or enhanced interrogation? Is that a janitor or a fixed infrastructure maintenance technician? Is it one honest word or many words to hide the truth?
"It" is clearly one word, not many, which by your own dichotomy means that it must be honest.
Eivind.
You're saying "it" clearly stands for "treaty" and not for "executive agreement", then.
The question comes down to whether this is a Treaty, which would require the advice and consent of 2/3rds of the Senate, or whether it's an Executive Agreement
Is it torture, or enhanced interrogation? Is that a janitor or a fixed infrastructure maintenance technician? Is it one honest word or many words to hide the truth?
It was season 2 that sucked the most, and you KNOW it was because of the writer's strike!
Holy shit, you've gotta be kidding. Was season 2 bad? Yes. But is there anything on TV even approaching how bad season 1 was? Fuck no. Three words for you: Code of Honor.
*Wiki*... OMG! Too Short a Season was not a season two ep... I am ashamed to admit that I was completely wrong on that count.
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Any rebuttal to your comment, even a very half-assed one, and especially the personal attack kind (!), is likely to get you, the parent poster, modded down. Happened to me many times, the mods are basically encouraging flamewars.
That's just basic "blame the victim" stupidity: The mod choice says "flamebait", and idiots mod down the person getting flamed.
Slashdot, and other US-centric sites, will surely miss your valued contribution.
Awww, dirty dirty foreigners are allowed on YOUR internet, and you don't like it.
I bet you think you're a patriot, too. Here's a word you should learn: Jingo.
One of the teams is owned by Nintendo. So yeah, it's world wide.
That's the stupidest thing I read today.
Excellent rebuttal. Your value as a discussion partner is clearly illustrated.
I don't think it showed the full extent of my utter contempt, no.
Poor performance due to Flash.
I'm pretty sure flash is just a DRM delivery method.
You're paying the ISP to transfer the data, Hulu is providing the content which is supported by the ads. If you're paying the ISP for data, and paying Hulu for the content, then having to watch the ads seem to be a pretty poor deal.
Ads crept up in cable content, and now they're even include inside the story lines ("this new [brand name] has this feature which will help us solve the case!"), and they intend to have you paying to watch ads again soon.
it is particularly annoying to have your hopes raised and then dashed.
Which is why it should be common courtesy to link directly to hulu; or failing that to warn that the content is embedded-hulu when posting a "this is a really cool video that we all want to see" link.
Ok, in a perfect world all the Fox executives would be killed by the shock of a sudden attack of self-awareness, but failing that, courtesy would be nice
the assumption that 'all' means just the US which is an attitude sadly only too common in the US.
Not only common, but also denied and defended, as paradoxical as that is.
Or it's that the target audience of the story is American users of Hulu and thus it is only targeted to one group.
How is that targeted? By putting it on the WORLD wide web? By not saying anywhere: This is only for people currently within the 50 united states of america? Or should people just do what you do: assume that for everything, the target audience is you?
Hulu has been shit talking about delivering content outside of the US since day one, and now there's a fucking misleading headline implying that this is what's going on, but it's not. It applies to you: GOOD FOR YOU, you have accomplished the achievement of being born on the right side of the borders that apply to this corporation and to stay within those borders, you must be very proud of yourself for such a feat, but don't go saying that this headline was clearly targeted only at people like you, because that's just clearly not the case.
Clearer headlines: Not asking for the moon.
We're noteworthy. We can be proud of that.
Nice rationalization. Very soothing, it must let you ignore reality in peaceful tranquility.
I'm not aware of any physical location that's named or referred to as just "America", other than the US.
Ignorance is bliss.
Yes, we Americans can be pretty chauvinistic, but your examples are slightly over the top.
Even the World Series is open to Canada
You let Canada in your World series? Why, you're right, I was over the top to mention it as a US-centric example, then.
*sigh*
A country that likes to call itself by the name of a continent, and to refer to itself as "the world" and "the free world", but just one country.
i hate that kind of defeatist, "nature/god knows best" attitude. everything you have right now is thanks to people who believed they could do better than nature, and they did. yes, you shouldn't do lines of coke to be better at your job, because that is a hack.
But you should chew on a coca leaf if you're trekking up south american mountains ranges, where the leaves grow: Because it's a natural remedy for altituted sickness. Hacks your sea-level body for high altitude performance, it does.
You don't need a glyph for "=>" for instance. Anyone who knows what = and > mean individually can discern the meaning.
If slashdot didn't eat it, you could be seeing ⇒ displaying that glyph here... ""
The thing with ASCII is that it's easy to write on standard keyboards, and does not require a specialized layout.
Once someone can cram the necessary unicode symbols into a keyboard so that I don't have to remember arcane meta-codes or fiddle with pressing five different dead keys to get one symbol, I'm all for it.
I have a key just for the letter ù on my keyboard, and I know only one word that uses that letter: the french word for 'where'. Worse, there's a key for the accent, so there's no need to have a key for that letter-accent combination. Pleasepleaseplease make it the variable declaration symbol! Get this thing some use!
How would you like it if your job, country and culture was stereotyped into the guilt-ridden nonsense that The Simpsons aired?
How many vacations are they from having insulted every nation on earth? Aside from insulting the U.S.A. with every frame of Homer since 1989...
"Gotta go: Quebec's got the bomb!" -Clinton
"Our money sure is gay!" -Colombian Kidnaper
"And so on, and so forth." -Scrameustache
I was attempting to make a linguistic joke, nothing more.
I use a lot of bold, italics and exclamation points when I want to make a comment sound more funny without including a smily. The extra formatting takes the place of a funny voice or comedic timing; otherwise it's hard to tell a text joke appart from textual criticism.
It's okay, your brain probably tried to wipe season 1 from your memory, and alas, as a consequence, you conflated that shit sandwich with season 2, which wasn't nearly as bad, not the least because of the truly great episode "Q Who".
Thanks for your understanding; on the plus side: I can now say I'm a FORMER trekkie ;)
The question comes down to whether this is a Treaty, which would require the advice and consent of 2/3rds of the Senate, or whether it's an Executive Agreement
Is it torture, or enhanced interrogation? Is that a janitor or a fixed infrastructure maintenance technician? Is it one honest word or many words to hide the truth?
"It" is clearly one word, not many, which by your own dichotomy means that it must be honest.
Eivind.
You're saying "it" clearly stands for "treaty" and not for "executive agreement", then.
The question comes down to whether this is a Treaty, which would require the advice and consent of 2/3rds of the Senate, or whether it's an Executive Agreement
Is it torture, or enhanced interrogation? Is that a janitor or a fixed infrastructure maintenance technician? Is it one honest word or many words to hide the truth?
It was season 2 that sucked the most, and you KNOW it was because of the writer's strike!
Holy shit, you've gotta be kidding. Was season 2 bad? Yes. But is there anything on TV even approaching how bad season 1 was? Fuck no. Three words for you: Code of Honor.
*Wiki*... OMG! Too Short a Season was not a season two ep... I am ashamed to admit that I was completely wrong on that count.
thinking "Gosh, he's going to have a hard time undoing the destruction of Vulcan".
In a movie about time-travelers undoing history? Really?
That's why I never watch movies set in the Roman Empire. I totally know how it's going to end.
Yeah, but the Roman Catholic sequel is still getting really good ratings.
"There are two races of cylons. ."
OOOWW!!!! Ooohh... ouch! I think I just lost my lunch because you're such a geek loser. Wow!
Seriously!!! HOW could he forget about the third Cylon race depicted in the stand-alone episode Razor?!?! What a goober!