Face with this sudden cold spell, what do you think those fear monger come up with ?
Oh, no, it's a "little ice age", it's only temporary, and it only happens because of "Albedo effect"
Sure... like what they told us of how the ice of both North and South poles gonna melt, and how the island nations gonna disappear for good... and so on, and so forth...
Funny how those people can spew out their lies with all types of jargons mixed in
See how unwelcome Slashdot has become since CmdrTaco left ?
Why don't you guys ask Rob Malda (aka CmdrTaco) whether my four-digit UID is genuine, or not ?
Unlike some of the latecomers who think that they know it all, old-timers like me know that we don't know a lot of things, and we are not shy to ask questions - even questions that seem to be basic to those know-it-all latecomers
Having said that, the nuking of megaupload has sent a political chill across the net like a cruise missile hitting Al-Jazzera, they've demonstrated they don't need SOPA or the ISP's to start a 'war on pirates', I expect more sites will have received that message via more explicit private channels and will 'voluntarily' close down in the near future. OTOH, the whole thing is yet to be tested in court and I can't see how the search giants will lay down and let the MAFIAA and Murdoch steam-roll them with a "linking is theft" precedent set against a weak competitor.
What you've described, and what we're all witnessing, is the online version of Darwinism
The principle of "Survival of the fittest" does apply, and we will see who will be the ultimate winner.
If the media/MAFIAA/murdock camp wins, it'd signify the begin of the end of the Western civilization - for valuable knowledge that might benefit younger generations will be locked up behind security vaults
The US is willing to invest heavily in upgrading old avionics while keeping the source for all the software. Would you buy a piece of military hardware knowing that the aging paranoid warcrazy manufacturer may have retained the ability to disable all those planes with the flip of a switch?
USA is not the only country in the world doing that - The French are more untrustworthy than Uncle Sam !
Remember the Falklands War ?
Argentina bought the Exocet missiles from the French but the French gave the British secrets to Exocet's code and homing radar ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet#cite_note-15 ) resulting in the total defeat of Argentine's air force
How in hell is this on/. frontpage? Or on the site even? Will the editors cover every weapon sale from now on? Is this because it's a disappointment for the US of A? Because it involves the french?
Because the editors are drunk?
Short one-worded answer: China
Longer version: India hates China, and India wants to do everything to defeat China
Slashdot hates China, and Slashdot wants to do everything to make China miserable
Adding 2 and 2 together - any weapon system India buys is utmost important to Slashdot - because it determines whether or not China will be creamed
There was this one guy, but the CIA managed to replace him with a monarchy.
Mr. Mosaddegh's demise fits the pattern to a "T".
As long as someone / or some organization determines to modernize any Middle Eastern Islamic country, it's a safe bet that that particular "someone" has written a death wish with his own blood
26 years after CIA replaced Mr. Mosaddegh with a monarchy, the West kicked out the same monarchy because the Shah made the same fatal mistake as Mr. Mosaddegh
Kodak died because it was an American firm. They weren't changing direction because they were driving their business quarter by quarter. Fuji was in exactly the same boat, but they're Japanese, so they could change. And they did.
What if Hollywood was in Japan?
Would they still have MAFIAA screaming out of their back orifice "the pirates are killing us" ?
I'm still confused - why don't we want Muslims to modernize? Africa and Asia I understand, because we get cheap sneakers and cell phones, but labor costs in the Middle East are completely detached from what we pay for oil.
The issue regarding the suppression on Middle Eastern Islamic countries (and the people) via despotic tyronnical regimes started long before the so-called "Rise of the East"
You gotta understand, long before World War I and World War II, the European countries had already had countless experiences on regional conflicts - from the conquer of Alexander the Great and his army to the various crusades to the Moors' conquer on Spain and Ottoman Empire's hold on many eastern European countries
From the above regional conflicts, the West got to know the people living just south east of Europe - the Middle Eastern/Persian tribes, and their very very aggressive (which often is on the verge of ruthlessness) Middle Eastern culture
That is why the one thing that keeps the West awakes at night after night, throughout the past millennium, wasn't India, wasn't Japan, wasn't even China, but the following:
"How to keep the Middle Eastern barbarians so busy that they do not have time to invade us"
After the disastrous World War II, the West had a common understanding - Make it so that the Middle East is mired in their own problems that they couldn't muster any effort to fight the West
As we can see, after the establishment of the United Nations, Middle East had plunged into one bloody conflict after another
And the regimes who hold power in the Middle Eastern countries ?
Either they are of the lunatic Islamic fringe - those ultra-conservative anti-modernists
Or they are of the Western puppets variety - such as the Anwar Sadat / Mubarak regime of Egypt, and the Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali regime of Tunisia
All these were designed so that no one would blame the West for what happens in Middle East.
After all, the West can publicly wash their hand clean and put all the blame squarely at those lunatic Muslims and their apparatus
Are all of those people strictly necessary to produce a movie? What exactly does a "second second assistant director" do, that a "second assistant director" cannot?
Here's the full crew of a feature-length movie that made over 60 times its production costs at the box office:
Produced by Shane Carruth producer
Original Music by Shane Carruth
Film Editing by Shane Carruth
Casting by Shane Carruth
Production Design by Shane Carruth
Sound Department Shane Carruth sound designer Reggie Evans location sound David Ho sound re-recording mixer (uncredited)
Camera and Electrical Department Daniel Bueche camera operator James Russell assistant camera Anand Upadhyaya camera operator
Editorial Department Omar Godinez telecine colorist
Other crew Chip Carruth caterer Kathy Carruth caterer David Sullivan production assistant
This is a film which I have paid to see, bought on DVD and recommended to my friends (several of whom bought copies themselves). It was highly profitable, yet required only 12 people (plus cast) to make.
I agree that many people work on films that do not earn huge amounts of money. Cutting the fee of a leading actor by a few million dollars might actually mean that everyone else could get a pay rise - or is it right that the people who spend most time making a movie are paid only maybe 1/500th that of the person whose face is on the poster?
If Hollywood needs special laws made just to benefit its obsolete and inefficient business model, then it needs to change the way it does business, not change civil society to fit its needs.
Obligatory confession: I did work on one movie set for Oliver Stone, while he was filming "JFK" in Dallas
Other than that, I am in no way attached to Hollywood
One thing that I got away from my experience with Oliver Stone's movie making while they were in Dallas, TX, USA is this ---
You can invest billions and trillions into a movie, if the story sux, the movie will bomb
On the other hand, there are examples such as Blair Witch Project which was produced with no help from any assistant to assistant to assistant to the key grip on location 3
It sounds like you want Hollywood to change as if you like them, and you want them to continue existing. I hope they don't change at all and die like Kodak. What I don't like is their continual attempts to fuck me right in the asshole with the evil laws that they try to get passed.
If I inevitably convey the message that I wanted Hollywood - the current form of Hollywood anyway, to continue to exist, you have my sincere apology
I am but one observer - and I truly believe, one out of millions and millions of observers around the world - who can't help but notice the ironic similarities between what happened to Kodak and what is happening to Hollywood
Whether or not Hollywood survives does not matter to me, not even one bit
I just do not waste my time in front of the idiot tube, nor going to theater watching movies
If you're looking at The Pirate Bay as the evil thieves' site, then yes, you want to crush it. If you look at as the promotional site, then what you need to do is create a value added system so people will go to the theater or to the concert to see the real thing. Do that and TPB ceases to be an evil, but simply becomes a promotional channel.
This !!
Often than not it's the outsiders looking in that can see the clear picture. Those who are inside the well, they can only see that little round sky above them.
1. Afghanistan is not at the center of the Islamic world
The center of the Islamic world is in the Middle East.
Afghanistan is situated at the peripheral, not only geographically but also in terms of influence
2. What happened in Afghanistan that led to the invasion by America (and the West) is Omar, the leader of Taliban, permitted Osama bin Laden to use Afghanistan as a base for Al Queda, and Al Queda, for one reason or another, decided to launch 9/11 on America because America is nothing but a pussy.
Before Al Queda, before 9/11, America never touch Afghanistan. In fact, America (and the West) aided the Taliban (among other Mujahideen groups) in their rebel against the former USSR.
3. About Libya,
Please do not delude yourself that Gaddafi was removed by the "Libyan rebels" alone.
The world saw what happened there and we all know who was doing what.
Those "Libyan rebels" were nothing without the help from the Western powers.
And please do respect the intellect of other Slashdot users - please do not substitute "The Western Power" with "UN Forces"
* Copyright laws (change from bad to worse) to * Tax rebates (for producers, distributors, et al) to * Revolving door (former politicians becoming lobbyists) to * Politicians lining their pockets (with PAC contribution from Hollywood)
Why should Hollywood allow any other people to make money from alternative mean of movie production / distribution ?
If it's possible to make a movie and sell it cheaply online, with no DRM, and still make a profit as the article suggests why hasn't anyone done that successfully?
It's the distribution channel, my friend
Tell me, currently what are the distribution channel for movies, and how do they distribute them?
The world has changed but they hasn't and they ain't gonna change because they are still raking in shitloads of $$$ doing what they had been doing for the past century
I'd wager that it'd be like a repeat of what is happening to Kodak - by the time Hollywood decides to change, it'd be way too late
Who funded the Islamic terrorist network all around the world?
Give you a hint: Neither Saddam Hussein nor Muammar Gaddafi wanted to have anything to do with those who wanted to convert the whole world under ultra-conservative Islamic dictatorship
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, global warming that will melt everything
Pure, unadulterated fear mongering
Face with this sudden cold spell, what do you think those fear monger come up with ?
Oh, no, it's a "little ice age", it's only temporary, and it only happens because of "Albedo effect"
Sure ... like what they told us of how the ice of both North and South poles gonna melt, and how the island nations gonna disappear for good ... and so on, and so forth ...
Funny how those people can spew out their lies with all types of jargons mixed in
Are you sure that four digit UID really is yours?
See how unwelcome Slashdot has become since CmdrTaco left ?
Why don't you guys ask Rob Malda (aka CmdrTaco) whether my four-digit UID is genuine, or not ?
Unlike some of the latecomers who think that they know it all, old-timers like me know that we don't know a lot of things, and we are not shy to ask questions - even questions that seem to be basic to those know-it-all latecomers
Having said that, the nuking of megaupload has sent a political chill across the net like a cruise missile hitting Al-Jazzera, they've demonstrated they don't need SOPA or the ISP's to start a 'war on pirates', I expect more sites will have received that message via more explicit private channels and will 'voluntarily' close down in the near future. OTOH, the whole thing is yet to be tested in court and I can't see how the search giants will lay down and let the MAFIAA and Murdoch steam-roll them with a "linking is theft" precedent set against a weak competitor.
What you've described, and what we're all witnessing, is the online version of Darwinism
The principle of "Survival of the fittest" does apply, and we will see who will be the ultimate winner.
If the media/MAFIAA/murdock camp wins, it'd signify the begin of the end of the Western civilization - for valuable knowledge that might benefit younger generations will be locked up behind security vaults
Have a tablet running Android 2.3 (version 4 isn't available for it yet, still waiting)
Need to know what's the difference between a tablet running Linux and Android ?
Will Android apps work in the Linux tablets, and vice versa?
watch how quickly our media shill of a POTUS tells you to go fuck yourself, he knows whose paying his salary and it AIN'T you
Are we gonna blame the media ?
Was the POTUS elected by the media ?
What the fuck are we going to the polling station for, if the media gets to hold the sway, no matter who end up being the POTUS ?
It's the voters who are to be blamed for this sorry state of affairs
Yes, it's US, you, and me, and millions of fucking assholes like us who have allowed the media to take over our lives
It is time we really start voting third parties across the board
So you think by voting third parties across the board the whole mess will magically cured, just like that?
The media will control WHOEVER gets elected, because, again, WE LET THEM !!
That sounds like lawyer talk. GET A ROPE!
Above message being modded as "Funny" ??
How would you feel if someone post a similar message, something like "That sounds like "chinky/niggie" talk. GET A ROPE!" ?
Would that message still be modded as "Funny" ??
Since Germany is saying that Google Chrome being the most secure browser, I'd like to bring in a journal I posted the other day, FWIW
http://slashdot.org/journal/277313/journal-unscientific-testing-of-browsers
In the test above Mozilla Firefox gave the best result, Google Chrome came a distant 2nd
And an update to my journal above ----
It's been 100 hours since I started that test and only Mozilla Firefox is still running, with 5 taps opened.
Google Chrome stopped running some 80 hours after launch.
The US is willing to invest heavily in upgrading old avionics while keeping the source for all the software. Would you buy a piece of military hardware knowing that the aging paranoid warcrazy manufacturer may have retained the ability to disable all those planes with the flip of a switch?
USA is not the only country in the world doing that - The French are more untrustworthy than Uncle Sam !
Remember the Falklands War ?
Argentina bought the Exocet missiles from the French but the French gave the British secrets to Exocet's code and homing radar ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet#cite_note-15 ) resulting in the total defeat of Argentine's air force
How in hell is this on /. frontpage? Or on the site even? Will the editors cover every weapon sale from now on? Is this because it's a disappointment for the US of A? Because it involves the french?
Because the editors are drunk?
Short one-worded answer: China
Longer version: India hates China, and India wants to do everything to defeat China
Slashdot hates China, and Slashdot wants to do everything to make China miserable
Adding 2 and 2 together - any weapon system India buys is utmost important to Slashdot - because it determines whether or not China will be creamed
There was this one guy, but the CIA managed to replace him with a monarchy.
Mr. Mosaddegh's demise fits the pattern to a "T".
As long as someone / or some organization determines to modernize any Middle Eastern Islamic country, it's a safe bet that that particular "someone" has written a death wish with his own blood
26 years after CIA replaced Mr. Mosaddegh with a monarchy, the West kicked out the same monarchy because the Shah made the same fatal mistake as Mr. Mosaddegh
Kodak died because it was an American firm. They weren't changing direction because they were driving their business quarter by quarter. Fuji was in exactly the same boat, but they're Japanese, so they could change. And they did.
What if Hollywood was in Japan?
Would they still have MAFIAA screaming out of their back orifice "the pirates are killing us" ?
I'm still confused - why don't we want Muslims to modernize? Africa and Asia I understand, because we get cheap sneakers and cell phones, but labor costs in the Middle East are completely detached from what we pay for oil.
The issue regarding the suppression on Middle Eastern Islamic countries (and the people) via despotic tyronnical regimes started long before the so-called "Rise of the East"
You gotta understand, long before World War I and World War II, the European countries had already had countless experiences on regional conflicts - from the conquer of Alexander the Great and his army to the various crusades to the Moors' conquer on Spain and Ottoman Empire's hold on many eastern European countries
From the above regional conflicts, the West got to know the people living just south east of Europe - the Middle Eastern/Persian tribes, and their very very aggressive (which often is on the verge of ruthlessness) Middle Eastern culture
That is why the one thing that keeps the West awakes at night after night, throughout the past millennium, wasn't India, wasn't Japan, wasn't even China, but the following:
"How to keep the Middle Eastern barbarians so busy that they do not have time to invade us"
After the disastrous World War II, the West had a common understanding - Make it so that the Middle East is mired in their own problems that they couldn't muster any effort to fight the West
As we can see, after the establishment of the United Nations, Middle East had plunged into one bloody conflict after another
And the regimes who hold power in the Middle Eastern countries ?
Either they are of the lunatic Islamic fringe - those ultra-conservative anti-modernists
Or they are of the Western puppets variety - such as the Anwar Sadat / Mubarak regime of Egypt, and the Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali regime of Tunisia
All these were designed so that no one would blame the West for what happens in Middle East.
After all, the West can publicly wash their hand clean and put all the blame squarely at those lunatic Muslims and their apparatus
Are all of those people strictly necessary to produce a movie? What exactly does a "second second assistant director" do, that a "second assistant director" cannot?
Here's the full crew of a feature-length movie that made over 60 times its production costs at the box office:
Produced by
Shane Carruth producer
Original Music by
Shane Carruth
Film Editing by
Shane Carruth
Casting by
Shane Carruth
Production Design by
Shane Carruth
Sound Department
Shane Carruth sound designer
Reggie Evans location sound
David Ho sound re-recording mixer (uncredited)
Camera and Electrical Department
Daniel Bueche camera operator
James Russell assistant camera
Anand Upadhyaya camera operator
Editorial Department
Omar Godinez telecine colorist
Other crew
Chip Carruth caterer
Kathy Carruth caterer
David Sullivan production assistant
This is a film which I have paid to see, bought on DVD and recommended to my friends (several of whom bought copies themselves). It was highly profitable, yet required only 12 people (plus cast) to make.
I agree that many people work on films that do not earn huge amounts of money. Cutting the fee of a leading actor by a few million dollars might actually mean that everyone else could get a pay rise - or is it right that the people who spend most time making a movie are paid only maybe 1/500th that of the person whose face is on the poster?
If Hollywood needs special laws made just to benefit its obsolete and inefficient business model, then it needs to change the way it does business, not change civil society to fit its needs.
Obligatory confession: I did work on one movie set for Oliver Stone, while he was filming "JFK" in Dallas
Other than that, I am in no way attached to Hollywood
One thing that I got away from my experience with Oliver Stone's movie making while they were in Dallas, TX, USA is this ---
You can invest billions and trillions into a movie, if the story sux, the movie will bomb
On the other hand, there are examples such as Blair Witch Project which was produced with no help from any assistant to assistant to assistant to the key grip on location 3
It sounds like you want Hollywood to change as if you like them, and you want them to continue existing. I hope they don't change at all and die like Kodak. What I don't like is their continual attempts to fuck me right in the asshole with the evil laws that they try to get passed.
If I inevitably convey the message that I wanted Hollywood - the current form of Hollywood anyway, to continue to exist, you have my sincere apology
I am but one observer - and I truly believe, one out of millions and millions of observers around the world - who can't help but notice the ironic similarities between what happened to Kodak and what is happening to Hollywood
Whether or not Hollywood survives does not matter to me, not even one bit
I just do not waste my time in front of the idiot tube, nor going to theater watching movies
If you're looking at The Pirate Bay as the evil thieves' site, then yes, you want to crush it. If you look at as the promotional site, then what you need to do is create a value added system so people will go to the theater or to the concert to see the real thing. Do that and TPB ceases to be an evil, but simply becomes a promotional channel.
This !!
Often than not it's the outsiders looking in that can see the clear picture. Those who are inside the well, they can only see that little round sky above them.
... trust me, you are not.
Unlike the Muslims, who are obliged to go to Mecca for pilgrimage at least once in a lifetime, Christians are not
Until you understand the difference between Islam and Christianity, please do not even try to be cute
Thank you
Afghanistan is not at the center of the Islamic world The center of the Islamic world is in the Middle East.
The center of the Islamic world are Indonesia, Pakistan and India.
You're right, of course.
I forgot that the Muslim pay pilgrimage to Jakarta, not Mecca !!
Ever try proving something that is not going to happen?
Try it, and you'll know that it's impossible to prove something that is negative - like proving quantum computer impossible
1. Afghanistan is not at the center of the Islamic world
The center of the Islamic world is in the Middle East.
Afghanistan is situated at the peripheral, not only geographically but also in terms of influence
2. What happened in Afghanistan that led to the invasion by America (and the West) is Omar, the leader of Taliban, permitted Osama bin Laden to use Afghanistan as a base for Al Queda, and Al Queda, for one reason or another, decided to launch 9/11 on America because America is nothing but a pussy.
Before Al Queda, before 9/11, America never touch Afghanistan. In fact, America (and the West) aided the Taliban (among other Mujahideen groups) in their rebel against the former USSR.
3. About Libya,
Please do not delude yourself that Gaddafi was removed by the "Libyan rebels" alone.
The world saw what happened there and we all know who was doing what.
Those "Libyan rebels" were nothing without the help from the Western powers.
And please do respect the intellect of other Slashdot users - please do not substitute "The Western Power" with "UN Forces"
Thank you !
Hello, friend,
Better yet who owns and controls those channels?
It's very wise of you.
Thank you very much !
Please allow me to introduce the Black September in Jordan -- available at the following url:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September_in_Jordan
I missed out on one other important factor ...
It's the government
From
* Copyright laws (change from bad to worse)
to
* Tax rebates (for producers, distributors, et al)
to
* Revolving door (former politicians becoming lobbyists)
to
* Politicians lining their pockets (with PAC contribution from Hollywood)
Why should Hollywood allow any other people to make money from alternative mean of movie production / distribution ?
If it's possible to make a movie and sell it cheaply online, with no DRM, and still make a profit as the article suggests why hasn't anyone done that successfully?
It's the distribution channel, my friend
Tell me, currently what are the distribution channel for movies, and how do they distribute them?
The world has changed but they hasn't and they ain't gonna change because they are still raking in shitloads of $$$ doing what they had been doing for the past century
I'd wager that it'd be like a repeat of what is happening to Kodak - by the time Hollywood decides to change, it'd be way too late
Becuase they play ball.
Do they?
Who funded Al Queda?
Who funded the Muslim Brotherhood?
Who funded the Islamic terrorist network all around the world?
Give you a hint: Neither Saddam Hussein nor Muammar Gaddafi wanted to have anything to do with those who wanted to convert the whole world under ultra-conservative Islamic dictatorship