There is a principle in law (but not in all jurisdictions) that one can only keep personal information about one's customers during the time one is doing business with them. Libraries, one of the original examples, only keep "who has book X" records until the book is returned.
What business relationship does the Navy have with random people, and what are they doing with copies of their parking tickets? Personal information, and especially personally identifying information should be closely held. Therefor it should not be collected by businesses, police or the military except where the law specifically allows.
To make it a little harsher, is not possession of someone else's social security number in the U.S. prima facie evidence of an attempt to impersonate them? Of "identity theft"?
None of which applies to a federal law enforcement agency, which NCIS is.
Research Suggests Pulling All-Nighters Can Cause Permanent Damage in mice. The study was done on mice, not people. While it's an interesting first step, it is not in anyway conclusive that the results also apply to humans.
One of the conspiracy theories, that the US created the AIDs virus, was created for an active disinformation campaign by the Soviet Union against the US as a form of political warfare during the Cold War, and still gets repeated."
Oh sure, that's what they want you to believe. The truth is the Soviet "disinformation campaign" was part of a US disinformation campaign to make the Soviets look bad while covering up the fact that the US created AIDS in the first place to take focus away from decades of mounting evidence that we faked the moon landings with the help of the Hollywood Illuminati Jewish Italian mobsters from Boston as a reward for their unions help in getting Kennedy elected!
Again, I said everyone. Unless you consider the Russians to not be part of everyone (You do concede they are human, yes?) then you grossly mis-interpreted my original post.
Also, you are talking about WWII, not WWI, which is funny since WWI is probably the closer analog to this situation.
Oh, wait, wrong century. I get so confused. Same shit, different day, I guess.
That's my problem, this is starting to feel like an SSDD moment in history. And please note my original post did make the request of EVERYONE INVOLVED (Russian are still people, right?)
It is better to have World War 3 than have the Russians get away with shit like this.
Really? You would think we should run headlong into a war that would, in all likelihood, destroy civilization as we know it, killing billions in the process?
So how would you feel if the Russians tried to annex Alaska? Maybe you don't care now because it seems remote but ignoring the problem will not make it go away.
I'd be pretty pissed off. But you misunderstand what I'm saying. We != Americans, NATO, etc. We = Everyone. I'm not advocating the west stand aside, I'm asking that EVERYONE INVOLVED take a goddamned step back and deescalate.
We are still taking numbers that, in a full exchange (which is the only way it would go down) would be devastating.
I also think you are downplaying the SLBM threat quite a bit. ICMBs are, in themselves, relics.. US subs can carry 24 launch vehicles, Russians 16-20. The current generation Russian SLBM carries 8 warheads, while the US has limited itself to 3-4 per Trident II (it's capable of carrying up to 12).
It would require a few hundred, unless all you want to accomplish is to kick the ant hill. You could create a financial collapse by hitting the top 10 or so cities, but that only gets you so far. It would not be enough to knock out the government, commanders would be protected and most military installations are purposefully scattered all over. Between regular, reserve, and national guard forces there would be more than enough to ensure law and order for the most part. Most important, the ability for our military to strike back in a conventional sense would still be intact
Even if we go with that totally unlikely scenario, an in-kind response would require what, hitting two or three cities in Russia? Certainly not a healthy thing to do but also not the tipping point to global environmental catastrophe like the other commentor suggested. Remember, it's not like we haven't detonated plenty of nukes in testing. A dozen airbust weapons in the 400kt range won't end life on earth.
But again, that's a scenario that is just not on the table for anyone.
Now, if you wanted to knock the US completely down, you are going to need hundreds of warheads. You have to hit all the major cities, some of them very hard. You have to hit military bases as well, not just in the US but around the world. You would target underground government installations with big, ground burst weapons that would kick up massive amounts of dust and fallout. Ditto for our nuclear reservations to try to take out ground based ICBMs.
An exchange of that size, even if the US did not respond, would be catastrophic for the entire planet.
Sure. And the massively radioactive dust ejected into the stratosphere will be carried to you in the jetstream. Over the following months and years, it will sicken your families, pollute water supplies , wipe out livestock and decimate your economy. Those same massive clouds of radioactive debris will trigger nuclear winter on an unpredictable global scale So, yeah, it's possible to "win" with a first strike, but in the long term the only true victors will be giant mutant cockroaches.
I never said it was a good idea. Just that if some superpower decided to go nuclear against another, it would not be a small-scale initial attack like the other commentator suggested. No one is foolish enough to think that anyone can "win" a large scale nuclear war.
Wal-Mart's Vudu seems a very stable UV app on every device I've tried. Much more reliable than Flixster for streaming and downloading.
Vudu is actually one of the work-around going through the comments over at the kickstarter project. Redeem with Flixster then go to Vudu to actually watch it.
I don't care who's right, who started what, which goverment is a puppet for which superpower. Really, I don't. I just have one simple request of everyone involved:
Can we please not stumble into World War III over the goddamned Ukraine!?
The russian military spying agency is handing out ID cards to their agents?
Um, yes? Did you think they just know each other and it's all informal? Now, should the soldier have been carrying it with him at that time? Probably not.
Uh, every kickstarter backer knows (or should know) that they are assuming risk when funding. That's part of being on kickstarter. As for rewards, a few people out of the 92,000+ that funded the project are having a problem getting part of their reward to work, and WB is working with them to get it to work, refund part of their pledge, or cover the cost of getting the content elsewhere. How are they ripped off again?
This was a studio film all along- the Kickstarter purposely misrepresented the situation. The Kickstarter made promises those running the Kickstarter could NEVER deliver.
WB got suckers to use their money, with ZERO profit sharing, to finance a studio picture- a new low even for Hollywood. To make matters worse, despite the minor value of this movie to WB, WB wasn't even prepared to hide this fact by giving the suckers that paid 35 dollars a break, and letting them download a proper digital copy to own. If that had been too much of an 'issue', WB could easily have created a few thousand DVD's to send out instead, so the $35 dollar team could have made their own digital 'rips'.
It gets WORSE. The 'geniuses' at WB seriously under-estimated demand for the film in the cinema, and released the film (in the USA) to 30%-50% of the optimal number of screens. The excellent per screen average of the way too small release is proof of this.
So, the film gets made, gets good reviews and people want to see it. But the suits at Warner Brothers snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by focusing on all the mean, petty hurt they can pile of the original 35 dollar suckers. And NO, giving these people their money back counts for nothing. WB behaviour over this whole affair has been despicable, and shame on the people who made the film for NOT honestly admitting from the start that it was a traditional studio production.
You're an idiot. It was made clear on the the very first day that Warner Brothers was involved. Right there on the front page of the Kickstater, on day one. Warner agreed to pay for distribution and promotion if Rob Thomas could help fund the production budget and show fan interest in the film, and that is exactly what happened. Did WB screw up by forcing it through Flixster (guess who owns Flixster, btw), Yes, but they never lied about any aspect of the Kickstarter project.
As for the number of screens, that's all they could get. Given the prospects for the film they are lucky that AMC agreed to screen what is a limited release film across their national footprint, and on the same day it would go live the on UV, iTunes, Amazon, and PPV.
The Kickstarter used the phrase 'Digital Version' in some places and 'Digital Download' in others. I see no mention of DRM-free, so all they have to do is hand out Amazon credit to those who complain about the streaming solution. But no, they'd rather pay out a bunch of money than give people something that matches what they paid for. I'm thinking everyone who has a piece of this (the production company, any stars that get a piece of the action) ought to probably demand an accounting to make sure Hollywood didn't charge them for the returned cash...
They were (I assume still are?) offering to reimburse the $20 if you submit a receipt from another streaming service, or you can take $10 in cash (the amount they say is the portion that went to cover the cost of the Flixter/UV version). So they are giving them the option to get the film in a version that works for them, just you have to pay then get a refund from WB.
took the money to finish the show and nowI refunding it? Is there's interest on this money since they didn't deliver the original deal? Im sure anyone else who lent them the money for the rest of the project probably got extra income as percentage of thir loan.
They are refunding $10 (their cost of the UV download, their words, not mine) or you can go buy it on Amazon, iTunes, whatever and they will cover the cost (or they were saying that last I heard). The money is coming from the marketing budget that WB provided, not the production budget that the Kickstarter money went to.
UltraViolet (UV) is a free, cloud-based, digital rights library that allows users of digital home entertainment content to stream and download purchased content to multiple platforms and devices.
according to the link UltraViolet provides downloads. The issue was that UltraViolet is buggy. It provides downloads in theory. I think there was some region restriction also with the service. That didn't work with KickStarters international reach.
It's not even that Ultraviolet is buggy, but Flixster is buggy. This just highlights why UV is doomed if they don't fix their shit and drop this "You need an account here, and here, and here, and you need to link this account to that account, and this one to that one, and that one to that other one" BS. Then the poor saps that managed to do that were having issues with Flixster apps on different platforms. It's bad enough for the tech savvy, image trying to help your parent or no-so-technical sibling navigate that maze.
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Subject to the constitution yes, subject to local laws on business data collection, no.
There is a principle in law (but not in all jurisdictions) that one can only keep personal information about one's customers during the time one is doing business with them. Libraries, one of the original examples, only keep "who has book X" records until the book is returned.
What business relationship does the Navy have with random people, and what are they doing with copies of their parking tickets? Personal information, and especially personally identifying information should be closely held. Therefor it should not be collected by businesses, police or the military except where the law specifically allows.
To make it a little harsher, is not possession of someone else's social security number in the U.S. prima facie evidence of an attempt to impersonate them? Of "identity theft"?
None of which applies to a federal law enforcement agency, which NCIS is.
Research Suggests Pulling All-Nighters Can Cause Permanent Damage in mice. The study was done on mice, not people. While it's an interesting first step, it is not in anyway conclusive that the results also apply to humans.
One of the conspiracy theories, that the US created the AIDs virus, was created for an active disinformation campaign by the Soviet Union against the US as a form of political warfare during the Cold War, and still gets repeated."
Oh sure, that's what they want you to believe. The truth is the Soviet "disinformation campaign" was part of a US disinformation campaign to make the Soviets look bad while covering up the fact that the US created AIDS in the first place to take focus away from decades of mounting evidence that we faked the moon landings with the help of the Hollywood Illuminati Jewish Italian mobsters from Boston as a reward for their unions help in getting Kennedy elected!
You dont get it. You can't have "everyone" take a step back when there is one who wants to take a step forward.
By definition that's exactly what you can do. You may want to look up the word "everyone" in a dictionary.
Interesting nickname attached to your comment. Foreshadowing perhaps...?
The name of my car (a modified 2002 Camaro SS)?
Again, I said everyone. Unless you consider the Russians to not be part of everyone (You do concede they are human, yes?) then you grossly mis-interpreted my original post.
Also, you are talking about WWII, not WWI, which is funny since WWI is probably the closer analog to this situation.
Oh, wait, wrong century. I get so confused. Same shit, different day, I guess.
That's my problem, this is starting to feel like an SSDD moment in history. And please note my original post did make the request of EVERYONE INVOLVED (Russian are still people, right?)
It is better to have World War 3 than have the Russians get away with shit like this.
Really? You would think we should run headlong into a war that would, in all likelihood, destroy civilization as we know it, killing billions in the process?
So how would you feel if the Russians tried to annex Alaska? Maybe you don't care now because it seems remote but ignoring the problem will not make it go away.
I'd be pretty pissed off. But you misunderstand what I'm saying. We != Americans, NATO, etc. We = Everyone. I'm not advocating the west stand aside, I'm asking that EVERYONE INVOLVED take a goddamned step back and deescalate.
I was kind of thinking "we" as in "everyone involved in this situation".
We are still taking numbers that, in a full exchange (which is the only way it would go down) would be devastating.
I also think you are downplaying the SLBM threat quite a bit. ICMBs are, in themselves, relics.. US subs can carry 24 launch vehicles, Russians 16-20. The current generation Russian SLBM carries 8 warheads, while the US has limited itself to 3-4 per Trident II (it's capable of carrying up to 12).
It would require a few hundred, unless all you want to accomplish is to kick the ant hill. You could create a financial collapse by hitting the top 10 or so cities, but that only gets you so far. It would not be enough to knock out the government, commanders would be protected and most military installations are purposefully scattered all over. Between regular, reserve, and national guard forces there would be more than enough to ensure law and order for the most part. Most important, the ability for our military to strike back in a conventional sense would still be intact
Even if we go with that totally unlikely scenario, an in-kind response would require what, hitting two or three cities in Russia? Certainly not a healthy thing to do but also not the tipping point to global environmental catastrophe like the other commentor suggested. Remember, it's not like we haven't detonated plenty of nukes in testing. A dozen airbust weapons in the 400kt range won't end life on earth.
But again, that's a scenario that is just not on the table for anyone.
Now, if you wanted to knock the US completely down, you are going to need hundreds of warheads. You have to hit all the major cities, some of them very hard. You have to hit military bases as well, not just in the US but around the world. You would target underground government installations with big, ground burst weapons that would kick up massive amounts of dust and fallout. Ditto for our nuclear reservations to try to take out ground based ICBMs.
An exchange of that size, even if the US did not respond, would be catastrophic for the entire planet.
Sure. And the massively radioactive dust ejected into the stratosphere will be carried to you in the jetstream. Over the following months and years, it will sicken your families, pollute water supplies , wipe out livestock and decimate your economy. Those same massive clouds of radioactive debris will trigger nuclear winter on an unpredictable global scale So, yeah, it's possible to "win" with a first strike, but in the long term the only true victors will be giant mutant cockroaches.
I never said it was a good idea. Just that if some superpower decided to go nuclear against another, it would not be a small-scale initial attack like the other commentator suggested. No one is foolish enough to think that anyone can "win" a large scale nuclear war.
Wal-Mart's Vudu seems a very stable UV app on every device I've tried. Much more reliable than Flixster for streaming and downloading.
Vudu is actually one of the work-around going through the comments over at the kickstarter project. Redeem with Flixster then go to Vudu to actually watch it.
Do your research before thinking it's another self-balancing vehicle.
So it's not a self-balancing two wheel vehicle? because...
two-wheeled, motor-driven vehicles that can self-balance with a dancer's grace
Either way I take it I talk to you if I'm interested in buying one?
I don't care who's right, who started what, which goverment is a puppet for which superpower. Really, I don't. I just have one simple request of everyone involved:
Can we please not stumble into World War III over the goddamned Ukraine!?
The russian military spying agency is handing out ID cards to their agents?
Um, yes? Did you think they just know each other and it's all informal? Now, should the soldier have been carrying it with him at that time? Probably not.
Haven't we heard that before? About another self-balancing 2-wheel vehicle?
Not really. It is a contract of fulfillment to make something real.
They fulfilled the object of the contract, so they are deemed required to distribute their end of the bargain.
Time to read the fine little letters regarding the exact terms of what they should deliver and when...
Nope. Go read the site's terms.
Uh, every kickstarter backer knows (or should know) that they are assuming risk when funding. That's part of being on kickstarter. As for rewards, a few people out of the 92,000+ that funded the project are having a problem getting part of their reward to work, and WB is working with them to get it to work, refund part of their pledge, or cover the cost of getting the content elsewhere. How are they ripped off again?
This was a studio film all along- the Kickstarter purposely misrepresented the situation. The Kickstarter made promises those running the Kickstarter could NEVER deliver.
WB got suckers to use their money, with ZERO profit sharing, to finance a studio picture- a new low even for Hollywood. To make matters worse, despite the minor value of this movie to WB, WB wasn't even prepared to hide this fact by giving the suckers that paid 35 dollars a break, and letting them download a proper digital copy to own. If that had been too much of an 'issue', WB could easily have created a few thousand DVD's to send out instead, so the $35 dollar team could have made their own digital 'rips'.
It gets WORSE. The 'geniuses' at WB seriously under-estimated demand for the film in the cinema, and released the film (in the USA) to 30%-50% of the optimal number of screens. The excellent per screen average of the way too small release is proof of this.
So, the film gets made, gets good reviews and people want to see it. But the suits at Warner Brothers snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by focusing on all the mean, petty hurt they can pile of the original 35 dollar suckers. And NO, giving these people their money back counts for nothing. WB behaviour over this whole affair has been despicable, and shame on the people who made the film for NOT honestly admitting from the start that it was a traditional studio production.
You're an idiot. It was made clear on the the very first day that Warner Brothers was involved. Right there on the front page of the Kickstater, on day one. Warner agreed to pay for distribution and promotion if Rob Thomas could help fund the production budget and show fan interest in the film, and that is exactly what happened. Did WB screw up by forcing it through Flixster (guess who owns Flixster, btw), Yes, but they never lied about any aspect of the Kickstarter project.
As for the number of screens, that's all they could get. Given the prospects for the film they are lucky that AMC agreed to screen what is a limited release film across their national footprint, and on the same day it would go live the on UV, iTunes, Amazon, and PPV.
The Kickstarter used the phrase 'Digital Version' in some places and 'Digital Download' in others. I see no mention of DRM-free, so all they have to do is hand out Amazon credit to those who complain about the streaming solution. But no, they'd rather pay out a bunch of money than give people something that matches what they paid for. I'm thinking everyone who has a piece of this (the production company, any stars that get a piece of the action) ought to probably demand an accounting to make sure Hollywood didn't charge them for the returned cash...
They were (I assume still are?) offering to reimburse the $20 if you submit a receipt from another streaming service, or you can take $10 in cash (the amount they say is the portion that went to cover the cost of the Flixter/UV version). So they are giving them the option to get the film in a version that works for them, just you have to pay then get a refund from WB.
took the money to finish the show and nowI refunding it? Is there's interest on this money since they didn't deliver the original deal? Im sure anyone else who lent them the money for the rest of the project probably got extra income as percentage of thir loan.
They are refunding $10 (their cost of the UV download, their words, not mine) or you can go buy it on Amazon, iTunes, whatever and they will cover the cost (or they were saying that last I heard). The money is coming from the marketing budget that WB provided, not the production budget that the Kickstarter money went to.
UltraViolet (UV) is a free, cloud-based, digital rights library that allows users of digital home entertainment content to stream and download purchased content to multiple platforms and devices.
according to the link UltraViolet provides downloads. The issue was that UltraViolet is buggy. It provides downloads in theory. I think there was some region restriction also with the service. That didn't work with KickStarters international reach.
It's not even that Ultraviolet is buggy, but Flixster is buggy. This just highlights why UV is doomed if they don't fix their shit and drop this "You need an account here, and here, and here, and you need to link this account to that account, and this one to that one, and that one to that other one" BS. Then the poor saps that managed to do that were having issues with Flixster apps on different platforms. It's bad enough for the tech savvy, image trying to help your parent or no-so-technical sibling navigate that maze.