I agree, completely, that a content producer should disclose the full terms of the sale, or license, or viewing/screening/performance.
...but if I say the Aerosmith tickets are $500, and disclose exactly what seats those entail, what you're allowed to carry into the venue, and what time you can arrive and how long you can stay -- who are you to say that I can't charge $500 as long as people are willing to pay the price.
I think the breakdown between reasonable parties on difference sides of the discussion is about what "buying a movie" means.
Many of us would prefer to own, perpetually, a copy of the movie which we could use freely in any non-public performance forever without additional necessary license. Some of us, OTOH, are happy to rent a movie, like we do with a lot of digital downloads.
Currently bloating my spam folder are sports betting sites promising NFL locks, a strange flood of tinnitus cures (is that a new hot thing?), diabetes "cures," solar ads, and lots and lots of fake gift card spams and insurance open enrollment ads.
...but even the "average user" (whoever that is) knows that the websites they visit have ads on them. I mean, they've been to sites before, they've seen ads, they know that the next time they load up Yahoo.com there's going to be an ad right there at 3 o'clock under the top holiday searches box. My mom knows if she loads Yahoo, she's going to see an add. [You can argue that every bit of content on Yahoo is an ad, but that's another discussion for another day.]
It's intellectually dishonest for the highly technical to say, "I didn't ask for you to deliver me an ad" when they typed in yahoo.com into the address bar.
There's plenty of reasons to dislike advertising and tracking on the web.
As such, I'll remind you that they don't use your bandwidth without your permission. In fact, you must request all the pages from the internet that you'd like to see. It's the primary technical argument for blocking ads -- in that you're free to do with the data you receive as you please.
...but don't pretend you didn't ask for that data. You know websites have ads.
And even they make pretty clear it was baseless speculation.
Szmolinsky said he suspected that his rabbits, which grow to the size of dogs and can weigh more than 22 pounds, were eaten at a birthday banquet for Kim Jong-Il, the North Korean leader, although he emphasized that he had no evidence of this.
The North Korean Embassy in Berlin denied that the rabbits were dead. A spokesman said that they were being used for a breeding program, and had not been eaten. He added that no one at the embassy had contacted Szmolinsky.
He made an off the cuff remark, had no proof, and the "news" ran with his story, because, "lol North Korea."
She said the intended breeding program had run into difficulties once the German-bred outsize rabbits arrived in the isolated Stalinist state, where some sectors of the population still face malnutrition.
To ensure the successful expansion of the giant rabbit population, rabbit cross-breeding and species hybridization were needed, Lee said.
But many female rabbits failed to get pregnant, and of the rabbit kittens that were born, many were deformed, she added.
There's simply nothing that says the seed rabbits were simply eaten. They only sell for a couple hundred bucks each. If you wanted to eat them (they ARE for eating, you know) they could have bought them and eaten them. Creating a fake plan to buy 16 discounted ones just to eat them is nuts -- more than KJ-II nuts.
The idea that we've got it all figured out and we've reached the limits of what the physical world will allow is pretty narrow thinking.
If humanity survives for another thousand years (let alone a million), think where we'll be. In the last hundred years we did more than the thousand before it. [*With thanks to the thousand before it.] What happens next?
The same company blocks web access to dictionary.com, archive.org and anything related to computer security (hacking) and 3D graphics (games), as well as anything deemed to be file sharing (dropbox, google drive, pastebin - but not gist.github.com or thousands of other similar sites).
Why are such douchebags in charge of IT at such large companies that employ technically competent staff?
It, like everything else, is about breaking even in terms of time versus exposure.
You can block the top 10 file sharing/storage sites (drive, dropbox, whatever) in 10 minutes, and prevent 95% of your employees from transferring files. Or, to get to 99%, you can spend a couple hours a week adding new sites to the list. Want 99.5%? Just hire a full-time guy to review every TLD visited by employees.
It's hardly a failure of the design -- it's a critical part of the design of the "new" Las Vegas.
When Vegas ditched the family friendly amusement park atmosphere of the 90's dissolved into 2004's "What Happens in Vegas" slogan, the new Vegas experience became radically different. No longer did you go see a magic act and white tigers before riding a roller-coaster with your kids... Now the experience is: Gamble, eat at a celebrity chef's restaurant for dinner, see a half-naked Cirque du Soleil, gamble some more, score some E, go to club Uuntz to see the celebrity DJ fresh from the Jersey Shore, take a nap in your room, recover at the topless pool the next morning, visit the mega-buffet for lunch, go shopping in our mall and repeat for as many days as you're staying.
The resort hotels are now designed to provide this entire experience without leaving the confines of your resort, or at least without leaving the block of cheap East-side-of-the-Strip Harrah's properties. You can do it all under one roof now, and there's no need to step foot outside of Bellagio unless you want to see the fountains go off. Walking down the Strip isn't meant to be easy any longer. The boardwalk outside of NYNY for a faster trip to Excalibur may be the last of its kind. It's a long walk from two neighboring hotels on purpose now. Taxi stands are moving to the back. Stay here! We've got it all.
DA prosecution for possession =/= arrests for possession.
"Stop and Frisk" may be frisking a disproportionately high percentage of blacks, placing more of them in a position to be prosecuted -- but that has nothing to do with the DA's decision to prosecute (or not prosecute) an individual once the arrest has been made.
Preface: To simplify, I'm aware there are more racial and ethnic choices than black and white.
A disproportionate number of black people are also arrested for small-time pot possession charges, after the cops illegally search them, even though the pot usage in NYC is the same for blacks and whites. So if black people and white people use drugs in equal proportions, and the DA prosecutes 10 times as many black people as white for drug offenses, that would make it racist, wouldn't it?
The DA would be racist if, when brought forth an equal number of arrests for possession, chose to prosecute one race more than another based only on (or aided by) the color of their skin.
If cases brought to the DA included more repeat offenders for possession for one race than another, it wouldn't be racist to charge them. If cases brought to the DA included those known to be in gangs, it wouldn't be racist to charge them. If cases brought to the DA included a segment who were non-cooperative or fled police before or at arrest, it wouldn't be racist to charge them.
The DA isn't out doing stop-and-frisk (which I am not a fan of), but you're arguing selective prosecution. Blacks may be prosecuted more frequently than whites for the same arrests, but there may be other mitigating factors in the DA's decision.
While I'm generally pro free-market, Vegas is a place where some regulation is good for the environment as a whole, and without it, there would be a tiny tragedy of the commons issue.
Taxi regulations in Vegas require the drivers picking up passengers from taxi stands take all fares, no matter the distance. Because the walk from Bellagio to New York New York is complicated by City Center, it's a pain in the ass 20 minute one-mile hike up and down escalators and possibly into and out of the shops at the Cosmo with your "date" in a little black dress and high heels parading around at 4am after the club closes...or a one mile taxi ride.
Regulated taxis must "gleefully" accept that fare.
An unregulated taxi driver doesn't have to short-haul you from B to NY, picking up a one mile fare with no wait time on the meter at 4am. That's a $3.45 flag drop, and about $3.75 for the mile, and while getting $10 after a tiny tip for a short haul might seem fun, short hauls are a terrible way to make money as a taxi driver. There's too much waiting in line for the next fare.
The market would correct itself, of course, but it'd do so by raising the price of flag drops and making short hauls more expensive. If it does that, Taxi drivers do better, but it hurts the overall tourist environment in Vegas, which hurts tourism, which ultimately makes life worse for the taxi industry and its drivers.
For other fun short-hauls in Vegas, try taking a taxi from Cesars to The Rio. It's 2 minute drive of less than a mile with no wait, even in heavy traffic (from the south tower entrance to the front entrance at the Rio) or anther 20 minute walk, this time crossing some of the best traffic in all of Las Vegas.
n.b. As a young man, I dispatched for a taxi company, and a member of my immediate family spent the last decade as the operations manager for the largest taxi company in one of the biggest cities in the country -- although not a heavy "taxi city" (not NY, LV, Chicago).
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Pedantry at its finest.
It's like saying "nobody accepts credit cards" because your credit card processor deposits USD in your bank.
*threats of rape.
I'd at least wait for the user to execute a script on my landing page before counting click-through type payments.
"Strunk & White" should be used when referencing the manual.
We're both wrong :)
You have the moral justification to return the film unwatched.
And the price needs reduced? Wha?
I agree, completely, that a content producer should disclose the full terms of the sale, or license, or viewing/screening/performance.
Oh god. For a minute I thought you were serious.
I think the breakdown between reasonable parties on difference sides of the discussion is about what "buying a movie" means.
Many of us would prefer to own, perpetually, a copy of the movie which we could use freely in any non-public performance forever without additional necessary license. Some of us, OTOH, are happy to rent a movie, like we do with a lot of digital downloads.
...that should be easy to view at work.
Currently bloating my spam folder are sports betting sites promising NFL locks, a strange flood of tinnitus cures (is that a new hot thing?), diabetes "cures," solar ads, and lots and lots of fake gift card spams and insurance open enrollment ads.
Almost none of it makes it into my inbox.
It does not beg any questions.
.50 or .60 what per GiB?
Quarts? Furlongs? Solar masses?
I wasn't responding to the average user.
It's intellectually dishonest for the highly technical to say, "I didn't ask for you to deliver me an ad" when they typed in yahoo.com into the address bar.
There's plenty of reasons to dislike advertising and tracking on the web.
It seems you understand how the internet works.
As such, I'll remind you that they don't use your bandwidth without your permission. In fact, you must request all the pages from the internet that you'd like to see. It's the primary technical argument for blocking ads -- in that you're free to do with the data you receive as you please.
No. The only way to remember that is to read Fox.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2...
And even they make pretty clear it was baseless speculation.
He made an off the cuff remark, had no proof, and the "news" ran with his story, because, "lol North Korea."
Then, in 2010, more details emerged:
http://www.rfa.org/english/new...
There's simply nothing that says the seed rabbits were simply eaten. They only sell for a couple hundred bucks each. If you wanted to eat them (they ARE for eating, you know) they could have bought them and eaten them. Creating a fake plan to buy 16 discounted ones just to eat them is nuts -- more than KJ-II nuts.
Did the People's Democratic Republic of Whereeverthefuckyoulive grant your garage sale permit, brother comrade?
...or it wouldn't, and it's not.
Who knows.
The idea that we've got it all figured out and we've reached the limits of what the physical world will allow is pretty narrow thinking.
If humanity survives for another thousand years (let alone a million), think where we'll be. In the last hundred years we did more than the thousand before it. [*With thanks to the thousand before it.] What happens next?
No holodeck comments yet?
The same company blocks web access to dictionary.com, archive.org and anything related to computer security (hacking) and 3D graphics (games), as well as anything deemed to be file sharing (dropbox, google drive, pastebin - but not gist.github.com or thousands of other similar sites).
Why are such douchebags in charge of IT at such large companies that employ technically competent staff?
It, like everything else, is about breaking even in terms of time versus exposure.
You can block the top 10 file sharing/storage sites (drive, dropbox, whatever) in 10 minutes, and prevent 95% of your employees from transferring files. Or, to get to 99%, you can spend a couple hours a week adding new sites to the list. Want 99.5%? Just hire a full-time guy to review every TLD visited by employees.
Damned white knights :)
It's hardly a failure of the design -- it's a critical part of the design of the "new" Las Vegas.
When Vegas ditched the family friendly amusement park atmosphere of the 90's dissolved into 2004's "What Happens in Vegas" slogan, the new Vegas experience became radically different. No longer did you go see a magic act and white tigers before riding a roller-coaster with your kids... Now the experience is: Gamble, eat at a celebrity chef's restaurant for dinner, see a half-naked Cirque du Soleil, gamble some more, score some E, go to club Uuntz to see the celebrity DJ fresh from the Jersey Shore, take a nap in your room, recover at the topless pool the next morning, visit the mega-buffet for lunch, go shopping in our mall and repeat for as many days as you're staying.
The resort hotels are now designed to provide this entire experience without leaving the confines of your resort, or at least without leaving the block of cheap East-side-of-the-Strip Harrah's properties. You can do it all under one roof now, and there's no need to step foot outside of Bellagio unless you want to see the fountains go off. Walking down the Strip isn't meant to be easy any longer. The boardwalk outside of NYNY for a faster trip to Excalibur may be the last of its kind. It's a long walk from two neighboring hotels on purpose now. Taxi stands are moving to the back. Stay here! We've got it all.
DA prosecution for possession =/= arrests for possession.
"Stop and Frisk" may be frisking a disproportionately high percentage of blacks, placing more of them in a position to be prosecuted -- but that has nothing to do with the DA's decision to prosecute (or not prosecute) an individual once the arrest has been made.
Preface: To simplify, I'm aware there are more racial and ethnic choices than black and white.
A disproportionate number of black people are also arrested for small-time pot possession charges, after the cops illegally search them, even though the pot usage in NYC is the same for blacks and whites. So if black people and white people use drugs in equal proportions, and the DA prosecutes 10 times as many black people as white for drug offenses, that would make it racist, wouldn't it?
The DA would be racist if, when brought forth an equal number of arrests for possession, chose to prosecute one race more than another based only on (or aided by) the color of their skin.
If cases brought to the DA included more repeat offenders for possession for one race than another, it wouldn't be racist to charge them.
If cases brought to the DA included those known to be in gangs, it wouldn't be racist to charge them.
If cases brought to the DA included a segment who were non-cooperative or fled police before or at arrest, it wouldn't be racist to charge them.
The DA isn't out doing stop-and-frisk (which I am not a fan of), but you're arguing selective prosecution. Blacks may be prosecuted more frequently than whites for the same arrests, but there may be other mitigating factors in the DA's decision.
While I'm generally pro free-market, Vegas is a place where some regulation is good for the environment as a whole, and without it, there would be a tiny tragedy of the commons issue.
Taxi regulations in Vegas require the drivers picking up passengers from taxi stands take all fares, no matter the distance. Because the walk from Bellagio to New York New York is complicated by City Center, it's a pain in the ass 20 minute one-mile hike up and down escalators and possibly into and out of the shops at the Cosmo with your "date" in a little black dress and high heels parading around at 4am after the club closes...or a one mile taxi ride.
Regulated taxis must "gleefully" accept that fare.
An unregulated taxi driver doesn't have to short-haul you from B to NY, picking up a one mile fare with no wait time on the meter at 4am. That's a $3.45 flag drop, and about $3.75 for the mile, and while getting $10 after a tiny tip for a short haul might seem fun, short hauls are a terrible way to make money as a taxi driver. There's too much waiting in line for the next fare.
The market would correct itself, of course, but it'd do so by raising the price of flag drops and making short hauls more expensive. If it does that, Taxi drivers do better, but it hurts the overall tourist environment in Vegas, which hurts tourism, which ultimately makes life worse for the taxi industry and its drivers.
For other fun short-hauls in Vegas, try taking a taxi from Cesars to The Rio. It's 2 minute drive of less than a mile with no wait, even in heavy traffic (from the south tower entrance to the front entrance at the Rio) or anther 20 minute walk, this time crossing some of the best traffic in all of Las Vegas.
n.b. As a young man, I dispatched for a taxi company, and a member of my immediate family spent the last decade as the operations manager for the largest taxi company in one of the biggest cities in the country -- although not a heavy "taxi city" (not NY, LV, Chicago).
Six people means two taxis. At three riders per taxi, it's still about half the price of a limo, albeit not nearly as cool.
You price, $80, is about right for an airport-to-hotel limo ride, or a hotel-to-dinner trip.