Fiction: Women almost always dislike being sexualised.
Women dislike being ONLY sexualized. So do men IF it ever happened to them.
Here is a simple tip for boys, girls don't mind if you look at their tits, they mind if you ONLY look at their tits. Women are as sexual as men if not more so but they want to be more then a collection of body parts. Think of them as a total package of person with lots of soft bits that are nice to touch and you got a deal.
And think about, as much as men might like to think that they would love it if women used them for nothing but sex, what man would be satisfied to sit at home until their mistress called them to perform on demand and never have anything they say taken serious or even listened to.
Googling it returns this news story, does it mean Apple will have to pay Samsungs legal costs or even what Samsung is going to claim they have lost because of it?
Apple case isn't looking good, they are getting thrown out all over the world and the small wins are for trivial stuff Samsung can and has worked around. Meanwhile Apples reputation has taken a nosedive not being helped that Jobs epitaph seems to consist of "prick in a turtleneck". Screwing your partner out of a few hundred when he will one day make you a billionaire is just sad.
I still wonder what Apple was thinking. Yes, the Samsung tablets and for that matter anyone elses look a lot alike. And? I tried it at a local super store. Gosh, they are indeed very similar. Then I wandered over the washing machine department. Talk about copy cats. Really, take a LOOK someday, they are ALL the same. Even the place you the soap in. I couldn't find a single model on display where the soap didn't go in on the left. Even the order of pre-wash, wash and fabric softener is like that, from left to right.
And don't even get me started on fridges. white boxes the lot of them. About the only exception are the american models which ALL have the water dispenser in the LEFT door which is narrower then the right door.
So maybe Apple was the first to copy the design from a prop maker. Was it worth it Apple? We who are not fanboys now have fresh ammo to slap your buyers around with now that the one-mouse button joke has gotten a bit stale (mind you, tablets do have only one mouse button... old jokes never die it seems, they just get re-used on slashdot). Injunctions thrown out, might have to pay whatever Samsung is going to claim as damages and you made a Korean mega-corp many times larger and closely tied to a not-so-democratic regime that has taken thousands up on thousands of western job as the sympathetic underdog.
Maybe here is a hint for Apple, next time the lawyers suggest a strategy. Hit them!
In Tunisia right now a Muslim party has one the elections and this leaves women in fear that they will LOOSE the freedoms GAINED under the OPPRESSIVE regime of Ben Ali. Freedom is not a simple on/off switch. Are the people in Russia now better or worse off then when it was the USSR? What time period of the USSR? What people?
Cuba is rather famous for having better healthcare then the US and a far lower infant death rate. If you are a dying infant, communism apparently can save your life but that life will be less free. Then again, if you were the suspicious kind you might wonder whether the higher infant death rate is evenly distributed or concentrated in certain groups/classes of people. Free but only if you are rich?
The images of a cop peperspraying sitting protestors made the world. Does that make the west un-free? The cops were suspended and while true justice might not be done, there are far far worse examples.
Microsoft dealed with a regime that in western eyes wasn't terribly nice but a LOT better then a lot of other places and we yet have to see what the alternative will turn out to be. In many ways, if you want to blame companies for dealing in oppression they not only have to boycot the entire world but often themselves. Oops, Windows 8 is closed source, that is not free, so MS has to boycot its own software!
Of course, by accepting these exceptions you pretty soon are on a slippery slope were everything becomes an exception.
You got to wonder what happened to Slashdot when it so often presents a story from the Daily Mail as a serious subject. Nobody with an IQ over 100 reads that trash. It is not a newspaper, it drivel designed to sell ads by pulling in the less intelligent with outragous headlines they can rant over to each other and then forget about it. It is in its way brilliant, have the less intelligent rant about things that don't matter and often don't even exist and you can leave the running of the country to the 1%.
Status reports! MORE status reports! Scrum stand up, daily reports, weekly reports, time sheet, burndown chart. It is easy to! Today: 8 hours - Updating status reports. Rince and repeat.
People who made stuff for the horse industry could find new employment in the car industry. People who worked at Kodak have no such replacement. The replacement for film camera's comes from the east and I am not talking about California. Sony for instance makes a LOT of the cheap cheerfull camera's that once used Kodak film. Those are made in Japan. Not the US. Jobs for Japanese, not Americans.
You might look down on a job at a film development line but it gave a lot of people the income to lead their lives. And now their jobs are gone. Read up for how societies are affected when an industry leaves for one reason or another and is not replaced. Rochester, Detroit. These are not happy stories.
This is not about brand names, this is about the erosion of full-time, life-time employment being replaced by temporary work at minimum wages for less then full weeks.
Sony has been losing money. Not just making less profit or something, but plain straight losing money for four years in a row and you call this a success?
Take a look at the inventor of modern space miniatures (camera system that allowed multiple models to be easily shot for the same scene), George Lucas. What is the difference between those early models and the CGI models used in the prequels that don't exist?
Smoothness. The OLD physical models were dirty. They had a used, naval vessel look. The NEW CGI model was a polished mirror. The prequels were to clean to really work. The old movies had a Wild West feel to it and I don't just mean the blasters worn on the hip. The prequels have a feel to it of a costume drama.
Same with a lot of other movies, they look so futuristic with such smooth shaved actors that it all feels fake. And because it feels fake and we know it is fake, it feels even more fake.
When you see Jackie Chan doing a stunt, you know it is real and so "simple" stunts like him jumping through the opening in a clerks window is amazing and thrilling. James Bond jumping down a cliff is fake and therefor not really that inspiring.
A Sci-Fi movie, and I am talking space opera here because REAL hard core Science Fiction needs no special effects at all ("That morning, the sun rose in the west", The last man on earth is sitting in room, there is a knock on the door), has to feel "right" and that doesn't come with special effects but with making the story engaging.
And watching a trade dispute while shouting at the screen "behind you" is NOT engaging.
The original Star Trek had primitive effects and even Spocks Brain blows the new movie out of the water.
A Republican so someone who cuts of his own legs because they are to large and unwieldy for their minimal usefullness. All that meat and bone (lets face it, muscles on a rep are in the neck) for what? Cut it off. And that brain? 25% of energy of the body? Who does it think it is?
For a postal service to work, it has to be inefficient. The same with public transport. Unless it reaches everywhere, it isn't usable. That is why early electricity producers PAID big bucks to get everyone hooked up. But they would only do that where it made sense. Getting a line out to the farms often didn't. And so they didn't.
Society NEEDS infrastructure even in areas YOU as a person never use. That road to nowhere DOES go somewhere and those people at the end need it.
Don't believe it? Go live in areas of the world where only individual interests are catered for. Somalia is nice for that. No functional government, no services. No taxes. Just protection money to the guy with the bigger gun. And the payment might be your kids. Gosh, wished you payed a tiny percent for a national police service now eh?
You are aware that volunteer fire services are a perfect example of socialism? They may not pay a wage but the equipment is payed for by the people FOR the people. And it is fairly typical that everyone in the area gives the volunteers leeway to do their service. Or do you think non-volunteers can suddenly drop their job and rush out to put out a fire? No? Can't think of any employment contract that has this in it. Yet volunteer fire fighters do it all the time and are NOT fired (get it , fired, fire-fighter, that pun is smoking hot!, Get it, smoking hot? Fire? I am on FIRE today! What do you mean, good?)
So what is your argument? Things that the whole society needs even if an individual might never need it, need to supported by the whole off society?
So, while firex726 is hauled away for daring to think in a free country (try typing that with a straight face) I, as a communist living in a communist country (IE everywhere NOT America) can confirm this.
There are plenty of essential services that our society depends on but that don't always make economic sense. A starbucks is a easy. it should only continue to exist where it makes economic sense. It is not going to have enough business to sustain itself in a one horse town. (Horses don't drink coffee for the agriculturally challenged) But since nobody actually NEEDS a coffee shop (no, you really don't no matter how much you need caffeine to function) this is alright. You can live your entire life quiet happily without a starbucks or a McD near you.
But try the same thing without say, water and sewage services. Electricity or gas. Or even more basic, a road system. Roads to most people just seem to be there but they are costly to put down and maintain and often of no direct economic value. It is a rare farm that can afford to pay for a road a system to deliver its produce to all its customers. Without the road it cannot deliver but it would be a very costly bit of lettuce if the farm itself had to pay for it. Me? The customer pay for it? I don't NEED that farm road or even the countless kilometers (remember, communist) of highway. I live in a small area and pay for goods to be delivered to me. They can pay the transport costs from that.
This is why private roads are rare AND deliver ON private roads is NOT a sure thing. If you own a farm and don't keep your private road in a satisfactory state of repair you might be highly surprised to learn that deliveries are to the edge of your land, not the door. I am not going to risk MY truck on YOUR pot filled hole. To some people, getting the mail is a bit a more then firing up Gmail.
Essential services are a part of the infrastructure that an entire society is build upon. This is nothing new. It doesn't even have to be costly. Once the USPS was a big source of income for the US government. But decades of mis management in order to reduce government by republicans have made a profitable service that everyone needs a byword for money loosing inefficiency. And the result? We have been steadily going back on the quality of a service once known for its reliability.
But who still sends mail? Bill collectors? In a country in debt, that is the only remaining growth industry. The idea that you can send a letter and have it delivered anywhere in the country the next day is so ingrained that we don't think of it anymore. Electricity and water are the same and when they are turned off for a short time we suddenly notice how depended we are on it (quick for how many flushes of your shit do you have water stored). But they are only cut for short times or during unplanned outages where everyone is working as fast as possible to get it back up. NOBODY could seriously suggest that electricity will only be delivered part time (except in the glorious free market of California, high tech area of the world, think about that if you can).
Once the mail service has been gutted (and it is already way to late) turning it back on is impossible. The infrastructure is gone and no matter how much it is needed, the finances just won't be there to restart it. Oh, the people will adjust but it will be one more slide into 2nd world status for the US. Roads broken up, bridges falling apart, electricity unreliable as in 2nd world nations. Pretty soon, this will be used as an excuse for entire companies to relocate to areas with better infrastructure. Oh wait, the companies already did move since lack of social services and high living costs put the pressure of paying for it on individual wages and made the US worker far to expensive. Here is a hint, if the only way for a worker to come to your factory is by car, then his salary must be able to pay for said car. A cyclist can afford to demand a lower wage. Simple economics no republican will ever understand. Same with health
You are thinking about proving it works. This won't be tested at first. What will be tested at first on humans whether the innoculation itself doesn't kill you. After that it is a matter of simple statistics. As long as the shot doesn't kill you, the rest don't matter. Simple record the patients success at not getting HIV versus non-innoculated patients.
They are NOT going to shoot up humans with AIDS just for a test. Well. Not officially anyway. This is the medical industry after all. Nazi's would gag.
Lets face it, there once was a big scare about aids and then it dropped off to the point that a lot of people believe the weirdest things and fuck around and with no protection.
It isn't just AIDS, there are a lot of STD's and some of them are way easier to catch then AIDS and have a devestating impact on women especially as it makes them infertile.
It is good news that a vaccine MIGHT someday work on humans but in the meantime, it doesn't hurt to be a bit more careful. Just because one day they might make perfect safe cars, you don't skip putting on your helmet when you go drive a motor cycle in heavy traffic and icing conditions right? No. Unlike you... I am not a fool. (Yes, I am aware of the irony, that is the point really)
Pity most other countries in the world START at 25 payed days off. That is 5 weeks incase your over worked mind can no longer do math.
Most amazing myth I ever heard about the US is that of the "working poor". People who have a regular job or even two AND still can't keep themselves fed and housed. I am mean, how silly do you think we dutch people are? It is like plate sized hamburgers. Nice photoshop, no way that is real, no human beings could possible eat so much and no dressing up an elephant and putting it on a moped does not fool me.
Some people seem to think that because this is happening with mobile internet, the same could happen on wired internet. But there is a problem. First off, there are TWO forms of wired internet and the infrastructure for that is there. The wires are in the ground and they are increasingly capable of higher and higher speeds. Fibre is often waiting to be even used. There is excess capacity readily available.
Mobile is different, towers are not just expensive and prone to interference, getting a new tower up takes a lot of administrative work. Further more, by the nature of mobile, the heaviest use is in the most build up and populated areas where is it is hardest to increase coverage.
No such problem with wires. The heaviest use is spread over a city (offices during the day, suburbs at night) and the cables can carry near infinite capacity and getting a small distrubution box up is no hassle.
So... who is going to be the first to STOP advertising with downloading and say "we are going to charge you more"? There are, at least in Europe, to many ISP that have given up on trying to sell content just sell you data. They got no other interests and have the infrastructure to just sell data.
The fact is that data is insanely cheap nowadays, people know it AND will know it that the OTHER provider CAN sell it cheaply because that other provider is bound to advertise with it. If the are not... well... at least in the EU their are watchdogs that will ask how it comes ALL at once decided to increase their prices at the same rate.
Some of the big internet companies keep dreaming of fat profits and people paying to download wallpapers, ringtones and now movies. It never happened. I don't see it happening anytime soon. People are just to cheap.
SOME people claim everything was better in the old days. For art this is even more true because the stuff that is kept is the good stuff. We all know the great artists of previous centuries and even millenia. But where are the fart jokes from Roman times? The renaissance Full House?
When people claim Hollywood makes nothing but trash now, they forget the great movies made today and the crap like this made decades ago.
Archeologist's claim that the finding of shards in Egypt from ordinary workers told them more about ancient lives then all the pyramids together.
With movies such as this, our history of the movies is incomplete. Only snobs wish to preserve on the best so they can pretend they stand above the rest. Real history is everything.
Terrible movies have always been made by people who were better at getting funding then at creating movies. Uwe Boll, I am talking about you.
The worsed thing about say Discovery channel in Holland is the commercial break every 15 minutes with the most inane ads that are repeated over and over again. Because if you tell me a 100 time I pay to much for my electricity I am really going to switch (like I am likely to believe a company is cheaper with the same service when they waste a fortune on in-effective ads). Then there is the US narrator who repeats the same thing over and over again in that way that US narrators repeat the same thing over and over again because US narrators believe that repeating the same thing and over agai... okay I will stop now.
So, I might not be 100% interested in a show to sit through all the bullshit but enough to want to know what happened next, download it, watch that last ep and be done with it. So a bunch of genetic waste didn't make it as gold miners. Thank you. I thought they wouldn't the moment I saw them in the ads (run during the same program) and my prejudice about lazy and idiotic Americans were confirmed once again. Not quite worth sitting through endless ads and US narrators repeating themselves because what can you possible say about people failing in digging a hole.
When I download it, I can watch it WHEN I want, at what speed I want and skip what I want. For a LOT of stuff on TV, that is the only way to watch it. Could for instance SOMEONE please put a 1 minute clip on youtube with the ending of House so I don't have to watch it and fast forward beyond seasons 1 episode 3 by which time I had a pretty good idea of how the next dozen or so seasons would go for each fucking episode?
Think of it as a 1 euro McD hamburger. Sometimes you a bit hungry, it is cold and you could do with something warm on your way to somewhere. So you walk in, buy one and eat it on your way. It is okay and fits your needs of the moment. That does NOT mean I want to spend an hour eating it while being bombarded with ads.
TV is mostly boring trash but sometimes I am in the mood for it. Sadly not on the terms of the TV channels (watch it when we want, with ads, at our speed). Thank god I got an alternative.
Maybe I am a waste of space for occasionally barely enjoying bits of a trash and not filling my live with stimulating high quality content every waking minute but at least thank to trash I can still hold my head up high knowing I am better then people who can't dig a hole or who start each bike building project to late.
The BBC has cheerfully dived into the abyss for years nows, farting upwards to accelerate its descend. Want to see what a thousand TV cooks look like? Just turn on the beeb. It will show you.
They even got so desperate that when they finally do manage to get a program that people watch, they run repeats off it during the same WEEK. QI, QI repeat and QI XL. Same with Have I Got News For You. Oh and both programs are now in double digits. Not because they are that fresh anymore but because there is absolutely nothing else that has the slightest appeal anymore. This all despite the fact people can rewatch it on the BBC iPlayer... what better way to advertise you don't have any content worth watching then repeating the same half hour program 3 times and adding material you left out the first time on the third run. Oh and then repeat the entire running between this season and the next.
And all this crap, without any advertisers.
If you don't believe me that cooking shows are out of control, they got a cooking game show that when it ends, immidiatly starts up again. There is no end to it.
And if it isn't cooking then it is some lightweight back into history program that glorifies everything and examines nothing.
It is advertising, it is illusions to get you to buy products you don't need. What next, warnings before Disney movies that porcelain does NOT really do a song and dance routine at the slightest provocation?
It reminds of sci-fi morons who always try to link anything with a sci-fi story as proof that some writer nobody ever heard about foretold the future. The only difference between that and follow Nostradamus is that at least that guy people have heard off.
Long before photoshop photo's have been touched up, if not after being shot, then during the shooting by picking the prettiest human beings (yes there is a reaon YOU never starred in an ad, not even a "before" ad) and touching them up with make-up. Look in your girl-friends make-up... oh okay, your mothers make-up collection. Only a small percentage is about color and smell, the rest is about covering up her real look and make it appear she is younger, more in shape and less ravaged by daily life. Wearable photoshop. Most proffesionals plasterers would be ashamed to use that much material to cover up the cracks in a wall.
It is advertising and it is lying. GET FUCKING USED TO IT.
Here are some hints, the burgers at a fast food restaurant NEVER look as good as the picture, in fact taking a look at your burger is the ONLY way to become as thin as the models eating them because you won't be able to force a single bite down. Unless you are American and the look of congealed yellow plastic on half-raw meat on a dry bun is your culinary contribution to the world. Go sit in the corner and be ashamed.
There is NO shampoo or after shave that will turn women wild for you. If you REALLY want girls to fight over your worthless ass, hang around girls with issues (99% of them) and treat them bad.
No matter what car you buy, the roads will NEVER be as empty as they are in the ad. You could drive your new car on the most barren road in no-mans land after the apocalypse and there will be more cars on the road then in all car commercials combined.
Air travel is not fun. Ever and you cannot afford the seats they advertise. Only people in advertising can afford those because you are a gullible fool.
The time of the month is NOT a time when your girlfriend... mother... wishes to go outside and do active sports.
Hope this helps you separate reality from illusion. Next time: Why magicians are NOT all rounded up for horrible acts of cruelty.
You are talking about the army with worsed human rights record in history. Or does the eradication of the native Americans, also known as Indians, not count? What about the millions of civilians slaughtered by the US armed forces during the Vietnam conflict? Mass bombing of civilian targets and use of chemical weapons?
The US army unwilling to kill civilians? Pull the other one, it got bells on.
Linux is the kernel, neither Opera and Flash are required for the kernel or indeed many a distro ESPECIALLY Debian. There are many alternative browsers to Opera which has a tiny market share and not having Flash doesn't seem to have stopped iOS at all.
The article seems to think hybrid drives are the best of both worlds, but they are not.
They have the unknown reliability of SSD/flash drives (they do fail) COMBINED with the failure rate of consumer grade HD's (not that good).
They are not as speedy as pure SSD and not as cheap as pure HD.
So, the people that want speed, spend the money for a real SSD and use cheap reliable HD's for mass storage in a nas.
The people that want cheap, buy regular old HD's and accept the lower performance or just whine about it without doing anything about it because they are cheap.
The middle market, the people to cheap to buy a SSD but willing to spend far more on a small HD... I guess it just ain't there. ESPECIALLY since this lower class of consumer tends to buy ready made machines. Notice how the consoles only increase the HD space at the same time netbooks do? When THAT size of laptop HD as reached rock-bottom prize and you actually would have to pay more to get a smaller sized one?
Well, same for budget PC's makers. They buy HD's in bulk and put the same size in everything to cut costs. They are NOT going to add several tenners worth of hardware in the faint hope that budget PC buyers will buy their more expensive model when its sits next to the cheaper models in the shop.
And the high-end PC makers? They simply buy cheap SSD's and charge a premium for them.
Budget and high-end markets are FAR easier to supply for then the mid range. Because the budget people think anything more expensive is a rip-off and the high-end people look down their noses at anything cheap.
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Fiction: Women almost always dislike being sexualised.
Women dislike being ONLY sexualized. So do men IF it ever happened to them.
Here is a simple tip for boys, girls don't mind if you look at their tits, they mind if you ONLY look at their tits. Women are as sexual as men if not more so but they want to be more then a collection of body parts. Think of them as a total package of person with lots of soft bits that are nice to touch and you got a deal.
And think about, as much as men might like to think that they would love it if women used them for nothing but sex, what man would be satisfied to sit at home until their mistress called them to perform on demand and never have anything they say taken serious or even listened to.
Googling it returns this news story, does it mean Apple will have to pay Samsungs legal costs or even what Samsung is going to claim they have lost because of it?
Apple case isn't looking good, they are getting thrown out all over the world and the small wins are for trivial stuff Samsung can and has worked around. Meanwhile Apples reputation has taken a nosedive not being helped that Jobs epitaph seems to consist of "prick in a turtleneck". Screwing your partner out of a few hundred when he will one day make you a billionaire is just sad.
I still wonder what Apple was thinking. Yes, the Samsung tablets and for that matter anyone elses look a lot alike. And? I tried it at a local super store. Gosh, they are indeed very similar. Then I wandered over the washing machine department. Talk about copy cats. Really, take a LOOK someday, they are ALL the same. Even the place you the soap in. I couldn't find a single model on display where the soap didn't go in on the left. Even the order of pre-wash, wash and fabric softener is like that, from left to right.
And don't even get me started on fridges. white boxes the lot of them. About the only exception are the american models which ALL have the water dispenser in the LEFT door which is narrower then the right door.
So maybe Apple was the first to copy the design from a prop maker. Was it worth it Apple? We who are not fanboys now have fresh ammo to slap your buyers around with now that the one-mouse button joke has gotten a bit stale (mind you, tablets do have only one mouse button... old jokes never die it seems, they just get re-used on slashdot). Injunctions thrown out, might have to pay whatever Samsung is going to claim as damages and you made a Korean mega-corp many times larger and closely tied to a not-so-democratic regime that has taken thousands up on thousands of western job as the sympathetic underdog.
Maybe here is a hint for Apple, next time the lawyers suggest a strategy. Hit them!
In Tunisia right now a Muslim party has one the elections and this leaves women in fear that they will LOOSE the freedoms GAINED under the OPPRESSIVE regime of Ben Ali. Freedom is not a simple on/off switch. Are the people in Russia now better or worse off then when it was the USSR? What time period of the USSR? What people?
Cuba is rather famous for having better healthcare then the US and a far lower infant death rate. If you are a dying infant, communism apparently can save your life but that life will be less free. Then again, if you were the suspicious kind you might wonder whether the higher infant death rate is evenly distributed or concentrated in certain groups/classes of people. Free but only if you are rich?
The images of a cop peperspraying sitting protestors made the world. Does that make the west un-free? The cops were suspended and while true justice might not be done, there are far far worse examples.
Microsoft dealed with a regime that in western eyes wasn't terribly nice but a LOT better then a lot of other places and we yet have to see what the alternative will turn out to be. In many ways, if you want to blame companies for dealing in oppression they not only have to boycot the entire world but often themselves. Oops, Windows 8 is closed source, that is not free, so MS has to boycot its own software!
Of course, by accepting these exceptions you pretty soon are on a slippery slope were everything becomes an exception.
You got to wonder what happened to Slashdot when it so often presents a story from the Daily Mail as a serious subject. Nobody with an IQ over 100 reads that trash. It is not a newspaper, it drivel designed to sell ads by pulling in the less intelligent with outragous headlines they can rant over to each other and then forget about it. It is in its way brilliant, have the less intelligent rant about things that don't matter and often don't even exist and you can leave the running of the country to the 1%.
Status reports! MORE status reports! Scrum stand up, daily reports, weekly reports, time sheet, burndown chart. It is easy to! Today: 8 hours - Updating status reports. Rince and repeat.
People who made stuff for the horse industry could find new employment in the car industry. People who worked at Kodak have no such replacement. The replacement for film camera's comes from the east and I am not talking about California. Sony for instance makes a LOT of the cheap cheerfull camera's that once used Kodak film. Those are made in Japan. Not the US. Jobs for Japanese, not Americans.
You might look down on a job at a film development line but it gave a lot of people the income to lead their lives. And now their jobs are gone. Read up for how societies are affected when an industry leaves for one reason or another and is not replaced. Rochester, Detroit. These are not happy stories.
This is not about brand names, this is about the erosion of full-time, life-time employment being replaced by temporary work at minimum wages for less then full weeks.
And that matters.
Sony has been losing money. Not just making less profit or something, but plain straight losing money for four years in a row and you call this a success?
Take a look at the inventor of modern space miniatures (camera system that allowed multiple models to be easily shot for the same scene), George Lucas. What is the difference between those early models and the CGI models used in the prequels that don't exist?
Smoothness. The OLD physical models were dirty. They had a used, naval vessel look. The NEW CGI model was a polished mirror. The prequels were to clean to really work. The old movies had a Wild West feel to it and I don't just mean the blasters worn on the hip. The prequels have a feel to it of a costume drama.
Same with a lot of other movies, they look so futuristic with such smooth shaved actors that it all feels fake. And because it feels fake and we know it is fake, it feels even more fake.
When you see Jackie Chan doing a stunt, you know it is real and so "simple" stunts like him jumping through the opening in a clerks window is amazing and thrilling. James Bond jumping down a cliff is fake and therefor not really that inspiring.
A Sci-Fi movie, and I am talking space opera here because REAL hard core Science Fiction needs no special effects at all ("That morning, the sun rose in the west", The last man on earth is sitting in room, there is a knock on the door), has to feel "right" and that doesn't come with special effects but with making the story engaging.
And watching a trade dispute while shouting at the screen "behind you" is NOT engaging.
The original Star Trek had primitive effects and even Spocks Brain blows the new movie out of the water.
If people are going to think badly of you, you might as well be doing it while sitting on what used to their money.
Nobody likes a poor thief.
A Republican so someone who cuts of his own legs because they are to large and unwieldy for their minimal usefullness. All that meat and bone (lets face it, muscles on a rep are in the neck) for what? Cut it off. And that brain? 25% of energy of the body? Who does it think it is?
For a postal service to work, it has to be inefficient. The same with public transport. Unless it reaches everywhere, it isn't usable. That is why early electricity producers PAID big bucks to get everyone hooked up. But they would only do that where it made sense. Getting a line out to the farms often didn't. And so they didn't.
Society NEEDS infrastructure even in areas YOU as a person never use. That road to nowhere DOES go somewhere and those people at the end need it.
Don't believe it? Go live in areas of the world where only individual interests are catered for. Somalia is nice for that. No functional government, no services. No taxes. Just protection money to the guy with the bigger gun. And the payment might be your kids. Gosh, wished you payed a tiny percent for a national police service now eh?
You are aware that volunteer fire services are a perfect example of socialism? They may not pay a wage but the equipment is payed for by the people FOR the people. And it is fairly typical that everyone in the area gives the volunteers leeway to do their service. Or do you think non-volunteers can suddenly drop their job and rush out to put out a fire? No? Can't think of any employment contract that has this in it. Yet volunteer fire fighters do it all the time and are NOT fired (get it , fired, fire-fighter, that pun is smoking hot!, Get it, smoking hot? Fire? I am on FIRE today! What do you mean, good?)
So what is your argument? Things that the whole society needs even if an individual might never need it, need to supported by the whole off society?
So, while firex726 is hauled away for daring to think in a free country (try typing that with a straight face) I, as a communist living in a communist country (IE everywhere NOT America) can confirm this.
There are plenty of essential services that our society depends on but that don't always make economic sense. A starbucks is a easy. it should only continue to exist where it makes economic sense. It is not going to have enough business to sustain itself in a one horse town. (Horses don't drink coffee for the agriculturally challenged) But since nobody actually NEEDS a coffee shop (no, you really don't no matter how much you need caffeine to function) this is alright. You can live your entire life quiet happily without a starbucks or a McD near you.
But try the same thing without say, water and sewage services. Electricity or gas. Or even more basic, a road system. Roads to most people just seem to be there but they are costly to put down and maintain and often of no direct economic value. It is a rare farm that can afford to pay for a road a system to deliver its produce to all its customers. Without the road it cannot deliver but it would be a very costly bit of lettuce if the farm itself had to pay for it. Me? The customer pay for it? I don't NEED that farm road or even the countless kilometers (remember, communist) of highway. I live in a small area and pay for goods to be delivered to me. They can pay the transport costs from that.
This is why private roads are rare AND deliver ON private roads is NOT a sure thing. If you own a farm and don't keep your private road in a satisfactory state of repair you might be highly surprised to learn that deliveries are to the edge of your land, not the door. I am not going to risk MY truck on YOUR pot filled hole. To some people, getting the mail is a bit a more then firing up Gmail.
Essential services are a part of the infrastructure that an entire society is build upon. This is nothing new. It doesn't even have to be costly. Once the USPS was a big source of income for the US government. But decades of mis management in order to reduce government by republicans have made a profitable service that everyone needs a byword for money loosing inefficiency. And the result? We have been steadily going back on the quality of a service once known for its reliability.
But who still sends mail? Bill collectors? In a country in debt, that is the only remaining growth industry. The idea that you can send a letter and have it delivered anywhere in the country the next day is so ingrained that we don't think of it anymore. Electricity and water are the same and when they are turned off for a short time we suddenly notice how depended we are on it (quick for how many flushes of your shit do you have water stored). But they are only cut for short times or during unplanned outages where everyone is working as fast as possible to get it back up. NOBODY could seriously suggest that electricity will only be delivered part time (except in the glorious free market of California, high tech area of the world, think about that if you can).
Once the mail service has been gutted (and it is already way to late) turning it back on is impossible. The infrastructure is gone and no matter how much it is needed, the finances just won't be there to restart it. Oh, the people will adjust but it will be one more slide into 2nd world status for the US. Roads broken up, bridges falling apart, electricity unreliable as in 2nd world nations. Pretty soon, this will be used as an excuse for entire companies to relocate to areas with better infrastructure. Oh wait, the companies already did move since lack of social services and high living costs put the pressure of paying for it on individual wages and made the US worker far to expensive. Here is a hint, if the only way for a worker to come to your factory is by car, then his salary must be able to pay for said car. A cyclist can afford to demand a lower wage. Simple economics no republican will ever understand. Same with health
You are thinking about proving it works. This won't be tested at first. What will be tested at first on humans whether the innoculation itself doesn't kill you. After that it is a matter of simple statistics. As long as the shot doesn't kill you, the rest don't matter. Simple record the patients success at not getting HIV versus non-innoculated patients.
They are NOT going to shoot up humans with AIDS just for a test. Well. Not officially anyway. This is the medical industry after all. Nazi's would gag.
Lets face it, there once was a big scare about aids and then it dropped off to the point that a lot of people believe the weirdest things and fuck around and with no protection.
It isn't just AIDS, there are a lot of STD's and some of them are way easier to catch then AIDS and have a devestating impact on women especially as it makes them infertile.
It is good news that a vaccine MIGHT someday work on humans but in the meantime, it doesn't hurt to be a bit more careful. Just because one day they might make perfect safe cars, you don't skip putting on your helmet when you go drive a motor cycle in heavy traffic and icing conditions right? No. Unlike you... I am not a fool. (Yes, I am aware of the irony, that is the point really)
Pity most other countries in the world START at 25 payed days off. That is 5 weeks incase your over worked mind can no longer do math.
Most amazing myth I ever heard about the US is that of the "working poor". People who have a regular job or even two AND still can't keep themselves fed and housed. I am mean, how silly do you think we dutch people are? It is like plate sized hamburgers. Nice photoshop, no way that is real, no human beings could possible eat so much and no dressing up an elephant and putting it on a moped does not fool me.
Some people seem to think that because this is happening with mobile internet, the same could happen on wired internet. But there is a problem. First off, there are TWO forms of wired internet and the infrastructure for that is there. The wires are in the ground and they are increasingly capable of higher and higher speeds. Fibre is often waiting to be even used. There is excess capacity readily available.
Mobile is different, towers are not just expensive and prone to interference, getting a new tower up takes a lot of administrative work. Further more, by the nature of mobile, the heaviest use is in the most build up and populated areas where is it is hardest to increase coverage.
No such problem with wires. The heaviest use is spread over a city (offices during the day, suburbs at night) and the cables can carry near infinite capacity and getting a small distrubution box up is no hassle.
So... who is going to be the first to STOP advertising with downloading and say "we are going to charge you more"? There are, at least in Europe, to many ISP that have given up on trying to sell content just sell you data. They got no other interests and have the infrastructure to just sell data.
The fact is that data is insanely cheap nowadays, people know it AND will know it that the OTHER provider CAN sell it cheaply because that other provider is bound to advertise with it. If the are not... well... at least in the EU their are watchdogs that will ask how it comes ALL at once decided to increase their prices at the same rate.
Some of the big internet companies keep dreaming of fat profits and people paying to download wallpapers, ringtones and now movies. It never happened. I don't see it happening anytime soon. People are just to cheap.
SOME people claim everything was better in the old days. For art this is even more true because the stuff that is kept is the good stuff. We all know the great artists of previous centuries and even millenia. But where are the fart jokes from Roman times? The renaissance Full House?
When people claim Hollywood makes nothing but trash now, they forget the great movies made today and the crap like this made decades ago.
Archeologist's claim that the finding of shards in Egypt from ordinary workers told them more about ancient lives then all the pyramids together.
With movies such as this, our history of the movies is incomplete. Only snobs wish to preserve on the best so they can pretend they stand above the rest. Real history is everything.
Terrible movies have always been made by people who were better at getting funding then at creating movies. Uwe Boll, I am talking about you.
The worsed thing about say Discovery channel in Holland is the commercial break every 15 minutes with the most inane ads that are repeated over and over again. Because if you tell me a 100 time I pay to much for my electricity I am really going to switch (like I am likely to believe a company is cheaper with the same service when they waste a fortune on in-effective ads). Then there is the US narrator who repeats the same thing over and over again in that way that US narrators repeat the same thing over and over again because US narrators believe that repeating the same thing and over agai... okay I will stop now.
So, I might not be 100% interested in a show to sit through all the bullshit but enough to want to know what happened next, download it, watch that last ep and be done with it. So a bunch of genetic waste didn't make it as gold miners. Thank you. I thought they wouldn't the moment I saw them in the ads (run during the same program) and my prejudice about lazy and idiotic Americans were confirmed once again. Not quite worth sitting through endless ads and US narrators repeating themselves because what can you possible say about people failing in digging a hole.
When I download it, I can watch it WHEN I want, at what speed I want and skip what I want. For a LOT of stuff on TV, that is the only way to watch it. Could for instance SOMEONE please put a 1 minute clip on youtube with the ending of House so I don't have to watch it and fast forward beyond seasons 1 episode 3 by which time I had a pretty good idea of how the next dozen or so seasons would go for each fucking episode?
Think of it as a 1 euro McD hamburger. Sometimes you a bit hungry, it is cold and you could do with something warm on your way to somewhere. So you walk in, buy one and eat it on your way. It is okay and fits your needs of the moment. That does NOT mean I want to spend an hour eating it while being bombarded with ads.
TV is mostly boring trash but sometimes I am in the mood for it. Sadly not on the terms of the TV channels (watch it when we want, with ads, at our speed). Thank god I got an alternative.
Maybe I am a waste of space for occasionally barely enjoying bits of a trash and not filling my live with stimulating high quality content every waking minute but at least thank to trash I can still hold my head up high knowing I am better then people who can't dig a hole or who start each bike building project to late.
But I can see how you can confuse us Dutchies with a divine god. We are pretty amazing people. And humble.
The BBC has cheerfully dived into the abyss for years nows, farting upwards to accelerate its descend. Want to see what a thousand TV cooks look like? Just turn on the beeb. It will show you.
They even got so desperate that when they finally do manage to get a program that people watch, they run repeats off it during the same WEEK. QI, QI repeat and QI XL. Same with Have I Got News For You. Oh and both programs are now in double digits. Not because they are that fresh anymore but because there is absolutely nothing else that has the slightest appeal anymore. This all despite the fact people can rewatch it on the BBC iPlayer... what better way to advertise you don't have any content worth watching then repeating the same half hour program 3 times and adding material you left out the first time on the third run. Oh and then repeat the entire running between this season and the next.
And all this crap, without any advertisers.
If you don't believe me that cooking shows are out of control, they got a cooking game show that when it ends, immidiatly starts up again. There is no end to it.
And if it isn't cooking then it is some lightweight back into history program that glorifies everything and examines nothing.
The kind of tards that insist on claiming they cook everything from scratch also LOVE the idea of composting.
And if you cook everything from scratch, then what is so hard to separate? What raw ingredients come in so many different kinds of glass?
It is advertising, it is illusions to get you to buy products you don't need. What next, warnings before Disney movies that porcelain does NOT really do a song and dance routine at the slightest provocation?
It reminds of sci-fi morons who always try to link anything with a sci-fi story as proof that some writer nobody ever heard about foretold the future. The only difference between that and follow Nostradamus is that at least that guy people have heard off.
Long before photoshop photo's have been touched up, if not after being shot, then during the shooting by picking the prettiest human beings (yes there is a reaon YOU never starred in an ad, not even a "before" ad) and touching them up with make-up. Look in your girl-friends make-up... oh okay, your mothers make-up collection. Only a small percentage is about color and smell, the rest is about covering up her real look and make it appear she is younger, more in shape and less ravaged by daily life. Wearable photoshop. Most proffesionals plasterers would be ashamed to use that much material to cover up the cracks in a wall.
It is advertising and it is lying. GET FUCKING USED TO IT.
Here are some hints, the burgers at a fast food restaurant NEVER look as good as the picture, in fact taking a look at your burger is the ONLY way to become as thin as the models eating them because you won't be able to force a single bite down. Unless you are American and the look of congealed yellow plastic on half-raw meat on a dry bun is your culinary contribution to the world. Go sit in the corner and be ashamed.
There is NO shampoo or after shave that will turn women wild for you. If you REALLY want girls to fight over your worthless ass, hang around girls with issues (99% of them) and treat them bad.
No matter what car you buy, the roads will NEVER be as empty as they are in the ad. You could drive your new car on the most barren road in no-mans land after the apocalypse and there will be more cars on the road then in all car commercials combined.
Air travel is not fun. Ever and you cannot afford the seats they advertise. Only people in advertising can afford those because you are a gullible fool.
The time of the month is NOT a time when your girlfriend... mother... wishes to go outside and do active sports.
Hope this helps you separate reality from illusion. Next time: Why magicians are NOT all rounded up for horrible acts of cruelty.
You are talking about the army with worsed human rights record in history. Or does the eradication of the native Americans, also known as Indians, not count? What about the millions of civilians slaughtered by the US armed forces during the Vietnam conflict? Mass bombing of civilian targets and use of chemical weapons?
The US army unwilling to kill civilians? Pull the other one, it got bells on.
Linux is the kernel, neither Opera and Flash are required for the kernel or indeed many a distro ESPECIALLY Debian. There are many alternative browsers to Opera which has a tiny market share and not having Flash doesn't seem to have stopped iOS at all.
So, how does it feel to fail even at trolling?
The article seems to think hybrid drives are the best of both worlds, but they are not.
They have the unknown reliability of SSD/flash drives (they do fail) COMBINED with the failure rate of consumer grade HD's (not that good).
They are not as speedy as pure SSD and not as cheap as pure HD.
So, the people that want speed, spend the money for a real SSD and use cheap reliable HD's for mass storage in a nas.
The people that want cheap, buy regular old HD's and accept the lower performance or just whine about it without doing anything about it because they are cheap.
The middle market, the people to cheap to buy a SSD but willing to spend far more on a small HD... I guess it just ain't there. ESPECIALLY since this lower class of consumer tends to buy ready made machines. Notice how the consoles only increase the HD space at the same time netbooks do? When THAT size of laptop HD as reached rock-bottom prize and you actually would have to pay more to get a smaller sized one?
Well, same for budget PC's makers. They buy HD's in bulk and put the same size in everything to cut costs. They are NOT going to add several tenners worth of hardware in the faint hope that budget PC buyers will buy their more expensive model when its sits next to the cheaper models in the shop.
And the high-end PC makers? They simply buy cheap SSD's and charge a premium for them.
Budget and high-end markets are FAR easier to supply for then the mid range. Because the budget people think anything more expensive is a rip-off and the high-end people look down their noses at anything cheap.