'These are ultimately consumer businesses and if you piss off enough of them, you will not have any more.'
He may be a lawyer, but he doesn't understand who the consumers are in the newspaper model.
Newspapers, like much of modern media, sell audiences to advertisers. So asking the news media to think of their readers, is meaningless. They never do, except as a product to sell to the advertisers.
I can't say that the money supply would be any better off in the hands of Congress
Maybe you can't, but a lot of smart people pointed that out. (The Founders) Mind you, they weren't talking about a congress full of corrupt incomptent idiots... or maybe they were, and they still thought it was better than bankers.
how can you review an unfinished movie? Who is your audience there? "I'm sure the special effects will be awesome, but they're crap right now."
Well, I hear (*cough* *cough*) that there are only a few effects shots which are unfinished. Less than 5 minutes worth. And even with unfinished effects, you could review the movie in the terms of plot, acting, etc...
I'll grant you, you couldn't review a Michael Bay movie that way, but Wolverine is apparently a character story too.
And I have it on good authority (*cough* *cough*) that it's the sort of movie I'd like as well. I fully expect to shell out my hard earned dough for a movie that was^H^H^H is about as good as the original xmen, or spiderman movie.
Sites like www.aintitcoolnews.com are refusing to run reviews, which hasn't prevented a lot of people from slamming the movie. They tend to criticise it for being a poor adaptation of the comics, complaining about how the character of Deadpool was used for example, rather than judging it as an adaptation.
It's the latest thing in Europe, contempt for the will of the people.
We've seen in with the EU Constitution treaty, and with the Lisbon treaty, and this is just another example.
It'll continue until there's another blood drenched coup d'etat, but technology makes it harder for citizens to rise up without getting stomped on.
The next time the French people drag out the guillotine, it won't be for the monarchy or the aristocracy. It'll be for the politicians. And maybe the bankers.
That's one possibility. But you're not doing the account justice. It wasn't just two rivers flooding a plain. Nor was it the source of most human civilisation. (That's why places like China don't have a flood myth in their ancient history corresponding to Noah.)
There was an enormous lake, held back by a natural levee/dam. The people were in the valley below, well below the water level. When the levee broke, The Bosporus flume roared and surged at full spate for at least three hundred days, ten cubic miles of water poured through each day (two hundred times what flows over Niagara Falls). 60,000 square miles of land were inundated.
Comparing Bush to a chimp is considered fair game. Comparing Obama to one is considered unacceptable.
Yes. That's because the comparisons with Bush were based on photographs of multiple facial expressions and the general publics estimate of his mis-edu-ma-cation.
With Obama, it's a short hand for racism.
If you can find me a set of photos of Obama, where he's not *trying* to mimic a chimp, but just happens to look like him, I'll give you a free pass and you can call him chimp boy to your little black hearts content.
I'm afraid you'll just have to go back to calling him "O'Bomber" "President Hussein" "socialist" "marxist" "muslim" "atheist" "Bolshevik" "Osama" etc....
Load them up with porn and give them to random people anonymously. They will thank you for it!
Done and done! I made sure to include two girls and one cup, Mr. Hands, and the awesome Glass Ass a couple of dozen times, but I helpfully changed their names.
Well, it's almost Easter. And that's sort of an Easter Egg.
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There are TONS of reviews. Mostly insanely positive.
The most negative I've seen ran along the lines of "It's good, but not great."
Not to be confused with Megan Freeman.
'These are ultimately consumer businesses and if you piss off enough of them, you will not have any more.'
He may be a lawyer, but he doesn't understand who the consumers are in the newspaper model.
Newspapers, like much of modern media, sell audiences to advertisers.
So asking the news media to think of their readers, is meaningless. They never do, except as a product to sell to the advertisers.
This is ultimately an Advertiser business.
I can't say that the money supply would be any better off in the hands of Congress
Maybe you can't, but a lot of smart people pointed that out. (The Founders) Mind you, they weren't talking about a congress full of corrupt incomptent idiots... or maybe they were, and they still thought it was better than bankers.
And the litany of broken promises and Democrat capitulation continues...
And people wonder why we have the Republicrat meme.
True, but if you try to point that out over at aicn, you'll get your ass banned, and all the posts you have ever made there, will be deleted.
Nazi control freaks don't like being called hypocrites, especially when you start linking to the evidence in their talkbacks.
THAT article might not, but there's plenty of articles which do.
Shame we don't have a mnemonic/acronym for Read the OTHER frakkin Article. :)
how can you review an unfinished movie? Who is your audience there? "I'm sure the special effects will be awesome, but they're crap right now."
Well, I hear (*cough* *cough*) that there are only a few effects shots which are unfinished. Less than 5 minutes worth. And even with unfinished effects, you could review the movie in the terms of plot, acting, etc...
I'll grant you, you couldn't review a Michael Bay movie that way, but Wolverine is apparently a character story too.
And I have it on good authority (*cough* *cough*) that it's the sort of movie I'd like as well.
I fully expect to shell out my hard earned dough for a movie that was^H^H^H is about as good as the original xmen, or spiderman movie.
Sites like www.aintitcoolnews.com are refusing to run reviews, which hasn't prevented a lot of people from slamming the movie. They tend to criticise it for being a poor adaptation of the comics, complaining about how the character of Deadpool was used for example, rather than judging it as an adaptation.
It's the latest thing in Europe, contempt for the will of the people.
We've seen in with the EU Constitution treaty, and with the Lisbon treaty, and this is just another example.
It'll continue until there's another blood drenched coup d'etat, but technology makes it harder for citizens to rise up without getting stomped on.
The next time the French people drag out the guillotine, it won't be for the monarchy or the aristocracy. It'll be for the politicians. And maybe the bankers.
In fact I don't believe any laboratory experiments were involved.
In other words, he was pretty damn far from figuring out how to build anything.
Sounds like Da Vinci and his helicopter to me.
I'll still fight hard to defend the right to create such content, on the grounds that no actual person is being hurt.
Exactly!
It's easy to agree with Freedom of Speech, when the person is saying something you agree with.
The real test of Freedom of Speech (or artistic expression) is when the person/artist is saying something you profoundly disagree with.
I don't think *anyone* can be the go-to person for what's obscene.
I'd like to volunteer. I have very very low standards. I voluntarily watched glassass, and didn't even wince!
What's left after "Teach the Controversy"?
Home schooling.
every day we disprove things we thought we knew "for sure"
I hate that argument. While science does on occasion, disprove things we know "for sure", it doesn't happen often. Not every day, certainly.
Your statement makes it sound like science is always correcting itself, because it's always wrong.
Please tell me the LAST time science disproved something we thought we knew "for sure".
I'll wait, but I won't hold my breath.
That's one possibility. But you're not doing the account justice. It wasn't just two rivers flooding a plain. Nor was it the source of most human civilisation. (That's why places like China don't have a flood myth in their ancient history corresponding to Noah.)
There was an enormous lake, held back by a natural levee/dam. The people were in the valley below, well below the water level. When the levee broke, The Bosporus flume roared and surged at full spate for at least three hundred days, ten cubic miles of water poured through each day (two hundred times what flows over Niagara Falls). 60,000 square miles of land were inundated.
Catholics don't have a problem with this. We're talking about Texans.
In America, which is mostly of Protestant origin, you can find catholic hatred alive and well.
The creedo "Catholics aren't Christians" is well repeated, if demonstrably untrue.
Sounds like a class where I can just make up answers out of absolutely nothing.
Answers ex nihilo? But you can't create something from nothing! That flies in the face of creationism! :)
But it should be pointed out that /. tends to mention the Party of a wrongdoer if the wrongdoer is Republican, and omit it if he's a Democrat.
Then what's the problem? You can clearly tell the two part, by assuming the corrupt party is a Democrat, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Sounds like a Republican friendly set up to me, if the assumption of corruption = Dem.
can go frak himself. Embedding an RFID chip under your skin doesn't make you a cyborg.
This guy has a better claim.
Comparing Bush to a chimp is considered fair game. Comparing Obama to one is considered unacceptable.
Yes. That's because the comparisons with Bush were based on photographs of multiple facial expressions and the general publics estimate of his mis-edu-ma-cation.
With Obama, it's a short hand for racism.
If you can find me a set of photos of Obama, where he's not *trying* to mimic a chimp, but just happens to look like him, I'll give you a free pass and you can call him chimp boy to your little black hearts content.
I'm afraid you'll just have to go back to calling him "O'Bomber" "President Hussein" "socialist" "marxist" "muslim" "atheist" "Bolshevik" "Osama" etc....
Not that it matters much, but Congress passed a resolution on June 11th, 2002, recognising him as the inventor of the telephone.
Also, people should know that Meucci sent his patent designs to the lab where Bell worked. And they went "missing".
There's a whole shady side to that story which is not really acknowledged in the official history.
Load them up with porn and give them to random people anonymously. They will thank you for it!
Done and done! I made sure to include two girls and one cup, Mr. Hands, and the awesome Glass Ass a couple of dozen times, but I helpfully changed their names.
Well, it's almost Easter. And that's sort of an Easter Egg.
I wonder how they'll thank me?
It's big enough now that you should be able to make out the free AOL CD packaging piles on Google Earth.
are not being used as it is.
How often have I bought a component and had it shipped, and the packaging is about 20 times larger than necessary?
It's not like I'm buying nitroglycerin, damn it.