you are paying for the infrastructure to broadcast the channels, with some small royalty to each station for broadcast distribution rights. The commercials pay for the content itself.
Now, I agree that some advertising and product placement is overdone, but it's the same we see everywhere else. some MBA told the company that they could increase their revenue by adding a whole bunch (more) advertising streams.
So, we've gone beyond paying for the shows itself, but also to padding hte profit margins and the CEO's $50 million retirement package, and on top of that all the people who do the real work are losing jobs to India. does it make sense? no. can we do anything about it? maybe, boycotts only work if you can edumacate the masses. It'll take time but the system will implode and there'll be a bunch of country clubs scratching their heads wondering where all the golfers went.
sorry, got off topic, I guess, but I had a point in there somewhere.
yeah, but did you know about it on July 5th? noo. hardly anyone noticed, took some poor sap to think about looking for any clue to its existence to find it and tell us all about it, so he should receive praise not some lame-assed "this is new?" comment.
Why do all of these new ideas for motor vehicles revolve around the government making an extra buck (or in this case pound) rather than increasing actual road safety?
Conventions like woosh-n-boom-in-space aren't there for drama's sake; they're simply put in without a thought.
bullshit. Most sound effects designers are Physics Majors anyways. Everyone (yes EVERYONE) watching a movie knows sound can't travel in a vacuum! All movie makers know it too, and they all admit it. The sound is for dramatic effect. I'm sorry, when I was 4 I woulda been bored to death with Star Wars if the Tie Fighters didnt have those cool metallic wines and the blasters have those blasty sounds. Hell, Asimov let it slide when he was consulting for the first Trek movie.
Personally, I like it a lot. Yeah, Kubric and Whedon, etc. use the true silence for the real dramatic effect, but movies would be boring if everyone did it. Besides, those sonic charges in Attack of the Clones had THE COOLEST SOUND EFFECTS. Everyone loved 'em.
If you want to argue what the sound is in Real Life, just imagine the viewer (yes, you) are viewing the action from outside, but you get the feeling you are in every space craft on screen, it's sensory immersion, the original point of it. Sonar doesn't really go "PING" (though some expensive medical equipment do). Before I knew it was silent in space, I didnt really give much thought to the sound effects in movies. Afterwards I passed it off as 3rd person omniscient experience (be it outside the craft hearing what's inside, or actually being in it, but seing it from outside....)
Hydrogen needs extreme heat/pressure to fuse, you know like in the sun? something upwards of 10k deg Celcius. so there's really no way you can get the environment for an H Bomb without an atomic bomb going off in a controlled manner around your hydrogen storage.
Groundskeeper Willie: "Lunchlady Doris, do ye have any grease?" Lunchlady Doris: "yes, yes we do." Groundskeeper Willie: "Then grease me up, woman!" Lunchlady Doris: "ok."
well you could say the same about manually switching relays in a computer instead of abstracting the operation to a high level language. pat yourself on the back for all of the clever computer languages you program with.
Copyright law prohibits you from making additional copies of the software for any other reason without the permission of the software company
but you're missing this point entirely. if the software company, or in this case the OSS community willing to release stuff under the GPL allows it, then you can go ahead and make as many freaking copies as you want.
yeah, but considering every combination is just as likely means that the probablilty of a specific one is very low ( 1/6! in this case, I could be wrong it's been a while since number theory) . would that mean that actually getting a set of numbers isn't very likely making the whole thing moot?
yeah, I expect releases to work, but how money do you have to pay to be a beta tester for MS? I think the reason most OSS never reaches 1.0 is that they're trying to actually fix all the bugs before a release version, instead of making you wait for 2 years after buying the software for enough updates to make the software stable enough to be worth the 100s even 1000s of dollars that users and corps shell out for Bill's drivel.
hmm, interesting, I've been on the list since they started it and haven't gotten a single call, except for some automated dealy that keeps telling me to hold for an important non-solicitation message and then tells me to call some other number....every other day. anyone have any idea what that one's about?
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you are paying for the infrastructure to broadcast the channels, with some small royalty to each station for broadcast distribution rights. The commercials pay for the content itself.
Now, I agree that some advertising and product placement is overdone, but it's the same we see everywhere else. some MBA told the company that they could increase their revenue by adding a whole bunch (more) advertising streams.
So, we've gone beyond paying for the shows itself, but also to padding hte profit margins and the CEO's $50 million retirement package, and on top of that all the people who do the real work are losing jobs to India. does it make sense? no. can we do anything about it? maybe, boycotts only work if you can edumacate the masses. It'll take time but the system will implode and there'll be a bunch of country clubs scratching their heads wondering where all the golfers went.
sorry, got off topic, I guess, but I had a point in there somewhere.
they're sending subpoenas, not going in and demanding all the info without. that means that they dont' need the patriot act at all! wtf!?!?!
am I missing something here?
yeah, but did you know about it on July 5th? noo. hardly anyone noticed, took some poor sap to think about looking for any clue to its existence to find it and tell us all about it, so he should receive praise not some lame-assed "this is new?" comment.
what is this backslash-dot crowd you speak of? and where can I find it?
"One of these thigns, is not like the other."
what? a correctly spelled word?
Why do all of these new ideas for motor vehicles revolve around the government making an extra buck (or in this case pound) rather than increasing actual road safety?
bullshit. Most sound effects designers are Physics Majors anyways. Everyone (yes EVERYONE) watching a movie knows sound can't travel in a vacuum! All movie makers know it too, and they all admit it. The sound is for dramatic effect. I'm sorry, when I was 4 I woulda been bored to death with Star Wars if the Tie Fighters didnt have those cool metallic wines and the blasters have those blasty sounds. Hell, Asimov let it slide when he was consulting for the first Trek movie.
Personally, I like it a lot. Yeah, Kubric and Whedon, etc. use the true silence for the real dramatic effect, but movies would be boring if everyone did it. Besides, those sonic charges in Attack of the Clones had THE COOLEST SOUND EFFECTS. Everyone loved 'em.
If you want to argue what the sound is in Real Life, just imagine the viewer (yes, you) are viewing the action from outside, but you get the feeling you are in every space craft on screen, it's sensory immersion, the original point of it. Sonar doesn't really go "PING" (though some expensive medical equipment do). Before I knew it was silent in space, I didnt really give much thought to the sound effects in movies. Afterwards I passed it off as 3rd person omniscient experience (be it outside the craft hearing what's inside, or actually being in it, but seing it from outside....)
Besides, it's a FUCKING MOVIE get over it!
Thanks for listening.
Hydrogen needs extreme heat/pressure to fuse, you know like in the sun? something upwards of 10k deg Celcius. so there's really no way you can get the environment for an H Bomb without an atomic bomb going off in a controlled manner around your hydrogen storage.
would that be a british pint or an american pint?
Groundskeeper Willie: "Lunchlady Doris, do ye have any grease?"
Lunchlady Doris: "yes, yes we do."
Groundskeeper Willie: "Then grease me up, woman!"
Lunchlady Doris: "ok."
well you could say the same about manually switching relays in a computer instead of abstracting the operation to a high level language. pat yourself on the back for all of the clever computer languages you program with.
bah.
but the point here is that these subpoenas are comming directly from the RIAA without any court/judge backing. which is frightfully illegal.
windows itself may come with a warning like that, but I don't know if you can say the same about MS's marketing department.
seems they can be very convincing to the weak minded. maybe they hired some of those Jedi's from England or Australia or something.....
yes, but they are less likely to tip over since they got rid of mattel designing bodies for them.
wtf?
is this like in response to the article about those people born with extra cones and see that odd shade of green that no one else can see?
Copyright law prohibits you from making additional copies of the software for any other reason without the permission of the software company
but you're missing this point entirely. if the software company, or in this case the OSS community willing to release stuff under the GPL allows it,
then you can go ahead and make as many freaking copies as you want.
yeah, but considering every combination is just as likely means that the probablilty of a specific one is very low ( 1/6! in this case, I could be wrong it's been a while since number theory) . would that mean that actually getting a set of numbers isn't very likely making the whole thing moot?
yeah, I expect releases to work, but how money do you have to pay to be a beta tester for MS? I think the reason most OSS never reaches 1.0 is that they're trying to actually fix all the bugs before a release version, instead of making you wait for 2 years after buying the software for enough updates to make the software stable enough to be worth the 100s even 1000s of dollars that users and corps shell out for Bill's drivel.
hmm, interesting, I've been on the list since they started it and haven't gotten a single call, except for some automated dealy that keeps telling me to hold for an important non-solicitation message and then tells me to call some other number....every other day. anyone have any idea what that one's about?
let me guess, Santos L. Halper?
the national ammount in the US would be 0% cuz nobody here would want to use hydrogen. sadly enough.
oops, that's extricate
actually both certificate and certify are verbs, it's kinda like extract and extracate, used in different but not so clear ways.
Just remember, most things that are in primetime are in reruns by the summer.