I know that they'd always have some excuse for a movie not doing well. I mean, heaven forbid they admit that either the franchise is dead, or that the movie just plain sucked.
I suggest we all just take a moment from our busy days and let out a big collective laugh at the movie industry. Really, they deserve it.
Random Congresscritter: And now Senator Wyden will be presenting a bill to.....o, excuse me, one moment please (whispers to man in black suit with mirror shades)....Well, it seems Senator Wyden is no longer with us. Moving on to the next piece of business.....
Once we can beam power from space to the surface, or just have a really long connecting tube (space elevator?) we just have to set up a MASSIVE solar array and we're all set.
"A set of headphones and a backpack-mounted subwoofer."
I wonder if you can hook up the Rez Vibrator to this thing. Now I can please a girl without having to be stuck in front of the TV. Like, from in front of my computer for instance.
"What, do you think that anybody who puts their name on the DNC list would actually buy something from a telemarketer?"
I actually posted on this earlier, but the answer is yes. There are plenty of people on the DNC who would buy something from them. Believe it or not, there are quite a few people who can be talked into buying anything people want. Many of them are aware of their susceptibility, and as such were some of the first to get themselves on the DNC registry.
" What's worse is that sometimes the courts go for it. If we keep going in this direction, there won't be laws or a constitution any longer. There will just be a judge who listens to two parties whine, until he proclaims the loudest one the winner. "
Simple solution for this case. Get the home number of the judge, and every jury member. Then, simply call from a pay phone somewhere and pretend to be a telemarketer. Lets get all of Slashdot behind this, it'll be fun. We'll Slashdot the judiciary system! And trust me, after that, I'd be willing to put some money into the Corporate Buyout of America Futures Market that they get laughed out of court.
"If, on the other hand, their products are crap and NO ONE will want to buy it, save for the morons who can be talked into anything, then who cares if they can't sell them? I certainly don't. "
Ah, and there is the holy grail of all telemarketing. You see, they realize that the majority of people want them drawn and quartered. However, the few people who can be talked into anything need to be reached at all costs. Guess what, many of said people are aware of their tendency to do this, so they would be some of the first people to get on the DNC registry along with the people who just hate telemarketing. They do this because they don't want their vulnerability targeted.
I apologize for not being able to find the study, but I once read one stating that if a telemarketer 'breaks the rules' and calls people who are on their company held DNC list, they make more sales than the people who are not on the list.
Aside from that, yes, it does make sense that they don't want to reach people who are not interested and never will be. But there is a group of people who may not be interested who can most certainly be talked into buying, and those are the ones they're gunning for.
"Maybe the most effective resistance against the RIAA would be for 10,000,000 people to voluntarily go to the authorities and confess to having downloaded exactly 1 song. "I did it, and I can't sleep cause of the guilt, please punish me."
I've seen a few threads all talking about similar uses for this type of thing. And it seems there is a very basic use for it, which, although it probably wouldn't be the primary use, certainly makes sense in terms of propoganda.
You know the little Terrorist Threat Level Monitor, with all the pretty colors? Well, why not take the data from this and turn it into a more informative one (or one that gives more control over the population).
Analyst:"Today's Terrorism Futures Market seems to indicate that there is a high probability of a biochemical attack in the next week. I hope everybody has stocked up on cellophane and duct tape."
"What exactly is the incentive for an investor to enter this market?"
Kind of the same incentive as when the cable company puts out commercials to only those with pirated cable saying "You've WON! Call this number to collect!" and then they bust them. Actually, I'm not really sure what the incentive is...but there must be one in there, they wouldn't do this just to get intel would they? (dies of sarcasm)
I have had this suspicion that he just does these interview thingies just so he gets posted on Slashdot and gets to read what everybody says about him. I know I'd do it!
" For that price they should be sampling my DNA through a different means entirely. Different. Entirely. "Please insert your *#*&$ into the vaccuum tube...""
Wow, thats IT! Thats the big killer app for the RIAA. Screw music. Just sell a suction peripheral, pay them, and they show pictures of Brittney Spears on the screen, most of us probably wouldn't even want to listen to the music either!
Clippy: "I see you're trying to play the new Brittany Spears CD! Please look in to the retinal scanner, and place your thumb into the DNA Sampler so that the RIAA can verify that you have been authorized for a 'One Time Listening License' for the price of $19.99.
You may be joking, but I truly feel the next big 'killer app' of gaming will come in the form of thought control. It is an input device with which you are both intimately familiar, and completely mystified by. How cool would it be to have a fighting game that made your character more powerful (DBZ style) based on how focused you were? Or a music generation game that made music and visuals based on thought patterns? Not only would this be incredibly cool to play, but the 'home science experiment' aspect of it would rock. And this isn't a joke, but imagine if a game could sense your level of arousal and change the game accordingly? You may laugh, but just think of the possibilities of making pr0n more interactive.
I gotta tell you though, as far as PR goes, this is a fucking fabulous idea, and with the recent stint of corporate um.....evil......its nice to see something creative like this.
And when technoligy becomes sufficiently advanced, they can reassemble all of the organs in your body (even your brain!) and you would be IMMORTAL!!!!!!!!! BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA. I AM ZIM!!!!! errr...nothing to see here. I am a normal human worm baby.
Future:"When I was YOUR age sonny, we got EVERYTHING on the internet for free. Music, Movies, Software, Games, Pr0n, YOU NAME IT. Sucks that you gotta pay for it now don't it?"
" MTV2 does a show that requires viewers to log on and vote for the next video in realtime."
And you would be a fool to believe that people's votes actually count for something in this. They tell them its peoples votes deciding...then they play whatever they decide to play, then everybody watching sits back and thinks "hmmm, if thats what just played, everybody else must really like that song, it must be really good and popular, i need to go buy it."
Welcome to the world of MTV. MTV should really stand for "Mass Training of Viewers".
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I suggest we all just take a moment from our busy days and let out a big collective laugh at the movie industry. Really, they deserve it.
(Congress)
Random Congresscritter: And now Senator Wyden will be presenting a bill to.....o, excuse me, one moment please (whispers to man in black suit with mirror shades)....Well, it seems Senator Wyden is no longer with us. Moving on to the next piece of business.....
I wonder if you can hook up the Rez Vibrator to this thing. Now I can please a girl without having to be stuck in front of the TV. Like, from in front of my computer for instance.
Not on Slashdot, where you were. Sorry...you really opened yourself up to that one....
I actually posted on this earlier, but the answer is yes. There are plenty of people on the DNC who would buy something from them. Believe it or not, there are quite a few people who can be talked into buying anything people want. Many of them are aware of their susceptibility, and as such were some of the first to get themselves on the DNC registry.
Simple solution for this case. Get the home number of the judge, and every jury member. Then, simply call from a pay phone somewhere and pretend to be a telemarketer. Lets get all of Slashdot behind this, it'll be fun. We'll Slashdot the judiciary system! And trust me, after that, I'd be willing to put some money into the Corporate Buyout of America Futures Market that they get laughed out of court.
Ah, and there is the holy grail of all telemarketing. You see, they realize that the majority of people want them drawn and quartered. However, the few people who can be talked into anything need to be reached at all costs. Guess what, many of said people are aware of their tendency to do this, so they would be some of the first people to get on the DNC registry along with the people who just hate telemarketing. They do this because they don't want their vulnerability targeted.
I apologize for not being able to find the study, but I once read one stating that if a telemarketer 'breaks the rules' and calls people who are on their company held DNC list, they make more sales than the people who are not on the list.
Aside from that, yes, it does make sense that they don't want to reach people who are not interested and never will be. But there is a group of people who may not be interested who can most certainly be talked into buying, and those are the ones they're gunning for.
Something about tampering with and destroying evidence comes to mind.
To which everybody else will reply: "You first."
You know the little Terrorist Threat Level Monitor, with all the pretty colors? Well, why not take the data from this and turn it into a more informative one (or one that gives more control over the population).
Analyst:"Today's Terrorism Futures Market seems to indicate that there is a high probability of a biochemical attack in the next week. I hope everybody has stocked up on cellophane and duct tape."
Kind of the same incentive as when the cable company puts out commercials to only those with pirated cable saying "You've WON! Call this number to collect!" and then they bust them. Actually, I'm not really sure what the incentive is...but there must be one in there, they wouldn't do this just to get intel would they? (dies of sarcasm)
And I was just "sampling" those songs I downloaded.
Wow, thats IT! Thats the big killer app for the RIAA. Screw music. Just sell a suction peripheral, pay them, and they show pictures of Brittney Spears on the screen, most of us probably wouldn't even want to listen to the music either!
Clippy: "I see you're trying to play the new Brittany Spears CD! Please look in to the retinal scanner, and place your thumb into the DNA Sampler so that the RIAA can verify that you have been authorized for a 'One Time Listening License' for the price of $19.99.
You know, I thought something was amiss when the summary forgot to state at the end that, "The privacy implications of this are frightening."
I for one welcome our new microbe overlords!
Brain-controlled games are the way of the future.
Future:"When I was YOUR age sonny, we got EVERYTHING on the internet for free. Music, Movies, Software, Games, Pr0n, YOU NAME IT. Sucks that you gotta pay for it now don't it?"
And you would be a fool to believe that people's votes actually count for something in this. They tell them its peoples votes deciding...then they play whatever they decide to play, then everybody watching sits back and thinks "hmmm, if thats what just played, everybody else must really like that song, it must be really good and popular, i need to go buy it."
Welcome to the world of MTV. MTV should really stand for "Mass Training of Viewers".