> They just haven't been very good at taking original ideas they find and making them into movies folks want to see.
A lot of times it seems like the studios/directors/producers want to take a concept and transform it into their own vision of what the story should have been, rather than translating source material to the big screen.
A while back I heard of a guy named Robert Wise who is criticized as merely an artisan/craftsman rather than an artist.
I think we need more artisans who respect the source material in Hollywood.
It's actually pretty interesting if true since it is yet another example of a useful service that followed the "first get popular then get permission" model and would not have made it to profitability if it had to go through all the proper legal channels.
As best as I can tell, it's succeeding because 1) it's more single focused than its competitors - it's about peer payments more than grocery store/etc payments. 2) it's got financial backing of Paypal (owner) 3) it's social (not sure why this is an appeal, but articles seem to claim it is) 4) it's built a network affect with millenials already (not sure how. awesome marketing at "welcome to college get your credit cards here" day?)
Google Wallet/etc. are android, and Apple pay is android, but what's cross platform? Venmo apparently. For now.
Most of this is pieced together/speculated after reading a couple articles and searching reddit for mentions of venmo alongside google wallet.
Congress for years has been delegating authority to agencies to make their own rules. It has been argued that this is a violation of the US constitution.
The higher courts also defer to the agencies to interpret their own rules and don't review them for constitutionality. That's apparently known as the Chevron doctrine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Benjamin Ginsberg wrote a book about some of that stuff. What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E...
Seems like something I would hope Consumer Reports would do, but all I seem to see on their web site is appeals for donations (on top of subscription fees). -_-
Yelp may suck but it's the best we have.
btw, speaking of compromised entities, the Better Business Bureau is funded by businesses not consumers. Conflict of interest much?
> I would also argue that a lot of people might choose alternatives like 'make me comfortable as long as possible' at those prices.
End of life issues are definitely adding to rising costs.
People seem to be moving away from the concept that death is inevitable, especially when making decisions on behalf of elderly loved ones who are unable to speak for themselves.
> The *worst* outcome is when the "laws" are secret or unknowable and enforced arbitrarily.
We are heading in that direction (if not there already).
There are a bajillion laws and "ignorance of the law is no excuse", also there are various regulatory agencies that make regulations which have the force of law.
There are so many laws that you are probably violating something that you don't know about, and some things you know about but figure no one will care about.
Looks like I thought "Bartlett's" when I read "Bartleby" but the same point stands. The link is to a book of quotations which one would assume to have been researched.
There are always scabs aka strikebreakers, and thankfully they will be really easy to find with the Uber app with no actual change in behavior from the customer.
The price may go up due to low supply and same as normal demand, but I'd be surprised if service is unavailable.
Also, it's "Day of Disruption" so if you can make it through one day without a cab, you will be fine.
I'm not sure. It's some guy's blog. Who is he to question Bartleby?
All sarcasm aside, I think this is an example where a motivated individual can spend more resources researching a niche topic than a larger organization will choose to allocate. One would expect a quotation dictionary to be more accurate, but they have thousands of quotes to deal with while this Yale Doctoral graduate with his avocation has the luxury of picking and choosing which quotes to research and to what lengths he will go until he is satisfied.
see also: * You can't believe everything you read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln * Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
Interesting sequence of events.
newegg sold: https://www.techpowerup.com/22...
anti-patent troll lawyer leaves: http://www.law.com/nationallaw...
current lawsuit: https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
Destiny 2 already does this, apparently.
It has no difficulty settings and is super easy to make player feel like they are good when they aren't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
> They just haven't been very good at taking original ideas they find and making them into movies folks want to see.
A lot of times it seems like the studios/directors/producers want to take a concept and transform it into their own vision of what the story should have been, rather than translating source material to the big screen.
A while back I heard of a guy named Robert Wise who is criticized as merely an artisan/craftsman rather than an artist.
I think we need more artisans who respect the source material in Hollywood.
https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ...
Sometimes it's obvious you shouldn't be doing that, and sometimes it's not.
People get in trouble for both scenarios.
e.g. URL munging the application website at Harvard to see application status results in offers being retracted
https://arstechnica.com/uncate...
Props. The world needs more like you.
(It looked possibly insincere when posted as AC.)
Big companies that settle have a competitive advantage over smaller companies who actually feel pain from the settlement.
like davecb said, they've already solved that problem for themselves.
Solving it for everyone would:
* be a huge headache for them
* reduce their competitive advantage
I would've assumed he installed one of the many "free" apps that ask for a million permissions they don't need and then phone home with everything.
It's actually pretty interesting if true since it is yet another example of a useful service that followed the "first get popular then get permission" model and would not have made it to profitability if it had to go through all the proper legal channels.
Youtube, did it and it worked (bought by Google).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Imeem did it and got popular, but sold itself to Myspace to avoid the legal hole it dug itself into.
https://www.cnet.com/news/repo...
By contrast, Grooveshark was sued into oblivion (bought by no one).
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
I looked it up the other day.
As best as I can tell, it's succeeding because
1) it's more single focused than its competitors - it's about peer payments more than grocery store/etc payments.
2) it's got financial backing of Paypal (owner)
3) it's social (not sure why this is an appeal, but articles seem to claim it is)
4) it's built a network affect with millenials already (not sure how. awesome marketing at "welcome to college get your credit cards here" day?)
Google Wallet/etc. are android, and Apple pay is android, but what's cross platform? Venmo apparently. For now.
Most of this is pieced together/speculated after reading a couple articles and searching reddit for mentions of venmo alongside google wallet.
Sounds like something the boss would get in trouble with HR for.
Ah, the old subversion of tolerance when the tolerated refuse to tolerate the tolerants.
Looking at some headlines from https://www.reddit.com/r/notth...
we find
"Stop making memes of our dead gorilla, Cincinnati Zoo pleads"
"Spotify offers Barack Obama a job as 'President of Playlists'"
"People have paid a company more than $80,000 to dig a hole for absolutely no reason"
"Venezuela's currency value depends largely on one guy at an Alabama Home Depot"
"Anti-Defamation League Declares Pepe the Frog a Hate Symbol"
"Pilot 'congratulates' passengers for drinking all alcohol on plane"
"Nebraska flag flew upside down at Capitol for 10 days and 'nobody noticed,' says senator who wants design change"
etc.
> Other AV products have always been monstrously bloated affairs, and have become all the worse over then last decade
Additionally, even decent antivirus tends to bloat over time.
Avira Antivirus and MalwareBytes Anti-Malware both have "web protection" modules that will not stop nagging you if you disable them, for example.
Congress for years has been delegating authority to agencies to make their own rules.
It has been argued that this is a violation of the US constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The higher courts also defer to the agencies to interpret their own rules and don't review them for constitutionality.
That's apparently known as the Chevron doctrine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Benjamin Ginsberg wrote a book about some of that stuff.
What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E...
He was interviewed recently on C-Span.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?...
http://podcasts.c-spanvideo.or...
see also:
Is Administrative Law Unlawful https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K...
Terms of Engagement https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F...
From the article:
"Google declined to provide a listing of the banned sites."
http://www.recode.net/2017/1/2...
What's the superior alternative?
Seems like something I would hope Consumer Reports would do, but all I seem to see on their web site is appeals for donations (on top of subscription fees). -_-
Yelp may suck but it's the best we have.
btw, speaking of compromised entities, the Better Business Bureau is funded by businesses not consumers. Conflict of interest much?
> I would also argue that a lot of people might choose alternatives like 'make me comfortable as long as possible' at those prices.
End of life issues are definitely adding to rising costs.
People seem to be moving away from the concept that death is inevitable, especially when making decisions on behalf of elderly loved ones who are unable to speak for themselves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09...
https://www.amazon.com/Knockin...
> The *worst* outcome is when the "laws" are secret or unknowable and enforced arbitrarily.
We are heading in that direction (if not there already).
There are a bajillion laws and "ignorance of the law is no excuse", also there are various regulatory agencies that make regulations which have the force of law.
There are so many laws that you are probably violating something that you don't know about, and some things you know about but figure no one will care about.
"Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime."
https://mic.com/articles/86797...
http://wayback.archive.org/web...
https://www.cato.org/events/te...
Looks like I thought "Bartlett's" when I read "Bartleby" but the same point stands. The link is to a book of quotations which one would assume to have been researched.
There are always scabs aka strikebreakers, and thankfully they will be really easy to find with the Uber app with no actual change in behavior from the customer.
The price may go up due to low supply and same as normal demand, but I'd be surprised if service is unavailable.
Also, it's "Day of Disruption" so if you can make it through one day without a cab, you will be fine.
I'm not sure.
It's some guy's blog.
Who is he to question Bartleby?
All sarcasm aside, I think this is an example where a motivated individual can spend more resources researching a niche topic than a larger organization will choose to allocate. One would expect a quotation dictionary to be more accurate, but they have thousands of quotes to deal with while this Yale Doctoral graduate with his avocation has the luxury of picking and choosing which quotes to research and to what lengths he will go until he is satisfied.
Careful! You (and bartleby.com and GP) might be spreading a misattributed quote.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2...
see also:
* You can't believe everything you read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln
* Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I tried your link but it merely has a screenshot of hyperlinks to sources but doesn't have the actual hyperlinks.
http://www.ronpaullibertyrepor...
Do you know the source that was screenshotted?
On the Google Play Store I see "Unlock" apps sold all the time that work in conjunction with the free version to upgrade it to the full version.
e.g.
sleep as android
https://play.google.com/store/...
series guide x
https://play.google.com/store/...
Most of the crap games out there don't even have the possibility of a full version purchase.
e.g. official bust-a-move (aka puzzle bobble) on android https://www.amazon.com/TAITO-C...