Limiting your users bandwidth, is a sure way to kill your business as an ISP.
You're greed, and quest for growth and profit is going to destroy your company. You know damn well that your services are overpriced as they stand now. Thats why you can offer that new "$15 for 1GB a month" plan.
Time Warner even says that 30% of its subscribers fit in that 1GB usage area. Well that means right now, they have 30% of their subscribers paying $50+ dollars a month, where as in the new plan they can pay $15 a month?
Somethings not right here Time Warner. It seems to me that you're overcharging 30% of your subscribers and you still dont make enough profit to cover cost? I'm calling BULLSHIT.
This is a way to increase monthly charges. You cant honestly tell me that Time Warner is perfectly happy with giving 30% of its subscribers a deal on their monthly bill. No business is that honest, certainly not Time Warner. That would mean 30% of its subscribers is now paying $35 less, but the 70% high bandwidth subscribers are now going to be paying a $1 for every extra GB? Do they expect those people to download 35 GB extra a month to make up for that $35 dollars they're losing on the other 30% of their subscribers?
It seems to me that Time Warner knows that right now, most of its subscribers use MORE than that 35 GB extra a month, other wise they would not be doing this.
The end result is, a sneaky way to increase your montlhy bill from $50 to $90-$150 a month (depending on how much over you use).
Do you get charged for using their On Demand services? Does that bandwidth go against your limit?
Frankly its all bullshit and Time Warner knows it. Stop playing magic tricks with your customers and start realizing that those virtual signals that travel those copper wires and fiber cables... they should be GETTING CHEAPER with the increase in demand... not more expensive.
How much would you pay for an intel 486dx2 CPU today?
Time Warner was never a good ISP and they were always a poor cable TV provider. Nothing is new here.
I'm on Verizon FIOS and i love it. Granted they nickel and dime me for HD TV and the cable boxes... but atleast its not time warner:)
Verizon TV is an evil deal. You pay for the monthly service, but if you want to actually SEE it on your TV, you must pay for cable boxes. So imagine this sceneario. You pay the monthly service but dont pay for the set top boxes. Bascially that means you have cable tv that you cant see.
The fucking brilliant minds at these "providers" are insulting cheese dicks.
I think we can ALL agree that Microsoft is slipping.
DRM is a deal breaker... but so is not having applications on linux.
I'm serious when i say that the climate is ripe for a change. It really is, but we work in a world that uses applications and if those applications are not available elsewhere, we have to eat the shit that comes with our meal.
And frankly the businesses that make windows applications, like the controlled environment MS creates. Linux is too scatterbrained, too forked and these companies know MS will try to DRM lock everything so... to them thats a win.
Zbrush, Itunes, mudbox, photoshop, canon's raw software, lightroom, avid media composer and other versions of their editing suites, Adobe Premiere, sony Vegas, headus UV Layout, steam, etc
I do 3D animation and photography so a lot of the apps are windows only.
I know Maya, Softimage, and Houdini are on linux but... a lot of the programs used within my workflow are not. I'm a softimage guy and from what i understand the linux version is a bid picky about setup in various flavors of linux. they recommend Red Hat.
The funny thing is linux would be great for all of these content creation apps but linux support is rare to non existent.
Ok I looked it up to see which shot you were referring too. It has been sometime since I've seen the film.
I just watched the clip on Youtube.
Just because the camera is not visibly behind Moore in the shot, does not mean there wasnt a camera:) You can easily tell a camera man to move out of frame. In that shot Moore is being shot from below by a camera man on the stairs. That is why the camera man isnt visible in the Heston walking away shot. He's below the opposite camera who is behind moore's jacket. I just watched the clip on Youtube. Now on the reverse... The camera man is still on the stairs and the other camera man is behind Moore, who is a very large object capable of hiding a camera behind:) The opposite shot of Heston walking away is shot from right behind Moore's jacket which would place the cameraman in perfect hiding behind Moore for the reverse.
Thats one explanation. That probably was what happened in reality.
Now theres a possiblity that they tried to do this and it failed for whatever reason, for example the camera man was in view behind Moore. Perhaps Moore decided to do an insert shot and reenact the shot for editorial purposes to remove the second camera man who was behind Moore on the "live" take. Thats IF it is an insert shot. I'm not entirely convinced that it is yet but even so, it doesnt mean that he is factually lying about what took place.
Honestly, I dont think Heston came off bad in the interview. I think he just didnt have an answer. Moore simply asked the question "why is it that we're more violent than other countries" and he even goes as far to relate it to Canada who has plenty of guns, but they still do not kill each other statistically on the same level as Americans. So I dont feel Moore was out to get Heston or blame guns themselves. He was looking for a discussion that I dont think any of us can answer... but we all should have or atleast be aware of this unique situation. Heston didnt have the answer, no one truly does. Moore didnt... Moore was really there to ask about the NRA being insensitive and showing up to defend guns wherever there is gun violence. Personally I like guns. I'm also terrified of them, especially in the hands of humans. I still like them though. I would never kill anyone unless my life was threatened. Moore even says he agrees with the second ammendment in the interview. I think Moore was hinting at the lack of subtlety we have as humans. We're quick to grab the gun and do violence with it. which actually supports many of the NRA's claims that the GUN is not the problem... Its us. Moore simply asks... Why ?
Anyways... This is what i mean by saying Moore comes more from the heart. Its an internal question about ourselves. Same thing in Sicko. Why do we do these things to ourselves when its clear that we can do far better for each other? Healthcare should be universal. It creates an industry around taking care of people, and that industry will never go away. Universal healhcare should happen and it needs to. I think Moore asks these questions to look at ourselves and wonder why we're so selfish and violent. Whats wrong with caring about each other and being more aware of ourselves as beings that really need each other... Maybe thats what we lack, and the answer to his question to Heston? Maybe we lack an honest awareness of how important life is, so much that kids in school will pick on the weird kid carelessly, and in return they'll shoot up the entire school without a care. There is a central theme here, and its that we dont honestly care about each other when we should. Otherwise dont be shocked when kids kill each other, or when hospitals dump the sick on ghetto street corners.
Again, I think Moore comes from a place of the heart, where has his critics tend to go after him with hate.
As for the camera thing... I'll relate this to Sicko, which i felt was a heartbreaking film... but there is a similar situation in it that i personally noticed. The trip to cuba scene where h
I dont think Olbermann is hateful. It does seem at times he puts his heart out there.
The problem I have with Olbermann is, he seems like just another pompus TV ass at times. His attack on Imus was embarrassing.
But there are times when a heart peaks out behind that slick broadcasting bullshit image of his. But make no mistake, he's as slick as all of his conservative counter parts.
I would still put him a step above Oriely and Ann Coulter. Coulter is just a needler with no real position other than to needle and fuel arguments. She's out to make money big time, at all costs. She's a master of nonsense and needling. She will say anything hateful and as long as it aggravates you, she will be happy.
I didnt think Charlton Heston came off as a cold uncaring man... I felt he came off as an OLD man, in his retirement years... not as sharp and as with it as he was in his youth. He was an old retired actor in his later years, disconnected from reality more so than he ever was as a "star".
There are two Americas. Guess which one gets all the rights and breaks the rules?
Enjoy your prison state. Pay your taxes. The economy is bad for YOU the poor... but not the wealthy. The wealthy get your tax dollars through hand outs.
Steal from the poor, give to the rich. And they sold you that Robin Hood story too, just like the fairy tale that is America.
Fox News makes a pretty penny off all kinds of disgusting nonsense propaganda used to drive fear and fuel passion.... and they tell us its "NEWS"
But Murdock puts his fist down to fire a guy that reviewed a pirated copy of Wolverine?
The guy got fired for covering a news story. hahaha
FoxNews and TV news in general can have 2 morons with daily talking points shouting the same nonsense constantly without any discussion, detail or anything of real value. Its political porn... News Porn... Its all bullshit. Porn is more real and rewarding.
And this is who Murdock decides to fire? How about the entire bullshit network you call a "NEWS NETWORK" or the shitty news papers you own? FIRE THEM ALL for worthless daily nonsense they provide.
I would like to say Thank You to "rick752" Petnel's family and that I personally admire and respect him for his contributions. He will be missed and remembered as a Hero.
The unions are not why the companies want to go over seas. Companies want to go over seas because they can pay foreign workforces.45 cents an hour. A wage that NO American, Union or not.... could EVER afford to live on.
It is greed, and it is a way to cheat our economy in the interest of enjoying greater profits a the expense of our civilization.
Are you in a Union? I suspect not. So here's what you do. Go to your boss and demand they pay you.45 cents an hour. I'm sure they will gladly accommodate you.
It has nothing to do with Unions. It has to do with our economy, it is an ecosystem. Our cost of living, the prices we pay on everything from health care to televisions. Its all relatively high and when you no longer want to employ within that ecosystem, the economy suffers greatly. We do not make anything anymore. Its not be cause of unions, its because next door does it for cheaper because next door, they eat dirt, and their currency value is pennies on the dollar.
Its CHEATING. Thats all it really is.
We could easily self sustain and employ American workers. We did it for years.
Just to give an example, there are businesses in America who will soon be manufacturing solar panels in china. What happened to that "we need to be energy independent" stuff? We''re going to build it all in China? Who will afford to buy it in America then?
We NEED a working class. Its not the unions. We're bleeding ourselves dry by imposing a no compete situation on ourselves. You want to build solar panels for.45 cents an hour?
Innocent until proven guilty. Thats what they say... well at least until the Phoenix Police storms into your house, takes your computers and plant evidence.
This article is dedicated to all of those who say "I have nothing to hide, let them watch me"
This is disgusting. The Phoenix Police will hopefully soon learn that they can not bully & intimidate a civilian that is standing up for his rights against corruption and abuse.
People shouldnt be paid what their labor is "worth" at the expense of living in its society.
I can pay an illegal mexican immigrant 4 dollars an hour to mow lawns, but he cant afford to live in our society.
Well and frankly he shouldnt... he's illegal.
The game is rigged. Its not just "market value" or "worth" that is TRUE when the game is played by the rules. However no one plays by the rules.
That is why we have illegals working in our country, and the government does nothing about it. Its why we citizens hire them as well. NO ONE plays by the rules, and the result is "market value" or "worth" becomes a race to the bottom that ends up being cut throat.
What the market will bear is an interesting term because i think people play the market right past its breaking point. It can bear a lot, but we're at a point were we push what the market will bear, people's values, etc... to levels that are impossible to sustain a living in our own economy.
So while i agree in theory, and under great ethics, things such as "pay by their value" is acceptable... It's not acceptable when that value forces people below the poverty line.
The game is rigged, its a squeeze play that has squished all that it can. I dont care how pretty the roof looks, if the foundation is rotting... everything will come down.... and thats whats happening now. You can only bullshit the economy so much before it breaks.
Illegals, H1B, outsourcing, overseas manufacturing.... are the problem.
Min Wage isnt the problem, nor are Unions. This country existed fine with those things for some time, and they only became a problem when businesses were allowed to place their wages against the slave wages of overseas workers.
I'm fine with paying AMERICAN prices... if it means AMERICA works and can live well.
You cant pit our working force against others outside of our economy (ecosystem). It breaks the entire cycle and deflates us to poverty. Oh but the wealthy will be just fine.
Time Warner cant hack it. Bandwidth requirements will only increase as we progress. Time Warner cant provide the bandwidth? Then get out of the business and release those local monopolies you hold.
The internet is here to stay, and if you cant provide it and meet the demands of your users... LEAVE IT.
Hollywood films are in fact made by artists. They are funded and marketed by corporations but you can get your sweet bottom that many wonderfully talented artists are making those films.
I remember the good old days, when you did not have to beg for permission to use the software you paid for.
CASH is the transaction. I'm not paying for your bullshit harrasment and limits on my freedom. If you're going to limit my freedom, then limit the fee at which you demand for your wicked software.
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Bandwidth usage doesn't decrease. It never will.
Limiting your users bandwidth, is a sure way to kill your business as an ISP.
You're greed, and quest for growth and profit is going to destroy your company. You know damn well that your services are overpriced as they stand now. Thats why you can offer that new "$15 for 1GB a month" plan.
Time Warner even says that 30% of its subscribers fit in that 1GB usage area. Well that means right now, they have 30% of their subscribers paying $50+ dollars a month, where as in the new plan they can pay $15 a month?
Somethings not right here Time Warner. It seems to me that you're overcharging 30% of your subscribers and you still dont make enough profit to cover cost? I'm calling BULLSHIT.
This is a way to increase monthly charges. You cant honestly tell me that Time Warner is perfectly happy with giving 30% of its subscribers a deal on their monthly bill. No business is that honest, certainly not Time Warner. That would mean 30% of its subscribers is now paying $35 less, but the 70% high bandwidth subscribers are now going to be paying a $1 for every extra GB? Do they expect those people to download 35 GB extra a month to make up for that $35 dollars they're losing on the other 30% of their subscribers?
It seems to me that Time Warner knows that right now, most of its subscribers use MORE than that 35 GB extra a month, other wise they would not be doing this.
The end result is, a sneaky way to increase your montlhy bill from $50 to $90-$150 a month (depending on how much over you use).
Do you get charged for using their On Demand services? Does that bandwidth go against your limit?
Frankly its all bullshit and Time Warner knows it. Stop playing magic tricks with your customers and start realizing that those virtual signals that travel those copper wires and fiber cables... they should be GETTING CHEAPER with the increase in demand... not more expensive.
How much would you pay for an intel 486dx2 CPU today?
Time Warner was never a good ISP and they were always a poor cable TV provider. Nothing is new here.
I'm on Verizon FIOS and i love it. Granted they nickel and dime me for HD TV and the cable boxes... but atleast its not time warner :)
Verizon TV is an evil deal. You pay for the monthly service, but if you want to actually SEE it on your TV, you must pay for cable boxes. So imagine this sceneario. You pay the monthly service but dont pay for the set top boxes. Bascially that means you have cable tv that you cant see.
The fucking brilliant minds at these "providers" are insulting cheese dicks.
But i'll still take FIOS any day.
I dont know if you're a troll or not, but...
I think we can ALL agree that Microsoft is slipping.
DRM is a deal breaker... but so is not having applications on linux.
I'm serious when i say that the climate is ripe for a change. It really is, but we work in a world that uses applications and if those applications are not available elsewhere, we have to eat the shit that comes with our meal.
And frankly the businesses that make windows applications, like the controlled environment MS creates. Linux is too scatterbrained, too forked and these companies know MS will try to DRM lock everything so... to them thats a win.
Zbrush, Itunes, mudbox, photoshop, canon's raw software, lightroom, avid media composer and other versions of their editing suites, Adobe Premiere, sony Vegas, headus UV Layout, steam, etc
I do 3D animation and photography so a lot of the apps are windows only.
I know Maya, Softimage, and Houdini are on linux but... a lot of the programs used within my workflow are not. I'm a softimage guy and from what i understand the linux version is a bid picky about setup in various flavors of linux. they recommend Red Hat.
The funny thing is linux would be great for all of these content creation apps but linux support is rare to non existent.
Ok I looked it up to see which shot you were referring too. It has been sometime since I've seen the film.
I just watched the clip on Youtube.
Just because the camera is not visibly behind Moore in the shot, does not mean there wasnt a camera :) You can easily tell a camera man to move out of frame. In that shot Moore is being shot from below by a camera man on the stairs. That is why the camera man isnt visible in the Heston walking away shot. He's below the opposite camera who is behind moore's jacket. I just watched the clip on Youtube. Now on the reverse... The camera man is still on the stairs and the other camera man is behind Moore, who is a very large object capable of hiding a camera behind :) The opposite shot of Heston walking away is shot from right behind Moore's jacket which would place the cameraman in perfect hiding behind Moore for the reverse.
Thats one explanation. That probably was what happened in reality.
Now theres a possiblity that they tried to do this and it failed for whatever reason, for example the camera man was in view behind Moore. Perhaps Moore decided to do an insert shot and reenact the shot for editorial purposes to remove the second camera man who was behind Moore on the "live" take. Thats IF it is an insert shot. I'm not entirely convinced that it is yet but even so, it doesnt mean that he is factually lying about what took place.
Honestly, I dont think Heston came off bad in the interview. I think he just didnt have an answer. Moore simply asked the question "why is it that we're more violent than other countries" and he even goes as far to relate it to Canada who has plenty of guns, but they still do not kill each other statistically on the same level as Americans. So I dont feel Moore was out to get Heston or blame guns themselves. He was looking for a discussion that I dont think any of us can answer... but we all should have or atleast be aware of this unique situation. Heston didnt have the answer, no one truly does. Moore didnt... Moore was really there to ask about the NRA being insensitive and showing up to defend guns wherever there is gun violence. Personally I like guns. I'm also terrified of them, especially in the hands of humans. I still like them though. I would never kill anyone unless my life was threatened. Moore even says he agrees with the second ammendment in the interview. I think Moore was hinting at the lack of subtlety we have as humans. We're quick to grab the gun and do violence with it. which actually supports many of the NRA's claims that the GUN is not the problem... Its us. Moore simply asks... Why ?
Anyways... This is what i mean by saying Moore comes more from the heart. Its an internal question about ourselves. Same thing in Sicko. Why do we do these things to ourselves when its clear that we can do far better for each other? Healthcare should be universal. It creates an industry around taking care of people, and that industry will never go away. Universal healhcare should happen and it needs to. I think Moore asks these questions to look at ourselves and wonder why we're so selfish and violent. Whats wrong with caring about each other and being more aware of ourselves as beings that really need each other... Maybe thats what we lack, and the answer to his question to Heston? Maybe we lack an honest awareness of how important life is, so much that kids in school will pick on the weird kid carelessly, and in return they'll shoot up the entire school without a care. There is a central theme here, and its that we dont honestly care about each other when we should. Otherwise dont be shocked when kids kill each other, or when hospitals dump the sick on ghetto street corners.
Again, I think Moore comes from a place of the heart, where has his critics tend to go after him with hate.
As for the camera thing... I'll relate this to Sicko, which i felt was a heartbreaking film... but there is a similar situation in it that i personally noticed. The trip to cuba scene where h
I like Vista, Its just so dam slow!
I like Windows 7. I run them both. 7 is better in every way (except media playing. Beta has bugs)
I'm liking 7's ui and library features. Its performance is better than vista... but honestly not by much.
I would run linux if the applications were there. But as we all know... thats not the case.
I'm honestly looking at Apple for my next laptop. Honeslty i wont replace my PC workstations with MACs, but... I wouldnt mind testing the waters.
I would try linux again if they applications were there but they just arent. You can browse, IM etc... but I do more than that.
B I N G O... and Bingo was his name Oh.
So you have 1 computer on the internet, and the one siting next to it, is not and can not and will not ever access the internet :)
I dont think Olbermann is hateful. It does seem at times he puts his heart out there.
The problem I have with Olbermann is, he seems like just another pompus TV ass at times. His attack on Imus was embarrassing.
But there are times when a heart peaks out behind that slick broadcasting bullshit image of his. But make no mistake, he's as slick as all of his conservative counter parts.
I would still put him a step above Oriely and Ann Coulter. Coulter is just a needler with no real position other than to needle and fuel arguments. She's out to make money big time, at all costs. She's a master of nonsense and needling. She will say anything hateful and as long as it aggravates you, she will be happy.
Charlton Heston portrayed himself, as himself.
I didnt think Charlton Heston came off as a cold uncaring man... I felt he came off as an OLD man, in his retirement years... not as sharp and as with it as he was in his youth. He was an old retired actor in his later years, disconnected from reality more so than he ever was as a "star".
But we like Micheal Moore. He leads with a heart, not the hate and spite of Rush Limbaugh.
There are two Americas. Guess which one gets all the rights and breaks the rules?
Enjoy your prison state. Pay your taxes. The economy is bad for YOU the poor... but not the wealthy. The wealthy get your tax dollars through hand outs.
Steal from the poor, give to the rich. And they sold you that Robin Hood story too, just like the fairy tale that is America.
Oh the irony.
Fox News makes a pretty penny off all kinds of disgusting nonsense propaganda used to drive fear and fuel passion.... and they tell us its "NEWS"
But Murdock puts his fist down to fire a guy that reviewed a pirated copy of Wolverine?
The guy got fired for covering a news story. hahaha
FoxNews and TV news in general can have 2 morons with daily talking points shouting the same nonsense constantly without any discussion, detail or anything of real value. Its political porn... News Porn... Its all bullshit. Porn is more real and rewarding.
And this is who Murdock decides to fire? How about the entire bullshit network you call a "NEWS NETWORK" or the shitty news papers you own? FIRE THEM ALL for worthless daily nonsense they provide.
I would like to say Thank You to "rick752" Petnel's family and that I personally admire and respect him for his contributions. He will be missed and remembered as a Hero.
The unions are not why the companies want to go over seas. Companies want to go over seas because they can pay foreign workforces .45 cents an hour. A wage that NO American, Union or not.... could EVER afford to live on.
It is greed, and it is a way to cheat our economy in the interest of enjoying greater profits a the expense of our civilization.
Are you in a Union? I suspect not. So here's what you do. Go to your boss and demand they pay you .45 cents an hour. I'm sure they will gladly accommodate you.
It has nothing to do with Unions. It has to do with our economy, it is an ecosystem. Our cost of living, the prices we pay on everything from health care to televisions. Its all relatively high and when you no longer want to employ within that ecosystem, the economy suffers greatly. We do not make anything anymore. Its not be cause of unions, its because next door does it for cheaper because next door, they eat dirt, and their currency value is pennies on the dollar.
Its CHEATING. Thats all it really is.
We could easily self sustain and employ American workers. We did it for years.
Just to give an example, there are businesses in America who will soon be manufacturing solar panels in china. What happened to that "we need to be energy independent" stuff? We''re going to build it all in China? Who will afford to buy it in America then?
We NEED a working class. Its not the unions. We're bleeding ourselves dry by imposing a no compete situation on ourselves. You want to build solar panels for .45 cents an hour?
How about .65 cents? How about 1 dollar?
We cant compete.
So you're saying those in power who are abusing it are expected to do whats right?
HAHAHAHA
Not in America, not in North Korea my friend. Not since the dawn of time.
Innocent until proven guilty. Thats what they say... well at least until the Phoenix Police storms into your house, takes your computers and plant evidence.
This article is dedicated to all of those who say "I have nothing to hide, let them watch me"
This is disgusting. The Phoenix Police will hopefully soon learn that they can not bully & intimidate a civilian that is standing up for his rights against corruption and abuse.
America is a lie.
People shouldnt be paid what their labor is "worth" at the expense of living in its society.
I can pay an illegal mexican immigrant 4 dollars an hour to mow lawns, but he cant afford to live in our society.
Well and frankly he shouldnt... he's illegal.
The game is rigged. Its not just "market value" or "worth" that is TRUE when the game is played by the rules. However no one plays by the rules.
That is why we have illegals working in our country, and the government does nothing about it. Its why we citizens hire them as well. NO ONE plays by the rules, and the result is "market value" or "worth" becomes a race to the bottom that ends up being cut throat.
What the market will bear is an interesting term because i think people play the market right past its breaking point. It can bear a lot, but we're at a point were we push what the market will bear, people's values, etc... to levels that are impossible to sustain a living in our own economy.
So while i agree in theory, and under great ethics, things such as "pay by their value" is acceptable... It's not acceptable when that value forces people below the poverty line.
The game is rigged, its a squeeze play that has squished all that it can. I dont care how pretty the roof looks, if the foundation is rotting... everything will come down. ... and thats whats happening now. You can only bullshit the economy so much before it breaks.
Illegals, H1B, outsourcing, overseas manufacturing.... are the problem.
Min Wage isnt the problem, nor are Unions. This country existed fine with those things for some time, and they only became a problem when businesses were allowed to place their wages against the slave wages of overseas workers.
I'm fine with paying AMERICAN prices... if it means AMERICA works and can live well.
You cant pit our working force against others outside of our economy (ecosystem). It breaks the entire cycle and deflates us to poverty. Oh but the wealthy will be just fine.
"Nope, paying workers a fair wage is capitalist. Paying unskilled workers as though they held doctorates is communist. :)"
I'm sure the 40 cents an hour Chinese factory workers will be glad to know they now have doctorates :)
Time Warner cant hack it. Bandwidth requirements will only increase as we progress. Time Warner cant provide the bandwidth? Then get out of the business and release those local monopolies you hold.
The internet is here to stay, and if you cant provide it and meet the demands of your users... LEAVE IT.
That is right, paying workers a fair wage is communist!
This probably all has to do with being under paid in an industry that makes ass loads of cash for the few at the top, and hardly any at the bottom.
So are negative product reviews now illegal?
I guess now everything is instantly "awesome" in England.
You have to love how the ruling class imposes such limitations on communications. They fear what exactly? The truth?
Hollywood films are in fact made by artists. They are funded and marketed by corporations but you can get your sweet bottom that many wonderfully talented artists are making those films.
Its just rarely their say as to what gets made :)
You are correct sir.
I remember the good old days, when you did not have to beg for permission to use the software you paid for.
CASH is the transaction. I'm not paying for your bullshit harrasment and limits on my freedom. If you're going to limit my freedom, then limit the fee at which you demand for your wicked software.