I would suggest that you start selling them tiny bottles of DiHydroOxide. You can explain to them that it is one of the worlds most powerful solvents. It is found in almost 100% of all household cleaners. Advise them to use it in proper quantities, as it is powerful enough kill a horse, and has been known to eat through solid rock if the rock is exposed to sufficient quantities. This is some pretty serious stuff. They will have to pay a reasonable price to get such an effective hand cleaner, so $25 an ounce should be sufficient.
When did you perform these test. You also did not say if items farther down on your list shipped instead. I have been a subscriber since April of 2003. During this time, it has been very rare that a movie not make it into the next day's mail after receiving it. I don't think there has been a single month that I did not at least get 3x my at a time limit in a month. It is also very rare that a movie not take one day to get to Netflix, and one day to get the new movie back to me. Oddly enough, I even once had a movie that went out in Saturdays mail, and I received the new movie on Tuesday. This is only odd because Monday was a holiday, so no mail.
It seems to me that Netflix has too many customers for 'throttling' to be on a case by case basis, and given the number of movies I go through, I should have been caught in this 'throttling'.
"Now realize I have a national talk radio show so I wouldn't put my name on the line if I wasn't sure."
I'm not sure what country you live in, but here in the US, having a national talk radio show certainly does not give a person credibility. It's exactly the opposite. Anyone on talk radio that isn't talking out of their ass has to prove it because being full of it is the expectation on talk radio.
You are correct with most of your post, but I would disagree with the 'What does an eighth grader know'. Eighth grade is ~13 years old. For tens of thousands of years, that was the age of adulthood. At that age, you got married, you picked a career, you had kids of your own, you built nations, fought wars, brokered peace, and all of the other things that adults do. Somehow our country has developed a mind set that just because we don't die so quickly, that we should all be retarded.
The vast majority of people get by fine with what they learned up until the eighth grade. Most jobs just don't require more than that. The American High school has become a storage facility for our young ADULTS. In fact, our insistence that those who don't want to learn, or simply cannot learn more than an eighth grade level of information, stay in school, drags down what could be a very good opportunity for those that do want higher education.
I too will not be sending my child to public school. Our school system is fundamentally broken. About six months ago, while researching home schooling, I went to a (very)small seminar that one of the local home schooling stores gave each month. After it was over, I briefly talked to the speaker, and she recommended a book about our public education system. She told me that it details how our school system was never intended to educate, but instead was always intended as a way to push through 'social programs'. Now, on hearing this, I immediately chalked her up in the 'loony fringe' category. I know that the school system is used as a way to push through social programs, but was ready to believe a conspiracy that involved it being the primary purpose. Since then, I have talked to many people about our plan to home school. To date, the only reason the people that are pro-public school have come up with is that they think it is important for children to learn 'socialization' skills.
It has really struck me as a telling sign that the 'loony fringe' of home schoolers, and your 'pro-public school' average citizen both have the same theory on what the school system is for. I also have yet to meet a single person that doesn't believe the public school system is seriously broken. The debate between home schooling and public schooling doesn't seem to be between which works and which doesn't. It seems to be between getting a good education (home schooling) and good socialization (public school).
Of course the home schoolers will argue that the home schooled child is also better socialized. I tend to agree with that. The home schooled kids I have met, seem to be able to handle social situation better than public school kids. When public school kids hit puberty, they are told, your an adult, no your a child, no your an adult, no your a child...Just do what we say! Then at 18 or 19, they are declared an adult, and must fend for themselves. The home schooled kids seem to be eased into responsibility.
The other member of my development team had her home schooled niece and nephew for the week, so when we had our weekly lunch, I got the opportunity to have lunch with a couple of home schooled kids. The 5 year old, behaved like I would expect a 5 year old to behave. The 11 year old, struck me though, as being far better socially than the 11 year olds from public schools. I could pretty much just dismiss that she a kid, and carry on a normal conversation. This seems to be the case every time I meet a home schooled kid over the age of 10 or eleven.
I am willing to entertain the notion that instead of home schooling producing better adusted adults, perhaps it is that people with a genetic predisposition to being well adjusted, tend to come from families that also have a genetic predisposition to home schooling. Unfortunately, there is an awful lot of evidence to indicate that the problem lies not in the genes, but in the public schools.
I still don't buy the 'throttling' rumors. When it was a big deal, I looked all over for some indication that Netflix was throttling delivery. I never found any. People would point to the Netflix terms of use as 'proof' that they admit to 'throttling'. There was never anything I found in their TOS that said they throttled. When people would explain what was happening to them, it always turned out that they just didn't get the movie that was a new release and at the top of their list.
I know that Netflix has rarely taken more than 1 day to receive my movies, and 1 day to get me a new one. This has been the case the entire time I have had Netflix, and I watch a LOT of movies. In fact, I usually go through about 30 movies a month on my three movie plan.
I think that part of the problem is that people get confused about what 'throttling' is. I know that Gamefly throttles. Throttling would be holding back deliveries. If Netflix sends you the second or third movie on your list because they don't have enough of the new release, and they give first priority to those that rent less, that is NOT throttling. In fact, doing the opposite would be throttling. If Young Sebastian only has one item on his list, and Ms. Black has 50, and there is only one copy of "Blades of Glory" left to send out. Sending it to Ms. Black would mean that Young Sebastian would be 'throttled', where as sending it to Ms. Black would mean that both people get a movie.
Of course he his. Remember, when people thought the Sun was a fiery chariot, they were just ignorant, but now that we are really smart, anything we don't already know must REALLY be magic.
I don't know if it is on purpose or not, but you are definitly reading my post differently than intended. The point is that many people get arrested and go to jail today for sexual acts that are done in private. It isn't that EVERY sexual act in private between consenting adults is illegal, but some of them are, and one is heavily enforced across the US.
Well, as far as I know, almost all parts of the US have laws against consenting adults having sex in private. I believe that only some parts of Nevada legally allow consenting adults to have sex if money openly exchanged.
I the infallible, omniscient, and omnipotent Belial6 made the universe 15 seconds ago. Being that I am infallible, my statement must be correct, which proves that it was I, and therefor not you who created the universe. Besides, if you can't even get the age of the universe right, how could you have possibly been the one who created it? See? More evidence to support my statement of fact.
How about, if they must protect it or lose it, they have already lost it. They didn't protect it, and now it is in common usage for anything medical related.
All you have to do is look at the common dog to see first hand that eugenics works. Of course it does also show why we wouldn't want to trust human to perform it. By call eugenics bullshit, you basically discredit your argument.
You clearly do not understand how the movie rating system works. The entire thing is theoretically 'voluntary'. There is no legally mandated censorship going on there. There is nothing in the movie rating system that offers any third party more power to censor than what a V-Chip television offers. You must have gotten confused, as many people do, and thought that the MPAA rating system had some government or legal standing beyond a group of people privately agreeing to slap a label on a movie.
I miss understood. I thought you were saying that you personally had no control. I didn't realize that you were acknowledging that 'voluntary' rating systems do in fact lead to censorship. Go figure. People will seem much sharper to you if when you decide to agree with them entirely, you just say so, instead of telling them that their argument makes no sense.
Perhaps I am obtuse, but I can't figure out how your example of a 'voluntary' rating system on a video stream creating a clear environment of censorship is supposed to debunk the argument that putting a 'voluntary' rating system on another video stream has no relationship to the descussion of censorship on the second stream.
"What the hell does the V-chip have to do with movie theatres? You're comparing two completely unrelated things!"
No, I am not. I am talking about two video streams that both have a 'voluntary' rating system, the movie theaters show very clearly how a 'voluntary' rating system can be used to censor material up stream from the display device. If you cannot tell how a movies played in a theater are similar to movies played on a TV, perhaps this really isn't the conversation for you.
If the confilict with your child has gotten to that point, then yes, you are an irresponsible parent for not turning off the power to every room.
I had that conversation with my three year old just a few weeks ago. We told him that if he pees his pants because he didn't want to stop playing with a toy, that he would lose the toy for three day. He then started challenging us with items that he thought we could not take away. I explained that I didn't want to take things away, but if that is what it would take to convince him, I would do it. He challenged me on the couch, and when I had it half way out the front door, it became very clear to him that nothing in the house is too big or too difficult to have taken away. On the plus sign, he told us that we didn't need to get rid of the couch because he understands that we can take it away.
You might think I was crazy to start hauling off a couch to make a point to a three year old, but it is an irresponsible parent that puts having a TV, or even a couch ahead of the welfare of their child.
And if you don't know how a V-chip can cause censorship, just go and try to see a movie in a theater that is either 'voluntarily' rated NC-17, or has not been 'voluntarily' rated.
That is a fine point. Even more so, our society has redefined the word "kid". What in the hell are we doing calling 13, 14 and 15 year olds "kids". People of these ages have gone to war, run nations, built nations, had children, run households, committed horrendous crimes, and brought others who have committed horrendous crimes to justice. For thousands of years, puberty was the defining line between child and adult, and in just a few generations, we have retarded our entire population.
The fact that we live longer is no excuse to retard our children. Our society is not more complex than it was 200 years ago. And, while I cannot speak for the rest of the population, I know that MY genetic code has not degraded to the point that it takes 18 or 20 years to reach the mentality of a 13 year old.
I don't know what your talking about. Most of the wealthy women I've ever met were prostitutes. They just don't get arrested for it. Hell, they even had commercials on TV for a while that specifically advertised that if you give a woman a diamond, she will screw you.
The difference between what we call a "prostitute", and 99% of the other women in the world is that the "prostitute" is honest about what they are doing. And yes, of course men would do the same if there were female customers ready to pay for their services.
Dude, you are a complete moron. Just because YOU only sleep with her does not mean that she isn't sleeping with every guy that gives her a wink. Do you really believe that the vast majority of cheating happens with the boy/girl friends consent? If it did, it wouldn't be called 'cheating'.
That's not a valid argument, as the manufacturer would not be supporting "Linux". It would be supporting Ubuntu, and then only one specific version. Of course pointing out the flaw of our argument, also points out the flaw of the parents argument.
You say that, but 99.99% of the times I have heard prison rape come up, it was because someone was cracking a joke. Virtually every time, the reason prison rape was used as a punch line was because it was considered to be an incredibly bad thing by the person telling the joke. Given that the subject of institutionalized rape is almost never talked about in any other way, how do you propose we get people talking about it? Or would you rather it be like the Catholic Priests raping alter boys? Everyone knew about it for generations, but because it was taboo to talk about, no one said or did anything about it. Hell, the Pope himself said that they would not remove all child molesters from their ranks, and people are still afraid to talk about it.
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You actually got people to mod you informative AND off topic. That is some good comedy.
I would suggest that you start selling them tiny bottles of DiHydroOxide. You can explain to them that it is one of the worlds most powerful solvents. It is found in almost 100% of all household cleaners. Advise them to use it in proper quantities, as it is powerful enough kill a horse, and has been known to eat through solid rock if the rock is exposed to sufficient quantities. This is some pretty serious stuff. They will have to pay a reasonable price to get such an effective hand cleaner, so $25 an ounce should be sufficient.
When did you perform these test. You also did not say if items farther down on your list shipped instead. I have been a subscriber since April of 2003. During this time, it has been very rare that a movie not make it into the next day's mail after receiving it. I don't think there has been a single month that I did not at least get 3x my at a time limit in a month. It is also very rare that a movie not take one day to get to Netflix, and one day to get the new movie back to me. Oddly enough, I even once had a movie that went out in Saturdays mail, and I received the new movie on Tuesday. This is only odd because Monday was a holiday, so no mail.
It seems to me that Netflix has too many customers for 'throttling' to be on a case by case basis, and given the number of movies I go through, I should have been caught in this 'throttling'.
"Now realize I have a national talk radio show so I wouldn't put my name on the line if I wasn't sure."
I'm not sure what country you live in, but here in the US, having a national talk radio show certainly does not give a person credibility. It's exactly the opposite. Anyone on talk radio that isn't talking out of their ass has to prove it because being full of it is the expectation on talk radio.
You are correct with most of your post, but I would disagree with the 'What does an eighth grader know'. Eighth grade is ~13 years old. For tens of thousands of years, that was the age of adulthood. At that age, you got married, you picked a career, you had kids of your own, you built nations, fought wars, brokered peace, and all of the other things that adults do. Somehow our country has developed a mind set that just because we don't die so quickly, that we should all be retarded.
The vast majority of people get by fine with what they learned up until the eighth grade. Most jobs just don't require more than that. The American High school has become a storage facility for our young ADULTS. In fact, our insistence that those who don't want to learn, or simply cannot learn more than an eighth grade level of information, stay in school, drags down what could be a very good opportunity for those that do want higher education.
I too will not be sending my child to public school. Our school system is fundamentally broken. About six months ago, while researching home schooling, I went to a (very)small seminar that one of the local home schooling stores gave each month. After it was over, I briefly talked to the speaker, and she recommended a book about our public education system. She told me that it details how our school system was never intended to educate, but instead was always intended as a way to push through 'social programs'. Now, on hearing this, I immediately chalked her up in the 'loony fringe' category. I know that the school system is used as a way to push through social programs, but was ready to believe a conspiracy that involved it being the primary purpose. Since then, I have talked to many people about our plan to home school. To date, the only reason the people that are pro-public school have come up with is that they think it is important for children to learn 'socialization' skills.
It has really struck me as a telling sign that the 'loony fringe' of home schoolers, and your 'pro-public school' average citizen both have the same theory on what the school system is for. I also have yet to meet a single person that doesn't believe the public school system is seriously broken. The debate between home schooling and public schooling doesn't seem to be between which works and which doesn't. It seems to be between getting a good education (home schooling) and good socialization (public school).
Of course the home schoolers will argue that the home schooled child is also better socialized. I tend to agree with that. The home schooled kids I have met, seem to be able to handle social situation better than public school kids. When public school kids hit puberty, they are told, your an adult, no your a child, no your an adult, no your a child...Just do what we say! Then at 18 or 19, they are declared an adult, and must fend for themselves. The home schooled kids seem to be eased into responsibility.
The other member of my development team had her home schooled niece and nephew for the week, so when we had our weekly lunch, I got the opportunity to have lunch with a couple of home schooled kids. The 5 year old, behaved like I would expect a 5 year old to behave. The 11 year old, struck me though, as being far better socially than the 11 year olds from public schools. I could pretty much just dismiss that she a kid, and carry on a normal conversation. This seems to be the case every time I meet a home schooled kid over the age of 10 or eleven.
I am willing to entertain the notion that instead of home schooling producing better adusted adults, perhaps it is that people with a genetic predisposition to being well adjusted, tend to come from families that also have a genetic predisposition to home schooling. Unfortunately, there is an awful lot of evidence to indicate that the problem lies not in the genes, but in the public schools.
I still don't buy the 'throttling' rumors. When it was a big deal, I looked all over for some indication that Netflix was throttling delivery. I never found any. People would point to the Netflix terms of use as 'proof' that they admit to 'throttling'. There was never anything I found in their TOS that said they throttled. When people would explain what was happening to them, it always turned out that they just didn't get the movie that was a new release and at the top of their list.
I know that Netflix has rarely taken more than 1 day to receive my movies, and 1 day to get me a new one. This has been the case the entire time I have had Netflix, and I watch a LOT of movies. In fact, I usually go through about 30 movies a month on my three movie plan.
I think that part of the problem is that people get confused about what 'throttling' is. I know that Gamefly throttles. Throttling would be holding back deliveries. If Netflix sends you the second or third movie on your list because they don't have enough of the new release, and they give first priority to those that rent less, that is NOT throttling. In fact, doing the opposite would be throttling. If Young Sebastian only has one item on his list, and Ms. Black has 50, and there is only one copy of "Blades of Glory" left to send out. Sending it to Ms. Black would mean that Young Sebastian would be 'throttled', where as sending it to Ms. Black would mean that both people get a movie.
Of course he his. Remember, when people thought the Sun was a fiery chariot, they were just ignorant, but now that we are really smart, anything we don't already know must REALLY be magic.
I don't know if it is on purpose or not, but you are definitly reading my post differently than intended. The point is that many people get arrested and go to jail today for sexual acts that are done in private. It isn't that EVERY sexual act in private between consenting adults is illegal, but some of them are, and one is heavily enforced across the US.
Well, as far as I know, almost all parts of the US have laws against consenting adults having sex in private. I believe that only some parts of Nevada legally allow consenting adults to have sex if money openly exchanged.
Even better!
I the infallible, omniscient, and omnipotent Belial6 made the universe 15 seconds ago. Being that I am infallible, my statement must be correct, which proves that it was I, and therefor not you who created the universe. Besides, if you can't even get the age of the universe right, how could you have possibly been the one who created it? See? More evidence to support my statement of fact.
Now where is my beer?
How about, if they must protect it or lose it, they have already lost it. They didn't protect it, and now it is in common usage for anything medical related.
All you have to do is look at the common dog to see first hand that eugenics works. Of course it does also show why we wouldn't want to trust human to perform it. By call eugenics bullshit, you basically discredit your argument.
But this time we are REALLY smart, so if we don't understand it, it MUST be magic!
You clearly do not understand how the movie rating system works. The entire thing is theoretically 'voluntary'. There is no legally mandated censorship going on there. There is nothing in the movie rating system that offers any third party more power to censor than what a V-Chip television offers. You must have gotten confused, as many people do, and thought that the MPAA rating system had some government or legal standing beyond a group of people privately agreeing to slap a label on a movie.
I miss understood. I thought you were saying that you personally had no control. I didn't realize that you were acknowledging that 'voluntary' rating systems do in fact lead to censorship. Go figure. People will seem much sharper to you if when you decide to agree with them entirely, you just say so, instead of telling them that their argument makes no sense.
Perhaps I am obtuse, but I can't figure out how your example of a 'voluntary' rating system on a video stream creating a clear environment of censorship is supposed to debunk the argument that putting a 'voluntary' rating system on another video stream has no relationship to the descussion of censorship on the second stream.
You claim that you have ZERO control over what movies your kids go to see, AND complain that someone is talking down to you in the same post? Amazing.
"What the hell does the V-chip have to do with movie theatres? You're comparing two completely unrelated things!"
No, I am not. I am talking about two video streams that both have a 'voluntary' rating system, the movie theaters show very clearly how a 'voluntary' rating system can be used to censor material up stream from the display device. If you cannot tell how a movies played in a theater are similar to movies played on a TV, perhaps this really isn't the conversation for you.
If the confilict with your child has gotten to that point, then yes, you are an irresponsible parent for not turning off the power to every room.
I had that conversation with my three year old just a few weeks ago. We told him that if he pees his pants because he didn't want to stop playing with a toy, that he would lose the toy for three day. He then started challenging us with items that he thought we could not take away. I explained that I didn't want to take things away, but if that is what it would take to convince him, I would do it. He challenged me on the couch, and when I had it half way out the front door, it became very clear to him that nothing in the house is too big or too difficult to have taken away. On the plus sign, he told us that we didn't need to get rid of the couch because he understands that we can take it away.
You might think I was crazy to start hauling off a couch to make a point to a three year old, but it is an irresponsible parent that puts having a TV, or even a couch ahead of the welfare of their child.
And if you don't know how a V-chip can cause censorship, just go and try to see a movie in a theater that is either 'voluntarily' rated NC-17, or has not been 'voluntarily' rated.
That is a fine point. Even more so, our society has redefined the word "kid". What in the hell are we doing calling 13, 14 and 15 year olds "kids". People of these ages have gone to war, run nations, built nations, had children, run households, committed horrendous crimes, and brought others who have committed horrendous crimes to justice. For thousands of years, puberty was the defining line between child and adult, and in just a few generations, we have retarded our entire population. The fact that we live longer is no excuse to retard our children. Our society is not more complex than it was 200 years ago. And, while I cannot speak for the rest of the population, I know that MY genetic code has not degraded to the point that it takes 18 or 20 years to reach the mentality of a 13 year old.
I don't know what your talking about. Most of the wealthy women I've ever met were prostitutes. They just don't get arrested for it. Hell, they even had commercials on TV for a while that specifically advertised that if you give a woman a diamond, she will screw you. The difference between what we call a "prostitute", and 99% of the other women in the world is that the "prostitute" is honest about what they are doing. And yes, of course men would do the same if there were female customers ready to pay for their services.
Dude, you are a complete moron. Just because YOU only sleep with her does not mean that she isn't sleeping with every guy that gives her a wink. Do you really believe that the vast majority of cheating happens with the boy/girl friends consent? If it did, it wouldn't be called 'cheating'.
That's not a valid argument, as the manufacturer would not be supporting "Linux". It would be supporting Ubuntu, and then only one specific version. Of course pointing out the flaw of our argument, also points out the flaw of the parents argument.
Or my favorite. "It's a quantum finish!!!" "No fair! You change the results by measuring it!"
You say that, but 99.99% of the times I have heard prison rape come up, it was because someone was cracking a joke. Virtually every time, the reason prison rape was used as a punch line was because it was considered to be an incredibly bad thing by the person telling the joke. Given that the subject of institutionalized rape is almost never talked about in any other way, how do you propose we get people talking about it? Or would you rather it be like the Catholic Priests raping alter boys? Everyone knew about it for generations, but because it was taboo to talk about, no one said or did anything about it. Hell, the Pope himself said that they would not remove all child molesters from their ranks, and people are still afraid to talk about it.
There is no reason that a professional photographer would need that kind of insurance to take pictures.