Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written in the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
The Nazi part was the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) - it's literally in the name. Learned that in history, it's a fact, not a talking point. You're entire argument is based on ignorance so profound that it actually boggles the mind.
The People's Republic of China must be a Republic then because its literally in the name. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea must mean that North Korea is a Democratic Republic because its literally in the name.
Do you see how stupid you are? Oh, wait, I'm sure you know the truth but you're just a troll wasting people's time and energy.
And here we see how a serial rapist like Bill Clinton became president and they cover for him to this day.
The DNC also supports KKK members like Northam without shame.
They also propose legalizing killing live babies and then tell you that you have no right to fly on an airplane.
This is the DNC today, infanticide while making you a criminal for eating steak. Congratulations on your moral superiority.
The medical term is called a fetus. Its not an infant until it is born, which coincidentally is exactly when "moral" conservatives such as yourself quit giving a shit and refuse to pay for any assistance.
Well, both of those are hard to do when every President sets a different goal for NASA. Most NASA projects take longer than the average President's term in office; every President comes in and completely changes what it is he wants NASA to do. How is NASA supposed to operate successfully if their mission and goals change every 4 to 8 years?
NASA really should be given more independence with budget set out years in advance. Trump and Pence might give NASA one direction, two years from now President Justin Bieber might give them a completely different direction to take.
/ no one thought Trump had a chance at being President either
Bieber was born in Canada. He's also only 25, and the minimum age requirement to be POTUS is 35. Unless we amend the Constitution within the next two years, he's ineligible to be POTUS.
"What is it about Apple's gadgets that forbids mere mortals from looking inside?"
Nothing. Even without the law being passed, you can get the pentalobe driver, open your iphone, replace parts which 3rd party versions (if you know what you are doing), and close it up again. This law is forcing manufacturers to continue manufacturing parts for products they no longer produce, for 7 years.
Funnily enough iFixit's list of hard to repair smartphones is topped by a bunch of Android devices: https://www.ifixit.com/smartph...
The Samsung s10 scored a 3, the iPhone XS scored a 6, higher score means more repairable so in iFixit's opinion the iPhone is more repairable than a shit-ton of Android devices. I suppose it is time to grab the pitchforks, light up the torches and burn iFixit HQ do to the ground for spreading heresy.
Yes, but does Google lobby against right to repair laws as Apple apparently does? I honestly don't know. Difficulty of repair due to poor design choice (intentionaly or not) isn't the same as actively lobbying the government to prevent people from repairing their own devices.
Just look for the "neckbeard" or "incel" comments as proof. What is the female version of those two terms? They don't exist
"incel" was a term coined by a woman about herself.
It was co-opted by a very nasty, woman hating movement who have thoroughly poisoned the term. A comunity I suspect you're a part of because one of its defining attributes is pretending women have no troubles in anything at all ever.
Despite the whole thing being started by a woman.
That may be how the word was initially used, but language evolves quickly. The only time I see people use the term incel is to insult men who have a differing view about a topic that mainly concerns women. Granted, most of the people being called incel appear to be assholes, but I don't think I've ever seen it applied to a woman in a derogatory way.
My vehicle is the second most expensive item I will ever own, you had better bet damn well it should meet my uses! I went for an SUV instead of a truck myself. The sacrifice I made for that is I have to pay to deliver drywall and plywood to my house so that has cost me around $800 since we are doing a lot of renovations, but if I had an EV it would easily be over $2000 by now just for deliveries because we can fit a lot in our SUV.
It would be sheer insanity to pay that much for a vehicle that didn't meet all my needs for the life of that vehicle. Commercialism at its worst.
Rawhide “Incident at Red River Station” (1960) – Gil and Rowdy get exposed to smallpox and leave the herd to find a vaccine. They instead find a town that believes in Asafoetida bags, leeches and herbal tea, pushing the real doctor out of town to care for patients in a pest house. “There are very few people around here who believe in vaccination,” says Dr. Flood, at least until people start dying of smallpox and they line up for the batch of vaccine he makes from the cowpox of a nearby herd.
Can you please point out where the poster mentioned or even hinted that freedom of speech is unique to the US? The story is about the US, the poster obviously is from the US and is extolling the protections for free speech in the US. You've created a strawman in an attempt to justify (in your mind at least) being a condescending prick.
Beau has shattered all my confidence/. will ever recover.
Is that even the real BeauHD? It looks like his username is actually something like "BeauHD++(5555555)" which somehow doesn't link to an actual user profile:
https://slashdot.org/~BeauHD++...
My last name isn't incredibly common, so I thought I would buy the.com domain. Turns out it is owned by Tucows who offers to rent it to me for $35 a year under their RealNames service. I contacted them about actually purchasing the domain outright and the response I received was that sale of their domain names start around $5000.
Well, for one thing, they actually hired third party studios to make those shows and movies for them.
Isn't that a key element of Hollywood Accounting? Even if it really is in house, its always some "separate" "third party" studio that they "pay" for the work in order to make the venture seem unprofitable.
Why stop there? Even better. I subscribe only to my very own personal video streaming service (which currently has an empty catalog of course). When all my competitors, including Netflix and Disney, will die because they are not making any money, they'll be forced to offer their content on my own service since it will be the only one left, right?
Fragmentation is good. A Netflix monopoly is bad, period. It always amazes me how many people actually don't understand basic economics and want to be abused by Netflix (or Uber, to give another example).
Explain how fragmentation is good when one service that contains content from x providers costs $y is broken into x services with content from 1 provider for $y each. So instead of paying $y, you'd have to pay $xy for the same content and have to use x number of apps/sites to access that content.
By disney employing thousands of people at their mickey parks? And generating millions in revenue and taxes? And investing that money into newer productions, some that bomb, some that are huge successes?
The only difference would be a spike in mickey mouse merchandise being sold on Etsy for nothing, because now mickey mouse is worth nothing. Disney loses its revenue, the government loses tax money (I know disney avoids taxes but for the sake of argument let's assume they pay).
Copyright is NOT a patent. Mickey mouse is entertainment. The world doesn't become a better place if Mickey goes into public domain. And patents going into public domain... we could make the argument, too, that GIFs being protected by patents actually got us the superior PNG format. But in general, the world does benefit from PATENTS going public. Not so much from entertainment.
You seem to be confusing copyright with trademark. When a copyright for an individual work expires it simply means people can copy it without having to obtain authorization or provide compensation to the now-expired copyright owner. In this context, that would mean that whatever movies the copyright expired on could be hosted on YouTube or other sites without having to pay Disney and Disney couldn't demand they be taken down. Since Disney continues to produce properties that use Mickey and vigorously defends the use of his likeness, their trademark on Mickey would still stand and would still allow them to sue people for making counterfeit Mickey Mouse merchandise or films.
The world would be better because now more people can share in the culture who wouldn't have been able to before because A) they couldn't afford to or B) the owners of copyrighted works heavily restricting how those works can be accessed.
I don't think people forget this at all. If you are professional, you want to leave with a good impression with the company. For good references, good relations with your fellow employees who may be hiring managers in the future, and if things go south, there may be an other company to get hired again with.
The main reason you give two weeks notice is so that people have time for knowledge transfer and your co-workers can make arrangements to pick up your workload. Even if you and all of your coworkers hate your managers and company, if you ever actually did any work and then disappeared, your coworkers are going to be scrambling to pick up the pieces and cursing your name. If your intention is to screw over your coworkers there are probably better ways to do so because they're just going to blame everything on you after you disappeared anyway because its not like you'll be around to defend yourself.
The majority of the time it is in your best interest to play nice. Sadly, that isn't always reciprocated. One time I left a job I hated for a new opportunity with a big fortune 500. 9 months later I was laid off because my new employer was constantly playing musical chairs at the executive level so every month priorities would change and entire departments would get cut to the bone. I tried crawling back to my old job, but I guess my old boss was so offended when I quit that she never returned any of my calls.
nope.
IPTV is multicasted, which is fairly efficient. Even today, Europe makes heavy use of this.
Oh don't worry, I'm sure AT&T will find a way to fuck it up. I'm sure they'll force you to rent some shitty proprietary box from them and limit any support they provide to the absolute minimum required by law, sorry I mean whatever they can get away with through forced arbitration. Want to use your own box? Hahaha not with AT&T, peasant!
That is the most retarded....... If I accuse everyone in a room of being a dick sucking homosexual, statistically I'll be right 15% of the time.. Yeah, that's the exact same logic you just used, asshole.
Cast a wide enough net.....
Actually, you'd be right about 4% of the time, if we're just talking about homosexuals. If you're talking about male homosexuals, probably only about 2% of the time.
I've gone into plenty of restaurants and other stores that are cash only. You can pay for all your bills, get all your food, and pay for your housing and never touch a credit or debit card once. Doing so can be convenient but it's not required.
If your business is cash-only in almost-2019, you're alienating yourself from a lot of potential customers due to the inconvenience. I tend to avoid cash-only businesses because I typically don't carry cash. Even worse are businesses that are cash-only that happen to have an ATM with a ridiculous surcharge.
> The stuff for preschool through about third grade is fine.
No, it just seems like it is. Actually watch it closely. It is incredibly bad in the way it is designed to brainwash children into becoming consumer addicts.
Seriously, do not subject your children to that garbage. Get them out in the fresh air. Do things together. In fact, just throw the television in the garbage can. If I could do it again, I would.
Can you please provide an example of how Puppy Dog Pals is designed to brainwash children into becoming consumer addicts?
I just cancelled my DirecTV service with AT&T. My initial 2 year contract ran out and my bill went up about $40. When I called asking for any other offers, of course nothing was available. When I called to cancel then all of the offers start coming out of the woodwork. Now I only have internet which costs me $70 (up from $60 when it was bundled) a month for 50 mbit down (highest speed they offer in my area) with a 1 TB limit (unlimited costs $30 more a month if you don't have TV service).
I spent the past year configuring my network so that it is indifferent to the ISP supplying the connection and I'm now going to look into what deals are available from Comcast/Xfinity
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Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written in the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
The Nazi part was the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) - it's literally in the name. Learned that in history, it's a fact, not a talking point. You're entire argument is based on ignorance so profound that it actually boggles the mind.
The People's Republic of China must be a Republic then because its literally in the name. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea must mean that North Korea is a Democratic Republic because its literally in the name.
Do you see how stupid you are? Oh, wait, I'm sure you know the truth but you're just a troll wasting people's time and energy.
A nightmare is a type of dream...
And here we see how a serial rapist like Bill Clinton became president and they cover for him to this day. The DNC also supports KKK members like Northam without shame.
They also propose legalizing killing live babies and then tell you that you have no right to fly on an airplane.
This is the DNC today, infanticide while making you a criminal for eating steak. Congratulations on your moral superiority.
The medical term is called a fetus. Its not an infant until it is born, which coincidentally is exactly when "moral" conservatives such as yourself quit giving a shit and refuse to pay for any assistance.
Setting bold goals and staying on schedule.
So I guess, they sacrifice safety.
Well, both of those are hard to do when every President sets a different goal for NASA. Most NASA projects take longer than the average President's term in office; every President comes in and completely changes what it is he wants NASA to do. How is NASA supposed to operate successfully if their mission and goals change every 4 to 8 years?
NASA really should be given more independence with budget set out years in advance. Trump and Pence might give NASA one direction, two years from now President Justin Bieber might give them a completely different direction to take.
/ no one thought Trump had a chance at being President either
Bieber was born in Canada. He's also only 25, and the minimum age requirement to be POTUS is 35. Unless we amend the Constitution within the next two years, he's ineligible to be POTUS.
If not for pork, what is the purpose of landing on the Moon ?
Whaling
"What is it about Apple's gadgets that forbids mere mortals from looking inside?"
Nothing. Even without the law being passed, you can get the pentalobe driver, open your iphone, replace parts which 3rd party versions (if you know what you are doing), and close it up again. This law is forcing manufacturers to continue manufacturing parts for products they no longer produce, for 7 years.
Funnily enough iFixit's list of hard to repair smartphones is topped by a bunch of Android devices: https://www.ifixit.com/smartph... The Samsung s10 scored a 3, the iPhone XS scored a 6, higher score means more repairable so in iFixit's opinion the iPhone is more repairable than a shit-ton of Android devices. I suppose it is time to grab the pitchforks, light up the torches and burn iFixit HQ do to the ground for spreading heresy.
Yes, but does Google lobby against right to repair laws as Apple apparently does? I honestly don't know. Difficulty of repair due to poor design choice (intentionaly or not) isn't the same as actively lobbying the government to prevent people from repairing their own devices.
Just look for the "neckbeard" or "incel" comments as proof. What is the female version of those two terms? They don't exist
"incel" was a term coined by a woman about herself.
It was co-opted by a very nasty, woman hating movement who have thoroughly poisoned the term. A comunity I suspect you're a part of because one of its defining attributes is pretending women have no troubles in anything at all ever.
Despite the whole thing being started by a woman.
That may be how the word was initially used, but language evolves quickly. The only time I see people use the term incel is to insult men who have a differing view about a topic that mainly concerns women. Granted, most of the people being called incel appear to be assholes, but I don't think I've ever seen it applied to a woman in a derogatory way.
My vehicle is the second most expensive item I will ever own, you had better bet damn well it should meet my uses! I went for an SUV instead of a truck myself. The sacrifice I made for that is I have to pay to deliver drywall and plywood to my house so that has cost me around $800 since we are doing a lot of renovations, but if I had an EV it would easily be over $2000 by now just for deliveries because we can fit a lot in our SUV.
It would be sheer insanity to pay that much for a vehicle that didn't meet all my needs for the life of that vehicle. Commercialism at its worst.
Or you could just rent a truck for $20
Rawhide “Incident at Red River Station” (1960) – Gil and Rowdy get exposed to smallpox and leave the herd to find a vaccine. They instead find a town that believes in Asafoetida bags, leeches and herbal tea, pushing the real doctor out of town to care for patients in a pest house. “There are very few people around here who believe in vaccination,” says Dr. Flood, at least until people start dying of smallpox and they line up for the batch of vaccine he makes from the cowpox of a nearby herd.
If you actually bothered to learn anything about other countries, freedom of speech isn't unique to the US.
Can you please point out where the poster mentioned or even hinted that freedom of speech is unique to the US? The story is about the US, the poster obviously is from the US and is extolling the protections for free speech in the US. You've created a strawman in an attempt to justify (in your mind at least) being a condescending prick.
Wow in my decades, now, of slashdot I’ve never...
Beau has shattered all my confidence /. will ever recover.
Is that even the real BeauHD? It looks like his username is actually something like "BeauHD++(5555555)" which somehow doesn't link to an actual user profile: https://slashdot.org/~BeauHD++...
My last name isn't incredibly common, so I thought I would buy the .com domain. Turns out it is owned by Tucows who offers to rent it to me for $35 a year under their RealNames service. I contacted them about actually purchasing the domain outright and the response I received was that sale of their domain names start around $5000.
Well, for one thing, they actually hired third party studios to make those shows and movies for them.
Isn't that a key element of Hollywood Accounting? Even if it really is in house, its always some "separate" "third party" studio that they "pay" for the work in order to make the venture seem unprofitable.
Its the Ring Builders sending their protomolecule to our solar system to open a new stable wormhole to the Slow Zone.
Why stop there? Even better. I subscribe only to my very own personal video streaming service (which currently has an empty catalog of course). When all my competitors, including Netflix and Disney, will die because they are not making any money, they'll be forced to offer their content on my own service since it will be the only one left, right?
Fragmentation is good. A Netflix monopoly is bad, period. It always amazes me how many people actually don't understand basic economics and want to be abused by Netflix (or Uber, to give another example).
Explain how fragmentation is good when one service that contains content from x providers costs $y is broken into x services with content from 1 provider for $y each. So instead of paying $y, you'd have to pay $xy for the same content and have to use x number of apps/sites to access that content.
It absolutely did. Try it.
So you mean you pressed the microphone button on your remote, and the feature worked accordingly?
My U-Verse TV series gives me the benefit of unlimited Internet data usage. If I cancel the cable, I will have a data cap. Weasley shits.
You'll have a data cap, and the cost of your internet will go up $10. I know because I recently canceled my DirecTV service with AT&T.
By disney employing thousands of people at their mickey parks? And generating millions in revenue and taxes? And investing that money into newer productions, some that bomb, some that are huge successes?
The only difference would be a spike in mickey mouse merchandise being sold on Etsy for nothing, because now mickey mouse is worth nothing. Disney loses its revenue, the government loses tax money (I know disney avoids taxes but for the sake of argument let's assume they pay).
Copyright is NOT a patent. Mickey mouse is entertainment. The world doesn't become a better place if Mickey goes into public domain. And patents going into public domain... we could make the argument, too, that GIFs being protected by patents actually got us the superior PNG format. But in general, the world does benefit from PATENTS going public. Not so much from entertainment.
You seem to be confusing copyright with trademark. When a copyright for an individual work expires it simply means people can copy it without having to obtain authorization or provide compensation to the now-expired copyright owner. In this context, that would mean that whatever movies the copyright expired on could be hosted on YouTube or other sites without having to pay Disney and Disney couldn't demand they be taken down. Since Disney continues to produce properties that use Mickey and vigorously defends the use of his likeness, their trademark on Mickey would still stand and would still allow them to sue people for making counterfeit Mickey Mouse merchandise or films.
The world would be better because now more people can share in the culture who wouldn't have been able to before because A) they couldn't afford to or B) the owners of copyrighted works heavily restricting how those works can be accessed.
I don't think people forget this at all. If you are professional, you want to leave with a good impression with the company. For good references, good relations with your fellow employees who may be hiring managers in the future, and if things go south, there may be an other company to get hired again with.
The main reason you give two weeks notice is so that people have time for knowledge transfer and your co-workers can make arrangements to pick up your workload. Even if you and all of your coworkers hate your managers and company, if you ever actually did any work and then disappeared, your coworkers are going to be scrambling to pick up the pieces and cursing your name. If your intention is to screw over your coworkers there are probably better ways to do so because they're just going to blame everything on you after you disappeared anyway because its not like you'll be around to defend yourself.
The majority of the time it is in your best interest to play nice. Sadly, that isn't always reciprocated. One time I left a job I hated for a new opportunity with a big fortune 500. 9 months later I was laid off because my new employer was constantly playing musical chairs at the executive level so every month priorities would change and entire departments would get cut to the bone. I tried crawling back to my old job, but I guess my old boss was so offended when I quit that she never returned any of my calls.
nope. IPTV is multicasted, which is fairly efficient. Even today, Europe makes heavy use of this.
Oh don't worry, I'm sure AT&T will find a way to fuck it up. I'm sure they'll force you to rent some shitty proprietary box from them and limit any support they provide to the absolute minimum required by law, sorry I mean whatever they can get away with through forced arbitration. Want to use your own box? Hahaha not with AT&T, peasant!
That is the most retarded....... If I accuse everyone in a room of being a dick sucking homosexual, statistically I'll be right 15% of the time.. Yeah, that's the exact same logic you just used, asshole.
Cast a wide enough net.....
Actually, you'd be right about 4% of the time, if we're just talking about homosexuals. If you're talking about male homosexuals, probably only about 2% of the time.
I've gone into plenty of restaurants and other stores that are cash only. You can pay for all your bills, get all your food, and pay for your housing and never touch a credit or debit card once. Doing so can be convenient but it's not required.
If your business is cash-only in almost-2019, you're alienating yourself from a lot of potential customers due to the inconvenience. I tend to avoid cash-only businesses because I typically don't carry cash. Even worse are businesses that are cash-only that happen to have an ATM with a ridiculous surcharge.
> The stuff for preschool through about third grade is fine.
No, it just seems like it is. Actually watch it closely. It is incredibly bad in the way it is designed to brainwash children into becoming consumer addicts.
Seriously, do not subject your children to that garbage. Get them out in the fresh air. Do things together. In fact, just throw the television in the garbage can. If I could do it again, I would.
Can you please provide an example of how Puppy Dog Pals is designed to brainwash children into becoming consumer addicts?
I just cancelled my DirecTV service with AT&T. My initial 2 year contract ran out and my bill went up about $40. When I called asking for any other offers, of course nothing was available. When I called to cancel then all of the offers start coming out of the woodwork. Now I only have internet which costs me $70 (up from $60 when it was bundled) a month for 50 mbit down (highest speed they offer in my area) with a 1 TB limit (unlimited costs $30 more a month if you don't have TV service). I spent the past year configuring my network so that it is indifferent to the ISP supplying the connection and I'm now going to look into what deals are available from Comcast/Xfinity