R.I.P.D made about 100 million last year. Not including international DVD/Bluray sales or streaming. It cost about 150 million to make and distribute. It will pay for itself in about three years. However I am willing to bet that the production studio is going to list that film financially as a loss and get the tax benefit from that. Movies don't lose money, they just have lower profit.
I know it's parody, But if you think about it that business model is quite sustainable. Right now there are tons of television shows that people would love to see but just sit in vaults. There are tons of movies if made readily available could be streamed for more profit than sitting in a vault. I pretty sure more people would buy laugh-in/carol burnet than what sells on infomercials. Even a paid service to access a production companies vaults would be better than sitting on a movie 30 years. Really is Cats from Outerspace really making Disney a ton of money sitting in a vault to come out every five years on a cable channel or would it be better in a video service where a mother can for 8 bucks a month let her kids stream movies all day.
"I imagine that even Bin Laden would be surprised the extent to which a single organized attack could inject its backward thinking into a nation that claimed to be so different than the rest."
That backward thinking was already here. It's been here the whole time. Read about J. Edgar Hoover or Nixon. The list is many. Giving any government, power without control is going to create this.
I think your right. So far none of this has been particularly malicious. However, it shows a viable threat to aircraft and should be handled terminatedly. If a low power level laser that is powered by 2 AAA batteries is capable of messing up the landing sequence of a muti-million dollar plane with hundreds of people on I don't think it should be protected a possible fine. Maybe use cameras for landing. They currently have better fog penetration and can see better at night. A laser wont do any real damage to them and then if there is a problem with the cameras the pilot can always look out the window.
No it's not. It had to be completely re-engineered by VW for the US and was canceled for a short time because of that. It is not the same diesel they have in the EU.
I like that Voluntary there. I am sure the Irish people put into indentured service really wanted to reduce their numbers to about 200,000 thousand and be sold off at a rate of 5 to a black slave. http://www.globalresearch.ca/t...
Actually that is wrong. There are reasons to have large big cars in the US. Frankly we are a giant country. Try driving from Los Angeles to Chicago in a tiny car some time. Midwest and western united states there is a ton of space between locations. Trying to do that in a tiny car does not work. As far as mileage goes the US car makers are to blame. We want fuel efficient cars, even with gas prices in the US two to three times better than the EU we still do a ton more driving and a fuel efficient car would be a god send. But we get messed over on fuel efficiency. We got the smart car and I thought "this will be great. Those little things get great mileage in Europe". What we got was not what you get in the EU. It had worse gas mileage than a VW Jetta. We don't get the nice Diesels you get there. Shoot, our first Hybrid car had worse mileage than our diesel cars. We don't want to have gas guzzlers but if we are going to live with them we might as well be comfortable in them.
The computer would most likely be preventing a lot more accidents so you wouldn't have to take over. A large amount of accidents can be prevented by surveying traffic conditions and predicting outcomes. Most computers seem to work well with patterns. And most traffic accidents I have seen showed specific patterns before hand. Seems like most people on the road react to conditions instead of looking at patterns and predicting outcomes. Humans would probably not be needed except for off paved road conditions and you would have plenty of time to be notified of that condition.
Actually I see the opposite. When I drive people around they talk, work on their phones, or make calls. They don't usually tell me to go faster. On an automatic car you would most likely see people start to do other more important things than worry about that.25 second advantage they would have if they cut off three cars.
I lived in an area in new mexico where it could take two to three hours for a sheriff to get out to the house. How would I defend myself without a firearm? How would I stop a bear attack? If you were a single woman of 120 pounds recently removed from an abusive relationship with 250 pound drunk that walks right over a court order how do you defend yourself? How does a old woman of 80 years protect her home from two grown men kicking in her door for her painkillers? If guns are not needed why do the police and military have them? How do you stop a coyote from actively attacking livestock or your child? What do you use to stop the 300 pound alligator that just chomped on grammy's knee?
" A professional army will always beat hicks with guns in a pitched battle...all they need is the motivation" The first thing that pops to mind on that subject is "never get involved in a land war in Asia"
Actually that already happened. It was called DIVX. And it sold propriety encoded disks. It died a very large fiery death. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX
Itunes originally started with drm encoded music and has since removed that. I foresee that will happen for video in the future as well. Right now the technology is so new and the production companies so old that the time to match up the new video business models with the slow bureaucratic functions of the studios is taking quite awhile to change. As well DRM is not cost efficient. Most people want to pay for their movies. They just want to do it easily and DRM does not make it easy. Eventually some one will want to transfer their amazon account to a child at death or give there will be a major failure and a production studio will lose a bunch of customers because they cannot access a video and drm will start to be dropped.
Merriam Webster does not seem to have a problem with it. hubcap noun \hb-kap\
: a removable plastic or metal cover on the center of a car or truck wheel
While that may seem unsafe, for a race car driver who has a reaction time and muscle memory far faster than the average motorist, those actions would be completely safe. But he would get dinged because his driving habits do not match the slower reactions of the average driver.
*Spoilers* Loki ran them through a portal to that world. It would make sense that other points of convergence on the planet would be in the same area. Similar to the overlaying of the portals above Greenwich. The chances of something coming through a portal would be extremely low and they might have crossed a couple of them and not known as they are invisible. As it was they were only able to track the earth portal by her cell phone signal.
Of course you are talking about a movie based off a comic book about a mythical demi god, on another planet, that the main characters only got too by riding a rainbow and running away from elves.
By the way your link to the " bring-all-your-guns NRA conference [mnprogressiveproject.com] " is an april fools satire. Look at the date and the tags at the bottom of the page.
The missing link your looking for is human density. poverty and human density result in increased homicide. Not just gun death but death over all. Gun deaths are just a symptom of the overall issue.
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R.I.P.D made about 100 million last year. Not including international DVD/Bluray sales or streaming. It cost about 150 million to make and distribute. It will pay for itself in about three years. However I am willing to bet that the production studio is going to list that film financially as a loss and get the tax benefit from that. Movies don't lose money, they just have lower profit.
I know it's parody, But if you think about it that business model is quite sustainable. Right now there are tons of television shows that people would love to see but just sit in vaults. There are tons of movies if made readily available could be streamed for more profit than sitting in a vault. I pretty sure more people would buy laugh-in/carol burnet than what sells on infomercials. Even a paid service to access a production companies vaults would be better than sitting on a movie 30 years. Really is Cats from Outerspace really making Disney a ton of money sitting in a vault to come out every five years on a cable channel or would it be better in a video service where a mother can for 8 bucks a month let her kids stream movies all day.
Maybe this would work? http://www.kryoflux.com/
"I imagine that even Bin Laden would be surprised the extent to which a single organized attack could inject its backward thinking into a nation that claimed to be so different than the rest." That backward thinking was already here. It's been here the whole time. Read about J. Edgar Hoover or Nixon. The list is many. Giving any government, power without control is going to create this.
I believe this clip should clear the idea up quickly. The scene in reference is 4:55. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I think your right. So far none of this has been particularly malicious. However, it shows a viable threat to aircraft and should be handled terminatedly. If a low power level laser that is powered by 2 AAA batteries is capable of messing up the landing sequence of a muti-million dollar plane with hundreds of people on I don't think it should be protected a possible fine. Maybe use cameras for landing. They currently have better fog penetration and can see better at night. A laser wont do any real damage to them and then if there is a problem with the cameras the pilot can always look out the window.
Because the US Jetta is 37.8 miles to the gallon and the UK Jetta is 45.4 miles to the gallon. http://www.fuelly.com/car/volk...
No it's not. It had to be completely re-engineered by VW for the US and was canceled for a short time because of that. It is not the same diesel they have in the EU.
Evidently you don't know what the Chinese are going to do to the Quality Control Engineer for the project.
I like that Voluntary there. I am sure the Irish people put into indentured service really wanted to reduce their numbers to about 200,000 thousand and be sold off at a rate of 5 to a black slave. http://www.globalresearch.ca/t...
Actually that is wrong. There are reasons to have large big cars in the US. Frankly we are a giant country. Try driving from Los Angeles to Chicago in a tiny car some time. Midwest and western united states there is a ton of space between locations. Trying to do that in a tiny car does not work. As far as mileage goes the US car makers are to blame. We want fuel efficient cars, even with gas prices in the US two to three times better than the EU we still do a ton more driving and a fuel efficient car would be a god send. But we get messed over on fuel efficiency. We got the smart car and I thought "this will be great. Those little things get great mileage in Europe". What we got was not what you get in the EU. It had worse gas mileage than a VW Jetta. We don't get the nice Diesels you get there. Shoot, our first Hybrid car had worse mileage than our diesel cars. We don't want to have gas guzzlers but if we are going to live with them we might as well be comfortable in them.
I like the Trembling coward thing. From an AC.
The computer would most likely be preventing a lot more accidents so you wouldn't have to take over. A large amount of accidents can be prevented by surveying traffic conditions and predicting outcomes. Most computers seem to work well with patterns. And most traffic accidents I have seen showed specific patterns before hand. Seems like most people on the road react to conditions instead of looking at patterns and predicting outcomes. Humans would probably not be needed except for off paved road conditions and you would have plenty of time to be notified of that condition.
Actually I see the opposite. When I drive people around they talk, work on their phones, or make calls. They don't usually tell me to go faster. On an automatic car you would most likely see people start to do other more important things than worry about that .25 second advantage they would have if they cut off three cars.
I lived in an area in new mexico where it could take two to three hours for a sheriff to get out to the house. How would I defend myself without a firearm? How would I stop a bear attack? If you were a single woman of 120 pounds recently removed from an abusive relationship with 250 pound drunk that walks right over a court order how do you defend yourself? How does a old woman of 80 years protect her home from two grown men kicking in her door for her painkillers? If guns are not needed why do the police and military have them? How do you stop a coyote from actively attacking livestock or your child? What do you use to stop the 300 pound alligator that just chomped on grammy's knee?
" A professional army will always beat hicks with guns in a pitched battle...all they need is the motivation" The first thing that pops to mind on that subject is "never get involved in a land war in Asia"
What is an ACCIDENTAL drive-by shooting?
Actually that already happened. It was called DIVX. And it sold propriety encoded disks. It died a very large fiery death. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX Itunes originally started with drm encoded music and has since removed that. I foresee that will happen for video in the future as well. Right now the technology is so new and the production companies so old that the time to match up the new video business models with the slow bureaucratic functions of the studios is taking quite awhile to change. As well DRM is not cost efficient. Most people want to pay for their movies. They just want to do it easily and DRM does not make it easy. Eventually some one will want to transfer their amazon account to a child at death or give there will be a major failure and a production studio will lose a bunch of customers because they cannot access a video and drm will start to be dropped.
Merriam Webster does not seem to have a problem with it. hubcap noun \hb-kap\ : a removable plastic or metal cover on the center of a car or truck wheel
The theft occurred your just arguing over the amount of time. Blankets laws are ridicules and take up way too much of the courts time.
While that may seem unsafe, for a race car driver who has a reaction time and muscle memory far faster than the average motorist, those actions would be completely safe. But he would get dinged because his driving habits do not match the slower reactions of the average driver.
It is also a lot easier to do the grocery store anonymously. "wow this Jenny girl at *** 867 5309 sure does like hot dogs, steaks and vegan products."
*Spoilers* Loki ran them through a portal to that world. It would make sense that other points of convergence on the planet would be in the same area. Similar to the overlaying of the portals above Greenwich. The chances of something coming through a portal would be extremely low and they might have crossed a couple of them and not known as they are invisible. As it was they were only able to track the earth portal by her cell phone signal. Of course you are talking about a movie based off a comic book about a mythical demi god, on another planet, that the main characters only got too by riding a rainbow and running away from elves.
By the way your link to the " bring-all-your-guns NRA conference [mnprogressiveproject.com] " is an april fools satire. Look at the date and the tags at the bottom of the page.
The missing link your looking for is human density. poverty and human density result in increased homicide. Not just gun death but death over all. Gun deaths are just a symptom of the overall issue.