Once you reach a point you are going to drop the film; post a copy of the data for download by whoever wants it. You are the only person who can sell it; but lots of people will keep your data for you for free. And even offer it up for others to save for you as well.
The lost profits are probably less than the cost of archiving the material in 95% of the cases.
No idea why I double-spaced that post. I really do not consider a lot if people read or do not read. I post to get the thought out of me that must be out. Once it is out of me, it's life or death is it's own affair. We all have pet peeves... I'm a bit OCD about some things in RL so I understand why you had to post.
There is still a lot of money to be made. But they have made the "official" channels very painful in their lust for the last dime of profit.
For example, this morning during my 25 minute drive to work, one of the radio stations never had a song on. I kept switching to it because I like the style of music but never got a song. They wanted money so much that I ended up not listening to any adds for more than the 3 seconds to determine.. yup.. still no songs. If I could count on 30 seconds of ads and then another good song- I might actually stay through the ad. but once the ads start, I know it will be a few minutes so I skip on over to other radio stations.
Same thing for TV. We've gone from 8 minutes of ads to 20 minutes (some times 22 minutes) of ads per hour. And we can skip the ads by touching a button. They have to be insane to think we are watching the ads. Sell fewer ads for more money. Have shorter ad blocks so we won't leave.
The music industry has a great potential for a lot of people to make six figure salaries. But that's not good enough for them. So they keep pushing until it becomes so unpleasant that we go elsewhere.
I can easily spend an evening on YouTube or watching DVD's (Mission impossible season 2 for christmas so another 20 hours there without commercials).
If they are the most expensive entertainment possibility, they are the most likely to be cut.
I'm not sure why you think it makes him look bad (much less like an idiot).
He has a consistent set of principles and has voted by them for two decades. I know that as new and unexpected issues come up, he would apply those principles and I like his principles (you may not).
I do not agree with all his positions- but unlike all the other major candidates, I know that he isn't just saying what polls tell him to say with no intention of follow through once in office.
I really can't tell what most of the major candidates stand for- even mccain had that horrible series of flip flops over the last couple years.
Come on man-- you sound like you went off your meds.
In fact, the guys on the local conservative talk show (KSEV 700) are starting to sound like this.
I'm pretty sure Ron isn't electable but for some reason he seems to terrify the local hosts. The become completely irrational when he comes up. As you are sounding.
Clearly Ron Paul is for smaller government and his ability to implement that will be greatly reduced by a resistant congress and senate. Once he was in the seat of power, he would behave with appropriate responsibility as he did when he was elected to other offices.
He's the only person who would genuinely slow the growth of the federal government. Notice I did NOT say he would stop it. One man- even president, isn't powerful enough to do that.
Ironically-- it is. They were bought but the real reason is just about every RL friend of mine plays the game and i was playing for two years before the problem (started in 1999 when it was Verant).
It bothers me a few times a year. But since it would cause me to lose contact with so many RL friends I decided it would be cutting my nose off to spite my face. I did ride down from 5 accounts back then to just two now. Still... I must admit a bit of gray.
Voting against using the federal government for some activity does not mean you are opposed to the activity.
Ron Paul is against the *FEDERAL* government doing just about anything. Unlike all the other candidates he consistently states his principles and votes them.
Ron Paul is for *your* right to spend *your* money to support any activity you want.
Ron Paul is *against* taking *your* money and spending it on things you do not support.
I believe in the right to abortion- Paul is opposed to it personally but also philosophically is opposed to the federal government getting involved with the issue at all. That and MANY other issues are state and local issues.
Ron Paul is for your freedom to live your own life, take your own risks, and support your own causes. He's against making the federal government a powerful tool to use against you.
Wow-- I wasn't even thinking along those lines. Bonus points for you.
There are certain sexual practices that will generally destroy a marriage (usually involving extra-marital activity portrayed as "fun and exciting" in the movies and of course in porn). When some people learn of these-- they can't let go of them and inevitably eventually do them and in 99% of the cases the result is chaos and destruction. A couple that would have been happy destroyed by something they saw on Nip/Tuck or in a hollywood movie.
I'm talking about things way beyond adultery-- as far beyond as college is beyond elementary.
Now some people thrive on all that dark knowledge-- others thrive for a while and then commit suicide when they realize what they lost.
There is a big difference between sexual satisfaction and emotional bliss. Most people I've known that did the racy stuff had a lot of hot sex and lost their capacity for bliss in the process.
I had to wait about 8 months for mine. I finally walked into a Walmart in October and there was a stack- I bought one for $250 with no bundle (and grr- next day at fry's they had a great $350 bundle).
Nintendo, the console analysts, Sony, Microsoft-- everyone underestimated how much demand there would be. Nintendo buys components so they can't ramp up quickly. Likewise, if they were somehow able to produce 10 million wii's a month, the second demand was filled, they would be left with millions of unbought units hanging over from the last production run. I (and I'm sure they) expected that to happen last summer. When units started staying on the shelves in october, I thought it was all over (If I had known better, I would have bought all three units there and saved them to resell on ebay).
For what it is worth, the Best Wii games won't even be out until next year. The developers were also caught off guard and so a lot of the early games are ports or crap.
I agree. I left out a couple words (maximize short-term profits) but cost a lot of good will (and ruin long term profits).
My basic point was also that there were numerous articles saying that nintendo is selling wii's at a profit.
The wii would have never caught on fire at $500 a unit. It was the $250 price that started the fire (and then when a lot of folks have them, others want them because they are cool).
The left wants to intrude in our lives just as much as the right. Just in different ways.
There is no freedom under the extreme left or the extreme right.
We need to get the country back to the extreme middle.
The conservatives are blinded by the abortion issue (and sort of by the gay marriage issue) and do not see the rest of the republican parties values are antithetical to christian values.
As an FYI-- I'm not the only quasi-liberal who feels that way on abortion. On my way to a vacation last year, I sat next to an extremely liberal labor lawyer and he said labor is getting killed (and has been for the last couple decades) because of the people put in power over the abortion issue. The american right to strike has essentially been eliminated. Many striking activities have been made illegal in ways that undercut striking activites (such as it is apparently now illegal to strike against all "bread" companies or against "bread" company suppliers so your strike is so limited that business just routes around you). He said the best thing that could happen for labor would be to lose on the abortion issue. He felt a lot of conservative blue-collar types would swing hard left economically at that point-- abortion was making them forgo their own economic gain because it was so important to them.
Between 2001 and 2007 I spent an average of $6000 a year on electronics including two big screen TV's and one regular TV given as a gift, three video cameras, four digital cameras, five mp3 players, six computers (I multi-box mmorgs), a large number of movies & television series (the sony one's I wanted, I waited and bought used for $5 instead of new for $19 to $50 dollars), two DVD recorders, and two or three VHS recorders. Previously a lot of that would have been sony products. I had a sony video camera, sony vcr, sony walkman, I think I had a panasonic TV. etc. going in to 2000.
I was also able to sway the digital projector decision at my work away from Sony projectors at the tune of about $12,250.
This all came from one rude customer service call over $50ish product. The customer service person was an ignorant idiot with no computer knowledge (basically a script head) and refused to accept the problem was with their product and their arrogant attitude and offer a refund or a fix and finally got rude and insulting. It might not have been a problem but we got the supervisor on the line and instead of being a good "this customer is pissed off and needs to be mollified" THEY got in my face as well. They were both very proud of sony products and probably shouldn't have been in customer service.
Sony is the only company of any significant size that ever pissed me off. Tho a minor electronics store did once. I bought a DVD drive. It was broken. I went to swap it and they said I had to have the original paper invoice- even tho they KNEW me and I had bought easily $1500 in computer parts from them. I told them I would never shop there again-- they had a stack of DVD drives behind the counter and could have swapped easily.
I'm not a hothead and I hold very few grudges but at this point, it would take a sony manager coming to my house and personally apologizing to get my teeth out of their neck.
Existing solar panels are typically 70 to 80% power after that time period and slowly drop in output. Some over 30 years old are still producing power. The usual death is from water infiltration.
Not true since the coal you will buy in 8 years will be be about twice as expensive purely from inflation. And the coal you buy in 16 years will be three times as expensive.
It is like a house payment.
You pay $1000 now-- and $143k in interest. Or you rent for $700 now-- and no interest. But after 8 years, the rent is up to $1400 for the same place... and after 16 years, the rent is up to $2100.
Now - wages did the same thing-- you were making $3000 a month at the start-- and $9000 a month at the end-- and it had roughly the same purchasing power.
So after 20 years, if you still own the same house, your payments could be covered by turning in bottles for deposits.
Nanosolar is very significang. However it has the same problem as Wii's.
If the market demand is high-- it will never sell for $1/watt. Scalpers will simply buy it at $1/watt and then resell it for $3/watt. Prices only drop when supply exceeds demand.
It's not dumping. It's well known that Nintendo makes a profit on every Wii sold at the MSRP.
Raw capitalism yes-- but not friendly capitalism. Raw capitalism will maximize profits but might cost nintendo a lot of good will.
For example- Sony pissed me off in 2001 and I have not bought another product from them since. So their short term gain resulted in probably $20,000 to $30,000 in lost sales.
Nintendo has been managing their market for a looooong time.
I agree with you. I think it is almost certain that some cops, psychologists, prosecutors, jury members, and judges have been corrupted. Not ten's of thousands. That's hyperboly.
The saps at the big box computer store saw the stuff. If they were vulnerable (like some folks are vulnerable to gambling.. to drugs.. to alchohol.. hell to EQ and Suduko) then you may see one of them in jail in a few years.
You can't unknow something once you know it. Pictures-- movies-- books-- introduce ideas to people who may have never thought them otherwise.
I agree with a lot of what you say but I must warn you that I've lied in every exit poll I ever participated in for philosophical reasons.
It's tricky to make the data public. We are trying to balance between a secret ballot and voting fraud. Database analysis makes it increasingly easy to tell exactly how people voted (esp in smaller districts) which puts people under pressure.
I do not think it is a powerful conservative group. It is a powerful wealthy and corporate group. The conservative is just a sham used to rope in 10-15% of voters. Very little was actually done for conservatives during the last 7 years compared to the amount that was done for corporations and the wealthy. While the justices put on the court were anti-abortion, their pro-business/pro-corporate/pro-wealthy leanings were much more significant.
I feel the best thing that could happen for the left would be to lose on abortion. That would take the wind out of the conservative sails for a generation and likely massively activate the left's base.
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Once you reach a point you are going to drop the film; post a copy of the data for download by whoever wants it.
You are the only person who can sell it; but lots of people will keep your data for you for free. And even offer it up for others to save for you as well.
The lost profits are probably less than the cost of archiving the material in 95% of the cases.
My post is not a poem
I say what I think and so I'm
going to post today
And post again another day.
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No idea why I double-spaced that post. I really do not consider a lot if people read or do not read. I post to get the thought out of me that must be out. Once it is out of me, it's life or death is it's own affair.
We all have pet peeves... I'm a bit OCD about some things in RL so I understand why you had to post.
Happy Holidays BLhack!
There is still a lot of money to be made.
But they have made the "official" channels very painful in their lust for the last dime of profit.
For example, this morning during my 25 minute drive to work, one of the radio stations never had a song on. I kept switching to it because I like the style of music but never got a song. They wanted money so much that I ended up not listening to any adds for more than the 3 seconds to determine.. yup.. still no songs. If I could count on 30 seconds of ads and then another good song- I might actually stay through the ad. but once the ads start, I know it will be a few minutes so I skip on over to other radio stations.
Same thing for TV. We've gone from 8 minutes of ads to 20 minutes (some times 22 minutes) of ads per hour. And we can skip the ads by touching a button. They have to be insane to think we are watching the ads. Sell fewer ads for more money. Have shorter ad blocks so we won't leave.
The music industry has a great potential for a lot of people to make six figure salaries. But that's not good enough for them. So they keep pushing until it becomes so unpleasant that we go elsewhere.
I can easily spend an evening on YouTube or watching DVD's (Mission impossible season 2 for christmas so another 20 hours there without commercials).
If they are the most expensive entertainment possibility, they are the most likely to be cut.
The music industry and other industries used to pay well for sales people that knew the business.
Then they decided that knowledge was not valuable and they could push music through mass market without any sales assitance.
That worked for a while-- but eventually, a new crop of potential customers comes along and you have no contact with them.
It's true of many industries. They decided they only want "top level" people and don't way to pay to train people up any more.
They would use untrained labor or outsourced labor for the low level positions.
Mistake.
Your quote really casts Ron Paul in a good light.
I'm not sure why you think it makes him look bad (much less like an idiot).
He has a consistent set of principles and has voted by them for two decades.
I know that as new and unexpected issues come up, he would apply those principles and I like his principles (you may not).
I do not agree with all his positions- but unlike all the other major candidates, I know that he isn't just saying what polls tell him to say with no intention of follow through once in office.
I really can't tell what most of the major candidates stand for- even mccain had that horrible series of flip flops over the last couple years.
Come on man-- you sound like you went off your meds.
In fact, the guys on the local conservative talk show (KSEV 700) are starting to sound like this.
I'm pretty sure Ron isn't electable but for some reason he seems to terrify the local hosts. The become completely irrational when he comes up. As you are sounding.
Clearly Ron Paul is for smaller government and his ability to implement that will be greatly reduced by a resistant congress and senate. Once he was in the seat of power, he would behave with appropriate responsibility as he did when he was elected to other offices.
He's the only person who would genuinely slow the growth of the federal government. Notice I did NOT say he would stop it. One man- even president, isn't powerful enough to do that.
Ironically-- it is. They were bought but the real reason is just about every RL friend of mine plays the game and i was playing for two years before the problem (started in 1999 when it was Verant).
It bothers me a few times a year. But since it would cause me to lose contact with so many RL friends I decided it would be cutting my nose off to spite my face. I did ride down from 5 accounts back then to just two now. Still... I must admit a bit of gray.
Mostly, I'd recommend read through the 350 comments already there.
There is a lot of good stuff on Paul's strengths and weaknesses.
One of the most telling points for me is that both liberal and conservative corporate owned media has been savaging him.
Your "Ron Paul" facts needs addressing.
Voting against using the federal government for some activity does not mean you are opposed to the activity.
Ron Paul is against the *FEDERAL* government doing just about anything. Unlike all the other candidates he consistently states his principles and votes them.
Ron Paul is for *your* right to spend *your* money to support any activity you want.
Ron Paul is *against* taking *your* money and spending it on things you do not support.
I believe in the right to abortion- Paul is opposed to it personally but also philosophically is opposed to the federal government getting involved with the issue at all. That and MANY other issues are state and local issues.
Ron Paul is for your freedom to live your own life, take your own risks, and support your own causes. He's against making the federal government a powerful tool to use against you.
Oh sure.
but it's my money. I don't have to make nice to them. There are plenty of competing products.
However, given the root kits and other issues since then, my decision may have been a lucky one.
Wow-- I wasn't even thinking along those lines. Bonus points for you.
There are certain sexual practices that will generally destroy a marriage (usually involving extra-marital activity portrayed as "fun and exciting" in the movies and of course in porn). When some people learn of these-- they can't let go of them and inevitably eventually do them and in 99% of the cases the result is chaos and destruction. A couple that would have been happy destroyed by something they saw on Nip/Tuck or in a hollywood movie.
I'm talking about things way beyond adultery-- as far beyond as college is beyond elementary.
Now some people thrive on all that dark knowledge-- others thrive for a while and then commit suicide when they realize what they lost.
There is a big difference between sexual satisfaction and emotional bliss. Most people I've known that did the racy stuff had a lot of hot sex and lost their capacity for bliss in the process.
I'm sorry Dark.
I had to wait about 8 months for mine. I finally walked into a Walmart in October and there was a stack- I bought one for $250 with no bundle (and grr- next day at fry's they had a great $350 bundle).
Nintendo, the console analysts, Sony, Microsoft-- everyone underestimated how much demand there would be. Nintendo buys components so they can't ramp up quickly. Likewise, if they were somehow able to produce 10 million wii's a month, the second demand was filled, they would be left with millions of unbought units hanging over from the last production run. I (and I'm sure they) expected that to happen last summer. When units started staying on the shelves in october, I thought it was all over (If I had known better, I would have bought all three units there and saved them to resell on ebay).
For what it is worth, the Best Wii games won't even be out until next year. The developers were also caught off guard and so a lot of the early games are ports or crap.
I agree. I left out a couple words (maximize short-term profits) but cost a lot of good will (and ruin long term profits).
My basic point was also that there were numerous articles saying that nintendo is selling wii's at a profit.
The wii would have never caught on fire at $500 a unit. It was the $250 price that started the fire (and then when a lot of folks have them, others want them because they are cool).
The left wants to intrude in our lives just as much as the right. Just in different ways.
There is no freedom under the extreme left or the extreme right.
We need to get the country back to the extreme middle.
The conservatives are blinded by the abortion issue (and sort of by the gay marriage issue) and do not see the rest of the republican parties values are antithetical to christian values.
As an FYI-- I'm not the only quasi-liberal who feels that way on abortion. On my way to a vacation last year, I sat next to an extremely liberal labor lawyer and he said labor is getting killed (and has been for the last couple decades) because of the people put in power over the abortion issue. The american right to strike has essentially been eliminated. Many striking activities have been made illegal in ways that undercut striking activites (such as it is apparently now illegal to strike against all "bread" companies or against "bread" company suppliers so your strike is so limited that business just routes around you). He said the best thing that could happen for labor would be to lose on the abortion issue. He felt a lot of conservative blue-collar types would swing hard left economically at that point-- abortion was making them forgo their own economic gain because it was so important to them.
Between 2001 and 2007 I spent an average of $6000 a year on electronics including two big screen TV's and one regular TV given as a gift, three video cameras, four digital cameras, five mp3 players, six computers (I multi-box mmorgs), a large number of movies & television series (the sony one's I wanted, I waited and bought used for $5 instead of new for $19 to $50 dollars), two DVD recorders, and two or three VHS recorders. Previously a lot of that would have been sony products. I had a sony video camera, sony vcr, sony walkman, I think I had a panasonic TV. etc. going in to 2000.
I was also able to sway the digital projector decision at my work away from Sony projectors at the tune of about $12,250.
This all came from one rude customer service call over $50ish product. The customer service person was an ignorant idiot with no computer knowledge (basically a script head) and refused to accept the problem was with their product and their arrogant attitude and offer a refund or a fix and finally got rude and insulting. It might not have been a problem but we got the supervisor on the line and instead of being a good "this customer is pissed off and needs to be mollified" THEY got in my face as well. They were both very proud of sony products and probably shouldn't have been in customer service.
Sony is the only company of any significant size that ever pissed me off. Tho a minor electronics store did once. I bought a DVD drive. It was broken. I went to swap it and they said I had to have the original paper invoice- even tho they KNEW me and I had bought easily $1500 in computer parts from them. I told them I would never shop there again-- they had a stack of DVD drives behind the counter and could have swapped easily.
I'm not a hothead and I hold very few grudges but at this point, it would take a sony manager coming to my house and personally apologizing to get my teeth out of their neck.
That is if you score one of the very limited state grants that covers 60% to 80% of the cost of your system.
Otherwise, a decent system runs about $45k.
Nanosolar allows the potential for $15k systems without any subsidies.
What is needed is 3 billion less people.
So long as we keep adding people, conservation must increase until it is onerous and limiting of freedom.
Nanosolar is unknown.
Existing solar panels are typically 70 to 80% power after that time period and slowly drop in output. Some over 30 years old are still producing power. The usual death is from water infiltration.
The panel installation and shipping is actually a major benefit for nanosolar too.
They are about 1/50th the weight and should be much less to install and ship.
Not true since the coal you will buy in 8 years will be be about twice as expensive purely from inflation. And the coal you buy in 16 years will be three times as expensive.
It is like a house payment.
You pay $1000 now-- and $143k in interest.
Or you rent for $700 now-- and no interest. But after 8 years, the rent is up to $1400 for the same place... and after 16 years, the rent is up to $2100.
Now - wages did the same thing-- you were making $3000 a month at the start-- and $9000 a month at the end-- and it had roughly the same purchasing power.
So after 20 years, if you still own the same house, your payments could be covered by turning in bottles for deposits.
Nanosolar is very significang. However it has the same problem as Wii's.
If the market demand is high-- it will never sell for $1/watt. Scalpers will simply buy it at $1/watt and then resell it for $3/watt.
Prices only drop when supply exceeds demand.
It's not dumping. It's well known that Nintendo makes a profit on every Wii sold at the MSRP.
Raw capitalism yes-- but not friendly capitalism. Raw capitalism will maximize profits but might cost nintendo a lot of good will.
For example- Sony pissed me off in 2001 and I have not bought another product from them since. So their short term gain resulted in probably $20,000 to $30,000 in lost sales.
Nintendo has been managing their market for a looooong time.
A better way to put it is, hookers are "illegal" in Las Vegas.
You can't walk two feet without some poor guy flipping cards with hot girls numbers who will come to your hotel room for a private show.
I'm not.
I agree with you. I think it is almost certain that some cops, psychologists, prosecutors, jury members, and judges have been corrupted. Not ten's of thousands. That's hyperboly.
The saps at the big box computer store saw the stuff. If they were vulnerable (like some folks are vulnerable to gambling.. to drugs.. to alchohol.. hell to EQ and Suduko) then you may see one of them in jail in a few years.
You can't unknow something once you know it. Pictures-- movies-- books-- introduce ideas to people who may have never thought them otherwise.
I agree with a lot of what you say but I must warn you that I've lied in every exit poll I ever participated in for philosophical reasons.
It's tricky to make the data public. We are trying to balance between a secret ballot and voting fraud. Database analysis makes it increasingly easy to tell exactly how people voted (esp in smaller districts) which puts people under pressure.
I do not think it is a powerful conservative group. It is a powerful wealthy and corporate group. The conservative is just a sham used to rope in 10-15% of voters. Very little was actually done for conservatives during the last 7 years compared to the amount that was done for corporations and the wealthy. While the justices put on the court were anti-abortion, their pro-business/pro-corporate/pro-wealthy leanings were much more significant.
I feel the best thing that could happen for the left would be to lose on abortion. That would take the wind out of the conservative sails for a generation and likely massively activate the left's base.
Somewhat true.
Until you know something exists, you are not affected by it.
While the truth is good in many circumstances, ignorance is truly bliss in others.
Innocence is purity. Once corrupted, you can't be innocent again.