Are we going to see a resurgence in the DVD service?
Conceivably. The online service is simply too expensive to maintain and as it is right now, not sustainable into the future. Subscription fees will have to rise drastically, content will have to fall dramatically or possibly both. The assumption has been that subscriber growth would rise enough to offset this but that has been nowhere near to happening. Unless Netflix can get a copy of DVDFab and rip all of their DVD rental stuff online.
It sounds daft but Blockbuster's administrators might want to start dusting down the store fronts, or at least a decent postal service because unless something changes we're going right back to optical media...............
If the movie studios or television networks aren't willing to license their content to Netflix either because they don't want people to stop watching TV or because they want to sell ads through their own streaming platform, what choice does Netflix have at that point beyond only being able to provide older less popular TV shows and B movies that don't appear to most of their audience?
It's not that they don't want to license, it's just that from Netflix's point-of-view it's too expensive as their costs rise.
Their costs are simply too high and can't be covered unless they start drastically increasing monthly fees, and the only way people will pay that is if they drastically increase content, live TV, sports etc. The content costs are obviously a problem, but there's not much they can do about that, but their infrastructure costs are way too high and getting higher. Creating their own content is obviously a way to reduce long-term costs but a with lot of investment upfront. The trouble is, the reduced choice can't be made up with producing their own stuff, no matter how popular it is. They're also going to have a few bombs eventually as well, which they can ill-afford. If they'd applied the same logic to their infrastructure as their 'original content' they might have a chance.
Take a look at those 'falcon wing' doors. No sensible engineer thinks those are a good idea. They're a nightmare production problem and an even bigger nightmare maintenance headache. They are there for visual and 'wow' impact.
Instead of making us feel sick here why don't you go watch some Vegas demolition videos or disaster footage.
Making you feel sick? It is what it is I'm afraid and I wasn't responsible.
Buildings don't just have bits fall off or topple like cardboard boxes like they do in the Hollywood movies.
I'm not entirely sure what this is supposed to tell us.
Also you've already seen why this happened you just are not thinking clearly. Surely you've seen at least on TV if not anywhere else a smith heating up steel so it's soft enough to work? Hot structural steel cannot support the weight above so the whole thing collapses - simple as that.
There is a lot of steel in that building, most of which as on the lower floors was completely intact and had no reason to be destabilised. The whole bottom two thirds of the buildings were solid, intact structures. You're not going to stabilise anything above which will cause all of that to crumble from top to bottom. You'll get a dissipation of debris and energy.
The buildings collapsed exactly how you'd expect a building with strong center and shell supports would collapse, thus there's not much to explain there.
Nope, that is not how anyone who has even ever built a Lego or Meccano model would expect a structure to collapse.
Fuel heats cross-beams, steel loses half its strength at those temperatures and they bend in the center, one floor falls down to the next and cascades. The outer shell and inner shell hold it all together as its going down. Every single thing that happened to all three buildings and the field in PA is easily explained by physics, and doesn't need the conspiracy. Nothing that happened that day is "comforting," and insulting people doesn't help your case.
Bollocks. In a large building like that there is absolutely no reason for the floors below to be affected. Floors do not cascade on to one another either, which is where you do show your ignorance. When one floor collapses on to another it collapses on to the eighty or however many floors below bound together in one whole structure. Tall buildings have to be built that way, otherwise they would be dangerously unstable.
What would happen is you might possibly get a partial building collapse, but the energy and debris would dissipate outwards lessening as the collapse progressed. A full collapse? No chance. There is no reason for every floor right down to the basement to destabilise.
You're simply repeating the tripe of others I'm afraid and the pancake tripe has been pushed every time this comes up. There is absolutely no way this can happen because this is not the way buildings are built, otherwise they would be dangerous...... Another possibility is that the towers were incompetently and scandalously built. Is that possible? Yer, it is, but either way there is a scandal here.
Bush, Bin Laden and other suspects all know each other through a network of commercial interests. There is only so many ways you can slice and dice this. All the Saudi suspects now being looked at melted away.
Complete collapses? Nope. Especially of buildings of that size - which is why firefighters were comfortable going up. There is no reason for the floors below to be affected. A partial collapse is possible, a full one, not a chance.
There are two possibilities - either something nefarious caused those buildings to collapse, or they were built like the Towering Inferno and incredibly shoddily built, which is certainly possible. Either way, it's a scandal.
They ALWAYS collapse straight down. There is rarely any overengineered piece that can withstand forces this far outside its design paramenters, so when good chunk in middle collapses, ALL of it collapses straight down.
Nope, you haven't the faintest idea what you are talking about. The debris and energy would dissipate outwards, lessening as it progressed. The central core of the building is bound together as one solid whole, not as separate floors - rather sensibly. There is no reason whatsoever for the buildings to have become unstable from top to bottom. Partial collapse, possible. Full collapse? Absolutely not.
Holy crap. Look, I fucking hate George W. Bush, and the Saudis even more, but that "they let the Saudis leave the country" thing is just garbage. It simply isn't true.
I'm afraid it is true. The FBI's own report have clearly implicated the Saudis, yet the media has stayed silent. They all knew each other through a network of interests.
I have never bought the Pearl Harbor thing either. In fact, there's very little in your comment that I can take seriously.
The British certainly kept quiet about Pearly Harbor because they wanted the US in the war.
Why plant any passports? They would have known who was on the plane from the manifests. This is a classic example of why conspiracy theories don't hold up, because they require the conspirators to be masterminds and complete idiots simultaneously.
I'm afraid none of that addresses the suspicious way in which these buildings collapsed. That's why anti-conspiracy theorists are often even worse. They extrapolate their own ideas out of it so they can have a comfort blanket to hold on to and stop looking at what is in front of them.
The uncomfortable questions over this remain. It's a very unusual accident we've not seen before, probably for decades. I'm not surprised they're having trouble investigating this.
Musk is really pissing a lot of people of by just taking part in space exploration through his own company. Clearly that is something that hurts the feelings of a lot people. I guess it was their dream also.
Most people have bought iPhones who don't live in a reality distortion field and are not going to be impressed by any of this.
If you think people who've bought iPhones in the past are going to continue to buy them once they realise they can't connect a lot of their audio equipment to it, and get some seriously impractical headphones everyone can see apart from Apple, because they are Apple fanboys, then you're in for a shock. Apple already won't release figures sales figures for the opening weekend and the market is looking rather saturated. There isn't going to be too much more room for a very overpriced 'phone' developed by a company with a mental disease who is getting further and further away from practical reality.
Like all Elon Musk companies. They need to get rockets into space, regularly, before anything else - even before trying ones that they can land and reuse. The Hyperloop stuff is just an enormous distraction, and also impractical. While it would be lovely to have hyperloops going all over the world the massive amount of capital investment in the infrastructure renders it a pipe dream.
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Are we going to see a resurgence in the DVD service?
Conceivably. The online service is simply too expensive to maintain and as it is right now, not sustainable into the future. Subscription fees will have to rise drastically, content will have to fall dramatically or possibly both. The assumption has been that subscriber growth would rise enough to offset this but that has been nowhere near to happening. Unless Netflix can get a copy of DVDFab and rip all of their DVD rental stuff online.
It sounds daft but Blockbuster's administrators might want to start dusting down the store fronts, or at least a decent postal service because unless something changes we're going right back to optical media...............
If the movie studios or television networks aren't willing to license their content to Netflix either because they don't want people to stop watching TV or because they want to sell ads through their own streaming platform, what choice does Netflix have at that point beyond only being able to provide older less popular TV shows and B movies that don't appear to most of their audience?
It's not that they don't want to license, it's just that from Netflix's point-of-view it's too expensive as their costs rise.
Their costs are simply too high and can't be covered unless they start drastically increasing monthly fees, and the only way people will pay that is if they drastically increase content, live TV, sports etc. The content costs are obviously a problem, but there's not much they can do about that, but their infrastructure costs are way too high and getting higher. Creating their own content is obviously a way to reduce long-term costs but a with lot of investment upfront. The trouble is, the reduced choice can't be made up with producing their own stuff, no matter how popular it is. They're also going to have a few bombs eventually as well, which they can ill-afford. If they'd applied the same logic to their infrastructure as their 'original content' they might have a chance.
I don't see a way out of this.
Take a look at those 'falcon wing' doors. No sensible engineer thinks those are a good idea. They're a nightmare production problem and an even bigger nightmare maintenance headache. They are there for visual and 'wow' impact.
After such a short period of time and usage, I'm afraid it is statistically significant. Even more so.
Yep, that's about the level of intelligent debate you get on this.
Instead of making us feel sick here why don't you go watch some Vegas demolition videos or disaster footage.
Making you feel sick? It is what it is I'm afraid and I wasn't responsible.
Buildings don't just have bits fall off or topple like cardboard boxes like they do in the Hollywood movies.
I'm not entirely sure what this is supposed to tell us.
Also you've already seen why this happened you just are not thinking clearly. Surely you've seen at least on TV if not anywhere else a smith heating up steel so it's soft enough to work? Hot structural steel cannot support the weight above so the whole thing collapses - simple as that.
There is a lot of steel in that building, most of which as on the lower floors was completely intact and had no reason to be destabilised. The whole bottom two thirds of the buildings were solid, intact structures. You're not going to stabilise anything above which will cause all of that to crumble from top to bottom. You'll get a dissipation of debris and energy.
The buildings collapsed exactly how you'd expect a building with strong center and shell supports would collapse, thus there's not much to explain there.
Nope, that is not how anyone who has even ever built a Lego or Meccano model would expect a structure to collapse.
Fuel heats cross-beams, steel loses half its strength at those temperatures and they bend in the center, one floor falls down to the next and cascades. The outer shell and inner shell hold it all together as its going down. Every single thing that happened to all three buildings and the field in PA is easily explained by physics, and doesn't need the conspiracy. Nothing that happened that day is "comforting," and insulting people doesn't help your case.
Bollocks. In a large building like that there is absolutely no reason for the floors below to be affected. Floors do not cascade on to one another either, which is where you do show your ignorance. When one floor collapses on to another it collapses on to the eighty or however many floors below bound together in one whole structure. Tall buildings have to be built that way, otherwise they would be dangerously unstable.
What would happen is you might possibly get a partial building collapse, but the energy and debris would dissipate outwards lessening as the collapse progressed. A full collapse? No chance. There is no reason for every floor right down to the basement to destabilise.
You're simply repeating the tripe of others I'm afraid and the pancake tripe has been pushed every time this comes up. There is absolutely no way this can happen because this is not the way buildings are built, otherwise they would be dangerous...... Another possibility is that the towers were incompetently and scandalously built. Is that possible? Yer, it is, but either way there is a scandal here.
Bush, Bin Laden and other suspects all know each other through a network of commercial interests. There is only so many ways you can slice and dice this. All the Saudi suspects now being looked at melted away.
Complete collapses? Nope. Especially of buildings of that size - which is why firefighters were comfortable going up. There is no reason for the floors below to be affected. A partial collapse is possible, a full one, not a chance.
There are two possibilities - either something nefarious caused those buildings to collapse, or they were built like the Towering Inferno and incredibly shoddily built, which is certainly possible. Either way, it's a scandal.
They ALWAYS collapse straight down. There is rarely any overengineered piece that can withstand forces this far outside its design paramenters, so when good chunk in middle collapses, ALL of it collapses straight down.
Nope, you haven't the faintest idea what you are talking about. The debris and energy would dissipate outwards, lessening as it progressed. The central core of the building is bound together as one solid whole, not as separate floors - rather sensibly. There is no reason whatsoever for the buildings to have become unstable from top to bottom. Partial collapse, possible. Full collapse? Absolutely not.
It also meant, conveniently, insurance could be claimed in the event that the WTC buildings were lost. All of them.
I thought the planes flying into the buildings were a pretty good explanation for why they fell down.
Then you don't know much about buildings, which thankfully, most people don't.
Holy crap. Look, I fucking hate George W. Bush, and the Saudis even more, but that "they let the Saudis leave the country" thing is just garbage. It simply isn't true.
I'm afraid it is true. The FBI's own report have clearly implicated the Saudis, yet the media has stayed silent. They all knew each other through a network of interests.
I have never bought the Pearl Harbor thing either. In fact, there's very little in your comment that I can take seriously.
The British certainly kept quiet about Pearly Harbor because they wanted the US in the war.
Why plant any passports? They would have known who was on the plane from the manifests. This is a classic example of why conspiracy theories don't hold up, because they require the conspirators to be masterminds and complete idiots simultaneously.
I'm afraid none of that addresses the suspicious way in which these buildings collapsed. That's why anti-conspiracy theorists are often even worse. They extrapolate their own ideas out of it so they can have a comfort blanket to hold on to and stop looking at what is in front of them.
I think everyone at SpaceX does. Everything seems to be done at breakneck speed without much thought at this company.
Musk is really pissing a lot of people of by just taking part in space exploration through his own company. Clearly that is something that hurts the feelings of a lot people. I guess it was their dream also.
Yadda, yadda, yadda.......
Having read this, does anyone really think rockets are a sustainable way of getting regularly into space?
Again, AMOS-6 was not in any way owned by Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg begs to differ: https://gizmodo.com/mark-zucke...
As I’m here in Africa, I’m deeply disappointed to hear that SpaceX’s launch failure destroyed our satellite...
Most people have bought iPhones who don't live in a reality distortion field and are not going to be impressed by any of this.
If you think people who've bought iPhones in the past are going to continue to buy them once they realise they can't connect a lot of their audio equipment to it, and get some seriously impractical headphones everyone can see apart from Apple, because they are Apple fanboys, then you're in for a shock. Apple already won't release figures sales figures for the opening weekend and the market is looking rather saturated. There isn't going to be too much more room for a very overpriced 'phone' developed by a company with a mental disease who is getting further and further away from practical reality.
They're also the most stupid and impractical pieces of shit ever. You only need to look at those and you lose at least one of them.
Apple are nuts.
Yes, but there'll be no drivers............
Would the like a ride on a reused one? :-)
Like all Elon Musk companies. They need to get rockets into space, regularly, before anything else - even before trying ones that they can land and reuse. The Hyperloop stuff is just an enormous distraction, and also impractical. While it would be lovely to have hyperloops going all over the world the massive amount of capital investment in the infrastructure renders it a pipe dream.
Talking about missions to Mars would seem to be a little premature, no?