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  1. Re:Monetize on The Fall of Traditional Entertainment Conglomerates · · Score: 1

    I'd pay for rights to cut up the movie as a My/i Edit kind of thing. You take the existing movie, pay your fee, then if you really don't like that stupid bit in Transformers 2, cut it out. Then post your version for the usual Facebook Likes gig.

    Studios are doing awesome on the production overall, and Rotten Tomatoes keeps reporting that the guys in the Script Meetings are crushing things.

    What about studios doing Custom Clips that don't belong in any single episode but you need on hand as a stock? A George Hammond Glare or something. a Jack O'Neill Frown when he doesn't like where things are going. I'd pay a buck for 10 seconds each of those or such.

  2. Re:Drink on The Fall of Traditional Entertainment Conglomerates · · Score: 1

    If you don't have a glass you take a piece of printer paper and make an oragami cup.

  3. Re:Steinway on The Fall of Traditional Entertainment Conglomerates · · Score: 1

    No, someone needs to dig up Alexander Bui. Get Lin Yu Chun and Jackie Evancho for soundtrack backed by FunTwo of Electric Pachelbel fame.

  4. Re:Summaries Changing Drastically on Why Eric Schmidt Left As CEO of Google? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait, so we can't change our posts but they can change the summaries!
    YRO!

  5. Re:It's like you can't browse the internet anymore on Norwegian Police, Seeking Info On 2 Bloggers, Take Data From 7,000 Accounts · · Score: 1

    That's what my sig means. It's a nice little garden. But do NOT touch the link of knowledge of good and evil! If you do that you will be TOS'ed out of the cozy little garden.

  6. Re:My grandmother is one of them... on 60% of AOL's Profits Come From Misinformed Customers · · Score: 2

    However, I'll submit you combine BOTH boonies AND their email history dating back to Meg Ryan's insomnia in Seattle, they may not have the energy to first export all their email and then change to another dial up service and then reimport their email to somewhere.

  7. Re:Instead... on America Losing Its Edge In Innovation · · Score: 1

    Theology is like a weird Non-Euclidian Axiom that morphs everything around it.

  8. Re:being a leader is a pain on America Losing Its Edge In Innovation · · Score: 1

    Borrowing a Dr. Who analogy,

    ConcernedVoter asks *President*: "If I were to ask your chief of staff how he would implement the policy, what would he say?"

    I'll leave it to my betters to Wiki link the principle - let's call it something like Truth (Boolean-OR) Evil in either slot means the evil wins even if the President is good. (And I know I screwed up the logic too. I tried.)

    So yes - Americans are hooked on the "excitement" of something new. So even when the good engineer gets there first, our Lust For Novelty will urge us to take him down. But the Evil guy is better at putting protective lock-ins around him, so we get stuck with Evil.

  9. Re:What's missing from this article? on America Losing Its Edge In Innovation · · Score: 1

    (Humor)
    I listened to your argument for longer than 5 seconds. Your last line of the first paragraph doesn't have a main clause. Therefore you forgot to recommend something.
    (/Humor)

  10. Re:The Nation speaks on America Losing Its Edge In Innovation · · Score: 1

    "Ssh. You're thinking again.

    Go lie down and have your nightcap. And here's a nice episode of Colbert that you missed when you were out doing brainy stuff. "

  11. Re:Gone are the days of sanity... on America Losing Its Edge In Innovation · · Score: 1

    "If your facts don't agree with me, you're against me! You wouldn't like being against me." Right Wing Hulk.

  12. Re:special on RIAA Threatens ICANN Over Music-Themed gTLD Standards · · Score: 1

    Divide and Conquer.

  13. Re:You're all missing the real story here on Euler's Partition Function Theory Finished · · Score: 0

    That's why she's hot.

  14. Obvious on Compromised Government and Military Sites For Sale · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wikileaks.mil!

  15. Re:Blekko on Google Fires Back About Search Engine Spam · · Score: 1

    You're right. Blekko is neat.

    Google Advanced Search is #1 on Blekko for term Advanced.

  16. Re: too helpful? on Google Fires Back About Search Engine Spam · · Score: 2

    What about an "Elite" search engine? "Made by geeks/nerds for geeks/nerds."
    (I lost track of the political correctness, pick either or your own.)

    The guy who wants drivers, the guy who wants the KDE results, the guy who wants the scrotwm, my advanced search examples, on and on. We don't want to buy things. We're out to search for ruthless hard info.

    Google took a cute step with the "reading level". It sorta helps.

  17. Re:I call no-way on Google Fires Back About Search Engine Spam · · Score: 1

    Here's a data point.

    Try the simple word "Advanced".
    Purpose is to find the engine's Advanced Search, without cheating from hardlocked results.

    Advance Auto Parts is #1 on both Google and Yahoo, proudly claimed as an Ad/Sponsored. Then they get a bonus listing about #2 as well. Is it "fresh" or "spam" if it's a paid result?

    But here's TehAwesum:
    AltaVista Advanced Search is #6 and Yahoo Advanced Search is #10 on Google.
    (Google advanced search is #9 on Yahoo.)

    Your Move, Matt Cutts!

  18. Re:special on RIAA Threatens ICANN Over Music-Themed gTLD Standards · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone has gotta find a way to pit the RIAA against the TSA.

  19. Re:Stupid? on RIAA Threatens ICANN Over Music-Themed gTLD Standards · · Score: 1

    Yes, the RIAA treats music like an ATM machine.

  20. Re:Not Register Domain on RIAA Threatens ICANN Over Music-Themed gTLD Standards · · Score: 1

    How can you not register a domain name? Do you mean we'd have an army of sites which only exist as "26.54.25.142"? Wouldn't that be the grandpappy of all confusion?

    "Aw damn, I typed 26.54.25.143"

  21. Re:Of course they did on Verizon Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    I chip in a couple of my mod points to squashing the ultra-obvious non-fp trolls.

  22. Re:Mod on Verizon Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    With Great Mod Points comes Great Responsibility!

  23. Re:Anti-Trust on Verizon Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    That's a tricky suggestion. If you break up the monopolies, do we get any chances of "ISP-trolls" grabbing weird little chunks of backbone and operating like the patent trolls are now, by putting tolls everywhere?

    P.S. I glanced at your sig-article. The net def. makes people smarter. I'd call it an Ultra Flynn Effect. Any 7 related slashdot items plus the comments gets you past newbie on any subject.

  24. Re:Of course they did on Verizon Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    We seriously need a write-in mod field.
    Underrated = this is +1 Funny but in that heartbreaking way it shouldn't have to be.

  25. Re:Of course they did on Verizon Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Yes, I looked too, and it was a pretty hard slam on the passed version of the law.

    Car Analogy Time!

    Still, the answer to your question is that it is possible to both be upset that anything over Pi axles gets a tax, and be glad that they didn't outright ban anything with a diesel engine.

    I had forgotten that it was even possible to sue the government. It just has an odd feel to it. Why do citizens "just have to lump votes for change" while Corp$ can just sue to reverse a rule they don't like?