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What wracked out rag did you read ?

Damn you gullible,, ,Over and over.
Please just stop being fooled..

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There are a lot of parallels between advertising and copyright. Buy wholeheartedly in to either, and you end up sort of failing to accept the reality of their flaws.

Advertisers think they have a big problem whenever someone circumvents their ads. They panicked when VCRs came around and allowed people to record shows and fast-forward through ads. They panicked when DVRs came out and let people digitally skip through ads. And they are panicking now, with more and more people getting fed up and putting ad-blocking software on their computers or devices.

Copyright holders think they have a big problem when someone tries to circumvent their system, too. They worried about libraries giving people free access to books; but at least a physical book is pretty much limited to one person at a time. They freaked out about cassette tapes being easily copied with a dual cassette deck. They freaked out about people sharing MP3 music over the internet. They freaked out when DVDs came out with CSS protection which was circumvented almost immediately. They continue to freak out by pushing for ever more and more drastic DRM schemes, that are generally circumvented quite rapidly.

The general theme in both advertising and copyright is escalation; a sort of arms race. The problem is that that solution doesn't actually improve things for anyone, in either case. Ads get more and more offensive and annoying, more and more people block/skip them. Copyright gets more and more locked-down, more and more people circumvent it. In both cases, as the "legitimate" side squeezes harder, it ends up making the user experience better for those who circumvent it "illegitimately". See, for example, this good old comic from The Oatmeal:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

The web with adblock software is a massively better experience than the web without it. A pirated 1080p movie or TV show lets you skip the previews/commercials that are often unskippable on a DVD. And on and on.

This arms race doesn't have a good future. Creators and distributors must start wracking their brains to come up with whole new ideas, or at least variants of the old ones, that break that cycle and ensure that "illegitimate" users/viewers don't have a better experience than legitimate ones. I'm sure not holding my breath though.

Oh yeah, Trump takes spin and bullshit to a whole other level. In a very bad way.

I guess I'm just rather annoyed/angry with both parties at this point, and I think they both deserve plenty of the blame for the state of things.

The Republican congressman that had the quote about wracking his brain trying to come up with anything positive that his party has done in his 8 years in office (as opposed to stopping things from getting done) is a bit of soul-searching that ALL of our elected officials should be doing ALL THE TIME. I guess I'm just worried that our more-divisive-than-ever party affiliations and the lack of term limits end up preventing many in government from having to wrestle with that.

Looking forward to Follow It. I love the soundtrack by Disasterpeace. He did the soundtrack for the game Fez. Love that lowfi shit. And I love me some creepy ass horror with chilling moments made possible by a nerve wracking pace. You're right that It Follows... follows you into your dreams. Like Freddy.

But... I'm not sure it was my favorite film, nor my favorite horror film of 2015. I really enjoyed the horror comedy Scout's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse -- it had zombie boobies, zombie kitten paws under doorways; the entire theater exploded in various combinations of delight and disgust on multiple occasions, like monstrous audience-gasms. And it had a gorefest ending with scout crafted zombie killing machines reminiscent of the lawnmower scene in Peter Jackson's Braindead.

It is also my opinion that it was a more effective comedy than Kingsman. Scout's Guide had the audience roaring, which is such a great moment to experience in a theater. Laughter and screams? Top theater experience of the year. Better reactions than Star Wars even.

I don't know what I think about David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) or Chrisopher Landon (Scout's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse) as directors. Each have created a single horror gem reminiscent of 1970/80s horror but for different reasons. I hope they keep making movies like these.

Considering the last time I saw Mr. Gates at a product demo, the "uncrashable" system that crashed, I would think this would be somewhat nerve wracking for him...

I think she was an ordinary member of the public, by her own words a "very shy person", who was made to look an incompetent fool in front of the worlds media, put in a position where she quite reasonably felt she had embarrassed the royal family, her employers and damaged the reputation of the hospital.

It sounds like the royals and hospital managers were understanding that it wasnt her fault but that probably came as no comfort in the night hours when she was wracked by guilt and shame.

When someone suicides its often difficult to see their problems as serious enough to die over but for the person in the middle of that turmoil thats the only way out.

While I dont think they bear any criminal responsibility for her death at the very least they shouldnt have done a prank like this for fear of getting some nurses fired.

Had to drive a loader onto a raised flatbed once, with each wheel hanging over about three inches on each side. That was pretty nerve-wracking.

>> ^Crooksandliars:

Leading demands for a revised strategy, French Socialist Francois Hollande, a reader of Krugman, tops President Nicolas Sarkozy in the polls with the warning that putting debt-cutting over expansion is “bringing desperation to people.” Elsewhere, Greeks are turning to anti-austerity parties, recession-wracked Spain and Italy are relaxing deficit targets, the Dutch government is splintering and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi is calling for a “growth compact.”
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This attitude strikes me as totally bogus. We think the European voters are voting on macro-economic policy? They're throwing out governments because they're unhappy, and they're installing people who promise them higher spending because they like having the government that spends money on them. Italy and Spain aren't revising their deficit targets because of some new found economic enlightenment, they simply lack the willpower or competence to live within their means.

Maybe stimulative policies are better than austerity. I'm not an economist, so I don't know. What I do know is that voters and politicians haven't stopped being short-sighted.

What I hope Ridley realizes is that the uniqueness of the original was it's silence. Those moments where the crew were just hanging out in character, or searching around the ship for a cat, or hiding in cold quiet fear, with nothing but maybe the slight hum of the ship. It was nerve wrackingly silent at times and made you squirm.

Besides for the cheesy Burning Man footage this is a really great doc on psychs. A lot of docs keep true with mystical experience but the way Ann describes it is in reality the way it is and a reason they are useful experiences not to be taken lightly. The whole part where she says one must face he/her inner shadows/monster and learn to accept them by working through them. A good psychedelic experience can be like a birth, a death - the happiest or the most distraught.

The first few times I took a psychedelic it was a little nerve-wracking because I wasn't sure what I might see in myself. I think many people are afraid of taking psychedelics because of that unknown factor. For me the tranquility in what I would call ego-death is what made me embrace some form of spirituality. Before taking psychedelics - "spirituality" was a four letter word that made me cringe.

The amount of ignorance and deception out there about psychs is staggering.

>> ^Jinx:

I remember when somebody close came out to me. He was shaking pretty bad. Way he was acting I thought he was admitting murder or something, he was that terrified I'd reject him or that our relationship would change. I couldn't really understand why he got so worked up at the time. To me homosexuality was a complete non-issue. Then you see the hate that sometimes gets directed at homosexuality and you begin to understand why its an issue for them, why it might be a nerve wracking experience coming out even to people you know will probably be supportive.


exact same thing with my friend, he was shocked that it was a non-issue for me

I remember when somebody close came out to me. He was shaking pretty bad. Way he was acting I thought he was admitting murder or something, he was that terrified I'd reject him or that our relationship would change. I couldn't really understand why he got so worked up at the time. To me homosexuality was a complete non-issue. Then you see the hate that sometimes gets directed at homosexuality and you begin to understand why its an issue for them, why it might be a nerve wracking experience coming out even to people you know will probably be supportive.