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Interesting Theory: Hollywood Won't Pay Residuals for Streaming Shows, Because That Would Require They Open the Books for the Ratings for Streaming, and That Would Let Out the Secret That Streaming's Ratings Are Low
Making this theory more plausible is the fact that stock prices, particularly for tech stocks, are based chiefly on speculative value -- how much you think you can sell the stock for later -- and barely at all on actual revenues the stocks yield through dividend payments to owners. For decades, tech companies have been valuated not upon their present market value but for their potential future value. This is based on the huge increases in value for the tech companies that ultimately made money-- FaceBook, Amazon, etc. No one ever seems to think about the hundreds of tech plays that were money-losing disasters, like PetsDotCom. And for some reason Wall Street has been treating legacy media companies as hot new tech companies with massive possible future growth. Now, I know stocks in media companies are not "tech stocks." Trouble is, Wall Street and investors don't seem to know that. They've been treating sad old yesterday's-news media companies as "tech" companies merely because part of their programming is offered through streaming, which feels "kinda techie" to these midwits. Ford cars have minicomputers in them. Is Ford a tech company too? Book publishers offer books for electronic download on ebooks like Kindle. Is Random House a tech company now? So with the values of companies, particularly the non-tech "tech companies" of the media dependent so heavily on speculated, imaginary value, rather than on verifiable deliverables such as dividend payments, it becomes even more crucial to hide any evidence that the speculated, phantasmal "value" of these companies isn't real. Ratings must he sealed in a Black Box so that the bubble of over-puffed imaginary value is never punctured by the sharp sting of hard numbers.
Comedian Andrew Schulz sent out five tweets, Friday, which dealt the most devastating blow to mainstream Hollywood. Schulz, best known for being funny as heck and not giving a crap, shared five different tweets regarding his thoughts on the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America strikes. He started by assessing the situation: "the real issue is that actors and writers want fair residual payments from [streaming services]," but to be able to develop a metric for a share of those residual payments, streaming services first have to release the data on how many folks are actually watching their shows. "My suspicion is that the streamers are refusing to share the viewership [numbers]'s NOT because they're being cheap BUT because no one is watching AND revealing extremely low viewership would kill the stock price," Schulz continued."If most of these streamers are losing money in an effort to gain market share the ONLY justification for their spending is their stock price being high." "So SAG and the WGA may have absolutely screwed themselves and their industry by fighting for key metrics on actual streaming viewership. If these companies don't have the number of viewers they suggest they do, then admitting this would tank their stock, and guarantee that thousands of writers and actors never get their chance in the ever-dimming spotlight. If streaming companies do have the views, then the additional money they'll have to fork out for actors would also mean a drastic cut-back on shows, Schulz argued. "If the actors and directors strike is successful by making the streamers release their real viewership... The strike will essentially force the streamers to hire less actors and directors. So they're striking themselves out of work," he concluded. And it is almost impossible to argue with his logic.
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Yo!
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 01:14 PM (StUJj)
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Hollywood accountants fudge the books, hide income, or outright lie about their finances?
Unpossible!
Unpossible!
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2023 01:14 PM (/BBNv)
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Nood duties performed
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 01:14 PM (StUJj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:16 PM (zZu0s)
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th!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2023 01:16 PM (Wnv9h)
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I, too, nooded. Belt and suspenders. It's the only way.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 25, 2023 01:16 PM (N3zMI)
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Faster please.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2023 01:16 PM (SJKxM)
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Yes they are hiding the numbers because they are bad
Posted by: steevy at July 25, 2023 01:16 PM (FQmDC)
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Hollywood games all the other numbers it deals with, and America really isn't accustomed to honest accounting anymore anyway. Why not just tell whatever lie suits everyone best?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:16 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: The_Hoser at July 25, 2023 01:16 PM (N66D6)
Posted by: Hedley Lamar at July 25, 2023 01:17 PM (Wnv9h)
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Hollyweird is a 100ft tall flaming pig shit pile.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2023 01:17 PM (SJKxM)
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Hollywood portrays executives as ruthless, greedy, amoral bastards who would kill you for a nickel because all Hollywood executives are ruthless, greedy, amoral bastards who would kill you for a nickel.
Hollywood portrays executives as ruthless, greedy, amoral bastards who would kill you for a nickel because all Hollywood executives are ruthless, greedy, amoral bastards who would kill you for a nickel.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 01:17 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: DaveA at July 25, 2023 01:18 PM (FhXTo)
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Dear SEC:
Posted by: Freddy from Lake Frederick at July 25, 2023 01:18 PM (WlIXW)
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Imagine costing yourself your livelihood by demanding to know how unpopular you are.
Ah, our social betters.
Ah, our social betters.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:18 PM (KbCG3)
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And the viewership metrics are easily tracked for streaming.
I'd also suggest streaming services also don't want to admit their woke content isn't selling, either.
I'd also suggest streaming services also don't want to admit their woke content isn't selling, either.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at July 25, 2023 01:18 PM (2YtOq)
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Hollyweird is a 100ft tall flaming pig shit pile.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2023 01:17 PM
100 feet?! I didn't know they stacked shit that high!
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2023 01:17 PM
100 feet?! I didn't know they stacked shit that high!
Posted by: Zombie Gunny Hartman at July 25, 2023 01:18 PM (Wnv9h)
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I think it's beyond "theory." There's not really any other reason. Sorta like the reverse of when MLB let the players strike, and the league tried to claim teams were registering losses every year.
We know we only exist because the public buys tickets to see YOU. Still, you're not allowed to know how much money we make/don't make.
We know we only exist because the public buys tickets to see YOU. Still, you're not allowed to know how much money we make/don't make.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:18 PM (uZ2BU)
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If the writer for such a horrible show as She-Hulk can get $396 in residuals for one episode...
Are we sure we want to see the metrics?
Are we sure we want to see the metrics?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2023 01:18 PM (8zqxZ)
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If only the executives could be held accountable (OK I really mean SUFFER) for all the million dollar sweetheart deals with leftwing sycophants like the Obama's and Harry and the slut...
Posted by: Iris at July 25, 2023 01:19 PM (NaH5I)
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Hollywood portrays executives as ruthless, greedy, amoral bastards who would kill you for a nickel because all Hollywood executives are ruthless, greedy, amoral bastards who would kill you for a nickel.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 01:17 PM (MoZTd)
Lots of CEOs are psychopaths, not just in Hollywood. But it's still a good point.
Hollywood portrays executives as ruthless, greedy, amoral bastards who would kill you for a nickel because all Hollywood executives are ruthless, greedy, amoral bastards who would kill you for a nickel.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 01:17 PM (MoZTd)
Lots of CEOs are psychopaths, not just in Hollywood. But it's still a good point.
Posted by: When you have no conscience anything is possible at July 25, 2023 01:19 PM (Nw1nV)
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"My suspicion is that the streamers are refusing to share the viewership [numbers]'s NOT because they're being cheap BUT because no one is watching AND revealing extremely low viewership would kill the stock price," Schulz continued."If most of these streamers are losing money in an effort to gain market share the ONLY justification for their spending is their stock price being high."
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This is not a hot take. This has been the assumption of a lot of people - including me - for a long time.
The way streaming residuals work right now is grossly unfair and extremely expensive for the streaming company, but also delightfully opaque. To pay residuals fairly - that is, to pay actors, writers, etc. based on viewership - would require disclosure of what's being viewed. Pick any standard you'd like - number of viewers, total minutes watched, etc. - but you have to disclose real data in order to do that.
It's that disclosure that I think they are trying to avoid because those numbers probably suck pretty generally, especially for most of the monstrously expensive original content. Investors might lose their credulity if those data come out.
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This is not a hot take. This has been the assumption of a lot of people - including me - for a long time.
The way streaming residuals work right now is grossly unfair and extremely expensive for the streaming company, but also delightfully opaque. To pay residuals fairly - that is, to pay actors, writers, etc. based on viewership - would require disclosure of what's being viewed. Pick any standard you'd like - number of viewers, total minutes watched, etc. - but you have to disclose real data in order to do that.
It's that disclosure that I think they are trying to avoid because those numbers probably suck pretty generally, especially for most of the monstrously expensive original content. Investors might lose their credulity if those data come out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:19 PM (B2vkr)
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100 feet?! I didn't know they stacked shit that high!
Posted by: Zombie Gunny Hartman at July 25, 2023 01:18 PM (Wnv9h)
How tall is Brittney Griner again?
Posted by: Zombie Gunny Hartman at July 25, 2023 01:18 PM (Wnv9h)
How tall is Brittney Griner again?
Posted by: The_Hoser at July 25, 2023 01:19 PM (N66D6)
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I've been assuming this for a while.
There's a quote from Damon Lindeloff where he was talking about being in the writer's room for his show. He and his writers played a game where they would name a show and the star, and they had to guess if it was real or not.
The joke was that they were all real, but no one had heard of them. Professionals in television having no idea shows existed, and the shows were in their 3rd or 4th seasons.
There's a quote from Damon Lindeloff where he was talking about being in the writer's room for his show. He and his writers played a game where they would name a show and the star, and they had to guess if it was real or not.
The joke was that they were all real, but no one had heard of them. Professionals in television having no idea shows existed, and the shows were in their 3rd or 4th seasons.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:19 PM (LvTSG)
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This rings true. Netflix has always jealously guarded their show's streaming numbers. If the numbers were good, why would Netflix hide them? They would use the numbers to attract advertisers, investors, and new users.
The reasonable inference is the numbers are not good.
The reasonable inference is the numbers are not good.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:19 PM (R38qh)
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I doubt I’m a typical consumer of entertainment….
But I never go to a theater anymore (the last time I was in a theater was to see Joker in… 2019? Dark, but a good movie). When I do watch a movie I go the streaming route… saw Top Gun Maverick that way… comfort of my own home. I also stream old classics like Cheers and MASH… because old TV is best TV. The only TV I watch anymore is live sports… mainly college football. So if Hollywood goes bankrupt I’m good with that
But I never go to a theater anymore (the last time I was in a theater was to see Joker in… 2019? Dark, but a good movie). When I do watch a movie I go the streaming route… saw Top Gun Maverick that way… comfort of my own home. I also stream old classics like Cheers and MASH… because old TV is best TV. The only TV I watch anymore is live sports… mainly college football. So if Hollywood goes bankrupt I’m good with that
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2023 01:20 PM (OwPzL)
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Sounds about right
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 25, 2023 01:20 PM (xcxpd)
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Is it even really a secret that streaming ratings are low and companies are losing money on it?? I recall a number of earnings reports where streaming struggles were highlighted. It shouldn't be a secret to anyone paying attention.
And there's not much more room to grow their subscribers. It's not like Netflix back in the day when they had streaming pretty much all to themselves, with plenty of room to grow. Today there are like a dozen major streaming platforms all pissing on each other in the same pool.
And there's not much more room to grow their subscribers. It's not like Netflix back in the day when they had streaming pretty much all to themselves, with plenty of room to grow. Today there are like a dozen major streaming platforms all pissing on each other in the same pool.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 25, 2023 01:20 PM (iFTx/)
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I recently cancelled both Netflix and Hulu. I never watched either. Pretty much just 'shared' them with daughter who watched them once in a while. The wife might have watched them once in a while too.
I'm a bit of a techie so streaming was both exciting initially and boring ultimately.
But never, ever going back to cable tv. I'll watch paint dry first.
I recently cancelled both Netflix and Hulu. I never watched either. Pretty much just 'shared' them with daughter who watched them once in a while. The wife might have watched them once in a while too.
I'm a bit of a techie so streaming was both exciting initially and boring ultimately.
But never, ever going back to cable tv. I'll watch paint dry first.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 25, 2023 01:20 PM (enJYY)
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all Hollywood executives are ruthless, greedy, amoral bastards who would kill you for a nickel.
Hadrien I think amoral glosses over their disgusting sexual predation. But it's a good start.
Hadrien I think amoral glosses over their disgusting sexual predation. But it's a good start.
Posted by: Iris at July 25, 2023 01:20 PM (NaH5I)
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20 If the writer for such a horrible show as She-Hulk can get $396 in residuals for one episode...
Are we sure we want to see the metrics?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2023 01:18 PM (8zqxZ)
$396 sounds about ... I want to say right, because that is insulting. But it also seems high.
Are we sure we want to see the metrics?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2023 01:18 PM (8zqxZ)
$396 sounds about ... I want to say right, because that is insulting. But it also seems high.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:20 PM (zZu0s)
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Oh, and somewhat related, people seem to think it's hilarious when Musk does an interview and talks about how much Twatter's stock value has dropped.
They seem to forget when he said, before all this started, he wasn't doing it to make money. I'm sure he'd prefer not to be taking a bath with it, but it's rather humorous whenever anyone thinks this isn't going exactly according to plan.
They seem to forget when he said, before all this started, he wasn't doing it to make money. I'm sure he'd prefer not to be taking a bath with it, but it's rather humorous whenever anyone thinks this isn't going exactly according to plan.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:21 PM (uZ2BU)
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Another conspiracy theory to be proved as the truth within a few weeks.
I. Want. Groomywood. Dead!
I. Want. Groomywood. Dead!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 25, 2023 01:21 PM (17s+e)
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How tall is Brittney Griner again?
Posted by: The_Hoser at July 25, 2023 01:19 PM (N66D6)
What was that?
Posted by: The_Hoser at July 25, 2023 01:19 PM (N66D6)
What was that?
Posted by: A voice as deep as James Earl Jones at July 25, 2023 01:21 PM (zZu0s)
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I thought Gen Z streamed everything.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 01:21 PM (NpAcC)
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Meh - something is wrong here.
Who gives a shit how many views a show has?
What matters with streaming is how many subscribers you get. That is the only metric that matters. That is where the money comes from, not the number of views.
Views used to matter when the show was tied to advertising - each time the show was shown, the viewer saw an ad, and money was generated. Same with DVD sales - each sale was a finite amount of money.
With subscriber-based series - how do you determine what caused the viewer to subscribe? I know people who subscribe to all the services yet watch very little.
Who gives a shit how many views a show has?
What matters with streaming is how many subscribers you get. That is the only metric that matters. That is where the money comes from, not the number of views.
Views used to matter when the show was tied to advertising - each time the show was shown, the viewer saw an ad, and money was generated. Same with DVD sales - each sale was a finite amount of money.
With subscriber-based series - how do you determine what caused the viewer to subscribe? I know people who subscribe to all the services yet watch very little.
Posted by: Mr. Winnefred T Pooh. at July 25, 2023 01:21 PM (nJ1bF)
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Lots of CEOs are psychopaths, not just in Hollywood. But it's still a good point.
Posted by: When you have no conscience anything is possible at July 25, 2023 01:19 PM (Nw1nV)
Non-Hollywood executives would only fire you for a nickel. i submit that's more than a distinction.
Lots of CEOs are psychopaths, not just in Hollywood. But it's still a good point.
Posted by: When you have no conscience anything is possible at July 25, 2023 01:19 PM (Nw1nV)
Non-Hollywood executives would only fire you for a nickel. i submit that's more than a distinction.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 01:21 PM (MoZTd)
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So with the values of companies, particularly the non-tech "tech companies" of the media dependent so heavily on speculated, imaginary value, rather than on verifiable deliverables such as dividend payments, it becomes even more crucial to hide any evidence that the speculated, phantasmal "value" of these companies isn't real. Ratings must he sealed in a Black Box so that the bubble of over-puffed imaginary value is never punctured by the sharp sting of hard numbers.
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Yup. It's why I kind of want the WGA to win this one sub-issue in their strike. Disclosure would be a good thing. Paint that black box clear.
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Yup. It's why I kind of want the WGA to win this one sub-issue in their strike. Disclosure would be a good thing. Paint that black box clear.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:21 PM (B2vkr)
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Hollywood portrays executives as ruthless, greedy, amoral bastards who would kill you for a nickel because all Hollywood executives are ruthless, greedy, amoral bastards who would kill you for a nickel.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 01:17 PM (MoZTd)
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As the saying goes, "Write what you know!"
Which is why we get vapid, empty stories nowadays...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 01:17 PM (MoZTd)
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As the saying goes, "Write what you know!"
Which is why we get vapid, empty stories nowadays...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 01:21 PM (YIVH2)
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I wonder how NBC is doing with their streaming on peacock. I've noticed they are moving more of their sports programming exclusively to peacock.
I'm never gonna pay NBC any money to watch anything.
I'm never gonna pay NBC any money to watch anything.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 25, 2023 01:21 PM (4hAN5)
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481 466 >Has anyone asked what the 3 year old did yet?
Ate mommy's chocolate.
Posted by: davidt at July 25, 2023 01:11 PM (SYTee)
Poured all her wine into the bathtub.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:15 PM (zZu0s)
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The deranged psycho idiot mom wanted her son dead because her BF dumped her because he didn't like the kid. She thought if she killed her son the BF would take her back. Real mother of the year kinda stuff.
Ate mommy's chocolate.
Posted by: davidt at July 25, 2023 01:11 PM (SYTee)
Poured all her wine into the bathtub.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:15 PM (zZu0s)
___________________
The deranged psycho idiot mom wanted her son dead because her BF dumped her because he didn't like the kid. She thought if she killed her son the BF would take her back. Real mother of the year kinda stuff.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 25, 2023 01:21 PM (iFTx/)
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Most actors are comparative nobodies with marginal careers anyway. They can't shit the bed because they don't have a bed to shit.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:21 PM (ppBhU)
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20 If the writer for such a horrible show as She-Hulk can get $396 in residuals for one episode...
Are we sure we want to see the metrics?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2023 01:18 PM (8zqxZ)
No. I think that would remove the last tiny bit of my will to live.
Are we sure we want to see the metrics?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2023 01:18 PM (8zqxZ)
No. I think that would remove the last tiny bit of my will to live.
Posted by: Should've picked a different career! at July 25, 2023 01:21 PM (Nw1nV)
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Ford cars have minicomputers in them. Is Ford a tech company too?
Returning to the dot-com crash.
Wired Magazine tried to do an IPO back in the late '90s. There was a fairly standard metric to value magazines (I think three years gross revenues), but Wired said: "No, No, No!!! We're An Internet Stock!!!", and tried to get a much higher valuation.
The Wired IPO then collapsed, as did the rest of the tech market a few months later.
Returning to the dot-com crash.
Wired Magazine tried to do an IPO back in the late '90s. There was a fairly standard metric to value magazines (I think three years gross revenues), but Wired said: "No, No, No!!! We're An Internet Stock!!!", and tried to get a much higher valuation.
The Wired IPO then collapsed, as did the rest of the tech market a few months later.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 25, 2023 01:22 PM (2tUFv)
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They pay their executives with stock options. They get it low, they want to sell it high. And they fund their lifestyle not on money they earn, but on borrowing with the stock as collateral. If the stock crashes, they lose their shirts.
This reminds me of the bank guy who knew the finances of the richest neighborhood in the USA. There was exactly ONE family that actually OWNED their house and land outright there. When the stock crashed, ALL the others had to sell. Or try to.
This reminds me of the bank guy who knew the finances of the richest neighborhood in the USA. There was exactly ONE family that actually OWNED their house and land outright there. When the stock crashed, ALL the others had to sell. Or try to.
Posted by: Nightfall at July 25, 2023 01:22 PM (xd3qE)
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Also, if streaming metrics became public, would the cost of financing day to day operations become unaffordable, due to interest on loans going up?
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at July 25, 2023 01:22 PM (2YtOq)
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Netflix knows how many times "Stranger Things" was viewed.
Netflix pays the actors and writers a flat, fixed fee.
No residuals.
Netflix pays the actors and writers a flat, fixed fee.
No residuals.
Posted by: Casey Anthony at July 25, 2023 01:22 PM (jgJfd)
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I've been saying this for so long I'm blue in the face. The studios killed the golden goose (ads on TV) because they listened to the tech overlords & took everything in-house. So NBC can have Peacock, fine, but what ads are you showing to subscribers? Ads for NBC's other stuff. P&G isn't paying to show ads for Bounty behind a paywall. HBO could get away w/ it same as Showtime because they were dedicated to film/TV on a subscription model for 30+ yrs, while being backed up by WB's other endeavors.
Disney is the only other one who could do that & they've been torching building size piles of money lately. So they can't do that much longer.
Cable & network TV works due to ad money, period. But it's a slim margin. Streamers are subscription only but they NEED their investors to believe their bullshit that they're making money. Amazon & Apple have other revenue streams so they can take the loss, but extra money for actors/writers isn't coming out of the Kindle or iPhone division, ever.
Disney is the only other one who could do that & they've been torching building size piles of money lately. So they can't do that much longer.
Cable & network TV works due to ad money, period. But it's a slim margin. Streamers are subscription only but they NEED their investors to believe their bullshit that they're making money. Amazon & Apple have other revenue streams so they can take the loss, but extra money for actors/writers isn't coming out of the Kindle or iPhone division, ever.
Posted by: Mr. Fabulist at July 25, 2023 01:22 PM (7VCus)
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29 And there's not much more room to grow their subscribers. It's not like Netflix back in the day when they had streaming pretty much all to themselves, with plenty of room to grow. Today there are like a dozen major streaming platforms all pissing on each other in the same pool.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 25, 2023 01:20 PM (iFTx/)
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Essentially, streaming has been "potential" earnings for a long time, and now that the market is saturated, people are beginning to ask serious questions about these promised earnings.
Streaming has always been a money pit at the prices people are willing to pay.
If you can get 150 million people to pay $30 a month for a service, it should be profitable, but when your average pay is something like $2-3, anchored by the fact that something like a third of your consumer base is in India and paying less than a dollar for access, then you are not making the money necessary to pay for the regular $250-$400 million worth of content put onto a service like Disney+ every month.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 25, 2023 01:20 PM (iFTx/)
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Essentially, streaming has been "potential" earnings for a long time, and now that the market is saturated, people are beginning to ask serious questions about these promised earnings.
Streaming has always been a money pit at the prices people are willing to pay.
If you can get 150 million people to pay $30 a month for a service, it should be profitable, but when your average pay is something like $2-3, anchored by the fact that something like a third of your consumer base is in India and paying less than a dollar for access, then you are not making the money necessary to pay for the regular $250-$400 million worth of content put onto a service like Disney+ every month.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (LvTSG)
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> Hollywood portrays executives as ruthless, greedy, amoral bastards who would kill you for a nickel because all Hollywood executives are ruthless, greedy, amoral bastards who would kill you for a nickel.
Jim Breuer has talked openly about this. He's said that all the guys in charge in Hollywood are childless, angry bastards with an extremely nihilistic and anti-human viewpoint on life.
Jim Breuer has talked openly about this. He's said that all the guys in charge in Hollywood are childless, angry bastards with an extremely nihilistic and anti-human viewpoint on life.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (R38qh)
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Been watching Farscape and some othe Sci-Fi on Pluto streaming.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (CecP5)
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>>>Who gives a shit how many views a show has?
What matters with streaming is how many subscribers you get. That is the only metric that matters. That is where the money comes from, not the number of views.
hm, good point. I didn't think of that.
Though all the streamers are moving to an "advertiser-supported" model, now.
What matters with streaming is how many subscribers you get. That is the only metric that matters. That is where the money comes from, not the number of views.
hm, good point. I didn't think of that.
Though all the streamers are moving to an "advertiser-supported" model, now.
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (KRtlO)
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36 I thought Gen Z streamed everything.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 01:21 PM (NpAcC)
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If you pay $8 a month for Disney+, stream Bluey for 150 hours and Thor 4 for 1.5 hours, how much of that $8 goes to Bluey and how much goes to Thor 4?
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 01:21 PM (NpAcC)
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If you pay $8 a month for Disney+, stream Bluey for 150 hours and Thor 4 for 1.5 hours, how much of that $8 goes to Bluey and how much goes to Thor 4?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (LvTSG)
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2 Hollywood accountants fudge the books, hide income, or outright lie about their finances?
Unpossible!
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2023 01:14 PM (/BBNv)
Who do they think they are, the pentagon?
Unpossible!
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2023 01:14 PM (/BBNv)
Who do they think they are, the pentagon?
Posted by: Inogame at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (53oGX)
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"So SAG and the WGA may have absolutely screwed themselves and their industry by fighting for key metrics on actual streaming viewership. If these companies don't have the number of viewers they suggest they do, then admitting this would tank their stock, and guarantee that thousands of writers and actors never get their chance in the ever-dimming spotlight.
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Last week Barry Diller, a really old guy who has been one of the most influential players in the industry for decades and decades, said he thinks this confluence of events and the SAG strike could force Hollywood to completely collapse. He called it potentially "The Perfect Storm".
I remember that movie when George Clooney's fishing boat hit the 100 foot wave, never to be seen again.
Hollywood is going to be like that. At least we can hope, right?
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Last week Barry Diller, a really old guy who has been one of the most influential players in the industry for decades and decades, said he thinks this confluence of events and the SAG strike could force Hollywood to completely collapse. He called it potentially "The Perfect Storm".
I remember that movie when George Clooney's fishing boat hit the 100 foot wave, never to be seen again.
Hollywood is going to be like that. At least we can hope, right?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 25, 2023 01:24 PM (i+mOk)
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Good afternoon ace and everyone. There is also another thing going on IMHO. The big companies are using the strike to get out from under a lot of development deals which were signed when there was free money and no interest rates. The deals make no sense now and if there is no one to write or act, no need to go through with the deal.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 01:24 PM (S75Fo)
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Can't be good because we're being rocked by Joe's partnership deals. Where's the $, where's the work?
Verge, May 2022: Biden announces new partnership to expand broadband access.
They're providers of telecommunications, media and technology services, and the CWA is all in on progressive policy.
Verge, May 2022: Biden announces new partnership to expand broadband access.
They're providers of telecommunications, media and technology services, and the CWA is all in on progressive policy.
Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at July 25, 2023 01:24 PM (GshMh)
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You would think someone, somewhere would suggest each streaming service negotiate these deals separately. HULU deals with actors, etc. for HULU.....NETFLIX for themselves, etc.
Wouldn't this make more sense?
Wouldn't this make more sense?
Posted by: Dandolo at July 25, 2023 01:24 PM (cLIEd)
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53 >>>Who gives a shit how many views a show has?
What matters with streaming is how many subscribers you get. That is the only metric that matters. That is where the money comes from, not the number of views.
hm, good point. I didn't think of that.
Though all the streamers are moving to an "advertiser-supported" model, now.
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (KRtlO)
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Not really, since you have to account for which content gets how much of the subscriber dollars. If you spend 200 hours a month watching The Office and no hours on anything else, is the hundred million dollars worth of new content Peacock is putting up worth it?
What matters with streaming is how many subscribers you get. That is the only metric that matters. That is where the money comes from, not the number of views.
hm, good point. I didn't think of that.
Though all the streamers are moving to an "advertiser-supported" model, now.
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (KRtlO)
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Not really, since you have to account for which content gets how much of the subscriber dollars. If you spend 200 hours a month watching The Office and no hours on anything else, is the hundred million dollars worth of new content Peacock is putting up worth it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:25 PM (LvTSG)
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Barbie 2: Now With Genitals
Posted by: wth at July 25, 2023 01:25 PM (v0R5T)
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It's that disclosure that I think they are trying to avoid because those numbers probably suck pretty generally, especially for most of the monstrously expensive original content. Investors might lose their credulity if those data come out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:19 PM (B2vkr)
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Amazon's Rings of Power was a notoriously expensive show. There's NO WAY it's earned back the money that's been invested in it so far.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:19 PM (B2vkr)
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Amazon's Rings of Power was a notoriously expensive show. There's NO WAY it's earned back the money that's been invested in it so far.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 01:25 PM (YIVH2)
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52 Been watching Farscape and some othe Sci-Fi on Pluto streaming.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (CecP5)
Farscape (lates season 2 to the end) is possibly the greatest sci-fi (live action, anna) show ever made.
Star Trek OG is still better imo, but Farscape wins hands down the best of the rest.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (CecP5)
Farscape (lates season 2 to the end) is possibly the greatest sci-fi (live action, anna) show ever made.
Star Trek OG is still better imo, but Farscape wins hands down the best of the rest.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:25 PM (zZu0s)
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"My suspicion is that the streamers are refusing to share the viewership [numbers]'s NOT because they're being cheap BUT because no one is watching AND revealing extremely low viewership would kill the stock price," Schulz continued."If most of these streamers are losing money in an effort to gain market share the ONLY justification for their spending is their stock price being high."
...and because of this, I bought a couple of put options on DIS stock. Let's see if it goes to 60 between now and the end of January 2024.
*not giving investment advice to the Horde*
...and because of this, I bought a couple of put options on DIS stock. Let's see if it goes to 60 between now and the end of January 2024.
*not giving investment advice to the Horde*
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 25, 2023 01:25 PM (/iWhV)
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They pay their executives with stock options. They get it low, they want to sell it high. And they fund their lifestyle not on money they earn, but on borrowing with the stock as collateral. If the stock crashes, they lose their shirts. ...
Posted by: Nightfall at July 25, 2023 01:22 PM (xd3qE)
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See Also: The entire state of California
CA manages to survive because of a handful (a few thousand people) of ultra-rich Silicon Valley and Hollywood types. These people are only super-rich while the stock market is surging, because there is a gigantic amount of stock-based compensation. When that sells, it generates massive tax revenue. When they borrow against it and spend the money, it generates massive tax revenues.
If the stock market - especially in Tech and Media - turns down, CA's state finances turn into a crater fairly quickly.
Posted by: Nightfall at July 25, 2023 01:22 PM (xd3qE)
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See Also: The entire state of California
CA manages to survive because of a handful (a few thousand people) of ultra-rich Silicon Valley and Hollywood types. These people are only super-rich while the stock market is surging, because there is a gigantic amount of stock-based compensation. When that sells, it generates massive tax revenue. When they borrow against it and spend the money, it generates massive tax revenues.
If the stock market - especially in Tech and Media - turns down, CA's state finances turn into a crater fairly quickly.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:25 PM (B2vkr)
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Streaming is like the internet companies in late 90s. They have all of these new and useless metrics for valuation. Remember the click ration and click through? Yeah all bullshit.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 25, 2023 01:25 PM (17s+e)
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Hollywood accountants fudge the books, hide income, or outright lie about their finances?
Unpossible!
Posted by: LenNeal
Who do they think they are? The government?
Unpossible!
Posted by: LenNeal
Who do they think they are? The government?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 25, 2023 01:26 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: pdp-11 at July 25, 2023 01:26 PM (v3pYe)
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I've canceled Disney + and Hulu recently. I still have apple TV ($6.99/mo), peacock ($5.99/mpo), and Netflix ($15/mo), and Amazon prime (really free, since the shipping pays for it), but have been looking to drop one (looking right at you netflix).
But freevee, Pluto TV, Tubi, etc., there are so many free streaming services out there now - subscribing makes increasingly less sense.
But freevee, Pluto TV, Tubi, etc., there are so many free streaming services out there now - subscribing makes increasingly less sense.
Posted by: Mr. Winnefred T Pooh. at July 25, 2023 01:26 PM (nJ1bF)
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If you pay $8 a month for Disney+, stream Bluey for 150 hours and Thor 4 for 1.5 hours, how much of that $8 goes to Bluey and how much goes to Thor 4?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (LvTSG)
If anyone is streaming Disney+ for 151.5 hours a month, there are bigger societal problems to worry about.
If you pay $8 a month for Disney+, stream Bluey for 150 hours and Thor 4 for 1.5 hours, how much of that $8 goes to Bluey and how much goes to Thor 4?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (LvTSG)
If anyone is streaming Disney+ for 151.5 hours a month, there are bigger societal problems to worry about.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 25, 2023 01:26 PM (i+mOk)
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I only stream on Amazon prime because wife has subscription so why not? I will not pay for another streaming service… I’d have loved to watch the Tour de France this month but they put most of the coverage on peacock+ so I just tracked the race on the event website. The people running things don’t seem to realize I’m not gonna pay extra…. If they put college football (my favorite) on streaming only on a service I don’t get… I’ll live without it
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2023 01:26 PM (OwPzL)
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If the entertainment sector of our esteemed propaganda institution(s) collapses would the other, non-entertainment sectors like, say, newz also collapse?
Cuz that'd be interesting to watch.
Cuz that'd be interesting to watch.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2023 01:26 PM (Q4IgG)
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Only watch free streaming channels, FreeVee, Pluto, etc.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 25, 2023 01:27 PM (CecP5)
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Verge, May 2022: Biden announces new partnership to expand broadband access.
They're providers of telecommunications, media and technology services, and the CWA is all in on progressive policy.
Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at July 25, 2023 01:24 PM (GshMh)
Because Uncle Sugar opens the ATM.
They're providers of telecommunications, media and technology services, and the CWA is all in on progressive policy.
Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at July 25, 2023 01:24 PM (GshMh)
Because Uncle Sugar opens the ATM.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2023 01:27 PM (SJKxM)
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Frndly is a great streaming service. It has 40+ channels, including MeTV. It also offers multi device and digital recording all for $6.99 a month.
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 25, 2023 01:27 PM (OgrpQ)
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73 Only watch free streaming channels, FreeVee, Pluto, etc.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 25, 2023 01:27 PM (CecP5)
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Ah, so you are well informed about which AIDS medication is best for you.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 25, 2023 01:27 PM (CecP5)
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Ah, so you are well informed about which AIDS medication is best for you.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:27 PM (LvTSG)
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68 Ford cars have minicomputers in them.
i'm back, baby!
Posted by: pdp-11 at July 25, 2023 01:26 PM (v3pYe)
As a former computer sales guy, I laughed.
i'm back, baby!
Posted by: pdp-11 at July 25, 2023 01:26 PM (v3pYe)
As a former computer sales guy, I laughed.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 25, 2023 01:27 PM (i+mOk)
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I recently cancelled both Netflix and Hulu. I never watched either. Pretty much just 'shared' them with daughter who watched them once in a while. The wife might have watched them once in a while too.
I'm a bit of a techie so streaming was both exciting initially and boring ultimately.
But never, ever going back to cable tv. I'll watch paint dry first.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 25, 2023 01:20 PM (enJYY)
I got Netfux, because they ex wanted it. Still have it because my son watches, and I haven't taken any of his dvds/blurays out of boxes.
I watch it sometimes, the other day I watched the thing about the guy who filmed an octopus for a year. It was much better than it sounds.
I'm also a serial serial killer serial watcher, and there's no better source for that, but I've pretty much run out of serial killer shows for now.
I'm a bit of a techie so streaming was both exciting initially and boring ultimately.
But never, ever going back to cable tv. I'll watch paint dry first.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 25, 2023 01:20 PM (enJYY)
I got Netfux, because they ex wanted it. Still have it because my son watches, and I haven't taken any of his dvds/blurays out of boxes.
I watch it sometimes, the other day I watched the thing about the guy who filmed an octopus for a year. It was much better than it sounds.
I'm also a serial serial killer serial watcher, and there's no better source for that, but I've pretty much run out of serial killer shows for now.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:27 PM (BFqLx)
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That is where the money comes from, not the number of views.
Except the views are the product, and the product needs to be decent to be bought.
Except the views are the product, and the product needs to be decent to be bought.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 25, 2023 01:28 PM (8GBH4)
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Farscape (lates season 2 to the end) is possibly the greatest sci-fi (live action, anna) show ever made.
Zotoh Zhaan. Definitely a 1. Would bang.
Zotoh Zhaan. Definitely a 1. Would bang.
Posted by: The blue skin just makes it hotter at July 25, 2023 01:28 PM (Nw1nV)
81
Hollywood accountants fudge the books, hide income, or outright lie about their finances?
Unpossible!
In related news, the 1977 OG Star Wars film that kicked off a multi-billion dollar super-franchise and was filmed on a shoestring budget still hasn't turned a profit.
Hollywood accounting is magic!
Unpossible!
In related news, the 1977 OG Star Wars film that kicked off a multi-billion dollar super-franchise and was filmed on a shoestring budget still hasn't turned a profit.
Hollywood accounting is magic!
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:28 PM (R38qh)
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hm, good point. I didn't think of that.
Though all the streamers are moving to an "advertiser-supported" model, now.
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (KRtlO)
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Ad-supported streaming is likely going to dominate the future model - especially with a buy-up option to get rid of the ads. That's what I do on the one streaming service I subscribe to. You can watch for free, but have ads and a limited catalogue. Pay a little bit, and get a bigger catalogue. Pay more and get the full catalogue plus no ads.
Though all the streamers are moving to an "advertiser-supported" model, now.
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (KRtlO)
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Ad-supported streaming is likely going to dominate the future model - especially with a buy-up option to get rid of the ads. That's what I do on the one streaming service I subscribe to. You can watch for free, but have ads and a limited catalogue. Pay a little bit, and get a bigger catalogue. Pay more and get the full catalogue plus no ads.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:28 PM (B2vkr)
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In a way this is no different than many goonions killing the Golden Goose of industries. Paying a janitor at GM 90K plus bennies isn't sustainable. (Don't get me started on public unions) Granted, in this case it's not exactly the same, but the end result will be the same. Good job dipshits.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 25, 2023 01:28 PM (CDowr)
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Hollywood used to turn out series of movies, like my faves, the Thin Man series.Can you imagine William Powell and Myrna Loy (yum) in a woke series?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 25, 2023 01:28 PM (0EOe9)
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Only watch free streaming channels, FreeVee, Pluto, etc.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 25, 2023 01:27 PM (CecP5)
Tubi is an absolute gold mine. They just posted the Original Johnny Quest.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 25, 2023 01:27 PM (CecP5)
Tubi is an absolute gold mine. They just posted the Original Johnny Quest.
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 25, 2023 01:28 PM (OgrpQ)
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72 If the entertainment sector of our esteemed propaganda institution(s) collapses would the other, non-entertainment sectors like, say, newz also collapse?
Cuz that'd be interesting to watch.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2023 01:26 PM (Q4IgG)
^^We can only hope but they really haven't been profit based (I'm looking at you CNN) for ages. They are clearly a cost center for propaganda, willingly paid for by the evil Left.
Cuz that'd be interesting to watch.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2023 01:26 PM (Q4IgG)
^^We can only hope but they really haven't been profit based (I'm looking at you CNN) for ages. They are clearly a cost center for propaganda, willingly paid for by the evil Left.
Posted by: Iris at July 25, 2023 01:28 PM (NaH5I)
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I had always hoped they'd do some Farscape movies (made for tv, of course) afterward.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (ppBhU)
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Ah, so you are well informed about which AIDS medication is best for you.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:27 PM (LvTSG)
Are you going for:
-a gay direction?
-that the streaming services are AIDS
-or that that ad in particular is prevalent on all streaming platforms (which makes me wonder if advertisers have access to the metrics for a streaming service.)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:27 PM (LvTSG)
Are you going for:
-a gay direction?
-that the streaming services are AIDS
-or that that ad in particular is prevalent on all streaming platforms (which makes me wonder if advertisers have access to the metrics for a streaming service.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (zZu0s)
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Nothing gets you in trouble like the truth.
Posted by: It is known at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (BxsGY)
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79 That is where the money comes from, not the number of views.
Except the views are the product, and the product needs to be decent to be bought.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 25, 2023 01:28 PM (8GBH4)
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If you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on product that no one is watching, yeah, you may be covering the costs from a strict dollar perspective, but the accountants have got to be pulling their hair out.
Except the views are the product, and the product needs to be decent to be bought.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 25, 2023 01:28 PM (8GBH4)
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If you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on product that no one is watching, yeah, you may be covering the costs from a strict dollar perspective, but the accountants have got to be pulling their hair out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (LvTSG)
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In our new movie, we have plug and play naughty bits! Mix and match to meet your moods! Tits and dicks! Back boobs! Top weiners and bottom tails!
It's the wave of the future!
In our new movie, we have plug and play naughty bits! Mix and match to meet your moods! Tits and dicks! Back boobs! Top weiners and bottom tails!
It's the wave of the future!
Posted by: Trans BarbiKen at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (j3ZVQ)
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i'm back, baby!
Posted by: pdp-11 at July 25, 2023 01:26 PM (v3pYe)
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I was waiting - and hoping - for someone to make a crack along these lines.
Well done.
Posted by: pdp-11 at July 25, 2023 01:26 PM (v3pYe)
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I was waiting - and hoping - for someone to make a crack along these lines.
Well done.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (B2vkr)
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There is a reason why they call it "Hollywood Accounting".
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (i+mOk)
94
The greatest science fiction show ever made was the COVID Chronicles starring Anthony Fauci
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (StUJj)
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88 Are you going for:
-a gay direction?
-that the streaming services are AIDS
-or that that ad in particular is prevalent on all streaming platforms (which makes me wonder if advertisers have access to the metrics for a streaming service.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (zZu0s)
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Whenever I watch something (absolutely anything) on FreeVee, at least a third of the ads are for AIDS medication.
-a gay direction?
-that the streaming services are AIDS
-or that that ad in particular is prevalent on all streaming platforms (which makes me wonder if advertisers have access to the metrics for a streaming service.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (zZu0s)
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Whenever I watch something (absolutely anything) on FreeVee, at least a third of the ads are for AIDS medication.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (LvTSG)
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87 I had always hoped they'd do some Farscape movies (made for tv, of course) afterward.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (ppBhU)
Peacekeeper Wars. Had some good stuff in it, but was too condensed and rushed.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (ppBhU)
Peacekeeper Wars. Had some good stuff in it, but was too condensed and rushed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:30 PM (zZu0s)
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I had always hoped they'd do some Farscape movies (made for tv, of course) afterward.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (ppBhU)
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They were only able to make The Peacekeeper Wars mini-series to wrap up the loose end at the end of Season 4.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (ppBhU)
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They were only able to make The Peacekeeper Wars mini-series to wrap up the loose end at the end of Season 4.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 01:30 PM (YIVH2)
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One of the reasons all the content creators also created streaming services was to sell themselves content and book the revenue without actually getting money (a hollywierd tradition of kaibatsu interconnected corporations laundering money to avoid paying people). Here, they’ll just be getting caught chasing VC funding.
It will be glorious.
It will be glorious.
Posted by: Legion of Boom at July 25, 2023 01:30 PM (gDlxJ)
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60 53 >>>Who gives a shit how many views a show has?
What matters with streaming is how many subscribers you get. That is the only metric that matters. That is where the money comes from, not the number of views.
hm, good point. I didn't think of that.
Though all the streamers are moving to an "advertiser-supported" model, now.
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (KRtlO)
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Not really, since you have to account for which content gets how much of the subscriber dollars. If you spend 200 hours a month watching The Office and no hours on anything else, is the hundred million dollars worth of new content Peacock is putting up worth it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:25 PM (LvTSG)
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True, the number of views doesn't itself generate revenue. But streamers use the number of views as a measure of success and a marketing gimmick to try to get new subscribers. They try to hype up the popularity of a show to generate interest and (hopefully) more subscribers. The same way the movie industry does when it hypes how such-and-such piece of shit movie is "The No. 1 Movie In America!"
What matters with streaming is how many subscribers you get. That is the only metric that matters. That is where the money comes from, not the number of views.
hm, good point. I didn't think of that.
Though all the streamers are moving to an "advertiser-supported" model, now.
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2023 01:23 PM (KRtlO)
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Not really, since you have to account for which content gets how much of the subscriber dollars. If you spend 200 hours a month watching The Office and no hours on anything else, is the hundred million dollars worth of new content Peacock is putting up worth it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:25 PM (LvTSG)
_________
True, the number of views doesn't itself generate revenue. But streamers use the number of views as a measure of success and a marketing gimmick to try to get new subscribers. They try to hype up the popularity of a show to generate interest and (hopefully) more subscribers. The same way the movie industry does when it hypes how such-and-such piece of shit movie is "The No. 1 Movie In America!"
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 25, 2023 01:30 PM (iFTx/)
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93 There is a reason why they call it "Hollywood Accounting".
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (i+mOk)
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In David Prowse's lawsuit against Fox in the 80s, Fox claimed that Return of the Jedi never turned a profit. Prowse was due residuals in his contract.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (i+mOk)
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In David Prowse's lawsuit against Fox in the 80s, Fox claimed that Return of the Jedi never turned a profit. Prowse was due residuals in his contract.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:30 PM (LvTSG)
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Zotoh Zhaan. Definitely a 1. Would bang.
Eh. She's a plant. It'd be like schtupping a sexy rutabega.
Eh. She's a plant. It'd be like schtupping a sexy rutabega.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:31 PM (ppBhU)
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80 Farscape (lates season 2 to the end) is possibly the greatest sci-fi (live action, anna) show ever made.
Zotoh Zhaan. Definitely a 1. Would bang.
Posted by: The blue skin just makes it hotter at July 25, 2023 01:28 PM (Nw1nV)
1) Gilena (Peacekeeper Girl.)
2) Aeryn Sun
3) That brunette from the one two parter... the spy.
Zotoh Zhaan. Definitely a 1. Would bang.
Posted by: The blue skin just makes it hotter at July 25, 2023 01:28 PM (Nw1nV)
1) Gilena (Peacekeeper Girl.)
2) Aeryn Sun
3) That brunette from the one two parter... the spy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:31 PM (zZu0s)
103
In our new movie, we have plug and play naughty bits! Mix and match to meet your moods! Tits and dicks! Back boobs! Top weiners and bottom tails!
It's the wave of the future!
Posted by: Trans BarbiKen at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (j3ZVQ)
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Now we're talking!
It's the wave of the future!
Posted by: Trans BarbiKen at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (j3ZVQ)
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Now we're talking!
Posted by: Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head at July 25, 2023 01:31 PM (YIVH2)
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Can someone kindly explain the pdp-11 joke?
Posted by: Iris at July 25, 2023 01:31 PM (NaH5I)
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I have Prime because well I have Prime for shipping.
I have netflix because I have T-mobile and it is free.
I have Paramount+ because 1 year free from T-mobile. But will cancel as it is shit. but free for now.
I have netflix because I have T-mobile and it is free.
I have Paramount+ because 1 year free from T-mobile. But will cancel as it is shit. but free for now.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 25, 2023 01:31 PM (17s+e)
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@63,52throw Babylon 5 seasons 1-4 into that mix and I agree
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 01:31 PM (S75Fo)
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Farscape (lates season 2 to the end) is possibly the greatest sci-fi (live action, anna) show ever made.
Zotoh Zhaan. Definitely a 1. Would bang.
Posted by: The blue skin just makes it hotter
I just recently started watching it, on PlutoTV I think. Man, I can't believe I've been missing that show for like, what, 20 years? I never gave it a chance.
Zotoh Zhaan. Definitely a 1. Would bang.
Posted by: The blue skin just makes it hotter
I just recently started watching it, on PlutoTV I think. Man, I can't believe I've been missing that show for like, what, 20 years? I never gave it a chance.
Posted by: Oedipus at July 25, 2023 01:32 PM (Z6vKV)
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Whenever I watch something (absolutely anything) on FreeVee, at least a third of the ads are for AIDS medication.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (LvTSG)
*watches the pitch sail over the plate*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (LvTSG)
*watches the pitch sail over the plate*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:32 PM (zZu0s)
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In the end, the Hollywood elites will never go broke, no matter what happens to their share prices. They are making enough money from the child trafficking trade.
Posted by: kallisto at July 25, 2023 01:32 PM (iKhGg)
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Speaking of Netflix,
We had cancelled after the Cuties deal a while back.
Suddenly, it showed back up on my credit card statement.
Sure enough, I logged in and was back on.
Wife or I never reupped just started up again.
We had cancelled after the Cuties deal a while back.
Suddenly, it showed back up on my credit card statement.
Sure enough, I logged in and was back on.
Wife or I never reupped just started up again.
Posted by: Inogame at July 25, 2023 01:32 PM (53oGX)
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What I want from an entertainment company is entertainment. They all seem to have decided they no longer wish to provide that, and instead are focusing on hectoring people who aren't Communist enough for their liking.A
They can all die. I won't miss them.
They can all die. I won't miss them.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 25, 2023 01:32 PM (p+1gI)
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99 True, the number of views doesn't itself generate revenue. But streamers use the number of views as a measure of success and a marketing gimmick to try to get new subscribers. They try to hype up the popularity of a show to generate interest and (hopefully) more subscribers. The same way the movie industry does when it hypes how such-and-such piece of shit movie is "The No. 1 Movie In America!"
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 25, 2023 01:30 PM (iFTx/)
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The argument at the beginning of streaming was that new content brought in subscribers but libraries kept them.
I think both of those are somewhat suspect, but the biggest problem is that content creation is way out of whack with the actual dollars coming in from subscribers.
The studios writing off and getting rid of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of content in one swoop a few months ago was evidence of that.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 25, 2023 01:30 PM (iFTx/)
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The argument at the beginning of streaming was that new content brought in subscribers but libraries kept them.
I think both of those are somewhat suspect, but the biggest problem is that content creation is way out of whack with the actual dollars coming in from subscribers.
The studios writing off and getting rid of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of content in one swoop a few months ago was evidence of that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:32 PM (LvTSG)
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I've wondered for a while about this. How many shows there are, how many people there are and how much content is out there. People now are distracted by other things like Tik Tok etc. I don't watch media much, but many times it's on You Tube etc. There's a metric shit ton of media etc. At some point it has to be so watered down that the number of viewers has to be low for that many shows.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 25, 2023 01:32 PM (CDowr)
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The did sort of admit to that in their rebuttle of the SAG talking points.
So right now Actor's feet $X amount upfront instead of steaming residuals. That amount is then deducted from future residuals. What SAG is asking for is that actors should get both the lump sum, and residuals.
The AMPTP responded with, to paraphrase: They want to get paid when a show succeeds, but not when a show fails. Actors are getting a larger upfront bonus for shows that don't get viewers, and they get the benefit of money they would have never recieved if based on just residuals, because their show is a failure.
You would have never heard this from those companies months ago.
Im guessing on most of these streamers they get: 5% hits, 15% mild success, 30% shows they know will fail but they fund because it pushes an agenda, and 50% complete failures.
On linear tv failures weren't a big issue because Ad revenue still covered the losses, and shows didn't cost much to make. But every streaming show seems to need to be a $100 mil epic, and subscriber minwu alone doesn't cover it, since ther cost to build and run these standards probably but then in debt for decades.
So right now Actor's feet $X amount upfront instead of steaming residuals. That amount is then deducted from future residuals. What SAG is asking for is that actors should get both the lump sum, and residuals.
The AMPTP responded with, to paraphrase: They want to get paid when a show succeeds, but not when a show fails. Actors are getting a larger upfront bonus for shows that don't get viewers, and they get the benefit of money they would have never recieved if based on just residuals, because their show is a failure.
You would have never heard this from those companies months ago.
Im guessing on most of these streamers they get: 5% hits, 15% mild success, 30% shows they know will fail but they fund because it pushes an agenda, and 50% complete failures.
On linear tv failures weren't a big issue because Ad revenue still covered the losses, and shows didn't cost much to make. But every streaming show seems to need to be a $100 mil epic, and subscriber minwu alone doesn't cover it, since ther cost to build and run these standards probably but then in debt for decades.
Posted by: Rbastid at July 25, 2023 01:32 PM (pt6cR)
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Truth be told all I wanna watch/stream is old pre-woke comedies. All the wife wants to watch is Hallmark Movies Now, and pre-woke comedies.
Amazon can spend a trillion dollars a year on new content. Not gonna watch a single one. They don't want *us* to see the numbers because if we did we'd be asking why the fvck they waste that much money on shit that no one watches.
Meanwhile the actors get an initial paycheck. Maybe they should know the answer before they ask the question.
Truth be told all I wanna watch/stream is old pre-woke comedies. All the wife wants to watch is Hallmark Movies Now, and pre-woke comedies.
Amazon can spend a trillion dollars a year on new content. Not gonna watch a single one. They don't want *us* to see the numbers because if we did we'd be asking why the fvck they waste that much money on shit that no one watches.
Meanwhile the actors get an initial paycheck. Maybe they should know the answer before they ask the question.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 25, 2023 01:32 PM (enJYY)
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Not really, since you have to account for which content gets how much of the subscriber dollars. If you spend 200 hours a month watching The Office and no hours on anything else, is the hundred million dollars worth of new content Peacock is putting up worth it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:25 PM (LvTSG)
I saw some actor I don't know posted a tweet the other day, saying something like "yeah, with us on strike, what are people supposed to watch. There's nothing except millions of free videos on Youtube, thousands of tv shows, and a hundred years of movies that are already made!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:25 PM (LvTSG)
I saw some actor I don't know posted a tweet the other day, saying something like "yeah, with us on strike, what are people supposed to watch. There's nothing except millions of free videos on Youtube, thousands of tv shows, and a hundred years of movies that are already made!"
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (xDvzW)
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I suspect that the stock market, as it currently exists at least in the US, functions to help make bribes to high government officials easier to hide from the ordinary public. There are way too many sectors divorced from reality for it to be anything else.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (z99Zw)
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61 Barbie 2: Now With Genitals
Posted by: wth at July 25, 2023 01:25 PM (v0R5T)
Well, yeah, makes sense. The "Barbie" movie out now ends with her deciding to become a real woman and subsequently going to a gynecologist to inspect her new "bonus hole."
Oh, spoilers.
Posted by: wth at July 25, 2023 01:25 PM (v0R5T)
Well, yeah, makes sense. The "Barbie" movie out now ends with her deciding to become a real woman and subsequently going to a gynecologist to inspect her new "bonus hole."
Oh, spoilers.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (DTX3h)
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The other thing is that streaming services would seem to be pretty low on the hierarchy of needs. So as the economy gets worse and inflation rises, it is expendable.
Alternate view: people still go to starbucks.
The other thing is that streaming services would seem to be pretty low on the hierarchy of needs. So as the economy gets worse and inflation rises, it is expendable.
Alternate view: people still go to starbucks.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (8GBH4)
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Whenever I watch something (absolutely anything) on FreeVee, at least a third of the ads are for AIDS medication.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (LvTSG)
*watches the pitch sail over the plate*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:32 PM (zZu0s)
Who wants it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (LvTSG)
*watches the pitch sail over the plate*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:32 PM (zZu0s)
Who wants it?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (SJKxM)
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Essentially, SAG/WGA succeeding would tank the valuation of "tech" stocks, whether or not they are techie. Result = DotBomb 2.0.
Posted by: Alexander Scipio at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (NX5U7)
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Besides, if you are gonna bang blue space aliens, Chiana is where it's at.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (ppBhU)
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One thing that has struck me recently, is how immensely overpriced movies are. the budgets don't make any sense to me. Raiders of the lost ark cost $20 million to make in 1981. That would be $67 million today. Dial of destiny cost $300 million. You could make 4.5 Raiders of the Lost Ark for the price of 1 Dial of Destiny.
Same is true for TV shows. The costs to make anything in Hollywood are just absurd.
Yet the writers and actors are striking due to not getting paid enough?
How's that work? The money is going somewhere, and this is a cost, not a profit.
Same is true for TV shows. The costs to make anything in Hollywood are just absurd.
Yet the writers and actors are striking due to not getting paid enough?
How's that work? The money is going somewhere, and this is a cost, not a profit.
Posted by: Mr. Winnefred T Pooh. at July 25, 2023 01:34 PM (nJ1bF)
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> Can someone kindly explain the pdp-11 joke?
PDP-11 is a minicomputer from the 70s. It's ancient tech. The joke is the idea one could slap a half century old tech in a car and claim the car is now high tech.
PDP-11 is a minicomputer from the 70s. It's ancient tech. The joke is the idea one could slap a half century old tech in a car and claim the car is now high tech.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:34 PM (R38qh)
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116 I saw some actor I don't know posted a tweet the other day, saying something like "yeah, with us on strike, what are people supposed to watch. There's nothing except millions of free videos on Youtube, thousands of tv shows, and a hundred years of movies that are already made!"
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (xDvzW)
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The idea that modern filmmaking is some sort of necessity is laughable. I hope they strike for a decade.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (xDvzW)
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The idea that modern filmmaking is some sort of necessity is laughable. I hope they strike for a decade.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:34 PM (LvTSG)
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also imdb and rotten tomatoes rig their viewer review numbers on certain projects for sjw/esg/dei reasons
Posted by: x at July 25, 2023 01:34 PM (ZBPE2)
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I keep my Hulu subscription only because I hope for a second season of "The Old Man", and my Apple subscription for season 3 of "Slow Horses". Oncethose shows are out, I will cancel Apple and Hulu. Netfliix is gone. Disney Plus, gone.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 01:34 PM (wnpoX)
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106 @63,52throw Babylon 5 seasons 1-4 into that mix and I agree
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 01:31 PM (S75Fo)
Hmmm. Season 1-3, and I'd agree. Something like this:
1) OG Star Trek
2) Farscape
3) Seasons 1-3 of B5
4) Firefly
5) Jeri Ryan's Boobs in Voyager (not the show, just the boobs.)
Honorable mention: Space: Above and Beyond. The acting is horrible, but I loved that show.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 01:31 PM (S75Fo)
Hmmm. Season 1-3, and I'd agree. Something like this:
1) OG Star Trek
2) Farscape
3) Seasons 1-3 of B5
4) Firefly
5) Jeri Ryan's Boobs in Voyager (not the show, just the boobs.)
Honorable mention: Space: Above and Beyond. The acting is horrible, but I loved that show.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:34 PM (zZu0s)
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122 Besides, if you are gonna bang blue space aliens, Chiana is where it's at.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (ppBhU)
Violates the first rule of bonus holes. She crazy.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (ppBhU)
Violates the first rule of bonus holes. She crazy.
Posted by: The blue skin just makes it hotter at July 25, 2023 01:35 PM (Nw1nV)
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I've wondered for a while about this. How many shows there are, how many people there are and how much content is out there. People now are distracted by other things like Tik Tok etc. I don't watch media much, but many times it's on You Tube etc. There's a metric shit ton of media etc. At some point it has to be so watered down that the number of viewers has to be low for that many shows.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 25, 2023 01:32 PM (CDowr)
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I doubt any show in the modern era can boast viewership numbers that were seen up through the '90s for certain shows (e.g., M*A*S*H, Cheers, Friends, Seinfeld, etc.). The sheer amount of content has diluted viewership tremendously.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 25, 2023 01:32 PM (CDowr)
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I doubt any show in the modern era can boast viewership numbers that were seen up through the '90s for certain shows (e.g., M*A*S*H, Cheers, Friends, Seinfeld, etc.). The sheer amount of content has diluted viewership tremendously.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 01:35 PM (YIVH2)
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123 One thing that has struck me recently, is how immensely overpriced movies are. the budgets don't make any sense to me. Raiders of the lost ark cost $20 million to make in 1981. That would be $67 million today. Dial of destiny cost $300 million. You could make 4.5 Raiders of the Lost Ark for the price of 1 Dial of Destiny.
Same is true for TV shows. The costs to make anything in Hollywood are just absurd.
Yet the writers and actors are striking due to not getting paid enough?
How's that work? The money is going somewhere, and this is a cost, not a profit.
Posted by: Mr. Winnefred T Pooh. at July 25, 2023 01:34 PM (nJ1bF)
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Disney, especially the section under Kennedy, is notorious for massive inefficiencies in production. Huge amounts spent on rewrites, reshoots, and re-edits. Not to mention that the amount of man hours to create CGI at that level is gobsmackingly expensive.
Gargantuan feature filmmaking is massively inefficient. They need a six sigma black belt!
Same is true for TV shows. The costs to make anything in Hollywood are just absurd.
Yet the writers and actors are striking due to not getting paid enough?
How's that work? The money is going somewhere, and this is a cost, not a profit.
Posted by: Mr. Winnefred T Pooh. at July 25, 2023 01:34 PM (nJ1bF)
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Disney, especially the section under Kennedy, is notorious for massive inefficiencies in production. Huge amounts spent on rewrites, reshoots, and re-edits. Not to mention that the amount of man hours to create CGI at that level is gobsmackingly expensive.
Gargantuan feature filmmaking is massively inefficient. They need a six sigma black belt!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:35 PM (LvTSG)
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124 > Can someone kindly explain the pdp-11 joke?
PDP-11 is a minicomputer from the 70s. It's ancient tech. The joke is the idea one could slap a half century old tech in a car and claim the car is now high tech.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:34 PM (R38qh)
Thank you. I thought only the computer game pong existed in the 70s. :-)
PDP-11 is a minicomputer from the 70s. It's ancient tech. The joke is the idea one could slap a half century old tech in a car and claim the car is now high tech.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:34 PM (R38qh)
Thank you. I thought only the computer game pong existed in the 70s. :-)
Posted by: Iris at July 25, 2023 01:35 PM (NaH5I)
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128 106 @63,52throw Babylon 5 seasons 1-4 into that mix and I agree
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 01:31 PM (S75Fo)
Hmmm. Season 1-3, and I'd agree. Something like this:
1) OG Star Trek
2) Farscape
3) Seasons 1-3 of B5
4) Firefly
5) Jeri Ryan's Boobs in Voyager (not the show, just the boobs.)
Honorable mention: Space: Above and Beyond. The acting is horrible, but I loved that show.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:34 PM (zZu0s)
Didn't hercules do a sci-fi show?
Andromeda?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 01:31 PM (S75Fo)
Hmmm. Season 1-3, and I'd agree. Something like this:
1) OG Star Trek
2) Farscape
3) Seasons 1-3 of B5
4) Firefly
5) Jeri Ryan's Boobs in Voyager (not the show, just the boobs.)
Honorable mention: Space: Above and Beyond. The acting is horrible, but I loved that show.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:34 PM (zZu0s)
Didn't hercules do a sci-fi show?
Andromeda?
Posted by: Inogame at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM (53oGX)
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Has everyone seen the video of an Ohio LEO setting their K9 officer on a guy who was fully cooperative and surrendering at the time?
https://youtu.be/S3X0H_YmU2k
That guy needs to go to prison. A police K9 is lethal force. This is the "hands up don't shoot" situation, but real.
https://youtu.be/S3X0H_YmU2k
That guy needs to go to prison. A police K9 is lethal force. This is the "hands up don't shoot" situation, but real.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM (R38qh)
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Also it's hilarious how on the SAG negotiation front, they and the producers all agreed on ever virtual signaling, DEI, negotiation point. But for the midday part SAG is pushing for money for its top end employees and will without a doubt negotiate away gains for its lowest employees, as they've done the last half dozen negotiation cycles.
Posted by: Rbastid at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM (pt6cR)
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In a literal sense, Ford is more of a. tech company that just about any media company: they invest in materials science, chemical engineering, electirical engineering, metals, safety, usability, systems engineering and computer engineering. On, literally, industrial scale.
Posted by: Legion of Boom at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM (gDlxJ)
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indiana jones would have made $200M more if indy had booted fleabag out of the plane to her death and said "it's called gravity"
Posted by: x at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM (ZBPE2)
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I heard Nancy Pelosi is backing SAG.
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM (OgrpQ)
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Honorable mention: Space: Above and Beyond. The acting is horrible, but I loved that show.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:34 PM (zZu0s)
It was conceptually fantastic and had some good storylines. I would've like more seasons.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:34 PM (zZu0s)
It was conceptually fantastic and had some good storylines. I would've like more seasons.
Posted by: Every show I like they cancel! How do they KNOW, man? at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM (Nw1nV)
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The first season of the Battlestar reboot should go around Jeri Ryan's boobs. The show got to be ponderous and tedious and NTish to me after that.
Abortion episode. 53k humans left, and you have an abortion episode. Fuck you Moore.
Abortion episode. 53k humans left, and you have an abortion episode. Fuck you Moore.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM (zZu0s)
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Besides, if you are gonna bang blue space aliens, Chiana is where it's at.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (ppBhU)
Violates the first rule of bonus holes. She crazy.
Posted by: The blue skin just makes it hotter at July 25, 2023 01:35 PM (Nw1nV)
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None of the female characters on the show were on the sunny side of sanity.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (ppBhU)
Violates the first rule of bonus holes. She crazy.
Posted by: The blue skin just makes it hotter at July 25, 2023 01:35 PM (Nw1nV)
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None of the female characters on the show were on the sunny side of sanity.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 01:37 PM (YIVH2)
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It was conceptually fantastic and had some good storylines. I would've like more seasons.
Posted by: Every show I like they cancel! How do they KNOW, man? at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM (Nw1nV)
Angriest Angel. Who Watches the Birds. River of Stars.
Posted by: Every show I like they cancel! How do they KNOW, man? at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM (Nw1nV)
Angriest Angel. Who Watches the Birds. River of Stars.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:37 PM (zZu0s)
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Not to mention that the amount of man hours to create CGI at that level is gobsmackingly expensive.
so ... don't?
it looks like shit anyway
so ... don't?
it looks like shit anyway
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023 01:37 PM (AcWfM)
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I doubt any show in the modern era can boast viewership numbers that were seen up through the '90s for certain shows (e.g., M*A*S*H, Cheers, Friends, Seinfeld, etc.). The sheer amount of content has diluted viewership tremendously.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 01:35 PM (YIVH2)
This probably hurts streaming numbers as well... there is so much, and you can watch whenever... doesn't have to be when it debuts.. can be months later.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 01:35 PM (YIVH2)
This probably hurts streaming numbers as well... there is so much, and you can watch whenever... doesn't have to be when it debuts.. can be months later.
Posted by: Inogame at July 25, 2023 01:37 PM (53oGX)
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>>>Ah, so you are well informed about which AIDS medication is best for you.
You bet! I am well-PrEPared!
You bet! I am well-PrEPared!
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (KRtlO)
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Eh. She's a plant. It'd be like schtupping a sexy rutabega.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:31 PM (ppBhU)
Can you get me her number?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:31 PM (ppBhU)
Can you get me her number?
Posted by: Ficus from "Quark" at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (N3zMI)
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One of the reasons MGM ended up dominating early in the studio days was Irving Thalberg's emphasis on applying the assembly line processes as much as possible to movie making.
Everything was interchangeable from artisans to writers to actors. This is where typecasting originated. They were essentially short form information to audiences about what kinds of movie they were going to get just from the actor's name.
This built some incredible efficiencies in the early decade or two of MGM's existence that helped the studio outlast Thalberg's death and Louis B. Mayer's much more inefficient managerial structure for another two decades or so.
Everything was interchangeable from artisans to writers to actors. This is where typecasting originated. They were essentially short form information to audiences about what kinds of movie they were going to get just from the actor's name.
This built some incredible efficiencies in the early decade or two of MGM's existence that helped the studio outlast Thalberg's death and Louis B. Mayer's much more inefficient managerial structure for another two decades or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (LvTSG)
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116 I saw some actor I don't know posted a tweet the other day, saying something like "yeah, with us on strike, what are people supposed to watch. There's nothing except millions of free videos on Youtube, thousands of tv shows, and a hundred years of movies that are already made!"
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (xDvzW
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Umm. Pretty sure that was a Tom Hanks interview.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (xDvzW
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Umm. Pretty sure that was a Tom Hanks interview.
Posted by: Legion of Boom at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (gDlxJ)
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There was exactly ONE family that actually OWNED their house and land outright there. When the stock crashed, ALL the others had to sell. Or try to.
Posted by: Nightfall'
I am one of the very few people I've ever met who owns their house outright, paid off. I paid it off before aged 50 and it sucked, I can't lie. No nice cars, clothes from thrift stores, scrimp and save and starve. But it got done.
Well, I mean, i made exceptions for guns and ammunition.
After all, I'm not a savage.
Posted by: Nightfall'
I am one of the very few people I've ever met who owns their house outright, paid off. I paid it off before aged 50 and it sucked, I can't lie. No nice cars, clothes from thrift stores, scrimp and save and starve. But it got done.
Well, I mean, i made exceptions for guns and ammunition.
After all, I'm not a savage.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (/BBNv)
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The Chosen.
Posted by: Come and see at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (BxsGY)
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (KRtlO)
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None of the female characters on the show were on the sunny side of sanity.
We are close to a breakthrough here.
There's no 'ettes listing in, right?
We are close to a breakthrough here.
There's no 'ettes listing in, right?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (ppBhU)
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Ford cars have minicomputers in them. Is Ford a tech company too?
Finally, our time has come!!!!!
Finally, our time has come!!!!!
Posted by: DEC PDP-11/32 at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (a3Q+t)
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So are they handing out SAG-AFTRA Awards at the protest in New York? Has the red carpet been replaced by a sidewalk covered in phlegm and urine?
We need to come up with a catchy name, maybe the Baldwin?
We need to come up with a catchy name, maybe the Baldwin?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (fY84s)
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Farscape (lates season 2 to the end) is possibly the greatest sci-fi (live action, anna) show ever made.
Zotoh Zhaan. Definitely a 1. Would bang.
Posted by: The blue skin just makes it hotter
I just recently started watching it, on PlutoTV I think. Man, I can't believe I've been missing that show for like, what, 20 years? I never gave it a chance.
Posted by: Oedipus at July 25, 2023
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Is that the pale-blue alien female? Yeah, Gigi Edgley, who played her, is very hot.
Zotoh Zhaan. Definitely a 1. Would bang.
Posted by: The blue skin just makes it hotter
I just recently started watching it, on PlutoTV I think. Man, I can't believe I've been missing that show for like, what, 20 years? I never gave it a chance.
Posted by: Oedipus at July 25, 2023
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Is that the pale-blue alien female? Yeah, Gigi Edgley, who played her, is very hot.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 01:39 PM (J2vNu)
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It does bother me that espn+ has the NHL now. Oh well. Maybe disney will spin them off someday or musk will buy it.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 25, 2023 01:39 PM (8GBH4)
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Teamsters, Press Releases - “WE’VE CHANGED THE GAME”: TEAMSTERS WIN HISTORIC UPS CONTRACT
Deal Results in Higher Wages, More Jobs, Equal Pay, A/C, MLK Day, Part-Time Rewards
Deal Results in Higher Wages, More Jobs, Equal Pay, A/C, MLK Day, Part-Time Rewards
Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at July 25, 2023 01:39 PM (GshMh)
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Ad-supported streaming is likely going to dominate the future model - especially with a buy-up option to get rid of the ads. That's what I do on the one streaming service I subscribe to. You can watch for free, but have ads and a limited catalogue. Pay a little bit, and get a bigger catalogue. Pay more and get the full catalogue plus no ads.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:28 PM (B2vkr)
I think the only streaming service that is a straight-up ad-free subscription is Netflix.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:28 PM (B2vkr)
I think the only streaming service that is a straight-up ad-free subscription is Netflix.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 25, 2023 01:39 PM (BdMk6)
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it looks like shit anyway
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023 01:37 PM (AcWfM)
yeah it's bad
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023 01:37 PM (AcWfM)
yeah it's bad
Posted by: kallisto at July 25, 2023 01:39 PM (iKhGg)
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151 literally an AIDS medicine ad every ten minutes.
maybe I need to stop watching so much RuPaul
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (KRtlO)
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I watched something on Roku and something on VUDU free (with ads) the last couple of days. Not a single AIDS ad.
It was neat.
maybe I need to stop watching so much RuPaul
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (KRtlO)
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I watched something on Roku and something on VUDU free (with ads) the last couple of days. Not a single AIDS ad.
It was neat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:39 PM (LvTSG)
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I doubt any show in the modern era can boast viewership numbers that were seen up through the '90s for certain shows (e.g., M*A*S*H, Cheers, Friends, Seinfeld, etc.). The sheer amount of content has diluted viewership tremendously.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 01:35 PM
Yep, that's what my long post was trying to say. With all these other options it's not possible to have huge viewership numbers with everything. It's so diluted.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 01:35 PM
Yep, that's what my long post was trying to say. With all these other options it's not possible to have huge viewership numbers with everything. It's so diluted.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (CDowr)
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158 I think the only streaming service that is a straight-up ad-free subscription is Netflix.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 25, 2023 01:39 PM (BdMk6)
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They had an ad supported option, and most others have ad free options.
Prime is completely ad free and doesn't have an ad-supported option. AppleTV+, I think, is the same way.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 25, 2023 01:39 PM (BdMk6)
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They had an ad supported option, and most others have ad free options.
Prime is completely ad free and doesn't have an ad-supported option. AppleTV+, I think, is the same way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (LvTSG)
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Honorable mention: Space: Above and Beyond. The acting is horrible, but I loved that show.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
I enjoyed it's too-short run. And Kristin Cloke (sp?) I remember being kind of a hottie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
I enjoyed it's too-short run. And Kristin Cloke (sp?) I remember being kind of a hottie.
Posted by: Oedipus at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (Z6vKV)
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That guy needs to go to prison. A police K9 is lethal force. This is the "hands up don't shoot" situation, but real.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM
Yup. Psychos are in every profession. Police work is no different.
But I'm not gonna riot over it. Hopefully, the guy spends some time in a 'four hots and a cot' reeducation center.
That guy needs to go to prison. A police K9 is lethal force. This is the "hands up don't shoot" situation, but real.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM
Yup. Psychos are in every profession. Police work is no different.
But I'm not gonna riot over it. Hopefully, the guy spends some time in a 'four hots and a cot' reeducation center.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (enJYY)
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literally an AIDS medicine ad every ten minutes
It's interesting because (i) the market for Prep can't be that big (it's just gay men); and (ii) it unintentionally reinforces a certain stereotype about that demo.
It's interesting because (i) the market for Prep can't be that big (it's just gay men); and (ii) it unintentionally reinforces a certain stereotype about that demo.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (ppBhU)
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Everything was interchangeable from artisans to writers to actors. This is where typecasting originated. They were essentially short form information to audiences about what kinds of movie they were going to get just from the actor's name.
This built some incredible efficiencies in the early decade or two of MGM's existence that helped the studio outlast Thalberg's death and Louis B. Mayer's much more inefficient managerial structure for another two decades or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures '
One of the features of studies I ended up in is propaganda, and I wrote a short essay-type book entitled, yes, 'HOW TO MAKE A SUCCESSFUL MOVIE', and it's nothing but throwing away your precious Artsy-Fartsy and making genre/formula stories that people pay to see over and over and over.
This built some incredible efficiencies in the early decade or two of MGM's existence that helped the studio outlast Thalberg's death and Louis B. Mayer's much more inefficient managerial structure for another two decades or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures '
One of the features of studies I ended up in is propaganda, and I wrote a short essay-type book entitled, yes, 'HOW TO MAKE A SUCCESSFUL MOVIE', and it's nothing but throwing away your precious Artsy-Fartsy and making genre/formula stories that people pay to see over and over and over.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (/BBNv)
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'Hollywood are childless, angry bastards with an extremely nihilistic and anti-human viewpoint on life.'
I'm an angry bastard too. I wish I had some vehicle to work that out at the expense of leftists so I could feel better.
'Hollywood are childless, angry bastards with an extremely nihilistic and anti-human viewpoint on life.'
I'm an angry bastard too. I wish I had some vehicle to work that out at the expense of leftists so I could feel better.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (YohY1)
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In the end, the Hollywood elites will never go broke, no matter what happens to their share prices. They are making enough money from the child trafficking trade.
Posted by: kallisto at July 25, 2023 01:32 PM (iKhGg)
Fifty years from now, there will be an earnest narrator saying "It may be hard to believe now, but before the child sex slave and adrenochrome harvesting business was legal, companies like Disney and Viacom made money by producing video products that people watched in non-governmental buildings, and in living quarters they selfishly didn't share with anyone else, on devices called televisions."
Posted by: kallisto at July 25, 2023 01:32 PM (iKhGg)
Fifty years from now, there will be an earnest narrator saying "It may be hard to believe now, but before the child sex slave and adrenochrome harvesting business was legal, companies like Disney and Viacom made money by producing video products that people watched in non-governmental buildings, and in living quarters they selfishly didn't share with anyone else, on devices called televisions."
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:41 PM (vmr7r)
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Ford cars have minicomputers in them. Is Ford a tech company too?
Cars post-2000 often have at least a dozen computers in them and multiple networks connecting them. Ivan on the YT channel "Pine Hollow Auto Diagnostics" understands how to diagnose and fix that kind of stuff, often with no parts required. He gets cars sent in from all over the country because of that.
He also has a clearly visible TRUMP 24 sign in his videos. It's like people who know and do useful things aren't Democrats.
Cars post-2000 often have at least a dozen computers in them and multiple networks connecting them. Ivan on the YT channel "Pine Hollow Auto Diagnostics" understands how to diagnose and fix that kind of stuff, often with no parts required. He gets cars sent in from all over the country because of that.
He also has a clearly visible TRUMP 24 sign in his videos. It's like people who know and do useful things aren't Democrats.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2023 01:41 PM (ZGrMX)
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"Yet the writers and actors are striking due to not getting paid enough?
How's that work? The money is going somewhere, and this is a cost, not a profit."
CGI budget. 3d conversion. Translating for 100 foreign markets.
How's that work? The money is going somewhere, and this is a cost, not a profit."
CGI budget. 3d conversion. Translating for 100 foreign markets.
Posted by: Scott_T at July 25, 2023 01:41 PM (2waQ7)
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The screenwriters and actors strike against Hollywood studios is one where I hope there are no winners. Only losers. Only big fat sad losers. Just an awful lot of excruciating pain for everyone involved. Pain to the point where they can no longer go on living, and just start jumping off buildings. Such a happy day that would be.
On a related note, here in NYC there seem to be a lot of striking WGA and SAG-AFTRA idiots walking around with "On Strike" pins and shirts. They are the creepiest looking motherfuckers you will ever see. I'll bet almost any amount of money at least 30% are pedos.
On a related note, here in NYC there seem to be a lot of striking WGA and SAG-AFTRA idiots walking around with "On Strike" pins and shirts. They are the creepiest looking motherfuckers you will ever see. I'll bet almost any amount of money at least 30% are pedos.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 25, 2023 01:41 PM (iFTx/)
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166 Everything was interchangeable from artisans to writers to actors. This is where typecasting originated. They were essentially short form information to audiences about what kinds of movie they were going to get just from the actor's name.
This built some incredible efficiencies in the early decade or two of MGM's existence that helped the studio outlast Thalberg's death and Louis B. Mayer's much more inefficient managerial structure for another two decades or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures '
One of the features of studies I ended up in is propaganda, and I wrote a short essay-type book entitled, yes, 'HOW TO MAKE A SUCCESSFUL MOVIE', and it's nothing but throwing away your precious Artsy-Fartsy and making genre/formula stories that people pay to see over and over and over.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (/BBNv)
So the best movie to make is Call of Duty.
This built some incredible efficiencies in the early decade or two of MGM's existence that helped the studio outlast Thalberg's death and Louis B. Mayer's much more inefficient managerial structure for another two decades or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures '
One of the features of studies I ended up in is propaganda, and I wrote a short essay-type book entitled, yes, 'HOW TO MAKE A SUCCESSFUL MOVIE', and it's nothing but throwing away your precious Artsy-Fartsy and making genre/formula stories that people pay to see over and over and over.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (/BBNv)
So the best movie to make is Call of Duty.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 25, 2023 01:41 PM (eYoxG)
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Whenever I watch something (absolutely anything) on FreeVee, at least a third of the ads are for AIDS medication.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I wonder if that's determined by your Zip Code as determined by your IP address?
Whenever I watch something (absolutely anything) on FreeVee, at least a third of the ads are for AIDS medication.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I wonder if that's determined by your Zip Code as determined by your IP address?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (63Dwl)
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I enjoyed it's too-short run. And Kristin Cloke (sp?) I remember being kind of a hottie.
Posted by: Oedipus at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (Z6vKV)
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Yes, yes she was. I remember her from Chris Carter's *other* conspiracy show, Millennium Season 2.
Then she was initiated into the secrets of the Millennium Group and went batshit crazy.
Posted by: Oedipus at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (Z6vKV)
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Yes, yes she was. I remember her from Chris Carter's *other* conspiracy show, Millennium Season 2.
Then she was initiated into the secrets of the Millennium Group and went batshit crazy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (YIVH2)
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Oh, lookie here. Some of those US supplied weapons to Ukraine are turning up in the hands of gang members and arms dealers.
https://tinyurl.com/2aazwtxa
https://tinyurl.com/2aazwtxa
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (R38qh)
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166 One of the features of studies I ended up in is propaganda, and I wrote a short essay-type book entitled, yes, 'HOW TO MAKE A SUCCESSFUL MOVIE', and it's nothing but throwing away your precious Artsy-Fartsy and making genre/formula stories that people pay to see over and over and over.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (/BBNv)
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Artsy-fartsy has its place. Sometimes that stuff can make money.
But yeah, the backbone of studios have always been genre stuff. Westerns through the silent era, gangsters through the 30s, noir through the 40s, scifi and westerns again through the 50s.
The problem now is that the B-movie gets the massive budgets to the point where fucking Blue Beetle got a $200 million budget. What the fuck is Blue Beetle?
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (/BBNv)
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Artsy-fartsy has its place. Sometimes that stuff can make money.
But yeah, the backbone of studios have always been genre stuff. Westerns through the silent era, gangsters through the 30s, noir through the 40s, scifi and westerns again through the 50s.
The problem now is that the B-movie gets the massive budgets to the point where fucking Blue Beetle got a $200 million budget. What the fuck is Blue Beetle?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (LvTSG)
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True, the number of views doesn't itself generate revenue. But streamers use the number of views as a measure of success and a marketing gimmick to try to get new subscribers. They try to hype up the popularity of a show to generate interest and (hopefully) more subscribers. The same way the movie industry does when it hypes how such-and-such piece of shit movie is "The No. 1 Movie In America!"
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 25, 2023 01:30 PM (iFTx/)
Here is the thing - Paramount makes star trek. Now, the new star trek shows are shit, BUT. There is a segment of fandom that will consume anything with star trek on it, and that segment will pay for the steaming service.
So, you put on show, it gets low viewership (because it is shit) but it drives subscribers. hence a shit show makes money.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 25, 2023 01:30 PM (iFTx/)
Here is the thing - Paramount makes star trek. Now, the new star trek shows are shit, BUT. There is a segment of fandom that will consume anything with star trek on it, and that segment will pay for the steaming service.
So, you put on show, it gets low viewership (because it is shit) but it drives subscribers. hence a shit show makes money.
Posted by: Mr. Winnefred T Pooh. at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (nJ1bF)
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Have any homeless insane people attacked the Hollywood protesters yet? That would be an episode of "Get Me Out of Here I'm a Celebrity" writing itself
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (S75Fo)
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My fervent wish is that when all of this blows over, Hollyturd learns exactly how important the rest of us think they are. Which is not at all.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (MRgz9)
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Yep because the network monopoly has been busted up
.. I must have literally 10,000 movies on my channels.. plus numerous news,sports and educational channels...
Haha Fug ghe networks and especially thd cable companies. Take THAT Jane Fonda..
.. I must have literally 10,000 movies on my channels.. plus numerous news,sports and educational channels...
Haha Fug ghe networks and especially thd cable companies. Take THAT Jane Fonda..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (DeRoy)
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One thing that pisses me off is when a show is on say Netflix etc. and then you have to go to Paramount Plus to keep watching it. Yellowstone was that way. Oh you like this show? Well, sorry you're going to have to pay for ANOTHER streaming service. I really don't care anymore and we are ditching pretty much everything. It's almost all woke preaching now anyway so screw it.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 25, 2023 01:43 PM (CDowr)
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I doubt any show in the modern era can boast viewership numbers that were seen up through the '90s for certain shows (e.g., M*A*S*H, Cheers, Friends, Seinfeld, etc.). The sheer amount of content has diluted viewership tremendously.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 01:35 PM (YIVH2)
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Also the number of venues and the fragmentation of time and space.
Pre-internet, you had to watch it when it came out or wait - sometimes a really long time - for reruns. There were only a relatively small number of channels, so relatively little content as needed to fill them. As the number of channels grows, so does the amount of required content. The denominator surges while the numerator remains fairly similar.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 01:35 PM (YIVH2)
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Also the number of venues and the fragmentation of time and space.
Pre-internet, you had to watch it when it came out or wait - sometimes a really long time - for reruns. There were only a relatively small number of channels, so relatively little content as needed to fill them. As the number of channels grows, so does the amount of required content. The denominator surges while the numerator remains fairly similar.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:43 PM (B2vkr)
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I, too, nooded. Belt and suspenders. It's the only way.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo
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Yet 20 minutes later there sit several Morons in the last thread with their pants around their ankles...
Posted by: Zombie Robbo
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Yet 20 minutes later there sit several Morons in the last thread with their pants around their ankles...
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 01:43 PM (zLLgI)
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165 literally an AIDS medicine ad every ten minutes
that's cuz there's an ass being fucked every 2 minutes
even ace can do that math
that's cuz there's an ass being fucked every 2 minutes
even ace can do that math
Posted by: REDACTED at July 25, 2023 01:43 PM (us2H3)
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The price of a stock is based on estimated future revenues and that stock's share of. In general it's a bit of a stretch to call that "imaginary". In some specific cases, Enron for example, solar companies for another, perfectly fair to do so.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at July 25, 2023 01:43 PM (P7Iz+)
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I heard Nancy Pelosi is backing SAG.
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM (OgrpQ)
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She's going braless?
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM (OgrpQ)
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She's going braless?
Posted by: wth at July 25, 2023 01:43 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 25, 2023 01:43 PM (wtvvX)
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my ads are always in Spanish! which I think is funny
something in my location or purchasing patterns?!!?
something in my location or purchasing patterns?!!?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023 01:43 PM (AcWfM)
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Posted by: Ficus from "Quark" at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (N3zMI)
Ok, I really laughed at that one. Quark was a great, short-lived show.
Ok, I really laughed at that one. Quark was a great, short-lived show.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 25, 2023 01:44 PM (/iWhV)
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Whenever I watch something (absolutely anything) on FreeVee, at least a third of the ads are for AIDS medication.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I wonder if that's determined by your Zip Code as determined by your IP address?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (63Dwl)
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If I had to make a guess, it's that the profitability on those pills is sky-high and pharma pays big dollars to get those ads in front of as many eyes as possible. One hit that turns into a sale makes it very worthwhile.
Whenever I watch something (absolutely anything) on FreeVee, at least a third of the ads are for AIDS medication.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I wonder if that's determined by your Zip Code as determined by your IP address?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (63Dwl)
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If I had to make a guess, it's that the profitability on those pills is sky-high and pharma pays big dollars to get those ads in front of as many eyes as possible. One hit that turns into a sale makes it very worthwhile.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:44 PM (LvTSG)
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I would think analysts wouldn’t recommend a stock one way or the other without seeing the numbers. If they did then they are not credible analysts.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 01:44 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2023 01:44 PM (4PZHB)
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188 my ads are always in Spanish! which I think is funny
something in my location or purchasing patterns?!!?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023 01:43 PM (AcWfM)
Maybe you're Mexican but don't know it?
Are you wearing a sombrero?
something in my location or purchasing patterns?!!?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023 01:43 PM (AcWfM)
Maybe you're Mexican but don't know it?
Are you wearing a sombrero?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:44 PM (ppBhU)
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Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (xDvzW
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Umm. Pretty sure that was a Tom Hanks interview.
Posted by: Legion of Boom at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (gDlxJ)
No, I've heard of Tom Hank. Whoever this guy was, it wasn't Tom Hank.
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Umm. Pretty sure that was a Tom Hanks interview.
Posted by: Legion of Boom at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (gDlxJ)
No, I've heard of Tom Hank. Whoever this guy was, it wasn't Tom Hank.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:44 PM (vmr7r)
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The denominator surges while the numerator remains fairly similar.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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I was led to believe that there would be no math...!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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I was led to believe that there would be no math...!
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (zLLgI)
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I'd buy Netflix at $25.
Not per share. For the whole thing.
Sucker. You just bought hundreds of millions of dollars of debt!
No takebacks!
Not per share. For the whole thing.
Sucker. You just bought hundreds of millions of dollars of debt!
No takebacks!
Posted by: Netflix at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (R38qh)
Posted by: s at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (Vu7A1)
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Same as it ever was.
Posted by: D. Byrne at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (lZVy/)
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185 The price of a stock is based on estimated future revenues and that stock's share of. In general it's a bit of a stretch to call that "imaginary". In some specific cases, Enron for example, solar companies for another, perfectly fair to do so.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at July 25, 2023 01:43 PM (P7Iz+)
It is more speculative in the case of something like a self-driving car company or VR headset company, less speculative in the case of something like Philip Morris.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at July 25, 2023 01:43 PM (P7Iz+)
It is more speculative in the case of something like a self-driving car company or VR headset company, less speculative in the case of something like Philip Morris.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (eYoxG)
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Whenever I watch something (absolutely anything) on FreeVee, at least a third of the ads are for AIDS medication.
I just watched an hour-long show on Freevee with like 5 ad breaks and none of them were AIDS medication. I think the TV's trying to tell you something.
I just watched an hour-long show on Freevee with like 5 ad breaks and none of them were AIDS medication. I think the TV's trying to tell you something.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (ZGrMX)
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I send 12 bucks a month to Google (I know) for YouTube Premium and never see an ad. There's more content than I can consume.
Posted by: But that's just me at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (BxsGY)
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stonk fail
Posted by: sEN. jOHN fETTERMAN at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (Vu7A1)
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literally an AIDS medicine ad every ten minutes.
maybe I need to stop watching so much RuPaul
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (KRtlO)
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I'm just surprised Naked and Afraid doesn't run ads for mosquito repellant.
maybe I need to stop watching so much RuPaul
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (KRtlO)
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I'm just surprised Naked and Afraid doesn't run ads for mosquito repellant.
Posted by: wth at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (v0R5T)
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I doubt any show in the modern era can boast viewership numbers that were seen up through the '90s for certain shows (e.g., M*A*S*H, Cheers, Friends, Seinfeld, etc.). The sheer amount of content has diluted viewership tremendously.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 01:35 PM (YIVH2)
Name a show today that has really penetrated modern pop culture to the point where you can see us still quoting it some 25 years after it has gone off the air.
I can't think of a single one.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 01:35 PM (YIVH2)
Name a show today that has really penetrated modern pop culture to the point where you can see us still quoting it some 25 years after it has gone off the air.
I can't think of a single one.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (KbCG3)
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175 Oh, lookie here. Some of those US supplied weapons to Ukraine are turning up in the hands of gang members and arms dealers.
https://tinyurl.com/2aazwtxa
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (R38qh)
Well, to be fair, they were sold by a gang dealing arms...
https://tinyurl.com/2aazwtxa
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (R38qh)
Well, to be fair, they were sold by a gang dealing arms...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (wtvvX)
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Prime is completely ad free and doesn't have an ad-supported option. AppleTV+, I think, is the same way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (LvTSG)
But with prime, I have to pay for some of the movies/series I want to see. And some of the better series are quite expensive.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (LvTSG)
But with prime, I have to pay for some of the movies/series I want to see. And some of the better series are quite expensive.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (BdMk6)
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Space: Above and Beyond had a great episode which featured Johnny Cash's I Walk the Line. That, Kristen Cloke and nipple necks are what I remember
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (S75Fo)
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A fascinating YT channel is MosFilm. I've studied ComBloc and Non-Aligned Film for decades and the final fact is, the authorities had the power to force people to watch their studio output at gunpoint, but, ultimately, could not make anyone like it. It was out of their hands and the Bolsheviks lost.
The Soviets even under Stalin were forced to make the usual: action movies, musicals, comedies, romances, or literally nobody would voluntarily attend.
Most 'Russian/Soviet Fine Art/Eisenstein' masterpieces were and are loss leaders that made absolutely no money and nobody went to see as they were too weird and abstract.
The Soviets even under Stalin were forced to make the usual: action movies, musicals, comedies, romances, or literally nobody would voluntarily attend.
Most 'Russian/Soviet Fine Art/Eisenstein' masterpieces were and are loss leaders that made absolutely no money and nobody went to see as they were too weird and abstract.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (/BBNv)
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In our new movie, we have plug and play naughty bits! Mix and match to meet your moods! Tits and dicks! Back boobs! Top weiners and bottom tails!
It's the wave of the future!
Posted by: Trans BarbiKen at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (j3ZVQ)
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It's the wave of the future!
Posted by: Trans BarbiKen at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (j3ZVQ)
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Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (aD39U)
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Yet the writers and actors are striking due to not getting paid enough?
Posted by: Mr. Winnefred T Pooh
Writers and actors are two separate things, both in why they are striking, and if it's actually warranted.
For writers i think it is. They are fighting to keep studios from getting an AI to write a script, then have a writer do rewrites. Writers make the most when writing the script, and make a small (relative to the overall film cost) fee when doing rewrites. They also have made it harder for tv writers, as they'll now just put them on weekly contracts instead of hiring them for a show. I think their strike is totally valid.
SAG is striking for attention. They're striking to make their members think they're fighting for them, in hopes they forget how they took away the healthcare of many of them in the middle of Covid and dismissed their concerns by saying "you can go in the public plan or Medicare" The SAG members are, for the most part (and i say this as one of them) imbeciles who blindly vote yes for whatever contract they're given, hence why they voted to strike.
SAGs strike is bs, and they'll screw the little guy to get DeNiro a few more checks
Posted by: Mr. Winnefred T Pooh
Writers and actors are two separate things, both in why they are striking, and if it's actually warranted.
For writers i think it is. They are fighting to keep studios from getting an AI to write a script, then have a writer do rewrites. Writers make the most when writing the script, and make a small (relative to the overall film cost) fee when doing rewrites. They also have made it harder for tv writers, as they'll now just put them on weekly contracts instead of hiring them for a show. I think their strike is totally valid.
SAG is striking for attention. They're striking to make their members think they're fighting for them, in hopes they forget how they took away the healthcare of many of them in the middle of Covid and dismissed their concerns by saying "you can go in the public plan or Medicare" The SAG members are, for the most part (and i say this as one of them) imbeciles who blindly vote yes for whatever contract they're given, hence why they voted to strike.
SAGs strike is bs, and they'll screw the little guy to get DeNiro a few more checks
Posted by: Rbastid at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (pt6cR)
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btw I recommend the Night Flight streaming service 
no, really!
oh and from previous thread: I don't know if they Bidens paid that much for their GSDs and they well might have "rescued" them (as in gotten them from specialty breeders after someone else returned them) - but I know people around here who have paid in the tens of thousands for specially bred dogs - in particular protective dogs. it's like we're in South Africa up in here! Mushroom South Africa. the cloning part I do roll my eyes at but a lot of people have more money than sense.
no, really!
oh and from previous thread: I don't know if they Bidens paid that much for their GSDs and they well might have "rescued" them (as in gotten them from specialty breeders after someone else returned them) - but I know people around here who have paid in the tens of thousands for specially bred dogs - in particular protective dogs. it's like we're in South Africa up in here! Mushroom South Africa. the cloning part I do roll my eyes at but a lot of people have more money than sense.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (AcWfM)
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Ford cars have minicomputers in them.
For a limited time, you get a free VT-100 or VT-220 with the purchase of a Ford car!
But you must act now! Supplies are limited!!
For a limited time, you get a free VT-100 or VT-220 with the purchase of a Ford car!
But you must act now! Supplies are limited!!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (a3Q+t)
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134 Has everyone seen the video of an Ohio LEO setting their K9 officer on a guy who was fully cooperative and surrendering at the time?
https://youtu.be/S3X0H_YmU2k
That guy needs to go to prison. A police K9 is lethal force. This is the "hands up don't shoot" situation, but real.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM (R38qh)
Play stupid games win stupid prizes! He fucked around and found out! What did he expect after running from the police? Why do you hate law enforcement? Why do you hate AMERICA? Back the blue!!!
https://youtu.be/S3X0H_YmU2k
That guy needs to go to prison. A police K9 is lethal force. This is the "hands up don't shoot" situation, but real.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:36 PM (R38qh)
Play stupid games win stupid prizes! He fucked around and found out! What did he expect after running from the police? Why do you hate law enforcement? Why do you hate AMERICA? Back the blue!!!
Posted by: Speaking of psychopaths at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (Nw1nV)
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I recently purchased one of those OBDC diagnostic plugs for our vehicles. It's got bluetooth to synch up to your phone. There are a bunch of free diagnostic apps you can use to troubleshoot your vehicle. The older, hand held 'code reader' I had couldn't trap computer related issues, such as a failure in lane sensing module XYZ or related stuff.
It's been too hot to mess around in the garage with it, but soon...
It's been too hot to mess around in the garage with it, but soon...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2023 01:47 PM (Q4IgG)
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Wiki-up "Philco" and have your very recent mind blown.
The real mind blowing part of Philco was that it was possible at some point to operate a legitimate business in Philadelphia.
The real mind blowing part of Philco was that it was possible at some point to operate a legitimate business in Philadelphia.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2023 01:47 PM (ZGrMX)
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My favorite con to get people to wager on the stock market is, "if you had invested $100 in Google in 1998, you'd have $10,000,000 now. So invest today, you never know!"
Right. It's that easy. What's the percentage of ordinary, average people who invested in Apple, Google, etc. back when it was cheap?
That's your real odds of picking a winner like that.
"If you pick the winning lotto numbers, you would have won the lottery!"
Right. It's that easy. What's the percentage of ordinary, average people who invested in Apple, Google, etc. back when it was cheap?
That's your real odds of picking a winner like that.
"If you pick the winning lotto numbers, you would have won the lottery!"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2023 01:47 PM (EYVn3)
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165 literally an AIDS medicine ad every ten minutes
It's interesting because (i) the market for Prep can't be that big (it's just gay men); and (ii) it unintentionally reinforces a certain stereotype about that demo.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (ppBhU)
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I wouldn't say "unintentionally." The ads are almost gay porn themselves, highlighting the darkest and most lurid aspects of gay life: hard partying, drugs, and anonymous group sex. No, they don't actually show group sex, but the settings of the ads are always dudes at gay clubs tripping balls and obviously cruising for sex.
It's interesting because (i) the market for Prep can't be that big (it's just gay men); and (ii) it unintentionally reinforces a certain stereotype about that demo.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:40 PM (ppBhU)
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I wouldn't say "unintentionally." The ads are almost gay porn themselves, highlighting the darkest and most lurid aspects of gay life: hard partying, drugs, and anonymous group sex. No, they don't actually show group sex, but the settings of the ads are always dudes at gay clubs tripping balls and obviously cruising for sex.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 25, 2023 01:47 PM (iFTx/)
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206 But with prime, I have to pay for some of the movies/series I want to see. And some of the better series are quite expensive.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (BdMk6)
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That's a combination of two services under the same banner. Amazon Prime Video is the stuff they own or have licenses to and can show with the Prime membership. They also have a digital footlocker service (it can connect with others like VUDU and Movies Anywhere) that's a rental/ownership service at the same time.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (BdMk6)
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That's a combination of two services under the same banner. Amazon Prime Video is the stuff they own or have licenses to and can show with the Prime membership. They also have a digital footlocker service (it can connect with others like VUDU and Movies Anywhere) that's a rental/ownership service at the same time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:47 PM (LvTSG)
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191 I would think analysts wouldn’t recommend a stock one way or the other without seeing the numbers. If they did then they are not credible analysts.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 01:44 PM (MNhXM)
The companies are large companies that need to be covered, like Disney, but they aren't required to share much information about this speculative line of business they've engaged in. So all the analysts can do is estimate (and consequently for things like this there will be more dispersion in the estimates).
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 01:44 PM (MNhXM)
The companies are large companies that need to be covered, like Disney, but they aren't required to share much information about this speculative line of business they've engaged in. So all the analysts can do is estimate (and consequently for things like this there will be more dispersion in the estimates).
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 25, 2023 01:47 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: LenNeal, First Year Law at July 25, 2023 01:47 PM (/BBNv)
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201 I send 12 bucks a month to Google (I know) for YouTube Premium and never see an ad. There's more content than I can consume.
Posted by: But that's just me at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (BxsGY)
Me trying to fix a problem with my refrigerator: Ugh, no way anyone can help with this. Who the hell would make a video on this?
YouTube: Here are 45 million videos on how to fix that small issue with the fridge.
Me: Yeah, but can you show me an hourlong compilation of 90s NASCAR crashes?
YouTube: Only an hourlong?
Posted by: But that's just me at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (BxsGY)
Me trying to fix a problem with my refrigerator: Ugh, no way anyone can help with this. Who the hell would make a video on this?
YouTube: Here are 45 million videos on how to fix that small issue with the fridge.
Me: Yeah, but can you show me an hourlong compilation of 90s NASCAR crashes?
YouTube: Only an hourlong?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:48 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Earl Shieb at July 25, 2023 01:48 PM (Vu7A1)
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Oh, lookie here. Some of those US supplied weapons to Ukraine are turning up in the hands of gang members and arms dealers.
https://tinyurl.com/2aazwtxa
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (R38qh)
So, Raytheon and Boeing? Or Lockheed Martin?
https://tinyurl.com/2aazwtxa
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (R38qh)
So, Raytheon and Boeing? Or Lockheed Martin?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:48 PM (vmr7r)
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88 my ads are always in Spanish! which I think is funny
something in my location or purchasing patterns?!!?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023 01:43 PM
Well it is Taco Tuesday®️
something in my location or purchasing patterns?!!?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023 01:43 PM
Well it is Taco Tuesday®️
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 25, 2023 01:48 PM (CDowr)
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They seem to forget when he said, before all this started, he wasn't doing it to make money. I'm sure he'd prefer not to be taking a bath with it, but it's rather humorous whenever anyone thinks this isn't going exactly according to plan.
Posted by: BurtTC
I think that someday, Musk will make money, or turn a profit, on "X", formerly known as Twitter. But it will take a while. A lot of Left-wing Tech mavens are very concerned!!! about what happened to their pet wubbie, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Posted by: BurtTC
I think that someday, Musk will make money, or turn a profit, on "X", formerly known as Twitter. But it will take a while. A lot of Left-wing Tech mavens are very concerned!!! about what happened to their pet wubbie, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 25, 2023 01:48 PM (vcOmj)
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In David Prowse's lawsuit against Fox in the 80s, Fox claimed that Return of the Jedi never turned a profit. Prowse was due residuals in his contract.
The studio claimed that Star Wars never turned a profit, when negotiating with the smaller entities that had profit participation.
The studio claimed that Star Wars never turned a profit, when negotiating with the smaller entities that had profit participation.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 25, 2023 01:49 PM (2tUFv)
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207 nipple necks?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 25, 2023 01:49 PM (xTRSc)
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I send 12 bucks a month to Google (I know) for YouTube Premium and never see an ad. There's more content than I can consume.
Posted by: But that's just me at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (BxsGY)
I use the Brave browser, don't send 12 bucks a month to Google, and - other than the occasional banner at the top - never see an ad.
Posted by: But that's just me at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (BxsGY)
I use the Brave browser, don't send 12 bucks a month to Google, and - other than the occasional banner at the top - never see an ad.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 25, 2023 01:49 PM (z99Zw)
Posted by: 224 at July 25, 2023 01:49 PM (Vu7A1)
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SAGs strike is bs, and they'll screw the little guy to get DeNiro a few more checks
Posted by: Rbastid at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (pt6cR)
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This is going to be a war of attrition and as a result I think there's a risk that the Hollywood strike is existential.
If the WGA and SAG capitulate, their unions are over. They'll still exist, of course, but they will be pointless legacy that achieve nothing. If the studios capitulate, they'll bring in foreign talent and content and start moving production activities out with new actors over time.
I think there's a chance that Hollywood doesn't survive this strike in its current form.
Posted by: Rbastid at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (pt6cR)
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This is going to be a war of attrition and as a result I think there's a risk that the Hollywood strike is existential.
If the WGA and SAG capitulate, their unions are over. They'll still exist, of course, but they will be pointless legacy that achieve nothing. If the studios capitulate, they'll bring in foreign talent and content and start moving production activities out with new actors over time.
I think there's a chance that Hollywood doesn't survive this strike in its current form.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:49 PM (B2vkr)
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I was led to believe that there would be no math...!
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM
Did you learn nothing from Flounder?
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM
Did you learn nothing from Flounder?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2023 01:50 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 01:50 PM (zLLgI)
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201 I send 12 bucks a month to Google (I know) for YouTube Premium and never see an ad. There's more content than I can consume.
Posted by: But that's just me at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (BxsGY)
Don't try to find a video on lathe turning long thin rifle barrels. Non-existent.
Posted by: But that's just me at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (BxsGY)
Don't try to find a video on lathe turning long thin rifle barrels. Non-existent.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 25, 2023 01:50 PM (pohLc)
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Name a show today that has really penetrated modern pop culture to the point where you can see us still quoting it some 25 years after it has gone off the air.
I can't think of a single one.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (KbCG3)
Agree and It’s just me , but I quote from Scrubs all the time. But that sitcom ended in 2010. I can’t think of another sitcom I watched afterwards except Rules of Engagement which ended 2013.
I can't think of a single one.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (KbCG3)
Agree and It’s just me , but I quote from Scrubs all the time. But that sitcom ended in 2010. I can’t think of another sitcom I watched afterwards except Rules of Engagement which ended 2013.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 01:50 PM (MNhXM)
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Posted by: Trans BarbiKen at July 25, 2023 01:29 PM (j3ZVQ)
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Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (aD39U)
Is that a bratwurst in your eye slot, or are you just happy to see me?
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Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (aD39U)
Is that a bratwurst in your eye slot, or are you just happy to see me?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:50 PM (vmr7r)
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The problem now is that the B-movie gets the massive budgets to the point where fucking Blue Beetle got a $200 million budget. What the fuck is Blue Beetle?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (LvTSG)
exactly - that fucking thing should cost $70 million. And with a little clever editing, and practical effects, it could cost $50 million.
I watched the movie "Spectral" recently. decent movie. Cost $70 million to make. Loads of special effects. Made in 2016. It was great - not the best movie ever, but plenty serviceable.
So, I could make three Spectrals for one Blue Bettle. WTF? And I'd happily watch three Spectrals.
Season 1 of Rings of Power cost $715 million. How do you spend that kind of money and have shit acting and a shit story? Maybe they are underpaying actors and writers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (LvTSG)
exactly - that fucking thing should cost $70 million. And with a little clever editing, and practical effects, it could cost $50 million.
I watched the movie "Spectral" recently. decent movie. Cost $70 million to make. Loads of special effects. Made in 2016. It was great - not the best movie ever, but plenty serviceable.
So, I could make three Spectrals for one Blue Bettle. WTF? And I'd happily watch three Spectrals.
Season 1 of Rings of Power cost $715 million. How do you spend that kind of money and have shit acting and a shit story? Maybe they are underpaying actors and writers.
Posted by: Mr. Winnefred T Pooh. at July 25, 2023 01:50 PM (nJ1bF)
237
I recently purchased one of those OBDC diagnostic plugs for our vehicles. It's got bluetooth to synch up to your phone. There are a bunch of free diagnostic apps you can use to troubleshoot your vehicle. The older, hand held 'code reader' I had couldn't trap computer related issues, such as a failure in lane sensing module XYZ or related stuff.
It's been too hot to mess around in the garage with it, but soon...
Posted by: Martini Farmer'
Lane sensing?! Luxury! My dad made me run ahead of the car to make sure nobody was there while he smoked a cigarette, drank a beer, and fiddled with the radio!
It's been too hot to mess around in the garage with it, but soon...
Posted by: Martini Farmer'
Lane sensing?! Luxury! My dad made me run ahead of the car to make sure nobody was there while he smoked a cigarette, drank a beer, and fiddled with the radio!
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (/BBNv)
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Oh, lookie here. Some of those US supplied weapons to Ukraine are turning up in the hands of gang members and arms dealers.
https://tinyurl.com/2aazwtxa
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (R38qh)
Well, to be fair, they were sold by a gang dealing arms...
Posted by: Tex Lovera
Which is part of the reason Russia is attacking Odessa. I think the CIA (our pals, you know) are trying to run arms out of Ukraine and stir up trouble in Kazakstan....but you won't hear THAT on the Lamestream Lying Media.
https://tinyurl.com/2aazwtxa
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (R38qh)
Well, to be fair, they were sold by a gang dealing arms...
Posted by: Tex Lovera
Which is part of the reason Russia is attacking Odessa. I think the CIA (our pals, you know) are trying to run arms out of Ukraine and stir up trouble in Kazakstan....but you won't hear THAT on the Lamestream Lying Media.
Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (vcOmj)
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I send 12 bucks a month to Google (I know) for YouTube Premium and never see an ad. There's more content than I can consume.
Posted by: But that's just me at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (BxsGY)
I still have the adds. But there's still the same shitload of content. Sometimes YouTube is all I watch in an evening.
Posted by: But that's just me at July 25, 2023 01:45 PM (BxsGY)
I still have the adds. But there's still the same shitload of content. Sometimes YouTube is all I watch in an evening.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (BdMk6)
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I recently purchased one of those OBDC diagnostic plugs for our vehicles. It's got bluetooth to synch up to your phone. There are a bunch of free diagnostic apps you can use to troubleshoot your vehicle. The older, hand held 'code reader' I had couldn't trap computer related issues, such as a failure in lane sensing module XYZ or related stuff.
Those are handy, but a lot of people just plug one in and replace whatever part it says, like a cam sensor or whatever. And nothing changes because it was actually green crusties in a harness connector or something.
Those are handy, but a lot of people just plug one in and replace whatever part it says, like a cam sensor or whatever. And nothing changes because it was actually green crusties in a harness connector or something.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (ZGrMX)
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Justice Department 'weaponized' bipartisan gun safety law to 'illegally fund' red flag laws, Republicans say
States that have these so-called "red flag" laws once confiscated they stay confiscated.
States that have these so-called "red flag" laws once confiscated they stay confiscated.
Posted by: vic at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (A5THL)
242
This busty brunette in her underwear likes watching stuff on streaming, but isn't too particular about which service she has at any given time:
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (B2vkr)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (a3Q+t)
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234 Name a show today that has really penetrated modern pop culture to the point where you can see us still quoting it some 25 years after it has gone off the air.
I can't think of a single one.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (KbCG3)
Agree and It’s just me , but I quote from Scrubs all the time. But that sitcom ended in 2010. I can’t think of another sitcom I watched afterwards except Rules of Engagement which ended 2013.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 01:50 PM (MNhXM)
Binging that now. In the middle of season 5. I cannot believe the stuff they got away with. So many gay jokes.
I can't think of a single one.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (KbCG3)
Agree and It’s just me , but I quote from Scrubs all the time. But that sitcom ended in 2010. I can’t think of another sitcom I watched afterwards except Rules of Engagement which ended 2013.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 01:50 PM (MNhXM)
Binging that now. In the middle of season 5. I cannot believe the stuff they got away with. So many gay jokes.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (KbCG3)
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OT, from Breitbart:
LeBron James’ son, Bronny, suffered a cardiac arrest during a workout at USC on Monday, TMZ Sports reports.
“Yesterday while practicing, Bronny James suffered a cardiac arrest,” a James family spokesperson told TMZ Sports. “Medical staff was able to treat Bronny and take him to the hospital. He is now in stable condition and no longer in ICU. We ask for respect and privacy for the James family and we will update media when there is more information.
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I'm not a fan, but I do wonder if LeBron will finally acknowledge his Chinese paymasters are the cause of the explosion of heart problems suffered by thousands of otherwise healthy athletes in their primes, caused by The Jab.
Yeah, I know, stupid question. Still, a guy can dream.
LeBron James’ son, Bronny, suffered a cardiac arrest during a workout at USC on Monday, TMZ Sports reports.
“Yesterday while practicing, Bronny James suffered a cardiac arrest,” a James family spokesperson told TMZ Sports. “Medical staff was able to treat Bronny and take him to the hospital. He is now in stable condition and no longer in ICU. We ask for respect and privacy for the James family and we will update media when there is more information.
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I'm not a fan, but I do wonder if LeBron will finally acknowledge his Chinese paymasters are the cause of the explosion of heart problems suffered by thousands of otherwise healthy athletes in their primes, caused by The Jab.
Yeah, I know, stupid question. Still, a guy can dream.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (i+mOk)
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Entrepreneurs can't make money in a totalitarian state. Only toadies and apparatchiks can.
So it may be that Musk wanted Twitter not to turn a profit on that business directly, but to help stem the tide of totalitarianism in order to make a better climate for every other business to operate in. Call it a "necessary by not necessarily sufficient" condition.
Or he was just bored and had a few billion to throw around for funsies.
So it may be that Musk wanted Twitter not to turn a profit on that business directly, but to help stem the tide of totalitarianism in order to make a better climate for every other business to operate in. Call it a "necessary by not necessarily sufficient" condition.
Or he was just bored and had a few billion to throw around for funsies.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2023 01:52 PM (/EuRN)
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> Right. It's that easy. What's the percentage of ordinary, average people who invested in Apple, Google, etc. back when it was cheap?
That's your real odds of picking a winner like that.
Not just that, but that's assuming you hang on to the stock that whole time. In reality, once that stock reached a few thousands in value, it'd get REALLY hard to hang onto. That money would start burning a hole in your pocket and you'd start sweating. Do you hang on or sell it now? Is it going to crash any second? Should I sell? Should I sell? SHOULD I SELL?!?
Only someone with great big steel balls would be able to hang on for the whole ride.
That's your real odds of picking a winner like that.
Not just that, but that's assuming you hang on to the stock that whole time. In reality, once that stock reached a few thousands in value, it'd get REALLY hard to hang onto. That money would start burning a hole in your pocket and you'd start sweating. Do you hang on or sell it now? Is it going to crash any second? Should I sell? Should I sell? SHOULD I SELL?!?
Only someone with great big steel balls would be able to hang on for the whole ride.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:52 PM (R38qh)
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Season 1 of Rings of Power cost $715 million. How do you spend that kind of money and have shit acting and a shit story? Maybe they are underpaying actors and writers.
Posted by: Mr. Winnefred T Pooh. at July 25, 2023 01:50 PM (nJ1bF)
Or maybe they think the Rubes will watch any stinking pile as long as it sounds like TLOTR.
Posted by: Mr. Winnefred T Pooh. at July 25, 2023 01:50 PM (nJ1bF)
Or maybe they think the Rubes will watch any stinking pile as long as it sounds like TLOTR.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 25, 2023 01:52 PM (pohLc)
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Malia Obama was a screenwriter for Swarm? Mom & dad have also had Netflix's contracts for sometime.
Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (GshMh)
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Oh, lookie here. Some of those US supplied weapons to Ukraine are turning up in the hands of gang members and arms dealers.
https://tinyurl.com/2aazwtxa
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (R38qh)
I'm scheduled to get in the general vicinity this fall. Anybody need anything?
I know some guys.
https://tinyurl.com/2aazwtxa
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (R38qh)
I'm scheduled to get in the general vicinity this fall. Anybody need anything?
I know some guys.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (/BBNv)
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This busty brunette in her underwear likes watching stuff on streaming, but isn't too particular about which service she has at any given time
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM
That is what she, how you say, wants you to believe.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM
That is what she, how you say, wants you to believe.
Posted by: Paolo at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (a3Q+t)
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234 Name a show today that has really penetrated modern pop culture to the point where you can see us still quoting it some 25 years after it has gone off the air.
I can't see it Elaine!
I can't see it Elaine!
Posted by: Mr. Pitt at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (BxsGY)
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Of course streaming ratings are low - they forgot something crucial. Back in the golden age of "must see TV" you watched for 2 reasons: 1) it was good, but 2) your friends would be talking about it and it would be months, maybe years before you got the chance to watch it again. But now, there's no motivation to hurry up and watch. You can do it anytime, so it's just a thing you'll kinda sorta intend to do when you're bored and don't have any better options.
They killed their business model and didn't even know they were doing it.
They killed their business model and didn't even know they were doing it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (DIeYk)
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Only someone with great big steel balls would be able to hang on for the whole ride.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:52 PM (R38qh)
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Especially Apple, which collapsed to being damn near a penny stock in the late 90s.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:52 PM (R38qh)
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Especially Apple, which collapsed to being damn near a penny stock in the late 90s.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (B2vkr)
Posted by: Matt Damon (FAG) at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (Vu7A1)
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Binging that now. In the middle of season 5. I cannot believe the stuff they got away with. So many gay jokes.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (KbCG3)
In my top 5 all time sitcoms. I think it follows the snark and made up personality that we embrace at aos.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (KbCG3)
In my top 5 all time sitcoms. I think it follows the snark and made up personality that we embrace at aos.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (MNhXM)
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Season 1 of Rings of Power cost $715 million. How do you spend that kind of money and have shit acting and a shit story?
Because their priorities are completely fucked. Modern Hollywood is in significant part Stonetoss's "Burgers?" strip come to life. No one fucking wants to see Tyler Perry's Middle Earth. No one.
Because their priorities are completely fucked. Modern Hollywood is in significant part Stonetoss's "Burgers?" strip come to life. No one fucking wants to see Tyler Perry's Middle Earth. No one.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: spindrift at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (iG1Nf)
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253 Of course streaming ratings are low - they forgot something crucial. Back in the golden age of "must see TV" you watched for 2 reasons: 1) it was good, but 2) your friends would be talking about it and it would be months, maybe years before you got the chance to watch it again. But now, there's no motivation to hurry up and watch. You can do it anytime, so it's just a thing you'll kinda sorta intend to do when you're bored and don't have any better options.
They killed their business model and didn't even know they were doing it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (DIeYk)
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Also, there were 3 channels.
They killed their business model and didn't even know they were doing it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (DIeYk)
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Also, there were 3 channels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (LvTSG)
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230 SAGs strike is bs, and they'll screw the little guy to get DeNiro a few more checks
Posted by: Rbastid at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (pt6cR)
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This is going to be a war of attrition and as a result I think there's a risk that the Hollywood strike is existential.
If the WGA and SAG capitulate, their unions are over. They'll still exist, of course, but they will be pointless legacy that achieve nothing. If the studios capitulate, they'll bring in foreign talent and content and start moving production activities out with new actors over time.
I think there's a chance that Hollywood doesn't survive this strike in its current form.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:49 PM (B2vkr)
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I think regardless what happens -- I wish the biggest, most lethal pox on both their houses -- you will see production moved overseas to less union-friendly jurisdictions. This has already happened in the B-movie sphere. I expect the A-Listers to follow suit.
Posted by: Rbastid at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (pt6cR)
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This is going to be a war of attrition and as a result I think there's a risk that the Hollywood strike is existential.
If the WGA and SAG capitulate, their unions are over. They'll still exist, of course, but they will be pointless legacy that achieve nothing. If the studios capitulate, they'll bring in foreign talent and content and start moving production activities out with new actors over time.
I think there's a chance that Hollywood doesn't survive this strike in its current form.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:49 PM (B2vkr)
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I think regardless what happens -- I wish the biggest, most lethal pox on both their houses -- you will see production moved overseas to less union-friendly jurisdictions. This has already happened in the B-movie sphere. I expect the A-Listers to follow suit.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (iFTx/)
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Is Ford a tech company too?
Wiki-up "Philco" and have your very recent mind blown.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2023p/i]
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My first car, a 1975 Ford Maverick, had a Philco radio in it.
Wiki-up "Philco" and have your very recent mind blown.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2023p/i]
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My first car, a 1975 Ford Maverick, had a Philco radio in it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (J2vNu)
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236 The problem now is that the B-movie gets the massive budgets to the point where fucking Blue Beetle got a $200 million budget. What the fuck is Blue Beetle?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (LvTSG)
TJM, just watched The Hurricane for the first time. Not sure if it was a big budget or not but the hurricane scene was remarkable.
But couldn't help but wonder how much better it would've been if all of it had been animated and computer generated...sigh. What a waste.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM (LvTSG)
TJM, just watched The Hurricane for the first time. Not sure if it was a big budget or not but the hurricane scene was remarkable.
But couldn't help but wonder how much better it would've been if all of it had been animated and computer generated...sigh. What a waste.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (KbCG3)
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literally an AIDS medicine ad every ten minutes.
maybe I need to stop watching so much RuPaul
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (KRtlO)
Nope it's on everything. Basically on my tv most of the time is just one of the Top Gear channels on Freeve, Pluto or Plex, and every break has these prep medication commercials.
How much work and brainpower went in to creating a drug so deviant gays can go to orgies, that could have been spent skiing almost anything else that could actually benefit humanity?
maybe I need to stop watching so much RuPaul
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2023 01:38 PM (KRtlO)
Nope it's on everything. Basically on my tv most of the time is just one of the Top Gear channels on Freeve, Pluto or Plex, and every break has these prep medication commercials.
How much work and brainpower went in to creating a drug so deviant gays can go to orgies, that could have been spent skiing almost anything else that could actually benefit humanity?
Posted by: Rbastid at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (pt6cR)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (J2vNu)
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My brother is ready to sell the VERY WELL-CARED FOR Honda he's owned for three years because they can't diagnose a computer issue fucking up his dashboard.
They applied a "firmware" update (for several $hundos, FTS) that lasted a week before it crapped out again.
Can't imagine how bad a Ford, Chrysler or GM would be...
They applied a "firmware" update (for several $hundos, FTS) that lasted a week before it crapped out again.
Can't imagine how bad a Ford, Chrysler or GM would be...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 25, 2023 01:54 PM (wtvvX)
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Especially Apple, which collapsed to being damn near a penny stock in the late 90s.
I bought in when it was around $13/share
and welcome to my house and land here which I bought with some of the profits
I was just a True Believer! and got lucky
I bought in when it was around $13/share
and welcome to my house and land here which I bought with some of the profits
I was just a True Believer! and got lucky
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023 01:54 PM (AcWfM)
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262 TJM, just watched The Hurricane for the first time. Not sure if it was a big budget or not but the hurricane scene was remarkable.
But couldn't help but wonder how much better it would've been if all of it had been animated and computer generated...sigh. What a waste.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (KbCG3)
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The John Ford movie from the 1930s?
Miniatures are cute.
But couldn't help but wonder how much better it would've been if all of it had been animated and computer generated...sigh. What a waste.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (KbCG3)
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The John Ford movie from the 1930s?
Miniatures are cute.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:54 PM (LvTSG)
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@227 that's what the human beings who were grown in tanks were referred to as. The umbilical in the tank was attached at there neck. It was a pejorative term. They were grown because humanity needed soldiers and there was a fertility problem.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 01:54 PM (S75Fo)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 25, 2023 01:55 PM (YohY1)
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Also, there were 3 channels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023
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Plus National Educational Television (NET), later to be PBS. But *nobody* watched *that*.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023
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Plus National Educational Television (NET), later to be PBS. But *nobody* watched *that*.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 01:55 PM (J2vNu)
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> Name a show today that has really penetrated modern pop culture to the point where you can see us still quoting it some 25 years after it has gone off the air.
Game of Thrones isn't that old. Some people will still be quoting it.
The Mandalorian's "This is the way" is still going strong.
Game of Thrones isn't that old. Some people will still be quoting it.
The Mandalorian's "This is the way" is still going strong.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:55 PM (R38qh)
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YouTube: Here are 45 million videos on how to fix that small issue with the fridge.
Me: Yeah, but can you show me an hourlong compilation of 90s NASCAR crashes?
YouTube: Only an hourlong?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:48 PM (KbCG3)
I've seen many 10 minute videos on how to repair this or that on Youtube.
On average, my "repair jobs" take me half a day. And that's not counting the time it takes for me to find a reliable technician to come and fix it after I'm done trying.
Me: Yeah, but can you show me an hourlong compilation of 90s NASCAR crashes?
YouTube: Only an hourlong?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:48 PM (KbCG3)
I've seen many 10 minute videos on how to repair this or that on Youtube.
On average, my "repair jobs" take me half a day. And that's not counting the time it takes for me to find a reliable technician to come and fix it after I'm done trying.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:55 PM (vmr7r)
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WSJ scare headline about Israeli stocks tumbling due to Netanyahu's judicial reform, disappointed to see that their stock market is not in fact on sale.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 25, 2023 01:55 PM (eYoxG)
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I think there's a chance that Hollywood doesn't survive this strike in its current form.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:49 PM
Are you saying that like it's a Bad Thing?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:49 PM
Are you saying that like it's a Bad Thing?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2023 01:55 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: REDACTED at July 25, 2023 01:55 PM (us2H3)
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256 Binging that now. In the middle of season 5. I cannot believe the stuff they got away with. So many gay jokes.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (KbCG3)
In my top 5 all time sitcoms. I think it follows the snark and made up personality that we embrace at aos.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (MNhXM)
It's getting a little one-note. I had to stop watching for a few days. That said, finding out Warburton is a conservative made sense.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (KbCG3)
In my top 5 all time sitcoms. I think it follows the snark and made up personality that we embrace at aos.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (MNhXM)
It's getting a little one-note. I had to stop watching for a few days. That said, finding out Warburton is a conservative made sense.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:55 PM (KbCG3)
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I'm not a fan, but I do wonder if LeBron will finally acknowledge his Chinese paymasters are the cause of the explosion of heart problems suffered by thousands of otherwise healthy athletes in their primes, caused by The Jab.
Yeah, I know, stupid question. Still, a guy can dream.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (i+mOk)
Someone sent him a book on the subject but he only read the first page.
Yeah, I know, stupid question. Still, a guy can dream.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (i+mOk)
Someone sent him a book on the subject but he only read the first page.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 25, 2023 01:55 PM (z99Zw)
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Season 1 of Rings of Power cost $715 million. How do you spend that kind of money and have shit acting and a shit story? Maybe they are underpaying actors and writers.
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Pretty much everything in media is money laundering. I didn't realize this until recently, but if you look at it long enough you'll see it.
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Pretty much everything in media is money laundering. I didn't realize this until recently, but if you look at it long enough you'll see it.
Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 25, 2023 01:56 PM (C0bt5)
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Whenever I watch something (absolutely anything) on FreeVee, at least a third of the ads are for AIDS medication.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I wonder if that's determined by your Zip Code as determined by your IP address?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM
*considers location in deep blue MA*
*considers ridonkulous number of PrEP commercials*
Yeah...probably.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I wonder if that's determined by your Zip Code as determined by your IP address?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2023 01:42 PM
*considers location in deep blue MA*
*considers ridonkulous number of PrEP commercials*
Yeah...probably.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2023 01:56 PM (Wnv9h)
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I've seen many 10 minute videos on how to repair this or that on Youtube.
On average, my "repair jobs" take me half a day. And that's not counting the time it takes for me to find a reliable technician to come and fix it after I'm done trying.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:55 PM (vmr7r)
Hahaha. Place by me with a sign: We repair what your husband fixed.
On average, my "repair jobs" take me half a day. And that's not counting the time it takes for me to find a reliable technician to come and fix it after I'm done trying.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 01:55 PM (vmr7r)
Hahaha. Place by me with a sign: We repair what your husband fixed.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:56 PM (KbCG3)
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The whole Media company jumped out of the window to it's highly aclaimed death.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 25, 2023 01:57 PM (gK5Ie)
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268 @227 that's what the human beings who were grown in tanks were referred to as. The umbilical in the tank was attached at there neck. It was a pejorative term. They were grown because humanity needed soldiers and there was a fertility problem.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 01:54 PM (S75Fo)
Vitros. Or Invitros.
McQueen and Hawkes. Of course, it was a race allegory.
The Ray Butts episode was good too.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 01:54 PM (S75Fo)
Vitros. Or Invitros.
McQueen and Hawkes. Of course, it was a race allegory.
The Ray Butts episode was good too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 01:57 PM (zZu0s)
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Why are there any ads for prescription meds anyway? You can't just go get them without your doctor, and your doctor should know if you need it. Also, some of them are jarring - in the middle of watching something all of a sudden I am assaulted by someone's horrific malady with all the details and side effects of the drug. Stop the madness.
Posted by: DJ at July 25, 2023 01:57 PM (uosPt)
Posted by: rd at July 25, 2023 01:57 PM (Vudh6)
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This busty brunette in her underwear likes watching stuff on streaming, but isn't too particular about which service she has at any given time:
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
Lord, that's a depressing picture.
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
Lord, that's a depressing picture.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2023 01:57 PM (AW0uW)
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Binging that now. In the middle of season 5. I cannot believe the stuff they got away with. So many gay jokes.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (KbCG3)
The 7th and final season has my vote for funniest sitcom scene of all time. Adam at the Indian Restaurant.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (KbCG3)
The 7th and final season has my vote for funniest sitcom scene of all time. Adam at the Indian Restaurant.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 01:57 PM (MNhXM)
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Wiki-up "Philco" and have your very recent mind blown.
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The real mind blowing part of Philco was that it was possible at some point to operate a legitimate business in Philadelphia.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2023
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Tell me about it!
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The real mind blowing part of Philco was that it was possible at some point to operate a legitimate business in Philadelphia.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2023
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Tell me about it!
Posted by: Dick Clark and "American Bandstand" at July 25, 2023 01:57 PM (J2vNu)
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254 Only someone with great big steel balls would be able to hang on for the whole ride.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:52 PM (R38qh)
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Especially Apple, which collapsed to being damn near a penny stock in the late 90s.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (B2vkr)
And even a decade or so ago they were a lot cheaper,, less than 1/10th the current price. Everyone thought they were done growing(p/e was in low mid-teens). Apparently not.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 01:52 PM (R38qh)
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Especially Apple, which collapsed to being damn near a penny stock in the late 90s.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (B2vkr)
And even a decade or so ago they were a lot cheaper,, less than 1/10th the current price. Everyone thought they were done growing(p/e was in low mid-teens). Apparently not.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 25, 2023 01:57 PM (eYoxG)
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"LeBron James on Tuesday said he received the COVID-19 vaccine despite his initial skepticism. The Los Angeles Lakers star spoke with reporters on the Lakers' annual media day for the upcoming season, saying he and his family got the vaccine after he did his own research. "
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Oof
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Oof
Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 25, 2023 01:58 PM (C0bt5)
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234 Name a show today that has really penetrated modern pop culture to the point where you can see us still quoting it some 25 years after it has gone off the air.
Archer has some great lines, but I doubt they'll be quoted in another 10 years...
Archer has some great lines, but I doubt they'll be quoted in another 10 years...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 25, 2023 01:58 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023 01:58 PM (AcWfM)
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285 This busty brunette in her underwear likes watching stuff on streaming, but isn't too particular about which service she has at any given time:
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
Lord, that's a depressing picture.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2023 01:57 PM (AW0uW)
Because she's not sitting in your lap right now?
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
Lord, that's a depressing picture.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2023 01:57 PM (AW0uW)
Because she's not sitting in your lap right now?
Posted by: Totally understand that... at July 25, 2023 01:58 PM (Nw1nV)
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157 Teamsters, Press Releases - “WE’VE CHANGED THE GAME”: TEAMSTERS WIN HISTORIC UPS CONTRACT
Deal Results in Higher Wages, More Jobs, Equal Pay, A/C, MLK Day, Part-Time Rewards
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Buying stuff online? The shipping will cost more than the item you purchased.
No wonder why Bezos created his own delivery company.
Deal Results in Higher Wages, More Jobs, Equal Pay, A/C, MLK Day, Part-Time Rewards
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Buying stuff online? The shipping will cost more than the item you purchased.
No wonder why Bezos created his own delivery company.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 25, 2023 01:58 PM (i+mOk)
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In other news, Puppy Dog Liam and Whiny Wyatt are bantering about Jailbird Sheila getting released.
Crazy Eyes Hope is still hungry for Psycho Thomas' dong, and they started making out in the office.
Libbitty-Bibbity Finn and Steffy are upping security because of Shelia, and Nice Bod Brooke (who is wearing a nice light yellow outfit) is telling Greasy Hair Ridge that she caught her daughter getting pounded by Thomas.
Sadly, Big Tit Donna is MIA today.
Crazy Eyes Hope is still hungry for Psycho Thomas' dong, and they started making out in the office.
Libbitty-Bibbity Finn and Steffy are upping security because of Shelia, and Nice Bod Brooke (who is wearing a nice light yellow outfit) is telling Greasy Hair Ridge that she caught her daughter getting pounded by Thomas.
Sadly, Big Tit Donna is MIA today.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 25, 2023 01:59 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:59 PM (ppBhU)
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Binging that now. In the middle of season 5. I cannot believe the stuff they got away with. So many gay jokes.
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Gay jokes are and have always been funny for a reason.
That free speech prohibitions were put in place to prevent normal people from joking about it should have been a big red flag.
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Gay jokes are and have always been funny for a reason.
That free speech prohibitions were put in place to prevent normal people from joking about it should have been a big red flag.
Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 25, 2023 01:59 PM (C0bt5)
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289 "LeBron James on Tuesday said he received the COVID-19 vaccine despite his initial skepticism. The Los Angeles Lakers star spoke with reporters on the Lakers' annual media day for the upcoming season, saying he and his family got the vaccine after he did his own research. "
Oof
Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 25, 2023 01:58 PM (C0bt5)
All the bad stuff was on page 2. Sad for his son.
Oof
Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 25, 2023 01:58 PM (C0bt5)
All the bad stuff was on page 2. Sad for his son.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:59 PM (KbCG3)
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It's getting a little one-note. I had to stop watching for a few days. That said, finding out Warburton is a conservative made sense.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:55 PM (KbCG3)
Like I said. A lot like aos😀
That’s why I loved it.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:55 PM (KbCG3)
Like I said. A lot like aos😀
That’s why I loved it.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 02:00 PM (MNhXM)
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293 157 Teamsters, Press Releases - “WE’VE CHANGED THE GAME”: TEAMSTERS WIN HISTORIC UPS CONTRACT
Deal Results in Higher Wages, More Jobs, Equal Pay, A/C, MLK Day, Part-Time Rewards
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Buying stuff online? The shipping will cost more than the item you purchased.
No wonder why Bezos created his own delivery company.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 25, 2023 01:58 PM (i+mOk)
Wonder how long until the leg-breaking and tire-slashing start.
Deal Results in Higher Wages, More Jobs, Equal Pay, A/C, MLK Day, Part-Time Rewards
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Buying stuff online? The shipping will cost more than the item you purchased.
No wonder why Bezos created his own delivery company.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 25, 2023 01:58 PM (i+mOk)
Wonder how long until the leg-breaking and tire-slashing start.
Posted by: These are Teamsters we're talking about at July 25, 2023 02:00 PM (Nw1nV)
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290 234 Name a show today that has really penetrated modern pop culture to the point where you can see us still quoting it some 25 years after it has gone off the air.
Archer has some great lines, but I doubt they'll be quoted in another 10 years...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 25, 2023 01:58 PM (wtvvX)
Good call. My wife hates when I say, "Bonk, bonk."
Archer has some great lines, but I doubt they'll be quoted in another 10 years...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 25, 2023 01:58 PM (wtvvX)
Good call. My wife hates when I say, "Bonk, bonk."
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 02:00 PM (KbCG3)
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This busty brunette in her underwear likes watching stuff on streaming, but isn't too particular about which service she has at any given time:
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
Lord, that's a depressing picture.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2023 01:57 PM
Birthin' hips.
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
Lord, that's a depressing picture.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2023 01:57 PM
Birthin' hips.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2023 02:00 PM (Wnv9h)
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Name a show today that has really penetrated modern pop culture to the point where you can see us still quoting it some 25 years after it has gone off the air.
I can't think of a single one.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (KbCG3)
Agree and It’s just me , but I quote from Scrubs all the time. But that sitcom ended in 2010. I can’t think of another sitcom I watched afterwards except Rules of Engagement which ended 2013.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 01:50 PM (MNhXM)
Quote from? I think I saw about 5 minutes of a Scrubs episode. That was enough.
Seinfeld is the only one I remember being quoted from in the past few decades. Walking Dead was "must see tv" for a while there. As was Game Of Thrones. People say the same about Breaking Bad and Lost, but I never got into either of them either. Saw a couple episodes of BB, that was enough.
I can't think of a single one.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (KbCG3)
Agree and It’s just me , but I quote from Scrubs all the time. But that sitcom ended in 2010. I can’t think of another sitcom I watched afterwards except Rules of Engagement which ended 2013.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 01:50 PM (MNhXM)
Quote from? I think I saw about 5 minutes of a Scrubs episode. That was enough.
Seinfeld is the only one I remember being quoted from in the past few decades. Walking Dead was "must see tv" for a while there. As was Game Of Thrones. People say the same about Breaking Bad and Lost, but I never got into either of them either. Saw a couple episodes of BB, that was enough.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 02:00 PM (3iph0)
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Also, there were 3 channels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (LvTSG)
_________
Yo! Over here!
Also, there were 3 channels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (LvTSG)
_________
Yo! Over here!
Posted by: UHF Channels at July 25, 2023 02:01 PM (MoZTd)
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Can't imagine how bad a Ford, Chrysler or GM would be...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 25, 2023 01:54 PM (wtvvX)
GF's relatively new Hyundai (
Once in a while it flips out and you get these Server 2008 R2 looking alert windows that are all in Korean. If you wait a while, they go away.
It's kind of endearing, actually.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 25, 2023 01:54 PM (wtvvX)
GF's relatively new Hyundai (
Once in a while it flips out and you get these Server 2008 R2 looking alert windows that are all in Korean. If you wait a while, they go away.
It's kind of endearing, actually.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2023 02:01 PM (/EuRN)
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On average, my "repair jobs" take me half a day. And that's not counting the time it takes for me to find a reliable technician to come and fix it after I'm done trying.
Ivan on YouTube says he charges extra if the owner tried to fix it themselves first and gave up, but he also infamously got a car that 7 other shops had fucked up first. And got it running fine.
Ivan on YouTube says he charges extra if the owner tried to fix it themselves first and gave up, but he also infamously got a car that 7 other shops had fucked up first. And got it running fine.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2023 02:01 PM (ZGrMX)
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Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 02:00 PM (3iph0)
Believe that makes sense we have the opposite take.
Believe that makes sense we have the opposite take.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 02:01 PM (MNhXM)
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my kids quote Friends now?!! it has become a thing (again)
it's weird! they're like "did you WATCH FRIENDS?!?!"
yes jeez wtf
it's weird! they're like "did you WATCH FRIENDS?!?!"
yes jeez wtf
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023 02:02 PM (AcWfM)
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This busty brunette in her underwear likes watching stuff on streaming, but isn't too particular about which service she has at any given time:
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
Killer hourglass
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
Killer hourglass
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 25, 2023 02:02 PM (xcxpd)
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I got all of my good quotes from MST3K.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 25, 2023 02:02 PM (xTRSc)
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Off, sock.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 25, 2023 02:02 PM (N3zMI)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 25, 2023 02:02 PM (fY84s)
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I'm confused. Is this now a movie thread or a Tolkien thread?
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 02:02 PM (zLLgI)
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son of a crap, you can't use 'less than' in a comment, can you?
Stupid hamsters. Whatever. You can basically either guess at or ignore the excised portion of my inanity and be none the worse for it.
Stupid hamsters. Whatever. You can basically either guess at or ignore the excised portion of my inanity and be none the worse for it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2023 02:02 PM (/EuRN)
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you will see production moved overseas to less union-friendly jurisdictions. This has already happened in the B-movie sphere. I expect the A-Listers to follow suit.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (iFTx/)
Moving overseas doesn't do anything. Films shoot all over the world are still subject to SAG jurisdiction depending on who appears in ther films, who the production companies are, what theaters show the films, and even what other unions work on them. They would need to basically upend everything. A film can shoot as non-union, but once it gets released many have to pay backpay at union rates.
Like I said, SAG is doing this all for show. The second the WGA signs a contract, SAG will fold and accept the same contract in front of them now, maybe with a minor change, and claim it as a huge victory. They've always folded and accepted minimal gains, for major concessions.
No one in SAG is fighting for the actors, they're fighting for attention. Ive seen first hand SAG actually deny their own contract, in order to benefit the production over the actors. There are well know kickback schemes with people in the union.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (iFTx/)
Moving overseas doesn't do anything. Films shoot all over the world are still subject to SAG jurisdiction depending on who appears in ther films, who the production companies are, what theaters show the films, and even what other unions work on them. They would need to basically upend everything. A film can shoot as non-union, but once it gets released many have to pay backpay at union rates.
Like I said, SAG is doing this all for show. The second the WGA signs a contract, SAG will fold and accept the same contract in front of them now, maybe with a minor change, and claim it as a huge victory. They've always folded and accepted minimal gains, for major concessions.
No one in SAG is fighting for the actors, they're fighting for attention. Ive seen first hand SAG actually deny their own contract, in order to benefit the production over the actors. There are well know kickback schemes with people in the union.
Posted by: Rbastid at July 25, 2023 02:02 PM (pt6cR)
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Seinfeld is the only one I remember being quoted from in the past few decades. Walking Dead was "must see tv" for a while there. As was Game Of Thrones. People say the same about Breaking Bad and Lost, but I never got into either of them either. Saw a couple episodes of BB, that was enough.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 02:00 PM (3iph0)
Modern "must see tv" means that at least 4 people in some specific neighborhood in NYC watch it.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 02:00 PM (3iph0)
Modern "must see tv" means that at least 4 people in some specific neighborhood in NYC watch it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 25, 2023 02:02 PM (z99Zw)
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So many gay jokes.
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Gay jokes are and have always been funny for a reason.
Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 25, 2023 01:59 PM (C0bt5)
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Gay jokes are and have always been funny for a reason.
Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 25, 2023 01:59 PM (C0bt5)
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 02:03 PM (3iph0)
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Carrie Severino
@JCNSeverino
Harvard Law School’s Mark Tushnet is urging President Biden to move forward in a direction against the Supreme Court that would bring us to a constitutional crisis.
This is a brazen disregard for the rule of law that's becoming far too common on the Left.
7:46 AM · Jul 24, 2023
https://t.co/YC6tcOZYZe
Aaron Belkin and I have written the following open letter to the Biden administration urging that it endorse and take steps to implement popular constitutionalism as a response to what the President has described as "not a normal" Supreme Court. We urge President Biden to restrain MAGA justices immediately by announcing that if and when they issue rulings that are based on gravely mistaken interpretations of the Constitution that undermine our most fundamental commitments, the Administration will be guided by its own constitutional interpretations.
The threat that MAGA justices pose is so extreme that reforms that do not require Congressional approval are needed at this time, and advocates and experts should encourage President Biden to take immediate action to limit the damage.
@JCNSeverino
Harvard Law School’s Mark Tushnet is urging President Biden to move forward in a direction against the Supreme Court that would bring us to a constitutional crisis.
This is a brazen disregard for the rule of law that's becoming far too common on the Left.
7:46 AM · Jul 24, 2023
https://t.co/YC6tcOZYZe
Aaron Belkin and I have written the following open letter to the Biden administration urging that it endorse and take steps to implement popular constitutionalism as a response to what the President has described as "not a normal" Supreme Court. We urge President Biden to restrain MAGA justices immediately by announcing that if and when they issue rulings that are based on gravely mistaken interpretations of the Constitution that undermine our most fundamental commitments, the Administration will be guided by its own constitutional interpretations.
The threat that MAGA justices pose is so extreme that reforms that do not require Congressional approval are needed at this time, and advocates and experts should encourage President Biden to take immediate action to limit the damage.
Posted by: BeautifulHillaryClinton at July 25, 2023 02:03 PM (MFZ8i)
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"LeBron James on Tuesday said he received the COVID-19 vaccine despite his initial skepticism. The Los Angeles Lakers star spoke with reporters on the Lakers' annual media day for the upcoming season, saying he and his family got the vaccine after he did his own research. "
That halfwit couldn't 'research' the back of a Corn Flakes box.
That halfwit couldn't 'research' the back of a Corn Flakes box.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2023 02:03 PM (AW0uW)
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A film can shoot as non-union, but once it gets released many have to pay backpay at union rates.
How is that legal?
How is that legal?
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2023 02:03 PM (ZGrMX)
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Online memes have taken the place of the sitcom jokes of the past.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 25, 2023 02:03 PM (xcxpd)
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I'm confused. Is this now a movie thread or a Tolkien thread?
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 02:02 PM
Sounds like a limerick challenge, if ever I've heard one.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 02:02 PM
Sounds like a limerick challenge, if ever I've heard one.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2023 02:03 PM (a3Q+t)
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Choose the form of your Destructor, H'wood -- glut or famine!
Yes, H'wood, we expect you to die!
Choose the form of your Destructor, H'wood -- glut or famine!
Yes, H'wood, we expect you to die!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 25, 2023 02:04 PM (xG4kz)
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Seinfeld is the only one I remember being quoted from in the past few decades. Walking Dead was "must see tv" for a while there. As was Game Of Thrones. People say the same about Breaking Bad and Lost, but I never got into either of them either. Saw a couple episodes of BB, that was enough.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023
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Breaking Bad was terrific, but I can't recall specific lines -- maybe because I've only watched each episode once. Seinfeld remains the latter-day king of great lines. Lost was fascinating at the start, but I dropped out after a point, darned if I can remember why.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023
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Breaking Bad was terrific, but I can't recall specific lines -- maybe because I've only watched each episode once. Seinfeld remains the latter-day king of great lines. Lost was fascinating at the start, but I dropped out after a point, darned if I can remember why.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:04 PM (J2vNu)
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Heavy thunder out thar....
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2023 02:04 PM (T4tVD)
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57 Teamsters, Press Releases - “WE’VE CHANGED THE GAME”: TEAMSTERS WIN HISTORIC UPS CONTRACT
Deal Results in Higher Wages, More Jobs, Equal Pay, A/C, MLK Day, Part-Time Rewards
I guess Tribute for Mob Bosses was just assumed.
Deal Results in Higher Wages, More Jobs, Equal Pay, A/C, MLK Day, Part-Time Rewards
I guess Tribute for Mob Bosses was just assumed.
Posted by: Roy at July 25, 2023 02:04 PM (YeT1B)
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Also, there were 3 channels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures'
My approach, from propaganda research, was making a connection between Popular Culture Figures (Indiana Jones, Batman, etc.) and National Personifications: Uncle Sam, Columbia, John Bull; and speculating that these figures, which don't have to physically exist at all, really, represent metaphorical values in anthropomorphic form.
Make a movie, you are trying to gather an ad hoc Nation with an image.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures'
My approach, from propaganda research, was making a connection between Popular Culture Figures (Indiana Jones, Batman, etc.) and National Personifications: Uncle Sam, Columbia, John Bull; and speculating that these figures, which don't have to physically exist at all, really, represent metaphorical values in anthropomorphic form.
Make a movie, you are trying to gather an ad hoc Nation with an image.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2023 02:04 PM (/BBNv)
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This busty brunette in her underwear likes watching stuff on streaming, but isn't too particular about which service she has at any given time:
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
.......
Nice wedgie
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
.......
Nice wedgie
Posted by: wth at July 25, 2023 02:04 PM (v0R5T)
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Believe that makes sense we have the opposite take.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 02:01 PM (MNhXM)
No it doesn't.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 02:01 PM (MNhXM)
No it doesn't.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 02:04 PM (3iph0)
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I'm confused. Is this now a movie thread or a Tolkien thread?
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 02:02 PM (zLLgI)
Hah. I still use your line when going off topic.
Speaking of ( on topics subject) , did you see ( off topic subject) ……
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 02:02 PM (zLLgI)
Hah. I still use your line when going off topic.
Speaking of ( on topics subject) , did you see ( off topic subject) ……
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (MNhXM)
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This busty brunette in her underwear likes watching stuff on streaming, but isn't too particular about which service she has at any given time:
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
Russian or Ukrainian. That's probably her residence in the background. Nice body though. Would like to get to know her.
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
Russian or Ukrainian. That's probably her residence in the background. Nice body though. Would like to get to know her.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (BdMk6)
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207 Space: Above and Beyond had a great episode which featured Johnny Cash's I Walk the Line. That, Kristen Cloke and nipple necks are what I remember
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (S75Fo)
Dangit, now I want some pancakes...
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (S75Fo)
Dangit, now I want some pancakes...
Posted by: goozer at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (tfTmm)
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Kovid shots good 4 u?
Posted by: LeBron Search Terms at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (ik/65)
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The threat that MAGA justices pose is so extreme that reforms that do not require Congressional approval are needed at this time, and advocates and experts should encourage President Biden to take immediate action to limit the damage.
Joe's getting fitted for the epaulets, peaked hat and medals now
The threat that MAGA justices pose is so extreme that reforms that do not require Congressional approval are needed at this time, and advocates and experts should encourage President Biden to take immediate action to limit the damage.
Joe's getting fitted for the epaulets, peaked hat and medals now
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (MoZTd)
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“Nelson declares definitively that Black, and Native American, Lives Matter, that the electoral college should be eliminated and that protecting the earth should be one of our foremost concerns, corporate interests be damned”
https://is.gd/M5bGrn
Too much weed has pickled the brain
https://is.gd/M5bGrn
Too much weed has pickled the brain
Posted by: Ciampino -- TO THE PIGGYBANK: Here piggy piggy at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (qfLjt)
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my kids quote Friends now?!! it has become a thing (again)
it's weird! they're like "did you WATCH FRIENDS?!?!"
yes jeez wtf
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023
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The first two seasons of that were great.
it's weird! they're like "did you WATCH FRIENDS?!?!"
yes jeez wtf
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023
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The first two seasons of that were great.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (J2vNu)
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Beginning in 2024, Europe will require ETIAS travel authorization for visitors — including summer jet-setters from the US.
US citizens will need a visa to travel to Europe in 2024
US citizens will need a visa to travel to Europe in 2024
Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 02:06 PM (RHGPo)
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Why are there any ads for prescription meds anyway?
The serious answer is that BigPharma used to send in sales reps (usually attractive young women) to the doctors offices and push them to sell certain drugs. There were all kinds of free trips and outings and other goodies. Some docs were coopted and put on the payroll to push drugs to other docs at free dinners. But the FDA (which once upon a time in Democratic admins was skeptical of BigPharma) eventually cracked down on this. (There's still sales reps, but almost all of the blatant bribery and payoffs are gone.) So BigPharma had to come up with a new strategy for manipulating the market, and that was the model that patients had to take a proactive role in their own healthcare. Hence, ad campaigns in which potential patients are bombarded and urged to "ask your doctor if Fuckitol AF is right for you!" Except for vaccines, the experts have already decided they're right for you. So be sure to get your 20th booster.
The serious answer is that BigPharma used to send in sales reps (usually attractive young women) to the doctors offices and push them to sell certain drugs. There were all kinds of free trips and outings and other goodies. Some docs were coopted and put on the payroll to push drugs to other docs at free dinners. But the FDA (which once upon a time in Democratic admins was skeptical of BigPharma) eventually cracked down on this. (There's still sales reps, but almost all of the blatant bribery and payoffs are gone.) So BigPharma had to come up with a new strategy for manipulating the market, and that was the model that patients had to take a proactive role in their own healthcare. Hence, ad campaigns in which potential patients are bombarded and urged to "ask your doctor if Fuckitol AF is right for you!" Except for vaccines, the experts have already decided they're right for you. So be sure to get your 20th booster.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - can you tell I used to represent these cocksuckers? at July 25, 2023 02:06 PM (ppBhU)
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The threat that MAGA justices pose is so extreme that reforms that do not require Congressional approval are needed at this time, and advocates and experts should encourage President Biden to take immediate action to limit the damage.
Joe's getting fitted for the epaulets, peaked hat and medals now
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (MoZTd)
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Are MAGA people allowed to make the same argument about progressive justices who want to completely change the socio-political systems of America without letting anything come up for a vote?
The threat that MAGA justices pose is so extreme that reforms that do not require Congressional approval are needed at this time, and advocates and experts should encourage President Biden to take immediate action to limit the damage.
Joe's getting fitted for the epaulets, peaked hat and medals now
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (MoZTd)
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Are MAGA people allowed to make the same argument about progressive justices who want to completely change the socio-political systems of America without letting anything come up for a vote?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 02:07 PM (LvTSG)
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Joe's getting fitted for the epaulets, peaked hat and medals now
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (MoZTd)
Sweet fuck, he's the living embodiment of the "thinks he's Napoleon" trope from psychotherapy now, huh?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (MoZTd)
Sweet fuck, he's the living embodiment of the "thinks he's Napoleon" trope from psychotherapy now, huh?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2023 02:07 PM (/EuRN)
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Breaking Bad was terrific, but I can't recall specific lines -- maybe because I've only watched each episode once. Seinfeld remains the latter-day king of great lines. Lost was fascinating at the start, but I dropped out after a point, darned if I can remember why.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:04 PM (J2vNu)
What bothered me about BB is I just don't like the anti-hero. There may be an exception here or there, but for the most part, if I can't root for you, or identify with you somehow, I don't want to watch.
Sopranos, I guess, but I got tired of them long before most other people did.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:04 PM (J2vNu)
What bothered me about BB is I just don't like the anti-hero. There may be an exception here or there, but for the most part, if I can't root for you, or identify with you somehow, I don't want to watch.
Sopranos, I guess, but I got tired of them long before most other people did.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 02:07 PM (3iph0)
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331 207 Space: Above and Beyond had a great episode which featured Johnny Cash's I Walk the Line. That, Kristen Cloke and nipple necks are what I remember
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (S75Fo)
Dangit, now I want some pancakes...
Posted by: goozer at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (tfTmm)
Funny, I bought the series on DVD and am slowly rewatching it... and I'm up to that episode.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 01:46 PM (S75Fo)
Dangit, now I want some pancakes...
Posted by: goozer at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (tfTmm)
Funny, I bought the series on DVD and am slowly rewatching it... and I'm up to that episode.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2023 02:07 PM (oHd/0)
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*Seinfeld is the only one I remember being quoted from in the past few decades.*
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Posted by: Obligatory at July 25, 2023 02:08 PM (BxsGY)
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Would like to get to know her.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (BdMk6)
__________
"I tired of drunken gopnik boyfriend. I want nice American Moron to love big."
Would like to get to know her.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (BdMk6)
__________
"I tired of drunken gopnik boyfriend. I want nice American Moron to love big."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 02:08 PM (MoZTd)
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Gay jokes are and have always been funny for a reason.
Just the words penis and anus crack me up.
Just the words penis and anus crack me up.
Posted by: 3rd Grader at July 25, 2023 02:08 PM (v0R5T)
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you can see us still quoting it some 25 years after it has gone off the air.
Perhaps this says more about being 29 than about the shows.
Perhaps this says more about being 29 than about the shows.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2023 02:08 PM (4PZHB)
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saying he and his family got the vaccine after he did his own research. "
Meaning he opened the first page of the Pfizer literature while wearing his "smart LeBron" glasses.
Meaning he opened the first page of the Pfizer literature while wearing his "smart LeBron" glasses.
Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2023 02:08 PM (Sv58p)
347
Kovid shot arm or butt?
Posted by: LeBron Search Terms at July 25, 2023 02:08 PM (ik/65)
348
What bothered me about BB is I just don't like the anti-hero. There may be an exception here or there, but for the most part, if I can't root for you, or identify with you somehow, I don't want to watch.
Sopranos, I guess, but I got tired of them long before most other people did.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 02:07 PM (3iph0)
Wife had never seen Sopranos so I was excited to re-watch with her.
It was...not as great as I remembered. The characters basically just spun their wheels. Not a great binging show.
Sopranos, I guess, but I got tired of them long before most other people did.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 02:07 PM (3iph0)
Wife had never seen Sopranos so I was excited to re-watch with her.
It was...not as great as I remembered. The characters basically just spun their wheels. Not a great binging show.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 02:08 PM (KbCG3)
349
The strike will essentially force the streamers to hire less actors and directors.
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I'm of two minds about ditching "fewer" forever and making "less" do the same work as "more".
Don't make me quote Fowler.
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I'm of two minds about ditching "fewer" forever and making "less" do the same work as "more".
Don't make me quote Fowler.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2023 02:08 PM (krQz2)
350
I watch it sometimes, the other day I watched the thing about the guy who filmed an octopus for a year. It was much better than it sounds.
That was actually a really touching program. Really good, once you got into it.
Claudia Black, yum.
And what about the MicroVax? (Our PDP was being replaced).
That was actually a really touching program. Really good, once you got into it.
Claudia Black, yum.
And what about the MicroVax? (Our PDP was being replaced).
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 25, 2023 02:09 PM (ufFY8)
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336 Beginning in 2024, Europe will require ETIAS travel authorization for visitors — including summer jet-setters from the US.
US citizens will need a visa to travel to Europe in 2024
norms status:
[X] restored
[_] not restored
US citizens will need a visa to travel to Europe in 2024
norms status:
[X] restored
[_] not restored
Posted by: anachronda at July 25, 2023 02:09 PM (v3pYe)
352
Make a movie, you are trying to gather an ad hoc Nation with an image.
Posted by: LenNeal'
It's why, in a Propaganda War, physically existing 'Truth' doesn't matter: the enemy is summed in a non-existent Image. Barack Obama has never actually existed, except as an Image that to a lot of people represents a set of values.
Trying to 'tell the truth' about any given politician is a waste of time, they don't actually exist at all. You have to attack the value they represent.
Posted by: LenNeal'
It's why, in a Propaganda War, physically existing 'Truth' doesn't matter: the enemy is summed in a non-existent Image. Barack Obama has never actually existed, except as an Image that to a lot of people represents a set of values.
Trying to 'tell the truth' about any given politician is a waste of time, they don't actually exist at all. You have to attack the value they represent.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2023 02:09 PM (/BBNv)
353
339 Joe's getting fitted for the epaulets, peaked hat and medals now
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (MoZTd)
Sweet fuck, he's the living embodiment of the "thinks he's Napoleon" trope from psychotherapy now, huh?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2023 02:07 PM (/EuRN)
Napoleon (based on his actual uniforms) was 5' 6". Not that short for the time... Zalensky is 5' 7"... which by modern standards... is not tall...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (MoZTd)
Sweet fuck, he's the living embodiment of the "thinks he's Napoleon" trope from psychotherapy now, huh?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2023 02:07 PM (/EuRN)
Napoleon (based on his actual uniforms) was 5' 6". Not that short for the time... Zalensky is 5' 7"... which by modern standards... is not tall...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2023 02:09 PM (oHd/0)
354
Kovid shots good 4 u?
Posted by: LeBron Search Terms at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (ik/65)
........
GET BOOSTED
Posted by: LeBron Search Terms at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (ik/65)
........
GET BOOSTED
Posted by: wth at July 25, 2023 02:09 PM (v0R5T)
355
Not surprising. Streaming services are pretty close to a zero sum game. People aren't willing to pay for Amazon/HBO/Hulu/Netflix/AppleTV/etc at the same time. Lots of people just do the channel hopping thing where they pick one service for a year, watch everything on it that they're interested in, cancel it and switch. Given the total amount of new content that interests people these days, that seems like a smart move, waiting for for a year or three for each of these services to get new content that you'd be interested in.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 25, 2023 02:09 PM (fKIdX)
356
"I tired of drunken gopnik boyfriend. I want nice American Moron bank account to love big."
Fixed.
Fixed.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2023 02:10 PM (AW0uW)
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302 Agree and It’s just me , but I quote from Scrubs all the time. But that sitcom ended in 2010. I can’t think of another sitcom I watched afterwards except Rules of Engagement which ended 2013.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 01:50 PM (MNhXM)
Quote from? I think I saw about 5 minutes of a Scrubs episode. That was enough.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 02:00 PM (3iph0)
I make the "bastard-coated bastard with bastard filling" reference from time to time but that's about it.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 01:50 PM (MNhXM)
Quote from? I think I saw about 5 minutes of a Scrubs episode. That was enough.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 02:00 PM (3iph0)
I make the "bastard-coated bastard with bastard filling" reference from time to time but that's about it.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at July 25, 2023 02:10 PM (DTX3h)
358
The Harvard Law professor making the "overrule the SCOTUS" argument is like an engineering professor arguing to build a bridge without considering gravity. How do these people keep their jobs?
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 25, 2023 02:10 PM (oWBc3)
Posted by: anachronda at July 25, 2023 02:10 PM (v3pYe)
360
Kovid shot make dunk better?
Posted by: LeBron Search Terms at July 25, 2023 02:10 PM (ik/65)
361
Streaming is a stupid revenue source. There's no residual revenue from adding more streaming, your one time monthly or annual payment is all inclusive. Add new content, same revenue. Why would they want to pay residuals for each stream, when they're only getting a single up front check from the consumer? How does this work if 1 person paying the same 12.99 a month watches 100 hrs of tv vs someone who watches 10 hrs? The network owes 1000 of residuals? It doesn't scale. Unless they add commercials, which pisses off customers who are already paying extra for the service
Posted by: Chuck Hemangioma at July 25, 2023 02:10 PM (U/npF)
362
Claudia Black, yum.
And what about the MicroVax? (Our PDP was being replaced).
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 25, 2023 02:09 PM (ufFY
Farscape = Firefly
Both taken off air too soon
And what about the MicroVax? (Our PDP was being replaced).
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 25, 2023 02:09 PM (ufFY
Farscape = Firefly
Both taken off air too soon
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 02:11 PM (MNhXM)
363
319 A film can shoot as non-union, but once it gets released many have to pay backpay at union rates.
How is that legal?
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2023 02:03 PM (ZGrMX)
Not sure about that one, but Angel Studios (late of Sound of Freedom) won an exemption from the SAG that allowed them to continue shooting The Chosen. Crowdfunded series don't count.
How is that legal?
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2023 02:03 PM (ZGrMX)
Not sure about that one, but Angel Studios (late of Sound of Freedom) won an exemption from the SAG that allowed them to continue shooting The Chosen. Crowdfunded series don't count.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 25, 2023 02:11 PM (/iWhV)
364
What bothered me about BB is I just don't like the anti-hero. There may be an exception here or there, but for the most part, if I can't root for you, or identify with you somehow, I don't want to watch.
Sopranos, I guess, but I got tired of them long before most other people did.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023
***
Walter started as an underdog and only gradually morphed into the anti-hero. He literally was "trying to provide for his family" after he died of cancer, which at the start he fully expected to do before too long. On top of that, he was an educated man, not a know-nothing who simply fell into crime (like his "partner" Jesse). That wsa refreshing in a time when TV and movie characters seem to be proud of being ignorant.
I didn't know if I would like it either. But I did, and now when I reflect on the series, I get a flavor not unlike what you'd get from a really good, satisfying novel.
Sopranos, I guess, but I got tired of them long before most other people did.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023
***
Walter started as an underdog and only gradually morphed into the anti-hero. He literally was "trying to provide for his family" after he died of cancer, which at the start he fully expected to do before too long. On top of that, he was an educated man, not a know-nothing who simply fell into crime (like his "partner" Jesse). That wsa refreshing in a time when TV and movie characters seem to be proud of being ignorant.
I didn't know if I would like it either. But I did, and now when I reflect on the series, I get a flavor not unlike what you'd get from a really good, satisfying novel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:11 PM (J2vNu)
365
US citizens will need a visa to travel to Europe in 2024
Posted by: SMOD'
I'm aware and it will block me from traveling to, or even through, any EU/ETIAS country ever again.
Posted by: SMOD'
I'm aware and it will block me from traveling to, or even through, any EU/ETIAS country ever again.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2023 02:11 PM (/BBNv)
366
It's that disclosure that I think they are trying to avoid because those numbers probably suck pretty generally, especially for most of the monstrously expensive original content. Investors might lose their credulity if those data come out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:19 PM (B2vkr
Lose their credulity?
More like lose their money, and then their minds.
The next crash will make 1929 look like a minor correction. Everyone will realize just how much they have lied to each other. I can see a complete breakdown in belief in the stock market coming out.
Just like Xi and the Chinese Communist Party want.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 01:19 PM (B2vkr
Lose their credulity?
More like lose their money, and then their minds.
The next crash will make 1929 look like a minor correction. Everyone will realize just how much they have lied to each other. I can see a complete breakdown in belief in the stock market coming out.
Just like Xi and the Chinese Communist Party want.
Posted by: rd at July 25, 2023 02:11 PM (bXwRo)
367
Are MAGA people allowed to make the same argument about progressive justices who want to completely change the socio-political systems of America without letting anything come up for a vote?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 02:07 PM (LvTSG)
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And who don't know the words "change of venue".
Answer: no they are not. They have a special legal status of Being Wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 02:07 PM (LvTSG)
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And who don't know the words "change of venue".
Answer: no they are not. They have a special legal status of Being Wrong.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2023 02:11 PM (krQz2)
368
Sounds like a limerick challenge, if ever I've heard one.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
********
Bad Hobbits Are Hard To Break - a limerick
My daughter pledged a literary sorority
Though reading was never a priority
She didn't read such things
As The Lord of the Rings
But they accepted her as a Tolkien minority
Posted by: Duncanthrax
********
Bad Hobbits Are Hard To Break - a limerick
My daughter pledged a literary sorority
Though reading was never a priority
She didn't read such things
As The Lord of the Rings
But they accepted her as a Tolkien minority
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 02:12 PM (zLLgI)
369
Which is part of the reason Russia is attacking Odessa. I think the CIA (our pals, you know) are trying to run arms out of Ukraine and stir up trouble in Kazakstan....but you won't hear THAT on the Lamestream Lying Media.
Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (vcOmj)
True. True. But CHN and RUS are aware of this and are going to bypass Astana on the corridor.
Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 25, 2023 01:51 PM (vcOmj)
True. True. But CHN and RUS are aware of this and are going to bypass Astana on the corridor.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 25, 2023 02:12 PM (n4QLO)
370
King Kovid am stronker then laBorn James
Posted by: Kobe bRyant at July 25, 2023 02:12 PM (Vu7A1)
371
They want to hide that the vast majority of their programming never gets rewatched so they have to keep bringing in new programs all the time . They are unable to keep up which is why a lot of people turn the account off and on every few months. Also right now subscriber growth comes from foreign markets, markets where they've been operating for years are going down because people hit the wall where their just isn't enough to watch at $20 a month. When the foreign markets hit that wall the entire ponzi scheme goes tits up. It's taking a while though. If they produced quality content they'd be better off but I don't know if they still wouldn't have the same problem.
Posted by: Big E at July 25, 2023 02:12 PM (0zbtE)
372
Not a visa.
Posted by: runner at July 25, 2023 02:12 PM (s2V+q)
373
The Simpsons has a few quotes which are memorable "d'oh"etc
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 02:12 PM (S75Fo)
374
I had to look up how to restring my string trimmer. I thought I had the string wound around the spindles correctly, but no. And the user manual sucks... so off to YouTube to see someone actually do it. OK... fine.... got it.
Do I have the manual dexterity to actually do it? Of course not. So the tool sits until I can deal with it.
Do I have the manual dexterity to actually do it? Of course not. So the tool sits until I can deal with it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2023 02:13 PM (Q4IgG)
375
This busty brunette in her underwear likes watching stuff on streaming, but isn't too particular about which service she has at any given time:
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
She checks off pretty much all the boxes for me...
https://is.gd/lHrcZL
She checks off pretty much all the boxes for me...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 25, 2023 02:13 PM (wtvvX)
376
358 The Harvard Law professor making the "overrule the SCOTUS" argument is like an engineering professor arguing to build a bridge without considering gravity. How do these people keep their jobs?
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 25, 2023 02:10 PM (oWBc3)
Friction is one thing. Jostling and Jockeying between the branches is healthy. Probing boundaries, seeing what you can get away with, etc.
Flat out subordinating or nullifying another branch in its entirety is tantamount to a declaration of civil war.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 25, 2023 02:10 PM (oWBc3)
Friction is one thing. Jostling and Jockeying between the branches is healthy. Probing boundaries, seeing what you can get away with, etc.
Flat out subordinating or nullifying another branch in its entirety is tantamount to a declaration of civil war.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2023 02:13 PM (/EuRN)
377
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - can you tell I used to represent these cocksuckers? at July 25, 2023 02:06 PM (ppBhU)
The big pharma pay offs changed when the Medical industry changed. Doctors are now part of larger organizations, which TELL them (through their computers) what they are supposed to prescribe.
So now those hawt pharma reps? They are schmoozing the Execs at the parent company, not the local Doctors.
The big pharma pay offs changed when the Medical industry changed. Doctors are now part of larger organizations, which TELL them (through their computers) what they are supposed to prescribe.
So now those hawt pharma reps? They are schmoozing the Execs at the parent company, not the local Doctors.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2023 02:13 PM (oHd/0)
378
Walter started as an underdog and only gradually morphed into the anti-hero. He literally was "trying to provide for his family" after he died of cancer, which at the start he fully expected to do before too long. On top of that, he was an educated man, not a know-nothing who simply fell into crime (like his "partner" Jesse). That wsa refreshing in a time when TV and movie characters seem to be proud of being ignorant.
I didn't know if I would like it either. But I did, and now when I reflect on the series, I get a flavor not unlike what you'd get from a really good, satisfying novel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:11 PM (J2vNu)
Best thing about Walter is that his changing motivations made sense. Watching his former co-workers become millionaires and him missing out, seeing dummies succeeding where he knew he could do better.
And then watching as his ego basically destroyed him and everything around him. Was a great arc.
I didn't know if I would like it either. But I did, and now when I reflect on the series, I get a flavor not unlike what you'd get from a really good, satisfying novel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:11 PM (J2vNu)
Best thing about Walter is that his changing motivations made sense. Watching his former co-workers become millionaires and him missing out, seeing dummies succeeding where he knew he could do better.
And then watching as his ego basically destroyed him and everything around him. Was a great arc.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 02:13 PM (KbCG3)
379
How much work and brainpower went in to creating a drug so deviant gays can go to orgies, that could have been spent skiing almost anything else that could actually benefit humanity?
Posted by: Rbastid at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (pt6cR)
The part of those ads that gets me the most is "undetectable = untransmittable"! Yeah, that's not a chance I'm willing to take, thanks...
Posted by: Rbastid at July 25, 2023 01:53 PM (pt6cR)
The part of those ads that gets me the most is "undetectable = untransmittable"! Yeah, that's not a chance I'm willing to take, thanks...
Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 25, 2023 02:13 PM (MRgz9)
380
House, Buffy, and Gilmore Girls are all still endlessly quotable.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:13 PM (J2vNu)
381
So MAGA is such an existential threat that we should ditch the Constitution to rule by decree. And you're telling me that stealing an election is a paranoid fantasy?
So MAGA is such an existential threat that we should ditch the Constitution to rule by decree. And you're telling me that stealing an election is a paranoid fantasy?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 02:13 PM (MoZTd)
382
Rhymes with a female body part.
Posted by: Obligatory at July 25, 2023 02:13 PM (BxsGY)
383
Lots of people just do the channel hopping thing where they pick one service for a year, watch everything on it that they're interested in, cancel it and switch.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 25, 2023 02:09 PM (fKIdX)
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That's my deal with my wife. She gets $20 a month to spend on streaming and she cycles through.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 25, 2023 02:09 PM (fKIdX)
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That's my deal with my wife. She gets $20 a month to spend on streaming and she cycles through.
Posted by: The_Hoser at July 25, 2023 02:14 PM (N66D6)
384
Heavy thunder out thar....
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2023 02:04 PM (T4tVD)
You asked for it...
https://youtu.be/Pwa0BPlr9_Q
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2023 02:04 PM (T4tVD)
You asked for it...
https://youtu.be/Pwa0BPlr9_Q
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 02:14 PM (StUJj)
385
Pre-emptive strike, or so they'll claim?
bOiNGbOiNG, yesterday: Israel strips its Supreme Court of power
bOiNGbOiNG, yesterday: Israel strips its Supreme Court of power
Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at July 25, 2023 02:14 PM (GshMh)
386
The illiterate lass I'd been bringin'
Tried to go Lord-of-The-Ringin'
It sounded all jokey, and
asked if she liked Tolkien
She said, "I don't know. How do you Tolki?"
Tried to go Lord-of-The-Ringin'
It sounded all jokey, and
asked if she liked Tolkien
She said, "I don't know. How do you Tolki?"
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2023 02:14 PM (4PZHB)
387
Would like to get to know her.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (BdMk6)
__________
"I tired of drunken gopnik boyfriend. I want nice American Moron to love big."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 02:08 PM
The lack of obvious tattoos works in her favor.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 25, 2023 02:05 PM (BdMk6)
__________
"I tired of drunken gopnik boyfriend. I want nice American Moron to love big."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 02:08 PM
The lack of obvious tattoos works in her favor.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2023 02:14 PM (Wnv9h)
388
The Harvard Law professor making the "overrule the SCOTUS" argument is like an engineering professor arguing to build a bridge without considering gravity. How do these people keep their jobs?
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 25, 2023 02:10 PM (oWBc3)
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Too bad Reagan didn't know he could just overrule Roe v. Wade.
But back then we were told that the foremost experts had decided that Abortion Rights were "in the Constitution" and legal expert--schmegal expert--they were the ones who could decide that.
Progressives will show themselves liars on everything given enough time.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 25, 2023 02:10 PM (oWBc3)
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Too bad Reagan didn't know he could just overrule Roe v. Wade.
But back then we were told that the foremost experts had decided that Abortion Rights were "in the Constitution" and legal expert--schmegal expert--they were the ones who could decide that.
Progressives will show themselves liars on everything given enough time.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2023 02:14 PM (krQz2)
389
Nood restoring norms of corruption
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 25, 2023 02:14 PM (eYoxG)
390
Walter started as an underdog and only gradually morphed into the anti-hero. He literally was "trying to provide for his family" after he died of cancer, which at the start he fully expected to do before too long. On top of that, he was an educated man, not a know-nothing who simply fell into crime (like his "partner" Jesse). That wsa refreshing in a time when TV and movie characters seem to be proud of being ignorant.
I didn't know if I would like it either. But I did, and now when I reflect on the series, I get a flavor not unlike what you'd get from a really good, satisfying novel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:11 PM (J2vNu)
Excellent summary. I felt the same way about the premise but the writing and the action was extremely well done and the characters had depth. So by the end he was an anti-hero but he didn't start out that way as Wolfus said. And there were the "real" bad guys to root against - the drug cartels.
I didn't know if I would like it either. But I did, and now when I reflect on the series, I get a flavor not unlike what you'd get from a really good, satisfying novel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:11 PM (J2vNu)
Excellent summary. I felt the same way about the premise but the writing and the action was extremely well done and the characters had depth. So by the end he was an anti-hero but he didn't start out that way as Wolfus said. And there were the "real" bad guys to root against - the drug cartels.
Posted by: Iris at July 25, 2023 02:14 PM (NaH5I)
391
I have an outside storage area at a local flea market that I rent out to a couple friends and we've noticed the used DVD market is starting to pick up again. I just got all four seasons of "Jeeves & Wooster" off him for $5.
Posted by: The_Hoser at July 25, 2023 02:15 PM (N66D6)
392
"But never, ever going back to cable tv. I'll watch paint dry first."
Satellite isn't any better. I happened to see an ad for Direct TV the other day and the message they decided to go with is "You hate the people you live with and hang around with all day and you and they are all so boring that literally anything would be better than actually interacting with them so buy Direct TV"
Satellite isn't any better. I happened to see an ad for Direct TV the other day and the message they decided to go with is "You hate the people you live with and hang around with all day and you and they are all so boring that literally anything would be better than actually interacting with them so buy Direct TV"
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 25, 2023 02:15 PM (ou9hh)
393
373 The Simpsons has a few quotes which are memorable "d'oh"etc
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 02:12 PM (S75Fo)
I could quote Simpsons all day. One of my favorites:
Moe's Professor: I'm dying Moe.
Moe: Is there anything I can do.
MP: No...unless you have a cure for cancer. Do you have a cure for cancer Moe? Because that would be great!
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 02:12 PM (S75Fo)
I could quote Simpsons all day. One of my favorites:
Moe's Professor: I'm dying Moe.
Moe: Is there anything I can do.
MP: No...unless you have a cure for cancer. Do you have a cure for cancer Moe? Because that would be great!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 02:15 PM (KbCG3)
394
Beginning in 2024, Europe will require ETIAS travel authorization for visitors — including summer jet-setters from the US.
US citizens will need a visa to travel to Europe in 2024
Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 02:06 PM (RHGPo)
This will cut the European tourist season down even more. Might as well fly to Indonesia now.
US citizens will need a visa to travel to Europe in 2024
Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 02:06 PM (RHGPo)
This will cut the European tourist season down even more. Might as well fly to Indonesia now.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 25, 2023 02:15 PM (BdMk6)
395
I do socking ha! Ha
Posted by: sEN. jOHN fETTERMAN at July 25, 2023 02:16 PM (Vu7A1)
396
I make the "bastard-coated bastard with bastard filling" reference from time to time but that's about it.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at July 25, 2023 02:10 PM (DTX3h)
Most of them are from Dr Cox And Dr Kelsey
Look up Scrub quotes and there are many I’m sure you would like to have remembered. Or you could throw this Scrubs quote at me:
‘Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, Man Not Caring’
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at July 25, 2023 02:10 PM (DTX3h)
Most of them are from Dr Cox And Dr Kelsey
Look up Scrub quotes and there are many I’m sure you would like to have remembered. Or you could throw this Scrubs quote at me:
‘Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, Man Not Caring’
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 02:16 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 02:16 PM (R38qh)
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Walter started as an underdog and only gradually morphed into the anti-hero. He literally was "trying to provide for his family" after he died of cancer, which at the start he fully expected to do before too long. On top of that, he was an educated man, not a know-nothing who simply fell into crime (like his "partner" Jesse). That wsa refreshing in a time when TV and movie characters seem to be proud of being ignorant.
I didn't know if I would like it either. But I did, and now when I reflect on the series, I get a flavor not unlike what you'd get from a really good, satisfying novel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:11 PM (J2vNu)
I don't see the underdog piece. One really has to suspend one's moral underpinnings to justify what he did, from the start. I just couldn't do it.
Which, now that I think about it, I've certainly enjoyed plenty of gangster movies, so I guess that's my exception. Maybe they're less realistic to me, in a way? I don't know.
I'm not Italian. Maybe that helps.
I didn't know if I would like it either. But I did, and now when I reflect on the series, I get a flavor not unlike what you'd get from a really good, satisfying novel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:11 PM (J2vNu)
I don't see the underdog piece. One really has to suspend one's moral underpinnings to justify what he did, from the start. I just couldn't do it.
Which, now that I think about it, I've certainly enjoyed plenty of gangster movies, so I guess that's my exception. Maybe they're less realistic to me, in a way? I don't know.
I'm not Italian. Maybe that helps.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 02:16 PM (09WBQ)
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378 Walter started as an underdog and only gradually morphed into the anti-hero. He literally was "trying to provide for his family" after he died of cancer, which at the start he fully expected to do before too long. On top of that, he was an educated man, not a know-nothing who simply fell into crime (like his "partner" Jesse). That wsa refreshing in a time when TV and movie characters seem to be proud of being ignorant.
I didn't know if I would like it either. But I did, and now when I reflect on the series, I get a flavor not unlike what you'd get from a really good, satisfying novel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:11 PM (J2vNu)
Best thing about Walter is that his changing motivations made sense. Watching his former co-workers become millionaires and him missing out, seeing dummies succeeding where he knew he could do better.
And then watching as his ego basically destroyed him and everything around him. Was a great arc.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 02:13 PM (KbCG3)
According to the SONY email leak, by 2016 their profit from Breaking Bad was estimated at $400 million. Second only to their take from Spider-Man.
I didn't know if I would like it either. But I did, and now when I reflect on the series, I get a flavor not unlike what you'd get from a really good, satisfying novel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:11 PM (J2vNu)
Best thing about Walter is that his changing motivations made sense. Watching his former co-workers become millionaires and him missing out, seeing dummies succeeding where he knew he could do better.
And then watching as his ego basically destroyed him and everything around him. Was a great arc.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 02:13 PM (KbCG3)
According to the SONY email leak, by 2016 their profit from Breaking Bad was estimated at $400 million. Second only to their take from Spider-Man.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 25, 2023 02:17 PM (/iWhV)
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Posted by: Big E at July 25, 2023 02:12 PM (0zbtE)
There are very few series I watch... but most of those I will rewatch... but usually on a streaming service where I don't have to pay to watch the individual program.
Now, Babylon 5? Yeah, bought it. Pretender? A couple of years of it... All of Sharpe's Rifles? Yeah, of course own it...
I think they are scared to publish the viewer numbers of most series, because very few series 'pencil out'.
There are very few series I watch... but most of those I will rewatch... but usually on a streaming service where I don't have to pay to watch the individual program.
Now, Babylon 5? Yeah, bought it. Pretender? A couple of years of it... All of Sharpe's Rifles? Yeah, of course own it...
I think they are scared to publish the viewer numbers of most series, because very few series 'pencil out'.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2023 02:17 PM (oHd/0)
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I was in the pool!!
Posted by: George Costanza at July 25, 2023 02:17 PM (BxsGY)
402
Nood, Nood, Nood.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 25, 2023 02:17 PM (wtvvX)
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Napoleon (based on his actual uniforms) was 5' 6". Not that short for the time... Zalensky is 5' 7"... which by modern standards... is not tall...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2023 02:09 PM
I'm right here, you know.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2023 02:09 PM
I'm right here, you know.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2023 02:18 PM (Wnv9h)
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"Cable & network TV works due to ad money, period"
I'm almost old enough to remember when cable was touted as the way to watch show without ads.
Because your subscription fee made up for the lost revenue from not showing ads.
I'm almost old enough to remember when cable was touted as the way to watch show without ads.
Because your subscription fee made up for the lost revenue from not showing ads.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 25, 2023 02:18 PM (ou9hh)
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The next crash will make 1929 look like a minor correction. Everyone will realize just how much they have lied to each other. I can see a complete breakdown in belief in the stock market coming out.
Just like Xi and the Chinese Communist Party want.
Posted by: rd
That's been coming a long time now. It felt in the '90s like stock values were based upon anything but whether they were producing something that sold. It was all about some hype, or they "rightsized" thousands out of jobs, or whatever baloney was being floated. Garbage outfits had higher stocks than good, solid firms.
It's part of how "wealth" has been created out of thin air for generations. They rich get richer because they all say so.
Just like Xi and the Chinese Communist Party want.
Posted by: rd
That's been coming a long time now. It felt in the '90s like stock values were based upon anything but whether they were producing something that sold. It was all about some hype, or they "rightsized" thousands out of jobs, or whatever baloney was being floated. Garbage outfits had higher stocks than good, solid firms.
It's part of how "wealth" has been created out of thin air for generations. They rich get richer because they all say so.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 25, 2023 02:18 PM (OUMaO)
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Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 02:15 PM (KbCG3)
Favorite Simpson quote that needs context:
Come back here so I can chew through your ball sack !
My go to now is Bob’s Burgers or King of the Hill.
Favorite Simpson quote that needs context:
Come back here so I can chew through your ball sack !
My go to now is Bob’s Burgers or King of the Hill.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2023 02:19 PM (MNhXM)
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Not a visa.
I'm seeing ETIAS being marketed as not a visa, but a visa waiver. Slimeball wordsmiths.
I'm seeing ETIAS being marketed as not a visa, but a visa waiver. Slimeball wordsmiths.
Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2023 02:19 PM (dNNCD)
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> I could quote Simpsons all day. One of my favorites:
There are so many quotable lines. One of my very favorite bits is Moe vs the lie detector.
https://youtu.be/CRj61dcvmuU
There are so many quotable lines. One of my very favorite bits is Moe vs the lie detector.
https://youtu.be/CRj61dcvmuU
Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2023 02:19 PM (R38qh)
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So MAGA is such an existential threat that we should ditch the Constitution to rule by decree. And you're telling me that stealing an election is a paranoid fantasy?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 02:13 PM (MoZTd)
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Okay. They did it once, but they won't do it again with Ron DeSantis. He's not literally Hitler like Trump.
So MAGA is such an existential threat that we should ditch the Constitution to rule by decree. And you're telling me that stealing an election is a paranoid fantasy?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 02:13 PM (MoZTd)
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Okay. They did it once, but they won't do it again with Ron DeSantis. He's not literally Hitler like Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 02:19 PM (LvTSG)
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The joke was that they were all real, but no one had heard of them. Professionals in television having no idea shows existed, and the shows were in their 3rd or 4th seasons.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I have an antenna for some regular TV channels and then Netflix/Hulu for movies, etc. For current TV shows, I don't know the majority of actors as I am flipping channels. I will stop on some show and see such shitty acting, writing, etc. it boggles the mind.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I have an antenna for some regular TV channels and then Netflix/Hulu for movies, etc. For current TV shows, I don't know the majority of actors as I am flipping channels. I will stop on some show and see such shitty acting, writing, etc. it boggles the mind.
Posted by: Cheri at July 25, 2023 02:19 PM (oiNtH)
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Walter started as an underdog and only gradually morphed into the anti-hero.
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Hold on a second. What's the actual definition of anti-hero?
Is an anti-hero any character with understandable motivations that is doing bad things? Is it a character willing to engage in bad actions to obtain a good goal? Is it a character who strictly adheres to an atypical moral code?
I would consider an anti-hero something closest to that second definition, in which case WW is an anti-hero at the beginning of the story who just ends up as a villain at the end because his motivations have ceased to be good.
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Hold on a second. What's the actual definition of anti-hero?
Is an anti-hero any character with understandable motivations that is doing bad things? Is it a character willing to engage in bad actions to obtain a good goal? Is it a character who strictly adheres to an atypical moral code?
I would consider an anti-hero something closest to that second definition, in which case WW is an anti-hero at the beginning of the story who just ends up as a villain at the end because his motivations have ceased to be good.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 25, 2023 02:20 PM (fKIdX)
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She said, "I don't know. How do you Tolki?"
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
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Ha!! Nice twist on the old Kipling bit! Well played!
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
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Ha!! Nice twist on the old Kipling bit! Well played!
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 02:20 PM (zLLgI)
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Bad Hobbits Are Hard To Break - a limerick
My daughter pledged a literary sorority
Though reading was never a priority
She didn't read such things
As The Lord of the Rings
But they accepted her as a Tolkien minority
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 02:12 PM (zLLgI)
Bravo.
Genius.
My daughter pledged a literary sorority
Though reading was never a priority
She didn't read such things
As The Lord of the Rings
But they accepted her as a Tolkien minority
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 02:12 PM (zLLgI)
Bravo.
Genius.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 25, 2023 02:21 PM (ufFY8)
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On the other hand, I was not terribly impressed with the BB sequel about Saul Goodman. I never found him compelling, couldn't see why the hot blonde lawyer lady was enamored with him, and did not really care what happened to him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:25 PM (J2vNu)
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I would consider an anti-hero something closest to that second definition, in which case WW is an anti-hero at the beginning of the story who just ends up as a villain at the end because his motivations have ceased to be good.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 25, 2023
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Good point.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 25, 2023
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Good point.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2023 02:26 PM (J2vNu)
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122 Besides, if you are gonna bang blue space aliens, Chiana is where it's at.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (ppBhU)
Isn't Chiana kind of a pale white or light grey in color?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 25, 2023 01:33 PM (ppBhU)
Isn't Chiana kind of a pale white or light grey in color?
Posted by: Woodrow Wilson Smith at July 25, 2023 02:51 PM (fCn4f)
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Wiki-up "Philco" and have your very recent mind blown.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2023 01:44 PM (4PZHB)
Aeronutronics(sp?)as well.
When I was first at Cheyenne Mountain (197, the entire place ran on Philco computers. Original installs from the late 50s/early 60s.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2023 01:44 PM (4PZHB)
Aeronutronics(sp?)as well.
When I was first at Cheyenne Mountain (197
, the entire place ran on Philco computers. Original installs from the late 50s/early 60s. Posted by: Woodrow Wilson Smith at July 25, 2023 03:09 PM (fCn4f)
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Also, there were 3 channels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023
We were spoiled in the NY market, even in the 50's when I was a kid. 7 VHF channels from NYC. And, if one lived in my area, an additional 3 from Philly, channels 2, 6, and 10. The NY channels were 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13. 13, eventually became WNDT, educational, and part of PBS. In the summer, during a "skip", channel 8 from Connecticut could be received.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023
We were spoiled in the NY market, even in the 50's when I was a kid. 7 VHF channels from NYC. And, if one lived in my area, an additional 3 from Philly, channels 2, 6, and 10. The NY channels were 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13. 13, eventually became WNDT, educational, and part of PBS. In the summer, during a "skip", channel 8 from Connecticut could be received.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 25, 2023 03:15 PM (Zvtjl)
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Sorry, you actor weirdos. You're getting $0.03 residual checks because your show isn't profitable, and the studio that produced the show knows it. In order to make a living off residuals the amount of content needs to be massively cut. Like, 1980's level of programming content. That means 90% of actors are permanently out of work.
Learn to code.
Learn to code.
Posted by: Idahomie at July 25, 2023 03:52 PM (Gs2ft)
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At the time of collapse, Nortel had a better P/E than google. Also, Amazon makes money, but not by doing what it's known for. They make money off of AWS which EXPLODED in market share through a non contest award by the CIA I think to buy a fuckton of servers. Facebook is still losing money, but it has a fuckton of "revenue" but overall it's a money sink.
Most of these companies live off of stock exchanges thanks to our bullshit 401K system, which I understand actually has no basis in law.
Most of these companies live off of stock exchanges thanks to our bullshit 401K system, which I understand actually has no basis in law.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 25, 2023 04:16 PM (gbDsv)
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Ace, if you think that Hollywood is the only area where stocks are artificially puffed up, you and the rest of the world are in for a rude awakening.
Posted by: Eric at July 25, 2023 04:23 PM (oWuqy)
422
I keep getting the two phrases "steaming pile of crap" and "streaming pile of crap" mixed up.
Posted by: Mr. Winnefred T Pooh. at July 25, 2023 05:18 PM (ayawT)
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Ford cars have minicomputers in them. Is Ford a tech company too?
Funny you should ask that. I work for one of the Big 3 and after the recent merger, the new company states that we are now not an auto company, but rather a "tech mobility company". Whatever the hell that means.
I am guessing that because the WEF and Western nations' Deep State organizations are forcing automotive companies to go full EV by 2030 (Agenda 2030), some companies are rebranding and thinking ahead to when they are no longer allowed to sell ICE automobiles. EVs are basically technology on wheels, thus I guess that is the rationale for branding the company a "tech mobility company".
Funny you should ask that. I work for one of the Big 3 and after the recent merger, the new company states that we are now not an auto company, but rather a "tech mobility company". Whatever the hell that means.
I am guessing that because the WEF and Western nations' Deep State organizations are forcing automotive companies to go full EV by 2030 (Agenda 2030), some companies are rebranding and thinking ahead to when they are no longer allowed to sell ICE automobiles. EVs are basically technology on wheels, thus I guess that is the rationale for branding the company a "tech mobility company".
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 25, 2023 06:17 PM (60h0q)
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That said, the first time I read we were now a "tech mobility company", the first thing that came to mind was mobile phones (cell phones), not automobiles.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 25, 2023 06:18 PM (60h0q)
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