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Comment Re:Maybe a better reason for the plateau (Score 1) 307

This. It's not a phone. Anyways the only reason we change those so often is marketing restrictions. My old HTC is very powerful. It just doesn't run the latest android. It's more like a real computer in terms of how long you can make it last. I still use my ipad 1 I got on release. It works great.

Comment AMA is a guild (Score 1) 141

Yep. People don't realize the AMA functions as a guild to artificially limit the total supply of doctors to keep salaries artificially high. It's also a class system net to keep 99% of doctors to people born into the class. I remember when in the 80s they miss projected the doctor counts and had huge problems in the 90s. This also has weird distorting effects on things like the ratios of plastic surgeons to general practice doctors.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 392

This. It's actually more effective too. Unlike mass data collection which has only stopped one, count it one real thing so far. And that one real thing was money being sent to Africa, not a bomb or anything. They had data from the Boston bombers and such. Did it help them? nope. Because they have 500+ million peoples data from here and abroad. Plus over a million people on a watch list. The Boston bombers were on a watch list, and had been interviewed and such.

Comment Arguing over definitions (Score 1) 255

I'm so glad a major part of a major government department has time to argue over definitions of a service for advertising proposes. Everyone who had time to go to those meetings should be fired. If the regulations have to exist, why not just make them advertise the speed offered? Not "we offer broadband" but "we offer 15Mbps" with real fines for lying.

Comment Disneyland is nextdoor to anti-vac Central (Score 1) 673

Disneyland is nextdoor to anti-vac Central. Just for those that don't know California geography. Disneyland is within 15 minutes of several groups of snotty / new money / no class / neighborhood enclaves of southern California. Newly affluent jerks with some of the lowest vaccination rates in the whole country. They all buy their kids annual passes.

Comment But thats wrong (Score 1) 247

Fines big enough to cause a shareholder revolt will have a lasting effect

Um no. Most of these companies voting stocks are controlled by company insiders these days. OR the company is so huge, even 8 figure fines don't put a dent the companies earnings to bother anyone rich enough to own enough shares to start a shareholder revolt. The modern "public" stock market is broken.

It would be much better to put the "interchangeable" people in a real jail for a meaningful amount of time. To put the fear of god into their replacements. Do it enough times....

Comment Re:Splits the community in half (Score 1) 823

I actually kind of like the idea of synthesized sounds. Think of it as being like haptic feedback.

Hmm, got me thinking. Could I get synthesized sounds for the bedroom or backseat so if I am dating a quiet female, I get the feedback of porn star moaning? Making me feel like a rockstar?

Also why ever leave the the house at all, you can fake everything and pretend you have a good life.

Comment Isn't that just because of obscurity (Score 1) 210

Isn't that just because of obscurity? Early adapters tend to be more techy for various reasons. Take the web back in the early 90s. Or usenet before the September that never ended. There of plenty of maillist type groups that are much better for technical stuff. If they, say, bought facebook, wait for the hoards to come in and bring everything down to the lowest common demonstrator. Or the advertisers, that will work will google so they can sell to the unthinking people that share the easiest and most understandable ideas.

Comment Movie financing is a weird game. (Score 1) 92

Movie financing is a weird game. It is easy to get hosed for a lot of money if you don't hedge your bets. Also you are dealing with a lot of different unions. I know it seems easy, find a good project, fund it. But tripleAAA titles are hard to come by, then you have to secure a director that is free, sign actors with a free schedule. That's the easy parts. Plus the exhibitors have close relations with the distributors who might not want AMC releasing other products. They can and will hold back the number of screens you can show say X-men on if you don't play ball. Costing the exhibitors a lot of their profits. Everyone worth getting has part of the profits in their contracts. Don't forget cost overruns, city funds, agent lawyers. And that is still the easy parts. The movie has to be advertised, and compete with over movies in theaters. Also see Hollywood Accounting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... https://www.techdirt.com/artic... http://www.theatlantic.com/bus... I predict this will end very badly

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