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Comment Re:If he sold phyiscal copies (Score 1) 465

How do you fairly compensate the people who spend the many man hours producing the movie?

Patreon, or a public service equivalent.
Once one can't find a movie that nobody has pledged for (since it hasn't been shot in the absence of pledges), even the mythical freerider will find a good reason to patron artists and projects...

Comment Re:Growing pains. (Score 1) 233

Good point, and I don't think they will benefit from lessons learned elsewhere. America has had to compensate for lack of a cheap labor force by implementing technology.

And had so many countries/populations to prey upon in order to finance this implementation of technology...
China is doing shady deals in Africa, but nowhere (except maybe Burma) do they have the means to exert really heavy predation.

Comment Re:Just doin' business (Score 1) 251

I guess you know of this joke?

A young guy from Alberta moves to Vancouver and goes to a big “everything under one roof” department store looking for a job.
The Manager says, “Do you have any sales experience?”
The kid says, “Yeah. I was a salesman back in Alberta.”
Well, the boss liked the kid and gave him the job. “You start tomorrow. I’ll come down after we close and see how you did. His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down.
“How many customers bought something from you today?”
The kid says, “one”.
The boss says, “Just one? Our sales people average 20 to 30 customers a day. How much was the sale for?”
The kid says, “$101,237.65.
The boss says, “$101,237.65? What the heck did you sell?”
The kid says, “First, I sold him a small fish hook. Then I sold him a medium fishhook. Then I sold him a larger fishhook.
Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn’t think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4×4 Expedition.”
The boss said, “A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a BOAT and a TRUCK?”
The kid said, “No, the guy came in here to buy Tampons for his wife, and I said, Dude, your weekend’s shot. You should go fishing.”

Comment Re:How Linux wins the Desktop (Score 1) 727

How Linux wins the Desktop

1. Rationale: We need the "fragmentation" problem to be addressed, and I would suggest that a good start would to have a standard interface that is common across all of "Linux".

No, that's not a point. As long as there is ONE distribution of Linux that just works and is built to be easily accessible to newbies, you can have all the flavors of the world besides this one, it won't matter.
That's what Canonical tried, and it quite worked for a while.

Comment Re:Potheads assemble! (Score 1) 178

He had no teeth left, since he couldn't look after them they had to all be removed. He was heavily medicated but was still liable to fits of anger and hitting other patients for something simple like sitting in his chair. He was barely able to speak and never managed more than a couple of mumbled, often unintelligible words. There was a rec room where we could watch a TV which was behind a plexiglass panel we needed to lift up to change channels. He had a tic that meant every 1-2 minutes he needed to get up, walk to the TV, life the plexiglass, run his hand over the top of the TV, then sit down again. He might do this 100+ times in a day.

You understand that the very heavy effects that you describe are most likely the results of the heavy medication he's on, much more than of his psychotic trouble or marijuana?
Read Roger Gentis, it's a bit old now but still relevant...

Comment Re:Trolls == Necessary Evil (Score 1) 382

Trolls are not "people who have a different enough opinion"; they are people who insist on claiming their opinions as the truth even when it brings no good to the discussion.

Case study: there are frequently libertalians posts on Slashdot. Obviously, as nobody outside the US is stupid enough to lose time with such a bullshit philosophy, I don't care for such discourses.
But I don't have anything particularly relevant to say to counter them, so I do not waste everybody's time by flaming these posts.

Once, I wrote that Galt's speech "I owe nobody nothing" is so utterly stupid and so at the opposite of all that makes civilization and wisdom (which are both about acknolewdging one's debts rather than speaking like a spoiled brat taking for granted all the help he ever got) that it removes the need to read the rest of Rand's writings in order to understand how she's a self-inflated quack.
That's probably "different enough opinion" to many slashdotters, and it is agressively worded indeed, but that's not flame: it's an analysis of a speech, and it's an argument, which means somebody disagreeing with me can challenge it with arguments of his own, not only flame me or insult me.
And I wrote this on topic, I do not reply to random libertalian posts to explain them why they're wrong - I know they won't change their opinions, and I won't either, so I spare us all the trouble.

Climatic change deniers or bible-thumping creationnists do not usually come here with argumentation and a desire to listen to contradiction, but only to assert their beliefs. That's what makes them trolls, not the fact that they are GW deniers or creationists.


(I chose to use the meaning of the word that TFA uses, even if "troll" has a precise definition, since the parent seemed to use the same misleading meaning)

Comment Re:So ... (Score 1) 218

In the case of vaccines, the small risk of the vaccine causing some harm is dwarfed by the huge risk of the disease it prevents.

Actually, the costs/benefits analysis has to be done for each vaccine: it was obvious for vaccines against highly epidemic lethal diseases, even with the badly prepared nurses of the time (I believe that it's for the polio vaccine that many lost leg mobility after a badly done injection touched the nerve?), it may not be for vaccines against rare diseases.

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