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Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 354

I don't know that there are ordinances on prepared food at room temperature when you start talking about 4 hours. There might be. But, that does not invalidate my point. 4 hours under the warmer, and 20 minutes outside of the warmer will still give you extremely unpleasantness food that does not violate any guarantee from the restaurant while still posing no health risks.

Comment Re:Pft (Score 1) 962

I'm tired of being told both that women are 'equals' while also being told that I'm responsible for their emotional well being. Either women are adults or they are children. They need to decide which way they want to be treated.

Yes. Lets ask children if they want to be treated like adults, and trust them to act like adults if they answer in the affirmative.

Or, maybe that's a cop out, and we should start acting like men.

Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 354

No. it wouldn't. There are no health codes that require food be hot. The only health codes concerning heating food is that some places require certian foods to be brought up to a certain temperature before serving. They do not require that they remain that temperature. So, you can't server raw chicken, but you can server chicken that has been cooked, refrigerated, and then served. Look at any 'Chef Salad' as an example.

Comment Re:call them (Score 1) 354

NETflix, as in pick your movies over the 'net' and Netflix will mail them to you. Unless you know something about mandatory licensing that the rest of us don't, there is nothing patently absurd about the fact that streaming is a dead end. Netflix is 100% at the mercy of the copyrright holders. Copyright holders have never been known for being reasonable.

Comment Re:call them (Score 1) 354

Netflix isn't fighting back. They are picking a different fight that they think they can win. Netflix used to be a service that allowed you to rent MOVIES by mail. Their original content, tactic is a service that lets you watch TV SHOWS streaming. The two have only a cursory relation to each other.

The service of offering MOVIES for rent is turning out to be a complete failure on the streaming side, and people are lamenting the fact that Redbox is quickly become the best we can hope for when it comes to renting MOVIES.

I like Redbox for what it is, but it is less than what Netflix was before Netflix abandoned the market.

Comment Re:Time will tell (Score 1) 354

The DVD rental business did not fly under the radar. Nothing has changed in that landscape except that Netflix successfully crushed it's major rival. The old guard isn't fighting Netflix on the DVD front. There are no licensing fee problems associated with DVD rental. That is strictly a streaming problem.

If you are talking about the Netflix streaming service flying under the radar and now being fought, I would say that they were never under the radar, and it isn't that they are being fought harder. I would say that they are beating their heads against the wall thinking that the wall is just going to not be there the next time they slam their face forward. Streaming has never been a solution that competed directly against DVD rentals. Netflix keeps hoping that it will be, but it hasn't yet materialized, and given our copyright system, it isn't likely to ever materialize.

The reason your cheese is simply no longer there is that Netflix decided to throw out the good cheese because they want you to eat the much cooler cheese that it turns out exist.

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