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Comment Seems like an intentional leak (Score 1) 148

Hmmm...this sounds like an intentional leak by HBO to me.

1) Story is out the day the season debuts
2 ) "Equivalent to standard-definition TV, not HD"
3) "Episode four ends on a heck of a cliffhanger"
4) HBO confirms leak but can't find the leaker

Anyway, meh. I'll still download the HD version of episode 1 tomorrow from some pirate site like 50% of the rest of GoT viewership - "standard TV" doesn't do it for me anymore.

Comment There are people with free time... (Score 0) 626

There are people with free time...

>> ...constructing a language capable of replacing English has fascinated me for a long time. I'd like to start a project with some of my own ideas and anyone who's interested... ....and then there are people with SERIOUS free time. My free advice: get a Linguistics degree and/or a girlfriend/boyfriend: itch scratched.

Comment I dunno...maybe you could check the LAW? (Score 0) 57

>> Commission Vice-President for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip said that "deep in my heart ... I hate geoblocking,"

What is this crap? "Search your feelings?" How about checking to see what the law says?

>> Günther Oettinger, worrying about protecting the European film industry

Protecting the what? Bah ha ha ha, er, yes, I'm certain there is a "European file industry." (Cough.)

>> "We must not throw the baby out with the bathwater."

Sorry, but you already did when you created the EU. And if the baby is digital access rights by country, everyone but film industry business types are quite ready to chuck that baby in the wood chipper.

Comment Who TF is still on Facebook? (Score 2) 79

Seriously - the only people I know who are still on Facebook daily are soccer moms busy shuttling kids seven different ways. That's a pretty powerful demographic in terms of household purchasing power, but to say that it's key to media domination...misses the fact that there's Twitter and whole webs of social media that people over 25 don't even see. (I "borrow" my kids tablets and phones once in a while just to see how far they and their classmates are off mainstream social media grid.)

Comment caveat emptor (Score 3, Insightful) 264

Here in the US, colleges still send thick glossy booklets full of pretty pictures of campus locations students will hardly ever see in rare weather conditions with attractive and diverse people they'll never meet. Then we wonder why we have millions of non-STEM graduates serving coffee and whining about "student debt relief" for their useless degree(s). To me, all the "extra" college grads we have in the country are a much bigger deal than "just" 15K people getting a little wiser on how the world really works.

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