...Getting caught cheating in a professional field where people's lives are at state should be a capitol offense.
You got that right, this is the kind of offense regularly done at the Capitol..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol
If that would work, most hollywood movies would be done that way, why spend 1B us$ for avatar if
you can "convey" the same thing with 30K€ (it's called star wrecked: in the pirkenning
The idea that "movies should pay for themselves" shows a lack of understanding of the economy.
Not, it show exactly a clear understanding of economy. If your target demographics is 10M people, you do something withing the budget constraints of 10M people, not that of 400M people.
BS: That is what Hollywood would like to see happening, but the cost of production for a certain type of movie does not scale very well, even if you can plan on paying stars much less, you cannot lower the price of the extra, script, camera rental fee...
So either you say ok: let's forget about doing movies that are relevant to us, or you find different way of financing them....
The idea that "movies should pay for themselves" shows a lack of understanding of the economy.
If for instance you make a movie for Catalan people and people of Catalan culture, you need to make sure that the 10M of Catalan speaker pay enough to make your movie work.
If you make a movie for the US market you can spread the cost over 400M people, So in practice you can spend up to 40 time for a Hollywood (or a Bollywood) movie than a Catalan movie.
And the way (far from perfect) things are done in France are not some "enlightened bureaucrat deciding on their own", but representative of the industry work with reasonably independent individuals to dole out rather small amount of "seed money", this helps getting the real cash needed from the banks, so basically it's the state as "venture capitalist" (only they do not get their cash back, at least not directly)...
So you can store your "outrage", and forget about it...
That's what it is, an "import tax", the vidéos are "imported" through the Internet....
And BTW the "freemarketer numbskulls" are trying to explain to the world that "import taxes are bad and naughty
and should be forbidden...." so it is only because in the 80s Français Mitterand insisted on an "exception culturelle" for cultural content
In practice it works this way : the "first world countries" go to poorer countries, and explain that if they ask import taxes for products we want to sell to them, we'll put import taxes on their natural ressources, and since the top dogs are sitting on that well they agree and help us screw their citizens, you do not need that many jobs to export petroleum...
People will whine about how the French government should not tax stuff to support local culture.
But any movie produced in any country larger than France (for instance US, India, China) can be paid for in the local market and then basically given away for free or as close to free as needed to kill the local production.
Add to this that the US is rabidly promoting "patriotism" which is a form of nationalism so that anything "foreign" is automatically suspect.
The various programs promoting this are ways to close the US market against "foreign influence".
(And BTW US "Patriotism" is being "Proud of being American", and unless you are a wet back Latino who on peril of his or her life crossed the border illegally than worked for many years with fear of deportation in his or her stomach and then finally get citizenship it is being proud of being born and nothing else.)
So the market is "not free and fair", and taxation is one way of offsetting the fact that it is inherently easier to make money when your market starts with 400M citizens instead of 65M.
And it is "nicer" than resort to propaganda, like forcing small children to "pledge to the flag", militarization of the society and such things.
And to finish, you can play a "fun game", look at "family oriented" blockbusters and try to read the "sub text" and what it says about your society.
The right question would be : when will a major Open Source DB be released with a GPU accelerator...
The issue is that it is quite hard to do, and it's harder to do it in a way that is sufficiently generic and elegant to deserve public dissemination.
Venezuela has not banned toilet paper ownership, it has nationalized the "means of production" of toilet paper, which is exactly what the previous article was describing.
The reason it did this was because the production of paper through capitalistic means did not work...
In practice there are a whole lot of reason for this "shitty" crisis, but anyway a "socialist or communist" regime does not rule out private ownership or "better compensation for good work"....
What it does rule out is "creating your own business without asking for permission
Fair enough
2007 : http://archive09.linux.com/feature/119109
2013 : http://davelargo.blogspot.fr/
Actually if you look at it from a statistical point of view, nobody is developping software or doing anything creative on the PC.
The majority of PC users are just consumers, so using a PC to watch movies and use facebook is not very different from doing the same thing on a mobile phone.
The decline of the PC is coherent with the emergence of the "cloud" and just an additional demonstration that the vast majority of humanity are just not doing anything usefull with a computer.
But since they enjoy it and are ready to pay for it
some where not, so if some is half the "one who where" where more than half ergo more than 33K
but I did make my sentence "weak" since I wrote 33K where it should have been 33K "at least" where
(I didn't say at most
But isn't that nitpicking around the fact that the "Fine article" wrote that out of untold millions "some where not"
which is obviously wishy washy
The "investigation" should explain why such a large net was necessary to get, what exactly ?
Given that a wonderfully weaselly word like "some" was used by such people, why on Earth would you assume that it was used in a manner at all consistent with the obvious definition?
Because taking what people say at face value is a way to poke fun at them, in this particular case it is also a way to poke fun at people "exposing" the NSA and using the same weasel word they use....
In reality it is very hard to be in IT in some relevant way and not be aware that all governments do spy on about everybody they can...
It is also "interesting" to remark that a very large amount of movies and tv series rely on the device of the "good cop/spy/military guy" who "goes against the stupid puny little laws" to "take care of the really bad guy"... so our "minds" are prepared for this
A big part of the issue is that this spying is also fueling a commercial war between developped countries, and the cost of this war is covered by citizens all over the world.
So I'm not "surprised" at all, not even that "shocked" (too late for this), but I do hope that a little bit more transparency and oversight will come out of it, that people will protect a little bit better their secrets, even and especially the fact that they actually do not have any secret. (so that thouse who do have some legitimate reason to be discreet to not stick out like a sore thumb)...
And meanwhile I'll go on poking fun at weasels, particularly now that I know that everybody (left) is smarter than I am, and should understand my jokes
Of course it is possible, maybe as I read this everybody who is dumber than I am just died by intervention...
You claim that my math is bad, maybe, but millions of call over 30 days do make a lot of calls per day...
Now you might have gathered from the tone of the first posting that the exact evaluation was not supposed to be taken too seriously
nevertheless 2 000 000 / 30 => 66 666 average number of conversations per day, this means quite a lot of people, and at least some of them should be really suspect of something to justify the program...
Unless I missed the point when the NSA published the info "after wasting one month listening to millions of boring conversations from unwashed french people we decided that there is really nothing of interest to listen too, and we left
So just in case you are not just a random troll, you might want to : a) relax this is
And if I would be working for Fox News I would avoid trying to get peoples attention about the fine usage of weasel speak
But since I'm the dumbest person alive, I'll now go get a life and some beer, and will try to hide my low IQ from the surviving smar women...
Nope you need to keep it, all our surveillance hardware in embedded in it, courtesy of Tesla !
The only issue is that the long distance etheric receptor was stolen by Francis Blanche while filming "Signé Furax" and now only French comics get a direct line
on the shenanigans happening in the US
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
