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How many accidental gun injuries/deaths are their in houses that own a gun?
Now compare that to houses that don't own a gun.
Oh! Oh! Can I play too?
How many dead crime victims were unarmed?
How many dead crime victims were armed?
Now compare how many dead crime victims were unarmed to how many (few) dead crime victims were armed.
Wasn't that fun!?
Strat
The funniest thing is that the reason movies are made in Hollywood was to violate Thomas Edison's patents on movies. Edison was pretty restrictive on what types of movies that could be made. So all of the big studios you know today were started by the creative types that went West to go where enforcement of Edison's property rights were poor. There they could make the types of movies they wanted.
I'm almost 40 and I love iTunes Match. I have about 500 CD's I've bought over the years and it sucked having to manage them on my iTunes. But with iTunes Match they are either matched online or uploaded online. Now I have access to my whole collection. It just manages it for me with the ones I've played recently residing on my phone. Even nicer is if I had a low quality rip and it matches it will give me their best quality version. All of this for about $2/mo.
Why can't this be done with DVD's? I've bought some movies on VHS and DVD and now they want to charge me for BluRay? Screw that. Let me put my DVD's in the drive, let iTunes match it and give me HD copies available anywhere.
In rural areas it would work. I live in Florida and when citrus ripens people with trees will put paper bags of citrus on a card table by the road with a coffee can and ask $5 or so a bag. Also when the honey bees are pollinating the crops they put out the honey in different containers with the prices and a coffee can. I've always paid and when I do there is usually about $20 or so in the can.
Good.
Funny, tho, after reading through the thread thus far (and expanding most of the comments) no has mentioned working for a bookie. Wouldn't that be a natural application?
When there's no congenial, copacetic, or reasonable, way to get desired content, then there's a problem.
Worse, when over-inflated egos are accorded exorbitant amounts (voice of Bart Simpson, e.g.) or when the primary focus of compensation is on distribution when that amounts these days to the cost of electrons, some server racks, and Internet access,
When Castenada wrote "A Separate Reality" he at least had a point or three to make. These [deleted] in La-la Land, not so much.
While I think of it, for all the importance given Nielson [for establishing ad revenues, budgets, etc.], et al, they've far less relevance these days. Coming up with much more realistic sampling methods might could make sense. Reform, retire, or die - along with the rest of the "industry" given over to things that no longer apply.
Did I say "Fuck'em" already?
Especially apt considering that the idea of medieval lords enjoying the right of prima noctis or droit du seigneur was faked up by later writers [wordpress.com]. Lords might have abused women on their properties, but it wasn't a legally enshrined right. Somebody just sold you a bill of goods, rather like the Copyright Board's doing here. . .
What in my post allows you to assume that I was not already aware of it?
Would I not, if I believed it was historical fact, provide a historical cite, rather than the semi-fictional movie cite that I did provide? You cited to writers, I cited to movie plot. It's even right there in the URL, '#Plot'
I think rather you've sold yourself a bill of goods.
Strat
And I'm wondering who the hell brilliant idjit conflated t and a with porn. Fuck these idiots, and, if you've a mind, the horse they rode in on (after you get them a ladder to get off the damn thing.) Not to mention, since when does anatomy suddenly, magically, become "porn?" Most folks I know left that behind somewhere in the middle school grades, when they were desperate for knowledge (especially given the happy crapola parents dished out in the Fifties and Sixties), let alone titillation.
Who here doesn't remember looking up "naughty bits?"
The truly brilliant (British use) aspect of the Internet is that if you look for something, you can find it, absent government interference or your parents' web filter. Selah.
I'm not a Republican. I didn't vote R in 2004. I don't watch Fox. I just don't ever remember seeing a R bus in people to where they can vote, only ever Ds.
I didn't mean to imply it was a "dirty trick", just a simple statement of fact. Assume I was giving a compliment to Ds for caring enough to assist people in exercising their Constitutional Rights.
Today, THREE WINOS from DETROIT sold me a framed photo of TAB HUNTER before his MAKEOVER!