It takes much longer to watch a video than to read an article.

On Yahoo/CNBC, I read the article over listening to the video.

Perhaps there is some way to feed the video into Google Voice.

A turbine engine can also be a generator if you build it that way. Microturbines are becoming fairly efficient...

I don't know about anybody else, but I expect that society should be giving us all more for less as progress results in more reward for less input, and there's more to go around. The sad thing is, wages don't even need to keep up with productivity, or at least they don't have to advance as quickly, in order to represent satisfactory progress.

You don't KNOW what's going to happen in them. Seriously- there is no "chekov's" gun in Bollywood films. You may see 3 guns on the wall and only 1 of them will be used. You may have an entire subplot which is just interesting but doesn't mean go anywhere.

It's fantastic. When I go to a hollywood film- I can often guess the ending within the first 30 minutes. And it LOWERS the value I place on hollywood films by a couple bucks. I might pay 9-10 bucks to see a genuinely interesting surprising film. But only about 6 to 7 bucks for a mildly entertaining predictable film with a manipulative soundtrack (they tell you how to feel about the actions taken basically-- making the same action "good" or "bad" based on the accompanying soundtrack.)

I noticed several years ago that R rated films which are not "sex" films (like betty blue) have their first nude scene at 40 minutes into the movie (sometimes 39, sometimes 41 but you get the idea). Probably sets unrealistic expectations for dating people.

Yes, it's everywhere. You can't get anyone to understand anything unless you present it to them in the form of a story. e.g. organic chemistry is a lot easier to understand once you think about functional groups as characters in a narrative called chemical reactions.

Don't be jealous that people care what I say. If you logged in you could be ignored for who you truly are.

For me it's the opposite. For example, there's no point in my watching Fight Club again. I've tried, I failed.

Good luck getting funding for a unique motion picture when the studios not only know what makes a profitable film, they can prove it.

The implications of this kind of phenomenon are even more frightening when applied to other areas of human endeavor. e.g. politics. Good luck getting votes for a third party candidate when the corporations not only know what makes an electable candidate, they can prove it.

Avatar wasn't a rubber stamp?

Have you ever tried getting young people interested in older media? "This is what I watched when I was your age" is not a selling point.

HTH HAND

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