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Comment No (Score 1) 341

No. Going to a movie theater is an experience thing as much as it is seeing the latest movie. I couldn't care less if I wait a month - or a year - to see a title I'm only moderately interested in. If I'm dying to see it, or I want an experience other than sitting on the living room couch, I go to the theater. I would rather that NOT change, and it wouldn't change for me regardless of when the movie is available.

Comment What a load of crap (Score 1) 562

This statement: "In fact, the question is whether someone who promotes opposition to gender and racial equality should be allowed to serve as a steward for a company whose stated mission is to connect the world."

Complete crap and hyperbole. The person who did this write up "thinks" that Trump promotes those things. That doesn't mean he actually DOES support those things.

Way to go Zuckerberg - I was beginning to think reasonable people didn't exist on the left anymore.

Comment Re:Influence the election (Score 1) 689

The obvious appeal to women, feminists and the faint-of-heart is rather laughable. If an 11-year-old snippet of a guy bragging about conquests with women is her best attack, she has a LOOONG road ahead of her. It did absolutely nothing to phase me or the peeps I know. (Don't get me wrong, I think he said and did some dumb things, but so have I in my lifetime. In context to Hillary's mistakes, what is worse?)

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 689

The issue is she side-stepped the question by trying to divert attention to Russia (which, by the way, those accusations have no factual backing yet).

The real issue is she is exactly what you expect from an entrenched politician - someone who says what people want to hear and does whatever she wants when she thinks nobody is listening, and panders to those who can offer her the most.

Comment Limited usefulness (Score 1) 296

I can only see this being useful if watching tutorials, documentaries or other "learning" videos where the point is gathering information, not enjoyment.

As others have stated, if I watch something on TV, I want to relax and enjoy it, and increasing the tax on my brain has the opposite effect.

I also make it a point to not watch so much TV/video that this makes much of a difference (in time spent/saved). Perhaps some people watch that much video - in that case I would suggest some life-balance and perspective.

Comment THIS . . . IS . . . AMAZING (Score 1) 532

What we have here is a new version of the solar sail! Hear me out.

The device bounces photons back and forth within the cone, effectively either a) "slowing" their speed (the speed of light), or b) at a minimum, altering their direction. Surrounding environmental photons, however, continue to travel in the direction they already were. The cone shape provides a larger area, or "net", at one end to catch more photons moving in that direction, which then push the device in the direction they are traveling as they collide with the slowed/altered photons.

If this is correct, theoretically this device could reach the speed of light!

I might be way off, but I hope someone much smarter than me, with many more resources, looks into this further.

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