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Comment Re:sad case (Score 1) 44

by noshellswill (#65670800) Attached to: Paris DVD Rental Store in Last Stand Against Streaming Giants
NOTHING is a very big number ... like infinity. Excluding books ...  I just checked my sketchpad and recovered names of three "recent" movies I intend to see again:  <The Rapture ... Jacobs Ladder ... Beetlejuice >.  And almost any film featuring Shirley McClain or Alec Guinness. You really are known by the trails you trek & the  company you keep.

Comment sad case (Score -1, Offtopic) 44

by noshellswill (#65670488) Attached to: Paris DVD Rental Store in Last Stand Against Streaming Giants
Parisians have seemingly slid (stumbled?)  into the bog of content consumption. I presume France maintains public parks, sea-shores, woodlands and trekking venues. How does some overpaid illusionists fantasy compare to the immensity and beautiful savagery of native environs ? Don't go naming a few creative works of art ... as Picasso observed damned-near every art-form  produced after 20-K BC is simple decadence. Create your own joy and endorphin-goading hi! If anyone the French ought to be held to this standard; Alpine meadows &  gorgeous Slovenian trout-streams are prolly hours away. Why settle for cultural  slops ( streaming media)  a  wild pig would ignore. Sad sad case.

Comment Re:More Redefining Words? (Score 1) 72

by noshellswill (#65666644) Attached to: Is TV's Golden Age (Officially) Over? A Statistical Analysis
Sorry about the tarnished  karma, pal. You're gold, but  talking to a pack of luzerz who don't know: Spin & Marty, Atom Squad, Playhouse 90  and Omnibus/Dave Garaway. Nor Canadian football , gals roller-derby, Weds-night fights and Bobo-Brazil / Galager Bros. Or Fabians' ( A Lion walks among Us ) brilliant jail-scene. Don't even try.

Comment Re:Rich folks want to be vampires (Score -1) 93

You sound like a person who has never produced anything of value. Able humans work for the pure joy of producing; wealth is a natural free-flowing result of any-such production. No doubt, the off-spring of wealthy parents become wealthy themselves W/O effort. The logic of allowing that is the 60% / 40% genetic gifting of ability --- so inheritance and marriage both have the same final cause ... identifying and gifting the most able. Likewise a culture allows wealthy corporations to continue producing wealthy because they are also ( until say Y2K ) the most like to product value. Think old 20-th Century  Westinghouse, Ford, DEC,  IBM, Amana, RCA, HP etcetc. 

Comment Re:A jab at Misk (Score 0) 83

by noshellswill (#65648486) Attached to: Sam Altman Says Bots Are Making Social Media Feel 'Fake'
Xs short-term valuations may be hurt, but its long-time existence will be favored. Companies/guilds etc that cater to "discriminating" buyers  tend to last much longer than fly-by-night / race to the bottom start-ups. Musk builds  for the long-haul and his stock-holders / workers / customers will reap the financial/cultural  benefits of quality and stability. Of-course GEN-Q "twitchers" cannot conceive the ansatz. 

Comment Re:We *HAVE* them, they're just pointless. (Score 0) 92

by noshellswill (#65644784) Attached to: How Close Are We to Humanoid Robots?
Housekeeping! It's not plowing fields with a horse. Why don't you wish to perform those every-day tasks ? Consider it part of self-grooming. Or if you have the $$$, hire  experienced  mans-man, secretary, maid, butler and chef; you know, the Holmes/Watson kind of thing. From classical ROME  to the Victorians, wealthy individuals have successfully used that solution. Or perhaps you're feeling a bit entitled above your station in life.  Let me understand this ... you don't pride yourself in the quality of your own BBQ steaks or smoked ribs ?

Comment Re:As for the "why"? (Score 0) 92

by noshellswill (#65644770) Attached to: How Close Are We to Humanoid Robots?
To be human is to interact with other humans. That includes tool-use; the more a tool depends ( think manual hand-tools or C-coding  on a text-pad ) on human emotion the more humane will be that interaction.  Humans that interact mostly with abstract machines find their  empathy devalued and values corrupted. Say hello byte-boi to our dystopian AI overlords -- but first celebrate the loss of humanity. 

Comment 3% (Score -1) 134

Get real jam-boy.  Need-to-work  defines need-to-be-human. Roughly 3% of  pure-play investors  do better than an inflation-rate return. That's NO return. And those that DO make money from trading often align with cocaine-like products.  Better to destroy all-but-medical-military AI and return to a quasi-automated / guild-system of production. 

Comment Re:Prediction (Score -1, Troll) 209

by noshellswill (#65631710) Attached to: US Tourism Suffers 8.2% Decline
I'll byte thank-you. And Fuck U Jackson. TRUMP supporter here and support smash-facing border-crossers at the slightest excuse. Don't want tourists or refugees or kind-hearted crack-heads from over-populated jungles.  Either you have the docs, or get fed ( FED//get-it! ) to the crocs ... right here in sunny NASCAR-smoking Florida. 

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