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I'm not planning on it being bad.
Now The Rabble can just look shit up any time of the night or day without the benefit of having their Betters (like me) filter it for them into an easily digestible gruel of monosyllabic words.
Okay, the L Word I understand but what the balls do you have against Buffy?!
No, I don't think that is actually ever clear, all things being equal.
The truth is not always going to win.
I don't hate the internet, I just take issue with Winky's original assertion that it is making us better people. It is also making us worse people in a lot of ways.
It is just making us people.
that probably means the new show is nothing like that!
I think fear has taken hold
Well, at least most of the time they still have to pay $35 for a two-page scientific journal article
So you still have that at least
is not converging
whyyyyy
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Because there's more to systems than their ultimate output. We're starting to see the beginnings of a tragedy of the commons in a lot of creative industries, and it's due to the breakdown of the underlying ecosystem.
well that's what it sounds like!
To properly make fun of you, we're gonna need a break down of the romance novels.
How many are:
Bodice Rippers?
Regencies?
Harlequin Serials?
Nora Roberts writing under her "More Pen Names then Diddy has nicknames" program?
How many involve ranches?
This is an interesting position you've found yourself in.
Would you have rathered the Gutenberg press had never existed?
It's easy to parody the show with flimsy pieces of marketing. And I never commented on the likelihood of anything. What I actually said was I hope that, despite the possibility, it does not happen this way.
I have a better question for you angel: what would that poll have looked like in the 1980s?
look if I don't make your position into something more extreme than it is it's really hard to criticize you for it
An equalizer how? In a lot of ways, it's "equal" in the way Anatole France used the term.
No, because I'll probably have to brute force it through an academic paywall at some point.
Which is bullshit -- I'm an Elite! This is not supposed to happen to me!
dis router
is not load balancing
whyyyyyy
Yes, in fact I wish we were all still monkeys in a tree. I hate knowledge and learning and progress and freedom. You caught me.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100741122
don't read this
That's kind of how the original concept of copyright was created. For political control.
Before the printing press, books were the domain of the church. They held it under lock and key; they were the ones that made copies by hand and pretty much just the priests were highly literate.
Enter printing press. Suddenly books can be easily and (fairly) cheaply mass-produced! The masses learn to read!
The church saw power over the masses slipping out of their hands - they could get information from other sources. So the churc talked to Queen Mary, aka Bloody Mary.
Eh, I'll just quote.
Zero, zero, probably around half, beats the hell out of me, and maybe a dozen.
You have to understand: my statement was a purposeful oversimplification. The internet is facilitating us becoming better people, in a way that I think would not have been possible on a fraction of the scale that it is happening now. I agree that what we're seeing is just part of a continuing trajectory based on us striving to become better people. I think, though, that the internet allows this striving to succeed on a scale never before possible.
But then the ads on Fox back in the day weren't funny/good either.
No it doesn't. I made one throwaway comment on a small fear that is at the back of my mind. I'm looking forward to the show, but I don't want to be drawn into the marketing too much because it's designed to be maximally alluring.
I know this is a bit late to ask but does this ant repellent do anything to cats? Or can I leave it out with the cat running around?
I intend to kill all the ants with this tomorrow but am unsure if it's safe around my cat.
Well that was quick.
I see, then we mostly agree.
idgi
but okay!
About the same, perhaps a bit worse. You can lead someone to knowledge, but you can't make them think.
Yeah I don't think the show is well suited for trailers. The scenes, as shown in the trailers, were pretty wooden compared to the organic nature of the actual show.
how are you
Because in the past I have seen marketing and trailers and they made their product appear exactly as I wanted and then the actual product was not like that, so as a rule I try to keep myself grounded and not buying into marketing too much.
This post went from an agree to an awesome because it really is all about getting the perspective.
Yes. The Internet can be used as an echo chamber, but the people that choose to use it that way weren't exactly the brightest prospects of pragmatism to begin with. A big part of being a grown up is to be able to appreciate nuance, and being able to express his side even though you vehemently oppose it. The truth will stand on it's own.
It's this kinda logic that makes me also believes that markets are the most accurate predicators of value, but that's a discussion for another time.
I asked for heads to roll, and Holder is calling it "outrageous" opening a criminal probe, and Obama is firing a dude, so I'm pleased. I never blamed the prez for this and I'm glad to see he's taking it more seriously than the apologists around here.
Because it's p fucking serious!
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