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Message 2145564 - Posted: 23 Jan 2025, 5:47:31 UTC
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What really galls me is that you pay for a movie service, and they take your money, and then on some more popular franchises when you start to play a movie, they announce that "Due to streaming rights, the following will run with limited interruptions."

Streaming rights, my arse.
Do the streaming rights require you to show commercials, which I had paid a subscription for to avoid??
Or does it really mean is that you think you can make more money by ticking people off than those who will avoid your service because you do so.

This has happened on both Starz and on AMC+.

What they really mean is "Due to our greed and the popularity of this content, we are going to f**k you whether you like it or not."

And this just really ticks me off to no end.
And I refuse to watch movies that I would rather see than condescend to their BS.

Sorry for the rant.

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Message 2145565 - Posted: 23 Jan 2025, 6:05:42 UTC

Sounds like watching a YouTube video. Movies can be watched free with ads. I’m just glad a streaming service I subscribed to does NOT throw ads at me.

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Message 2145579 - Posted: 23 Jan 2025, 15:30:30 UTC - in response to Message 2145564.  

Streaming rights, my arse.
Do the streaming rights require you to show commercials, which I had paid a subscription for to avoid??
Or does it really mean is that you think you can make more money by ticking people off than those who will avoid your service because you do so.


Couldn't agree more with you. An outright lie to con us out of more money for things we don't want/need.
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Message 2145601 - Posted: 24 Jan 2025, 0:09:49 UTC - in response to Message 2145579.  

Couldn't agree more with you. An outright lie to con us out of more money for things we don't want/need.
Business is subscription based. They watched the razor companies give away well built to last handles, then clean up selling blades for them for decades. So that is the business paradigm. Design your product so the shill has to buy it over and over again. (Even in pharmaceuticals)
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Message 2145644 - Posted: 25 Jan 2025, 22:06:56 UTC
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Another interesting documentary.........
Framing John DeLorean, Alec Baldwin, 2019.

After watching the film, it is obvious to me that the jury had it right.
Not guilty on all counts.
What lingers is the sadness that the government succeeded in destroying this man and his car company.
It absolutely was entrapment, and I have to wonder if somehow, somewhere, the big three auto makers didn't help further it along.

But they did manage to kill his dreams and the DeLorean Motor Company.
John died of a stroke in 2005, at the age of 80.
It is wonderful that his car lives on in the Back To The Future movies.

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Message 2145647 - Posted: 26 Jan 2025, 0:50:19 UTC - in response to Message 2145644.  

It absolutely was entrapment, and I have to wonder if somehow, somewhere, the big three auto makers didn't help further it along.

Where was Elon?
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Message 2145648 - Posted: 26 Jan 2025, 1:00:41 UTC - in response to Message 2145647.  
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It absolutely was entrapment, and I have to wonder if somehow, somewhere, the big three auto makers didn't help further it along.

Where was Elon?

From what I can tell, Elon didn't get into the car business until 2010, well after John DeLorean had died.
I also suspect that you are just being your usual smartass.
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Message 2145650 - Posted: 26 Jan 2025, 4:49:39 UTC

Elon was about 14 at the time of the criminal trial. He was still in South Africa.
By the way, I represented a real estate developer who was also entrapped. He was looking for an investor for a shopping mall. A DEA agent first pretended to be an investor then after the deal was signed claimed he was a drug dealer wanting to launder money. My client tried to get out of the deal then. They hounded him and even threatened his life if he didn't go through with the deal. Once he agreed they arrested him.
Wonder if I should write a script. My guy was not famous. Would anyone watch it?
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Message 2145711 - Posted: 27 Jan 2025, 22:51:14 UTC

Now watching 'Tulsa King'.
It is an excellent vehicle for Stallone. Most people underrate him as an actor, but this is great stuff.
Re-watching the first season now, because it's been a couple of years.
Looking forward to watching the 2nd season.
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Message 2145712 - Posted: 27 Jan 2025, 23:41:58 UTC
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Not sure what the average age of a Setizen currently is, but my guess is way more than 50yo.
We older people lit the Seti torch, and kept it lit until the project abandoned us.
I am not bitter, but just a bit sad that the project could not continue.
I think that there are things that the Seti management could have done to keep data flowing from other sources and kept the crew involved.
It is unfortunate that the Seti website is now mostly just to keep the forums going and all else has come to naught.
Don't get me wrong. I am thankful that the forums have been kept up for us to keep in touch and remember.
I just wish it could have remained something more productive.
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Message 2145718 - Posted: 28 Jan 2025, 4:04:40 UTC - in response to Message 2145712.  

Well said.
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Message 2145719 - Posted: 28 Jan 2025, 4:23:45 UTC - in response to Message 2145712.  

Agree but what data? When the cable snapped at the antenna any data that would have been realistically interesting ended. Sure lots of much smaller dishes could have sent data, but the reality is the dish we were using was too small, and when the project started it was the largest on the planet. To probe deep enough to answer our question a 100 square kilometer collecting surface would be more appropriate. Our lab boys were never going to have that kind of money. Yes, there is now a slightly bigger dish, but I doubt the government that funded it is willing to part with the raw data it collects, for many reasons.

Hoping someone picks up the torch before all the fuel burns out.
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Message 2145738 - Posted: 28 Jan 2025, 17:06:32 UTC - in response to Message 2145712.  
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Not sure what the average age of a Setizen currently is, but my guess is way more than 50yo.
We older people lit the Seti torch [...]
I would disgree: In the former Eastern bloc, it was the generation of teenagers in the early 1990s who first came into contact with computers. Before 1990, personal computers, even (8 or 16 bit) home computers were practically unknown outside of elite schools (e.g. for talents in natural sciences) in larger cities, universities or large (of course state-owned) Combines. Western home computers (e.g. Commodore, Atari) were prohibitively expensive, had to be paid in valuta (that is... western currency); for which you needed to have family relations in the West to pay for such luxuries. Western business computers (e.g. Personal computers, or more powerful 'Minis') were also unavailable due to embargoes (COCom export bans); The eastern replicas were just as hard to get (low production numbers) and very expensive. ...and where to get software from?

Before 1990, just one school in my former home town owned a couple of Eastern replica home computers (8 bit Z80 clones, no sound, no color graphics, no GUI like e.g. Apple Macintosh). All you could do with that was to learn programming BASIC; some simple games, think of: Pong; data/programs was stored on music tape casettes; a black/white portable TV set used as monitor. That's what I could use (no printer!) during weekly computer clubs in the afternoon in a separate school at other end of town (extended secondary school for the few (~2..3 per regular school classes) entitled for higher education), when I was 11...12 years old. Expensive floppy disk drives weren't used with Eastern home computers...

My parents had never seen a computer before 1990, and I was the first in the family to learn how to use these modern Western things. So, I would say that behind the (former) Iron Curtain, it was a younger generation, now in their Fourties, who formed 'Setizens'.
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Message 2145765 - Posted: 29 Jan 2025, 0:49:49 UTC

Not sure what the average age of a Setizen currently is, but my guess is way more than 50yo.

What few of us that are left on this thread.

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Message 2145767 - Posted: 29 Jan 2025, 1:39:31 UTC - in response to Message 2145765.  

Not sure what the average age of a Setizen currently is, but my guess is way more than 50yo.

What few of us that are left on this thread.

Well, I am glad to still be among those still here.
I recently hit the grand old age of 68. And almost didn't make that one.
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Message 2145777 - Posted: 29 Jan 2025, 7:31:50 UTC - in response to Message 2145767.  

Careful Mark, you are gaining on me, but I still have a four year lead.
Glad to see you are still here, remember keep breathing and we'll both be around for another few years.
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Message 2146266 - Posted: 10 Feb 2025, 20:48:54 UTC

/rant mode on
Rant for today................
You notice how some soda cans these days are getting so thin that you can barely pick them up to drink out of them without them collapsing in your hands?
/rant mode off
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Message 2146267 - Posted: 10 Feb 2025, 20:53:30 UTC - in response to Message 2146266.  

I agree - so:
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Message 2146269 - Posted: 10 Feb 2025, 21:39:15 UTC - in response to Message 2146267.  

I agree - so:
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I thank you, but I really don't think I need permission.
I believe I have earned the right.
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Message 2146280 - Posted: 11 Feb 2025, 4:19:30 UTC

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