When I was in high school my best friend was a math wiz. He programmed his HP 65 calculator to play paper football. He started attending math classes at Cal his sophomore year of high school. His Junior year he was pulled aside by the grad students in the class he was taking and told he was screwing up the curve and to start missing at least 1/2 the questions before something unfortunate happened to him.
Fortunately he survived this and went on to a successful career as an actuary.
Fast forward to two months ago... my daughter calls up in tears on a Sunday night that she is going to fail her college math final the next day. I point her at Kahn and tell her to call back if she needs more help.
She calls back 3 days later, she got 80% on the final and was the only one that passed it, everyone else failed the test.
The system was and still is broken but I'll say this, when I read down to "I'll just let that sink in for a moment" I felt like I'd been kicked in the gut.
Every content producer that fights/fears/hates piracy or infringement should study the above post. When you understand it it you will be successful beyond your wildest dream.
As punishment for this bone head move (no offense to boneheads) Fox should lose all rights to anything they have with the words Ice or Age in it. Put it all in the public domain.
You bring a ridiculous lawsuit you lose the rights to the property.
"I've ZERO faith they'll do anything with this except make the current security theatre 100x worse."
I predict they will try to engage people in friendly banter so that people will be less apprehensive about being groped and irradiated.
And you are correct it will be 100x worse because the turnips at TSA will engage people in socially unacceptable and offensive conversation.
Example: Before smashing and disconnecting a colostomy bag expect something like this:
TSA Goon: Good afternoon sir, I notice you seem to be in less that perfect health is that because you have skin cancer from spending too much time in the desert?
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It is also the reason there is a city in the middle of the Nevada desert and why welfare recipients will part with their cigarette money to buy lottery tickets.
It occurs to me that the music/movie/troll industries do not use computers for anything besides their content. They don't billpay or Amazon or email or even Google. Their children still do homework by candlelight with a slate and chalk. this is why they are bent on destroying the tech industry through litigation and lobbying.
It even explains how they cook their books to "protect the artists" any accounting program would report them to the IRS.
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Very well done.
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Fortunately he survived this and went on to a successful career as an actuary.
Fast forward to two months ago... my daughter calls up in tears on a Sunday night that she is going to fail her college math final the next day. I point her at Kahn and tell her to call back if she needs more help.
She calls back 3 days later, she got 80% on the final and was the only one that passed it, everyone else failed the test.
The system was and still is broken but I'll say this, when I read down to "I'll just let that sink in for a moment" I felt like I'd been kicked in the gut.
The old guard can't die soon enough.
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FTFY
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I think that perhaps Mr. Wolk is a small minded, petulant, ignorant, Streisand-Effect-Generating PRICK...
you would be ok, but like yourself I don't want his lawsuits raining down on my lawn.
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Then they live happily ever after.
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You bring a ridiculous lawsuit you lose the rights to the property.
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Seriously though, nice list I missed a couple of these which is why I like the favorites post on weekends.
Well done, thank you.
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I predict they will try to engage people in friendly banter so that people will be less apprehensive about being groped and irradiated.
And you are correct it will be 100x worse because the turnips at TSA will engage people in socially unacceptable and offensive conversation.
Example: Before smashing and disconnecting a colostomy bag expect something like this:
TSA Goon: Good afternoon sir, I notice you seem to be in less that perfect health is that because you have skin cancer from spending too much time in the desert?
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*makes popcorn*
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It even explains how they cook their books to "protect the artists" any accounting program would report them to the IRS.
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