I did it. Yet again, I started an HTML tag with a single-quote. I tried to edit it, but the edit button didn't work.
Inara: So. Would you like to lecture me on the wickedness of my ways? Book: I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped. Sin and hellfire... one has lepers.
'Serenity'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Betsy HP - Jan 27, 2005 7:59:56 am PST #1263 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Betsy HP - Jan 27, 2005 8:01:00 am PST #1264 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Not very work-safe. What if you liked wearing fuzzy suits but you wanted to be a human?
Steph L. - Jan 27, 2005 8:01:03 am PST #1265 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Renting DVDs. Just say no.
Why? What's wrong with it?
For real, man. I only buy something that I *know* I'll watch repeatedly. PPV isn't an option if I want to watch, say, Citizen Kane.
Gus - Jan 27, 2005 8:01:07 am PST #1266 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Why? What's wrong with it?
At sell-through pricing, all the money goes to the Blockbusters of the world, who milk it with forced sales, now, or late fees, and less to the creators.
Buying going to the creators, fairly directly.
Netflix is more creator-supporting than Blockbusters, but only because they are gouging less.
Betsy HP - Jan 27, 2005 8:01:59 am PST #1267 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
But, Gus, there are quite a few movies I don't want to see $20.00 worth.
When I see it in the theator, the creators get shafted on the royalties, too. Would you suggest that it's wrong for me to go to dollar night?
tommyrot - Jan 27, 2005 8:02:20 am PST #1268 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Not very work-safe. What if you liked wearing fuzzy suits but you wanted to be a human?
For a brief moment, I wanted to kill myself....
Trudy Booth - Jan 27, 2005 8:02:22 am PST #1269 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Yeah. Social class is really alive and kicking in Europe. Not that it is dead in the States. The cues are just different.
I was interested in England with how, well "ok" everyone seemed to be with class. Lord so-and-so was who you talked to about finding a job in that town, the housekeeper was from the same part of the country as the middle class family I was staying with and had a distinctly different accent... and my one friend with an economics gegree from Cambridge hadn't even considered going to college at all because his family was working class and no one ever had-- and college was FREE.
§ ita § - Jan 27, 2005 8:03:14 am PST #1270 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Buying going to the creators, fairly directly.
But if I don't buy or rent those 273 movies, the creators get no money at all. How's that a win?
And if I hadn't just rented Sneakers (don't see how I could have PPVed it), I wouldn't be looking at buying it.
Cashmere - Jan 27, 2005 8:03:28 am PST #1271 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
I like that fact that my cable co is at least trying to offer the extras. I am pretty selective about what I'll own in regards to DVD's. REALLY picky. And yet, not so picky as to what I'll watch.
We'll rejoin Netflix when we get around to replacing the DVD player.
PPV ties you down to not just a cable-connected house, but quite probably your own.
For people like us, this SO ISN'T a problem. In fact, it's a pretty good solution for us since with a baby, we're mostly homebound--at least for entertainment purposes.
Betsy HP - Jan 27, 2005 8:05:01 am PST #1272 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Oh, we have a class system all right. Look at the jokes about "trailer trash" and about backwoods people with no teeth.