Sigh In A Storm

twerklina:

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fatmanatee:

“Netflix’s holy grail is to get each person, not each household, to have a separate streaming subscription, the way everyone also has a separate Facebook account. Separating a per-household service like DVD rentals-by-mail helps simplify that eventual transition.”

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10 things to remember about Netflix while scratching your head about Quikster

This is a really smart article.

(via bg5000)

“Netflix DVD shipments“have likely peaked” and the company’s DVD subscriber base isdeclining. Already, 75% of Netflix’s new customers were signing up for streaming-only plans in the first couple of weeks after Netflix announced its price increases.”

(via themattsmith)

Look here for more thoughts on the movie business and Netflix.  

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arrr, matey

fatmanatee:

I have no idea what anyone was talking about and I’m probably better off.

fatmanatee:

“That’s partly because the Personhood movement hopes to do nothing less than reclassify everyday, routine birth control as abortion. The medical definition of pregnancy is when a fertilized egg successfully implants in the uterine wall. If this initiative passes, and fertilized eggs on their own have full legal rights, anything that could potentially block that implantation – something a woman’s body does naturally all the time – could be considered murder. Scientists say hormonal birth-control pills and the morning-after pill work primarily by preventing fertilization in the first place, but the outside possibility, never documented, that an egg could be fertilized anyway and blocked is enough for some pro-lifers. Indeed, at least one pro-Personhood doctor in Mississippi, Beverly McMillan, refused to prescribe the pill before retiring last year, writing, “I painfully agree that birth control pills do in fact cause abortions.” Bush does prescribe the pill, but says, “There’s good science on both sides … I think there’s more science to support conception not occurring.” Given that the Personhood Amendment is so vague, I asked her, what would stop the alleged “good science” on one side from prevailing and banning even the pill? Bush paused. “I could say that is not the intent,” she said. “I don’t have an answer for that particular [case], how it would be settled, but I do know this is simple.” Which part is simple? “The amendment is simple,” she said. “You can play the ‘what if’ game, but if you keep it simple, this is a person who deserves life.” What about the IUD, which she refuses to prescribe for moral reasons, and which McMillan told me the Personhood Amendment would ban? “I’m not the authority on what would and would not be banned.” No – Bush simply plays one on TV. And if her amendment passes, only condoms, diaphragms and natural family planning — the rhythm method – would be guaranteed in Mississippi.”

— Irin Carmon

medievaljournalist:

theres too many princesses and maids and knights and whatever. can some of you develop a thatching fetish or something my roof is collapsing

Originally posted by margaret-hilda-thatcher

ta2o:

“オリンパスは12日、デジタル一眼レフカメラ「E-410」を21日に発売すると発表した。6月10日までに購入すると、2GBのxDピクチャーカードがもれなくもらえる「感動を撮りためよう! 大容量2GBメディアプレゼントキャンペーン」も同時に開始する。”

— オリンパス、デジタル一眼レフ「E-410」の発売日を21日に決定

On the 12th, Olympus announced that the digital SLR camera “E-410” will be released on the 21st. At the same time, the “Let’s capture your emotions! Large capacity 2GB media gift campaign” will also start, where anyone who purchases it by June 10th will receive a 2GB xD picture card.

two whole gigabytes

isopod:

As a kid in elementary school, I’d stay up late until my dad got home from work.  We’d have ice cream and watch Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was on every night at 11.

He’d miss the opening credits, and I’d recite them as I watched and waited for him to get home. It was my time to be with my dad (since he’d be sleeping when I went to school) and he always treated me as an adult. I remember conversations when I was in first grade about the viability of communism, about state regulations regarding nursing homes (where he worked), and about the science of Star Trek, which is dear to my heart because of those nights.