Harder to keep selling the Big Lie these days when you have a dozen witnesses recording video and shipping it off to the cloud in short order to refute it.
Even 47 has had to back off the rhetoric now that the NRA and a few of his fellow GQP are questioning this particular Big Lie.
My opinion of 47 came from having lived in NJ late 70s as he arrived in a declining Atlantic City promising to build up the boardwalk area with the state legalizing casino gambling, then seeing him stiff his suppliers & contractors for the building work, then walk away only a few years later having tanked them all, leaving all the people once again looking for jobs.
That he hasn't managed to end up living under a bridge in a cardboard box by now astounds me...
Multiple news sources (Reuters, CNBC, the Guardian,..) are reporting that Netflix is looking to change their offer to all-cash, showing a willingness to trade off the temporary hit on earnings in order to lock up the studio assets.
Even given Ellison Sr's offer of fronting Lots O' Money, this would be hard to ignore. And presumably some of their outlay would be offset when they spin off the linear TV networks as a separate sell.
By using the GQP trigger-word 'abortion' he's either subtly trying (yah right)to undermine his ex-boss by forcing his feckless colleagues to either take on Brain-worm Bobby or risk being called out by the pro-birth crowd, or he's calling out to the MAGAt crowd about the eeevil pill and trying to regain some credibility in the party after 47 dumping him for the second round.
I'm in the same boat, though as little as we use the service now that GoT is through, I'd be fine with pitching it should The New Owners decide to start charging for it. The content since Zaslav got his mitts on HBO has been less than compelling...
Many have religious exemptions, which are laughably easy to obtain and don’t require any affirmative description of what religion we’re even talking about.
No faith tradition, short of a handful of niche evangelical/fundamentalist groups best summarized as 'storefront churches', have issues with vaccinations. Even the Christian Scientists, the typical example of religious exemptions, leave such matters to the individual.
What we're seeing are adults buying into the right-wing BS about vaccine problems and using religion as their excuse to avoid the jab. Mind you almost all of these adults were vaccinated by their sensible parents having seen the fallout of now-preventable childhood scourges such as polio, etc.
If you are Afraid of What your kids will see on the net? DONT GET THE NET.
The correct answer is ACTUALLY PARENT YOUR KIDS.
This is the digital version of finding "nudie mags" under your kid's bed then trying to sue Playboy/Penthouse/... for the kid getting ahold of them (yes I know they've stopped publishing in print).
1) SS7 was ratified mid-70s, so realistically pre-cellular, and assumed to be between major wireline carriers all playing nice together; what need for security?
2) the ability of Five Eyes agencies to eavesdrop on 'trunk' traffic is presumably a feature-not-a-bug.
3) the rise of cellular, cheap SDR hardware and software to decompose traffic was frankly not on the radar at the time and unplanned for.
4) at this point retro-fitting any real security would require new CCITT specs to implement, which in the current political context would be even harder than getting the original agreement back in the 70s.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/clarance-thomas-precedence-supreme-court-docket
But he's perfectly willing to uphold Lovings v. Virginia (overturning the ban on interracial marriages in the 60s) given his current relationship. Hypocritical SOB.
The era of Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow it sure as hell isn’t.
They're no doubt spinning in their graves fast enough to power major cities. Murrow in particular loathed the need for advertisers (ref. "Good Night and Good Luck") while Uncle Walter saw them as a necessary evil at best. I'd like to think neither would have stood for this blatant payoff to accommodate politics.
The law was intended to make bandwidth available to rural and poor famililes where the big ISPs weren't pulling lines. That a disproportionate number of the latter are POC just gives 47 and co. a reason to slash the funding and drive business to the incumbent providers who so far have repeatedly proven they have zero interest to do so.
Most of the entrenched ISPs have cut sweetheart deals with localities that effectively let them lockout potential competitors from pole access to string their own lines, etc. City/county-wide version of the apartment block owner locking the tenants into Provider X, who's usually providing some kickback based on percentage of tenants they get signed up.
One irony is that NPR’s coverage (like CBS, WAPO, the LA Times, and countless others) has folded to this bullying by being friendlier to Republicans than ever, which actively helped normalize authoritarianism this last election season. And they are still being bullied.
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
My guess is he's betting that the House of Mouse will buy him off rather than deal with the PR of being part of this whole sh*tshow.
On the other hand, given the immense piles of money the Deadpool movies have brought in, they'd probably be OK with backing Reynolds/Lively to keep them happy. And Disney probably ranks just below IBM in their ability to Blacken the Sky with Lawyers.
Spinning-rust HDDs have become cheap enough, and disc ripping tools prevalent enough, that anything you want long-term is best acquired as physical media that you then rip to store yourself. A Raspberry Pi with a media server package, plugged into an outboard HDD, makes for a cheap NAS solution you can then play back on your preferred screen.
N playing the long game?
Wondering if Netflix is counting on Paramount/Ellison Jr pulling WBD down with them and then collecting them both at fire-sale prices?
47's minions
Will all get thrown under the bus if it covers his orange backside. This tragedy is triggering a LOT more pushback than they expected.
For what little it's worth
Harder to keep selling the Big Lie these days when you have a dozen witnesses recording video and shipping it off to the cloud in short order to refute it. Even 47 has had to back off the rhetoric now that the NRA and a few of his fellow GQP are questioning this particular Big Lie.
Atlantic CIty...
My opinion of 47 came from having lived in NJ late 70s as he arrived in a declining Atlantic City promising to build up the boardwalk area with the state legalizing casino gambling, then seeing him stiff his suppliers & contractors for the building work, then walk away only a few years later having tanked them all, leaving all the people once again looking for jobs. That he hasn't managed to end up living under a bridge in a cardboard box by now astounds me...
Good example from MN
It's always good practice to punch Nazis in the face...
Hilton corporate still willing to bend over
If you hadn't figured it out, they were afraid of 47 telling GSO to avoid Hilton for travelling govt employees...
Netflix changing the deal...
Multiple news sources (Reuters, CNBC, the Guardian,..) are reporting that Netflix is looking to change their offer to all-cash, showing a willingness to trade off the temporary hit on earnings in order to lock up the studio assets. Even given Ellison Sr's offer of fronting Lots O' Money, this would be hard to ignore. And presumably some of their outlay would be offset when they spin off the linear TV networks as a separate sell.
Pence whistling to the canines
By using the GQP trigger-word 'abortion' he's either subtly trying (yah right)to undermine his ex-boss by forcing his feckless colleagues to either take on Brain-worm Bobby or risk being called out by the pro-birth crowd, or he's calling out to the MAGAt crowd about the eeevil pill and trying to regain some credibility in the party after 47 dumping him for the second round.
Free HBO/Max...
I'm in the same boat, though as little as we use the service now that GoT is through, I'd be fine with pitching it should The New Owners decide to start charging for it. The content since Zaslav got his mitts on HBO has been less than compelling...
SC vaccine exemptions
If you're afraid..
RFKjr blather..
"our parents aren't having children." Chances are if your parents didn't have children, neither will you... :-)
SS7
1) SS7 was ratified mid-70s, so realistically pre-cellular, and assumed to be between major wireline carriers all playing nice together; what need for security? 2) the ability of Five Eyes agencies to eavesdrop on 'trunk' traffic is presumably a feature-not-a-bug. 3) the rise of cellular, cheap SDR hardware and software to decompose traffic was frankly not on the radar at the time and unplanned for. 4) at this point retro-fitting any real security would require new CCITT specs to implement, which in the current political context would be even harder than getting the original agreement back in the 70s.
SCOTUS is making shit up at this point
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/clarance-thomas-precedence-supreme-court-docket But he's perfectly willing to uphold Lovings v. Virginia (overturning the ban on interracial marriages in the 60s) given his current relationship. Hypocritical SOB.
Tiffany Network --> Home Shopping Network
excuses
The law was intended to make bandwidth available to rural and poor famililes where the big ISPs weren't pulling lines. That a disproportionate number of the latter are POC just gives 47 and co. a reason to slash the funding and drive business to the incumbent providers who so far have repeatedly proven they have zero interest to do so.
sadly..
Most of the entrenched ISPs have cut sweetheart deals with localities that effectively let them lockout potential competitors from pole access to string their own lines, etc. City/county-wide version of the apartment block owner locking the tenants into Provider X, who's usually providing some kickback based on percentage of tenants they get signed up.
You can't roll over enough for these people...
Dragging Marvel/Disney into the mix...
My guess is he's betting that the House of Mouse will buy him off rather than deal with the PR of being part of this whole sh*tshow. On the other hand, given the immense piles of money the Deadpool movies have brought in, they'd probably be OK with backing Reynolds/Lively to keep them happy. And Disney probably ranks just below IBM in their ability to Blacken the Sky with Lawyers.
relying on streaming a losing proposition
Spinning-rust HDDs have become cheap enough, and disc ripping tools prevalent enough, that anything you want long-term is best acquired as physical media that you then rip to store yourself. A Raspberry Pi with a media server package, plugged into an outboard HDD, makes for a cheap NAS solution you can then play back on your preferred screen.