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  • On the post: A Response To Felicia Day On How Video Gets Funded In A Fragmented, Digital World

    thejynxed ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2011 @ 08:48pm

    Felicia Day and Funding Videos...

    All of you commenting and I only see one other person even vaguely get close to the most important question.

    "Does the rug match the drapes?"

    (If you know what this references, then enjoy the LOL).

    Outside of that...well...I saw several low-budget online videos already that were more impressive content-wise than the shit parade that gets shoveled down our throats every day on television, so...

  • On the post: How Many Times Will Skype Be Acquired For Too Much Money By Big Tech Companies With Little Strategic Synergies?

    thejynxed ( profile ), 15 May, 2011 @ 10:44am

    MS Skype Purchase

    Several reasons for MS to purchase Skype:

    Business app integration

    Gaming Division integration (XBox/Games For Windows)

    Hardware/Software Phone integration

    Windows 8 integration (where it is desperately needed, especially considering it is more highly reliant on online components than previous versions)

    Windows Live!/"value add" app integration

    Licensing access to Facebook

    Giving the NSA a free, warrantless backdoor into all of the encrypted conversations

    And those are just what I've come up with off the top of my head.

  • On the post: Walmart Employees Fired For Disarming Gun-Toting Robber

    thejynxed ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2011 @ 03:17am

    Victimization is Our Policy

    The type of situation mentioned normally has no good outcomes.

    More often than not, the robbers will attempt to "disable" the victims for fear of identification, etc. Too many cases of those being robbed being taken to the back of the store and shot dead.

    I, for one, would not believe an armed bandit was not going to shoot me just because he said so. That kind of stupidity is for the movies.

    No amount of policies are going to change human nature, just like no amount of silly laws has done. Policies like this just encourage victimization, and the psychological damage from such events is never fixed.

  • On the post: The Government And Silicon Valley: Lead, Follow Or Get Out Of The Way?

    thejynxed ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2010 @ 10:46am

    Re: Politicians want employment for income and taxes, and productivity. And they are NOT stupid.

    What delusional dreamworld do you inhabit, that laws passed are so easily repealed?

    Give you a hint: The amount of US laws repealed at the Federal level, can be counted on one full hand and 3 fingers from the other - and one of those laws led into the Civil War.

    And yes, politicians can be stupid. We elected an idiot C-student as President, not once, but twice, and got policies to match his stupidity in return.

    I won't even bother commenting on the quality of politicians that come from California, Arizona, or Utah.

    Those politicians take legal bribes, pass laws that have loopholes in them that exclude themselves and their interests from those very laws, etc. It's a bunch of hooey.

    As for the rest? Oh well, no more multi-million dollar overpaid crap-fests coming out of Hollywood, boo-hoo. No loss to society at large, and I dare say a great gain would be had to our national IQ.