With everyone from Disney to DC to every minor entertainment network there is offering their own subscription-based streaming service, no household anywhere is going to be able to afford to watch all there will be on individual offer.
I guess that means they’ll have to team up with the ISPs they own to create a base site that will offer multi-streaming channel packaging.
Does this sound familiar, anyone who has ever used cable/satellite telly in the last 40 years?
“A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly.
Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.
Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.
American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to “protect, promote and support breast-feeding” and another passage that called on policymakers to restrict the promotion of food products that many experts say can have deleterious effects on young children.
When that failed, they turned to threats, according to diplomats and government officials who took part in the discussions. Ecuador, which had planned to introduce the measure, was the first to find itself in the cross hairs.
The Americans were blunt: If Ecuador refused to drop the resolution, Washington would unleash punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial military aid. The Ecuadorean government quickly acquiesced.”
CBS: Hey let’s make a new Star Trek show and put women of color in the lead roles!
Star Trek fans: Oh! That sounds really cool!
Also CBS: Let’s put it on our overpriced streaming service so the fewest amount of people possible watch it
Star Trek fans:
This is the network that declared Sarah Shahi’s Nancy Drew ‘too female,’ then proceeded to present an all-male led lineup of shows.
Now it wants US audiences to pay for this privilege and, so you know, if you choose to do so, you’ll still have adverts running through it (unless you want to pay for a higher tier).
The conversations I’ve seen on Twitter and elsewhere suggest many fans are unhappy about this and do not want to pay the extra fee, when they are already paying for Netflix (who have the rights to stream the show abroad) or Hulu or whatever else.
I read a Salon article earlier that suggested CBS does want this show to succeed, else why give it a prime Sunday slot – but the author missed a point. That Sunday slot won’t be on their main (male-centric) network. It won’t be seen by this audience, unless they choose to pay for it – and who would choose to pay for stuff you get to see for free anyway, or is already available through a streaming service you already have?
Disney is planning something like this, too, and if everyone jumps on their individual streaming programme wagons, they will effectively lock out millions of potential viewers who cannot afford multiple services.
Once again, only the elite benefit.
It renders the hopeful, post-capitalist message of Star Trek completely useless.
You’re on a massive spaceship with what’s left of humanity. It’s the only ship, what’s on the ship is all you have. There are no humans left except for the few thousand people on board.
There are a few Star Trek-style replicators throughout the ship. These produce food, clothing, medicine – all material needs. In order to produce enough for everyone to live comfortably, they require a few hundred people to use stationary bikes for a few hours each week to generate the required energy.
Paradise, right? Enough people are more than happy to spend some time helping the community meet its needs, and many just enjoy the exercise, so there shouldn’t be any problem getting those replicators running!
The trouble is, immediately after boarding the ship, a few people camped out by the replicators and claimed them as their own. Using the resources from the replicators, they have bribed some people to guard them and “their” replicator and beat up anyone who tries to use them.
Now that these people have total access to the replicators, they have total power over who gets food, water, medicine, etc. They demand that everyone on the ship use the bikes every day, all day, or they will not be allowed to eat or drink. (The exception is their enforcers, who are rewarded with more resources for keeping the population in line in a variety of ways.)
Overworking everyone else produces enough energy for the replicator-hoggers to live like kings. They order up luxuries for themselves from the replicators, and eat and drink when and whatever they want. They order up food and throw it away when they decide they don’t want it. Huge piles of objects go unused in their quarters.
They make rules for how everyone else on the ship has to live, under threat of violence from their enforcers. People who can’t or won’t spend all day using the bikes are deliberately allowed to die from hunger and thirst, and the resource-hoarders say it’s because life must be earned.
The resource-hoarders allow the ship to fall into disrepair, and even throw wild parties and break things. Engineers beg to be allowed to effect repairs, but the resource-hoarders refuse, even when warned that in a few years the ship will break down completely and no one will survive. They call the engineers liars and conspirators.
And people just… sort of get used to it. They rationalize it, they say that the resource hoarders work hardest of all because they decide who gets what and when. Even though there are thousands more being forced to work than there are resource hoarders or their enforcers, people are afraid, or don’t want to think about it, or they justify it, or they dream of the day when they can work their way up the ranks of the enforcers and hog resources too.
And, I mean, it’s not human nature to hoard resources. Most people share their rations and help each other survive as best they can. It’s literally like eight jerks just camping out by the replicators surrounded by guards they bribe with the fruits of everyone else’s work.
But we let them do it. And the idea that we wouldn’t is considered wacky and fringe.
Scientists invented fabric that makes
electricity from motion and sunlight.
To create the fabric, researchers at
Georgia Tech wove together solar
cell fibers with materials that generate
power from movement. It could be
used in “tents, curtains, or wearable
garments,” meaning we’d virtually
never be without power. Source
Y’all are fucking idiots. Clean energy will NEVER be enough to replace the energy we have now. We’d have to tear down DOZENS of forests just to fit enough windmills and solar panels to get even a QUARTER (probably less, tbh) of the energy we can produce now.
Yeah, sure, when they’ve already calculated that a few square miles of panels in the empty ass Arizona desert could power the whole nation. But ok, fracking and the diminishing petroleum supply is worlds better.
Nevermind that windmills are often most efficient off the coast. There they take up no land, impact no trees, don’t pollute the water, and are conveniently located where winds are often strongest anyway.
And solar panels can literally be built into roofs of buildings and in empty areas like deserts. The sun strikes the Earth with the same amount of energy in an hour that our civilization uses in a year.
But yeah, it would be impossible for us to ever have enough energy from clean sources.
Durr hurr technology is bad and I would rather light shit on fire than have clean energy
I can also testify to the Arizona desert being empty ass. And the California desert. And the Nevada desert.
The fact that anyone can believe a limited amount of dinosaur oil is more plentiful and efficient than moving air or fucking sunlight is proof that entire populations can be completely brainwashed.
how many times have i seen this on my goddamn dashboard
What’s really appalling? How old this information is. I’m in my 40s and learned about this in my teens.
We’ve had clean energy, electric cars, etc. available for a very long time now. The problem: no one’s figured out how to get disgustingly rich off of it.
The Doctor Is Out 