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Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by 7952 »

mrleinad wrote: post #33
andrepd wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how releasing new films (good or bad) is supposed to "murder" an existing franchise.

The Indiana Jones franchise exists because of the Indiana Jones character. People that go to one of those movies want to see him. If you setup a Mary Sue that treats him like an useless geriatric waste of a man, and finish the movie by having this Mary Sue knock him out, you're basically pissing in your own franchise. And since Harrison Ford won't be able to do another one, this is how the franchise ended, with a sou…

I think the visual effects made a huge difference. The practical effects were good enough to be impressive and believable. But also some placed limits on the craziness of the story. Modern VFX has just destroyed that balance.

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by toyg »

bozhark wrote: post #51
mcpackieh wrote: post #5

Awful bastard hacker strikes a death blow against an evil corporation from beyond the grave. Very cyberpunk.

cyberpunk would have faked their death a year before the hack…

You mean uploading their consciousness before killing their body.

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by ufc290 »

mrleinad wrote: post #33
andrepd wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how releasing new films (good or bad) is supposed to "murder" an existing franchise.

The Indiana Jones franchise exists because of the Indiana Jones character. People that go to one of those movies want to see him. If you setup a Mary Sue that treats him like an useless geriatric waste of a man, and finish the movie by having this Mary Sue knock him out, you're basically pissing in your own franchise. And since Harrison Ford won't be able to do another one, this is how the franchise ended, with a sou…

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Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by Hikikomori »

robertlagrant wrote: post #12
iancmceachern wrote: post #2

It seems strange for this documentary to be on Disney plus

Having watched them murder Star Wars, Willow, and now Indiana Jones, this seems relatively tame.

Hey now, Spielberg and Lucas fucked Indiana Jones long before Disney.

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by Beldin »

spacebanana7 wrote: post #110
hospitalJail wrote: post #66

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Its one of the primal needs. Its why some companies are so effective at selling Veblen goods to status seekers. When I was growing up, I got abercrombie/american eagle because it was cool to girls. Today teens get Apple/Nike products. Not that any of these actually change your status, but the marketers were able to sell that idea/feeling. As an adult, you see people buying/leasing Tesla's or more expensive cars to do…

I have a pet theory that all humans spend roughly 30% of their disposable income on status products. And that there's no way to escape this. No matter how hard you try. If you escape spending at LVMH you'll spend it on cars, indie brands or ascetic holidays. Keep going and your money will go towards pseudo-educational leisure activities that make a social statement like submarine exploration or building web apps in O…

> I have a pet theory that all humans spend roughly 30% of their disposable income on status products. And that there's no way to escape this. No matter how hard you try.

Are you serious? Because wow that's off by a few megaparsecs...

A lot of people don't have enough disposable income to get them adequate amounts of food. Kids making toys out of garbage, just to have a toy. To share.

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by ghufran_syed »

Beldin wrote: post #115
spacebanana7 wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a pet theory that all humans spend roughly 30% of their disposable income on status products. And that there's no way to escape this. No matter how hard you try. If you escape spending at LVMH you'll spend it on cars, indie brands or ascetic holidays. Keep going and your money will go towards pseudo-educational leisure activities that make a social statement like submarine exploration or building web apps in O…

> I have a pet theory that all humans spend roughly 30% of their disposable income on status products. And that there's no way to escape this. No matter how hard you try. Are you serious? Because wow that's off by a few megaparsecs... A lot of people don't have enough disposable income to get them adequate amounts of food. Kids making toys out of garbage, just to have a toy. To share.

Do you feel there's any difference between "income" and "disposable" income? I would take it to mean income after paying taxes, and paying for housing, food, clothing, what definition are you using? I suspect the parent comment is using a similar definition to mine

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by wodenokoto »

flangola7 wrote: post #18
OldManRyan wrote: post #8

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Disney+ is a different animal in countries that aren't the US.

In what way?

It’s a combination of Hulu and something called stars (which might actually be a reference to Hulu content)

Things marketed as stars inside the Disney plus app is content more adult than your typical Disney branding.

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by AbrahamParangi »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #107
itake wrote: post #65

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Death blow? I saw their ad last week in the App Store.

Like in that scene in The Terminator (1984), when the skin of the titular assassin melts/burns off/whatever, and it is revealed for what it truly is: a machine. Here, the "death blow" to a corporation reveals its true nature: an artificial intelligence. Implemented in bureaucracy and economics, executing on a runtime that's literally made of humans as processing units. C-suite, employees, customers, partners - all ju…

Heh. The fact that other arbitrary intelligences can run on the human substrate is evidence for the Turing-completeness of humans.
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