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I'd rather hear about their porn habits than endless virtue signalling that's prevalent in the 21st century USA.
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No.
99% of people around me including close friends pretend sex, naughty bits and porn don't exist. It's this weird social norm black hole that makes other honest interactions feel less honest and more fake. And it's not a victim less thing either - like anything else that we pretend doesn't exist, it allows things and people and issues to fall through unspoken cracks.
Just like with any other topic in the world, if I don't want to hear details I don't need to hear details. And I really really don't want or need to hear 99% of details from more than. 99% percent of people :). But I'd like it to be a conscious choice not a social taboo of shame.
My 2 cents and note I wasn't born with this perspective - it took lots of work and many years to clear out my own social conditioning :-/
(that being said note that the article isn't even REMOTELY about pronography but an Interesting short anecdote about long lost video format and piece of television history. It's safe to read! Even if you're ashamed of your porn!:-)
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#63> So DuArt Media Services got to work trying to rescue the tape . . . . DuArt then made a documentary about this, called “Lost and Found: The ’73 Knicks Championship Tape”. It won an Emmy. The punchline? That documentary seems to be lost. I'm just speechless.
The IMDb page for the film [0] does appear to have an Emmy win as trivia, but I can't find anything about this documentary on the 2013 Sports Emmy Awards Wikipedia page [1] or its source [2]. It is not listed as 'Outstanding Sports Documentary' winner or even as nominee. Same for the 2014 Sports Emmy Awards. [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2883206/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th_Sports_Emmy_Awards [2] https:…
This was aired on MSG Network, a local network for New York sports, so I figured it was probably a local Emmy (like when your local news talks about winning some large number of Emmys).
Indeed, that documentary won in the "Sports: Documentary" category in the 2014 New York Emmys ceremony.
See this list of the winners (note: PDF): https://www.nyemmys.org/media/files/files/7c2ad17b/57th_NY_E...
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is that any different from "buying" a digital rental on Amazon that expires after some length of time?
Digital rental is less wasteful.
Given the scale of wasteful packaging and other materials people dispose of without a thought, a DVD seems like basically nothing.
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Sexual shame damages people. I grew up in a Catholic household where my sex ed consisted of Focus On The Family's workbooks, and their blame and shame, sinful outlook on what turns out to be a normal part of most mammalian lives.
Echoing the sentiment of a sibling comment: this damaged me. I'm middle aged now, and some of residual shame-trauma still exists.
That shame mechanism is one of the things that enables sexual predators to repeatedly prey on others, because ashamed people don't report being sexually abused.
Fortunately, I didnt have to deal with that, but given my upbringing (Catholicism, Altar Boy, Boy Scouts), its just down to probability that I was lucky enough to not have been groomed by a pedophile.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem isn't the different pricing. The disgusting greedy thing is purposely designing something to destroy itself to enforce that false dichotomy.
How is that any different from "buying" a digital rental on Amazon that expires after some length of time?
Morally - I don't see much difference, and think the push towards "rent everything, own nothing" is a bad, bad idea for social cohesion, economic equality, and general health and happiness.
Realistically - there is a considerable difference in the resources required to create a digital copy of a good vs a physical copy. The digital good has the slight upside that when companies abuse consumers through predatory pricing practices (literal rent-seeking...), they are destroying slightly less of the environment in the process.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
It reminded me of DIVX[1] from 1999. Amazing how many times this horrible greedy idea was tried. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX
It isn't clear to me why it's unreasonable to have different pricing for rental vs. owning. In any case, the general trend seems to be towards not owning digital media in general.
Which occasionally has unexpected consequences.
The licensing of the music on certain movies didn't anticipate the internet. And the studios never came to an agreement. As a result you can buy DVDs of movies like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullets_Over_Broadway, but you can't rent them off of any streaming service. Given that most of us no longer have DVD players, they seem destined to only survive in pirated copies. If that.
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#70I have always wondered if it would be possible to build a generic reader for magnetic tapes that essentially just scans whatever tape you throw at it and then it is up to some software to decode the content. I know close to nothing about the details of magnetic recording on tape, so maybe this is just not possible with reasonable effort, i.e. you could but you would need SQUIDs to make it work or something like that.
You might be surprised at how the signals are actually recorded on tapes. For VHS tapes for example, it's actually a series of stacked "diagonal" lines of signal. Imagine a sequence of symbols like \\\\\\\\\\\, except at any given horizontal point along the tape there are about 5 stacked traces of signal. They're also diagonal on audio cassettes, but much less "slanted" relative to the tape's length.
I don't remember the precise terms for the various concepts, but hopefully that shows how specific to a given format the reader needs to be.