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[yakalskovich]

thronathon and collected_fudz now exist on Dreamwidth.-

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[paceisthetrick]

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now we can bond over season 2! <3

[yakalskovich]

We can, now.

I had to wrestle Alice down and repeatedly dunk her head in the technical equivalent of ice water until she would deliver the entire goods, but now I saw the episode, and posted about it on Thronaton!

[paceisthetrick]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES!!!

I am waiting for the illegal download to be uploaded!

Don't give me spoilers yet!

[yakalskovich]

Well, you won't get spoilered if you don't look behind the cut on my thronathon post. And there's not much to spoiler about -- it's basically a 'where is everybody' episode.

[paceisthetrick]

A recap? A what-we-did-last season?

I wanna be back on the wall.

[yakalskovich]

No, not a recap -- that was the zero episode the week before. Nah, we touch base with everybody and see what they are doing now, where they have arrived and where they are heading. Everybody is on the move somewhere.

[paceisthetrick]

Goddamnit! I am furious that I don't have access to the streaming I had before.

:((((((

[yakalskovich]

Nope, MU/MV is bitterly missed.

[paceisthetrick]

Why is that mean, greedy selfish sneetches want to keep us from participating in the fun? :(

Capitalism SUCKS!

[yakalskovich]

Especially as it's artificial attrition and we'd PAY to have it if there was a sensible business model where, say, anybody pay 3,99 of whatever currency to download or 1,99 to watch once? People online want everything, they want it at once, but contrary to common misconception, they ARE willing to pay for it. What we hate is having to wait and having to hop through loops with proprietary formats. There is a warm wave of willing money out there that the content mafia completely fails to draw in. File hosters and VPN service providers skim a bit of it.

These people are so busy defending their legacy business model that they ignore the possibility of new profit. Capitalism is faulty.

[paceisthetrick]

THANK YOU!

Yes, I don't WANT AMC or HBO. I just want the occasional movie they have on. Why can't we pay per view like the porn industry does? (Do not ask me how I know that! A friend told me it was a better business model for the cable networks....)

Let me rephrase, campitalism as it is currently practiced sucks.

[yakalskovich]

We pay per view or file, buying the contents we want directly at the source, online. HBO would totally swim in money. They could buy golden loo seats for GRRM on the petty cash.

[paceisthetrick]

I know. I have never understood the stupidity of business managers. It's why I left the corporate world and started my own business.

[yakalskovich]

They are too slow. Overhead incrementally eats up more and more of the actual output, until no movement is possible any more. Infinitely large corporations will be unable to do anything whatsoever any more, see 'Central Services' from the Terry Gilliam movie 'Brazil'.

[paceisthetrick]

Also the fear of competition. It means they have to produce something of value to get people to buy it. If they have passive clients who pay a monthly rate for anything, they don't have to try so hard.

Once upon a time, there were 150 channels in my house. I could never find anything to watch. I threw the TV out!

[paceisthetrick]

Not just overhead -- incompetent employees and inter-departmental communication failures. The mega-corporation is simply too big. We need to break them up to make them more efficient.

[yakalskovich]

That's what I meant -- overhead isn't just costs. In German, we say 'Reibungsverlust', which is 'frictional loss', an engineering term, used a a metaphor or generalisation. After an organisation gets too bit, friction eats up almost all of the output and entirely all of the flexibility.

[paceisthetrick]

I used to work in BPI, trying to streamline huge corporations to increase productivity. What a nightmare! I faced so much resistance in the departments who insisted they couldn't change their operations even after I demonstrated that they could!

[yakalskovich]

Oh dear. I have been preaching to the choir & carrying owls to Athens. I'm sorry!

[paceisthetrick]

No, but it brings back so many bad memories!

I guess I should grumbling about my own business, which is incredibly efficient. LOL

[yakalskovich]

If you are alone, it probably is: - you just do what you want, and you want what needs doing!

[paceisthetrick]

Yeah I tried having partners and employees and it was a disaster. I have a loosely associated partnership with a woman I adore and that is as much as I can handle. And then, with the economy in dire straits, business has tapered off.

Still, this year is going far better than last year!

[yakalskovich]

That is good to hear! Your feral kitties can have better fudz then.

[paceisthetrick]

OMG new black putty tat! I woke up this morning and saw him sitting on my patio! (he must smell the chicken.)

He's small, clearly young, and has that massive bulldog neck which is how I know he is male. I was able to get close enough to talk with him a bit. He's stand-offish but clearly not crazy like some of them. :)

[yakalskovich]

He sounds lovely -- is he Siamese (in general type, I mean, as he can't be colour-point) like the others?

[paceisthetrick]

He probably is the black oriental variety simply because this colony is predominantly siamese. He's a bit thicker around the neck, which is why I know he is male, but the siamese males (who do have the color-points) all have thick necks and some even have thicker fur.

I was just so pleased that he was so brave! Usually they flee as soon as I step outside. He clearly has bonded with the others who come into the house to eat and is doubtless eying the dinner dish thinking it is probably worth the risk.

And he's YOUNG! So we may be able to rehabilitate him and get him adopted. I did this once before with one and he became a lovely companion, even if a bit skittish. The girl who adopted him told me he would eat spaghetti off her plate.

[yakalskovich]

Awww spaghetti! Cats will eat such strange stuff. Mephisto was just tasting the curry ketchup on my (otherwise empty) plate.

[paceisthetrick]

Did I tell you mine eat guacamole????

Gawd, only in Texas!

The little ones are partial to corndogs. Vegan corndogs. On the stick, please. :P