Subject: Re: Online movie "rental" service opens

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack,alt.video.dvd,alt.2600

Rev. Magdalen <magdalen@subgenius.com> wrote:

> "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com> wrote:
> > El Queso wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the info - great review - I'll stick to piracy.
> > >
> > Ditto... literally.
>
> I'm gonna try it because I can't get piracy to work right. You wait and
> wait and it's a big pain in the ass getting the whole file and then you find
> out it's corrupted or it's pictures of a girl squirting a football out her
> coochie or you need some crazy ass codec thing to play it... bah! I'd
> rather pay two dollars to get the thing in one piece and know it's going to
> be the movie I wanted and that it's going to play on my computer.
>

Wuss. I mean, Non-Wuss. Whatever you call somebody who isn't geeky
enough.

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Subject: Re: Online movie "rental" service opens
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

> > Ditto... literally.
>
> "literally"?
>
> please take pictures of yourself wearing an eyepatch and
> growling at your parrot, then post 'em to ABS. I'm not
> gonna believe it until I see it.

I didn't mean literally "pirate," I meant literally *DITTO." I was
gonna say, "Duplicate that, good buddy," but decided nobody but old
people would get it, even if I typed it twice.

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Subject: Re: Online movie "rental" service opens
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

The Stinking Bishop wrote:
> Valeres <webmaster@valeres.com> wrote:
> >
> >The Hunt for Red October was in pan'n'scan mode for this download and seemed
> >to be running a native resolution of 400x300 which on my monitor at the
> >
> GA!!! $1.99 to spend 4 hours downloading a 400x300 pixel
> *pan&scan* movie?!
>
> >a few things to consider, I can drive to 4 blockbuster and 6 hollywood video
> >locations within an hour and rent a New release for $3.99 for 3/7 days on
> >DVD
>
> or $3.99 to spend an hour (round trip) to rent a DVD that you can
> watch (and copy) for 7 days, at 720x480 widescreen (well, at least
> letterboxed)...
>
> look at quality/price
> $.000017/pixel for download
> $.000012/pixel for DVD
>
> DVD is cheaper.
>
> price vs time spent in aquisition, assuming that you should save
> money if you are willing to spend more time in aquisition:
>
> dollars saved: 3.99-1.99 = $2.
>
> time difference: 3 hours.
>
> money saved/hour of your time sacrificed : $.66
>
> My advice: your local library might have the same DVD that you can
> borrow for FREE for several days. If you're lucky, your library will be as
> good as mine and will have almost EVERYTHING on DVD.

THE LIBRARY...? But that would be WAY TOO EASY and SENSIBLE. You'd
neither be paying the Conspiracy of Suit Wearing Shits to see some poor
bastard's watered down movie, nor spending hours figuring out why the
latest WinRAR doesn't repair the corrupted sections of that home video
of SIGNS shot off a theater screen, even with PAR files on hand.

What the hell kind of a SubGenius are you, Prostata??

What I find the binaries newsgroups good for is SURPRISES. You didn't
KNOW that the complete SNAFU series from WWII were must-haves until you
saw them there in the freebie bin for the nabbing. Heck, I didn't think
I'd EVER have all the Bernard Herrman movie scores, but lo and behold,
some nut went and uploaded great copies of them, damn near every one.

The downloading happens in your sleep. It's the fucking LABELING that
gets you. Actually the placing of the labels in the CD cases. Unless
you're one of those PUSSIES that uses the fucking slimline CD cases
that the Con is trying to foist on us.

So there. Whatever that means. There. So. Phooey.

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Subject: Re: Online movie "rental" service opens
From: prostata@bronze.coil.com (The Stinking Bishop Prostata Cantata MP)

>Rev. Ivan Stang <stang@subgenius.com> wrote:

>What the hell kind of a SubGenius are you, Prostata??

One who is lucky enough to live near an EXCELENT library, I guess.

>What I find the binaries newsgroups good for is SURPRISES. You didn't
>KNOW that the complete SNAFU series from WWII were must-haves until you
>saw them there in the freebie bin for the nabbing. Heck, I didn't think
>I'd EVER have all the Bernard Herrman movie scores, but lo and behold,
>some nut went and uploaded great copies of them, damn near every one.

Well, that's what we have folks like YOU around for. To tell me
what I should go look for at the library.

You are a major source of movie review information. Keep posting
movie info to alt.slack, please.

>The downloading happens in your sleep. It's the fucking LABELING that
>gets you. Actually the placing of the labels in the CD cases. Unless
>you're one of those PUSSIES that uses the fucking slimline CD cases
>that the Con is trying to foist on us.

yeah, I use a sharpie marker and cheap-ass envelopes. But I do
love the slimline cases for some things.

"In your country club, your church and business, about 15 percent of the
people are screwballs, lightweights and boobs and you would not want those
people unrepresented in Congress." -- former senator Alan Simpson

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Subject: Re: Online movie "rental" service opens
From: "nu-monet v5.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>

Jeeters wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the info - great review - I'll
> > stick to piracy.
>
> I've never understood everybody who wants to
> play around with all these pirated movies...

Well, let me explain this in a way that an RIAA
employee could understand...

"BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! THEY'RE MINE! ALL MINE!
I'M GONNA RUB THEM ALL OVER MY NAKED BODY AND I'M
GONNA AMASS A TREASURE CHEST FULL OF 'EM AND I'M
GONNA BE ABLE TO GIVE MY YOUNG RELATIVES THE ENTIRE
WALT D*SNEY VIDEO COLLECTION AND I'LL NOT HAVE ANY
RECORDS OF WHICH ONES I'VE SEEN KEPT BY THE GUBMENT
AND IT'S FREE!!! ALL FREE!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

AND THE FUCKING RECORD COMPANIES AND FUCKING HOLLYWOOD
ISN'T GONNA GET A THIN RED CENT FOR THEIR OVERPRICED
SCHLOCK SUCKED FROM THE POOR BASTARDS WHO HAVE SOLD
THEM THEIR SOULS! AND I'LL BE ABLE TO FIT THE ENTIRE
VERY BEST OF EVERYTHING I'VE EVER LIKED INTO A SINGLE
FILE CABINET ON CHEAP FUCKING CDS AND WHEN BLANK DVDS
GET REAL CHEAP I'LL DO IT ON THEM TOO!

AND IT'LL HAVE PR0N IN IT--LOTS OF PR0N--OF ALL KINDS
FULL OF ANARCHY AND UNHAPPY ENDINGS AND SUBTITLES AND
STUFF THAT HAS NO 'NAME' ACTORS IN IT AND IS TOTALLY
NON-LINEAR THAT HOLLYWOOD WOULDN'T *DARE* PRODUCE!!!

--
"Pleasure me, you record executive!"
--James Mason, from the movie
'Mandingo the Pirate'

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