Wow! Can you believe THIS SHIT? Literally.
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Writers Guild of America strike
It is no secret that the Writers Guild of America is on strike. And why they are striking makes complete sense to me.
The Writers Guild (approx 12,000 members) contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers expired on Oct 31 2007. What they want is more of the revenues from DVD sales and internet rebroadcasting. In the 1990s the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers only gave the writers a 1.8% cut of the profits of DVD sales due to it being an “Emerging Market” citing they needed 80% of the revenue to develop this market. Billions of dollars later those percentage points have not changed. So as DVD sales have fully matured without these percentage points sliding towards the writers we should be left wondering if the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers really care about the bread and butter of their industry.
And now we have another emerging market, Internet rebroadcasting. With companies like Netflix and iTunes we can only hope that the Writers Guild of America get a very decent chunk of this revenue stream before getting locked into another ass rape contract like they have been involved with since DVD/VHS percentages were set in the 1990s.
With this being said some actors and talk show hosts have been backing up the people who put the words in their mouths. EllenDeGeneres and the cast of the hit TV show “The Office” (Some of which write for their show) include just a few of those willing to respect the Writers Guild of America.
“It is unfortunate that they choose to take this irresponsible action,” a Producer has been quoted saying about Writers deciding to picket. Well this blogger feels that the Writers have been screwed out of a larger portion of a billion dollar cash flow in the past and they NEED to make their point known that they are NOT going to be screwed out of another cash boom. The Internet and cellular distribution.
I woke up this morning at 4:30AM at what would have been 5:30 AM if the time did not roll back from a dream about some shape shifting Terminator 2 type dream. After about an hour playing an old Super Nintendo ROM called Unchartered Water 2: New Horizons I left for my first day of work as a Tech Support Agent for a Digital Satellite TV company.
On my way home I stopped by the bank to set up my Direct Deposit stuff and was ROFLing when I seen this on the Bank of Canada website.
05/11/07: 1.0708
(1 CAD = 1.0708 USD)
This is the highest it has ever been.
So I talked to my grandfather in Manitoba and he is not to happy. You see a majority of his life he spent working in the USA. Hes a retired Steelworker. And his pension cheques are in USD. I told him to hang on to them till Jan. CAD should go down by then. I hope I am right.
I thought this was so funny I just had to repost this.
Thanks UltraNeko!
I read this at www.amazingjokes.com
In summary, the police arrested Patrick Lawrence, 22 year old white male, in a pumpkin patch 11:38 p.m. on Friday night.
On Monday, at the Gwinnett County (GA) courthouse, Lawrence was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, public indecency, and public intoxication. The suspect explained that as he was passing a pumpkin patch on his way home from a drinking session when he decided to stop, “You know how a pumpkin is soft and squishy inside, and there was no one around for miles or at least I thought there wasn’t anyone around” he stated in a telephone interview.
Lawrence went on to say that he pulled over to the side of the road, picked out a pumpkin that he felt was appropriate to his purpose, cut a hole in it, and proceeded to satisfy his alleged ‘need.’ “Guess I was really into it, you know?” he commented with evident embarrassment.
In the process of doing the deed, Lawrence failed to notice an approaching police car and was unaware of his audience until officer Brenda Taylor approached him.
“It was an unusual situation, that’s for sure,” said officer Taylor. “I walked up to Lawrence and he’s just banging away at this pumpkin.”
Officer Taylor went on to describe what happened when she approached Lawrence .
“I said, “Excuse me sir, but do you realize that you’re having sex with a pumpkin?”
He froze and was clearly very surprised that I was there, and then he looked me straight in the face and said…”A pumpkin? Shit…is it midnight already?”