Interesting Links for 15-04-2014

[andrewducker]

• Liberal fascism is everywhere: Behold its shocking rise!
  (tags: funny satire liberal freespeech )
• Whatever happened to Opera?
  (tags: opera )
• Whatever happened to DVDs?
  (tags: dvd video technology )
• Artificial blood will be manufactured in factories
  (tags: blood technology )
• Person intends to ask /r/socialskills for help on making friends, ask /r/

Comments

[f4f3]

I DID wonder why Cap would want to catch up on Wembley 1966 - obviously the customisation only goes so far :)

[andrewducker]

I'm sure that by "Captain America 3: Cap Harder" they'll be automatically generating events specific to the cinema you're in, and possibly the row number you're sitting in.

[ice_hesitant]

I saw Kick-Ass in the movie theatre the exterior of which was featured in Kick-Ass. Perhaps, in the future, everyone will see Kick-Ass in the movie theatre the exterior of which is featured in Kick-Ass. It just won't be the same theatre.

[philmophlegm]

Did you spot that the second item on the South Korea list is semi-obscure (although obviously not in his home country - he was one of the stars of the 2002 World Cup) former Manchester United player Ji-Sung Park? Rarely a first team regular, and notable in this country mostly for the brilliant song:

Park, Park,
Wherever he may be
He eats dogs in his home country
It could be worse
He could be scouse
Eating rats in a council house.

[gonzo21]

To recognise the success of Netflix would mean the powers that be having to admit they were wrong about The Evils Of Piracy and what everybody told them for years - provide a good value internet streaming service for your content and people will pay for it - was right, and they were just too stupid to realise it.

... so I expect a new government lead crackdown on torrents to surface any day now.

[bart_calendar]

For me,I pirate content first and then decide if I like it enough to buy. Hence why yesterday I order the complete west wing box set and American Mary.

[gonzo21]

That's usually what I do too. I was sick of spending sometimes quite a lot of money to buy a CD or a DVD, and finding out it was mostly rubbish.

There's really not many things I think are good enough that I actually want to own these days.

[andrewducker]

I only buy very occasional things nowadays, because streaming is good enough for most things. It's only things I want on Blu-Ray that I buy.

But I do happily pay for content that's available, through my Virgin contract, Netflix, and occasional pay-per-view.

[del_c]

Oh, that opera. It was the capital O that fooled me.

[philmophlegm]

Yup, me too!

[cartesiandaemon]

Yup.

[andrewducker]

D'oh, I should have realised that!

[bart_calendar]

I'd be wary of the people who want to only work the night shift at the blood factory.

[andrewducker]

Vlad is a _lovely_ chap, and very hard working. Cheap too!

[bart_calendar]

Blood is his life.

[philmophlegm]

Bloody eastern european immigrants...

[aiela]

I've been posting screencaps of the UK Cap list to my tumblr (because reasons, of course) and when it showed up in the movie my husband leaned over and whispered "Hahaha, that was fake, it's not Sherlock!" and I had to point out that it was different in different countries.

:P