Does anyone watch “Newsroom”? Uneven, IMO. Some of it is entertaining, like the portrayal of rich digital media dudebro assholes. The way the show addresses the degradation of the news business is frequently spot-on. Thematically, it mostly makes sense.
But the relationship dramas don’t work as well for me as they did on other Sorkin projects, most notably “West Wing.” Why is Jim and every other good-looking man on the show panting over the singularly unattractive and annoying Maggie? I don’t get it.
Anyway, open thread.
redshirt
Kill your TV.
Also, can’t wait for GoT to return.
Just Some Fuckhead
Aaron Sorkin makes me stabby as does most political fiction. The only two exceptions I can think of are Alpha House and House of Cards.
redshirt
I don’t actually watch GoT, since I killed my TV.
I just like reading people’s reactions.
srv
I’ll catch it in reruns when I’m retired in the 2030s.
GoT, HaCF, etc starting to wear out with too much drama drama. House of Cards is better, I enjoy all the hippie pounding mainstreamed from Hollywood now.
But I’m done with the US, other than Longmire’s return next month. Endeavour, Luther, Sherlock, some anime, have otherwise reached the end of the Amero-rf-interons.
Major Major Major Major
All the Sorkin male leads are the same person.
larimegimp
Aw, I love Allison Pill. Granted I haven’t seen her in Newsroom, so the character could be terrible. Pill was great in Scott Pilgrim, though.
Goblue72
Hey now – at least Don came to his senses and realized Sloan (Olivia Munn) was not only smarter & more talented than Maggie, she’s also totally “rawr “.
Betty Cracker
Never have watched Game of Thrones. I watched House of Cards for the first 1.5 seasons, but I decided the only outcome that would make me happy would be a meteor strike that killed every character, and since that seemed unlikely, I quit watching.
Suzanne
I have been LAFFING tonight because I found out my ex-husband has an Ashley Madison account. What a loser. LMMFAOOOOOOOO.
I’m very tempted to tell his girlfriend and watch what happens.
Betty Cracker
@Goblue72: True. Sloan is awesome.
Mike J
I watched the first season of Newsroom and the first ep of the second season. I never made a decision to stop watching, I just never bothered .
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: It is my understanding that two of them – in Sports Night and Newsroom – are based on Keith Olbermann.
JustRuss
@Betty Cracker: That was pretty much my House of Cards experience. Made it through season 1, and decided I had better things to do than watch people I can’t stand.
BillinGlendaleCA
Ya know, tweety’s kid is in Newsroom.
Culture of Truth
GoT is great. Better than that. Pill is adorable. Like all Sorkin projects, it’s admirable and involving while making you want to reach through the screen and strangle the author. Surprisingly, it remained watchable until the workplace massacre. Spoiler alert.
I kid, I kid! For real, it remains decent tv as the characters are at least semi involving and interesting, especially the lead actor. Also, Meryl Streep’s daughter is in it, at one point.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: I liked Sports Night a lot better.
Betty Cracker
@BillinGlendaleCA: STFU! Which one? Meryl Streep’s mini-me daughter was in it too. She looks so much like her mom that I knew she had to be Meryl-spawn before I even looked it up. I didn’t even know Streep had kids!
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: I like Jim, Sloan, and the Sam Waterston character. Sports Night was great.
Suzanne
@JustRuss: I was happy when Kevin Spacey’s piece of ass journalist got pushed in front of the train on House of Cards, because IRRITATING.
redshirt
Seriously though I’ve not had TV other than the former Big 3 – NBC ABC CBS – for 3 years now and I’ve quite adjusted. I almost never watch them, except for football and some other sports, and AoS.
That said, I’m contemplating getting Direct TV solely for the purpose of gaining access to all NFL games for the express intent of research to aid my Fantasy Football pursuits. Sad, right? But I’m quite good at it, and I think I could make money on Draft Kings. But it would take work – film study. A serious time commitment.
And, knowing myself, since I had all those other channels, I’m sure I’d be watching science shows left and right. And other shit. And presto! I’m a TV sucker again.
Dilemma.
NotMax
Ben Carson ups the ante – don’t deport ’em. kill them.
We have collectively jumped feet first through the looking glass.
Mike J
@redshirt: It’s not like watching sports is a more uplifting pastime than watching any other any other commercial entertainment.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: Why are you being unAmerican?
redshirt
@Mike J: For Fantasy purposes watching football has definite merit. And god help me I admit I enjoy watching golf.
Betty Cracker
@redshirt: I’m seriously considering cutting the cable cord. We mostly stream TV. The only thing we watch on cable is sports, which we would miss. But I think between rabbit ears, radio, Sling TV, sports pubs and mooching off friends, we could manage.
Omnes Omnibus
@Betty Cracker: Internet?
Tommy
@Mike J: Wow you mentioned Sports Nights. A show I rarely find anybody watched. I saw it later on TiVo in reruns and I thought it was a stellar show.
Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
The first season was decent, bordering on good imo, the second started well, but started the descent. The third was a freaking trainwreck. At the end everybody was phoning it in.
After the second episode I thought about giving it up, but trainwreck, when i realised that after the fifth episode, there was only one episode left, i could not imagine how they could manage to get out of the hole they had kept digging.
I think I wrote a prediction at my place…
Brb.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy: It was wonderful from top to bottom. I think it is the best thing Sorkin has done.
Major Major Major Major
Watching this show Space Dandy, by the guy who did Cowboy Bebop. It’s got me with belly laughs every episode.
“Space Dandy is about a dandy who lives in space” we learn at the start of each episode
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@JustRuss: Not to be one of those people, but you should watch the BBC version of HoC if you haven’t. Some of it is wincingly dated, but between Ian Richardson and Kevin Spacey… no contest.
redshirt
@Betty Cracker: My other dilemma is I am so in the boonies I can’t get broadband, and thus am left either using DSL (not yet), or my current solution, Verizon. Which is bandwidth limited – by cost, not speed – and thus Netflix and Amazon or any other streaming is not economical in the least.
If I could get uncapped broadband I’d be good to go. Fuck Cable.
hitchhiker
@Betty Cracker:
We made the exact same calculation. I stream what I want. Mr. Hitchhiker only wants sports, specifically baseball and football. He found a way to get access to all of MLB for about $300 a year. We use the rabbit ears to watch the Seahawks, b/c fuck you NFL.
It works, and I’m so happy not to be giving $$ to Comcast.
Tommy
@Betty Cracker: I cut the cable a year and a half ago. I just use Hulu. Netflix. Didn’t like Amazon because it seemed most of the shows I wanted to really watch I had to pay for and I figured that would add up fast, even if they were only like $1.99 a pop.
I found for most stuff not on Hulu or Netflix I could get the entire season on Google Play for $18-$24.
I have Sling now, going on four months. I got the sports package just because, well I am an LSU/SEC guy. The main reason, well like #1, #2, and #3 was for all the ESPN channels. Having TNT, AMC, and two History Channels isn’t bad either.
You mentioned rabbit ears, wish I would have heard you mention that a few days ago because one of the geeky e-Commerce sites I follow had a good HDTV antenna for $12.99 the other day, free shipping. It was like 45% off of what you’d pay for it at a Target, Wal-mart, or Best Buy.
One other note. I’d almost suggest cutting the cable if for no other reason then getting Hulu, but to a large extent Netflix. The BBC has a ton, I mean a ton of amazing shows you can get on BBC America.
Watched so many of them the past year plus I am actually starting to use some of their phrases for things we use totally different words for. Say what you will about the Brits but saying you are going to throw something away in the “bin” sure sounds better than the “trash can.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Richardson’s character was someone you could hate but watched just to see what he would do next.
Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/40096
There we go.
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Betty Cracker
@Omnes Omnibus: I can’t always reliably get games online. Gonna have to check out Sports Night.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy: FWIW, I am glad you are back. Some folks thought that you went away for good over a disagreement a couple of weeks ago. You know that I have my issues with you, but I wouldn’t like you to be bullied away.
jayboat
I’m probly a loser for posting this link…
http://www.gofeed2all.eu/
but, you can get anything you want, sports-wise on it.
It won’t always be great quality at 1080, but hey.
Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
@Betty Cracker:
Save game for when it is done.
I have really enjoyed it, but it might end up like lost, which i never saw and have on good authority that i dont need to. Got may just not be your cuppa. But at this point i would council waiting till the end.
Cant wait for next season and i hat e that.
Glad i eschewed sherlock until this year. Love that i got to binge watch the three seasons, and while i have warmed to cunberbatch, i think brett still is the best.
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redshirt
@Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™: Lost is one of the best TV shows ever in the history of TV and I bet that will be true for many years to come.
Tommy
@Betty Cracker: Well as you might guess it is based around a 24/7 sport channel. But it is more than that. You can head to IMDB but I bet you will be surprised the actors that were in it. Kind of a group of people that are all on high-profile shows as leads or are core characters. Makes you wonder if Sports Night was their “launching pad.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Omnes Omnibus: I only watched a couple episodes of the Spacey version, and granted with a chip on my shoulder, but I didn’t get any of the wicked humor Richardson brought to the role. Between Richardson’s/FU’s wit and charisma and the direct address to the audience, it sucked you in to the anti-hero dynamic in a different, and I think more challenging, way than Tony Soprano or Walter White. Or Al Swearengen.
I think I may watch too much TV.
The HoC books are really good, too.
Omnes Omnibus
@Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™: Basil. Martin Freeman is the best Dr. W anyone has ever done.
Tommy
@Omnes Omnibus: That really, really pissed me off, but not why I’ve not been around. Took a spur of the moment vacation where I did everything in my power not to be near a computer.
And also working on a huge project, 15+ hours a day, that will fund my life for 1.5 months of work for about 10 months of my life :). Deadlines that are out of this world crazy, but the person is willing to pay for it.
When I started to work for myself I said I’d travel, since I can communicate and if I need, work a little here or there wherever I have an Internet connection.
I have not really done that.
This project, and the monthly retainers and other work I do, well it will allow me to do that.
I am just not sure where the heck I am going to go :)!
Tommy
@Omnes Omnibus: Agreed. The problem is Freeman and Cumberbatch have been so darn good in Sherlock they can’t seem to get together now to film any more shows in anything close to a timely manner.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy: Note: I wasn’t a part of that. My differences with you will be aired if and when appropriate.
Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
Oh and a a hole bunch of cool shit is on utube. And with the flashgot extension to firefox you can collect a library…
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Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Omnes Omnibus:
I agree. It’s one of the only times in the film or TV versions where they’ve brought in the fact that the doctor is a wounded veteran of a war in Afghanistan.
(Note to infrequent posters: the last name of Sherlock Holmes’s sidekick may cause your post to completely vanish. Not go into moderation, be nuked from orbit. We suspect it’s due to a long-forgotten troll, but be warned.)
BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker: From wiki:
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne (tablet): And he is a bright, brave, and competent person. Why else would Holmes trust him?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
You and me both. The updating of the Cumberbatch version is interesting, both lead actors are great, the writing is really strong, and I really like their interpretation of Mycroft. But a part of me just thinks Sherlock Holmes should live in Victorian London, and Jeremy Brett was fantastic.
Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
@redshirt:
Ill add your vote in favor to the list.
The dances i had to manage to avoid spoilage were inspired. I imagine ill get around to it eventually.
Thanks.
:-)
Omnes Omnibus
This is wonderful.
Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
@Omnes Omnibus: aside from the first 3 seasons of west wing i would agree. Really enjoyed what i caight of that.
West wing was a balm before i fiscovered blogs, after i realised that nobody wanted to listen to my modern version of Cassandra.
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Tommy
Since there is some talk of TV shows this morning and I know more than a “geek” or two post here, is anybody as “into” Mr. Robot as I am? I am willing to bet I know more about computers and technology than 99% of the population. But having worked in that field for 20+ years, I also know that 1% knows a shit load, a lifetime of knowledge more than I do.
I think Mr. Robot might be about the only show about hacking and technology that is kind of “real.”
Oh and there is a lot of other fucked up shit going on.
redshirt
@Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™: Watch the first 4 episodes. If you don’t like them, give it up.
Omnes Omnibus
@Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™: Those seasons of the West Wing were balms to our souls, but they weren’t as good as art as Sports Night was.
Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
@Omnes Omnibus:
Agreed re freeman@Mnemosyne (tablet):
That splains Me trubles
. Enjoyed basil as a lad.
SWMBO
@Tommy: So glad to see you’re back. I enjoy your online “voice” because it’s different. I have an autistic son that has a different “voice”. The happier and more excited he gets, the more he sounds like Yoda.
Many years ago one of my friends got divorced. He lived in Masshole country and we were in FL. Called him on a whim and he sounded terrible. Kept after him to go to the doctor and when he did, it was pneumonia. Living alone, he didn’t realize how much worse he was getting. I was worried about you (a little) because of that. Your cat would do anything for you but she can’t make you go to the doctor.
Anyway, I’m glad you aren’t so pissed you don’t check in now and again.
tom
Never seen Newsroom, but the only “News” show I ever liked was Newsradio (RIP Phil Hartman) and most of the kudos go to the casting director for that series.
Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
One of the things that kept me from joining the fray instead of lurking were these inexplicable landmines…
/Pray this makes it through.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™: Rathbone is probably the best fencer who existed in Hollywood.
redshirt
@SWMBO: That was one of the more… posts I’ve ever read!
Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Agreed on all accounts. The wedding episode makes me laugh and cry in equal measure, one of the best teleplays I have witnessed.
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SWMBO
@redshirt: It was pretty “me” oriented. But most of my posts are…
ETA I enjoy reading most of the commenters here. LB last night sounded like he was seriously off his meds or needed to start some. I don’t blame Omnes for not wanting to meet him in MeatSpace.
Tommy
@Omnes Omnibus: I would disagree with you a little about the first few years of West Wing.
Let me first say I used to chat with a co-worker about Syfy shows. I might take a show and pick it apart.
Now this guy was a tech geek far above my pay grade.
He said to me you at times have to “suspend disbelief.” Just relax and enjoy the show and don’t pick it apart. No show you are ever going to see about space travel is real because we can fucking cruise around with warp core drives.
I took the same approach to West Wing. So much of what happened I wanted to happen in the “real world” but of course it could not. I put that aside and didn’t try to “over think” things for lack of a better phrase and just pretty much enjoyed the heck out of the show.
BTW: Has Rob Lowe sold his soul to the devil? I swear he has not really aged a day or so since “About Last Night.”
Mike G
The Teach For America Bait and Switch
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/08/the-teach-for-america-bait-and-switch-from-youll-be-making-a-difference-to-youre-making-excuses.html
phoebes-in-santa fe
Am I a nasty Democratic bitch because I want to see, REALLY want to see Mitt Romney and his sons’ names on the Ashley Madison list? And every Republican Presidential nominee, including Carly Fiorino? And those two losers from Michigan – Cindy and Todd?
Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
@redshirt:
Understood.
I will move it into the queue.
How do you or anyone else for that matter feel about the Venture Bros?
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Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy: It is more about how good Sports Night was than knocking The West Wing.
Kyle
@Tommy:
He lives in my area and he’s known for being kind of a dick, likes to throw his celebrity weight around. Leaned on the local newspaper publisher to fire a reporter for daring to mention his address when he was seeking an approval from the planning commission.
SWMBO
@phoebes-in-santa fe: Yes. But you are in good company…
Suzanne
@phoebes-in-santa fe: I am LOVING that the first famous person outed was Josh Duggar.
Tommy
@SWMBO: Nice of you to say. My online “voice” might at times be off. Frankly I am a little off. OCD. Total Type A personality. Many other quirks like I count things. Birds of see. Lights on an A/V system. The number of people in a crowd in a movie or TV show. That is just one of many things people I know find strange about me.
In the offline world, and this might surprise you, these character traits have worked well for me in my professional life. Attention to detail. Anal about shit.
Personal life not so much.
Online it often goes both way. Sometimes it works well. Other times not so much. A few weeks ago it didn’t work that well for me.
Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
@SWMBO:
Run screaming from boots.
Clingy, needy, sociopath.
He pulls the same shit at atrios’ place.
Sorry.
But i have seen it here and there.
We are not gonna fix him.
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Tommy
@Omnes Omnibus: Well I can both agree and get behind that. Sports Night is a show that was IMHO off the charts. I didn’t have cable TV my entire life until I started to watch Sports Night about 10 years ago. I thought TV was a waste land and for many times in my life there was no TV in my house.
But I went all in and got a TiVo and a satellite. About the first two shows I started to watch were Sports Night and Homicide: Life on a Street.
I was like, shit there is some really, really good TV out there. You might have to look for it, but it is there.
A decade plus later and many TV shows watched, I still think Sports Night was one of the best.
SWMBO
@Tommy: Joke ’em if they can’t take a fuck.
@Suzanne: Are they releasing the entire thing or just the famous ones? I only heard about this tonight.
Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
@redshirt:
It just occured to me that we both have TOS inspired nyms.
Yes, ill admit to a slowness on the uptake.
:-)
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Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
And now that i have read everything and caught up, i will sail gently into slumber.
It has been a pleasure.
:-)
Rill next time.
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Tommy
Let me ask you late night people here both a music and tech question, because I often ask for input here and I am always stunned how spot on it is.
I recently moved all my music from iTunes to Google Play (not a fan at this point I should add — the interface sucks IMHO). It was a pain to move all the music I’ve collected since 1985, but the process was pretty simple if it didn’t take the better part of a weekend.
I also just moved from Pandora to Spotify.
And that is my question, about streaming. I am not that “hip.” I couldn’t tell you a single album that was in the top 10 much less a song. I like Pandora, which I have used since its start, because I can just pick a genre and stream that music.
If I don’t like the channel I find another one.
Pandora is $5/month. Spotify is $10/month, but with their service I can pull any song or album. I’ve done this like 3-5 times in the month I’ve had the service.
So with that intro what service do you use? I know Google has one. Apple. Samsung. I assume many others.
And I guess the input I am asking for is what service do you use, why do you like it, what does it cost, and maybe most important of all do they have programmed channels of music you can just choose and listen to and not spend hours setting everything up (what I am really looking for)!
NotMax
@Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
Venture Brothers is decent enough, but scattershot. When it hits the target, can be wicked funny; when it misses, does so by a country mile.
Problematic, too, is the penchant for inadequately wrapping up an episode, rather just dribbling off into the end credits. More than a few segments seem to suffer from “Gee, this seemed hilarious when we were drunk at 3 in the morning” syndrome.
Lurve me some Dr. Girlfriend, though.
seaboogie
@Tommy: I really liked Sports Night. Stellar cast, and the first of the Sorkin cocaine-induced pacing, so it was novel then. I’ll watch Felicity Huffman and Peter Krause in anything. Josh Charles and Joshua Malina were also wonderful in this.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy: And you were away when I questions about Sling, damn-it. I got it anyway.
Tommy
@seaboogie: I am with you on both Felicity Huffman and Peter Krause. First I saw Felicity Huffman in anything was Sports Night so that is kind of how I think of her.
When I saw her in American Crime this year, where she was so hateful, mean, and just flat out racist, and I bought into her character 110% I realized she could act the shit out of a role/part.
Tommy
@BillinGlendaleCA: What do you think of Sling? My only issue, and it is a huge issue, every Cardinals game on ESPN has been blacked out and I live 37 miles from Busch Stadium. KMOX radio, which I get through the MLB app says all the games were sold out.
Well I have a second issue, which is volume. The channels either have what I’d called “normal” volume, but a few I have to almost max out my Bluetooth speaks to get any sound.
BillinGlendaleCA
I got it to access the recorded content on my direcTV dvr. It works well though I’m not completely thrilled with either the Win8 style app or the browser extensions to watch content.
Tommy
@BillinGlendaleCA: BTW. I upgraded to Windows 10 a few weeks ago. I have been upgrading software since the mid-80s (both Mac and Windows OS). That was without a doubt the most easy, error free, and fast upgrade I’ve ever done by a long shot.
Only two apps didn’t work after the upgrade. AVG Anti-virus. AVG PC Tools. Went and downloaded the apps again, entered my info (I am a paying user for both) and done. Both worked.
Took me a long Sunday and a few pots of coffee to tweak everything to get it the way I wanted, but I find that process enjoyable. I couldn’t be happier.
System has crashed 3 times in 3 weeks. Running 7 might have crashed 3 times in 3 months. But I assume with a few minor upgrades that won’t happen anymore.
seaboogie
Also, given the title of this post, I just want to point out that the lady FP’ers are not only erudite, but also apparent insomniacs. Was that what John posted in his “smart lady-posters wanted” profile, Betty C and Anne Laurie?
I picture John, Tom, Mistermix, Doug J, Tim F., Zandar, Elon, Richard and anyone else with a Y chromosome in the land of Morpheus and snoring loudly while you toil. And y’all are on the east coast – I’m on the west where it is reasonable to still be awake.
Tommy
@seaboogie: Funny. “Wee” hours my ass. This is early evening for me in the Central time zone. But I have massive sleep issues. According to my fitness band I only spend on average, over a year of tracking, 3.28 hours a day asleep.
My mother is the same why.
We used to sleep like babies until we hit our 40s and then sleep didn’t come easy.
I’ve read so many articles on how terrible it is to get so little sleep.
But in the last year I’ve read there is research I might have different genetics than many and this is just how I am programmed. I am never tried. I work out daily. I’ll go to bed at 2 AM and wake up, hop out of bed at 5 AM wide awake.
Now I am a HUGE coffee drinker and coffee snob. Clearly I thought this could be part or a large part of my sleep issues/
Just to test shit I’ve gone weeks without any caffeine and nothing changes.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy: I got a new Intel Compute Stick last week and put win10 on that so I have 4 computers on 10. My tablet is an insider machine, so I get the latest builds. There have been 2 releases(one came out yesterday) since the rollout on July 29. MS is still working on it and the bugs will probably disappear over time. I’m still finding the virtual desktops kind of hinky for a number of reasons.
ETA: I’ve had one blue screen since I upgraded my primary machines.
SWMBO
Has anyone seen Dances Arounnd in Your Bones? She was going into rehab for her hip (I think) but I haven’t seen anything about her since.
NotMax
@Tommy
It needs to be pointed out that Win 10, out of the box as it were, is horribly intrusive and snoopy, including allowing Microsoft to use your computer, at their discretion, to connect to and send updates and data to other people’s machines.
There are a whole bunch of settings which can be altered to address that and additional privacy and password issues, but the vast majority of users won’t or can’t be bothered to take those extra steps.
Tommy
@BillinGlendaleCA: My machine has crashed a few more times then I admitted. I think I know the cause through process of elimination.
I am in Photoshop daily, but always just used the Windows image program as the default to open a file, preview it.
Now I have downloaded a dumbed down version of Photoshop from the Microsoft store that allows basic things like color/contrast correction. Cropping. Really like the app. Super clean interface.
But when I have both Photoshop open and the other app, things seem to go sideways if I push the program to open like 10 large images at once.
NotMax
@Tommy
Not even nine at night here yet. Only now beginning to become fully awake.
Tommy
@NotMax: Yes. Yes. Yes. Go to a site like Lifehacker (sure may others) and they tell you how to shut that shit down (which I did) in a matter of minutes if not seconds if you can get around with a Command Prompt.
Tommy
@NotMax: I know I must have asked you and just forgot, where are you located if you don’t mind me asking?
Tree With Water
Rod Sterling. Now there was a writer that captured today’s political zeitgeist over 50 years ago. One script in particular could be thought applicable to the War in Iraq. Sterling had been an Army paratrooper, and had seen horrific combat against Japanese infantry in the Phillippines. No surprise, then, that he was among the first screenwriters (if not the first) to mention the War In Vietnam during a prime time, nationally televised episode of the Twilight Zone (circa 1965). In his story, a father’s plea to Almighty God was answered, and the man’s son was not killed in combat, but instead lived to return home safely. 56,00 GI’s dead GI’s later, the story offered a glimpse into the anguished hearts and unanswered prayers of all the loved ones they left behind. I wonder what he would have made of Bush-Cheney (et.al.)?
BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: All modern OS’s that I’ve used(Windows, OSX, and Linux) will check your revision and notify you if updates are available. The difference with Win10 is that it’s default settings will download and install the updates. I consider it a feature not a bug.
NotMax
@Tommy
For basic image editing stuff like that, still recommend the old (free!) standby, Irfanview. Compact, doesn’t suck up memory, just does what it is designed to do – no fuss, no muss.
macbig
@Suzanne: who’s Josh Dugger
Tommy
Have a wonderful morning everybody. I got to head to the back porch and my grill. Cooked a twice baked potato I didn’t eat earlier today. Reheat. Got a chicken breast and this basil/garlic butter I made from my garden I’ve rubbed the spilt breast down with and plan to keep putting it on as it grills.
Oh and tomatoes from the garden.
Hit those tomatoes with some fresh basil, a small splash of good olive oil, sea salt, pepper, and dinner and then bedtime ….. for about 2.7 to 3.3 hours :).
Peace!!!!!
NotMax
@Tommy
It’s not a secret. Maui.
@BillinGlendaleCA
What I referred to was not installing updates to your machine, it was MS using (commandeering) your machine as a device to distribute their updates from your machine.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well said.
P.S. I would sort of hate for L.B. to get the boot, but he has got to get a grip and do what is needed. If not, good riddance. I know you feel more strongly on the subject—as you should—but I hate to see anyone cast into the ultimate darkness. Just sayin’.
Console
I hatewatched Newsroom. Although I must say that the 2nd season wasn’t completely terrible. Good enough that it stopped being a hatewatch. Bad enough that I never watched the last season though.
redshirt
@NotMax: How do you get internet on Maui? Undersea line or satellite?
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Back on YouTube: “Ain’t That a Bitch” live.
BillinGlendaleCA
@redshirt: Two cans and a string.
redshirt
@BillinGlendaleCA: A complicated series of mirrors.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™:
Love V.B. Have been looking to make a career move into arching or at least henching, but no luck so far.
Arclite
Scuttlebutt around the newsroom is that Maggie likes anal. A lot.
That being said, Alison Pill is not very pretty. THAT being said, I really liked her in both Scott Pilgrim and Snowpiercer.
Anne Laurie
@Steeplejack (tablet): Sweetest fella on the block — until 37 seconds after he realized he wasn’t getting exactly what he wanted, when he wanted it, on his terms.
Hope it’s not broadsplaining if I suggest a ladyblog article, for reference purposes.
They always mean well! And they’re “nice” guys, for most purposes. But male privilege is one helluva drug… and quite as opaque, to its possessors, as white privilege.
piratedan
@NotMax: when you consider their original source material didn’t run as long as they have, I think I can cut them some latitude considering the tropes that they stand on their collective ears. I have to think that Dr. Girlfriend and Henchman 21 are some of the most awesome characters that I have ever had the pleasure to follow.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@SWMBO: I heard 75,000 accounts were released. Lots of dentists in Kentucky, for some reason.
That’s probably a setup waiting for a punchline.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@Tree With Water: Serling. No “t”. He was brilliant and chose other brilliant writers for The Twilight Zone, like Damon Knight, who wrote “To Serve Man”.
EriktheRed
Unattractive??
Oh, I beg to differ.
NotMax
@redshirt
Both are available. My ISP connects via undersea cable.
@BillinGlendaleCA
Unlike parts of South America, which use toucans and a string.
:)
Another Holocene Human
@redshirt: Babylon 5, damnit! And it had an ending, not a giant fuck you!
eta: and Mira Furlan lived until the end of the series instead of getting killed off, so there
Another Holocene Human
@Mnemosyne (tablet): Yeah, that was a really clever detail to use. And it really worked.
Another Holocene Human
@Mike G: Heard some kids talking about TfA just last week. They’re still roping these kids in because they think it looks good on their resume or whatever. Even though the ugly truth is all over the internet, but the internet is larger than when I was in college and they’ve never seen it. Ugh ugh ugh.
Some Black activist just last month, was it online or on NPR, was talking about how part of unequal access to public infrastructure includes the fact that Black schoolchildren face the most inexperienced teachers in the country.
I hope this issue blows up. They threw experienced, local African American teachers out of their jobs in New Orleans so they could have charter schools popping DVDs in the player and TfA drones in the public classrooms. (Mainly, because they had a “union”. How dare they. And they were also committing acts of education upon kids the 1% had deemed disposable.)
Ramalama
@Console: I didn’t know this was a thing, but I’ve done it! Hatewatched Newsroom. I like a lot of the actors but I also don’t get why everyone’s falling over chirpy stuttery blonde kid and I hate the moral smug tone. I LOVED Sports Night. I also loved West Wing. Newsroom is where I saw Jane Fonda back in the ring, and she was great. So there’s that.
Another Holocene Human
@Tommy: Don’t ask me, I use online radio streams or search specific classical composers on Youtube (there’s a lot of legit content on there, sometimes even with decent fidelity, and of course plenty of ripped tracks that shouldn’t be up there, but I’ll never tell).
Another Holocene Human
@Tree With Water: Star Trek and Twilight Zone covered a lot of similar themes, but Twilight Zone did it better. Trek’s Vietnam episodes (there were more than one) sucked. Both addressed themes of genocide as well, but I think Twilight Zone didn’t flinch from taking on the darker side of humanity. Trek tried to both preach and distance itself. Maybe that’s why there’s so much Trek fanfic (and not so much TZ), because fans saw that and wanted to fill in all the missing pieces. (I include the published novels–two different publishers!–in fanfic, except for movie novelizations which were done on order of the suits as a merchandizing tie-in, or in the case of TMP, as an attempt by Roddenberry to get the last word.)
Tom
@Tommy: I teach information system security and I was very impressed at how realistic the hacking was.
Also, Rami Malek is riveting.
Tom
@Tommy: We loved Sports Night. In addition to being a well-written show with great actors, it introduced me to the awesome Clark Gregg.
Tripod
@Anne Laurie:
Which also nicely sums up the politics of Aaron Sorkin.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
The only good thing Aaron Sorkin has ever done on TV IMO is his cameo lampooning himself on 30 Rock. The West Wing was his best TV project but was kind of nauseatingly self important. Everything else has featured that same mix of nauseating self importance with even less attractive characters. He writes good movies – A Few Good Men, Moneyball, Charlie Wilson’s War and The Social Network were all pretty good.
kc
@Omnes Omnibus:
Get over yourself.
Grumpy Code Monkey
Watched the first episode of “Newsroom”, aaaaand…yeah, that was enough. I understand where Sorkin’s coming from, and these kinds of stories need to be told. But he needs someone with the power and authority to stand up to him and say “for Christ’s sake, Aaron, dial it down a notch” before filming.
Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
@Steeplejack (tablet):
I’ve been working on super science. Maybe we can set up an arch agreement! :-)
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Omnes Omnibus
@kc: Go fuck yourself.
EthylEster
The Canadian series The Newsroom is very funny.
I think you should check it out.
Available from Amazon…
Lynn Dee
I tried to watch Newsroom the first season and didn’t last. It’s insufferable.