I beg to differ! ~ Wilbur Fitchord, pioneer in stuff
Take care, may disgusting preacher Reverend in his own mind Joel “The Root Of All Evil Is The Love Of Money That I’ll Compile So I Can Get More Property And Planes And Stuff But You Can Call Me Poor For The Lord So ‘Tithe’ More And More If You Want To Go To Heaven” Osteenord be with you, and gesundheit.
Isn’t it amazing and not a little bit horrible that one person can have a wealth that’s 2,000,000 times that of the average American. What’s more, Bezos probably didn’t pay any income tax this year.
An angel appears in a puff of smoke to a man and says to him, “Because you have lived a good and virtuous life, I can offer you a gift: you can be the most handsome man in the world, or you can have infinite wisdom, or you can have limitless wealth.”
Reflecting, the man says, “I’ll take the wisdom”“Wisdom is yours,” says the angel, disappearing in another puff.
The smoke is barely clear before the man thinks, “I should have taken the money.”
Jeff Bezos clearly didn’t pick handsome, and that fiasco with the yacht and the bridge shows he didn’t pick wisdom, either. So he must have picked wealth.
Wouldn’t the script actually only be initially rejected the first time? Or is this factoid suggesting that it underwent 40 complete and total rewrites?
Like, maybe it started as a heartwarming story of necrophilia, got changed to a “romcom” of zookeepers, back to a heartwarming story but this time about nudibranches, and on and on until the “Back to the Future” script popped out
Actually, I can see the BTTF script being rejected multiple times. As a concept, is was pretty far out, and in the wrong hands it could’ve been a disaster. “Plan 9 From Outer Space” level disaster. That it came together so perfectly demonstrates the fact that a good movie is a product of lots of things (and contributors!) coming together almost in serendipity.
It also shows what a crap shoot getting behind any movie concept really is. Every moving part is someone’s interpretation of the concept: director, actors, writers, editors, etc. etc. Even if the concept is clearly shared, it can so easily go wrong. As I understand it, the actor in the Darth Vader suit in the original Star Wars made a comment later to the effect, We didn’t know if we were in a blockbuster or some cheesy disaster. (That’s researchable, but I’m lazy today.)
I just love techno-naming, because it’s such marketeer-centered fluff.
GPIB (general purpose interface bus) was initially HPIB (Hewlett-Packard interface bus) — or was it the other way around and HP renamed their own flavor of it? I forget, it’s all marketeese.
There was in the 1980s the “sassy bus” interface: SASI for Shugart Associates System Interface. When it became a general standard through IEEE, its name was changed to “SCSI” for “small computer system interface.” Of course, that meant its pronunciation changed to “scuzzy bus,” right? Well, no, the marketeers all declared it was still pronounced “sassy.” Right. And they still think they control the world.
The inventors of the .gif format still to this day insist it’s pronounced “jif.” Talk about tilting at windmills!
As for “Wi-Fi,” if you stop to think about it, “Wireless Fidelity” really doesn’t mean anything! Almost by its very nature, “fidelity” relates to analog, not digital.
Wiktionary: Coined in analogy to Hi-Fi as a trade name developed for the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (later Wi-Fi Alliance).Often analyzed as a shortened form of wireless fidelity (similar to how hi-fi is short for high fidelity); this is possibly due to the former slogan of the aforementioned Wi-Fi Alliance, The Standard for Wireless Fidelity.
Templo S.U.D. about 2 years ago
Then what is the etymology of Wi-Fi?
Tossle Premium Member about 2 years ago
Wi Fi was thought up by a marketing firm and actually stands for IEEE 802.11
Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member about 2 years ago
40 rejections = A lot of regret. Unless you’re Jeff Bezos, of course.
jmolay161 about 2 years ago
Here’s a published haiku of mine:felines seize big techinternet now Wi-Fe-Liall cat videos
jmolay161 about 2 years ago
My corrected published haiku: felines seize big tech—-internet now Wi-Fe-Li—-all cat videos
bookworm0812 about 2 years ago
Gee, Bezos. If two mil is only like $1 to you, how about giving me only $50K? That’s what? Less than a penny?
Huckleberry Hiroshima about 2 years ago
I beg to differ! ~ Wilbur Fitchord, pioneer in stuff
Take care, may disgusting preacher Reverend in his own mind Joel “The Root Of All Evil Is The Love Of Money That I’ll Compile So I Can Get More Property And Planes And Stuff But You Can Call Me Poor For The Lord So ‘Tithe’ More And More If You Want To Go To Heaven” Osteenord be with you, and gesundheit.
preacherman Premium Member about 2 years ago
Isn’t it amazing and not a little bit horrible that one person can have a wealth that’s 2,000,000 times that of the average American. What’s more, Bezos probably didn’t pay any income tax this year.
198.23.5.11 about 2 years ago
Among those who spent their “Senior Years” living in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel;NY City
Ex-president Herbert Hoover;ex-General Douglas MacArthur;composer Cole Porter
Charlie Fogwhistle about 2 years ago
An angel appears in a puff of smoke to a man and says to him, “Because you have lived a good and virtuous life, I can offer you a gift: you can be the most handsome man in the world, or you can have infinite wisdom, or you can have limitless wealth.”
Reflecting, the man says, “I’ll take the wisdom”“Wisdom is yours,” says the angel, disappearing in another puff.
The smoke is barely clear before the man thinks, “I should have taken the money.”
Jeff Bezos clearly didn’t pick handsome, and that fiasco with the yacht and the bridge shows he didn’t pick wisdom, either. So he must have picked wealth.
Until next time.
WCraft Premium Member about 2 years ago
So – my $5 cup of coffee is like $10 million to Bezos?
moondog42 Premium Member about 2 years ago
Wouldn’t the script actually only be initially rejected the first time? Or is this factoid suggesting that it underwent 40 complete and total rewrites?
Like, maybe it started as a heartwarming story of necrophilia, got changed to a “romcom” of zookeepers, back to a heartwarming story but this time about nudibranches, and on and on until the “Back to the Future” script popped out
JanBic Premium Member about 2 years ago
Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) according to my Computer Science teacher in the 1980’s and also The Cambridge English Dictionary.
Stephen Gilberg about 2 years ago
The same director’s “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” went through more than 100 scripts.
suelou about 2 years ago
When my husband watches the car auctions on TV I ask him if he enjoys watching millionaires play…
ekke about 2 years ago
Actually, I can see the BTTF script being rejected multiple times. As a concept, is was pretty far out, and in the wrong hands it could’ve been a disaster. “Plan 9 From Outer Space” level disaster. That it came together so perfectly demonstrates the fact that a good movie is a product of lots of things (and contributors!) coming together almost in serendipity.
It also shows what a crap shoot getting behind any movie concept really is. Every moving part is someone’s interpretation of the concept: director, actors, writers, editors, etc. etc. Even if the concept is clearly shared, it can so easily go wrong. As I understand it, the actor in the Darth Vader suit in the original Star Wars made a comment later to the effect, We didn’t know if we were in a blockbuster or some cheesy disaster. (That’s researchable, but I’m lazy today.)
ekke about 2 years ago
I just love techno-naming, because it’s such marketeer-centered fluff.
GPIB (general purpose interface bus) was initially HPIB (Hewlett-Packard interface bus) — or was it the other way around and HP renamed their own flavor of it? I forget, it’s all marketeese.
There was in the 1980s the “sassy bus” interface: SASI for Shugart Associates System Interface. When it became a general standard through IEEE, its name was changed to “SCSI” for “small computer system interface.” Of course, that meant its pronunciation changed to “scuzzy bus,” right? Well, no, the marketeers all declared it was still pronounced “sassy.” Right. And they still think they control the world.
The inventors of the .gif format still to this day insist it’s pronounced “jif.” Talk about tilting at windmills!
As for “Wi-Fi,” if you stop to think about it, “Wireless Fidelity” really doesn’t mean anything! Almost by its very nature, “fidelity” relates to analog, not digital.
Caeruleancentaur about 2 years ago
Wiktionary: Coined in analogy to Hi-Fi as a trade name developed for the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (later Wi-Fi Alliance).Often analyzed as a shortened form of wireless fidelity (similar to how hi-fi is short for high fidelity); this is possibly due to the former slogan of the aforementioned Wi-Fi Alliance, The Standard for Wireless Fidelity.
pbr50138 about 2 years ago
It must be nice having the luxury that Jeff has.