Netflix share price is down nearly $20 since market open Monday, btw. In fact since its peak last Wednesday it's down nearly $70. Good job, CEO Reed Hastings! Your shareholders have lost a third of their value!
― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:00 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
buy
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:06 (fourteen years ago)
Oh I get it now, the ? stands for EED HASTINGS.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:08 (fourteen years ago)
ice creed hastingsm ;)
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:12 (fourteen years ago)
ya i was gonna say, sale on netflix stock, time for visionaries like me n joe to buy up
― max, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:37 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzqVLv2E_JA
― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:45 (fourteen years ago)
help me n max save netflix
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:50 (fourteen years ago)
ice cr?m, max. Collectively they say, "WE BOUGHT A QWIKSTER"
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:53 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.sweetslyrics.com/images/img_gal/3080_9.dj-quik.jpg"leave me the fuck outta this dawg"
― Dudley Daigle: Tugboat Captain (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 19:20 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.theawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Screen-shot-2011-09-19-at-8.46.21-AM.jpg
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 20:33 (fourteen years ago)
its cool guys in the future we'll just search everything with our branes
netflix + strategy = win
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 20:55 (fourteen years ago)
HAVING TO SEARCH TWICE NOOOOOOOOOO
― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 20:57 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.phibetaiota.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/crying-father.jpg
"having to search twice... this sounds like the beginning of the end"
― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 20:59 (fourteen years ago)
naw I get what you're saying in fact it would be cool if they could make a google 1 and a google 2 and if you didn't find what you were looking for on 1 you could just search on 2 all websites should do this
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:00 (fourteen years ago)
it's just an annoyance but annoyances create opportunities for competitors
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)
Someone will come up with a bookmarklet to search both in about 5 seconds.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)
http://tinyurl.com/6jdgf7f
― markers, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)
We are truly the worst generation.
― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:03 (fourteen years ago)
omg markers
because old generations took increases in inconvenience so well
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:33 (fourteen years ago)
surely the greatest generation would just recall the depression and continue to stream/rent without complaint
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:36 (fourteen years ago)
one of the frustrating things about 'the coming content wars' is that i wouldnt feel so invested in defending netflix/propping it up if i felt like the government would at all be looking out for my interests over the next ten years and doing stuff like blocking horrible mergers, holding companies accountable, ensuring competition.
but i cant! so i have to turn to a corporation in the hopes that it will provide a path to a better future of getting high and watching STNG
― max, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:40 (fourteen years ago)
the united states is 25th in the world in avg internet speed fyi. just behind romania!
In the years that followed the signing of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, lobbyists working for powerful providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon pressured a compliant FCC to tear down all of the important safeguards established by Congress.Under the Bush administration, the FCC tossed out competitive broadband safeguards such as open-access requirements, which opened lines to other providers. In 2002 the agency declared that high-speed cable Internet access would no longer be considered a telecommunications service that opened the network to competitors, but rather an “information service” that did not. Following a 2005 court decision, the FCC also reclassified broadband delivered by the phone companies as an “information service.”These were radical policy shifts that went against the long-held assumption that open communications in competitive markets were essential to economic growth and innovation.While the U.S. blindly followed a path of "deregulation," other nations in Europe and Asia beefed up their pro-competitive policies. The results are evident in our free fall from the top of almost every global measure of Internet services, availability and speed.
Under the Bush administration, the FCC tossed out competitive broadband safeguards such as open-access requirements, which opened lines to other providers. In 2002 the agency declared that high-speed cable Internet access would no longer be considered a telecommunications service that opened the network to competitors, but rather an “information service” that did not. Following a 2005 court decision, the FCC also reclassified broadband delivered by the phone companies as an “information service.”
These were radical policy shifts that went against the long-held assumption that open communications in competitive markets were essential to economic growth and innovation.
While the U.S. blindly followed a path of "deregulation," other nations in Europe and Asia beefed up their pro-competitive policies. The results are evident in our free fall from the top of almost every global measure of Internet services, availability and speed.
― max, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:42 (fourteen years ago)
― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, September 20, 2011 4:57 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
eh as a criticism if a product its perfectly legit, certainly SOME PEOPLE around here spend a lot of time and effort criticizing various musical products that their lives would be totally fine w/o, as something to cry abt not so much
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:43 (fourteen years ago)
if netflix started putting down fiber in undeveloped areas i think everyone would feel more sympathetic to them.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:43 (fourteen years ago)
whiney just wishes people would find something more worthwhile to criticize than corporations who make their services less convenient, like chillwave for instance
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)
One of the best things about Watch Instantly is when some little movie that Netflix doesn't bother to promote pops up in my instant queue because it's in my DVD queue. I can live without it, and maybe I will also think about hunger in Africa or whatev, but it's still a bummer that it won't happen anymore.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)
i mean why complain about a company doing the opposite of what people want a company to do when there are people in williamsburg listening to stupid music
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:48 (fourteen years ago)
netflix, the destroyer
― buzza, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:50 (fourteen years ago)
so the dramatic outcry about this isn't at all out of proportion?
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:51 (fourteen years ago)
it's less absurd than taking vocal pride in your ability to maintain a stiff upper lip in the face of corporate asshattery
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:51 (fourteen years ago)
considering miccio's twitter feed is like 80% whogivesashit.jpg summaries of what he's watching, i can see how he'd defend generation wahmbulance on this one.
― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)
that's a good book title
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)
Whiney is priceless with his "generation wahmbulance" bullshit when he's regularly getting all teary because people talk about music he doesn't like.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:54 (fourteen years ago)
it's not generation wahmbulance you asshat, our economy is built on this type of decision-making
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:55 (fourteen years ago)
"so the dramatic outcry about this isn't at all out of proportion?"
Unless I missed death threats, it seems pretty proportional to me. Company changes service for the worse, people complain about it... unless you mean any outcry is out of proportion in which case yeah it's totally overboard.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:55 (fourteen years ago)
haha ok whiney you're really going to stick it to someone has a twitter feed full of summaries of their opinion on entertainment...i agree w/ your orig argument but you're on your own homie
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)
lol
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)
i can't believe anyone would suggest that people shouldn't complain about not getting value from products and services they are paying for
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)
jon you literally had a public nervous breakdown on this board because i thought some "telly advert" you liked was moronic. I'm straight trolling most of the time, and you're the one who has legit freakouts dogg
― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:57 (fourteen years ago)
the sad thing is that whiney will never be able to get rid of the entitled white hipster asshole in the mirror
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:57 (fourteen years ago)
we should let moonship decide how much everything is worth.
"considering miccio's twitter feed is like 80% whogivesashit.jpg summaries of what he's watching"
This is killing me. Didn't you compile a book of your whogivesashit twitter summaries?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)
xp that's the opposite of what i'm saying
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)
i'm not even in your shitty generation whiney
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)
Didn't you compile a book of your whogivesashit twitter summaries?― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, September 20, 2011 5:58 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, September 20, 2011 5:58 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
and sold out of every copy, which proves that someone gives a shit
― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:59 (fourteen years ago)
Generation Moron giveasshit, I guess.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:03 (fourteen years ago)
we're reaching chris ott levels of awesome here
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:03 (fourteen years ago)
whiney sells out *clap* every copy
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:04 (fourteen years ago)
sorry i said anything yall. i'm ducking out of this argument. hopefully our generation will be able to handle an extra $7 or searching something twice, and if not, this company definitely deserves to sink into the sea and eaten by wolverines, peace out.
― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:05 (fourteen years ago)
sea wolverines