Re: What, exactly, is Apple's iPod business model?

On 9/1/07 9:15 PM, spinoza1111 wrote:

Yes. What I was trying to express, hyperbolically, was that the set of
watchable films has very small cardinality [...]

This is because film is a social art and usually arrives at lowest
common denominator.

I've always been startled by how the self-appointed representatives of
the common man have so much contempt for the people they claim to be
acting in the interests of.

Significant numbers of films use Fascism to excite the dull
sensitivies of the audience: cf. the Godfather, and see "Fascinating
Fascism" by Susan Sontag.

[Yup. Your not having read anything or been anywhere makes you less
qualified to speak.

And you know how much dorayme has read or travelled? And just because
we don't read what you read makes us less qualified to speak?

What keeps me reading your posts is your ability to reach ever new
heights of arrogance and self-importance.

You're nothing more than the headmaster in
Portrait of the Artist.

Dog or man? (Did I pass your literacy test?)

Clue: sitting in an institution of higher
education, even post-baccalaureate, and regurgitating things, doesn't
count.]

You think that dorayme is an academic? You don't see your own
regurgitation?

-j
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