https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertain...in-scene-of-it-s-a-wonderful-life/ar-AA1wrwis
Amazon Prime slammed for removing main scene of It's A Wonderful Life

What a bunch of PR idiots ... nothing surpasses natural human stupidity ...

 

What a bunch of PR idiots ... nothing surpasses natural human stupidity ...

It's more about greed than stupidity.


The “abridged version” is without copyright because of the missing parts but full movie version is still covered.

https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2017/12/its-a-wonderful-life/

But in 1974, when 28 years had passed, Republic Pictures failed to file a renewal for the film’s copyright protection. The film lapsed into the public domain, meaning anyone could show the film without obtaining permission or paying royalties. As a result, the film was repeatedly shown throughout the holidays on public television, and was made widely available on tape. Over the next 20 years, Stern’s story and James Stewart’s starring role, would finally gain its “holiday classic” status.

But the copyright-saga continued in 1993. While Republic Pictures had failed to renew copyright over the film in 1974, they still retained rights to the original story, “The Greatest Gift,” and also purchased rights to the film’s music. Relying on the recent Supreme Court case Stewart v. Abend, 495 U.S. 207 (1990), Republic Pictures notified all television networks to stop playing It’s a Wonderful Life without the payment of royalties. Republic Pictures then entered into an exclusive licensing arrangement with NBC, where It’s a Wonderful Life can be seen twice a year.

The “abridged version” being viewed instead of the full version saves the streaming service money.

It's like Apocalypse Now when they cut the Kurtz’s village being consumed in the hellfire of napalm at the end of the movie.

"PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty, over"

The airstrike from 'Almighty' Willard called in to 'sanitize' the site.

 

Nope, it's useless (facts don't matter in a conspiracy theory) and changes nothing. Done.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/26/us-ne...om-briefing-biden-on-covid-lab-leak-evidence/

I only believe conspiracy theories anymore.

 

https://nypost.com/2024/12/26/us-ne...om-briefing-biden-on-covid-lab-leak-evidence/

I only believe conspiracy theories anymore.

Old (conspiracy theory from 2021) News from that pillar of truth, the FBI. New evidence makes an even stronger case for zoonotic origin.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/2...e-case-for-a-zoonotic-origin-of-COVID-19.aspx
New research strengthens the case for a zoonotic origin of COVID-19

"We have analyzed, in new and rigorous ways, the vitally important data that the Chinese CDC team collected," says co-corresponding author Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona. "This is an authoritative analysis of that data and how it fits in with the rest of the huge body of evidence we have about how the pandemic started."

On January 1, 2020, after the animals were removed and just hours after the market was closed, investigators from the Chinese CDC went to the market to collect samples. They swabbed the floors, walls, and other surfaces of the stalls; they came back days later to focus on surfaces in stalls selling wildlife, such as a cage and carts used to move animals, and then also collected samples from the drains and sewers.

They performed metatranscriptomic sequencing of the samples, a technique aiming to obtain all RNA sequences (and which can pick up DNA as well) from all organisms present in the samples-;viruses, bacteria, plants, animals, humans. The Chinese CDC team, led by Liu Jun, published their data and results in 2023 in the journal Nature. However, the article left unresolved the exact identities of the animal species found in the data that could represent plausible intermediate hosts. The Chinese CDC shared their sequencing data on public and open repositories.

According to the latest analysis of these data being published in Cell, SARS-CoV-2 was present in some of the same stalls as wildlife sold at the market-;including raccoon dogs (small fox-like animals with markings similar to raccoons) and civet cats (small carnivorous mammals related to mongooses and hyenas). In some cases, genetic material from the SARS-CoV-2 virus and these animals was even found on the same swabs. The exact animal species were identified by genotyping their mitochondrial genomes in the samples.

Still waiting for one solid actual piece of evidence from the pushers of 'lab leak'.
https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declassified-Assessment-on-COVID-19-Origins.pdf

 

Old (conspiracy theory from 2021) News from that pillar of truth, the FBI. New evidence makes an even stronger case for zoonotic origin.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/2...e-case-for-a-zoonotic-origin-of-COVID-19.aspx
New research strengthens the case for a zoonotic origin of COVID-19



Still waiting for one solid actual piece of evidence from the pushers of 'lab leak'.
https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declassified-Assessment-on-COVID-19-Origins.pdf

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Spoiler: Pretty thin...

 

Spoiler: Pretty thin...

Thin is better than nothing.

 

Keeping up with current events..

 

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Oakland is a dead zone.

 

Oakland is a dead zone.

Wow.

Middle of the holidays and the city didn't even put up a Pride Tree?

Sad.

 

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It's a western thing, not all humans.

 

It's a western thing, not all humans.

Down here, we eat crickets ... in the southern states, mostly. And I've also tried Escamoles ... it's considered "Mexico's caviar" ... not a fan, though.

 

They can't stop being stupid. Mike Schmidt helped to destroy the good Portland.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/lo...quez/283-90f9b157-bebd-40f6-b231-7e6e1dace415
Incoming Multnomah County DA Nathan Vasquez raises concerns over Mike Schmidt's move to reconsider sentences, convictions with violent history

PORTLAND, Ore. — Several convicted criminals with a history of violent crime may be released early due to recent moves by District Attorney Mike Schmidt, even as his term as Multnomah County's district attorney comes to a close, with DA-elect Nathan Vasquez taking his place in the new year.

Vasquez and former prosecutors of some of those individuals who will go before the judge on Monday aren't happy about Schmidt's latest move.

“If this was something that was so important and so valuable to do, this could have been done years ago. It could have been done in 2021, 2022," said Vasquez.

Vasquez said due to the violent nature of some of these crimes, community safety is a concern if some are released, but he is also worried about the victims.

Just burn the place down on your way out why don't you.

 

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"The poorly educated would rather think of education as a scam they avoided than a goal they didn't achieve" ​

 

"The poorly educated would rather think of education as a scam they avoided than a goal they didn't achieve" ​

Much of today's liberal arts "education" is, in fact, a scam.

 

Much of today's liberal arts "education" is, in fact, a scam.

the real scam is calling liberal arts itself an "education" ... that's why I went into STEM, and then studied History

 

...if the product is free, then you're the product...