Roger
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This is sad, to be sure...but I'm wondering what prompted you to post this?
His biggest mistakes seem to be 1.) retiring too soon and 2.) using his retirement money to finance personal adventures.
The poor health is just a bad break.
Other than not making risky investments and continuing to work until you are no longer able, forgetting about early retirement or funding any sort of personal dreams or business ventures, how would you suggest avoiding a similar fate?
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I just remembered what it was called: demurrage...
Demurrage is designed to discourage holding the currency.
So it's like a gift card that loses a "handling fee" every three months!
I hadn't thought of it that way, but I guess it is exactly like that. Speaking of gift cards, whatever happened to gift cards that were just spendable same as cash and you didn't have to activate them before you could use them? What kind of nonsense is that? I have to tie a name and identity to something that should be as fungible as cash?
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Father Guido Sarducci always makes me laugh.
As far as tuition goes, I think the average med school or law school program is something like $200k now. Not sure if that includes undergrad (probably not).
At least with those professions you have a hope of paying it back. Although there is a glut of lawyers right now.
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So the Art Institute is running a commercial where they say you can earn a grant for 20% of your tuition when you successfully complete 12 credits. The grant is for $18k, which sounds great, until you realize that means the full tuition is something like $90k.
That's not a student loan, that's practically a mortgage.
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I just remembered what it was called: demurrage.
It lowers the value of a currency over time, by a specific defined rate: that is the demurrage rate.
Freicoin is another cryptocurrency similar to bitcoin that has a demurrage rate.Demurrage is designed to discourage holding the currency.
The fluctuating value of bitcoin is not a design feature, though, I'm pretty sure. Hoarding is in fact quite a problem with bitcoin.
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That's the most damned adorable thing I've seen all day.
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I wish I could remember what the technical term for that is (currency losing its value). It isn't exactly deflation but the currency has that aspect built into it.
As far as bitcoin goes, both Hashfast and Butterfly Labs (makers of bitcoin miners) they are both going out of business. Butterfly labs was shut down by the govt. for fraud.
So I'm really glad I didn't spend major $$$ on this nonsense.
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I will take live-action film/video over 3d any day as far as speed of output. There's a reason they can shoot a low-budget feature in 3 to 6 months where it can take that many years to do an animated feature.
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Why would they do this? I don't get it.
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I will have to give this a try. I managed to get myself a Black Magic Pocket camera when they had their 50% off sale but haven't been able to do much more than fiddle with it yet. I think they also offer a free version of Davinci Resolve, which I believe is color correction software. Is Fusion editing or compositing software? Or both?
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I don't know, I hadn't noticed. Possibly something changed?
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Well we already have enough nukes to kill everyone on the planet. So I don't see how superlasers are worse than that, other than they might be more likely to be used due to no radiation.
Anything that gets us off fossil fuels is a good thing. Cheap energy would allow you to cheaply desalinate water, which allows you to grow food in more areas that currently can't grow anything (think of desert regions of Africa or Australia that are near the coast).
Cheaper energy would also allow us to colonize our solar system, instead of talking about how we used to do cool stuff like go to the moon. With a fusion or nuclear rocket you could get to Mars in weeks instead of months.
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I ran across this the other night:
http://aviationweek.com/technology/skunk-works-reveals-compact-fusion-reactor-details
Now, I realize that this is in the early stages still and I take everything I see on the internet with a grain of salt, but if this is the real deal then this would solve a lot of problems.
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LOL I almost posted this same clip a while back, although with the first 30-40 seconds with the hand drawn animation missing. There must be more than one clip floating around on Youtube. I found it odd that Mr. Gilliam didn't seem to have much of an accent.
That would explain it, he was originally a US citizen and moved there in his 20s.
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Yeah I got a kick out of it too. I think the reason they are able to do that is they have extra vertebrae in their necks and are also double-jointed or something. I find myself wishing there was more owl-based hip-hop.
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I thought this was one of those rare "nature intersects with animation" things:
Apparently Owls use "aim at" constraints.
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So I finally got around to installing my AM v18 update, thought I would check out some of the tutorials however they just pop up a "404 not found" error when launching the tutorial. Are you supposed to just download them from the website instead? As rusty as I am I thought I might benefit from a refresher.
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That is pretty amazing. Would love to be able to do something like that for my office.
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While I liked the art direction and animation in Coraline, I didn't care for the story. It was a bit too creepy for my taste. Especially that tired old horror trope at the end "oh everything is fine and lovely and back to normal EXCEPT the Big Bad actually survives" etc. Blech.
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Pinocchio had some great MP usage as well... many physical dangers when working with the 2 story high- 4 ton Oxberry camera... including:
-burning hands or hair/clothing on red-hot lights
-getting hand or appendage caught in moving mechanism
-back aches from bending-over to change art for 14 hours
-working with spray-glue caused bad coughs
-working with sharp knives
I remember a particular problem we would have... you would be following a cue-sheet and shooting away... the phone would ring(usually someone asking 'how much longer???') and you would go back to your shoot but forget- did we shoot this frame before answering the phone...? There was no video-assist- you would have to await processing to see if you messed up. BTW the phone rang all the time.
Oh god I hated that. I was shooting a pretty long exercise for one of my classes and completely forgot where I was in my exposure sheets, and then had to hope I remembered correctly. Fortunately it turned out ok.
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Yeah...I don't see the enterprise migrating to Windows 9 anytime soon. We just got standardized on Win 7 at my firm. I hope to be retired by the time I have to learn another Freaking version of Windows.
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I've used Oxberry cameras as well and can confirm that they aren't terribly user-friendly.
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I may need to look into this. It's either this or start using amphetamines.
Don't let this happen to you... "How I Lost All My Money"
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Well, he definitely engaged in willful ignorance.
Funny how past generations could expect more or less stable employment but the rest of us are expected to reskill every 5-10 years. I'm not sure anyone has a plan for how to deal with that.