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Nov
15

The New Age Of TV, My Experiment In Moving Away From Cable

Pjerky on November 15th, 2010

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Earlier this year was a lot of news and hubbub about the battle between Time Warner and News Corp over Fox channels. Time Warner made a big show of the cost hikes, and they made sure to openly blame News Corp for their service fee hikes. They even setup a website asking people to “Get [...]

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May
29

Anti-Smoking Campaigning Going To A New Level Of Absurdity

Pjerky on May 29th, 2009

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I will be the first one to tell you how much I appreciate the anti-smoking laws being a non-smoker. Though the arguments against them are just as pertinent as those for them, especially when talking about our rights. However, now anti-smoking groups are trying to force movie studios to give an automatic R rating for [...]

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Mar
1

Iran demanding an apology from Hollywood for movie-based insults

Pjerky on March 1st, 2009

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I just got done reading a story on CNN about the Iranian government demanding ridiculous apologies for insults in movies for the last 30 years. The story can be found here: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/01/iran.hollywood/index.html Now I have a lot to say about this. First of all many of these films (300, The Wrestler) are fiction and any [...]

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