To briefly summarize (and sanitize), just because someone puts a guarantee on the box doesn't mean they'll stand by it. The guarantee on the box makes you feel warm and toasty, and that's what you bought -- the warm feelings. But if you have a quality product, you don't need to advertise the guarantee... the product is good enough on it's own.
>It’s both, right? The competitors may very well be just as safe in those conditions, but we wouldn’t know based on their liability stance; the Fight Club equation simply doesn’t apply.
I was referencing Fight Club as an example of an auto manufacturer making a life and death decision based off their financial incentives and not the best interest of the customer. The decision to take on liability is about money, not confidence in safety.
>With Mercedes, the Fight Club equation gives something like a mathematical guarantee of their estimated confidence of the safety of the system. There are no mathematical guarantees from the competitors.
You also have to factor in the marketing aspects. I'll reference another movie here in Tommy Boy[1]. Mercedes knows a move like this is attractive to consumers. People will look at it and think it means the system is safer. This decision will sell cars. But a guarantee doesn't tell you anything about the quality of the product. As Chris Farley's character says, you can "take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed".
Maybe the system is truly dangerous and taking on this liability would be a losing proposition alone, yet adding in these additional sales from the marketing of this liability coverage yields a net positive for the decision. Or maybe the system truly is incredibly safe. There is no way for us to know. I am simply pointing out that this decision about liability is largely meaningless when judging safety because safety is only one of numerous criteria used to make the decision.
>How many reviews of movies have you seen from a senior, experienced reviewer got a film really totally wrong?
Tons. Even legendary critics like Ebert got movies wrong. He gave thumbs down to Full Metal Jacket, Blue Velvet, The Thing, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Usual Suspects, Ace Ventura, Tommy Boy, and many more.
Speaking as someone who suffered through four years of having a "Crack Mayor" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford), you're underestimating the damage a person like this can cause. He's someone who lived a life so ridiculous that the movie Tommy Boy is the closest anyone can get to explaining it. The parallels are surreal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUY6lDja-DE
Rob Ford would declare things as done long before votes had even been called, he would bully people into voting his way, and then he'd declare victory. Anyone who opposed him would be ground down, harassed, and if he couldn't fire them he'd persecute them until they got out of his way or they were no longer a threat.
Rob Ford didn't care what the rules were. He didn't care about decorum or tradition. He didn't care if what he said was unworkable, or if he lied, or if he offended people. He just did whatever came to mind, without question, without checking if he had the authority to.
Rob Ford was born into privilege, inherited an ownership position in a company worth millions of dollars, and has never had to work a day in his life. He was famous for showing up to work at 2pm and leaving by 4. He had the audacity to brag he'd never missed a day of work on a day he was missing work because he was in drug rehab.
Trump will do whatever he wants and there's not going to be anyone there to stop him. This is a man who's never been held to account for any of his actions. He has no concept of morality, nothing to keep him centered.
If anyone opposes him, he'll have them fired, blackballed, or tormented until they quit either in disgust or humiliation. He'll make George W. Bush look like a wimp, a man of half-measures, of someone who had too much empathy for his opponents.
If he's anything like Rob Ford, which Daniel Dale (https://twitter.com/ddale8), who covered Rob Ford in depth during his tenure will surely attest, we're looking at multiple scandals per day.
It got so bad near the end of Rob Ford's term that he'd give a press conference in the morning and have to apologize in another press conference in the afternoon and even then would almost fuck that up so badly he'd have to give another apology.
Its a funny phenomenon where you'll sit through 3 hours of movie+commercials to watch 'Tommy Boy' for the twenty something time on cable but you'd never seek it out on Netflix.
I really think some sort of 'channel' on Netflix where movies just play and you can tune in would catch on. Something about knowing other people are out there watching the same thing..
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That reminds me of the Guarantee scene from the movie Tommy Boy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEB7WbTTlu4
To briefly summarize (and sanitize), just because someone puts a guarantee on the box doesn't mean they'll stand by it. The guarantee on the box makes you feel warm and toasty, and that's what you bought -- the warm feelings. But if you have a quality product, you don't need to advertise the guarantee... the product is good enough on it's own.
(or something like that...)
>It’s both, right? The competitors may very well be just as safe in those conditions, but we wouldn’t know based on their liability stance; the Fight Club equation simply doesn’t apply.
I was referencing Fight Club as an example of an auto manufacturer making a life and death decision based off their financial incentives and not the best interest of the customer. The decision to take on liability is about money, not confidence in safety.
>With Mercedes, the Fight Club equation gives something like a mathematical guarantee of their estimated confidence of the safety of the system. There are no mathematical guarantees from the competitors.
You also have to factor in the marketing aspects. I'll reference another movie here in Tommy Boy[1]. Mercedes knows a move like this is attractive to consumers. People will look at it and think it means the system is safer. This decision will sell cars. But a guarantee doesn't tell you anything about the quality of the product. As Chris Farley's character says, you can "take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed".
Maybe the system is truly dangerous and taking on this liability would be a losing proposition alone, yet adding in these additional sales from the marketing of this liability coverage yields a net positive for the decision. Or maybe the system truly is incredibly safe. There is no way for us to know. I am simply pointing out that this decision about liability is largely meaningless when judging safety because safety is only one of numerous criteria used to make the decision.
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEB7WbTTlu4&t=49s
>How many reviews of movies have you seen from a senior, experienced reviewer got a film really totally wrong?
Tons. Even legendary critics like Ebert got movies wrong. He gave thumbs down to Full Metal Jacket, Blue Velvet, The Thing, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Usual Suspects, Ace Ventura, Tommy Boy, and many more.
The movie tommy boy has a great scene about guarantees/warranties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEB7WbTTlu4
Speaking as someone who suffered through four years of having a "Crack Mayor" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford), you're underestimating the damage a person like this can cause. He's someone who lived a life so ridiculous that the movie Tommy Boy is the closest anyone can get to explaining it. The parallels are surreal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUY6lDja-DE
Rob Ford would declare things as done long before votes had even been called, he would bully people into voting his way, and then he'd declare victory. Anyone who opposed him would be ground down, harassed, and if he couldn't fire them he'd persecute them until they got out of his way or they were no longer a threat.
Rob Ford didn't care what the rules were. He didn't care about decorum or tradition. He didn't care if what he said was unworkable, or if he lied, or if he offended people. He just did whatever came to mind, without question, without checking if he had the authority to.
Rob Ford was born into privilege, inherited an ownership position in a company worth millions of dollars, and has never had to work a day in his life. He was famous for showing up to work at 2pm and leaving by 4. He had the audacity to brag he'd never missed a day of work on a day he was missing work because he was in drug rehab.
Trump will do whatever he wants and there's not going to be anyone there to stop him. This is a man who's never been held to account for any of his actions. He has no concept of morality, nothing to keep him centered.
If anyone opposes him, he'll have them fired, blackballed, or tormented until they quit either in disgust or humiliation. He'll make George W. Bush look like a wimp, a man of half-measures, of someone who had too much empathy for his opponents.
If he's anything like Rob Ford, which Daniel Dale (https://twitter.com/ddale8), who covered Rob Ford in depth during his tenure will surely attest, we're looking at multiple scandals per day.
It got so bad near the end of Rob Ford's term that he'd give a press conference in the morning and have to apologize in another press conference in the afternoon and even then would almost fuck that up so badly he'd have to give another apology.
This shit is real and it's ugly.
They don't have rights to stream any decent movies
That seems hyperbolic. Just browsing around (I decided to cap this at 5 minutes):
The Interview
Forrest Gump
Major League
Pirates of Carribean
Hot Fuzz
Armageddon
Kingpin
A League of Their Own
Inglorious Basterds
Scarface
Django Unchained
Legally Blonde
E.T.
Days of Thunder
The Princess Bride
Crocodile Dundee
Clear and Present Danger
V for Vendetta
Galaxy Quest
Running Man
Big Trouble in Little China
Talladega Nights
Kill Bill (1 and 2)
Star Trek Movies (including The Wrath of Kahn)
Tommy Boy
Team America World Police
Lilo & Stitch
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Wayne's World
Clerks
Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure
Its a funny phenomenon where you'll sit through 3 hours of movie+commercials to watch 'Tommy Boy' for the twenty something time on cable but you'd never seek it out on Netflix.
I really think some sort of 'channel' on Netflix where movies just play and you can tune in would catch on. Something about knowing other people are out there watching the same thing..