Posted on 05/06/2011 5:17:38 AM PDT by tlb
>>ABC would axe the third longest-running soap in history and the last one standing on ABC.
GH has indeed been on a long time. One or two episodes of Mystery Sci. Theatre 3000 had a “short” of a black-and-white General Hospital episode from the 60s.
Meanwhile, a soap spoof from SCTV. Monday...Tuesday...Wednesday... (etc)....These are...
The Days Of The Week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKgwV4DSw3U
“Do the stockholders ever get to stop madness ?”
Yes. Ultimately, the stockholders got rid of Eisner.
“Does the Disney family have any control anymore ?”
Yes and no. Since Roy E. died, there is no Disney on the board. But the surviving family members, such as Walt’s daughter Diane Disney Miller, have enormous influence because of the amount of stock they hold, as well as their influence with the other stockholders, the public, and their access to the media.
They don’t involve themselves in day-to-day operations of the company. The Couric deal is just another misstep made by the mediocre CEO, Robert Iger.
“Do the stockholders ever get to stop madness ?”
Yes. Ultimately, the stockholders got rid of Eisner.
“Does the Disney family have any control anymore ?”
Yes and no. Since Roy E. died, there is no Disney on the board. But the surviving family members, such as Walt’s daughter Diane Disney Miller, have enormous influence because of the amount of stock they hold, as well as their influence with the other stockholders, the public, and their access to the media.
They don’t involve themselves in day-to-day operations of the company. The Couric deal is just another misstep made by the mediocre CEO, Robert Iger.
“I don’t see why so many FReepers are getting upset over this. It’s ABC’s money and if they want to waste their money on Katie then let them. More power to them!”
Because ABC is owned by Disney, so it’s Disney’s money and a Disney decision. And I used to work for the Walt Disney company, and it’s depressing to see what it’s become in my lifetime.
The Walt Disney company produced original American high art, every bit as much as the Vatican painters repped Italy. Look who runs it now, and except for Lasseter’s Pixar crew, look at what they crap out. That’s why this Couric deal bothers me.
It must be nice to be able to blow up a four-hour block of your schedule with no guarantee that you’re going to keep the audience.
When I saw the term Verilog, I immediately thought of Versalog slide rule. I went through undergrad engineering school using a K&E slide rule and figuring out where the decimal point should go in the answer. What a pain. No hand calculators back then.
The first computer language I learned was ALGOL in grad school. FORTRAN was a step backwards from ALGOL, but it was what the company I went to work for used.
My youngest son is a computer scientist programming in languages I’ve never heard of.
The only “Soap Operas” that I know people watch anymore are the evening Novelas on the Spanish channel.
There is a “Soap Channel” that airs the soaps at night. So that’s probably the logical destination for soap operas in the future. Ever since the majority of women became part of the workforce, daytime soap operas were on the endangered list.
As you’ve probably learned via internet by now, Verilog is a Hardware Description Language - I chose it to distinguish myself as a (digital) HW geek vs. you software guys.
I never had to use a slide rule for real but I learned how to do the basics. I can also use an abacus! :-)
I went to school in the early 80s as the department was in transition. The first programming language I took was FORTRAN (with punch cards!). Then in the middle of the degree CS instruction switched to Pascal (bleh).
I used MC6809 assembly language in the EE dept.
Sadly I never used C in school which would have been very helpful. I rapidly began using it in industry though!
I can dabble in C++ but never went down the path of Java++ or any of that other nonsense that is used today.
Maybe it’s the HW geek in me but I find that the level of obfuscation in the object-oriented languages makes it difficult to know exactly WHAT is happening on the hardware.
BTW a better category (instead of editor) would more likely be:
RELIGION : Emacs
Enough geek talk for now! :-)
The Today Show lost ratings with her. CBS News lost ratings with her. She’s unattractive and repulsive. I don’t see how she can find work, much less get paid $20 million a year.
On the other hand, you've got to give it to Couric. Somehow, she has managed to turn "failure" into a profitable franchise.
This could only happen on network TV. Or in the federal government.
At least that one makes some sense. That way, under the new ObamaCare doctor exchange program, they can find you one for whom English is their second, rather than third or fourth, language.
Please pardon the one-word alteration.
The best "soap operas" are the Korean dramas! :)
You have a choice not to purchase the trash they produce and you don’t have to watch ABC. Many successful American enterprises have gone Left, but we now have many more choices from which to choose. Vote with your wallet. Say no to Leftist multinational conglomerates!
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