they haven't added anything new in like five years. i just went back on the site. i even thought, hmm, maybe if i register they will show more choices.
funniest thing happened during my rego process. ya see i was born in 1974, but apparently they don't know math either.
personally i use netflix (which is getting way tough to slogg thru the liberal content) who is this bitch michelle wolf. i tried watching for about two minutes and thought this cunts vocal chords need cut. :-)
try ch131 it's a bootleg site for current tv shows. but beware you need to know which streams aren't loaded with ads you cannot avoid. adblock plus helps.
am going to check out popcornflix myself as i hadn't heard about it till now. and fuck popcornflix, its not available in australia :-)
Originally Posted by DaFace:
I think you're looking at that a little backward. Amazon has tons of free content that is at least in the ballpark of, if not on par with, Netflix. However, Amazon ALSO allows you to purchase just about ANYTHING, which Netflix doesn't do.
That said, I agree that Amazon's interface makes it tougher to tell which is free and which is not. Once you find the filters to do it, it's pretty easy, but it's not obvious for those who don't use it regularly.
Well then, if that's the case it still doesn't apply to my needs because the content I ALWAYS want to watch demands a fee per episode or movie. Their free content hasn't appealed to me like it has Netflix. Since I don't care to pay for both, then Amazon has to have enough content that I don't pay extra for and so far it hasn't. That's what the trial is for.
Plus I read a review on comparing the two and that review came to the same conclusion I did. [Reply]
They like to mix in episodes of shows that you have to buy with free shows in the hopes that people will purposely or accidentally buy them. Like for example, Game of Thrones is free if you want to watch the old seasons but if you try to watch the most recent season you have to buy each episode. [Reply]
Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat:
Because accidental buys are still buys.
i've never accidently bought anything from amazon that i did not want. All you do is have to pay attention and use your brain, if it doesnt say PRIME, you will pay of it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat:
They like to mix in episodes of shows that you have to buy with free shows in the hopes that people will purposely or accidentally buy them. Like for example, Game of Thrones is free if you want to watch the old seasons but if you try to watch the most recent season you have to buy each episode.
I did not know that. That is a bit sketchy.
HBO Now and Go are great for series rewatching though. [Reply]
Originally Posted by vailpass:
I did not know that. That is a bit sketchy.
HBO Now and Go are great for series rewatching though.
It's not that different than Netflix where they don't have the current season available for streaming. You're always a season behind if you rely on them exclusively. Amazon has past seasons available for free streaming (with Prime), but if you want to watch the current season, you have to watch it elsewhere (e.g. SyFy for the Expanse) or pay for it through them (e.g. Mr. Robot). [Reply]
Originally Posted by patteeu:
It's not that different than Netflix where they don't have the current season available for streaming. You're always a season behind if you rely on them exclusively. Amazon has past seasons available for free streaming (with Prime), but if you want to watch the current season, you have to watch it elsewhere (e.g. SyFy for the Expanse) or pay for it through them (e.g. Mr. Robot).
True that’s the same as NF. Though not all past seasons are free.I went to play an episode from the original Kung Fu series to show my son but they were charging for it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BucEyedPea:
You really have the hate for organic don't you. Is it because it's a competitor or do you really think it will harm you somehow?
I don't really want to derail this thread. I'll spoiler it. If it gets much back and forth I'll start a thread.
Spoiler!
No. It won't harm you. In point of fact it is no different than commercially grown food, except, you know, it has been properly fertilized. I guarantee you you can take a bushel of my wheat and a bushel of organic wheat and you couldn't perform a test that would yield a difference, excepting test weight and protein, because my grain will be much higher quality. There isn't a goddamned thing that will translate to nutrition about it.
There are organic farmers around here and they are a motherfucking joke. They farm like my grandpa did, but just achieve worse yields because over time they've mineralized enough organic matter out of the soil (read: destroyed the soil) they can't come up with near as much nitrogen as grandpa did. They lose tremendous amounts of soil to wind and water erosion (catestrophic) because they plow everything to fucking talcum powder. They are horrible for the environment, are poor stewards of the resources and generally fuck off a decent acre that someone else could do something with. But they make a pile of money off their crap grain because dumbfucks in the marketplace believe since they signed a piece of paper saying they didn't use any commercial herbicides or fertilizers that it is somehow a premium product.
Moreover, the guys that do it are douchebags. That adds a nice subliminal tie in my dome.
Yeah, yeah. I know you can get organic produce and it will taste better than commercial produce. That is a simple function of harvest interval.
They harvest the commercial stuff at an earlier developmental stage so it can be stored, while the organic stuff has a really short (relatively) shelf life.
That's a pretty major problem for produce farms. If I had one, I'd try to get a farm to store arrangement so I could sell good produce while still not raping the land or management practices.
Bottom line is this: It's a fucking sham. There isn't a test you could run that would prove anything different between commercial and organic (I can't speak to any preservatives that are applied to produce - but the point still stands with the raw products between an organic and commercial producer - no difference). So motherfuckers are doing a bad job of production so they can sell it at a premium. It is intergallactically stupid that this condition exists with American consumers in 2018.
The other take away I'll leave you with is if organic production was mandated our production as a nation would crater. Feedlots would pretty much disappear, grain production would be maybe 30% of current levels and I can't really speak to produce but it would definitely circle the drain over time because the insecticides commercial guys use stem the population of pests. That goes away, and populations will flourish. We would go from a net exporter to a massive importer of food.
The whole thing is a fucking con job, and I'll say it again, it is intergallactically stupid that this condition exists with American consumers in 2018.
But yeah, Chipotle doesn't give a fuck about anything but getting yuppie douches in the door. It's purely a marketing strategy. I recognize that. It just has the opposite effect on me. [Reply]