Update #2:
I have hearing loss and at the theater even with my hearing aids I miss a lot (80%) of any movie, but this… this pisses me off. It’s not the theater’s problem. If I want to catch something I didn’t get in the theater, I rent the bloody DVD and watch it at home. A perfect example is the movie “Inception”. I was totally clueless throughout. Lip reading will only take you so far. But the eye-candy was totally awesome.
It’s not the movie theater’s problem, it’s mine.
Does a legally blind person sue a theater because they can’t see the screen and want a huge frickin’ magnifier over a personal display in their lap? Hell no.
But a lawsuit? Oh that’s such horseshit.
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Update: C. Monster would (maybe already has) gone nukular over a statement like this. I’m sure this guy’s colleagues were looking around frantically for a brick, a hippo, maybe even a curare-tipped dart to stop him from talking any more.
“Basically it’s a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization. The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War. … First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole.” –Ottmar Edenhofer, global warmist extraordinaire, deputy director and chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Source: The Patriot Post)
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Do I like it? Meh.
Feel free to bash it, critique it, use it as toilet-paper.
I’m busy a-Yorling tonight so I haven’t had much time to dedicate to improving it.