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"Ho ho ho, merry karmasthmas!" - Pete Berg

"Don't rag on Avatar til you've seen it as it was intended: As a handycammed bootleg DVD on Canal St." - Pete Berg

"Regardless of whether 24fps it looks better to people due to conditioning or because there's actually a psychological reason, the bottom line is: American film and TV audiences prefer 24p. So it's not going away anytime soon. Additionally, I have heard compelling arguments as to why we prefer lower frame rates, such as this: "With regards to 24fps vs 30fps (or 60fields per second), I think that since 24 frames per second requires more "imagination" from your brain to "fill in the gaps", it seems more dreamy, or more flowing if you will. 30fps also seems to be able to achieve this somewhat. Programs that run at 60i like television newscasts leave little to nothing for your brain to fill in. Therefore it seems cold, real, and cheap." It's similar to the arguments I have heard that "Radio is the most visual medium" or "Black and white films require you to pay more attention than color ones" -- because your brain is given less information, so your brain subconsciously fills in the gaps to..." - Pete Berg

"As someone who works in the TV and film industry, I can tell you exactly why: 24fps looks way better than 30fps....and the higher the fps you go, the more "smooth" and TV-like it looks...meaning that it looks less "filmic." I work on a TV show now that shoots in 24 progressive digital video, even though our cameras can shoot 120 frames per second easily. We shoot in 24p because it just looks better. There's something about that slight, almost imperceptible flicker that makes 24fps film images look more grand and epic than something shot at higher fps." - Pete Berg

"I routinely stayed in hostels and guesthouses in China for 20 yuan per night ($3), and once stayed in a place in rural Sichuan for just 5 yuan (73 cents). The cheapest place I've ever stayed was in Nepal, along the Annapurna Circuit, for 30 Nepalese rupees for a guesthouse room (less than 40 cents)." - Pete Berg

"Sending out three of them!" - Pete Berg

"I got all three of my matches... and they're in three different countries, all over the world! This is really cool." - Pete Berg

"THANKS!" - Pete Berg

"A thousand thank-yous for setting this up! Anyone who is giving you grief is just an ol' scrooge!" - Pete Berg

"No, but it would make the rest of your life way better." - Pete Berg

"He means Reddit visitors do not click ads. Which is true. The ad conversion rate from Reddit is abysmal and a lot of times you lose money on the bandwidth from Redditors." - Pete Berg

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"Wow...and the Big Dog has evolved *again*? http://www.pieheaven.net/2008..." - Pete Berg

"Yeah. Or we could just have fewer children." - Pete Berg

"Agreed. Best music program in the country." - Pete Berg

"Agreed. Best music program in the country." - Pete Berg

"Some of the best programming on TV is reality." - Pete Berg

"Some of the best programming on TV is reality." - Pete Berg

"I spent two months in China last year and wrote a blog post on this topic... http://www.bootstrappin.com/... (After I went to the Giant Panda Breeding Center in Chengdu. Holy crap, those baby pandas are the cutest things on the planet.)" - Pete Berg

"That's gonna be Obama's new profile pic!" - Pete Berg

"I met the guy who made this...he went to film school Ithaca College (same place I went) and he came and did a screening and Q&A session a few years ago. It's a pretty entertaining movie, mostly because Brian is a really likeable guy that you can't help but root for. The budget for this was also essentially $0...it's always inspiring to see no money documentaries like this get distribution." - Pete Berg

"Wow, almost entirely men." - Pete Berg

"Sure... what about rural counties that don't have a large enough population to support this type of infrastructure on their own? Do we force them to go bankrupt until all of their people are forced to move to bigger counties? I don't think that's what we need." - Pete Berg

"It seems to me that government-controlled healthcare paid for by taxpayers is essentially forced charity." - Pete Berg

"Which life is more precious, a developing fetus, or a 90-year-old dying cancer patient who will costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep alive for a few additional years?" - Pete Berg

"Sure, but you don't think it's a bit odd that "I'm Yours" is the longest running song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, when there have been huge mega-hits like "Billie Jean" or "Bohemian Rhapsody" that have charted at #1 for weeks and weeks? It's interesting that a relatively obscure song like this has such legs." - Pete Berg

"I am completely in favor of Google digitizing the world's books. But I am NOT in favor of Google having exclusive rights to digitize books. If the settlement with the authors does indeed grant Google some sort of monopoly / exclusivity deal, that is a huge mistake. I say open up digital book scanning to any company or government agency that wants to do it...set a certain level of royalties for the authors...and then let the markets sort out the price." - Pete Berg

"Haha, we're also talking about YouTube here. Nobody asks for permission!" - Pete Berg

"Found it: One is Copyright 2008 and the other is Copyright 2009." - Pete Berg