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Public performance licenses are a thing here in Canada https://www.acf-film.com/en/faq.php . I don't know if they would sue, but they would *technically* need a license to show it a dance https://www.acf-film.com/en/faq.php#5 .
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GreenNight posted:For real, they gonna sue a middle school? Oh yes. Björn and Benny from ABBA have DEFINITELY sued, or at very least threatened legal action against highschool productions of Mamma Mia.
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luminalflux posted:Oh yes. Björn and Benny from ABBA have DEFINITELY sued, or at very least threatened legal action against highschool productions of Mamma Mia. WTF, seriously? Those dicks.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/02/06/california-school-fined-for-showing-disney-lion-king-bob-iger/4683254002/ It absolutely is a thing
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At the height of RIAA’s shenanigans they would have people call businesses and see if they could hear unlicensed music in the background then issue a fine/c&d
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The Fool posted:At the height of RIAA’s shenanigans they would have people call businesses and see if they could hear unlicensed music in the background then issue a fine/c&d https://www.npr.org/2019/06/12/732157537/spains-soccer-league-fined-for-using-app-to-spy-on-fans-in-fight-to-curb-piracy
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A ticket came in: I....just.... 
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SyNack Sassimov posted:A ticket came in: is your company's name in any way close to rbwvbw
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Shugojin posted:is your company's name in any way close to rbwvbw Brace yourself for almost-certainly shocking news: Not in the least. It doesn't even have any Bs, Vs, or Rs in it, and it has a fair number of vowels. In fact, a similar number of vowels to the phrase "for gently caress's sake", which was really what I wanted to reply with, but luckily it's not my ticket so I'm not the one stuck with having to come up with a polite response.
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Wibla posted:WTF, seriously? Those dicks. Theatre production licenses for highschools are $$$ for rightsholders of popular musicals/plays.
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SyNack Sassimov posted:Brace yourself for almost-certainly shocking news: I want to know how they would have proceeded if you'd told them it was legit. "Hm, I want to keepxe6qbv21 my same password"
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Data Graham posted:I want to know how they would have proceeded if you'd told them it was legit. You mean Pawlg6t821ssword.
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Biowarfare posted:You mean Pawlg6t821ssword. 821? 821821821821! 821 821, 821 821 821, 821821, 821: 821821821 821 821, 821821, 821, and 821821. 821.
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SyNack Sassimov posted:Brace yourself for almost-certainly shocking news: Regards, team you work on" Feel free to use this forevermore.
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Arquinsiel posted:"Thank you for bringing this to our attention, you muppet. This email is not legitimate, you maroon. We have used this to improve our spam filters, you absolute twat. Please let us know if you get any similar emails, you incorrigible moron. I've fixed your serious answer to be more cathartic.
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shortspecialbus posted:I've fixed your serious answer to be more cathartic. Yeah this is why I'm glad I'm not responding because I'd have a real tough time not writing this version.
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The reason to have form responses for that sort of stuff is exactly what you're talking about. Get it ready ahead of time and then when dumb poo poo happens you sigh and reach for your
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Working in a school, looking at a class laptop with liquid damage. Clean it up and go to put it in away in the server room to fix later. Principal runs after me shouting "it's urine!" Earlier that week, a ticket comes in. "We need Flash Player on all the iPads". Bargearse fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Sep 5, 2021 |
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Bargearse posted:Earlier that week, a ticket comes in. "We need Flash Player on all the iPads". Looks like you need to dig out that 11 years old letter from Mr. Jobs. https://web.archive.org/web/20200430094807/https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
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Bargearse posted:Earlier that week, a ticket comes in. "We need Flash Player on all the iPads". Good news: the answer is really easy on that one.
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nielsm posted:Looks like you need to dig out that 11 years old letter from Mr. Jobs. I did tell her that iOS does not, and never has supported Flash Player, and offered to help her find an alternative. Her response, “but it worked last year! You just don’t want to help me!” Working front line support for a MSP is its own kind of hell but at least I don’t have to deal with delusional teachers and piss-soaked laptops any more.
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Bargearse posted:"You just don’t want to help me!”
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I was just like “well not anymore I don’t”
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Bargearse posted:I did tell her that iOS does not, and never has supported Flash Player, and offered to help her find an alternative. Her response, “but it worked last year! You just don’t want to help me!” yaaaaay schools
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Bargearse posted:I did tell her that iOS does not, and never has supported Flash Player, and offered to help her find an alternative. Her response, “but it worked last year! You just don’t want to help me!” Is this in relation to a Pearson Learning product? I used to do support for some of their learning suites and a handful of them did use Flash Player exclusively. And believe it or not we did, in fact, support their use on iPad... kinda. If I remember correctly there was a specific web browser that had to be installed in order for them to work. I believe it was called "Puffin" but it's been too long for me to say for sure.
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Jacobus Spades posted:Is this in relation to a Pearson Learning product? I used to do support for some of their learning suites and a handful of them did use Flash Player exclusively. And believe it or not we did, in fact, support their use on iPad... kinda. If I remember correctly there was a specific web browser that had to be installed in order for them to work. I believe it was called "Puffin" but it's been too long for me to say for sure. I honestly don’t recall. I don’t think it was Pearson Learning, I have a feeling it might have been a Jacaranda product.
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luminalflux posted:Theatre production licenses for highschools are $$$ for rightsholders of popular musicals/plays. Not exactly the same but my kids production of Peter pan spent some cash on a rope/pulley system for the flying scenes, and the training that goes with it for all the volunteers. We were threatened by the coordinator that they would walk if we made fun of any of it or were sarcastic A friend's kid had the same play in a different school. They just played high piano notes and bounced around the stage
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after the old music teacher made a bunch of changes to our performing arts center, didn't document any of it, and was later fired, it became my responsibility (equipment plugs into wall, is powered by electricity). i don't have any experience in theater tech but i do kind of know how to operate a mixing board so i guess that was good enough. every year whichever teacher is doing a musical theater performance gets some hare-brained idea about installing some kind of incredibly elaborate thing that they saw at a megachurch or whatever and they're like "can we get this for shrek the musical??" and i'm like "sure that will be approximately eighteen thousand dollars" and you would think that would be the end of it but for some reason it's always "hmm. maybe!" and then the idea sort of lingers around for a while until everyone loses interest
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Roundboy posted:Not exactly the same but my kids production of Peter pan spent some cash on a rope/pulley system for the flying scenes, and the training that goes with it for all the volunteers. We were threatened by the coordinator that they would walk if we made fun of any of it or were sarcastic I probably would have laughed to get them to walk and drop the idea. “Director wants a rope flying system for our HS production of Peter Pan, how do I tell them this is dumb as gently caress” is a very common theme on the theatre-sound listserv*. “Do you want to be the director who’s fly system fails, drops a kid and paralyzes them for life” is the usual wording people use *its a great forum in that you have people from HS and community productions along with people on the level Wickeds sound designer and “guy who mixes every awards show on TV” discussing stuff very professionally
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just link them to owen hart's wikipedia article
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Do schools still do the thing where if they have rain days or whatnot they roll in the TV-on-a-cart - I guess it would be the TV-on-a-stick now? - and show some teacher's personal VHS of Disney furry Robin Hood? (I guess it would be now log into some teacher's personal Disney+ account.)
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luminalflux posted:I probably would have laughed to get them to walk and drop the idea. “Director wants a rope flying system for our HS production of Peter Pan, how do I tell them this is dumb as gently caress” is a very common theme on the theatre-sound listserv*. “Do you want to be the director who’s fly system fails, drops a kid and paralyzes them for life” is the usual wording people use Amazingly that particular idea injured less people than all the other set ideas for that year.
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I played pit orchestra in a few high school musicals and we had to rent the sheet music. No one was allowed to take any of the books home to prevent people from loosing them and the school having to pay to replace them. Very strict rules about only adding notations and cues in pencil which we then spent a hours erasing after the run was over.
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Weedle posted:after the old music teacher made a bunch of changes to our performing arts center, didn't document any of it, and was later fired, it became my responsibility (equipment plugs into wall, is powered by electricity). i don't have any experience in theater tech but i do kind of know how to operate a mixing board so i guess that was good enough. every year whichever teacher is doing a musical theater performance gets some hare-brained idea about installing some kind of incredibly elaborate thing that they saw at a megachurch or whatever and they're like "can we get this for shrek the musical??" and i'm like "sure that will be approximately eighteen thousand dollars" and you would think that would be the end of it but for some reason it's always "hmm. maybe!" and then the idea sort of lingers around for a while until everyone loses interest When I started we used to hire in a company to just put up a PA for full staff meetings (probably 400 or so people) and we went the other way of fitting a PA to the room as it was a very simple "plug mic here, plug laptop in for presentations here" type deal But if they want the complexity, maybe bringing someone in might work, particularly if it's infrequent?
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Bonzo posted:I played pit orchestra in a few high school musicals and we had to rent the sheet music. No one was allowed to take any of the books home to prevent people from loosing them and the school having to pay to replace them. Very strict rules about only adding notations and cues in pencil which we then spent a hours erasing after the run was over. jfc that sounds like rear end. I've worked on a production as a sound designer / mixer where I was not allowed to copy the script or bring it home with me, but I was allowed to mark it up with sharpie at least. This was due to fear of being sued as the rightsholders to "Fiddler on the Roof" had blocked the production of "Shoggoth on the Roof" in the US, but Swedish parody law was perceived to offer better protection from Zero Mostel's estate, but the production didn't want to risk anything until it premiered.
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Man, we normally have very, very few on-call incidents but this weekend has been a poo poo show. Saturday morning a flash module in one of our Pure arrays failed. I got the replacement delivered within the 4 hour SLA and swapped it out. Yesterday, our EDW database got corrupted somehow; thankfully our backup strategy is solid and the DBA was able to recover it. And then this morning at 1AM I got a “wake your rear end up” automatic page for a critical SQL server data disk filling up; threw another 75gb at it and went back to sleep. Stupid Labor Day, I’m glad I’m taking tomorrow off too.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:yaaaaay schools It was a great job 99% of the time, but the office politics can turn against you at any time for pretty much any reason, and it can get stressful waiting for the sword of Damocles to fall.
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angry armadillo posted:Might be a stupid question but would it be viable to hire a company in to do that sort of thing? probably, but around here the philosophy is "why pay extra to do it right when someone we already employ can do it not very well but good enough"
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luminalflux posted:I probably would have laughed to get them to walk and drop the idea. “Director wants a rope flying system for our HS production of Peter Pan, how do I tell them this is dumb as gently caress” is a very common theme on the theatre-sound listserv*. “Do you want to be the director who’s fly system fails, drops a kid and paralyzes them for life” is the usual wording people use This is apparent a company that specializes in showing up to your school play, rigging a pulley system, trains the people/kids , supervises, then peaces out at the end. Obvs the dad's that lifted a weigh or two in their life were anchors, and stay at home moms were set up like boat oar teams to hoist in tandem. For about 2 min a play. Unless you were on peter duty. In which case it was 5
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Hallway conversation: "When you have a moment, can you help me get a wireless thumbdrive working?" "A - what?" "I know we're not supposed to plug in thumbdrives, but I got this wireless thumbdrive so I don't have to plug it in so I can take work home." It was the receiver for a Logitech wireless mouse or something. But hey, it was thumbdrive shaped and had "WIRELESS" printed on it...
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