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Started by roadman65, October 08, 2022, 11:56:08 PM

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Scott5114

What would happen if a state passed a law prohibiting voiding where prohibited?
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Quote from: kphoger on October 17, 2022, 09:51:11 AM
Quote from: ErmineNotyours on October 16, 2022, 09:32:39 PM
It's like being stuck inside a microwave oven.

*shudder*  Yeah, I never want to experience that again.
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Quote from: Scott5114 on October 17, 2022, 07:54:23 PM
What would happen if a state passed a law prohibiting voiding where prohibited?
Then they would be ripping off Section 7.8(b) of the Alanland penal code.
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Quote from: Scott5114 on October 17, 2022, 07:54:23 PM
What would happen if a state passed a law prohibiting voiding where prohibited?

Well the void where prohibited provision would be void where prohibited.

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Quote from: Scott5114 on October 17, 2022, 07:54:23 PM
What would happen if a state passed a law prohibiting voiding where prohibited?

Offenders would be violated.
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Road Hog

Quote from: ErmineNotyours on October 16, 2022, 09:32:39 PM
In Cedar Rapids or Cedar Falls or someplace that I can't find anymore, someone painted the sign for a business front of a drive-in screen that now faces a freeway.  Sacrilege!
Wouldn't it have been far, far cheaper to project the ad on the screen that is daylight-visible rather than paint the screen itself?

That's not just sacrilege, that's financial incompetence.

Scott5114

Quote from: Road Hog on October 18, 2022, 11:54:24 PM
Quote from: ErmineNotyours on October 16, 2022, 09:32:39 PM
In Cedar Rapids or Cedar Falls or someplace that I can't find anymore, someone painted the sign for a business front of a drive-in screen that now faces a freeway.  Sacrilege!
Wouldn't it have been far, far cheaper to project the ad on the screen that is daylight-visible rather than paint the screen itself?

That's not just sacrilege, that's financial incompetence.

Paint (or more likely in this case, screen-printing on something that is attached to the movie screen somehow) is a one-time, upfront cost. Running a projector costs money for electricity the whole time. And that supposes that the projection equipment is still usable and compatible with displaying a digital static image (I don't think old-timey film projectors had a "pause" button), that it wouldn't get washed out by the sun during the day, etc.
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Road Hog

Quote from: Scott5114 on October 19, 2022, 01:06:18 AM
Quote from: Road Hog on October 18, 2022, 11:54:24 PM
Quote from: ErmineNotyours on October 16, 2022, 09:32:39 PM
In Cedar Rapids or Cedar Falls or someplace that I can't find anymore, someone painted the sign for a business front of a drive-in screen that now faces a freeway.  Sacrilege!
Wouldn't it have been far, far cheaper to project the ad on the screen that is daylight-visible rather than paint the screen itself?

That's not just sacrilege, that's financial incompetence.

Paint (or more likely in this case, screen-printing on something that is attached to the movie screen somehow) is a one-time, upfront cost. Running a projector costs money for electricity the whole time. And that supposes that the projection equipment is still usable and compatible with displaying a digital static image (I don't think old-timey film projectors had a "pause" button), that it wouldn't get washed out by the sun during the day, etc.
Like with digital billboards, the image can alternate with other ads or even with PSAs with maximization of price points.

Drive-in light bulbs were 500 watts incandescent and the LED equivalent is 100 watts. Electricity is a drop in the bucket when compared to profit.

Scott5114

But who knows if the projection house was even there anymore (it may have been in the freeway right-of-way!). And even if it was, it's likely the projector was sold off long ago to another drive-in, or was left to rot for X decades. If getting an acceptable projector cost more than the few hundred bucks it takes to run off a giant banner...
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ErmineNotyours

Quote from: Road Hog on October 18, 2022, 11:54:24 PM
Quote from: ErmineNotyours on October 16, 2022, 09:32:39 PM
In Cedar Rapids or Cedar Falls or someplace that I can't find anymore, someone painted the sign for a business front of a drive-in screen that now faces a freeway.  Sacrilege!
Wouldn't it have been far, far cheaper to project the ad on the screen that is daylight-visible rather than paint the screen itself?

That's not just sacrilege, that's financial incompetence.

If the daylight containment screen ever came to be (from simple projection rather than as an electronic sign) then drive-ins might have stayed healthier for a few more years.



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