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Poor boys from India game a system that was set up by Rich Tech Bros in Silicon Valley to fund their "family foundations" and 20-room houses in Atherton? I don

Poor boys from India game a system that was set up by Rich Tech Bros in Silicon Valley to fund their "family foundations" and 20-room houses in Atherton? I don't call it Outrage; I call it "Slumdog Millionaire: Part II"

briandear 4y ago
Except it’s lying. Slumdog actually had the talent.
OnlyMortal 4y ago
IMDB originated in Bristol in the UK. It was, so I’m told, started by an ex-HP staffer from the HP site in Bristol, UK and originally written in Perl. Unfortunately, it was absorbed into Amazon. Source: ex-HP staffer in Bristol.
- cobbaut 4y ago
  IMDB originated on usenet. Someone mentioned a hot actress, another person made a top three of actresses... a bit later is was a top 100, and that is how IMDB started. Source: my memory :)
RC_ITR 4y ago
IMDb was founded in Cardiff England.
- helsinkiandrew 4y ago
  There’s a thousand Welshman looking for your blood now. Cardiff is in Wales. Initially was called the Cardiff Internet Movie Database (it was hosted at the university of Cardiff)
  - wyldfire 4y ago
    For the majority of my youth, I had assumed that England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom were all aliases for the same place. Thankfully I never had occasion to reveal this error to UK folks who might be alienated by it.
  - RC_ITR 4y ago
    I mean hot take, but the whole “United Kingdom” concept is sort of pointless. Either confirm to international norms, or accept that no one outside your borders cares. There’s a reason why the only major organization that respects the distinction is the governing body of the national sport.
    - UIUC_06 4y ago
      Not being from the UK: It's not really pointless. Scotland is way different from England, and I haven't been to Wales but I think that is, too. As for Northern Ireland: I don't even need to cover that one.
      - Loranubi 4y ago
        I think the parent comment meant that, in this case, make them actual countries.
        UIUC_06 4y ago
        Not for the US to decide. They have a bit of history there.
    - kuschku 4y ago
      Then we can start calling all of the US "California" as well?
  - yesenadam 4y ago
    Not only in Wales but is the capital. (source: am Welsh)
hackernewds 4y ago
You're using "Slumdog Millionaire" in the same context that Indians here despise the movie for. Using it as a pretext for focusing on the poverty in India as almost a fetishized poking from the West (ironically by the British)
- UIUC_06 4y ago
  I haven't actually been to India, but I'm reliably informed that there IS some poverty there. Is that incorrect?
  - jlg23 4y ago
    No, that is not incorrect; but there also is much more.
    - UIUC_06 4y ago
  - svat 4y ago
    As someone wrote:[1] > Let’s say I made a movie about the US where an African-American boy born in the hood, has his mother sell him to a pedophile pop icon, after which he gets molested by a priest from his church, following which he gets tied up to the back of a truck and dragged on the road by KKK clansmen. Then he is arrested and sodomized by a policeman with a rod, after which he is attacked by a gang of illegal immigrants, and then uses these life experiences to win “Beauty and The Geek”. > Even though each of these incidents have actually happened in the United States of America, I would be accused of spinning a fantastic yarn that has no grounding in reality, that has no connection to the “American experience” and my motivations would be questioned, no matter how cinematically spectacular I made my movie. [1]: https://greatbong.net/2008/12/29/slumdog-millionaire-the-review/ https://greatbong.net/2008/12/29/slumdog-millionaire-the-rev...
    - UIUC_06 4y ago
      It would probably be a flop in India, but I'm not the best person to judge that. I think depictions of the US in overseas movies are pretty much as silly as that, though. Everything takes place in very rich or very poor parts of NYC or LA. As for "I would probably be accused" -- maybe in India. In the US it wouldn't even rate a review.
robocat 4y ago
I hate it when people create a false narrative to back up their prejudices. The beginnings of IMDB started in 1990 as personal files, soon moved to Usenet with a few people managing different information, then first on the WWW hosted by Cardiff University in 1993, and the company was then incorporated in the UK in 1996, and sold to Amazon in 1998. https://www.theatreartlife.com/lifestyle/history-of-an-indispensable-tool-the-internet-movie-database-imdb/ https://www.theatreartlife.com/lifestyle/history-of-an-indis...
- UIUC_06 4y ago
superjan 4y ago
Where is the outrage you are referring to?
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briandear 4y ago

Except it’s lying. Slumdog actually had the talent.

OnlyMortal 4y ago

IMDB originated in Bristol in the UK. It was, so I’m told, started by an ex-HP staffer from the HP site in Bristol, UK and originally written in Perl. Unfortunately, it was absorbed into Amazon. Source: ex-HP staffer in Bristol.

cobbaut 4y ago
IMDB originated on usenet. Someone mentioned a hot actress, another person made a top three of actresses... a bit later is was a top 100, and that is how IMDB started. Source: my memory :)

RC_ITR 4y ago

IMDb was founded in Cardiff England.

helsinkiandrew 4y ago
There’s a thousand Welshman looking for your blood now. Cardiff is in Wales. Initially was called the Cardiff Internet Movie Database (it was hosted at the university of Cardiff)
- wyldfire 4y ago
  For the majority of my youth, I had assumed that England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom were all aliases for the same place. Thankfully I never had occasion to reveal this error to UK folks who might be alienated by it.
- RC_ITR 4y ago
  I mean hot take, but the whole “United Kingdom” concept is sort of pointless. Either confirm to international norms, or accept that no one outside your borders cares. There’s a reason why the only major organization that respects the distinction is the governing body of the national sport.
  - UIUC_06 4y ago
    Not being from the UK: It's not really pointless. Scotland is way different from England, and I haven't been to Wales but I think that is, too. As for Northern Ireland: I don't even need to cover that one.
    - Loranubi 4y ago
      I think the parent comment meant that, in this case, make them actual countries.
      - UIUC_06 4y ago
        Not for the US to decide. They have a bit of history there.
  - kuschku 4y ago
    Then we can start calling all of the US "California" as well?
- yesenadam 4y ago
  Not only in Wales but is the capital. (source: am Welsh)

hackernewds 4y ago

You're using "Slumdog Millionaire" in the same context that Indians here despise the movie for. Using it as a pretext for focusing on the poverty in India as almost a fetishized poking from the West (ironically by the British)

UIUC_06 4y ago
I haven't actually been to India, but I'm reliably informed that there IS some poverty there. Is that incorrect?
- jlg23 4y ago
  No, that is not incorrect; but there also is much more.
  - UIUC_06 4y ago
- svat 4y ago
  As someone wrote:[1] > Let’s say I made a movie about the US where an African-American boy born in the hood, has his mother sell him to a pedophile pop icon, after which he gets molested by a priest from his church, following which he gets tied up to the back of a truck and dragged on the road by KKK clansmen. Then he is arrested and sodomized by a policeman with a rod, after which he is attacked by a gang of illegal immigrants, and then uses these life experiences to win “Beauty and The Geek”. > Even though each of these incidents have actually happened in the United States of America, I would be accused of spinning a fantastic yarn that has no grounding in reality, that has no connection to the “American experience” and my motivations would be questioned, no matter how cinematically spectacular I made my movie. [1]: https://greatbong.net/2008/12/29/slumdog-millionaire-the-review/ https://greatbong.net/2008/12/29/slumdog-millionaire-the-rev...
  - UIUC_06 4y ago
    It would probably be a flop in India, but I'm not the best person to judge that. I think depictions of the US in overseas movies are pretty much as silly as that, though. Everything takes place in very rich or very poor parts of NYC or LA. As for "I would probably be accused" -- maybe in India. In the US it wouldn't even rate a review.

robocat 4y ago

I hate it when people create a false narrative to back up their prejudices. The beginnings of IMDB started in 1990 as personal files, soon moved to Usenet with a few people managing different information, then first on the WWW hosted by Cardiff University in 1993, and the company was then incorporated in the UK in 1996, and sold to Amazon in 1998. https://www.theatreartlife.com/lifestyle/history-of-an-indispensable-tool-the-internet-movie-database-imdb/ https://www.theatreartlife.com/lifestyle/history-of-an-indis...

UIUC_06 4y ago

superjan 4y ago

Where is the outrage you are referring to?

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