“The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and drugs. The one great difference is that by now the revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air access remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution has imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution. Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.” WayKindStillsWaterDifferencesTechnologyEconomyAirMilitaryRevolutionDrugTaxesWeaponsMassIndependentRemainsTradeFinalsDefeatAverageHeavyAccessConsumersClothingsUsersPollutionShelterConsumerismConquestItemsDeprivedNoveltyFurThoroughOrnamentsOverconsumptionStaples Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“I love the new technology in terms of giving access to doing more independent work. When I first started out, any film had to rent from Panavision and the expenses were humongous. Now, given the advances in technology, you can put out extraordinary quality filmmaking at nothing like the price it used to be.” GivingFirstsFilmUsedGivenTermQualityTechnologyIndependentExtraordinaryAccessUsed To BeExpensesFilmmakingNew Technology Author:Kathleen Turner
“There is this thing called Actors Access, which is run by the breakdown services. What they do is they put up casting notices that are available to everyone. Because there's thousands and thousands of actors and there are student films and grad student films and, sometimes, some small independent projects that are on there.” SometimesRunningFilmActorsStudentsProjectsIndependentAvailableAccessCastingBreakdownGrad Author:Bostin Christopher
“When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.” FilmFieldsDependsMembersIndependentWideAccessArtisticAppealsDeniedUnfairDistributionIndependent FilmPlaying Fields Author:Norman Jewison
“Because GMOs aren't labeled, it's very hard to prove causality in terms of health effects. It's even more difficult because the seeds are patented, so independent researchers have a hard time gaining access to them.” HardDifficultTermEffectsProveIndependentSeedsAccessHard TimesResearchersCausalityGmos Author:Zoe Lister-Jones
“In the United States the White House has appointed two different independent panels who had full access to classified information for the last 10 years that master balance has been in place in the United States, and they found that despite intercepting the calls - everybody in the country, - it had never stopped a single terrorist attack. So the question is, why would these officials be pursuing these policies, if we know they don't work, if they don't stop terrorism?” IfsKnowsYearsHas BeensTwoDifferentCountryStatesLastsFoundHouseWhiteUnitedUnited StatesInformationPolicyMastersBalanceIndependentTerrorismAccessTerroristDespiteOfficialsWhite HouseTerrorist AttacksClassified Information Author:Edward Snowden
“We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country” CountryCareFightingEconomicSecurityIndependentAccessHealth CareEconomic Security Author:Barack Obama
“I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever” WorldCuttingGroupsBirthDaughterVoteIndependentFeministAccessBirth ControlGranddaughterIdeologues Author:Elizabeth Warren
“There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.” IfsWorldMindRealityTruthMistakeCreationDivineMathematicsIndependentMathAccessMathematicalMistakenTotality Author:Charles Hermite
“For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.” GoalAbilityDecisionInformationIndependentEntrepreneurAccessEmployeeDecision MakingGrantsContractor Author:Tim Ferriss