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It seems to me this lossy vs. lossless compression debate is the information theory version of the $20,000 speaker cable. I'm willing to bet that in any blind trial, 99.99% of the population can't detect any difference. Pretending they can is just a way to conspicously signal that they care way more about music than you do with your $5 HDMI cable.

Regarding cheap chocolate, here's the opposite end of the spectrum: Most Expensive Chocolate.

If you've got the money you can spend $3,000,000 on a phone http://most-expensive.net/cell-phone-mobile

While I admire your vision, it lacks one very crucial thing: a good reason to do it that will offset the (appropriately) astronomical costs associated with doing it. Basically you want to fund the building of a moon base, orbital assembly complex, asteroid capture mechanisms, asteroid *terraforming* technology, and asteroid mining capability. And the return on investment? You get a huge hunk of nickel-iron. Have you looked at the prices for nickel-iron lately? Last I checked, the stuff is pretty inexpensive. Hell, even a solid rhodium asteroid would still have a difficult time funding all of the above. In short, it will never happen.

Now I fully realize there are extremely valuable intangibles associated with doing what you're talking about (i.e. spinoff tech, "final frontier" exploration stuff, providing a backup for humanity should Earth meet disaster, etc.) but that requires national will, pride, ambition, and a risk-taking attitude that America simply lacks these days. We're too fat, dumb, and happy. The scrappy, can-do Americans from the 60's aren't around anymore.

Silly argument. Most expensive toaster is http://most-expensive.net/toaster at a little over $350.00 Although I can get a turbo Chef for around $3000, but it does more than toast.

And if I could afford to have a turbo chef in my home kitchen, I'd not bother with an icky repair man in my home, buy a new one where the icky delivery guys are only here for a few minutes.

$475 ipad cases, of course.

Well, if you're not using $33K Nordost Whitelight fiber-optic cables, you're just wasting your time, any way: http://most-expensive.net/audio-cables

People don't use gold for it's intrinsic value as a metal.

I have a $40,000 pair of speaker cables that beg to differ. Seriously!

30 years ago? Games were just beginning to emerge at that time. New technologies are always on the pricey side when they first come out. As far as "more stuff" goes, who cares? Does "more stuff" automatically equal a better game? No, of course not. Let's look at production costs here... http://most-expensive.net/video-game http://most-expensive.net/movie-ever-made And yet, movies still only cost somewhere between $5-12 (depending on where you live)if you go to the theater as soon as it's released. Despite the amount of "stuff" included in the film, you pay much less than what you would for any video game that's not in a bargain bin. Doesn't matter if it's a cheap 1 1/2 hour comedy, or a 4 hour long epic. I stand by my argument that devs would probably have much better sales, and thus profits, if their customers didn't feel like they had to bleed their wallets just to purchase the game.

30 years ago? Games were just beginning to emerge at that time. New technologies are always on the pricey side when they first come out. As far as "more stuff" goes, who cares? Does "more stuff" automatically equal a better game? No, of course not. Let's look at production costs here... http://most-expensive.net/video-game http://most-expensive.net/movie-ever-made And yet, movies still only cost somewhere between $5-12 (depending on where you live)if you go to the theater as soon as it's released. Despite the amount of "stuff" included in the film, you pay much less than what you would for any video game that's not in a bargain bin. Doesn't matter if it's a cheap 1 1/2 hour comedy, or a 4 hour long epic. I stand by my argument that devs would probably have much better sales, and thus profits, if their customers didn't feel like they had to bleed their wallets just to purchase the game.

But paycheck? Where I live, cops START at a 100K a year, and it goes up from there. This is on top of awesome benefits and a retirement age in the 50s.

In NYC, rookie cops start at 43k in NYC. I know that there are more expensive places to live. Can you show me the police department that starts at 100k USD a year?

http://most-expensive.net/city-in-us
http://www.nypdrecruit.com/

I checked the website - nothing there but a box with focus to enter something. A contact page. An address in London, that does not really parse as a street but a place. Google search on the company name yields nothing but this laptop - all based on the same article. Google search on the CEO yields a now "private" page on a site the "connects" business people. The cached page has a bunch of luxury names in it. Googel images even has a cached image of a young guy leaning on a car.

This sounds like viral cow pies publicity grab or April Fools to me. There's a $350,000+ laptop noted here: http://most-expensive.net/laptop-world - and its covered in gems. There's no way you can justify technology alone making this worth anywhere near $100,000 much less $1,000,000. I call BU-double-hockey-sticks on this story.