Except it's clearly an inferior product if they haven't managed to implement some sort of commercial skipping before now. The feature they have managed to introduce seems worse than worthless really.
Buy a MacOS PVR package if you have to but this (Plex) trash seems entirely unworthy of an advertisement posing as journalism.
> With Democrats, you get Social Security, Healthcare, and voting rights
I'm a chronic cancer patient and the last thing I want from the government is "health care". Social Security is also something I hope to never have to depend on.
The US government is really bad at this "social welfare" thing. If you ever had any experience with it you would know.
> Of course, there's a difference in terms of what *happens* when each packs the courts.
This is the most deranged part of the current liberal narrative. Our "age of aquarius" with Obama occurred under a more balanced judiciary. It happened with people like Scalia and Gorsuch.
You simply don't have to pack the courts with communists.
The fact that the SCOTUS upheld the personal mandate is quite a travesty really. That was the only part of Obamacare I even objected to in the beginning.
> potential collusion with a foreign government to tip the scales in his favor in an election
This is the kind of bullshit that get a guy like Trump elected. You make yourselves look so bad that even (previously left of center classical liberals start to get the creeps.
You don't win over anyone by insulting the other guy.
Insulting the electorate isn't terribly bright either.
> Universities are not supposed to be vocational training facilities. That's one of the reasons why it's inappropriate to use a degree as a job requirement. You are part of the problem.
Sure they are. Academia has just lost track of it's own history and drinks too much of it's own kool-aid.
Unless you are part of the idle wealthy, you don't have the resources to waste on "finding yourself". It's always been this way since the very beginning.
> Ãoeactually bother to go to a good oneà > > Take that silver spoon out of you ass and put it back in your mouth.
That's only the case if you're a liberal whining about "institutional bias". For the rest of us, quality is not a function of some over hyped over priced brand.
You can go to a good school and not be a Bush or Kennedy.
These things are called mobile homes for a reason. Just because trailers in your county all got destroyed doesn't mean they all got destroyed. It just means you have to cast a wider net and haul your replacement trailer a little farther.
It's not like housing inventory. You could schlep a trailer from Canada if the cost end of it made sense.
> Capitalism and the "free market" as envisioned by Republicans pretty much boils down to entrenched monopolies protected by lawmakers
What is actually keeping you from making your own mobile homes right now? Until you can actually answer that, your entire rant is deranged religious nonsense.
There are certainly interesting enough diverse options in the RV space. There's no reason to expect the same of mobile homes.
The fact that some of them come with golden shower fixtures doesn't mean they all have to.
Some of us also avoid buying McMansions and over priced trucks too.
Human nature. Government control actually means less accountability and a greater opportunity for corruption. Efficiency is not required. Effectiveness isn't even required. You have no recourse if something sucks. You can't sue or take your business some place else.
All monopolies are bad for pretty much the same reasons.
A lot of stuff is not available for streaming rental and a lot of streaming rentals aren't that cheap. You're still better off going to a RedBox or using the Netflix DVD service.
> get government to remove restrictions on local cable monopolies. once again government is in the way.
With the need to run your own wires, how is that going to work exactly? This isn't a "government" problem. This is a scarcity of real estate problem. Waving an anarchist magic wand isn't doing to do anything.
The number of retail bank "store fronts" is insane these days. I can't remember the last time I needed to actually go to a bank. The last time I remember depositing a real check is the 80s.
I would have no problem with the closest bank being an hour away.
I grew up in a double wide. I laugh at the morons that go to Whole Foods. I will happily blow money on luxuries. I just won't spend any more than I really need to.
They have shopping malls within close proximity to trailer parks. By the deranged logic of this article, there should be an Apple store in the mall next to the trailer park where I grew up.
> Africa had as many... probably more... high cultures as Europe or Mesopotania.
Such as?
Egypt doesn't count. It represents a different racial/ethnic group and is much closer to Mesopotamia. Neither would anything attached to religious conquest originating from Arabia.
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Except it's clearly an inferior product if they haven't managed to implement some sort of commercial skipping before now. The feature they have managed to introduce seems worse than worthless really.
Buy a MacOS PVR package if you have to but this (Plex) trash seems entirely unworthy of an advertisement posing as journalism.
Plenty of judges and professors inject their own personal politics into what they choose to advocate.
A ConLaw prof gave us the "personal mandate".
Whatever lets you sleep at night...
Our system exists the way it does because smaller states could easily tire of being abused by larger ones.
Mob rule democracy is like two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
The only thing that the SCOTUS has a right to comment on is whether or not the actions of the executive (through the FCC) pass constitutional muster.
Anything beyond that is outside their powers granted under the law.
They are not a 3rd branch of the legislature, nor are they a 2nd executive.
> With Democrats, you get Social Security, Healthcare, and voting rights
I'm a chronic cancer patient and the last thing I want from the government is "health care". Social Security is also something I hope to never have to depend on.
The US government is really bad at this "social welfare" thing. If you ever had any experience with it you would know.
> Of course, there's a difference in terms of what *happens* when each packs the courts.
This is the most deranged part of the current liberal narrative. Our "age of aquarius" with Obama occurred under a more balanced judiciary. It happened with people like Scalia and Gorsuch.
You simply don't have to pack the courts with communists.
The fact that the SCOTUS upheld the personal mandate is quite a travesty really. That was the only part of Obamacare I even objected to in the beginning.
> potential collusion with a foreign government to tip the scales in his favor in an election
This is the kind of bullshit that get a guy like Trump elected. You make yourselves look so bad that even (previously left of center classical liberals start to get the creeps.
You don't win over anyone by insulting the other guy.
Insulting the electorate isn't terribly bright either.
> Universities are not supposed to be vocational training facilities. That's one of the reasons why it's inappropriate to use a degree as a job requirement. You are part of the problem.
Sure they are. Academia has just lost track of it's own history and drinks too much of it's own kool-aid.
Unless you are part of the idle wealthy, you don't have the resources to waste on "finding yourself". It's always been this way since the very beginning.
> Ãoeactually bother to go to a good oneÃ
>
> Take that silver spoon out of you ass and put it back in your mouth.
That's only the case if you're a liberal whining about "institutional bias". For the rest of us, quality is not a function of some over hyped over priced brand.
You can go to a good school and not be a Bush or Kennedy.
These things are called mobile homes for a reason. Just because trailers in your county all got destroyed doesn't mean they all got destroyed. It just means you have to cast a wider net and haul your replacement trailer a little farther.
It's not like housing inventory. You could schlep a trailer from Canada if the cost end of it made sense.
> If you read the article, mobile homes are at least ten times as expensive. And that's the low-end crap.
The article is bullshit.
Some of us are already familiar with this stuff. We don't need some moron that thinks they are some kind of authority telling us what is what.
You don't "cruise" in a mobile home.
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
The term "mobile home" has always been very misleading to anyone not actually familiar with the subject.
> So where is the 20% cheaper model?
It's kind of like answering the same question for RVs. Of course it's the obvious answer in 2017. You use a fucking search engine.
You actually bother to look.
> Capitalism and the "free market" as envisioned by Republicans pretty much boils down to entrenched monopolies protected by lawmakers
What is actually keeping you from making your own mobile homes right now? Until you can actually answer that, your entire rant is deranged religious nonsense.
There are certainly interesting enough diverse options in the RV space. There's no reason to expect the same of mobile homes.
The fact that some of them come with golden shower fixtures doesn't mean they all have to.
Some of us also avoid buying McMansions and over priced trucks too.
> Why would communism mean that?
Human nature. Government control actually means less accountability and a greater opportunity for corruption. Efficiency is not required. Effectiveness isn't even required. You have no recourse if something sucks. You can't sue or take your business some place else.
All monopolies are bad for pretty much the same reasons.
> Or, they just make a pact and keep the price high, which is the more realistic approach.
Might work for something like insulin, not so much for mobile homes or RVs.
A lot of stuff is not available for streaming rental and a lot of streaming rentals aren't that cheap. You're still better off going to a RedBox or using the Netflix DVD service.
> get government to remove restrictions on local cable monopolies. once again government is in the way.
With the need to run your own wires, how is that going to work exactly? This isn't a "government" problem. This is a scarcity of real estate problem. Waving an anarchist magic wand isn't doing to do anything.
I hate Apple. I am not going to knock them for this.
I am not a dimwit.
Don't insult our intelligence.
Get some better editors Slash.
The number of retail bank "store fronts" is insane these days. I can't remember the last time I needed to actually go to a bank. The last time I remember depositing a real check is the 80s.
I would have no problem with the closest bank being an hour away.
I grew up in a double wide. I laugh at the morons that go to Whole Foods. I will happily blow money on luxuries. I just won't spend any more than I really need to.
They have shopping malls within close proximity to trailer parks. By the deranged logic of this article, there should be an Apple store in the mall next to the trailer park where I grew up.
> It's little things, like a black family getting a worse rate on home loans because the dad got passed over for a promotion
I might actually believe crap like that if I grew up in an all-white suburb (or lived in one now) and never met a black person in my life.
I know far too many members of the black middle class to be impressed by nonsense like this.
You're basically arguing that they "stole it" merely because they have it. That's the kind of retarded stuff that keeps the brother down.
> Africa had as many ... probably more ... high cultures as Europe or Mesopotania.
Such as?
Egypt doesn't count. It represents a different racial/ethnic group and is much closer to Mesopotamia. Neither would anything attached to religious conquest originating from Arabia.