I will state for the record that we are libertarians that would otherwise be republicans if not for their unholy alliance with the Southern Baptist Convention. I have no problems admitting that really. I am not a purist. The major parties have just both gone batshit insane with the Mussolini on one side and Lenin on the other.
Divorces seem to attract vindictive b*tches (of both genders) that want to "burn the other party to the ground". It really has nothing to do with the lawyers. They're only the weapon here. What they do or don't do merely reflects the will of the client.
Some people don't need any encouragement to slit their own throats.
An amicable separation is 5 minutes in front of the judge with no lawyers at all.
The same goes for Apple. They weren't the first company to come out with ultrathin laptops.
The real thing to trash millenials for is this "ownership culture" of theirs. The first person to spew something terribly obvious or cliche is automatically declared the owner of it.
That's great until you want some resource from some remote location you think is worthless. That could be a natural resource, or something that you don't want located in your back yard.
Your concrete jungle is pretty helpless disconnected from those areas that aren't "economically valuable".
That's $5 per box (or more) per month versus equipment that's just paid for once and depreciated. For what cable companies want to charge you for equipment, you can buy new streamers for every TV you own every year.
TVs can be $200 or $5000. They can also last 10 years or more.
I had broadband long before video streaming became a thing. I would still have broadband regardless. Furthermore, my interest in better bandwidth is not driven by Netflix and friends.
As a uni-tasker, the DVR has a much superior interface for doing that one thing that it does. Streamers are the same way. It's really stupid to do your video viewing on a PC unless it's operating as a video appliance.
Desktop apps exhibit varying degrees of suckage in this department.
A lot of cable content is total dreck and 40 year old reruns. 4 channels worth of content have been spread over 500 channels. A lot of channels are things like golf and shopping. Others are only useful for a single show. A lot of the "first run" stuff is the same formulas recycled ad infinitum.
> How many starving children in Africa are you willing to sacrifice for your kicks?
They have been starving since before you were born. Bleeding hearts have been bleeding over them since before you were born. When exactly is that problem going to actually get sorted out?
People should be able to feed themselves. If they are unable to do this, then this is the real problem. Giving people handouts may make make you feel superior, but they don't deal with the underlying problem.
Taxing capital gains like that is stupid. Your own retirement depends on capital gains. If you alter the tax code in this manner you're slitting your own throat.
Attempts to "punish the rich" usually end up hammering the middle class instead.
Not at all. It's far better to give a man a job than a hand out.
I have zero class envy or class hatred over this guy. The money he spent building this thing went back into the economy. It wasn't hoarded in some offshore tax haven.
If you want the world changed, there's nothing stopping you.
I know a guy that has plenty of this kind of stuff. He's a real vulture. He waits around for bargains and then swoops. He buys from the people that pay too much for this stuff. He buys from the morons that would brag about how much they spent on this stuff.
> You think you're better off than someone who can afford to blow $1.5 million creating a play room in his $35 million house?
This is a requirements analysis problem. You don't have to replicate his over price Mac, you just have to come up with something that is suitable. We don't know what he had to do for that 35M house or what he still has to do for it.
I can appreciate the better AV gear. I can appreciate replicating a real theatre experience. I can appreciate creating a more casual version of the same thing. Beyond that, you've lost me. I am more of a purist.
That includes watching black & white originals and avoiding other attempts to "tinker" with the original material.
Overwrought home theatres are just not something that impress me in the slightest.
Even for something that is not a niche novelty item, money thrown into your home to "upgrade" it will NEVER be recovered. Your house will be able to fetch the market price per square foot in your area. That's it. Anything you add to your house to suit yourself is money you're never going to get back. So you better just do it for it's own sake.
Ads are a complicated thing. American TV is designed with ads in mind. So it has natural breaks for them. If you are going to insert ads into American TV content, then those breaks are the natural and obvious place. Putting them anywhere else interferes with the pacing of the show.
No ads is great. Upfront ads are not so bad. Ads in random inappropriate places in the show SUCK. Ads in the engineered commercial pauses are not ideal but they're better than being at random.
The ads themselves vary in quality, relevance, and annoyingness.
The devil's in the details. You can distort the questions and the numbers to generate any result you want.
This "unfettered capitalism" requires federal law in order to work.
It is quite "fettered". It's "fettered" by copyright law. Otherwise, the farmer could fix his tractor by himself or some independent contractor could do it for him.
Intellectual property allows you to steal other people's stuff. The most obvious example is a patent that not only grants you exclusive ownership of your own invention but the right to claim ownership of anything similar regardless of how that invention may have come about.
Treating creative works as property allows people (usually robber barons) to hijack other people's creative works and real property.
And again, we have an example of that right here and now.
The intellectual property fiction is preventing the farmer from fully controlling his own personal property (by way of the tractor).
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I will state for the record that we are libertarians that would otherwise be republicans if not for their unholy alliance with the Southern Baptist Convention. I have no problems admitting that really. I am not a purist. The major parties have just both gone batshit insane with the Mussolini on one side and Lenin on the other.
The civil equivalent of a "plea bargain" is a settlement. It serves the same purpose and involves the same kind of horse trading.
Divorces seem to attract vindictive b*tches (of both genders) that want to "burn the other party to the ground". It really has nothing to do with the lawyers. They're only the weapon here. What they do or don't do merely reflects the will of the client.
Some people don't need any encouragement to slit their own throats.
An amicable separation is 5 minutes in front of the judge with no lawyers at all.
The same goes for Apple. They weren't the first company to come out with ultrathin laptops.
The real thing to trash millenials for is this "ownership culture" of theirs. The first person to spew something terribly obvious or cliche is automatically declared the owner of it.
That's great until you want some resource from some remote location you think is worthless. That could be a natural resource, or something that you don't want located in your back yard.
Your concrete jungle is pretty helpless disconnected from those areas that aren't "economically valuable".
That's $5 per box (or more) per month versus equipment that's just paid for once and depreciated. For what cable companies want to charge you for equipment, you can buy new streamers for every TV you own every year.
TVs can be $200 or $5000. They can also last 10 years or more.
I had broadband long before video streaming became a thing. I would still have broadband regardless. Furthermore, my interest in better bandwidth is not driven by Netflix and friends.
It's really a matter of apathy. If you care, you will bother. If you can't be bothered then what has been suppressed really?
As a uni-tasker, the DVR has a much superior interface for doing that one thing that it does. Streamers are the same way. It's really stupid to do your video viewing on a PC unless it's operating as a video appliance.
Desktop apps exhibit varying degrees of suckage in this department.
A lot of cable content is total dreck and 40 year old reruns. 4 channels worth of content have been spread over 500 channels. A lot of channels are things like golf and shopping. Others are only useful for a single show. A lot of the "first run" stuff is the same formulas recycled ad infinitum.
...and a lot of it the previous seasons of something that's still in first run.
Due to syndication, stuff never really goes off the air unless it's total dreck.
> How many starving children in Africa are you willing to sacrifice for your kicks?
They have been starving since before you were born. Bleeding hearts have been bleeding over them since before you were born. When exactly is that problem going to actually get sorted out?
People should be able to feed themselves. If they are unable to do this, then this is the real problem. Giving people handouts may make make you feel superior, but they don't deal with the underlying problem.
Taxing capital gains like that is stupid. Your own retirement depends on capital gains. If you alter the tax code in this manner you're slitting your own throat.
Attempts to "punish the rich" usually end up hammering the middle class instead.
While he provided a concrete example of his point, the only thing you could manage was some recycled propaganda.
Not at all. It's far better to give a man a job than a hand out.
I have zero class envy or class hatred over this guy. The money he spent building this thing went back into the economy. It wasn't hoarded in some offshore tax haven.
If you want the world changed, there's nothing stopping you.
I know a guy that has plenty of this kind of stuff. He's a real vulture. He waits around for bargains and then swoops. He buys from the people that pay too much for this stuff. He buys from the morons that would brag about how much they spent on this stuff.
> You think you're better off than someone who can afford to blow $1.5 million creating a play room in his $35 million house?
This is a requirements analysis problem. You don't have to replicate his over price Mac, you just have to come up with something that is suitable. We don't know what he had to do for that 35M house or what he still has to do for it.
It may simply be not worth the trade off.
> It's always easy to tell someone else what they should do with their money, isn't it? Let me guess, you're a hard lefter.
I have ABSOLUTE ZERO envy for this. Other people feel the same way. Perhaps this is something you simply can't comprehend.
I can appreciate the better AV gear. I can appreciate replicating a real theatre experience. I can appreciate creating a more casual version of the same thing. Beyond that, you've lost me. I am more of a purist.
That includes watching black & white originals and avoiding other attempts to "tinker" with the original material.
Overwrought home theatres are just not something that impress me in the slightest.
Even for something that is not a niche novelty item, money thrown into your home to "upgrade" it will NEVER be recovered. Your house will be able to fetch the market price per square foot in your area. That's it. Anything you add to your house to suit yourself is money you're never going to get back. So you better just do it for it's own sake.
Amateurs...
Ads are a complicated thing. American TV is designed with ads in mind. So it has natural breaks for them. If you are going to insert ads into American TV content, then those breaks are the natural and obvious place. Putting them anywhere else interferes with the pacing of the show.
No ads is great. Upfront ads are not so bad. Ads in random inappropriate places in the show SUCK. Ads in the engineered commercial pauses are not ideal but they're better than being at random.
The ads themselves vary in quality, relevance, and annoyingness.
The devil's in the details. You can distort the questions and the numbers to generate any result you want.
This "unfettered capitalism" requires federal law in order to work.
It is quite "fettered". It's "fettered" by copyright law. Otherwise, the farmer could fix his tractor by himself or some independent contractor could do it for him.
Intellectual property allows you to steal other people's stuff. The most obvious example is a patent that not only grants you exclusive ownership of your own invention but the right to claim ownership of anything similar regardless of how that invention may have come about.
Treating creative works as property allows people (usually robber barons) to hijack other people's creative works and real property.
And again, we have an example of that right here and now.
The intellectual property fiction is preventing the farmer from fully controlling his own personal property (by way of the tractor).
> How? Give me an example of how the government is preventing someone new from competing in the tractor business.
The original article is an example, you stupid jackass.