>>>>>Nintendo did this a few years ago when they re-released Zelda Ocarina of Time with hi-res graphics, and I loved it
>>You may be getting Twilight Princess confused with Ocarina of Time, but Nintendo hasn't released an updated version of OOT.
You sound so certain.
(holds up disc)
Why look here! It's a Gamecube version of Ocarina of Time. It was released in 2002 and played identical to the N64 version, but was upgraded from lo-res 320x240 to hi-res 640x480 resolution. The higher resolution looked fantastic compared to my old N64 cart - no more annoying jaggies.
The disc also includes Zelda 1, Zelda 2, and Masks of Majora plus a playable demo of the then-new Wind Waker. I don't remember any changes being made to those games, except for the ability to use the Cube's analog stick.
>>>would you really want to colorize The Seven Samurai?
No but I don't want to watch it on a blurry VHS tape either (approximately 320x480 resolution). I'd want to watch it in glorious high-definition (1920x1080). Same applies to the classic 3D games like Zelda Ocarina or Final Fantasy 7. Sony's FF7 Demo on the PS3 showed what was possible, and Zelda when played on a hi-res Gamecube or Wii looks fantastic.
That's nice, but it doesn't take-away my right of free speech. When dealing with corporations sometimes the only power a consumer can exercise is in the court of public opinion. i.e. Tell everyone how lousy the corporation is. (I recommend consumeraffairs.com as a good starting point.)
A lady in my local area did that when she bought a big-screen TV from circuit city, and the glass was smashed when she opened it. The CC liquidator claimed "sold as is" and no returns, so she called the local television station and told her story which was then broadcast across a 100-mile-wide circle. After getting lots of hatemail, the CC liquidator felt obliged to refund the money in order to avoid the negative publicity. That's the power of free speech.
Of course even if the liquidator had been a dick and still refused refund, the customer had another recourse. State law requires the seller to reveal all flaws with an item, even for "as is" sales. Since Circuit City failed to reveal the TV had a broken screen, they had committed fraud, and would have faced severe fines.
A lot of "as is" Ebay sellers, once they ran into me, learned this lesson fast. If you advertise new, I expect new, not a scratched-up DVD. I *will* get my money back.
It's not too late. You paid the bill which demonstrates "good faith". The next step is to sue the company in court for breach-of-contract, for reimbursement of funds, and also court-related costs.
Of course if I had been in that situation I would have just not paid. "What bill?" would be my response and faxed a copy of the contract to the gas company, showing that the expense is the *landlord's* responsibility, not mine. Then throw the bill in the trash since I'm moving out-of-state which essentially makes me untouchable. I'm sure it would eventually land on my credit report as being unpaid, but since my score is already over 1000 the impact would be virtually nil. I don't pay bills that are not my responsibility. Ever. Fuck the corporations into the ground!
Most landlords would probably just let it go.
But if he drug me into court I could end the case very quickly-and-easily by showing my copy of the contract. "See your honor? It says 'tenant is only responsible for electricity, cable tv, and water utilities'. It says nothing about a natural gas. I don't even think my apartment has natural gas, so I don't know why I'm being charged?" (shrug). If I have a good judge like Judge Judy, the landlord will be told that he screwed-up, that he should be more careful when he develops contracts, and that the tenant is not liable for payment.
>>>Saying a game should stick to dated presentation is a bit 'get off my lawn'...
Well it's just that Zork, without text, isn't Zork. It stops being an interactive book. It would be like converting A Tale of Two Cities from a book into a movie. It just isn't the same as the original novel.
If they did do Zork's Great Underground Empire in graphical form, where you explore mazes and solve puzzles, it would be like a Zelda clone. That's a completely different feel from the 80s when you sat in a dark room, staring at the text, and using your imagination.
>>>I think that your problem here is that you listen to bad music..... the problem is... your devouring of what the radio shovels into you. >>>
And I think your problem is that you confuse your OPINION with fact. I've tried various types of music that friends recommended to me over the years, like Alternative or Ska or or Rap or Whatever, because they were supposed to be "better" than the pop-radio music I normally listen to. But I found these recommendations largely boring (or noisy).
Which is fine. You like your music; and I like my music. Different people like different things. Some people like broccoli and some don't - Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination make the world an interesting place.
In other words:
Frak off. It is NONE of your business to judge, criticize, or insult me personally. You should have kept your mouth shut, and while you're at it, signup for Manners 101 so you'll learn to be sensitive of other people's feeling instead of making a donkey of yourself. Maybe then you'll learn to stop acting like Simon Cowell.
>>>Depositing money in such a way as to avoid the $10K limit is called "structuring" and it's also illegal, IIRC.
Yes.
It's called "I don't want the government spying on me," which is why I would send deposits less than the $10,000 cutoff. It is my innate natural right as a human fucking being. I own my body, and I own my body's labor, which I then exchange for money. Money==labor==my body. MY possession. It's none of the government's business where I keep my "labor" or how much "labor" is in that account. I'm not a slave and congress is not my "masser" damnit.
On the contrary Congress is just a bunch of employees. The People are the collective boss. Perhaps it's time to fire these employees and get some new ones.
The protection IS in the legal system, but our legal system is under the control of the 9 people on the Supreme Court. They have chosen to ignore those laws, because they agree with Congress - government spying on private accounts is more important. And thus privacy dies and government grows.
"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps." -- Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820
Just wait.
Pretty soon the European Union Court of First Instance will start making similar judgements to nullify your British, French, German, et cetera constitutions (or laws). The local governments will lose power as the central government slowly-but-surely subsumes that power to itself.
>>>billions spent per day in Iraq - and you blame it on helping people who need hospital treatment?
It's actually 0.9 trillion total cost. And yes the war in Iraq was just as much a waste as the proposed Uncle Sam healthcare (which will cost ~12 trillion per decade).
We need to STOP SPENDING.
Get it?
If you're carrying a debt of $105,000 per home, and expected to be $220,000 by 2020, you don't just keep spending more money and digging the whole deeper. You stop spending. Judas Priest. How much more obvious can it be?
Besides there are only 8-9 million people who want health insurance, but don't have it*. We can find a way to help that small 2% of the population without forcing the other 98% into an Uncle Sam monopoly. Example: Extend the welfare program to also include hospital costs. WE NEED TO SPEND WISELY AND RATIONALLY because if we don't, we're going to go bankrupt.
* * I'm one of those who doesn't have it & doesn't want it. In fact there are 17 million Americans who earn more than $50,000 and therefore could easily afford the weekly $30-40 cost, but choose not to buy insurance. That's called freedom of choice.
How on earth did I miss playing this game? Maybe because I never had an Xbox?
I don't want reboots, but I would like to see re-releases. Just as every few years the movie studios dust-off Casablanca or Gone with the Wind and put them out for sale, I wish videogame producers would do the same.
I would love to replay Resident Evil 1, but upgrade the 320x240 graphics to 1920x1080. Ditto Final Fantasy 7. Nintendo did this a few years ago when they re-released Zelda Ocarina of Time with hi-res graphics, and I loved it.
>>>I notice that if I see an attractive woman who looks maybe late teens, early 20s, I can't help but think that I have nieces almost that age. >>>
Do you feel any guilt? Like, "Dirty old man - looking at women the same age as your nieces." In a strange twist of fate, mine are the same age as me, and I have sometimes dated my niece's friends. How weird is that?
My rule is that if she has breasts I can look, but not touch (think Miley Cyrus), and if she's 20 or higher than she's dateable. I won't date anyone younger than that.
A lot of the National Geographic natives have firmer breasts at age 40, than a comparable modern woman who wore a bra her whole life. I think the photos support the result of the "not wearing a bra is better" studies.
Aside-
In another surprise study, scientists found not wearing shoes is actually healthier than wearing them. Same reason (atrophy of the supporting ligaments and connective tissues). They also found most shoes are so poorly-designed they actually damage the foot.
What you just said is an insult to young persons. Yeah I know you were talking in generalities, but I've found 25-year-old women who were more interesting to talk to than many 30-something or 40-something airheads. Past college graduation, I consider a woman's IQ a more valuable number than the chronological age.
At least with an intelligent young person, what they lack in experience they made-up for in exuberance (I'm talking willingness to learn new things). After say 35, many persons think they know it all and refuse to listen to new ideas, even if they are complete airheads. EXAMPLE - I was discussing skin cancer and how studies show sunlotion can cause cancer too. The 34-year-old woman refused to listen, even when I showed her the studies because, quote, "I KNOW sunlotion is safe; now leave me alone; I want to go get a tan." Please note said 30-something never graduated high school and is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and yet she presumes she knows more than me, or the studies' authors.
A younger 20-something person is more open-minded, and if she has the IQ to understand a conversation without her eyes glazing-over, then you've found a good partner.
>>>"Breast ligaments"? Are you fucking shitting me? Breast ligaments?
Yes breast ligaments. QUOTE: "Cooper's ligaments (also known as the suspensory ligaments of Cooper and the fibrocollegenous septa) are connective tissue in the breast..." Maybe you ought to do some research before you start spewing fouth-mouthed language or insults at your peers.
>>>I know that Slashdotters aren't supposed to know a lot about women, but I'd hope they'd at least have read an anatomy textbook.
>>>Complete nonsense. There are no ligaments in the breast.
Complete nonsense???
(sigh)
Dear shithead who thinks he knows everything (and the four idiots who falsely-modded you informative), I politely ask you to please read the following quote: "Cooper's ligaments (also known as the suspensory ligaments of Cooper and the fibrocollegenous septa) are connective tissue in the breast..." - You can read the rest on wikipedia.
And yes studies have shown that wearing a bra can cause these ligaments to atrophy, such that when the bra is removed the breasts sag from lack of internal support. The Japanese study also verified that the women who were asked Not to wear bras showed increased firmness and less sag then a year earlier.
I apologize if this post offends anyone. I tend to view things clinically. It's just a body part and science is science.
1987 is when IBM PC and clones rose to number one.
Prior to that the number one sellers were the Commodore 64 (1983-86) and Atari 800 (1979-82). Although even in 1987 it was not clear that IBM PCs would eventually "win" the war. Many people still thought Commodore, Atari, or Apple could kill-off the IBM PC if they just found the right killer ap..... like video and sound. With the Commodore Amiga being used to produce television shows and Disney movies, and the PC unable to do the same, the Amiga looked set to replace the PC... at least from the perspective of someone living during that time.
Anyway...
1994 is when Atari/Commodore's computer divisions filed bankruptcy, the Apple company was teetering on the brink, and it was absolutely clear that the IBM PC WinTel clones would hold a virtual monopoly from that moment forward. I sadly bought my first PC in 1998.
If you read the CONTEXT of the message, you'll see I was discussing HOME computers. In fact I even said "brought to the home" in the Commodore/Amiga sections. Xenix was mostly-confined to academics, not the home.
Buy two hundred dollars worth of books. Return an empty envelope to amazon.com with delivery confirmation. Wait two months for the empty envelope to get thrown-out or lost by amazon's dock workers. File a credit card dispute saying, "The books were water-damaged so I returned them to the seller. Two months have passed and still no refund. Please help me." Visa will refund the money.
Remember this is not theft. In this hyptothetical scenario, I already paid $200 for digital books on my Kindle, but amazon erased them off my gadget. So they have my money and I have nothing. THEY are the thieves. I'm merely rebalancing the equation so I have two hundred dollars worth of goods back in my possession.
Now the lawyers would probably argue I should file a claim in court, and go through that rigamarole, but the costs and time involved make this solution undesirable. My solution is simpler.
Then you did your inverse-square calculation incorrectly. It's only a few microwatts at 60 miles distance.
Also your stations dropped power when they turned-off analog and switched to digital. Most stations are only broadcasting 10kw (VHF band) or 100kw (UHF band). The 1 million watt torches disappeared when analog TV disappeared, although there are still a few FM stations at that strength.
This conversation reminds me of one of my former JCPenney coworkers. She was quite beautiful and tried to do all the "cool" things popular do. We were sitting in the break room and discussing various recent movies, then TV came-up and I said my favorite show was Star Trek TNG which I taped every week.
She was quiet for a second and then almost-whispered, "I like to watch the Next Generation too."
I thought it was funny. It was as if she was embarrassed to admit it! So fast-forward in time - I saw her recently. She's in her 30s, divorced, overweight, not beautiful, and not too happy either. She was looking at me as if she wished she had said "yes" when I asked her out, instead of blowing me off as "too nerdy" for her standards. And of course it's too late to date me now. If only someone would invent a time machine, so we could go back and fix our mistakes.
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>>>>>Nintendo did this a few years ago when they re-released Zelda Ocarina of Time with hi-res graphics, and I loved it
>>You may be getting Twilight Princess confused with Ocarina of Time, but Nintendo hasn't released an updated version of OOT.
You sound so certain.
(holds up disc)
Why look here! It's a Gamecube version of Ocarina of Time. It was released in 2002 and played identical to the N64 version, but was upgraded from lo-res 320x240 to hi-res 640x480 resolution. The higher resolution looked fantastic compared to my old N64 cart - no more annoying jaggies.
The disc also includes Zelda 1, Zelda 2, and Masks of Majora plus a playable demo of the then-new Wind Waker. I don't remember any changes being made to those games, except for the ability to use the Cube's analog stick.
>>>would you really want to colorize The Seven Samurai?
No but I don't want to watch it on a blurry VHS tape either (approximately 320x480 resolution). I'd want to watch it in glorious high-definition (1920x1080). Same applies to the classic 3D games like Zelda Ocarina or Final Fantasy 7. Sony's FF7 Demo on the PS3 showed what was possible, and Zelda when played on a hi-res Gamecube or Wii looks fantastic.
That's nice, but it doesn't take-away my right of free speech. When dealing with corporations sometimes the only power a consumer can exercise is in the court of public opinion. i.e. Tell everyone how lousy the corporation is. (I recommend consumeraffairs.com as a good starting point.)
A lady in my local area did that when she bought a big-screen TV from circuit city, and the glass was smashed when she opened it. The CC liquidator claimed "sold as is" and no returns, so she called the local television station and told her story which was then broadcast across a 100-mile-wide circle. After getting lots of hatemail, the CC liquidator felt obliged to refund the money in order to avoid the negative publicity. That's the power of free speech.
Of course even if the liquidator had been a dick and still refused refund, the customer had another recourse. State law requires the seller to reveal all flaws with an item, even for "as is" sales. Since Circuit City failed to reveal the TV had a broken screen, they had committed fraud, and would have faced severe fines.
A lot of "as is" Ebay sellers, once they ran into me, learned this lesson fast.
If you advertise new, I expect new, not a scratched-up DVD.
I *will* get my money back.
It's not too late. You paid the bill which demonstrates "good faith". The next step is to sue the company in court for breach-of-contract, for reimbursement of funds, and also court-related costs.
Of course if I had been in that situation I would have just not paid. "What bill?" would be my response and faxed a copy of the contract to the gas company, showing that the expense is the *landlord's* responsibility, not mine. Then throw the bill in the trash since I'm moving out-of-state which essentially makes me untouchable. I'm sure it would eventually land on my credit report as being unpaid, but since my score is already over 1000 the impact would be virtually nil. I don't pay bills that are not my responsibility. Ever. Fuck the corporations into the ground!
Most landlords would probably just let it go.
But if he drug me into court I could end the case very quickly-and-easily by showing my copy of the contract. "See your honor? It says 'tenant is only responsible for electricity, cable tv, and water utilities'. It says nothing about a natural gas. I don't even think my apartment has natural gas, so I don't know why I'm being charged?" (shrug). If I have a good judge like Judge Judy, the landlord will be told that he screwed-up, that he should be more careful when he develops contracts, and that the tenant is not liable for payment.
Pong was already "rebooted" on the PS1. It wasn't very good.
Tempest on the other hand was redone for the Atari Jaguar (and later PS1) and it was fantastic. They kept the same gameplay which was the key.
>>>Saying a game should stick to dated presentation is a bit 'get off my lawn'...
Well it's just that Zork, without text, isn't Zork. It stops being an interactive book. It would be like converting A Tale of Two Cities from a book into a movie. It just isn't the same as the original novel.
If they did do Zork's Great Underground Empire in graphical form, where you explore mazes and solve puzzles, it would be like a Zelda clone. That's a completely different feel from the 80s when you sat in a dark room, staring at the text, and using your imagination.
>>> 3.25"
No such animal. The standard sizes for home PCs were "five and a quarter inch" (5 1/4") floppies and "three point five" (3.5) floppies.
>>>I think that your problem here is that you listen to bad music..... the problem is... your devouring of what the radio shovels into you.
>>>
And I think your problem is that you confuse your OPINION with fact. I've tried various types of music that friends recommended to me over the years, like Alternative or Ska or or Rap or Whatever, because they were supposed to be "better" than the pop-radio music I normally listen to. But I found these recommendations largely boring (or noisy).
Which is fine. You like your music; and I like my music. Different people like different things. Some people like broccoli and some don't - Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination make the world an interesting place.
In other words:
Frak off. It is NONE of your business to judge, criticize, or insult me personally. You should have kept your mouth shut, and while you're at it, signup for Manners 101 so you'll learn to be sensitive of other people's feeling instead of making a donkey of yourself. Maybe then you'll learn to stop acting like Simon Cowell.
>>>Depositing money in such a way as to avoid the $10K limit is called "structuring" and it's also illegal, IIRC.
Yes.
It's called "I don't want the government spying on me," which is why I would send deposits less than the $10,000 cutoff. It is my innate natural right as a human fucking being. I own my body, and I own my body's labor, which I then exchange for money. Money==labor==my body. MY possession. It's none of the government's business where I keep my "labor" or how much "labor" is in that account. I'm not a slave and congress is not my "masser" damnit.
On the contrary Congress is just a bunch of employees. The People are the collective boss. Perhaps it's time to fire these employees and get some new ones.
The protection IS in the legal system, but our legal system is under the control of the 9 people on the Supreme Court. They have chosen to ignore those laws, because they agree with Congress - government spying on private accounts is more important. And thus privacy dies and government grows.
"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps." -- Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820
Just wait.
Pretty soon the European Union Court of First Instance will start making similar judgements to nullify your British, French, German, et cetera constitutions (or laws). The local governments will lose power as the central government slowly-but-surely subsumes that power to itself.
>>>billions spent per day in Iraq - and you blame it on helping people who need hospital treatment?
It's actually 0.9 trillion total cost. And yes the war in Iraq was just as much a waste as the proposed Uncle Sam healthcare (which will cost ~12 trillion per decade).
We need to STOP SPENDING.
Get it?
If you're carrying a debt of $105,000 per home, and expected to be $220,000 by 2020, you don't just keep spending more money and digging the whole deeper. You stop spending. Judas Priest. How much more obvious can it be?
Besides there are only 8-9 million people who want health insurance, but don't have it*. We can find a way to help that small 2% of the population without forcing the other 98% into an Uncle Sam monopoly. Example: Extend the welfare program to also include hospital costs. WE NEED TO SPEND WISELY AND RATIONALLY because if we don't, we're going to go bankrupt.
*
* I'm one of those who doesn't have it & doesn't want it. In fact there are 17 million Americans who earn more than $50,000 and therefore could easily afford the weekly $30-40 cost, but choose not to buy insurance. That's called freedom of choice.
Today's gamers are not going to sit-around playing a game that requires reading.
And if you add graphics, then it isn't Zork anymore. It becomes just another 3D puzzle/maze like Zelda or Starfox Adventures.
How on earth did I miss playing this game? Maybe because I never had an Xbox?
I don't want reboots, but I would like to see re-releases. Just as every few years the movie studios dust-off Casablanca or Gone with the Wind and put them out for sale, I wish videogame producers would do the same.
I would love to replay Resident Evil 1, but upgrade the 320x240 graphics to 1920x1080. Ditto Final Fantasy 7. Nintendo did this a few years ago when they re-released Zelda Ocarina of Time with hi-res graphics, and I loved it.
Same game; same "feel"; just better imagery.
>>>I notice that if I see an attractive woman who looks maybe late teens, early 20s, I can't help but think that I have nieces almost that age.
>>>
Do you feel any guilt? Like, "Dirty old man - looking at women the same age as your nieces." In a strange twist of fate, mine are the same age as me, and I have sometimes dated my niece's friends. How weird is that?
My rule is that if she has breasts I can look, but not touch (think Miley Cyrus), and if she's 20 or higher than she's dateable. I won't date anyone younger than that.
A lot of the National Geographic natives have firmer breasts at age 40, than a comparable modern woman who wore a bra her whole life. I think the photos support the result of the "not wearing a bra is better" studies.
Aside-
In another surprise study, scientists found not wearing shoes is actually healthier than wearing them. Same reason (atrophy of the supporting ligaments and connective tissues). They also found most shoes are so poorly-designed they actually damage the foot.
What you just said is an insult to young persons. Yeah I know you were talking in generalities, but I've found 25-year-old women who were more interesting to talk to than many 30-something or 40-something airheads. Past college graduation, I consider a woman's IQ a more valuable number than the chronological age.
At least with an intelligent young person, what they lack in experience they made-up for in exuberance (I'm talking willingness to learn new things). After say 35, many persons think they know it all and refuse to listen to new ideas, even if they are complete airheads. EXAMPLE - I was discussing skin cancer and how studies show sunlotion can cause cancer too. The 34-year-old woman refused to listen, even when I showed her the studies because, quote, "I KNOW sunlotion is safe; now leave me alone; I want to go get a tan." Please note said 30-something never graduated high school and is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and yet she presumes she knows more than me, or the studies' authors.
A younger 20-something person is more open-minded, and if she has the IQ to understand a conversation without her eyes glazing-over, then you've found a good partner.
>>>"Breast ligaments"? Are you fucking shitting me? Breast ligaments?
Yes breast ligaments. QUOTE: "Cooper's ligaments (also known as the suspensory ligaments of Cooper and the fibrocollegenous septa) are connective tissue in the breast..." Maybe you ought to do some research before you start spewing fouth-mouthed language or insults at your peers.
>>>I know that Slashdotters aren't supposed to know a lot about women, but I'd hope they'd at least have read an anatomy textbook.
Speak for yourself.
>>>Complete nonsense. There are no ligaments in the breast.
Complete nonsense???
(sigh)
Dear shithead who thinks he knows everything (and the four idiots who falsely-modded you informative), I politely ask you to please read the following quote: "Cooper's ligaments (also known as the suspensory ligaments of Cooper and the fibrocollegenous septa) are connective tissue in the breast..." - You can read the rest on wikipedia.
And yes studies have shown that wearing a bra can cause these ligaments to atrophy, such that when the bra is removed the breasts sag from lack of internal support. The Japanese study also verified that the women who were asked Not to wear bras showed increased firmness and less sag then a year earlier.
I apologize if this post offends anyone.
I tend to view things clinically.
It's just a body part and science is science.
1987 is when IBM PC and clones rose to number one.
Prior to that the number one sellers were the Commodore 64 (1983-86) and Atari 800 (1979-82). Although even in 1987 it was not clear that IBM PCs would eventually "win" the war. Many people still thought Commodore, Atari, or Apple could kill-off the IBM PC if they just found the right killer ap..... like video and sound. With the Commodore Amiga being used to produce television shows and Disney movies, and the PC unable to do the same, the Amiga looked set to replace the PC... at least from the perspective of someone living during that time.
Anyway...
1994 is when Atari/Commodore's computer divisions filed bankruptcy, the Apple company was teetering on the brink, and it was absolutely clear that the IBM PC WinTel clones would hold a virtual monopoly from that moment forward. I sadly bought my first PC in 1998.
If you read the CONTEXT of the message, you'll see I was discussing HOME computers. In fact I even said "brought to the home" in the Commodore/Amiga sections. Xenix was mostly-confined to academics, not the home.
Buy two hundred dollars worth of books. Return an empty envelope to amazon.com with delivery confirmation. Wait two months for the empty envelope to get thrown-out or lost by amazon's dock workers. File a credit card dispute saying, "The books were water-damaged so I returned them to the seller. Two months have passed and still no refund. Please help me." Visa will refund the money.
Remember this is not theft. In this hyptothetical scenario, I already paid $200 for digital books on my Kindle, but amazon erased them off my gadget. So they have my money and I have nothing. THEY are the thieves. I'm merely rebalancing the equation so I have two hundred dollars worth of goods back in my possession.
Now the lawyers would probably argue I should file a claim in court, and go through that rigamarole, but the costs and time involved make this solution undesirable. My solution is simpler.
If anonymous cowards (score: 0) speak does anybody hear them?
Then you did your inverse-square calculation incorrectly. It's only a few microwatts at 60 miles distance.
Also your stations dropped power when they turned-off analog and switched to digital. Most stations are only broadcasting 10kw (VHF band) or 100kw (UHF band). The 1 million watt torches disappeared when analog TV disappeared, although there are still a few FM stations at that strength.
P.S.
This conversation reminds me of one of my former JCPenney coworkers. She was quite beautiful and tried to do all the "cool" things popular do. We were sitting in the break room and discussing various recent movies, then TV came-up and I said my favorite show was Star Trek TNG which I taped every week.
She was quiet for a second and then almost-whispered, "I like to watch the Next Generation too."
I thought it was funny. It was as if she was embarrassed to admit it! So fast-forward in time - I saw her recently. She's in her 30s, divorced, overweight, not beautiful, and not too happy either. She was looking at me as if she wished she had said "yes" when I asked her out, instead of blowing me off as "too nerdy" for her standards. And of course it's too late to date me now. If only someone would invent a time machine, so we could go back and fix our mistakes.
Can I download this week's wrestling match from WyFy?
My favorite show of theirs is "Scared Stupid" - when I watch it I can feel my IQ shrinking minute-by-minute. Or maybe that was "Ghost! Fakers!" ;-)