In order to keep prices down, we force everybody to subscribe. Our subsidy program involves about 8 hours of paperwork, and three more standing in line, but hey, that's how we do things!
5 billion dollars? It's about the money, and who gets to launder it, er.. pocket it, I mean spend it! Okay yeah, it's for votes. They need us to 'sign the check', so to speak.
They're in Europe. Their privacy "protections" are as phony as a three dollar bill (well they all are, but that's for another article). That's all you should need to know. No matter what any of these people say, you have to take it on faith, you can never verify what they are doing until there's a slip-up.
Besides all that, there's always the NSA. They track everything.
I can't play a tape in my car either. Hasn't been a car made with a tape player as standard equipment in quite a while. Last car made with a tape player as standard equipment was sold back in 2010.
Yeah, the shit just wears out, which is much better...
Vinyl and film I can understand, but magnetic medium just doesn't hold up. I don't understand why anybody would want a cassette tape. When are we going to bring back floppy disks? Or zip disks, there ya go... or better yet, punch cards and ladies in long skirts and high heels changing the reels of tape
Now that I’ve written this, I’m suddenly not feeling as certain Bittorrent is in the right on this. Hmmm...
Nope, you're right on. Exactly as you said it, bittorent provides content, not service. They can do what they want as long as they don't interfere with anybody else that does the same thing. Our singular issue with the internet is service provision.
Obviously! There are no Chinese people in the Chinese government, military, not a single one is collecting a government check, or supports it in any way, right? Where do you suppose they are from? I am fascinated by this hard line that people draw between themselves and their government. I think it's to apply plausible deniability for what the government does, with full consent of theirs in the "west".
In fact all four of those governments are ran by complete fucking assholes who I believe to be corrupt bastards.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they just came down and took over while nobody was looking.
Don't be an idiot. These people have to win elections. Well, we don't know about China exactly, but west of the Urals? People create their own problems. They don't resist unaccountable authority, on the contrary, they cheer it.
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It's the perfect height for tripping over in the middle of the night
Yeah, and? In theory we already do.
In order to keep prices down, we force everybody to subscribe. Our subsidy program involves about 8 hours of paperwork, and three more standing in line, but hey, that's how we do things!
It got us less evil.
No it didn't. That's a lie.
Yes, I would hope that people would understand what voting for the lesser evil gets them. Apparently not!
5 billion dollars? It's about the money, and who gets to launder it, er.. pocket it, I mean spend it! Okay yeah, it's for votes. They need us to 'sign the check', so to speak.
run a Windows VM as a player, but I want something far less clunky
And virtual machines make sucky audio (video's not much better). Quality media has to play from the host with direct access to the hardware.
They make bluetooth dongles that hook up to the headphone jack, or any analog audio input.
Beta was far superior to VHS. Guess who won that battle. L-1011 vs. DC-10, ugh! Then we have Mac vs. PC, uh oh!
They're in Europe. Their privacy "protections" are as phony as a three dollar bill (well they all are, but that's for another article). That's all you should need to know. No matter what any of these people say, you have to take it on faith, you can never verify what they are doing until there's a slip-up.
Besides all that, there's always the NSA. They track everything.
I can't play a tape in my car either. Hasn't been a car made with a tape player as standard equipment in quite a while. Last car made with a tape player as standard equipment was sold back in 2010.
Eh, hook up a bluetooth adapter to your walkman.
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Yeah, the shit just wears out, which is much better...
Vinyl and film I can understand, but magnetic medium just doesn't hold up. I don't understand why anybody would want a cassette tape. When are we going to bring back floppy disks? Or zip disks, there ya go... or better yet, punch cards and ladies in long skirts and high heels changing the reels of tape
Now that I’ve written this, I’m suddenly not feeling as certain Bittorrent is in the right on this. Hmmm...
Nope, you're right on. Exactly as you said it, bittorent provides content, not service. They can do what they want as long as they don't interfere with anybody else that does the same thing. Our singular issue with the internet is service provision.
Seriously are people this stupid?
If you don't know, you don't want to.
Yep... All American, babe! 6000 pounds of Pittsburgh Steel burning pure Kentucky coal
Forgot to ask, since you brought them up: What's the North Korean army made up of? Martians?
Did I say anything about North Korea? Your absurd distractions are dumb.
Obviously! There are no Chinese people in the Chinese government, military, not a single one is collecting a government check, or supports it in any way, right? Where do you suppose they are from? I am fascinated by this hard line that people draw between themselves and their government. I think it's to apply plausible deniability for what the government does, with full consent of theirs in the "west".
In fact all four of those governments are ran by complete fucking assholes who I believe to be corrupt bastards.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they just came down and took over while nobody was looking.
Don't be an idiot. These people have to win elections. Well, we don't know about China exactly, but west of the Urals? People create their own problems. They don't resist unaccountable authority, on the contrary, they cheer it.
It's actually a socialist idea.
You're saying it's a "government" thing?
In what way is it "radical"?
They started with Pai, didn't they? Few people could be less essential right now.
why hasn't municipal owned fiber optic networks seen more success?
One word: Litigation
Competition? Please. If there were competition, the CenturyLink screw up would have been limited to the LAN in their office.
Yeah, fucking congress... Damn people just appeared out of thin air and took over, while everybody sat and watched, and cheered!