But, a basic BSP+PVS engine that supports Q3 maps and shaders CAN and HAS been developed in a weekend. I've DONE it.
You don't know what you're talking about. Yes, you can put together a toy quickly that displays Q3 maps. Come back when you have a fully optimized GAMING engine with full collision detection, including all the "details" you left out. And by the way, make it run FAST on lower end hardware.
Yeah, maybe the rest of the industry are just idiots for not being able to throw these things together in "a week".
Gee, you wouldn't be young and inexperienced would you? Nah, you must be an industry veteran.
Unless your girlfriend is likely to buy into any of this, it's a battle you don't even want to bring up.
The one alternative is to (carefully) ask her if she would like to have a plain wedding band for the sake of not being ostentacious. You have to do this carefully, however, so it will not look like you're just a cheap bastard.
Failing that (and you probably will), take a visit to your local city's jewelry district. I got my wife's good sized diamond at about 1/3 the price of a jeweler. In particular I went to the jewelrly district in Los Angeles. The prices are awesome.
However, they will rip you off if you give them half a chance. Either go to someone who is recommended to you, or bring along someone who is knowledgeable. Someone who is good at negotiation doesn't hurt, either.
If you do end up going to a normal store (or God help you, the mall), don't be afraid to ask for a discount. If you're getting into high triple digits or quadruple digit dollars, they WILL give you a discount. All you have to do is ask.
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But mankind has a *terrible* track record at thinking it can get away with stuff. So far it seems that every time we try to cut a corner it comes back to bite us, eventually.
Actually, mankind has a GREAT track record of "getting away with stuff". There are very few instances where we've done some sort of damage that was irreversable. Obviously hunting certain species to extinction would be an example of something irreversable, but there's not that many cases of that.
The biggest fallacy of the environmental movement is that the earth's environment is fragile. Nothing could be further from the truth. If the conditions on earth were fragile, it would have been impossible for life to have survived as long as it has because the Earth has gone through natural cataclysms that make man's effects look like child's play.
That's one of the reasons that I think global warming caused by man-made processes will turn out to be a huge scientific hoax. The equilibrium processes of the Earth are much more powerful than they are given credit for. This is not to say that global warming isn't happening, only saying that mankind has little to do with it.
6 digits give you 1 MILLION registrants and products! It must be products they're running out of. It seems like the simple solution would be to make the registrant number 7 digits, and people using over 5 digits would just have 10 registrant numbers assigned to them. Then you could figure out what new registrant numbers are unused and reassign them to people.
Anyone know how produce codes are assigned? How the hell do you go through 12 digits? Obviously a lot of it got wasted in some way.
It seems like there has to be a way to reclaim some of that.
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Oops, I should have said 7x10^7 KGs at Yucca Mountain.
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Dude, the sun (at 2 x 10^30th kilograms) is about 300,000 times the mass of the EARTH, which is 6.0 x 10^24 kilograms. We're talking about disposing about 7 x 10^7 kilograms of nuclear waste. That's only a ratio of 2.86 x 10^22 kilograms.
while yes, this looks like it could be a cool way to travel bout town or deliver materials in the summer, nobody ever acknowledges the 8 months of the year when you wouldn't be caught dead on a scooter.
Yeah, you're right. Who the hell would ever travel around town without a roof over the head. In fact, I heard about another crackpot invention recently. It's like the Segway, except it has two wheels in-line rather than side-to-side. It's also self-balancing, but runs with a gasoline motor. The idiots marketing this thing actually think people will ride it year round! What a laugh. And you should hear the idiotic name, too: "A motorcycle". Laughable!
Why do people who come up with questions like these always think in the most ridiculous extremes? "One day, there'll be no need for actors!"
Indeed, not to mention the laws of economics. The day that CG gets cheaper than actors is the day that actor's cut their rates. Human actors will ALWAYS be cheaper than CG.
And yes, you don't have ego when you do CG, but the same rules about ego-reduction apply, too.:)
You do know that they're talking about one of the experimental landers, right? Just out curiosity, exactly how would YOU have fixed it? Do you think they should order another one out of the catalog? Start the engineering teams rebuilding one from scratch?
Maybe *you* should take a civics lesson... The concept of "judicial review", or the court's ability to overthrow laws that are unconstitutional are not in the constitution.
BFD. The roots of that decision come from the US constitution, not to mention that it was 200 years ago when they were still refining the role of the supreme court.
I'd like to see you quote the part of the constitution that says "The president is supposed to be elected by a simple majority of the public". It doesn't - but the traditional understanding is that the system is supposed to do something like that, which is why people got pissed when GWB got elected with a negative majority.
NOBODY that I know thinks the President is elected by a simply majority of the public. Maybe there is some trailer park person in Podunk who is so ignorant and so isolated that they never turn on the TV or read the newspaper where they explain it 500 times each Presidential election, but who cares?
Also I have heard very few people pissed that GWB won the election because of not having a national majority. The only griping I've heard is from people who didn't like the way the Florida ballots were counted.
Personally, I think the electoral system is a feature, not a bug, but that's an old argument that I don't feel resurrecting right now.
I'm curious about your comment about "the interests of EVERYONE", as it is quite apparent that Jack Valenti's interests are quite oppsed to the general public's interests(and rights).
Quite apparent to YOU, but obviously not to everyone. His interests are in protecting intellectual property, which makes it the interest of everyone who owns intellectual property. Like I've said multiple times, I have a very strong interest in seeing fair use rights preserved. And if his solutions do not take those into account, then I would be opposed to his particular solution.
But what you and people like you keep missing is that he has the right to protect his property against piracy. That is in the interest of every consumer, particularly THIS consumer who likes to be able to buy music, and believes that there are very real threats to the recording industry if mass unauthorized distribution gets out of control.
Drinking water is good for you. Drink lots of water.
Based on what evidence? I've always thought 8 glass of water thing was a crock.
When it is hot, humid, and I am outside, I can drink that 64 oz of water within an hour or less. The people who don't drink enough water get taken away in an ambulance.
Well, duh, obviously when it's hot and humid you need more water. But that's not what we're talking about. Under normal circumstances, you get more than enough fluids from the food you eat. Excess water/fluid just gets pissed out.
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OK, I actually spent FIVE DOLLARS of my hard-earned money to set up a real web site (WHAT??? PAY FOR SOMETHING ON THE WEB YOU GOTTA BE FREAKIN' KIDDING ME...)
Sheesh! Geocities sucks. I can't believe I got THAT many visitors that fast, but it's already "over the limit". Well, I'll think of somewhere else to put the pictures (unless someone would like to mirror them for me...)
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OK, back when I was about 8-10 years old (can't remember exactly), I got obsessed about building a robot. It simply had to be done, and I pestered my father (an electronics engineer) mercilessly about it. He tried to explain that it was just NOT a simple project, but I wouldn't listen.
Finally, I wore him down, and "we" (meaning him, and I watched) built a robotic hand. It was actually pretty clever, considering the primitiveness of it. The thumb, index finger and middle fingers were completed before I FINALLY lost interest and saw that it wasn't as easy as I thought.
He basically used some steel pipe that he filed into joints, and used springs to return the fingers to the outstretched position. A cable running through the pipe connected to the end of the finger tips caused them to contract.
Unfortunately, the middle finger broke off at one point, and has been lost. For the first time on the web, here are some pictures. It was made a little under 30 years ago or so. I should have taken a picture of the fingers contracted, but I didn't think of it until now. Maybe I'll go back and add one.:)
My father died about 10 years ago, but this is one my most treasured possessions. It's a testament to the fact that he seldom blew me off when I was interested in something, and did his best to help me (and I probably deserved to be blown off for this request!)
Been there, done that, you ignore what you don't like to hear.
And you always accept the truth, even when you don't want to hear it?
Face it, you don't want to "waste time with me" because YOU CAN'T. You are the typical Mac advocate that can't face the fact that Mac is an overpriced, underpowered machine. People have been posting comparisons of REAL APPLICATIONS, yet you refuse to accept the fact that the G4 is only 20% faster clock-for-clock with a P4.
How long are you going to knowingly put that LIE in your bio, when you know it's not the truth?
But hey, maybe I'm wrong. So far, you haven't posted one SHRED of evidence in your favor. Many people have posted evidence NOT in your favor. PROVE US WRONG.
If the Mac is as superior as you claim, it should be EASY.
OK, enough games. You and I both know why you won't ever take this challenge. It's because if you did any real research, you couldn't honestly put that bullshit in your bio. As long as you honestly "think it's true" without any facts, you can put it in your bio and continue to make claims so as to fool people into buying a Mac. But as soon as you try and get real facts, that game will be over, won't it? You won't be able to advocate the Mac anymore, because you'll be knowingly putting forth a lie.
Look, I have no problem if want to like Apple. You might like the design. You might like OS X. You might think that twice the price is worth it, and the performance is adequate. And that would be fine.
But this bullshit that your spewing doesn't do Apple any good. It just makes everyone think that all Apple advocates will say ANYTHING to get people to buy Apple. That's the biggest problem I have with Steve's advertising. He has to mislead people into buying Apple, instead of just focusing on the positive points of the Mac.
No, Congress's job is to represent the majority - it's the Supreme Court's job to slap them down when they infringe on the rights of the minority. (at least, if it's a right as defined in the constitution)
Good Lord man, time to take that civics course you've been eyeing, unless you can quote me where in the constutition that it says "Congress shall represent the interests of the majority, while the Supreme Court shall represent the interest of the minority."
Just for the record, Congress makes the laws that take into account the interests of EVERYONE, not just the majority. The Supreme Court interprets those laws when called upon by the lower courts. The Supreme Court (in theory, anyway) does NOT take into account in any way whatsoever the public good (of the majority OR the minority) when interpreting laws. The only question is whether laws are consistent and constutional.
The Supreme Court does not even get involved unless there is a lawsuit between two parties.
Jack Valenti doesn't get the ear of 30 Congressmen at one time because he's Jack Valenti of Los Angeles, he gets it because of the unproportional influence the organization he heads wields in Congress.
I care about my fair use rights to copy content for my personal use. I with all of you on that. I DO NOT care about my rights to mass distribute media to anonymous people.
And I think congress will start caring more about what "the people" think when "the people" start caring about suggesting solutions to piracy. Personally, I think the solution is "the industry should have the right to track down illegal trading and sue their ass". But I don't hear any "consumer advocates" saying anything like that. All I hear is whining by people like you.
And I also find it curious that you'd place the MPAA/RIAA on the side that doesn't want to "rip-off things", given how people like Chuck D., Courtney Love, Janis Ian, etc. have described their business practices.
These millionaire artists can change the system ANYTIME THEY WANT, so you'll excuse me for not having a lot of sympathy for their cause. Any time they want they can start up their own record companies. But funny how new record companies start to work like old record companies, because they have subsidize 100 failures for every 1 success.
Congress is suppose to represent the _Majority_, not a very small minority
Absolutely, positively, WRONG. In fact, I might argue that Congress's role is more important to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. Or do you think that the blacks should have been kept in slavery because a majority of the population thought slavery was OK?
Congress' role is to protect the rights of the people, not Jack Valenti's paycheck.
Guess what, Jack Valenti (and the people he represents) are just as much citizens as "the people".
As an aside, I'm also going to take from your post that you oppose the rights of people to have access to VCRs, audio tapes, Xerox machines, or pens, since they can all be used for, and have been used for, "stealing" from "creators."
[skipping a whole lot of stuff that basically boil down to the last sentence] Why can't people read an entire post, rather than just pick out and choose from what I say to come to the opposite conclusion of what I'm saying?
Let me quote myself: "Now, if you want to limit your criticism to stating that this is the WRONG WAY to prevent piracy and criticising the prevention of copying for personal use, then I'm with you."
The point is that Congress represents ALL THE PEOPLE, no matter how rich they are (!!), not just people who want to rip-off things. But apparently you think that rich people shouldn't have any rights because they are rich.
I pay $45 a month for my channels. That is not free. I should be able to record whatever is broadcast on them because I am paying for it.
You might want to learn what you're paying for, and from what law your rights derive.
First of all, that $45 is an access fee, not a purchase of rights to the material.
Second of all, your rights to record come from your fair use rights, and those are limited to your personal use (well, it's more complicated than that, but...). Your fair use rights to do NOT give you rebroadcast rights, particularly for a fee.
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But, a basic BSP+PVS engine that supports Q3 maps and shaders CAN and HAS been developed in a weekend. I've DONE it.
You don't know what you're talking about. Yes, you can put together a toy quickly that displays Q3 maps. Come back when you have a fully optimized GAMING engine with full collision detection, including all the "details" you left out. And by the way, make it run FAST on lower end hardware.
Yeah, maybe the rest of the industry are just idiots for not being able to throw these things together in "a week".
Gee, you wouldn't be young and inexperienced would you? Nah, you must be an industry veteran.
Unless your girlfriend is likely to buy into any of this, it's a battle you don't even want to bring up.
The one alternative is to (carefully) ask her if she would like to have a plain wedding band for the sake of not being ostentacious. You have to do this carefully, however, so it will not look like you're just a cheap bastard.
Failing that (and you probably will), take a visit to your local city's jewelry district. I got my wife's good sized diamond at about 1/3 the price of a jeweler. In particular I went to the jewelrly district in Los Angeles. The prices are awesome.
However, they will rip you off if you give them half a chance. Either go to someone who is recommended to you, or bring along someone who is knowledgeable. Someone who is good at negotiation doesn't hurt, either.
If you do end up going to a normal store (or God help you, the mall), don't be afraid to ask for a discount. If you're getting into high triple digits or quadruple digit dollars, they WILL give you a discount. All you have to do is ask.
But mankind has a *terrible* track record at thinking it can get away with stuff. So far it seems that every time we try to cut a corner it comes back to bite us, eventually.
Actually, mankind has a GREAT track record of "getting away with stuff". There are very few instances where we've done some sort of damage that was irreversable. Obviously hunting certain species to extinction would be an example of something irreversable, but there's not that many cases of that.
The biggest fallacy of the environmental movement is that the earth's environment is fragile. Nothing could be further from the truth. If the conditions on earth were fragile, it would have been impossible for life to have survived as long as it has because the Earth has gone through natural cataclysms that make man's effects look like child's play.
That's one of the reasons that I think global warming caused by man-made processes will turn out to be a huge scientific hoax. The equilibrium processes of the Earth are much more powerful than they are given credit for. This is not to say that global warming isn't happening, only saying that mankind has little to do with it.
6 digits give you 1 MILLION registrants and products! It must be products they're running out of. It seems like the simple solution would be to make the registrant number 7 digits, and people using over 5 digits would just have 10 registrant numbers assigned to them. Then you could figure out what new registrant numbers are unused and reassign them to people.
Anyone know how produce codes are assigned? How the hell do you go through 12 digits? Obviously a lot of it got wasted in some way.
It seems like there has to be a way to reclaim some of that.
Oops, I should have said 7x10^7 KGs at Yucca Mountain.
Dude, the sun (at 2 x 10^30th kilograms) is about 300,000 times the mass of the EARTH, which is 6.0 x 10^24 kilograms. We're talking about disposing about 7 x 10^7 kilograms of nuclear waste. That's only a ratio of 2.86 x 10^22 kilograms.
The sun ain't gonna notice it.
while yes, this looks like it could be a cool way to travel bout town or deliver materials in the summer, nobody ever acknowledges the 8 months of the year when you wouldn't be caught dead on a scooter.
Yeah, you're right. Who the hell would ever travel around town without a roof over the head. In fact, I heard about another crackpot invention recently. It's like the Segway, except it has two wheels in-line rather than side-to-side. It's also self-balancing, but runs with a gasoline motor. The idiots marketing this thing actually think people will ride it year round! What a laugh. And you should hear the idiotic name, too: "A motorcycle". Laughable!
Some additional news for you: Clint Eastwood is not like that in person. It's a character he's playing.
All you've proven is that human actors have limits as to what types of characters they can play.
And the personalities of the real people are more interesting than writers could ever come up with for fake ones.
I hate to break it to you, but the actors in movies are acting out some writer's made-up personality, not their own. :)
As for "Robert Downy Jr's problems", the lack of gossip about CG actors would be a feature, not a bug.
Why do people who come up with questions like these always think in the most ridiculous extremes? "One day, there'll be no need for actors!"
Indeed, not to mention the laws of economics. The day that CG gets cheaper than actors is the day that actor's cut their rates. Human actors will ALWAYS be cheaper than CG.
And yes, you don't have ego when you do CG, but the same rules about ego-reduction apply, too. :)
But... But... I wouldn't know what to think without Hollywood Actors and Actresses!
You do know that they're talking about one of the experimental landers, right? Just out curiosity, exactly how would YOU have fixed it? Do you think they should order another one out of the catalog? Start the engineering teams rebuilding one from scratch?
Sheesh, cut him some slack.
Maybe *you* should take a civics lesson... The concept of "judicial review", or the court's ability to overthrow laws that are unconstitutional are not in the constitution.
BFD. The roots of that decision come from the US constitution, not to mention that it was 200 years ago when they were still refining the role of the supreme court.
I'd like to see you quote the part of the constitution that says "The president is supposed to be elected by a simple majority of the public". It doesn't - but the traditional understanding is that the system is supposed to do something like that, which is why people got pissed when GWB got elected with a negative majority.
NOBODY that I know thinks the President is elected by a simply majority of the public. Maybe there is some trailer park person in Podunk who is so ignorant and so isolated that they never turn on the TV or read the newspaper where they explain it 500 times each Presidential election, but who cares?
Also I have heard very few people pissed that GWB won the election because of not having a national majority. The only griping I've heard is from people who didn't like the way the Florida ballots were counted.
Personally, I think the electoral system is a feature, not a bug, but that's an old argument that I don't feel resurrecting right now.
I'm curious about your comment about "the interests of EVERYONE", as it is quite apparent that Jack Valenti's interests are quite oppsed to the general public's interests(and rights).
Quite apparent to YOU, but obviously not to everyone. His interests are in protecting intellectual property, which makes it the interest of everyone who owns intellectual property. Like I've said multiple times, I have a very strong interest in seeing fair use rights preserved. And if his solutions do not take those into account, then I would be opposed to his particular solution.
But what you and people like you keep missing is that he has the right to protect his property against piracy. That is in the interest of every consumer, particularly THIS consumer who likes to be able to buy music, and believes that there are very real threats to the recording industry if mass unauthorized distribution gets out of control.
Drinking water is good for you. Drink lots of water.
Based on what evidence? I've always thought 8 glass of water thing was a crock.
When it is hot, humid, and I am outside, I can drink that 64 oz of water within an hour or less. The people who don't drink enough water get taken away in an ambulance.
Well, duh, obviously when it's hot and humid you need more water. But that's not what we're talking about. Under normal circumstances, you get more than enough fluids from the food you eat. Excess water/fluid just gets pissed out.
Apparently your dad is a moderator on Slashdot. :)
OK, I actually spent FIVE DOLLARS of my hard-earned money to set up a real web site (WHAT??? PAY FOR SOMETHING ON THE WEB YOU GOTTA BE FREAKIN' KIDDING ME...)
Check it out here. Sorry for the ugliness...
Sheesh! Geocities sucks. I can't believe I got THAT many visitors that fast, but it's already "over the limit". Well, I'll think of somewhere else to put the pictures (unless someone would like to mirror them for me...)
OK, back when I was about 8-10 years old (can't remember exactly), I got obsessed about building a robot. It simply had to be done, and I pestered my father (an electronics engineer) mercilessly about it. He tried to explain that it was just NOT a simple project, but I wouldn't listen.
Finally, I wore him down, and "we" (meaning him, and I watched) built a robotic hand. It was actually pretty clever, considering the primitiveness of it. The thumb, index finger and middle fingers were completed before I FINALLY lost interest and saw that it wasn't as easy as I thought.
He basically used some steel pipe that he filed into joints, and used springs to return the fingers to the outstretched position. A cable running through the pipe connected to the end of the finger tips caused them to contract.
Unfortunately, the middle finger broke off at one point, and has been lost. For the first time on the web, here are some pictures. It was made a little under 30 years ago or so. I should have taken a picture of the fingers contracted, but I didn't think of it until now. Maybe I'll go back and add one. :)
My father died about 10 years ago, but this is one my most treasured possessions. It's a testament to the fact that he seldom blew me off when I was interested in something, and did his best to help me (and I probably deserved to be blown off for this request!)
Been there, done that, you ignore what you don't like to hear.
And you always accept the truth, even when you don't want to hear it?
Face it, you don't want to "waste time with me" because YOU CAN'T. You are the typical Mac advocate that can't face the fact that Mac is an overpriced, underpowered machine. People have been posting comparisons of REAL APPLICATIONS, yet you refuse to accept the fact that the G4 is only 20% faster clock-for-clock with a P4.
How long are you going to knowingly put that LIE in your bio, when you know it's not the truth?
But hey, maybe I'm wrong. So far, you haven't posted one SHRED of evidence in your favor. Many people have posted evidence NOT in your favor. PROVE US WRONG.
If the Mac is as superior as you claim, it should be EASY.
OK, enough games. You and I both know why you won't ever take this challenge. It's because if you did any real research, you couldn't honestly put that bullshit in your bio. As long as you honestly "think it's true" without any facts, you can put it in your bio and continue to make claims so as to fool people into buying a Mac. But as soon as you try and get real facts, that game will be over, won't it? You won't be able to advocate the Mac anymore, because you'll be knowingly putting forth a lie.
Look, I have no problem if want to like Apple. You might like the design. You might like OS X. You might think that twice the price is worth it, and the performance is adequate. And that would be fine.
But this bullshit that your spewing doesn't do Apple any good. It just makes everyone think that all Apple advocates will say ANYTHING to get people to buy Apple. That's the biggest problem I have with Steve's advertising. He has to mislead people into buying Apple, instead of just focusing on the positive points of the Mac.
No, Congress's job is to represent the majority - it's the Supreme Court's job to slap them down when they infringe on the rights of the minority. (at least, if it's a right as defined in the constitution)
Good Lord man, time to take that civics course you've been eyeing, unless you can quote me where in the constutition that it says "Congress shall represent the interests of the majority, while the Supreme Court shall represent the interest of the minority."
Just for the record, Congress makes the laws that take into account the interests of EVERYONE, not just the majority. The Supreme Court interprets those laws when called upon by the lower courts. The Supreme Court (in theory, anyway) does NOT take into account in any way whatsoever the public good (of the majority OR the minority) when interpreting laws. The only question is whether laws are consistent and constutional.
The Supreme Court does not even get involved unless there is a lawsuit between two parties.
Jack Valenti doesn't get the ear of 30 Congressmen at one time because he's Jack Valenti of Los Angeles, he gets it because of the unproportional influence the organization he heads wields in Congress.
I care about my fair use rights to copy content for my personal use. I with all of you on that. I DO NOT care about my rights to mass distribute media to anonymous people.
And I think congress will start caring more about what "the people" think when "the people" start caring about suggesting solutions to piracy. Personally, I think the solution is "the industry should have the right to track down illegal trading and sue their ass". But I don't hear any "consumer advocates" saying anything like that. All I hear is whining by people like you.
And I also find it curious that you'd place the MPAA/RIAA on the side that doesn't want to "rip-off things", given how people like Chuck D., Courtney Love, Janis Ian, etc. have described their business practices.
These millionaire artists can change the system ANYTIME THEY WANT, so you'll excuse me for not having a lot of sympathy for their cause. Any time they want they can start up their own record companies. But funny how new record companies start to work like old record companies, because they have subsidize 100 failures for every 1 success.
Congress is suppose to represent the _Majority_, not a very small minority
Absolutely, positively, WRONG. In fact, I might argue that Congress's role is more important to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. Or do you think that the blacks should have been kept in slavery because a majority of the population thought slavery was OK?
Congress' role is to protect the rights of the people, not Jack Valenti's paycheck.
Guess what, Jack Valenti (and the people he represents) are just as much citizens as "the people".
As an aside, I'm also going to take from your post that you oppose the rights of people to have access to VCRs, audio tapes, Xerox machines, or pens, since they can all be used for, and have been used for, "stealing" from "creators."
[skipping a whole lot of stuff that basically boil down to the last sentence] Why can't people read an entire post, rather than just pick out and choose from what I say to come to the opposite conclusion of what I'm saying?
Let me quote myself: "Now, if you want to limit your criticism to stating that this is the WRONG WAY to prevent piracy and criticising the prevention of copying for personal use, then I'm with you."
The point is that Congress represents ALL THE PEOPLE, no matter how rich they are (!!), not just people who want to rip-off things. But apparently you think that rich people shouldn't have any rights because they are rich.
I pay $45 a month for my channels. That is not free. I should be able to record whatever is broadcast on them because I am paying for it.
You might want to learn what you're paying for, and from what law your rights derive.
First of all, that $45 is an access fee, not a purchase of rights to the material.
Second of all, your rights to record come from your fair use rights, and those are limited to your personal use (well, it's more complicated than that, but...). Your fair use rights to do NOT give you rebroadcast rights, particularly for a fee.