Considering that my Black MacBook (2006) lasted eight years, it was a good investment.
My XPS from 2006 is still with me, but the equivalent Macbook would have been far more expensive. What is your point?
Today that price difference is not nearly as much. Looking at (as best I could find, not exactly) comparable systems, a Dell 15" XPS laptop is $0.99 MORE than a MacBook Pro 15". The Dell has a touch-screen but the MacBook Pro has an SSD and other differences. Perhaps if you took more time than I just did to build as close a system as possible the Dell would be cheaper, but I didn't find that.
Never mind this being the stupidest idea on earth, we already have a wealth tax, and it has a name: inflation
How does inflation fund government services to the general populace? Genuinely curious. I like taxes, I get a benefit from them. I don't see much benefit from inflation (that I am aware of but I am ignorant of much macroeconomics).
Why would I want Comcast internet service? We're talking about the cheapest way to get HBO today.
From your link:
Comcast’s current monthly service charge for Internet Plus is $69.95, HBO® is $19.99, and Streampix® is $4.99 (pricing subject to change)
Which is $95 a month PLUS:
Equipment, installation, taxes and fees, including Broadcast TV Fee (currently up to $1.50/mo.) extra, such charges and fees subject to change during and after the promotion.
An unknown amount of fees they don't disclose on that page, which might change during your TWO YEAR CONTRACT. No idea what the termination fees are.
So, according to what you linked, I was wrong about the $140/mo + whatever fees cable package and indeed you can get HBO cheaper by having a cable internet connection going into your house that's going to sit there unused for $95/mo + whatever fees.
If they were increasing their subscriber numbers they'd make more money unless the new subscribers were only giving them a fraction of what they make. I imagine, with ESPN being pretty much the one thing keeping cable subscription fees so high, that they make a LOT more than $10 a month per household that has cable. I might be wrong, but I remember reading that ESPN is the backbone of cable subscriptions.
In my market for me to subscribe to HBO it costs somewhere north of $130 a month,....
And out of those 130 USD, HBO makes maybe (maybe) 10 USD, or so... if not less...
I don't know how much HBO makes, I care about my cost and value received. Now that there is an option to not pay $120 for other crap I don't care about, I'll give them money. Until then, my only option was $140 a month.
Many do. They don't care about shelling out over a hundred dollars a month for the couple of shows they might watch. Especially if they are not cable shows like Big Bang Theory or Nova or much of what's on the broadcast networks.
I'm in the Seattle market and my quote was from the Comcast website for the lowest tier (without Internet, cable only) which had an option of adding HBO.
In my market for me to subscribe to HBO it costs somewhere north of $130 a month, though they can't actually tell me how much before selling it to me. Of course, I would get all sorts of other channels, but if I only want HBO, that's the cheapest I can get it today. That's why HBO selling directly to me might actually get money out of me. HBO is not worth $130 a month to me.
Comcast’s current monthly service charges for Digital Premier TV, ranges based on area, from $127.99 to $143.49 (pricing subject to change).
IF they will give me episodes... 2) Of quality at least as good as cable feeds
That's not a very tall order, considering now much most cable companies compress their feeds. Since I switched to OTA my quality seems an order of magnitude better.
I imagine they make a lot more than $10 per cable subscriber per month. If what I imagine is true, then they might not want their cable subscribers to leave the cable system and only pay them $10 via Amazon (less after Amazon's cut).
I agree that there are many better solutions than the system we have in the US today but there are options if one disagrees with the social norms (birth control is a social norm, for example). One could opt out of employer purchased health insurance and buy ones own from a company that does not cover birth control. Insurance is a shared experience by a group. One has to balance their views with the views of the group. It's silly to insist that the rest of the group follow one's worldview when one could join a different group.
I'm a man and I'm glad that insurance covers birth control for birth control does society a truck load of good.
If you want to only pay for the medical expenses YOU use, then what you want is not insurance but just pay out of pocket for everything. Insurance is a *shared* way of distributing costs. Many such costs will NEVER be relevant to you.
The dealers I've dealt with treated a cashiers check no differently than a personal check, for some reason: requiring a financing agreement in case the cashier's check bounced. So, at least according to them, it's not just like cash.
It's a hack to get around with the fact that things are built in a stupid way. If you came up with a real solution, a password manager would probably be useless, or at least redundant.
There are better solutions of course. They are not yet widely implemented. I'm sure glad that we've had internal combustion engine automobiles as an imperfect tool before we adopt whatever better technology we adopt in the future. Just like I am glad we have password managers today before we move to whatever better authentication technology we adopt be they certificates or whatever else. I will gladly dump an antiquated tool then. Until then, they're not really antiquated.
That's one dealership. Most dealerships take checks, some require silly process to take a check. Many dealerships have commented about how few cash deals they get, but they do get them (cash meaning no financing). Usually they're happy to accept a check but not always in which case they are happy to take cash. No one is looking for a solution to any problem here, merely that there are legitimate uses for cash in large denominations. They don't have to come up often though. I don't use $100 bills every day, but I'm glad they exist when I do need them on occasion.
Yes and looks rather conspicuous walking down the street, whereas $30,000 in thousands fits in my wallet and looks rather inconspicuous. I was merely answering what need one might have for higher denomination bills.
I don't have the memory bandwidth to memorize a hundred unique passwords. I memorize four or five passwords (my email, my bank, my work, my home and my password manager). For everything else (my Slashdot, my wifi, etc) I use a password manager.
Great. As I said, "There are plenty of scenarios for which a password manager is helpful." Good for you for finding some. It's still not a real solution to the problem.
No one said it was an ideal solution, but it is a valuable component of a good solution.
What advantage can you think of that a $1000 bill has over 10 x $100 bills
They take up one tenth the space and weight, obviously? Just because you don't make cash transactions over a couple of hundred dollars, does not mean that people don't make cash transactions over a couple of thousand dollars.
I recently wanted to buy a car. In order to take a personal check or cashiers check, the dealership required me signing a financing agreement in the case the check bounced. I refused to do that, for why should I want a hard credit pull for a cash transaction? The only other option they would take was cash. Carrying $40,000 in hundreds is far more annoying and dangerous than in thousand or five thousand dollar bills.
I don't have the memory bandwidth to memorize a hundred unique passwords. I memorize four or five passwords (my email, my bank, my work, my home and my password manager). For everything else (my Slashdot, my wifi, etc) I use a password manager. Given that most websites uses email password resets just remembering my email password means I can log into almost anywhere from anywhere with a network connection.
Yes, very few tools are stellar in every scenario. That's why I use the tool for the less-critical scenarios and remember the critical ones. Even if I were to forget my password manager password and lose access to my password manager permanently, I can recreate those 100 passwords given some time.
For your set of requirements yes. Many people are okay with carrying a trusted device. For that scenario, which is quite common, there are good password managers.
Perhaps I misunderstand you. It seems like you want a database/file that is accessible from any internet-connected device regardless of software installed upon it. That's a desire I don't know how to ensure. Windows does not have an SSH client without running a downloaded binary. Not all machines have browsers. Those that do, I am not sure I would trust their browser.
I would say that for this to be true, I'd need a "good password manager" that was easily and transparently accessible on any platform that can access the internet, without installing anything, and without exposing my password to others.
That's a fairly impossible requirement to meet. If you want to access your secure store from an untrusted machine--which it sounds like you do--then there are no good password managers.
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Considering that my Black MacBook (2006) lasted eight years, it was a good investment.
My XPS from 2006 is still with me, but the equivalent Macbook would have been far more expensive. What is your point?
Today that price difference is not nearly as much. Looking at (as best I could find, not exactly) comparable systems, a Dell 15" XPS laptop is $0.99 MORE than a MacBook Pro 15". The Dell has a touch-screen but the MacBook Pro has an SSD and other differences. Perhaps if you took more time than I just did to build as close a system as possible the Dell would be cheaper, but I didn't find that.
Never mind this being the stupidest idea on earth, we already have a wealth tax, and it has a name: inflation
How does inflation fund government services to the general populace? Genuinely curious. I like taxes, I get a benefit from them. I don't see much benefit from inflation (that I am aware of but I am ignorant of much macroeconomics).
Why would I want Comcast internet service? We're talking about the cheapest way to get HBO today.
From your link:
Comcast’s current monthly service charge for Internet Plus is $69.95, HBO® is $19.99, and Streampix® is $4.99 (pricing subject to change)
Which is $95 a month PLUS:
Equipment, installation, taxes and fees, including Broadcast TV Fee (currently up to $1.50/mo.) extra, such charges and fees subject to change during and after the promotion.
An unknown amount of fees they don't disclose on that page, which might change during your TWO YEAR CONTRACT. No idea what the termination fees are.
So, according to what you linked, I was wrong about the $140/mo + whatever fees cable package and indeed you can get HBO cheaper by having a cable internet connection going into your house that's going to sit there unused for $95/mo + whatever fees.
If they were increasing their subscriber numbers they'd make more money unless the new subscribers were only giving them a fraction of what they make. I imagine, with ESPN being pretty much the one thing keeping cable subscription fees so high, that they make a LOT more than $10 a month per household that has cable. I might be wrong, but I remember reading that ESPN is the backbone of cable subscriptions.
In my market for me to subscribe to HBO it costs somewhere north of $130 a month, ....
And out of those 130 USD, HBO makes maybe (maybe) 10 USD, or so... if not less...
I don't know how much HBO makes, I care about my cost and value received. Now that there is an option to not pay $120 for other crap I don't care about, I'll give them money. Until then, my only option was $140 a month.
Cord cutters don't care about picture quality.
Many do. They don't care about shelling out over a hundred dollars a month for the couple of shows they might watch. Especially if they are not cable shows like Big Bang Theory or Nova or much of what's on the broadcast networks.
I'm in the Seattle market and my quote was from the Comcast website for the lowest tier (without Internet, cable only) which had an option of adding HBO.
HBO $20/month tv + straming
In my market for me to subscribe to HBO it costs somewhere north of $130 a month, though they can't actually tell me how much before selling it to me. Of course, I would get all sorts of other channels, but if I only want HBO, that's the cheapest I can get it today. That's why HBO selling directly to me might actually get money out of me. HBO is not worth $130 a month to me.
Comcast’s current monthly service charges for Digital Premier TV, ranges based on area, from $127.99 to $143.49 (pricing subject to change).
IF they will give me episodes...
2) Of quality at least as good as cable feeds
That's not a very tall order, considering now much most cable companies compress their feeds. Since I switched to OTA my quality seems an order of magnitude better.
I imagine they make a lot more than $10 per cable subscriber per month. If what I imagine is true, then they might not want their cable subscribers to leave the cable system and only pay them $10 via Amazon (less after Amazon's cut).
I agree that there are many better solutions than the system we have in the US today but there are options if one disagrees with the social norms (birth control is a social norm, for example). One could opt out of employer purchased health insurance and buy ones own from a company that does not cover birth control. Insurance is a shared experience by a group. One has to balance their views with the views of the group. It's silly to insist that the rest of the group follow one's worldview when one could join a different group.
I'm a man and I'm glad that insurance covers birth control for birth control does society a truck load of good.
Why would the Mainstream Media say a retraction of the CIA report that said there were no WMD stockpiles?
If you want to only pay for the medical expenses YOU use, then what you want is not insurance but just pay out of pocket for everything. Insurance is a *shared* way of distributing costs. Many such costs will NEVER be relevant to you.
Also, car sales in my state are not anonymous, they require signing over a title which has an owner's name on it.
The dealers I've dealt with treated a cashiers check no differently than a personal check, for some reason: requiring a financing agreement in case the cashier's check bounced. So, at least according to them, it's not just like cash.
It's a hack to get around with the fact that things are built in a stupid way. If you came up with a real solution, a password manager would probably be useless, or at least redundant.
There are better solutions of course. They are not yet widely implemented. I'm sure glad that we've had internal combustion engine automobiles as an imperfect tool before we adopt whatever better technology we adopt in the future. Just like I am glad we have password managers today before we move to whatever better authentication technology we adopt be they certificates or whatever else. I will gladly dump an antiquated tool then. Until then, they're not really antiquated.
That's one dealership. Most dealerships take checks, some require silly process to take a check. Many dealerships have commented about how few cash deals they get, but they do get them (cash meaning no financing). Usually they're happy to accept a check but not always in which case they are happy to take cash. No one is looking for a solution to any problem here, merely that there are legitimate uses for cash in large denominations. They don't have to come up often though. I don't use $100 bills every day, but I'm glad they exist when I do need them on occasion.
Yes and looks rather conspicuous walking down the street, whereas $30,000 in thousands fits in my wallet and looks rather inconspicuous. I was merely answering what need one might have for higher denomination bills.
I don't have the memory bandwidth to memorize a hundred unique passwords. I memorize four or five passwords (my email, my bank, my work, my home and my password manager). For everything else (my Slashdot, my wifi, etc) I use a password manager.
Great. As I said, "There are plenty of scenarios for which a password manager is helpful." Good for you for finding some. It's still not a real solution to the problem.
No one said it was an ideal solution, but it is a valuable component of a good solution.
What advantage can you think of that a $1000 bill has over 10 x $100 bills
They take up one tenth the space and weight, obviously? Just because you don't make cash transactions over a couple of hundred dollars, does not mean that people don't make cash transactions over a couple of thousand dollars.
I recently wanted to buy a car. In order to take a personal check or cashiers check, the dealership required me signing a financing agreement in the case the check bounced. I refused to do that, for why should I want a hard credit pull for a cash transaction? The only other option they would take was cash. Carrying $40,000 in hundreds is far more annoying and dangerous than in thousand or five thousand dollar bills.
Ever buy a new car with cash? $30,000 in hundred dollar bills is annoying to carry and count in $20s.
I don't have the memory bandwidth to memorize a hundred unique passwords. I memorize four or five passwords (my email, my bank, my work, my home and my password manager). For everything else (my Slashdot, my wifi, etc) I use a password manager. Given that most websites uses email password resets just remembering my email password means I can log into almost anywhere from anywhere with a network connection.
Yes, very few tools are stellar in every scenario. That's why I use the tool for the less-critical scenarios and remember the critical ones. Even if I were to forget my password manager password and lose access to my password manager permanently, I can recreate those 100 passwords given some time.
there are no good password managers.
Yes, that was what I was pointing out.
For your set of requirements yes. Many people are okay with carrying a trusted device. For that scenario, which is quite common, there are good password managers.
Perhaps I misunderstand you. It seems like you want a database/file that is accessible from any internet-connected device regardless of software installed upon it. That's a desire I don't know how to ensure. Windows does not have an SSH client without running a downloaded binary. Not all machines have browsers. Those that do, I am not sure I would trust their browser.
What is it you actually want?
I would say that for this to be true, I'd need a "good password manager" that was easily and transparently accessible on any platform that can access the internet, without installing anything, and without exposing my password to others.
That's a fairly impossible requirement to meet. If you want to access your secure store from an untrusted machine--which it sounds like you do--then there are no good password managers.