It's a cycle that everyone is caught in. The production companies need to have a large suite of channels so that they have bargaining leverage over the content delivery services (Comcast, AT&T, FiOS, YouTube TV, etc). The content delivery services merge so that they can have bargaining leverage over the production companies. It's very hard to make an economic case for a la carte if you are a production company because you will lose this leverage.
Even Netflix is not immune from this... they stick with the package deal as well, rather than the Amazon/iTunes/Pay Per View model. And look at their success! It even spurred the crusty old broadcast production companies to work together to put together a similar offering via Hulu. Amazon similarly needed to move away from a la carte with it's "Prime Video" service, and now Apple is making a similar move.
We are moving AWAY from a la carte, not toward it - and it seems to be a fundamental artifact of copyright law, not something that is going to change in the short term. Those of us who like a la carte are stuck with usenet or torrents.
You can "trick" them with similar-sounding words, but not with different-sounding words. They clearly hear some kind of pattern even if they don't hear their "name".
Those investigations will continue apace, as will the SDNY and other Federal investigations into, among other things, emoluments, conspiracy, fraud, charity fraud, campaign finance fraud, self-dealing with government monies, obstruction of justice ongoing, lies his son and daughter told to Congress, among a myriad of other unknown charges that will be coming to light over the next year to two years.
Well, no collusion. Your list is at least getting shorter. That's progress I suppose.
For what it's worth, most studies on Roundup were concerned with the level of exposure that consumers encounter. This is a bit different - these are agricultural workers with much heavier and different types of exposure. the typical consumer probably isn't breathing the stuff day in and day out.
How do you cope with "I'll kill your family if you don't vote for x"? And I don't mean that problem literally - but the more general problem of a voter who faces consequences if they vote the wrong way.
Vote by mail only works when things are going along quite well. We just witnessed what can happen when things do not go well in North Carolina, where the handful of mail in ballots spoiled the entire election. Vote by mail allows voter intimidation and vote buying - makes them almost trivial, in fact. People act as if "The Machine" in Chicago never happened, as if we somehow matured away from that sort of thing. No, we implemented hard-fought voting reforms that corrected the problem - some of which vote by mail now eliminates.
Of course you can develop military hardware, and the industrial infrastructure to manufacture it. But that takes time. The idea is to have such hardware toward the beginning of a conflict - very hard to build a factory once air superiority is forfeited and bombs rain down upon any ground movement. The idea of a US-European conflict is absurd - the US is the EU's security umbrella, and has been since WW2.
Some incarnation of it will almost certainly be in use. Maybe it won't be in every smartphone, tablet, and car like it is now - but there will almost certainly be servers running it, even if they are called "legacy systems", and even if they are virtualized.
I'm still on the T-Mobile "Walmart" plan, $30 for 5GB. That's $6/month/GB on a major carrier without trying very hard.
T-Mobile has a family plan that is "unlimited" (deprioritized at 50GB) for $40/month per line. Even if we call that 50GB a cap, that's only $0.80 per GB. And that includes Netflix, phone, and texts. Not seeing the point here.
I have to disagree that there is little good music/TV over the last 20 years. It's all subjective, of course, but we are in something of a golden age with TV in particular. With music, I used to spend half a day at the record store flipping through albums - trying some if I happened to be at one of the downtown places with the listening stations. After all that, I'd come away with an album or two, spending around $20-30. Now I can get an even better experience just sitting at my computer and not spend a dime. Radio music is largely garbage, but there are just as many talented artists making great music as there ever were. Yes, lower production costs mean crap has also grown exponentially - but I never run out of things to listen to.
I spend a tiny fraction on music compared to in the past. I discover music on YouTube or some other free streaming service and only buy when I really, really like it and want to listen repeatedly. In the bad ol' days, I'd hear one good song and buy an entire - sometimes terrible - album. Now I can try before I buy.
I'm also older, so there's that. Old people don't spend as much on music.
If they want us to think about lifecycle emissions, they should probably do a better job of calculating them. For instance, the word "cache" does not appear in the article even once. The pre-streaming status quo of keeping your own digital music library as superior to both the physical media and streaming options was not mentioned once.
Even the mentioning of CDs as not recyclable is straight-up retarded... as if CDs are a significant landfill problem... I can probably count on one hand how many CDs I've had to toss out.
This is a silly branch of argument you have descended down. Almost nothing used in "organic" farming would meet you criteria. Go ahead and chug some copper sulfate and get back to us.
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You sound like a puppet of Big Green.
It's a cycle that everyone is caught in. The production companies need to have a large suite of channels so that they have bargaining leverage over the content delivery services (Comcast, AT&T, FiOS, YouTube TV, etc). The content delivery services merge so that they can have bargaining leverage over the production companies. It's very hard to make an economic case for a la carte if you are a production company because you will lose this leverage.
Even Netflix is not immune from this... they stick with the package deal as well, rather than the Amazon/iTunes/Pay Per View model. And look at their success! It even spurred the crusty old broadcast production companies to work together to put together a similar offering via Hulu. Amazon similarly needed to move away from a la carte with it's "Prime Video" service, and now Apple is making a similar move.
We are moving AWAY from a la carte, not toward it - and it seems to be a fundamental artifact of copyright law, not something that is going to change in the short term. Those of us who like a la carte are stuck with usenet or torrents.
It sure beats reading monospaced font!
I know, right? That's something people would actually get PAID for!
You can "trick" them with similar-sounding words, but not with different-sounding words. They clearly hear some kind of pattern even if they don't hear their "name".
Mueller found some evidence of collusion
Where's your evidence of this evidence?
Those investigations will continue apace, as will the SDNY and other Federal investigations into, among other things, emoluments, conspiracy, fraud, charity fraud, campaign finance fraud, self-dealing with government monies, obstruction of justice ongoing, lies his son and daughter told to Congress, among a myriad of other unknown charges that will be coming to light over the next year to two years.
Well, no collusion. Your list is at least getting shorter. That's progress I suppose.
Dude, a jury found OJ not guilty. Don't sweat it.
For what it's worth, most studies on Roundup were concerned with the level of exposure that consumers encounter. This is a bit different - these are agricultural workers with much heavier and different types of exposure. the typical consumer probably isn't breathing the stuff day in and day out.
Tell your abusive husband about your "law" prohibiting coercion. Tell the "volunteers" that go to the retirement home that it's illegal.
How do you cope with "I'll kill your family if you don't vote for x"? And I don't mean that problem literally - but the more general problem of a voter who faces consequences if they vote the wrong way.
Vote by mail only works when things are going along quite well. We just witnessed what can happen when things do not go well in North Carolina, where the handful of mail in ballots spoiled the entire election. Vote by mail allows voter intimidation and vote buying - makes them almost trivial, in fact. People act as if "The Machine" in Chicago never happened, as if we somehow matured away from that sort of thing. No, we implemented hard-fought voting reforms that corrected the problem - some of which vote by mail now eliminates.
Of course you can develop military hardware, and the industrial infrastructure to manufacture it. But that takes time. The idea is to have such hardware toward the beginning of a conflict - very hard to build a factory once air superiority is forfeited and bombs rain down upon any ground movement. The idea of a US-European conflict is absurd - the US is the EU's security umbrella, and has been since WW2.
Where does Amazon have anything approaching a monopoly? Walmart alone has over half a trillion in revenue, more than double Amazon's.
If something I like disappears, then yeah I'll need to buy it.
Some incarnation of it will almost certainly be in use. Maybe it won't be in every smartphone, tablet, and car like it is now - but there will almost certainly be servers running it, even if they are called "legacy systems", and even if they are virtualized.
I'm still on the T-Mobile "Walmart" plan, $30 for 5GB. That's $6/month/GB on a major carrier without trying very hard.
T-Mobile has a family plan that is "unlimited" (deprioritized at 50GB) for $40/month per line. Even if we call that 50GB a cap, that's only $0.80 per GB. And that includes Netflix, phone, and texts. Not seeing the point here.
I have to disagree that there is little good music/TV over the last 20 years. It's all subjective, of course, but we are in something of a golden age with TV in particular. With music, I used to spend half a day at the record store flipping through albums - trying some if I happened to be at one of the downtown places with the listening stations. After all that, I'd come away with an album or two, spending around $20-30. Now I can get an even better experience just sitting at my computer and not spend a dime. Radio music is largely garbage, but there are just as many talented artists making great music as there ever were. Yes, lower production costs mean crap has also grown exponentially - but I never run out of things to listen to.
I spend a tiny fraction on music compared to in the past. I discover music on YouTube or some other free streaming service and only buy when I really, really like it and want to listen repeatedly. In the bad ol' days, I'd hear one good song and buy an entire - sometimes terrible - album. Now I can try before I buy.
I'm also older, so there's that. Old people don't spend as much on music.
We'll see how long that lasts - China has recently been increasingly hostile to expats.
Yeah, well, it was meant to be sarcasm. Oh, well.
We definitely shouldn't take any actions that make China unhappy.
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Please don't eat the Tide pods.
If they want us to think about lifecycle emissions, they should probably do a better job of calculating them. For instance, the word "cache" does not appear in the article even once. The pre-streaming status quo of keeping your own digital music library as superior to both the physical media and streaming options was not mentioned once.
Even the mentioning of CDs as not recyclable is straight-up retarded... as if CDs are a significant landfill problem... I can probably count on one hand how many CDs I've had to toss out.
This is a silly branch of argument you have descended down. Almost nothing used in "organic" farming would meet you criteria. Go ahead and chug some copper sulfate and get back to us.
I've seen this show.