Get a QAM box and a coax distro in your basement and run video to every room. TV's still have coax inputs. This way you could have broadcast HDTV, BluRay, DVD, or even an Apple TV in a single location and have your own broadcast network. All depends on how much video content you consume.
Yeah a $12 oor$ light is asinine. The only people trying to do it right are the Foo Fighters. Tickets go on sale at the arena a day or two BEFORE they go on sale at Ticketdisaster to the public/ internet. All seats max out at $65 with at least a third of the arena available at $35. They want the fans to attend. Last show of theirs I saw was about 3 hours. That's how it's done!
This is more incumbent on us the consumers and FOMO. Promoters and marketers have done an amazing job at jacking up prices and making it sound like it'll be the only opportunity to see whatever. The first time I had ever heard of a $50 ticket was for Pink Floyd in 1995. Given the spectacle it was worth it. But since then shows and sporting events have become cost prohibitive. The $20 concert has become a $110 nosebleed seat plus "convenience" charges. The $30 NFL ticket has become $275. This is all assuming that you can buy them at face value. The legalization of ticket scalping by places like Stub Hub increases that price even more. The only way to combat that is to sacrifice attendance and voting with your wallet.
As far as your NFL watching, I agree 3 hrs was all it used to be, but the constant barrage of hyped, nonsensical media coverage throughout the year and them increasing the schedule from all the games on Sunday afternoon (late morning and afternoon game) and one Monday night spectacle (all on broadcast BTW) to a Thursday night game, Sunday late morning, afternoon, and sometimes two at night, plus a Monday night game (sometimes an early and late) I think dilutes the product and has forced me, as the consumer, to become disinterested. Taking the whole family to a game requires either dedication or a vast amount of disposable income that the average fan just doesn't have.
I'm not sure where all this leads, but I know for myself I will be paring back my concert attendance and sporting events are going to be severely limited as well. Not that I don't enjoy them, they've become increasingly less important in my life and too expensive.
I have no place in that world. I would MUCH rather go to a game, concert, or event. Why are tech companies trying to keep me in my house? We need MORE human interaction, not less.
Couldn't they have just invested the $572M in other companies and projects or a mutual fund and reaped WAY more money that would be achieved by potentially gouging future customers?
Imagine that, another multibillion dollar Lockheed project that doesn't perform as ordered. And people complain about the $500/mo that a single mom gets in welfare.
The F-16 was a fine aircraft. The F-35 and F-22 have been nothing but disappointments. Neither have lived up to their billing. I think the insider bidding that Lockheed did in order to get those two contracts and the unfulfilled promises of their products should be reason enough to not only revoke the contracts, but they should pay the tax payers back (with interest) and they should be banned from future aviation contracts of this size for at least the next 3 projects. The amount of waste in military contracts and needless spending on hapless projects is insane. Wake up.
Time to reregulate telecommunications. Private enterprise has essentially left us Comcast as a sole "choice" in large cities for cable/ internet and Direct TV as a satellite provider. Competition is gone and monopolies are born. So much for a free market.
OK not really. I knew someone with severe PTSD and after going through electroshock they were much better. They were able to be happy once again. While it may seem barbaric and extreme, think about what kind of extreme pain got them there in the first place.
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Get a QAM box and a coax distro in your basement and run video to every room. TV's still have coax inputs. This way you could have broadcast HDTV, BluRay, DVD, or even an Apple TV in a single location and have your own broadcast network. All depends on how much video content you consume.
Contain cheese. There are conflicting reports.
Does this mean all of my Periodic Tables are wrong???
The predictions are here!
Yeah a $12 oor$ light is asinine. The only people trying to do it right are the Foo Fighters. Tickets go on sale at the arena a day or two BEFORE they go on sale at Ticketdisaster to the public/ internet. All seats max out at $65 with at least a third of the arena available at $35. They want the fans to attend. Last show of theirs I saw was about 3 hours. That's how it's done!
This is more incumbent on us the consumers and FOMO. Promoters and marketers have done an amazing job at jacking up prices and making it sound like it'll be the only opportunity to see whatever. The first time I had ever heard of a $50 ticket was for Pink Floyd in 1995. Given the spectacle it was worth it. But since then shows and sporting events have become cost prohibitive. The $20 concert has become a $110 nosebleed seat plus "convenience" charges. The $30 NFL ticket has become $275. This is all assuming that you can buy them at face value. The legalization of ticket scalping by places like Stub Hub increases that price even more. The only way to combat that is to sacrifice attendance and voting with your wallet. As far as your NFL watching, I agree 3 hrs was all it used to be, but the constant barrage of hyped, nonsensical media coverage throughout the year and them increasing the schedule from all the games on Sunday afternoon (late morning and afternoon game) and one Monday night spectacle (all on broadcast BTW) to a Thursday night game, Sunday late morning, afternoon, and sometimes two at night, plus a Monday night game (sometimes an early and late) I think dilutes the product and has forced me, as the consumer, to become disinterested. Taking the whole family to a game requires either dedication or a vast amount of disposable income that the average fan just doesn't have. I'm not sure where all this leads, but I know for myself I will be paring back my concert attendance and sporting events are going to be severely limited as well. Not that I don't enjoy them, they've become increasingly less important in my life and too expensive.
I have no place in that world. I would MUCH rather go to a game, concert, or event. Why are tech companies trying to keep me in my house? We need MORE human interaction, not less.
Couldn't they have just invested the $572M in other companies and projects or a mutual fund and reaped WAY more money that would be achieved by potentially gouging future customers?
I am a legionaire and I would never pay that much for a phone.
Why is the US government protecting the monopoly that is Cisco?
"Clean coal..."
That's the water level that for which your boss is willing to sell out your livability. #Merica
We find things. We are smart.
I've always been told MacKeeper is malware.
Imagine that, another multibillion dollar Lockheed project that doesn't perform as ordered. And people complain about the $500/mo that a single mom gets in welfare.
Why is Bitcoin anything?
The F-16 was a fine aircraft. The F-35 and F-22 have been nothing but disappointments. Neither have lived up to their billing. I think the insider bidding that Lockheed did in order to get those two contracts and the unfulfilled promises of their products should be reason enough to not only revoke the contracts, but they should pay the tax payers back (with interest) and they should be banned from future aviation contracts of this size for at least the next 3 projects. The amount of waste in military contracts and needless spending on hapless projects is insane. Wake up.
And I'm sure all the artists are rejoicing in the victory that they'll financially benefit from handsomely!!!
Trying to still keep Nikola Tesla down even from the grave!
Time to reregulate telecommunications. Private enterprise has essentially left us Comcast as a sole "choice" in large cities for cable/ internet and Direct TV as a satellite provider. Competition is gone and monopolies are born. So much for a free market.
OK not really. I knew someone with severe PTSD and after going through electroshock they were much better. They were able to be happy once again. While it may seem barbaric and extreme, think about what kind of extreme pain got them there in the first place.
I hope that ALL GMO crops are banned worldwide, including the US.
Form Blazing Sword!!!
I was thinking like desert or throw a magnifying glass in front of it.