I wonder if he did this as retribution to something she said to him. If so, he is likely a hero in the tech support trenches of Hyderabad. If that isn't the case, then "off with his head". (Quoting Alice In Wonderland for those who might be too literal minded.)
I've always wondered why the rovers aren't designed with bigger wheels and bubble-ish tires (not saying they have to be inflated) like on a truck outfitted for work in a swamp. Every time we read that one of the existing rovers got stuck and the folks at JPL were working on getting it unstuck, I'd think the same thing.
Comparing yourself and what you have to deal with, with what a policeman has to deal with is absolutely stupid. How many times have you had someone spit on you. How many times have you had someone high on PCP try to take your head off. How many times have you had drunks abuse you. How many times have you had to deal with TV trained lawyers who are either idiots, high, drunk, insane, or all of the above. I would bet that you went from high school to college to work and lived life in a nice middle class cocoon all the way through. Having to stand on the bus is a hard time. Or having to fuel your own vehicle. I have to say it again, comparing what you deal with every day to what cops deal with is clueless and insulting to those who have to keep your city safe. 99.99% of the time cops ARE very professional. Guess what? It is easy to be dogmatic, judgmental, and clueless from an armchair or office desk. Arguments like yours put you in league with the aspergers morons with the video cameras. I can picture it now... according to you a cop can call a committee meeting with a crack head and tick off on the action items list "crack head to check in to remand at the local jail" and wow look at that.... the crack head says, "I'll get right on it sir" and walks to the jail. No wonder you are upset when cops occasionally snap. Give me a break.
Then the programmers of the open source software projects will finally get a decent payday without some prick forking their code and diluting their potential customer/profit pool so he/she can't make a living. And then having the mother forker fucking up the code and giving them both a bad name. Then the OSS developer will be able to afford to fork the original and enhance the original to really make a quality product that can be sold and used until another prick forks his/her work and dilutes the potential customer/profit base. Or perhaps until Oracle decides to use and enhance the original.
Cops are human beings too. This idea that they should behave like robots is horeshit, and anyone who thinks differently is an Asperger's retard who has no concept on how real human being behave and feel. They are constantly under threat by criminals and other low lifes, and even supposed 'civil' society merely tolerates their existence as being a necessary evil. Now we have a group of conspiracy theorists running around with video cameras constantly trying to catch the police out of context and at their worst. And usually this is not 'at their worst' in the sense that they are bad people, but more like they just chased a guy who broke the law, probably punched or shot at the cop, and totally disrespected them (not as police but just as a human being) because they are police trying to do their jobs (catching law breakers). Or they just got through dealing with someone like that and kept their cool, and then snap when some rich prick in a sports car caught doing 200 mph calls the cops nazis and tells them to catch 'real' criminals (the same guy who will probably kill a pedestrian next week because he is speeding and texting). Cops have to deal with this shit all the time and almost never snap. They deal with assholes every day for weeks on end before who try to push their luck, trying to cause a disturbance and play on the frustrations that police as human beings see every day. So once in a while they snap. No wonder. And there is always some camera freak filming hoping to catch one of those times.
Why don't we see these camera toting conspiracy assholes posting videos of the police doing something nice, or just doing their job without snapping? It is because they are conspiracy assholes trying to find shit to post of people trying to do a tough and trying jobs when some idiot has just added the last straw to the proverbial camels back. They are assholes full of themselves and how they are 'helping society by exposing all the dirty cops'. The reason they only show the cops in a bad light is because people would be bored stiff of the hours of routine and uneventful activities and interactions that is the reality of police activities. But the videotrons wouldn't make a name for themselves if they showed something good going on.
If these pricks were really trying to help society and were that close to the real bad guys (since they always happen to be there when the cops show up) why don't they film the crimes that cops are showing up to investigate? Why didn't they try to stop the bad guys from breaking the law? It is because they have no interest in really helping society, their only agenda is to try to fuck over police. If the police weren't around, these camera toting pricks would probably be the ones robbing your house. They wouldn't mug you... they are cowards who don't have the guts to do anything themselves.
What we should be marveling on is that the police don't just haul back and shoot more jerks out there. Yes police need to show restraint, but they aren't machines. So give it a fucking rest already. No wonder they are fighting back against assholes who post out of context one sided videos. If you had a group of retards constantly trying to capture you at a bad moment and only posting those one sided videos so they could claim you and your colleagues are all evil, you would do everything you could to shut it down too. It is a HUMAN reaction to people riding your back all the time. And if you say you wouldn't I'm calling you a fucking liar right now. Until we see some balance to this shit, then I for one back the cops on this.
Oh by the way, pushing and pulling colour film is like a dice game. The colour curves for colour film are separate. That is, each of the RGB layers has a different response curve (with respect to exposure time), that overlap for a short range that allows one to be able to take a picture. So when you push or pull they don't all 'move' together. That is why you can see hard shifts into the red (on the finished product with C41) for example when you push film from say 800 to 3600 or 6400 iso. That is one area where digital excels over film.
With black and white, there is so much you can do with the print making. And given that the latitude of a bw print is so much greater than with digital, it would be a good thing to try out. But I can't fault you with sticking with digital. Print making is pretty involved and messy, requiring significant investment in tools, time, and money.:) Cheers.
If you are working with black and white, and want to try alternate chemistry and aren't afraid of chemistry, get Ansel Adam's book "The Negative". It is part of his three book series on his method of photography ("The Camera", "The Negative", and "The Print"... all of which are worth their weight in gold). In the last part of the book he goes through different chemical formulations for creating your own developers based on what you are trying to do. Also if you are working with black and white, look at his 10 stop film latitude methods and how he played with contrast. i.e. shoot for the shadow and modify the processing time to either increase or decrease the contrast on the negative itself. You can also try 'accelerator' additives for developing. Screwing around with film processing and print making is very cool IMO, and what makes/keeps film print making as a real art form that shouldn't be lost. For B&W printing, see if you can find 'Oriental' brand 'Seagull' fibre bases paper. If you do get some, at the very end give it a bath in very dilute (archival dilution) of selenium toner. The blacks on the print will turn so black it is astounding and very cool. You won't regret it.
Yeah, I guess it is whether you consider a modified bleach process as cross processing. Some do, some don't. I can definitely see why someone would consider it something else altogether. As for your trip to Africa, I've found that often Lonely Planet guides/books have quite useful information on things even down to where you can get various types of film processing; even in third world countries. You might want to pick up a guide at your local travel/book store for whatever country(s) it is you're going. Unless maybe you are going to be filming the war in Congo or some other place where the modern world will be.... errrr.... less modern. Of course depending what you find out when you get your feet on the ground, it might be better to just hold on to the film until you get home.:) From my experience, it is also a good idea that if you do elect to get someone to process film while you are there, to give them only a roll or two on a couple of occasions before giving them all your stuff.
You can cross process it as well. If you shoot Ektachrome (E-6) type color positive film at double the rated ISO and process it in a C41 process (normally only used for negative film), you get what is called a cross processed negative. It gives exaggerated color effects and sometimes added grain. Examples of E-6 film are Kodak Ektachrome, Fujifilm Velvia, Fujichrome Sensia, etc.
Personally when I used to do this, I also often asked the lab to develop the film at half the rated ISO. But it is good to experiment to see what you like. And then it is important to do your own print making when using cross processed film since you can tune the color shifts using the color enlarger's filters. You need find a good commercial lab that caters to pro photographers for good results, rather than places that cater to amateur/happy snap film processing. I have to admit that when I did cross processed photography it was mostly as an experiment/learning experience. Normally I stuck with black and white. And I haven't really done a lot lately.
This won't work with Kodachrome since the dyes are in the chemicals and not on the film. Cross processing just wipes the image completely off of the Kodachrome film, leaving you with nothing.
You can also cross process from print film to color positive (C41 film processed as E-6), but because color negative film has an added orange mask (since the red and green layers of the film are somewhat sensitive to blue light too), you can get a blueish tinge on the finished cross processed slide. Additionally, there are also methods to partially bleach film while being process which is also considered a form of cross processing.
Although I am not certain of the chemistry involved, quite a few big budget Hollywood movies use/used cross processing to gain a surreal effect. Normal movie film stock is actually a 'negative' film which must be printed. Examples include "Three Kings" with George Clooney, Blackhawk Down, etc.
All my Kodachrome slides, dating back to the 70s, look as good now as the day they came back from the lab.
That makes me wonder. How long will a digital picture last in archival quality when stored on a hard drive if it isn't accessed very often. For example if you knew you needed a particular stock photo that was on Kodachrome photographed and processed thirty plus years ago (but stored that whole time), I would expect the Kodachrome color positive to still be in good shape. What if you have a similar circumstance with a digital photo; taking into account that with the age of digital technology you might have to wait 15 to 25 years from now for the same circumstance (assuming that only 5+ megapixel shots are worth using)? Will the pictures have degraded in time on the drive. i.e. will there be a magnetic bleed on the tracks of the traditional hard drive or in the solid state memory that will make the pictures muddy, for example?
This is a man with some psychological problems who appears to have made a very very stupid decision
On behalf of all those who are sick and tired of the politically correct making these kinds of excuses and justifications for not punishing someone who broke the law... from jay walking to murder: Shut the FUCK up already.
I don't think most anti ship missiles are supersonic. Harpoons, Exocets, etc. are subsonic yet still highly effective. I know some of the big Russian missiles like the 'shipwreck' are supersonic. So it's a mixed bag.:)
I read somewhere that most companies that produce map datum add small errors as a kind of watermark to prove the datum is theirs, in cases where they find that someone took the datum without paying for it. So there will always be slight errors, a hill where there isn't one, or a bend in a straight road, etc. Nothing big, not too many, and nothing noticeable unless you happen to live very close to where the intentional error is.
I think many of us were thinking exactly the same thing. They can offshore them to the same companies that are taking care of all our banking and credit card systems.
How well does a laser punch through heavy fog and rain that one will definitely run into at sea; especially in places like the North and South Atlantic? I am pretty sure a 20mm cannon shell will travel quite a distance through fog. Considering the energy of such a laser I'd expect it to be able to burn its way through fog and rain, but how much will be absorbed between the emitter and the target? Just asking.
Speaking of which, the apex predator for shrimp are whales. I wonder what is happening to them because of the antidepressants. What are the implications of a bunch of mellow whales swimming around the ocean? Or do humans eat more shrimp than whales now? Does that mean we will become more mellow. Is that why the people along the coasts of the U.S. are more mellowed out and easy going with each other than those in the interior? Could this be the real reason for the drop in crime rate in New York City? All the shrimp cocktails? Someone open a Red Lobster franchise in Kabul quickly!;)
I saw a film once of a (real) motorcycle race. They were showing wipe outs. One guy lost it at about 180 mph down the straight away... can't remember what exactly happened. Anyway, he hit the pavement about halfway down the maybe 3/4 mile straight away. He slid all the way to the corner and hit the hay bails like a ton of bricks. There was a pause and then he scrawled out of what was by then a hay stack, walked to grass on the inside side of the corner and threw his helmet at the ground as hard as he could. i.e. he was really pissed off. Then he walked away. Skin tight leathers. A very good idea. Almost as good as wearing a helmet. I never understood some people in the states that allow it who never wore a helmet, never mind at least a proper motorcycle jacket.:)
I was mainly thinking about the idea of 'market driven conversion'. FM is regulated by the FCC and the CRTC in North America. Satellite is digital, and not regulated the same. These factors are creating a market driven conversion in themselves. Not to mention that I can listen to the same station in the home, in the car, and any place I happen to be on the continent. Providing of course I have sky to the satellite from where I am, or the city has local repeaters (the units funny enough use, I believe, digital radio signals to help with urban canyons in a number of 'big cities'). Content itself is a big driver of market adoption. A very big driver. It is why cable TV is so big. Over the air signals are free, but people pay a lot of money for cable specifically because of the content.:) And with respect to radio, content is directly connected to the technology. Granted local FM works just fine. But that IS the biggest issue that I, and others find. FM radio is local. I have friends who choose to do 50 or 60 mile commutes rather than move closer to the city. Radio stations change/go out of range even in that short span. So many of these guys have purchased satellite radio because the technology allows them to have uninterrupted signals, and therefore uninterrupted content.
I bought a satellite receiver for my car when I was doing a cross country road trip and got sick of God Squad radio and Rush Limbaugh clones which is all you can get in many parts of rural America (between the cities). I bought it in Salt Lake City after driving through rural Washington State, Idaho, and Utah, about 1/4 of my trip... go figure. I was able to get a deal that I don't think is available any more, lifetime subscription for as long as I own the receiver for about $500 (and I am allowed to replace it at least once). This is a form of digital radio. I can tell you that I never listen to over the air radio any more. The selection of stations and the subject matter is far better, and not having to go through the FCC or the CRTC (in Canada) means that bullshit censorship is bypassed. I can bring the receiver inside and dock it to my home system as well. I will never go back to FM except when I want to listen to the TVs in the gym.
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I wonder if he did this as retribution to something she said to him. If so, he is likely a hero in the tech support trenches of Hyderabad. If that isn't the case, then "off with his head". (Quoting Alice In Wonderland for those who might be too literal minded.)
I've always wondered why the rovers aren't designed with bigger wheels and bubble-ish tires (not saying they have to be inflated) like on a truck outfitted for work in a swamp. Every time we read that one of the existing rovers got stuck and the folks at JPL were working on getting it unstuck, I'd think the same thing.
FTFY: It seems like on civil liberties issues Obama is as bad as Bush.
oh ho! the wit of the AC is without bound! touche good sir, touche!
write once run^H^H^H debug everywhere... case in point?
Comparing yourself and what you have to deal with, with what a policeman has to deal with is absolutely stupid. How many times have you had someone spit on you. How many times have you had someone high on PCP try to take your head off. How many times have you had drunks abuse you. How many times have you had to deal with TV trained lawyers who are either idiots, high, drunk, insane, or all of the above. I would bet that you went from high school to college to work and lived life in a nice middle class cocoon all the way through. Having to stand on the bus is a hard time. Or having to fuel your own vehicle. I have to say it again, comparing what you deal with every day to what cops deal with is clueless and insulting to those who have to keep your city safe. 99.99% of the time cops ARE very professional. Guess what? It is easy to be dogmatic, judgmental, and clueless from an armchair or office desk. Arguments like yours put you in league with the aspergers morons with the video cameras. I can picture it now... according to you a cop can call a committee meeting with a crack head and tick off on the action items list "crack head to check in to remand at the local jail" and wow look at that.... the crack head says, "I'll get right on it sir" and walks to the jail. No wonder you are upset when cops occasionally snap. Give me a break.
Then the programmers of the open source software projects will finally get a decent payday without some prick forking their code and diluting their potential customer/profit pool so he/she can't make a living. And then having the mother forker fucking up the code and giving them both a bad name. Then the OSS developer will be able to afford to fork the original and enhance the original to really make a quality product that can be sold and used until another prick forks his/her work and dilutes the potential customer/profit base. Or perhaps until Oracle decides to use and enhance the original.
Cops are human beings too. This idea that they should behave like robots is horeshit, and anyone who thinks differently is an Asperger's retard who has no concept on how real human being behave and feel. They are constantly under threat by criminals and other low lifes, and even supposed 'civil' society merely tolerates their existence as being a necessary evil. Now we have a group of conspiracy theorists running around with video cameras constantly trying to catch the police out of context and at their worst. And usually this is not 'at their worst' in the sense that they are bad people, but more like they just chased a guy who broke the law, probably punched or shot at the cop, and totally disrespected them (not as police but just as a human being) because they are police trying to do their jobs (catching law breakers). Or they just got through dealing with someone like that and kept their cool, and then snap when some rich prick in a sports car caught doing 200 mph calls the cops nazis and tells them to catch 'real' criminals (the same guy who will probably kill a pedestrian next week because he is speeding and texting). Cops have to deal with this shit all the time and almost never snap. They deal with assholes every day for weeks on end before who try to push their luck, trying to cause a disturbance and play on the frustrations that police as human beings see every day. So once in a while they snap. No wonder. And there is always some camera freak filming hoping to catch one of those times.
Why don't we see these camera toting conspiracy assholes posting videos of the police doing something nice, or just doing their job without snapping? It is because they are conspiracy assholes trying to find shit to post of people trying to do a tough and trying jobs when some idiot has just added the last straw to the proverbial camels back. They are assholes full of themselves and how they are 'helping society by exposing all the dirty cops'. The reason they only show the cops in a bad light is because people would be bored stiff of the hours of routine and uneventful activities and interactions that is the reality of police activities. But the videotrons wouldn't make a name for themselves if they showed something good going on.
If these pricks were really trying to help society and were that close to the real bad guys (since they always happen to be there when the cops show up) why don't they film the crimes that cops are showing up to investigate? Why didn't they try to stop the bad guys from breaking the law? It is because they have no interest in really helping society, their only agenda is to try to fuck over police. If the police weren't around, these camera toting pricks would probably be the ones robbing your house. They wouldn't mug you... they are cowards who don't have the guts to do anything themselves.
What we should be marveling on is that the police don't just haul back and shoot more jerks out there. Yes police need to show restraint, but they aren't machines. So give it a fucking rest already. No wonder they are fighting back against assholes who post out of context one sided videos. If you had a group of retards constantly trying to capture you at a bad moment and only posting those one sided videos so they could claim you and your colleagues are all evil, you would do everything you could to shut it down too. It is a HUMAN reaction to people riding your back all the time. And if you say you wouldn't I'm calling you a fucking liar right now. Until we see some balance to this shit, then I for one back the cops on this.
Oh by the way, pushing and pulling colour film is like a dice game. The colour curves for colour film are separate. That is, each of the RGB layers has a different response curve (with respect to exposure time), that overlap for a short range that allows one to be able to take a picture. So when you push or pull they don't all 'move' together. That is why you can see hard shifts into the red (on the finished product with C41) for example when you push film from say 800 to 3600 or 6400 iso. That is one area where digital excels over film.
With black and white, there is so much you can do with the print making. And given that the latitude of a bw print is so much greater than with digital, it would be a good thing to try out. But I can't fault you with sticking with digital. Print making is pretty involved and messy, requiring significant investment in tools, time, and money. :) Cheers.
If you are working with black and white, and want to try alternate chemistry and aren't afraid of chemistry, get Ansel Adam's book "The Negative". It is part of his three book series on his method of photography ("The Camera", "The Negative", and "The Print"... all of which are worth their weight in gold). In the last part of the book he goes through different chemical formulations for creating your own developers based on what you are trying to do. Also if you are working with black and white, look at his 10 stop film latitude methods and how he played with contrast. i.e. shoot for the shadow and modify the processing time to either increase or decrease the contrast on the negative itself. You can also try 'accelerator' additives for developing. Screwing around with film processing and print making is very cool IMO, and what makes/keeps film print making as a real art form that shouldn't be lost. For B&W printing, see if you can find 'Oriental' brand 'Seagull' fibre bases paper. If you do get some, at the very end give it a bath in very dilute (archival dilution) of selenium toner. The blacks on the print will turn so black it is astounding and very cool. You won't regret it.
Yeah, I guess it is whether you consider a modified bleach process as cross processing. Some do, some don't. I can definitely see why someone would consider it something else altogether. As for your trip to Africa, I've found that often Lonely Planet guides/books have quite useful information on things even down to where you can get various types of film processing; even in third world countries. You might want to pick up a guide at your local travel/book store for whatever country(s) it is you're going. Unless maybe you are going to be filming the war in Congo or some other place where the modern world will be .... errrr.... less modern. Of course depending what you find out when you get your feet on the ground, it might be better to just hold on to the film until you get home. :) From my experience, it is also a good idea that if you do elect to get someone to process film while you are there, to give them only a roll or two on a couple of occasions before giving them all your stuff.
You can cross process it as well. If you shoot Ektachrome (E-6) type color positive film at double the rated ISO and process it in a C41 process (normally only used for negative film), you get what is called a cross processed negative. It gives exaggerated color effects and sometimes added grain. Examples of E-6 film are Kodak Ektachrome, Fujifilm Velvia, Fujichrome Sensia, etc.
Personally when I used to do this, I also often asked the lab to develop the film at half the rated ISO. But it is good to experiment to see what you like. And then it is important to do your own print making when using cross processed film since you can tune the color shifts using the color enlarger's filters. You need find a good commercial lab that caters to pro photographers for good results, rather than places that cater to amateur/happy snap film processing. I have to admit that when I did cross processed photography it was mostly as an experiment/learning experience. Normally I stuck with black and white. And I haven't really done a lot lately.
This won't work with Kodachrome since the dyes are in the chemicals and not on the film. Cross processing just wipes the image completely off of the Kodachrome film, leaving you with nothing.
You can also cross process from print film to color positive (C41 film processed as E-6), but because color negative film has an added orange mask (since the red and green layers of the film are somewhat sensitive to blue light too), you can get a blueish tinge on the finished cross processed slide. Additionally, there are also methods to partially bleach film while being process which is also considered a form of cross processing.
Although I am not certain of the chemistry involved, quite a few big budget Hollywood movies use/used cross processing to gain a surreal effect. Normal movie film stock is actually a 'negative' film which must be printed. Examples include "Three Kings" with George Clooney, Blackhawk Down, etc.
That makes me wonder. How long will a digital picture last in archival quality when stored on a hard drive if it isn't accessed very often. For example if you knew you needed a particular stock photo that was on Kodachrome photographed and processed thirty plus years ago (but stored that whole time), I would expect the Kodachrome color positive to still be in good shape. What if you have a similar circumstance with a digital photo; taking into account that with the age of digital technology you might have to wait 15 to 25 years from now for the same circumstance (assuming that only 5+ megapixel shots are worth using)? Will the pictures have degraded in time on the drive. i.e. will there be a magnetic bleed on the tracks of the traditional hard drive or in the solid state memory that will make the pictures muddy, for example?
On behalf of all those who are sick and tired of the politically correct making these kinds of excuses and justifications for not punishing someone who broke the law... from jay walking to murder: Shut the FUCK up already.
I don't think most anti ship missiles are supersonic. Harpoons, Exocets, etc. are subsonic yet still highly effective. I know some of the big Russian missiles like the 'shipwreck' are supersonic. So it's a mixed bag. :)
I read somewhere that most companies that produce map datum add small errors as a kind of watermark to prove the datum is theirs, in cases where they find that someone took the datum without paying for it. So there will always be slight errors, a hill where there isn't one, or a bend in a straight road, etc. Nothing big, not too many, and nothing noticeable unless you happen to live very close to where the intentional error is.
I think many of us were thinking exactly the same thing. They can offshore them to the same companies that are taking care of all our banking and credit card systems.
How well does a laser punch through heavy fog and rain that one will definitely run into at sea; especially in places like the North and South Atlantic? I am pretty sure a 20mm cannon shell will travel quite a distance through fog. Considering the energy of such a laser I'd expect it to be able to burn its way through fog and rain, but how much will be absorbed between the emitter and the target? Just asking.
I thought it was about people who liked bad breath.
Speaking of which, the apex predator for shrimp are whales. I wonder what is happening to them because of the antidepressants. What are the implications of a bunch of mellow whales swimming around the ocean? Or do humans eat more shrimp than whales now? Does that mean we will become more mellow. Is that why the people along the coasts of the U.S. are more mellowed out and easy going with each other than those in the interior? Could this be the real reason for the drop in crime rate in New York City? All the shrimp cocktails? Someone open a Red Lobster franchise in Kabul quickly! ;)
I saw a film once of a (real) motorcycle race. They were showing wipe outs. One guy lost it at about 180 mph down the straight away... can't remember what exactly happened. Anyway, he hit the pavement about halfway down the maybe 3/4 mile straight away. He slid all the way to the corner and hit the hay bails like a ton of bricks. There was a pause and then he scrawled out of what was by then a hay stack, walked to grass on the inside side of the corner and threw his helmet at the ground as hard as he could. i.e. he was really pissed off. Then he walked away. Skin tight leathers. A very good idea. Almost as good as wearing a helmet. I never understood some people in the states that allow it who never wore a helmet, never mind at least a proper motorcycle jacket. :)
One of the biggest lies in the world:
Bob: "Hey Joe, what are you going to do today?"
"Oh I don't know Bob, I think I'll smoke a joint and do something."
I was mainly thinking about the idea of 'market driven conversion'. FM is regulated by the FCC and the CRTC in North America. Satellite is digital, and not regulated the same. These factors are creating a market driven conversion in themselves. Not to mention that I can listen to the same station in the home, in the car, and any place I happen to be on the continent. Providing of course I have sky to the satellite from where I am, or the city has local repeaters (the units funny enough use, I believe, digital radio signals to help with urban canyons in a number of 'big cities'). Content itself is a big driver of market adoption. A very big driver. It is why cable TV is so big. Over the air signals are free, but people pay a lot of money for cable specifically because of the content. :) And with respect to radio, content is directly connected to the technology. Granted local FM works just fine. But that IS the biggest issue that I, and others find. FM radio is local. I have friends who choose to do 50 or 60 mile commutes rather than move closer to the city. Radio stations change/go out of range even in that short span. So many of these guys have purchased satellite radio because the technology allows them to have uninterrupted signals, and therefore uninterrupted content.
I bought a satellite receiver for my car when I was doing a cross country road trip and got sick of God Squad radio and Rush Limbaugh clones which is all you can get in many parts of rural America (between the cities). I bought it in Salt Lake City after driving through rural Washington State, Idaho, and Utah, about 1/4 of my trip... go figure. I was able to get a deal that I don't think is available any more, lifetime subscription for as long as I own the receiver for about $500 (and I am allowed to replace it at least once). This is a form of digital radio. I can tell you that I never listen to over the air radio any more. The selection of stations and the subject matter is far better, and not having to go through the FCC or the CRTC (in Canada) means that bullshit censorship is bypassed. I can bring the receiver inside and dock it to my home system as well. I will never go back to FM except when I want to listen to the TVs in the gym.