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Comment Many Cable Channels Evolve Beyond Their Name (Score 1) 742

MTV - Originally showed music videos, now Real World type shows
VH1 - Originally music vids, now "I Love the ..." and "The 100 Greatest..."
A & E - Originally showed British shows (Masterpiece Theatre, etc.), now reality and edgy syndicated series.
History - Originally documentary, now reality mixed with edgy docu-drama.
Discovery - similar to History
Bravo - Originally arts/drama, now reality
HBO - Originally movies, now split between movies and series
AMC - same as HBO ...probably some more.

Comment Tax Evasion == GOODTHING (Score 0) 783

I would argue that tax evasion is a good thing, since taxes pay for invasions, wars, spying on citizens, corporate welfare, and ironically on attacking courageous leakers and whistleblowers. So instead of paying taxes, which can end up killing people, the mega-rich are building yachts, buying private jets, gold-plating things, etc., all of which creates jobs. Or they invest which creates/improves businesses and --yep, you guessed it-- creates jobs.

Comment SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 (Score 2, Interesting) 348

My first card was the Sound Blaster 16 (non-ASP). Bought over the Pro Audio Spectrum 16. Later I got the Roland Sound Canvass Daughterboard, an obscure card that plugged right into the SB16 and greatly improved the MIDI quality. Creative offered the WaveBlaster which was similar.

Came with a ton of software including:

DR. SBAITSO!

Comment Private Property (Score 1) 457

The telcos own the fiber, just like you own your house or iPod. So the government forcing a telco to manage the fiber data in a certain way is no different than the gov't forcing you to use certain colors of paint in your house or certain songs on your iPod.

If you're for gov't regulating something belonging to some one else, then you've got to be OK with them regulating something belonging to YOU.

If telcos start restricting content, and lots of people absolutely hate it, then there will be a lot of money to be made in building an open network, and business people will flock to create such open networks. Even before restrictions started, sentiment of the idea alone would create profit opportunities.

Comment States should cut their taxes (Score 1) 762

"Amazon has enjoyed an unfair 5%-10% price advantage over local retailers, while also depriving states and localities of hundreds of millions of dollars of legally due revenue each year."

Awwww, poor little politicians getting less money to spread to favored parties.

States should lower/eliminate sales taxes, so people keep more of their own money instead of it disappearing into a bureaucratic black hole.

99.9% of people are against taxation. I know this because if you made taxes optional, no one would pay them.

Of course the immoral among us are in favor of property confiscation from others by force, that is to say, taxes.

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