Who cares what they look like? As long as the HVAC works and they roll down the track, aren't they doing their job?

Maybe it already sank into the ground a little.

What he said was: "You cannot provoke, you cannot insult the faith of others, you cannot make fun of the religion of others..." Well, like hell I can't. He can suggest that I should not, but he'd better not try to tell me that I cannot.

I do thank him/her. There is no such thing as a right not to be offended, and everyone needs to understand this. No such right can exist, precisely because it is in opposition to the notion of free speech.

I would bet on the cost being less than it is now. And, while I will have had access to all the latest stuff (and all the old stuff too) over those 30 years, the other guy will have spent those 30 years stuck with only the CDs he bought during that time, at a rate of only one new CD a month unless he wants to spend more money than me.

No, I will have every song there is, including all the newest ones. You'll only have your 4000, most of which you probably won't be listening to anymore.

Well, you should be mortgaging the house rather than renting it, but as for the rest... you should buy things that appreciate in value (like the house, modulo the last decade), rent things that depreciate.

+1 Insightful, if I could. And I'm not even sure it's increased my spending on music, since I haven't bought a CD in months. I was probably spending at least $10 a month before, anyway.

Go ahead, fetishize technology, lament how we don't have flying cars, and walk around all pie eyed and dreamy about the awesome future. I've seen enough to assume it never turns out as rosy as promised, and comes with a new bag of shit most people didn't think of.

I can just imagine you, so many thousand years ago, seeing your first wheel, and telling all your neighbors not to bother getting one, that it'll never catch on...

Computer programming isn't so hard that you have to start learning in middle school.

It is if you want to be really good at it, IMO.

Where are you going to get that IP address from? How are you going to prevent collisions?

I'm not sure if that's the point any longer.

Pfft, that's nothing, I've got an XPS with a 15.6" screen that's 3200 x 1800. And it's gorgeous, you can't see pixels at all. Why don't you just set your system font size appropriately?

It's not the electronics, it's the earbuds. And the popularity of crappy Beats Audio 'phones hasn't helped either.

While running.