Nothing personal, but the only thing this anecdote underlines is the fact that you'd have been a marginal consumer in the first place.

As another (counter?) anecdote: I've spent hundreds of dollars every year for the past 14 years (or so) and like yourself, I'm an avid downloader of music.

Not to parrot popular sentiment, but I believe the music industry is slowly strangling itself with the protectivist measures it continues to take. I don't listen to loads of top "" music but I think as more and more people get 'geeky' the alternatives, which focus almost 100% on the consumer side of the experience, become more and more acceptable.

They could drop margins, shift focus to the consumer, and see what happens. Or they could not, maintain some heavy-handed control...and see what happens.

Oddly, one of the best genres to result from the post-consumer digital pop-music age is bootleg remixes. Which introduces me to consumer oriented music I might no have otherwise listened to. And of course violates copyright.

That looks suspiciously like more than half were worse.

That would be quite uncomfortable in a right-hand drive car, so instead I have a 3ish position.

Yeah I prefer 24 hour time too, but do you seriously not know how to read the time?!

My bank used to have a six character limit. Letters and numbers, no symbols. It had to have at least 2 characters in a row, and 2 numbers in a row somewhere in the password. And the first two characters had to be letters. Fortunately now it can be anything you want.

Worked for Leisure Suit Larry... oh wait no it didn't.

That chart shows revenue, not profit.

Lead foot.

That's on a bike computer. This is on a phone, so is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!!

Sure. So long as ice vests count as clothing. When it's pushing 50C it doesn't matter how little you're wearing, it's still bloody hot!

I would run Windows, but I can't get WINE to run on it.

You can wave these pictures and it will have exactly the same effect as waving a polaroid - none at all.

I didn't have to change any clocks. The manual ones were still out from the last change.