> Really, the only thing my SLR does better than my phone is Optics, which makes distance & low-light photos possible.

That's kind of like saying that the only thing that other cameras (not just SLR) do better is EVERYTHING.

There's also something to be said for a better and dedicated interface on a real camera. Controls that can be operated with less conscious futzing.

> Nobody wants to pay higher prices for a product.

Incorrect. Conspicuous consumers that want to appear richer than they actually are LOVE to pay higher prices for a product. That also goes for any "luxury" brand that any fanboy will try to dredge up as a comparison to Apple products.

"Seeing is deceiving...."

Someone else is already offering this sort of service (Sling TV).

There's much less reason for anyone to be up to no good in Plano. It's a nice respectable middle class suburb. It's not festering urban decay. That means less junkies and less crime.

> In the same way, are the musicians going to pay for that $10,000-a-day studio

According to the contract they will.

That's the kicker. Someone else said it. Label musicians are treated like employees when it comes to the masters but they are responsible for all of the production costs.

The label is little more than a specialty bank.

This one.

Those that don't have enough talent to actually create are actually the ones that can be completely taken out of the equation. This is especially true for modern forms of music that aren't dependent on large backing bands full of relatively mediocre performers.

Except a mere performer isn't writing anything. Their contribution to the creative process is minimal.

They are not comparable to your average programmer.

They are more like someone that types in a program from a magazine.

The OP is rightly making an important distinction between actual artists and mere performers and you are trying to muddle it again with bad analogies.

...and if you actually read the label you will likely find that it is water plus concentrates.

That's not quite the same thing.

Like pretty much anything else, the real thing really doesn't look or taste like those food like substances in bright packages that most people are so fond of buynig.

You can't eat unlimited quantities of vegetables. Eventually you fill up. Try to push past that point and you will likely just throw everything back up.

You won't get fat off of vegetables because we aren't terribly good at digesting them.

You may not be able to get the pound of lard down either. Although it's certainly got more energy than a pound of vegetables.

People with large numbers of servers probably don't appreciate Linux becoming some sort of oddball or a precious snowflake.

I certainly would not want that at my layer of the stack.

We tend to run more than just Linux.

I would rather the "you lowly peons you don't have any clue, we run BILLIONS of servers" contingent just fucked off and used AIX instead.

> so perhaps if you need a service to launch on Ubuntu when you log in, it won't work on Fedora.

I seem to vaguely recall such a thing being available for SunOS in the 80s and being able to use that same method on every other Unix I have worked on since.

Not seeing the emergency here really...

Only decades? OK, so the nutritional fads have come full circle again. Also, you are just indulging in the no true Scottsman fallacy. That's the real problem here. Diet simply isn't treated like a serious subject. It's not treated like a serious subject by the scientific establishment or the medical establishment so it ultimately ends up being treated like astrology.

You can blame scientists and doctors for their lack of interest.

Why would Scott Adams need to "do good research"? The current consensus should be easy to trip over. "Good research" is what we pay the guys in lab coats for.

Nonsense.

Unprocessed foods are not more expensive. They can't be. It's simple math and economics. Anything that is more ready made has more labor put into it. Like any outsourcing, it increases your costs. The middle man and all his little minions need to be paid.

People are just lazy and like to make up excuses.

When it comes to diet and nutrition you may very well be better off with "voodoo" and "alchemy".

Any guy that would admit to being run off of a female dominated class would rightfully be mocked and made fun of by other guys.

I think that is perhaps the real dividing line.

No one treats poor Johnny like a damsel in distress that needs resucing.