If I'm paying for it I want it at full quality. In order to use it on a portable device I'm going to have to transcode to mp3, but that doesn't mean I want to buy an already degraded quality.

Since when does Amazon offer FLAC?

Umm, kinda like CompuServ, only worse.

From the download page:

Well, at least they have a Wine guide, more than most people bother to do.

Nah, those worked better as storage, the CDs were only good as a coaster or a Frisbee. I didn't mind AOL sending me floppies, saved on my disk budget.

Now if only they'd distribute DRM Free lossless files online, and kick the RIAA to the curb so the artists can be paid more than the lawyers, they might get a customer back. But let's be honest, that will never happen.

I thought CDs were those coasters AOL used to send you.

The rest of it went to buy a few toilet seats.This is the government after all.

Don't you know anything? Tin Foil only acts as an amplifier. They just want you to think it will protect you so you have a false sense of security.

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It's a simple edit, nothing altogether that difficult about it, and much less time consuming than removing IE from XP.

You're giving people far to much credit there, users of Microsoft services are exactly as stupid as the general population.

I did quite a few searches on there, about 90% were won by Google, the rest were won by Yahoo, not a single search did I find to be better on Bing.

Yes you can:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030514035516436

It's just Mac & Linux users can, on occasion, manage to do something without a GUI. I'm not saying all Windows users can't, but that huge slice of market share Windows users brag about all the time includes a lot of really dumb people.

Something just bothers me about the "decision engine" thing. I'd like to think people are smart enough to make their own decisions and not follow whatever their search engine tells them to do, but for some reason I doubt that is the case. I think the major reason people click on more adds when using Bing is that those of us who Google already have some idea of what we are looking for, those of us who use Bing are looking for someone or something to make those choices for us. As for me, even if Bing was the best search engine ever invented, it gives me a bloody headache to look at it.

You mean like EA Hasbro? Wonder what would happen if people decided to stop buying the crap they churn out as they milk the IP of every company they've bought.