Honestly, I don't think that the power consumption is a big deal compared to what the purchase price at the time would have been for that LCD I was looking at, and given the strengths tend to balance each other out (both are 1080, tube is interlaced, LCD isn't, tube has better contrast and refresh rate, LCD would have been slightly larger picture in the same space with a smaller border, tube has better sound, LCD has slightly better fine quality) so the price and long-term durability won out. Certainly over the course of many years I may spend more in electricity for the tube than for an LCD, but at the time the tube was almost free, and will outlast the LCD, so I would have to replace that LCD with another TV when it gives out.

I'm a big fan of things that were quality when they were new, as used things later. A TV that was close to $2000 might just beat the pants off of a TV that's $500 now, even after the paradigm shift.

There are two problems with even the S-VHS VCR... First, there's no digital tuner, so I can't watch one thing while recording another thing like I used to, and second, even the S-VHS format isn't nearly as good as more modern stuff. AT BEST I'll get 480i out of it.

Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?

"Spaceflight" technology goes back to 1926.

And the 747 still burns kerosene. Progress in that respect has remained static since the first steam engine. However, think about the fact that man spent thousands of years on horseback, makes the present rate of progress look pretty good.

Again, you're trying to be funny, talking about "morality" in politics, after your idol turned out to be one of the most corrupt ever to occupy the office. Blind eye indeed!! And why do you want to go to war against your own mercenaries? That makes no sense.

And dude! You really went all Rush Limbaugh (feminazis, thanks for keeping that one alive)-Jerry Falwell there. Are you taking what he's taking? Don't do drugs, man...

Nope, you haven't said any of that. Your focus, more like obsession, is on the one person, regardless of his ability to control anything. You are on a bandwagon. And you'll jump off just as soon as your "party" #ReoccupiesResoluteDesk (or however you put it). You are fooling no one except yourself.

...Who is John Galt?

Along with many other US companies and businesses as the US becomes an ever-more hostile and expensive place to base your business in.

Maybe MS will join the "inversion"-stampede of businesses fleeing the US for friendlier locales.

Once again the US government loads up the trusty foot-gun with its' hubris.

Strat

Or they could suspend Microsoft corporate charter until they come up with the goods. And besides, if the government can go into any country and grab whoever is "on the list", then they can do the same for a hard drive, too.

They will elect the politicians who will make it happen. If not, then NASA will spend the rest of its existence looking for lost change in the couch.

Regardless of the reasons one way or the other, nobody has the right to prohibit its possession and use.

So, is it not just as correct to say there was a 25% difference between the two groups?

Pot is an irritant. So far all long term effects have proven nil. A few months after stopping, it's like you never smoked at all. Maybe natural tobacco isn't so bad either, but cigarettes are so full of nasty shit...

What, You say, "this or that". There is only this. We are made up of atoms. It's no big deal. Shit happens.

Only for me. You do what you think is best.

Nice try, but you're complaining about one particular person, who is doing nothing different than any of the others. Personality, man. Get over it.