Comment Re:Don't fight it (Score 1) 720
But he claimed there was lag over direct HDMI & USB cables to another room.
But he claimed there was lag over direct HDMI & USB cables to another room.
I would say phase out rather than abolish Social Security. Obviously the math has to be worked out, but let people opt out of it at anytime (possibly with a tax credit), but cut it off for a certain age and younger... Similar to how I think companies shouldn't be able to retroactively change pensions, but can change it for new hires.
Mortgage *interest* deduction, not mortgage *payment*. Oh, I wish it were the latter.
(Actually, I wish they'd all go away, including the ones that I benefit from... I'd gladly get rid of the mortgage interest deduction, if you get rid of all of the other deductions/credits.)
Even at "just" $1.99/episode, I think that's ridiculously priced. Though I don't buy very many DVDs or BluRays, $20/season (for "typical" OTA shows that are 20+ episodes/season) is what I consider a good price.. obviously that's less than $1/episode, and that's with a hard copy (I think that's a _good_ thing).
I'm mostly thinking of it as if I were to buy every episode of what I watch - it would be WAY more expensive than cable.
IANAL.. but can't you deduct transportation to work if you live farther than X miles away?
Also, if your clothes are more expensive than you would wear otherwise, maybe it counts as a "uniform", and AFAIK, you can deduct the cost of those.
Just to clarify, he's talking about the *purchase each episode individually* scenario on Amazon. (IMHO, ridiculously expensive.)
It's not available on (free with Amazon Prime) Amazon Prime Video. That's only (some?) HBO shows several years old. That's not meaning to disparage it, it has a bunch of good shows (e.g. Rome, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, etc.) Just not currently airing shows.
What's wrong with amortizing cost? It's the logical thing to do.
Some of the low cost airlines save money by having long term fuel purchase agreements.
Amazon devices sales are terrible because they don't have Google Play app marketplace. End of story. Everyone who wants to get locked in to a content ecosystem where they are forced to buy devices from one source already owns Apple products.
Ironic.. You're saying it's bad because it doesn't have the official marketplace for Android, yet you're talking about being locked into a distribution system?!!
Founded by the US
That is misleading, if not false. I infer from that statement that you mean it was founded by the U.S. Government. Wikipedia confirms what I remembered:
Beginning in 1820, the region was colonized by African Americans, most of whom were freed slaves.
It did have help from a private organization, but not the U.S. Government.
Because college should be teaching you advanced skills or advanced ways of thinking.
Yes, I think automation will probably automate away many of these minimum wage jobs! Why can't a machine flip burgers?
Plus, you didn't respond to the part about minimum wage jobs not being intended as careers or for older people at all.
Why shouldn't people who work in the fast food and service industries earn a living wage even when they work more than 50 hours a week?
Because they're minimum wage jobs. Should someone really expect to be able to buy a house on minimum wage? Again, those jobs weren't meant for people's _careers_. (Why didn't they go to college? Community college even.)
That's ironic, since people totally made fun of how iOS didn't have copy/paste for a while.
You do realize Amazon bought twitch, a video game video site, for $970 million in cash, right?
I'd never heard of it before the news came out.
In the 70s, when cable TV first started rolling out, one of the big selling points was "no ads."
Not true, since cable TV started out as literally a shared antenna with cables to each house.. So it was "just" getting OTA, which obviously still had/has commercials in it.
Plus, even if that WERE true, just use a VCR or nowadays a DVR. (Though there are RARE times I will use On Demand for a show with 'forced' commercials.. Though several commercial-cable channels end up having their shows On Demand WITHOUT commercials, so it's even better than DVRing it for those shows.)
*I* don't pay credit card companies interest, since I auto-pay my cards every month. So I get an interest free loan for an average of 15 days, cash back, AND it's more convenient than cash.
You will have many recoverable tape errors.