Why should non-profits get a free ride? If a University wants to retain their underwater basket weaving department then they should either find donors or students willing to pay cash.

Non-profits have escalated their tuition at brutal rates and have been doing so for decades. So I really don't have much sympathy for them either.

The first European colleges arose because people were interested in making money. This mythology that education is done for it's own sake is something that came about centuries later as entrenched beaurocracies formed.

There is also confusion regarding the whole "copyright is illegal" thing. Copyright violations can be a crime or they can be a tort. In the general vernacular, "being against the law" only applies to things that are criminal.

Things that give other people standing to sue you are not "illegal" in the vernacular use of that term.

Not sure how actual lawyers would split that particular hair.

Furthermore, the line between crime and non-crime is fluid. That is that it changes over time. It's also notable that the existence of that line by itself is enough to distinguish imaginary property from real property.

Real property interests don't expire.

There is nothing to protect themselves from here. They are just being jerks for no good reason.

Also, this is not "private property" we're talking about here but a "public accommodation". Getting to do business with the public means that there are any number of compromises you have to make with your "property rights".

We are free citizens of a democracy?

It is not the role of government to force people to buy things.

Furthermore, Obamacare has done NOTHING to make health care more affordable. It does not address health care at all. It's a gift to the health INSURANCE industry.

You are laboring under the bogus notion that "health insurance" == "health care"

Insurance rates have not gone down and insurance plans haven't gotten better. If anything, people's attempts to be responsible and self-reliant are being actively sabotaged.

AVOIDING insurance still remains the cheapest option in many cases.

Yes but at least pulseaudio seems easy enough to turn your back on. If you have a lowend system or just no tolerance for errors, you can rip out pulseaudio easily enough.

That doesn't seem to be the case.

I wish I could say that about systemd but that doesn't seem to be the case. It even violates that design aspect of Unix.

The real problem is that nothing was broken before. So the absolute best you can hope for is "it didn't break things".

When there is real malware out in the wild causing millions of systems to be breached, then Linux will be "as secure as Windows". Until then, it's just ranting of trolls repeating well refuted ideas and conflating everyone else's mere bugs with actually malware.

> Since when is Rolex good at making discrete watches ?

Their base models are very discrete and very durable too. They will survive a beating that would send a legion of cheaper watches to their grave.

Nope. This iWatch is even inferior to mechanical watches.

A good mechanical watch will wind itself. All you have to do is wear it regularly.

Agreed. I am not watching their commercials period. I would pay extra for an alternate ad-free option before I would bother with this nonsense.

Although CBS comes in fine OTA where I live...

> You can be certain that skipping commercials will cost you more than $20 extra

I can already get ad free reruns for only $8.

With an antenna, I can get them for FREE.

Why should anyone expect it to cost as much as what you're claiming?

> The point is that you're constantly missing stuff that you've payed for, even with a DVR.

No you're not. You're just being a hysterical moron.

> People "think" they want TV a la carte (pay for only the channels you want) but they don't understand how the industry works

You can already get ala carte RIGHT NOW. It's called iTunes and Amazon. Since Amazon is nice and open with it's platform, anyone can see how much they might spend if they were to trade cable for "ala carte". There is no mystery here.

On the other hand, some people just hate the idea that they are subsidizing dreck like Duck Dynasty. We're that kind of cable cutter.

So the price of shows on Amazon isn't even a thing for us since no one in the household minds paying for shows we actually like.

A PC acting as a DVR should be running IDLE most of the time. It should be pretty much nearly completely shut down and not drawing much of anything.

Although there's commercial detection and flagging to consider. That's not something you're going to get from any appliance as those kinds of features tend to trigger nasty lawsuits from big content.

Skip the commercial flagging and you can almost run a DVR on a Raspberry PI (which is kind of what those appliance boxes are anyways).

Hello! McFly!

There's something called reruns.

So you miss an episode. Real great tragedy there. Perfect excuse to never bother at all too.