Vinyl sales for the entire year totaled nearly 3.5% of 257 million albums sold in 2014! The other 96.5% of sales pale in comparison!

And we're not going to mention the 1.1 billion individual track digital sales! Because that would make vinyl look bad!

The same municipality that repairs things when a car crashes into a pole and takes out your power lines. In most cases, temporary repairs on the power lines are done by the municipal services in a matter of hours.

The cable company that provides my internet access, on the other hand, spent two days blaming my cable modem when I could see the damn line laying on the ground two blocks up the street. Then they dicked around for a few more days before sending a crew to fix the line. Then the line repair was a shitty half-assed job which resulted in constant disconnects which were blamed on my cable modem despite the fact that my neighbors were seeing the exact same problem. A few more days went by before a technician showed to replace the cable modem which did nothing at all to fix the problem. I told him about the neighbors having the same problem and he called for a truck to come out. Two more days went by and they finally fixed the line correctly.

I would be very happy to take a service owned and operated by the municipality which answers to the public over the current system of giving a private company a local monopoly and rewarding them with higher profits for screwing their customers while providing the absolute minimum service possible.

A loaf of bread cost 5-10 cents during the depression, so 5 cents for a movie ticket was inexpensive. If movie tickets still cost the same as a loaf of bread today, theater attendance rates would be much better.

Now I kinda want to see an episode of Jeopardy that pits three crack whores against each other.

The basic concept of a rocket goes back to 400BC and Archytas, who built a wooden bird propelled along wires by steam.

The basic concept of the modern jet engine was patented as a stationary turbine in 1791 working versions were built in the 1800s. Turning it into an aircraft engine was just a matter of making it smaller and lighter.

Charles Babbage came up with the concept of the Analytical Engine in 1800s, even though he couldn't build it at the time.

The idea of sending messages through a network of wiring comes from the telegraph, which showed up in the 1750s.

GPS navigation is a combination of a lot of technologies; rocketry (already mentioned), radio (Marconi in the late 1800s), navigation by triangulation (celestial navigation, the whole of written history), atomic clocks (Lord Kelvin, 1800s) and so on.

Modern day technology didn't suddenly pop into being during WWI. but rather is an evolution of older, pre-1914 technology and most of those older technologies weren't actually developed as tools of war. The human race just happens to be very good at taking any technology available and using it to kill one another.

tl;dr - don't dis pre-1914 tech. Without it, we'd all be sitting in caves drawing crappy pictures on the walls for entertainment.

I'm not sure how to work in slapping momma and spitting on the flag, but fucking an apple pie can rake in over $100 million.

Not the year of Linux on the desktop, apparently.

Everyone is doing it, which makes it a conspiracy. It's GATERGATE!

That's an interesting fantasy? From TFA:
"Who or what is being investigated remains an open question."

The FBI hasn't said who they're investigating and they did not release documents relating to the investigation, so there's absolutely no basis for your claims.

And the only conceivable reason for letting someone "experience" being decapitated is because you believe them to be executioners, yet they are unaware of that fact. Otherwise, the exercise is pointless.

Right?

Of course not. Faulty logic is faulty.

The real reason is to let someone experience something that wouldn't in the real world. Wanting to understand another person's point of view doesn't make you a bad person, nor do you have to be a bad person to benefit from the experience.

Nothing in the post says that you (or anyone else in particular) is a racist. It simply says that VR could be useful in letting you experience racism.

Letting lose with a barrage of expletives based on an incorrect assumption that you're being accused of racism is... drum roll please... not respectful.

No. See, that tl;dr leaves out charming phrases like "stupid metro-sexual assholes" in an attempt to make the person I replied to sound reasonable.

It is actually quite easy to express disagreement with someone or something without resorting to childish insults. I'm doing it right now, in fact, and anyone who claims that they treat everyone with respect should be expected to do likewise.

They've implemented strict controls over 'God View'. Any employee who wants to access it must now know the password; "iddqd"

Not bias. Clickbait.

The paper doesn't actually say anything about white people being put in black bodies. That bit is from the headline from the Daily Dot.

I didn't know "treating everyone with respect" included posting a semi-deranged, expletive-filled rant that included references to your imaginary oppressor's sexuality.

Oh, right, it doesn't. That would explain why it was posted by an anonymous coward.