Obviously! And it's a good thing that 3D printed firearms are the only way to kill someone. It's not like a computer and an internet connection canprovide you a few 100 other cheap and easy ways to do so.

Asks the German citizens who were told to register their firearms, but not to worry at all about the government ever showing up to collect them. Then the government showed up to collect them....

Winner !

Long before there were websites there were Usenet groups filled with porn chat.

Says the anonymous coward...

I promise you that an idiot with a computer and an internet connection is capable of far more destruction, death and mayhem than any idiot with a 3D printer and ammo. You cant print anthrax, TNT or C4. But you can sure as hell look up how to produce them and obtain the materials to do so.

Which is fine, as long as this apparent open-minded and scientific approach is not regularly coupled with "The science is settled".

Researching methods to explain away the data that contradicts your forgone conclusion is not good science. Vilifying the science community that continues to probe the validity of that conclusion is even less so.

In other words, measurements from cities should show a marked and wholly false warming trend over the last decade or so. So we should be using the temperature measurements from only remote stations from the last 100 years to prove warming. How many remote temperature stations existed even 20 or 30 years ago?

Ding Ding Ding ! We have a winner! An even 10 for 10 climate change proponent zealots cant read the first fucking word in a post (sarcasm) ! And arguably the one word in the post carrying the greatest meaning for the content !

Fucking morons.

As I said, that's what we have now. The only solace (and a small one at that) is that they are not bureaucrats.

Absolutely nothing wrong with that. If you want a higher quality product, you CHOOSE to purchase it. But that's not what this billing model is. It means to choose for you which quality of product you MUST buy according to the device they believe you will enjoy the product on.

I agree. And the fact that they continue to make a profit speaks more to the fact that the consumers are idiots than anything. But imagine a core group of political bureaucrats deciding how much of your tax dollars would be allocated to movies or television, and what kinds of things the government thinks you really need to be viewing. What message do you need to recieve?

And yes, I'm well aware that in many cases Washington is able to utilize Hollywood as a platform for their message. But at least there's a pretense that Hollywood isnt directly associated with this administration.

I can see your argument so long as you agree to pay the reduced price to view it on your phone... every single time you want to watch it. If you BUY the product, you OWN the product, and you watch it on any damn thing you want to watch it on.

So all movie producers need are state-funded sponsorship, like Mozart and Beethoven. I can see that going really well in today's political climate.

The tequilla example is only if the seller provides all the mixers as part of the $50 purchase. Disney sure as fuck isnt going to give you an LCD if you pay $10 per movie as opposed to $5.

Your "temporal" argument is invalid. Watching the move NOW (once) for $15 includes the services of the theater. Paying $10 in 3 months is the value of the movie at that point in time. $5 is the value of the product in a year. Just like when a 2014 truck is valued today at $50k as opposed to a 2005 truck valued at $25K, goods depreciate in value even if they are unused. The consumer public generally wants what's hot today, and they pay a premium for it. Paying less a year from now is not just aniticipated, it's expected because that product doesnt have the same market value it once had.

Purchasing an aged product, and the value curve associated with that doesnt address this new billing proposal at all.

The challenge of the contect industry is to produce a good that has value, and selling it for what the public is willing to pay. That product is worth X. Not X +/- my personal environmental variables. I dont pay more or less for my print edition of The Lord of the Rings depending on whether I read it in a beautiful quiet park in mid-may under a shadey tree, or while riding a greyhound bus cross-country sitting next to a vomit-stained anarchist named Bulldog who has a bowel disorder.