Clearly you're ignorant. They buy a seat for their valuable instrument. It's the policy of every airline that wants to exist 5 years from now.

And which number are they on the scratch-n-sniff card?

I use talk.

Don't forget it cost $40.

Agent 86

Your car analogy fails because we already pay by the mile. A significant chunk of the money you pay for every gallon of fuel is taxes that are supposed to pay for the construction and upkeep of roads. The more you drive, the more you pay. Insurance rates are also based on mileage. If you drive on a toll road, you also pay based on usage. (I'm in Texas right now and this place is lousy with toll roads.)

I'm so glad I have an old, unlimited account from Verizon. LTE would be pointless with a cap. It'd be like having a Porsche I could only drive a hundred miles a month.

I have a Charlie Brown tree from Urban Outfitters that a friend gave to me years ago. It gets set up with a blue baby blanket a few days after Thanksgiving.

Did you skip your meds? How do you think I can rip something without having the original media? Where did I say anything about distributing what I rip? Did your parents have any kids that lived?

Missed it by that much.

I was staying at a resort in Utah a couple months back and they had a filter on the internet connection. My favorite web comic was considered profane. Another one had one panel blocked because it had "gay" in the image file name. (They were introducing a new, gay character.) Foobies was obviously blocked. But I could GIS page after page of triple X action. Of course, the filter blocked all kinds of non-pornographic material. Got around it by using a VPN to a system that didn't filter my requests.

Because most of it's pathetic and can be stripped from the content in seconds. But the suits think it's effective so they release content with their laughable controls. I buy their content, strip it clean, and access the content how I want to. I buy movies, rip the content off the disc, and store it on my media server in a platform-agnostic format that I can play on my media player, laptop, desktop, tablet, phone, etc. I buy ebooks, strip the drm, store it on my media server, and read it on my computer, tablet, or phone.

Without the false sense of security created by crappy DRM, there would be a lot less content available.

Nvidia's got their own driver shittiness. Their drivers take friggin' forever to install on my system. Hybrid hard drive, i7-3930k, 16 gigs of DDR3-2133 in quad channel, dual GTX680 video cards. I started the installation of the latest GeForce experience and R331 game ready driver just about 3 hours ago. About 2 hours of solid grind for no reason I can figure and then an hour or so where everything looks idle and the progress bar doesn't move. Based on experience, I assume it will finish eventually if I let it keep going.

It's ridiculous and it's been an Nvidia problem for quite a while. I can't even remember the last time I had an Nvidia display driver installation that took less than an hour.

Yeah, but they'd expect you to be sober, clean, reliable, and show up by 9am five days in a row at a regular job.

My very first Rising Star mouse from the mid 80s was still working when I tossed it a couple years ago. I used the bus mouse I got with my 286 until I built a machine with no ISA slots (and therefore no way to plug in the mouse's interface card). On the flip side, when Apple switched from the angular ADB mice to the rounded one in the early 90s, the rounded pieces of crap would start double-clicking after a month or two. I had to scrounge a box of the old mice to replace the new ones in our department. Oh, and Apple's clit-mice were bad, too. The little ball would quickly stop responding in one direction at a time until it did nothing. Again, I experienced their failure in a production environment with many mice in use by many people.

In general (excluding Apple meece), the more I spend, the longer it lasts. I'm currently 3 years into a $90 Mionix mouse and it works as well as the day I bought it.