His analogies are all around HORRIBLE. Another statement was that "since Netflix uses 30% of our bandwidth, maybe they should pay 30% of the costs".

When Reed Hastings (Netflix CEO) responded "if we pay 30% of your costs, we should get 30% of your revenue" Comcast had no further comment...

Never said anything to the contrary. Democrat or Republican, the comment about rich oligarchy has a fair amount of truth in the US.

For example, the Bay Area has a Congressional race between old tech money Mike Honda and new tech money Ro Khanna. Both Democrats.

Due to recent election reforms it's actually an interesting race. The primary is non-partisan, so the top 2 vote getters go to the general election. Of course, interesting doesn't necessarily mean better. People with money will always find ways to use that money to fuck up good intentions (in this case Honda's PAC is actually supporting the Republican candidate to try to keep Khanna from coming in second. Despicable, IMO. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

The courts didn't save any life, and in fact, they didn't even get involved. Cigna eventually reversed their decision, but the girl died before the transplant could be performed, anyway. Amazing how an entire debate can go on here without anyone knowing the actual facts of the example.

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Actually, that girl died. They said the chance of survival was low, and they were right.

Except with the current 2 party system, primaries are useless to the minority party in many districts. Not to mention national-level elections are more determined by the amount of money spent than actual positions, which was his point. If the Koch brothers want to spend millions on a candidate, they usually win. There's plenty of reason to complain...

$500,000 mansion? What state do you live in? No, scratch that. What century do you live in??

Exactly, this is idiotic. You submit MUCH more financial information than this to the government every year.

Honestly credit ratings are one area that the government may be the *right* organization to control. The current credit agencies are for-profit businesses that have very little interest in keeping your information accurate (or investigating shady companies who try to use your credit rating as extortion) and you have very little recourse to fix their mistakes.

No, THAT'S really not true. We have done A/B testing in the office and not only does it not make much of a difference from distances beyond where your eyes can resolve it, 1080p content sometimes looks WORSE on 4k displays due to scaling (similarly to how SD content looks worse on HD TVs than on SD TVs).

What really DOES make a difference at average home sizes and distances is HDR displays (higher bit depth). The high dynamic range is striking compared to the fairly crappy dynamic range of standard YUV 4:2:0 content.

Yep. Because it's trivial to make 4k displays these days (a friend working with the CE manufacturers said it's now down to about $50 extra for a 50" 4k vs 1080p display). But creating and distributing 4k content is a completely different story (will require H.265 encoder that no one supports yet, and even with that take 2x the bitrate).

In any case, from what I have heard HDR (increased bit depth for higher dynamic range) content will have a MUCH bigger impact on perceived video quality than 4k. 1080p HDR takes fewer bits than 4k, and for 90% of the home market the size and distance setup for TVs means no one can even make out the extra resolution anyway. Problem is HDR is a much bigger hardware change for displays than 4k LCD panels...

And some comedy writers.

Seriously, was that a laugh track behind him or was there actually someone on this planet who thought that was funny??

No, not really. Both the studios and the streaming service makes more when you buy, not rent. And with UltraViolet you can now buy physical media and get the digital right for no extra cost, that will allow streaming on any service that supports UV.

Some services (iTunes and VUDU, for example) do have extras for many new releases. VUDU even has Gravity in 3D - and on some platforms (like PS3) you can download it at the max 1080p bitrate before watching.

Unfortunately, you only own the physical disc, not the content on it (which you just licensed). If you lose it, no one has a record that you licensed the content.

That's the nice thing about UltraViolet, for example - you can buy the DVD or BD and add the rights to the UV locker so you can have the physical copy, and stream (or possibly even download it) from any service that supports it.

It already is in the hardware for almost all devices and has been since DVD players first came out 15+ years ago.

No, the B-52 is called the "Stratofortress" for a reason. It's not supersonic like the B-1 or stealth like the B2, it was basically a replacement for the B-29 with jet engines.

It was designed back when 500 mph (440 kn, not 500) and 50,000 feet was enough to effectively avoid most antiaircraft fire.