Right, it is not like the BBC geo-blocks. I am sure everyone in the US can get to the BBC streams without issue.

Not just US companies doing it.

I don't know that anymore.

The Macintosh I had no lid.

No Lace Cards? I had Apple IIe's to work with, loads of fun to be had there.

So a free market is bad when everybody is able to invest, but is good when a chosen few are able to invest?

Now I feel left out, the Commodore PET's we had in school did not have mice, or hard drives, or usb. Just a keyboard and a 5.25" floppy drive. :(

The worst one was where they advertised a guy who took out a loan to fill up his car. Yes, the car he probably just hocked the title to. I actually yelled "Are you fucking kidding me?!?" at my TV.

I built my antenna out of about $10 of scrap metal, a coax splitter/balun, and some solder. The most expensive bit was a 20ft coax cable needed to reach my TV. The one-time cost is nothing.

You forgot to mention the commercials where they advertise going to those godawful payday or title loan places to get money to pay your bills. Yeah, it's a fucked up world.

The cocaine-huffing media executives don't think that way. They're still living a few decades ago when they had a captive audience they could gouge with impunity. Back then, the only real piracy of live events going on was the occasional guy with a dodgy cable hookup.

Can Open/Libreoffice edit Docx files without breaking them? That was a big problem for me a few years ago.

True enough- IF you can prove it was a murder and not an accident.
 
Can you prove intent with global climate change? If you ignore the utterly non-scientific process of "scientific consensus", do you even have enough data left to prove the murder weapon?
 
And in the long run, does it matter? We're still left with the decision to either adapt or die; we're far too late for any mitigation attempt to work. Blame the culprit is a waste of time in this case.

In what way is insuring a fair and free market collectivism?

Species that are unable to adapt have been going extinct without mankind's help for 9/10ths of the planet's history. For the remaining 1/10th, we've been a major motivator of evolution, that's true- Dodos and wooly mammoths and the like. But we are also to the point with GMO research that we can be a major cause of increased adaptation- we can speed up evolution, and likely will, because beef is tasty (among many other species that are directly useful to us, such as bees). Speaking of that last, just saw a report on OPB about a pair of beekeepers with a unique solution to colony collapse disorder- they're breeding stronger queen bees that can live through Oregon winters.

If mankind wants to survive, food needs to be our top priority. Luckily, as I mentioned someplace above I think, food production is also an answer to excess atmospheric carbon. Especially if we keep locking our own carbon up in airtight containers buried in concrete when we die.

I suppose everyone else is a "liberal" to extreme right-wingers. Clinton was a moderate by USA standards, but he was a right-winger by world standards. If the USA political spectrum were a football field (with the moderates at the 50-yard line), the repubs would be situated down past their side's goalposts, through the bleachers, and somewhere out in the parking lot. It's fucking scary.