This. It's pointless to go for a Pono if the audio files for this thing will come from the master intended for CD and radio, instead of the one for vinyl. If Neil Young is concerned with the quality of music on modern media, he ought to first address the horrible mastering process applied to recordings.

Actually, a couple other reasons might be that (a) they want it to fail so that the government has no choice but to close it down and institute a single payer system instead of providing corporate welfare to insurance companies whose primary role in healthcare is to pocket the money they would have paid out each time they are able to say "no", or (b) they want to fix it, but they know they will never be in enough of a position of authority that they will be able to actually get the assholes in the way of fixing it out of the way so they do so, so why even try.

Then you obviously didn't go to school on an academic scholarship that paid for everything so you didn't have to take out loans in the first place.

So basically, you went to college and accrued the loans so that you could get your "union card" (diploma) in order to increase the probability that you'd get hired, compared to the high schooler who didn't take out loans in trade for that degree.

Or you had the scholarships, but took the loan anyway, and used the money for some pretty heavy partying, or doing something else involving living beyond your means, like that summer backpacking trip through Europe.

Why would they hire a PhD in biology to cure cancer, for that matter?

Where's the monetary value in curing something, when you can treat it as a chronic condition and make lots of money doing so? So yeah, they'd hire the PhD to *treat* cancer, but it the dumbass actually cured it, they'd be buried in an unmarked grave in a field of GMO wheat faster than you can say "Monsanto".

Please mod parent insightful. Thanks.

Alternately, since they can no longer deny coverage based on a preexisitng condition, why doesn't he just only buy the insurance the day before he goes into the doctor because he's feeling lousy, or the day after the preexisting cancer is diagnosed?

In reality, the only reasonable solution is actually a single payer system, potentially with a private insurance option on top of that, if you want to pay to jump the wait list when you have something that's not life threatening (or, like in the UK, they won't fix do a knee replacement because your job description is programming, and you don't need your knee to function optimally if your job involves sitting on your ass).

Of course, that would mean this TARP III bailout for the insurance companies would mean they fail because we've disintermediated healthcare, and thrown out the profit-taking middlemen whose only purpose in life is to deny claims because something got coded wrong by a clerk.

The greater good of society?

I will be happy to work towards that as soon as our elected officials choose to lead by example.

I believe this is the argument Microsoft used at its antitrust trial.

The judge didn't buy it.

Once you have a lead position in something, it's very hard for a competitor to displace you without you being nothing more than an "also ran".

If nothing else, when someone becomes an actual threat, you have enough of a bankroll to litigate them out of business.

It doesn't matter if *you* personnaly pay attention, it matters whether he's respected enough to play 800 pound gorilla. Also, it doesn't really matter who "wins" as the selected GUI, what matters is that *one* does.

I was more concerned with a single target for the spread of commercial applications. Malware is only really a big issue once you make yourself a target by having a large user base. Being a target of malware would be a *good* thing for Linux, since it would indicate a higher market share.

It would be a delicious irony if people were able to recover some of their lost value due to government regulations.

If Linus would just endorse a toolkit, then there would be One True Toolkit; this would be the most likely thing to drive an actual "Linux desktop revolution". I am not holding my breath.

The closed source drivers have some, but not all, workarounds for the issue. They're basically ports of the Windows drivers, and have the reserve channel because of this. You may in fact be lucky, but I'd have to have a huge amount of information in order to tell you for sure (e.g. are you running a compositing window manager, what card are you using (tells me total channels), potentially instrument the GL pipeline connections to see how many of the available ones are in use, etc.. The crashes normally happen when all the channels get used up and you need to do something driven by an event - and can't because of it.

Yes, I can come up with a thousand free market answers. And yes, that pretty much answers your question.

Would you buy a vehicle from any company whatsoever if you knew that parts were difficult to acquire? A manufacturer can play a game with parts availability only if they don't plan to stay in business.

Maybe we should go back to renting our phones from ATT as well.

The ARRL actually gives grants for this.

http://www.arrl.org/the-arrl-f...

So does FEMA, including to schools.

https://www.citizencorps.fema....

Although getting involved in something statewide might be biting off more than you can chew.

http://www.emergencymgmt.com/s...