The reason I dropped Netflix was that there's no granularity in the pricing. As a single person living alone but who wants at least 1080p (I can take or leave 4K despite having the capability) all I want is a single stream, ideally 4K, and for no more than $10 a month. I have never understood why Netflix has tied video quality to number of streams.

Let me add another one.The price point is bad for a number of people. If I want a HD stream, I have to buy their "two screen" package. I live alone and everyone else I know who wants Netflix is already subscribed to it, so it's not like I'm going to share the password. The two screen package is something like $17 a month with tax. Cut that down to $10 a month, give me a single screen with HD, and I'll consider it. Why they hang to that "basic" plan at quarter HD baffles me.

They actually have too few options. While I'm not against the idea of "screens" per subscription, there's not enough granularity. Sell me one "screen" at either HD or 4K for $8 or $9 a month and I'd probably keep my subscription. Having to pay for two "screens" at $15 just to get HD is ridiculous when I'm the only one in my house.

But they won't sell me what I want, which is at least HD, possibly even 4K, but with only one device. I live alone; I don't need two or four screens. Give me HD or 4K for the basic price and I'd stay subscribed. Instead, I subscribe for maybe a month and then drop it after letting a number of things I want to watch get onto the service.

Yes, VISA, please show me the same commercial where somehow being black is the same category as having cancer or being an amputee every 15 minutes for the next two weeks.

Insurance! Protecting yourself against costs that you cannot easily cover is indeed a wise move. Sure, don't buy the insurance on cheap $100 electronic gadget. But insure that $15,000 worth of stuff (or higher, remember you should be insuring for replacement cost) you have as a renter in case some idiot burns the apartment down and your stuff is a total loss.

Yeah, Lemonade sounds like the scummiest of scummy insurance companies. Even if I couldn't get USAA, literally any company that advertises on TV would be a better choice. And even then, right now the only product Lemonade has that I'd use is renter's insurance, and at like $15 a month from USAA I can't imagine how they could beat that.

I own F, in part because I was expecting this announcement eventually and think an electric F-150 is going to sell like hotcakes and that the stock was underpriced. I don't own TSLA because I think it's massively overpriced and that Tesla has terrible quality control issues. If I had to choose between an electric F-150 and a Tesla truck, I'm going with the Ford. Despite some of Ford's other issues with parts of their product line, the F-150 is a very solid truck and all they have to do is get the electric motor and battery right.

I got caught up in the great airworthiness directive of April 2008 that took down all of American's fleet of MD-80s. I was in New Orleans for a conference at the time, so the worst part for me was some time on the phone, a free hotel room, and an extra night spent in the Quarter at American's expense.

"Earth to run out of oxygen in 1 billion years. Women, minorities heavily affected."

Or it could be someone simply trying to think ahead and help those with diabetes and other health issues that need to inject themselves from time to time. Heck, maybe the owner uses it or has an employee who does. If I saw a sharps box in the bathroom of a McDonald's, I wouldn't automatically think the McDonald's deals with a lot of drug users. I'd think it was a smart move so that people could eat there slightly more easily and feel a bit more welcome.

I like OS X. I generally like my old MacBook Pro. But when Apple won't make and sell the hardware I want, I have to decide if I really want to go to all the trouble of making a Hackintosh or if I'd rather just go buy a Dell and deal with Windows. So far, just dealing with Windows has won out. If Apple would start making hardware I want to buy, I'd start buying their computers again.

When I finally bought a laptop in 2006, I got myself a MacBook. Used it successfully for seven or eight years until I decided to get myself a used 2011 MacBook Pro, because by this time Apple had already made both the MacBook and the MacBook Pro into systems I didn't want. Since then, I've had to replace the logic board on the 2011 Pro once due to the graphics card failure and it recently started showing signs of the problem again. I got into the configuration and disabled the discrete graphics card to make sure I can keep using the laptop for a while longer. Which, of course, means that it's even less useful for games and other graphic-intensive work than it was before. So when I finally decided to buy myself a desktop as well, I didn't even consider Apple. When I finally replace that laptop, I'm not going to buy Apple. I don't use a iPhone or an iPad. I can't buy an iPod Classic anymore. Once I replace that laptop, I have no reason to deal with Apple again. It might not be much of a financial loss, but it's still the loss of one more customer and the creation of someone who will no longer recommend Apple to others.

Sierra, which is where TorC is, Dona Ana, which is where Las Cruces and New Mexico State is, and at one point Otero, which has Alamogordo and both part of White Sands and Holloman AFB. The increase of a gross receipts tax increase (effectively a sales tax, but on services as well as goods) was required to be approved by the voters and was, back in 2008. The biggest economic drivers in those counties are NMSU/Las Cruces and the various Federal installations like Holloman AFB, White Sands Missile Range, Ft. Bliss (though that's more in El Paso), and so on. I had no problem with the idea and voted for it at the time. I still don't think it's a terrible idea if launches actually get started--outside money from Virgin Galactic, outside money from tourists and passengers, and possible use of it for other launches. There is simply not much of an economic driver in TorC or all of Sierra County, unless you want to spend the night in a little hotel with a hot spring fed directly into your bathtub. There's some beautiful country in the county, but that's not going to drive lots of tourism. I'm sure I've driven past TorC on I-25 far more than I ever stopped there. I have no problem with more state funding going to it. Eventually, the plug might have to be pulled if it really never happens, but big ideas are a risk and governmental funds should be used.

Stereo controls on the steering wheel is nice. The two cars I've had with them are simple enough--volume, cycle presets up/down, change input, and one has a mute button. The volume gets used a lot, the presets get used when I'm listening to the radio, and I can do it all with my left thumb without having to look away from the road. I've actually turned down cars (and other features I'd like) because of the touch screen controls. I like physical buttons and dials for things so that I don't have to look.