When there is high-quality content, supporters will keep it alive. Look at xkcd, not an ad on the site but yet it still remains updated and high-quality and free.

Yeah, we might lose some mediocrity, but high quality will remain.

So? Do I have a right to high pay? Of course not. If people are willing to do the same job for less than me, why would my boss pay more for me? Instead, you've got to make sure that you produce better (or at least different) than them.

Its simple logic: why pay more for the same thing? Instead, you've got to be different. If you can't, well, you either need to adjust your level of living or find a field you're better at.

Because I forgot how my boss holds me at gunpoint? How there's only one company in existence that I can work at?

My boss gives me an offer of what he's willing to give me in exchange for work (pay, working environment, benefits, etc.) I can either accept that, reject that or give him a counteroffer which he is free to accept or reject.

We are both on equal ground. If I don't like what he offers, I'm perfectly free not to work. If he doesn't like what I am willing to work for (or the quality of my work) he doesn't have to hire me. I have no right to demand anything more than what has been mutually agreed upon and neither does my boss.

The problem with unions is they view a worker as a clone of every other worker.

For example, a young worker is unlikely to really need lots of health insurance when compared to an aging worker. Similarly an unmarried man most likely couldn't care less about maternity leave. But yet with collective bargaining, that young worker could get useless (for him) insurance in exchange for something that would be useful for him (vacation days, higher pay, etc.) and that unmarried man might get great maternity leave but at the expense of something that could be useful for him.

Instead, contracts should be dealt with at the individual level, allowing for the best for both the employer and the individual employee.

I don't think this is cause for celebration... Yet.

After all, what is the first thing that the army does after ousting the president? They take down the TV and media that opposes them http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/us-egypt-protests-tv-idUSBRE9621A320130703

Like most "revolutions" Egypt is simply trading one tyrant for another, just like what happened back in 2011.

Ads? On the web? Haven't seen them.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/

The entire movie theater industry is dead.

Even if cell phones were eliminated (which in my experience have been more or less a non-issue in theaters) you've still got the fact that its $8 for a ticket and then $5 for a popcorn, $5 for a soda, $5 for a box of Junior Mints... Its simply too expensive for the 2 hours of (possible) enjoyment, especially when a couple of months later you can watch the movie on Netflix or pay $1 for it at Redbox. It used to be you could offset this by the fact that you were getting a higher quality picture and sound, but anymore a HDTV and surround sound are pretty common. 3D is simply a gimmick, its fun for a movie or two but doesn't really add much to the experience. I mean, other than for a midnight premiere, does anyone actually go to the movies anymore?

Compared to...?

What? Facebook which enjoys changing its interfaces every 6 months for no reason? (and no warning)

Myspace? Friendster?

Google is easily the best when it comes to discontinuing services since they usually let you know ahead of time and give you the option to migrate your data. Even though some of the things they've discontinued have been really random (Reader didn't need much maintenance, neither did iGoogle) they've given people ample notice.

How strange it is that Russia has become the bastion of human rights and the right to expose corruption. 30 years ago you'd be laughed out of a room if you'd suggest that 30 years later people would be fleeing the US for Russia and China for political freedoms and economic freedoms.

Times have sure changed.

It hasn't gotten to that (yet) and it didn't get to that point in the colonies, although there were sure some "isolated incidents" just like here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Johnston_shooting , http://jonathanturley.org/2011/01/20/utah-police-execute-no-knock-warrant-on-home-and-shot-and-kill-man-holding-golf-club/ )

Colonial life under George III wasn't the "killing fields" but yet Americans look at that as tyranny but in 2013 it is much worse than 1776 and yet the west hasn't done anything about it.

Just another way the West has fallen into tyranny. But yet, there is comparatively little outrage. The violations of liberty that King George III imposed on the American colonists were minor compared to the crimes that modern presidents have committed. But yet although there will be a posting on websites like /. and will be discussed by liberty-minded bloggers there will be no revolution, there will be no outrage. Isn't it odd how times have changed, when a minor (by today's standard) tax increase sparked a revolution but today's routine violation of individual sovereignty, violation of basic civil liberties and violation of basic economic liberties have created.... a couple of blog posts.

Hell, it doesn't matter anymore. The Obama administration has declared anyone who doesn't agree with them to be enemies. If you're not standing in the welfare line and praising Obama or blindly "supporting the troops" you're the enemy. The past few administrations have made that abundantly clear that your freedoms only exist to praise the state and dissent will be punished.

There is no rule of law anymore, no matter what they can violate your privacy, your liberty or even send in a drone to kill you. No jury, no trial, no oversight.

The only way this is treason is if the American public are enemies.

The real traitors are those who are giving aid to enemies of the US (Mexican drug cartels, arming Syrian rebels, etc.)

In the empire of lies, truth is treason.
-Ron Paul

Things like this is where 3D printing will be truly revolutionary. Many niche products are expensive because making them the traditional way requires a large amount of money to be put into making the initial molds and such, and although the price per unit when you're dealing with hundreds or thousands of units would be very cheap, they're cost-prohibitive in smaller runs.

Customization will be the killer feature of the future.