When a company intentionally REFUSES to list their technical specifications you know they are selling over-priced shit.

Many of the Bose speakers require the companion processor box for optimal fidelity. I speak from experience with the 802 speakers.

In the used market these processor boxes are often sold separately or lost. So someone buys used Bose speakers then complains that it is "over-priced shit", and they don't even operate them correctly without the box. That's user error.

A poor craftsman always blame the tool.

Back in 2012, I decided to abandon Windows for OSX. I purchased a 12-core Mac Pro, the mid-2012 model and the last of the "cheese grater" towers. I just recently upgraded it to 128GB.

Then Apple came out with the crippled "trash can" Mac Pro; now they've returned to the tower format albeit at a steep price.

Boy did I ever have good timing... And the used market prices for those mid-2012 Mac Pros are almost approaching their original retail value. When did you ever see THAT on ANY used computer?

At work I use Chrome on Win7. I search Google for an item related to my job, and suddenly every website I visit displays ads for that item.

At home I use Safari on OSX. I search Google for an item related to my hobby, and none of the websites I visit (same ones) display any ads related to that item.

As long as the latter remains the same, I will gladly be an Apple customer.

there's tons of great sci-fi books which haven't been made into movies yet. Hollywank should do one of those.

And therein lies the problem: one too many authors have been screwed out of royalties through Hollywood Accounting. The manipulative accounting has never stopped and the cost of litigation to recover stolen royalties was a negative gain. So the authors or their heirs have decided the agony was no longer worth it and have outright refused to license their stories to Hollywood.

That's why the movie business profit machine for the last twenty years has been reboots and reruns, with very little original content.

I don't want ANY political stuff on my newsfeed or my timeline. I have quite a few FB friends I know from school who are using FB as a bullhorn for politics/SJW and nothing else. I don't post anything political on my timeline yet they never acknowledge anything I put there. I stopped following them long ago because I don't want their bullhorn tirades on my newsfeed. I occasionally peek at their timeline and everything they post is STILL politics. I am going to unfriend them.

When I get friend requests I always check their timeline; if it is dominated by SJW or political posts then I won't accept them. If I can't view their timeline without being friends, sorry I will not accept. I was a victim of a dating scam in the past through Facebook and I take precautions anymore.

I'm getting very tired of political ANYTHING on Facebook. The 2016 election was really bad and has burned me out. The campaigns have abused social media too much and I am tired of being deceived.

I shed no tears for the demise of Flash as it was woefully abused by marketing. I hated websites that were bloated with Flash animation and did not offer a non-Flash entry point. I especially hated trying to read an article then an animated Flash ad blocks the content. Both those would land the websites on my banned list.

Now you can piss all over the UAW for doing that, but it's kind of what the UAW was founded to do and they are not breaking any laws by looking out for their members.

The horse buggy unions weren't breaking any laws either but the market did put them out of business. If the market demands EVs and the UAW will not build them, then customers will buy elsewhere and the UAW has no one to blame but themselves when the market for internal combustion engines tank.

The movie going experience has gotten so miserable that it is far more pleasant to watch the DVD in the comfort of my home. Unskippable ads just before the feature film? No problem, I mute the audio and go elsewhere in the house until the feature film is waiting for me to press START.

I don't have to deal with people chatting on their mobiles, children who are disruptive, trash left behind by patrons, high priced snacks/drinks, or sticky soda spills on the floor.

I'm never going back to theaters, they have ruined the experience. The last straw was sitting through twenty minutes of ads before the feature film starts.

Pretty sure you can cross FCC off that list at this point. The only thing Pai does is make shit worse (for the majority of people).

The FTC deals with trade. The FCC deals with communication. So while the FTC is the correct organization, you really should rely more on the appropriate role of the organization rather than your personal disposition towards the people in charge.

GM Conspired to destroy the streetcar infrastructure

Make them in the US, no tariffs. Problem Solved.

Am I the only one who is tired of the standard defeatist disposition every time they are facing tariffs? Did it ever occur to them that they have been slapping tariffs on US imports for years, and now they have the audacity to complain when it happens to them?

I just removed the dropbox app from my Mac Pro (I don't use dropbox that often). The Mac Pro isn't online often so it had not gotten the update. But the past few years I was wondering which app was transmitting high traffic over the network - it was dropbox. After I removed the app, the network has gotten a LOT quieter. Now I don't have to worry about approaching my ISP cap.

Time to die, indeed. RIP.

"Wanted Dead or Alive" is my personal favorite Hauer film where he portrays an expert bounty hunter. While not a well known picture, the movie is an accurate portrayal of how sinister the terrorists are. I tried to like Blade Runner but it is not a favorite.