I was paying $8/month for Hulu. I don't like getting the "free" version of things and insist upon being a paying customer whenever possible. In fact, to use Hulu on a streaming device, you *must* be a paying customer. And even if you are a paying customer using a streaming device such as XBox or Roku, they will not let you watch certain programs on your devices.

3. You pay them money, still watch ads, and can't watch certain shows on devices like XBox or Roku, which was sort of the point in the first place.

It's worse than you think. Even if you're in the US, you can't watch certain shows on certain devices, such as XBox 360 or Roku. Their management lives in this 20 year old fantasy land where I'm going to go sit at my desk and watch something in my web browser. It's an incredibly backwards-thinking company.

Or time has no meaning for such a being, which is vastly different than saying it approaches or touches zero. Think Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen.

It's not about the shitty design process. It's about sending a message: democratized defense against all threats, external and internal.

If you look at all their possible sources of revenue (and avenues for growth) and back out a conservative amount of expense, you're looking at a company with about $35 million in earnings. That's nothing in the grand scheme of things. It's a shitty company.

I'm going to hold to my theory that this is simply a cash-out for the original investors, and that there is no long-term value to secondary market investors.

That article doesn't give me a lot of faith. At the level of profitability estimated in that article, the valuation multiple to support what they're going after is fucking crazy.

Except in this case, Twitter doesn't actually offer anything in value for the market cap it is seeking. I'm not so much railing on the idea of start-ups, but the idea of these businesses that kick the can down the road and create nothing of real economic value.

This is the part where the original investors cash out and leave the smoldering rubble with regular investors. I like IPOs where the company needs money to grow, not these cash-out schemes.

The iPhone has as many hard buttons as the Galaxy S#. Having used both phones, the Galaxy (moreso the newer models, not so much the S1) adds "stuff" that does not enhance functionality.

Seriously, though. My wife has a Galaxy S3 and it looks like it was made for the ADD crowd with a million "oh so clever widgets" competing for attention. She is an ordinary user...she'll never bother with that stuff. Apple isn't going to waste its money on distractions like that.

Completely irrelevant to this discussion. You are free to buy it from them, another provider, or do without.

You do realize that game wardens in Africa have been killing poachers on the spot for years now? There are over 6 billion people in the world. There aren't that many rhinos or elephants. Yes, human life is worth less.

It's a Halo game by 343 Studies, not Bungie. So, it's not a real Halo game. That's what I tell myself.