quick, fix Wikipedia!

Whatever his other foibles, Reagan knew how the USG operates:

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Which is why the Tesla S is the safest car ever built. Amirite?

Stop being afraid of prices. If silver is $20/oz and one of these displays requires one thousandth of an ounce, then the cost of silver in one is two cents, so who cares?

Go figure out what the actual cost is and then you can figure out whether you need to engineer a suitable replacement 60nm (polar?) nano-organic for mass production.

We have plenty of silver on Earth - my god, you must've been locked in a closet in fear when everybody was running around with semi-disposable silver halite emulsions in their pockets.

They don't care because Dicedot makes money, and it's not as if standards matter any more since it ceased being a tech site.

The use of quotes is warranted and allows the editors to escape my wrath....this time..

Wrath on, because an editor is supposed to mark such atrocities with [sic].

That being said, the summary is now corrected to proper English, so I'm terribly confused.

For the Hitachi model to start making sense, price-wise, that Seagate model would have to fail a lot more than their numbers are currently showing

What's worse is that since Western Digital bought Hitachi's drive business, the quality has fallen through the floor - I'm replacing > 25% of drives after just one year whereas before it was 5% or so. Paying a price premium over Seagate is worth zero at this point, perhaps negative.

I would not be surprised if Backblaze's Hitachi statistics have some carry-forward from the pre-WD Hitachi.

I can choose to have prescription lenses attached to the viewfinder of my video camera in order to "enhance my vision" which is in effect the same thing as fitting them to a Google Glass unit.

That a theater customer wear a pair of passive spectacles is not an unreasonable expectation.

US corporatocratic government cannot be expected to be fiscally responsible. It's major mission is globalism to which end it engages in (very expensive) perpetual war. The EU have given up militaristic imperialism and saved vast amounts of treasure thereby.
US "leaders" are all utterly corrupt puppets of the rich who differentiate based on social issues come election time.
Americans hate taxes because they increase but we don't benefit from the increase. Since I will not obtain any good from increases I prefer to fight to limit taxes. Either way they'll be misused so "less is better".
The US isn't "doomed" but it can't become a better place so the best one may do is dodge as much government bullshit as practical.

Psycho much?

If your stream of consciousness (I'll use the term loosely) resembles your sentence structure you are in dire need of suicide.

Theaters were cool back decades ago when there was no alternative, but they offer nothing of value now and the entire experience is an expensive, time-consuming hassle.

Offer the library contents to Google if Google will pay the freight. Truck freight is reasonable and a moving van will hold thousands of pounds of books. Problem solved without loss of access.

"HOAs and property management companies are the scum of the earth"

The people who CHOOSE to empower them get what they CONTRACTED for. They traded freedom for perceived neighborhood "security".

You want to be snarky? Go ahead - enjoy it and feel good about yourself.

But it's only an ego high. The rest of you will suffer for it. If the only benefit of something is to feed one's ego, then it's almost always a bad idea.

Because it gets Dicedot page hits, you big silly!