GDP per capita is a boring, irrelevant statistic when we're talking about quality of life for the masses.

I don't know which country is your country, but the middle class continues to dwindle in the USA.

That calculator is based on someone swinging a hammer, not sitting on ass as most of us do

Extreme depends on where you're standing. The first "copyright" law on the books related to the library at Alexandria. Pass through the harbor, you have to permit copying of any books you have on hand. That was intended to preserve and promote works. What we have today is the opposite. Today's copyright law actively works against saving these materials for posterity. I'd say that arguing for modern copyright is arguing for one extreme end of the spectrum. On the other end, there's copyright which serves the people. In the middle, there's no copyright at all.

That is in fact exactly the opposite of what I'm doing. I'm applying the same standards to everyone. You want to apply different standards to different people.

It's just another incident which maintains my faith in humanity... poor faith, perhaps, but faith nonetheless. I have faith that when things get difficult, people will look for anywhere to point a finger except at themselves.

The most sane thing to do would be to restore the original term for Copyright. Life moves faster now, but copyrights expire slower. That is obviously bullshit.

Not just that, but Netflix is overcompressed as compared to the genuine HD video sources. Torrents have gotten bigger than Netflix streams faster, but Netflix has eclipsed torrents.

They had a 90GB cap for a while, and then gave up on it! Guess I was a Comcast customer before you. This was before they had a page that would tell you when you went over the cap, and before you could get a front-line employee to tell you what the cap was. The third guy I talked to finally spilled the beans, and I finally stopped getting letters from Comcast when I stopped going over 90. This was probably a decade ago now, my god we've had cable internet a long time and yet where I live now I'm still on a shitty WISP with a 1-1.5Mbps connection.

That depends on your tastes...

That's because you're letting your ego get in the way. This isn't about you. This is about one or more specific targets that they believed or suspected were slashdot users.

No, *I* am claiming that it was a hitch, people like *you* are claiming that it would have done the kind of damage to a gasoline car that would have been done by a hitch receiver. Fucking stop it. There's no evidence that this would have been more serious for the driver of a gasoline car. Further, that is an uninteresting question. This is just one piece of road debris. If you want to know whether a typical gasser or the model S is safer, compare incidents per road-mile traveled and do the math. As more road-miles are traveled, the math will get better. You can't know how this would have turned out for another vehicle without performing a needless experiment — needless because it will probably happen anyway eventually. Hell, it's probably happened already.

In any case, if it were a hitch reciever then the Model S wouldn't have gone over it.

No. I never told you to begin with. I'm not going to tell you about anything I'm doing besides proselytization.

Less than the average citizen, but more than someone who isn't contributing at all. Dramatically less than the typical one-percenter (for lack of a better term.)