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Re: But wait

Why are you swearing so much can't you make a point without the cursing.

His point has merit, but it would have more merit without the unnecessary swearing.

Tell that to the folks who don't make more then $10 an hour and have bills to pay.

Then $4 is a lot.
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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt......and then it's absolutely friggin' hysterical!"

His is a problem I see with lots of "older" folks of the Baby Boom generation (again, using his "I had cable in '83" comment to get a rough estimate of his age). In general, they don't understand just how much the cost of living has increased since they were teenagers and prefer to instead call us "lazy slackers who want everything for free." They don't understand that the cheapest state-sponsored college educational systems still cost thousands upon thousands of dollars to get through, and that a college degree doesn't even guarantee that you'll get a job flipping burgers nowadays. It's a different world than it was even 30 years ago.

Life is hard, always has been and always will be. I understand that. But that doesn't excuse him from clapping his hands over his ears and yelling "I'm not listening I'm not listening!!!" whenever anyone dares to complain about anything just to let off steam.

There seems to be a severe disconnect in this country between those that have and those that don't. I see this type of behavior in most 3rd world countries I have worked in.

The haves don't care a lick about the have nots and keep building the fence higher so the have nots can't ever get to have anything, a rare few make it over the fence and the haves like it like that.

To me this is a gigantic disservice to the world, and a reason we have so many wars and fights over petty differences.

People like him remind me of the haves kicking the have nots because they can't afford a loaf of bread.

Global outsourcing has really decayed the middle and lower income families and people in the higher bracket who have cash to invest just don't care, as long as they get theirs they don't care about their neighbors. Through out history civilizations have thrived when people cared for each other, and fell when that care was lost.

Back in the day a car could run as little at $400 and fuel and insurance were really negligible expenses. Now a car that is of decent quality can run 20 to 24 K fuel $3.50 a gallon , insurance $100.

Big differences from when it was cheaper to live and when a majority of the older generation was able to gather wealth, their pay raises quickly outpaced their cost of living raises. Not the case today where cost of living quickly out paces raises, if your lucky enough to get a raise.

People like BF69 are a problem in todays society. They are jealous when others do better then them or have a better deal then they get, but are quick to look down their nose at people who don't have it as good as they do, just telling them to work harder to get what they have, when in all reality, it's not just hard work any more. It's about knowing the right people and being in the right place, as well as being lucky and working hard. This is what happens when you have finite jobs and then flood the market with cheap labor to do some of those finite jobs. You spread the wealth and it all comes back to just being lucky, not hard work any more.

Take a look at how the caste systems developed over time and we see how we are moving along. If your blind to history it will repeat itself !
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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt......and then it's absolutely friggin' hysterical!"

When Im traveling , you know the first thing I am asked ? Especially from well off tech people. What was the end of a show like ? Or What happened in a show.

Because they can't get it within hours. The major problem here is content is not released at a proper scale, sorry man but we are a global economy now, they want to use it for it's advantages but can't stomach it's disadvantages.

If We all release content at the same time ( torrents and piracy do this ) Im willing to bet piracy numbers would drop a bit, but you still will have piracy, for some people the only good price is free, trying to convert those people is next to impossible. You need to make it economically unfeasible to steal, and with the way our internet is today , that is not an easy task.
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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt......and then it's absolutely friggin' hysterical!"

So do I , but in the midwest the don't , I was low balling.

Right now for a New VW Passat Im paying $300 a month..... almost as much as my car payment ! Insurance is ridiculous.
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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt......and then it's absolutely friggin' hysterical!"

Sorry should have noted, it was traveling out of the states. Countries where the shows aren't available for months or even years at times.

In one country the series 24 was a whole season behind. Not to mention other shows.
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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt......and then it's absolutely friggin' hysterical!"