And that era started in the 1910s.
And that era started in the 1910s.
So basically just like linux. Except linux has no marketing…So 10% reality, and 90% uhhhhhhhhhh…
Aw man…no android port. I was excited for a second.
NotebookLlama??? Where the fuck is winamp these days???
Look man, I don’t know what to tell ya. If you didn’t want to read about my penis, then you should have stabbed your eyes out with a fork as a child.
My penis is like Visa. It’s everywhere you want to be!
I started wetting the bed again when I was 11. It continued every few nights until I was 18.
Then it turns out I wasn’t urinating at all. I was just raised in a very controlling home, which meant I had no idea what masturbation was.
It wasn’t until I started having sex that I found out I had been having wet dreams for years, and getting made fun of for it by my dad.
Now my dad is in his 70s, and wonders why nobody will talk to him anymore. Newsflash asshole! You can’t talk to mommy anymore! 103 is a great age to live to, but people aren’t immortal.
It’s gonna be fun when it’s legal in all 50 states at the state level, but still illegal federally.
Wait, did I say fun? I meant bullshit. It’s going to be bullshit.
What’s wrong with just throwing MP3s on an SD card, or hard drive?
Edit: Love how I have 4 upvotes, 4 downvotes. So a pretty divicive statement I’ve made. Yet nobody has told me why mp3s on local storage is or is not a solution for self hosting music. No opinions shared, other than angry arrows in both directions.
Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool.
Dude…don’t reveal his secret grow operation!
Oh no! I hope they don’t have MY info!
Oh wait. I’m 41. Last time I shopped at Hot Topic was 24 years ago. I bought a Green Day shirt, an Offspring dhirt, and 2 chains for my wallet. As was the style at the time.
Because SOME people just won’t SHUUUUUT UUUUUUUUUUP already.
I wish real life had word limits on people talking. I remember like 10 years ago, working in an office setting with one woman who told me everyday what she saw on some kardashian show. I honestly don’t know if she told me the same things everyday, or if this was a daily show with constant new content. All I know is that OTHER people told me that this woman has kids, but she never talked one word about her kids. She only ever talked about the kardashians.
And I never listened to a thing she said. But I damn sure wish she had a mute button, or a word limit.
Verizon and AT&T both already cost more.
I forgot about that! Sony specifically did it.
Oh cool! Now we can have drunk drivers on land, sea, AND air!
Next up, drunk astronauts!
“Sir, the customers are complaining about charging more money even though they had a pricelock for life deal”.
“Yeah? And? Fuck em!”
I mean…I kid, but that’s the CEOs legit stance on the issue.
I mean…I know you prefaced this by saying they’re a dumbfuck, but that decision would really be missing the forest through the trees.
I’ve been saying this for 30+ years. Piracy is by large NOT a group of people looking to avoid paying for a product.
Piracy is often the result of your product being either unavailable to purchase at a reasonable price, or difficult to comply with the law.
I saw an NFL schedule for my local team at a bar recently. Every week it’s a different time, different network, some aren’t even airing over OTA, it’s on Amazon Prime…for 1 game. Nobody is going to pay $120 for a year for amazon prime, to watch 1 game for 3 hours.
That shit is what led to piracy.
Metalica loved to bitch and complain, about Napster giving away their songs. It’s not THEIR fault per se, so I do see them as also the victims, but the whole industry was fucked back then.
You’d pay $20 for a CD of some band, and find out 16 songs, and you like 3 of them. $20 in 1999 would be like $35-$45 today.
Then you’d find out Napster exists, and you can download JUST those 3 songs. You were willing to pay a reasonable price for those 3 songs, but the record labels wouldn’t take your money. Not unless you wanted to buy either the full album, or a singles disc which only had their radio releases that THEY picked.
Then after napster died, Apple says “hey, what if we charged $0.99 for 1 song, as picked by the user? A full album in this way would still be close to $20, but we don’t have a physical good to ship and pay labor on.”
And THATS when digital music really took off. Because they made a buttload that year. Record labels FINALLY realized people will pay if you offer a product, easily available at a reasonable price. Suddenly profits in the music industry which had been declining for a decade, were booming. Piracy was on the decline.
And yet the video industry never learned this lesson. Netflix came in, boom, all this money to be made from subscribers. It was cheap, it was all in one place, and it was easy.
Then over 10 years every channel has a video service.
And prices are increasing.
And account sharing is being cracked down on.
So it’s no longer easy, it’s no longer cheap. It’s no longer…oh hey, piracy is on the rise.
Shock face? You mean like when you get tazered by the police? As you do, in the modern day…
We’re just living in 1984.
looks at twitter
Yeah. Billionaires buying social media platforms. What could go wrong?