This is partly what makes Redbox is so infuriatingly frustrating.
This is partly what makes Redbox is so infuriatingly frustrating. Netflix DVDs are in awful shape and waits for the "long tail" disks are insane. I really can't get behind the online rentals because they feel like Blockbuster-style ripoffs. At the same time that I can rent a new release from Redbox for $1.50, streaming wants to charging $4 for the exact same show. Public library inter-library requests are becoming the only answer anymore but it's so much freaking friction. And the local public library late fee policies here would make 90's Blockbuster look like saints... And I'm getting really, really tired of the Netflix streaming new releases being exactly the same movies that are concurrently playing free on the HDTV subchannel broadcasts (ThisTV, BounceTV, etc) or on Crackle. Netflix doesn't have commercials, whoopee, I guess. That's only an issue because stupid streaming sites don't allow ad fastforwards (which a DVR handles wonderfully) And while I'm ranting, who at Sony thought that anyone pushing the eject button on a Bluray player wants to stand around twiddling their thumbs while the player mines a bitcoin block or whatever it's doing before spitting out the tray? Sorry, I digress.
Posted by fluidcruft on Mar 25, 2015, 4:26 PM
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> 1) Land is effectively nationalized under 100% LVT.
This low cost -> artist -> rich people movement of neighborhoods is something I observed happening in some cities I’ve lived in and it am...
From an admittedly selfish point of view, I also don't mind this.
> Oil is still underpriced wrt to its environmental cost.
If component prices keep going up and the respective monopoly/duopoly/triopoly for each component colludes to keep prices high&...
When I moved to the bay area out of college housing was too expensive for me to manage even working for a large tech company.
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This is partly what makes Redbox is so infuriatingly frustrating.
This is partly what makes Redbox is so infuriatingly frustrating. Netflix DVDs are in awful shape and waits for the "long tail" disks are insane. I really can't get behind the online rentals because they feel like Blockbuster-style ripoffs. At the same time that I can rent a new release from Redbox for $1.50, streaming wants to charging $4 for the exact same show. Public library inter-library requests are becoming the only answer anymore but it's so much freaking friction. And the local public library late fee policies here would make 90's Blockbuster look like saints... And I'm getting really, really tired of the Netflix streaming new releases being exactly the same movies that are concurrently playing free on the HDTV subchannel broadcasts (ThisTV, BounceTV, etc) or on Crackle. Netflix doesn't have commercials, whoopee, I guess. That's only an issue because stupid streaming sites don't allow ad fastforwards (which a DVR handles wonderfully) And while I'm ranting, who at Sony thought that anyone pushing the eject button on a Bluray player wants to stand around twiddling their thumbs while the player mines a bitcoin block or whatever it's doing before spitting out the tray? Sorry, I digress.
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