22july2013

Madbum said:

StrangeDays said:

mike1 said:

rob53 said:

Good luck on getting any concessions from the NFL, NBA or even MLB. If Congress really wanted something to do that would help people they would go after professional sports, forcing them to provide TV access to everyone instead of just specific cable/satellite channels. Professional sports are the same as auto dealerships, pharmaceuticals and the UAW, they are all corrupt and have bought politicians.

Why should they be forced to do anything? Why is everyone entitled to access? If you want it, pay for it.

Why should the public continue to pay for massively expensive stadiums for billionaires to host games played by millionaires? The NFL and other leagues all expect and demand public subsides (corporate welfare), and routinely threaten if they do not get it. 

Thus, if they want public money, they can expect public regulation. 

Because I don’t see a single league offering to pay for their expensive stadiums out of their own pockets. They don’t want the “free market” when it comes to paying expenses — but they want the free market when it comes to profiting. This is called “subsidizing the risk, privatizing the profit”. It’s a con. 

No need to defend the billionaire-class and their games.

Move to Russia, China or Ukraine, you will get your communist way of life. Many Sports teams fund their own stadiums like Giants and Warriors and still pay millions to the cities for basically doing nothing.

so please educate yourself before spewing communist ignorance as if the world owes you.

He wants public money to stop supporting rich people, and you call that communist? I'm not taking his side, I just don't understand how getting governments out of sports constitutes a communist ideology. Could you please educate me? I'm all ears, and I'm not being sarcastic or mean. I sincerely want to understand you.

The $599 price was with a two or three year contract, so buying it without a contract, if you could do that, would have cost about $1000, which would be worth about $1500 in today's dollars, due to inflation. Taking these two factors into consideration, the value of the unopened box has increased by a factor of 20. That's still pretty good. The stock has jumped by a factor of 50 since then, although I don't think that accounts for inflation (if you accounted for inflation, the stock jump is probably closer to 33.)

It sounds like the right hand doesn't know what the Lufthansa is doing.

Exactly 30 years ago I lived in the US for one year, and I compared the yellow pages in the US with the yellow pages in Canada. The two biggest sections of yellow pages in the US were Lawyers and Psychic services, while in Canada they were Pizza and Escort services.

There are no "watch apps" allowed on Apple's watchOS platform. Does Mozilla have a problem with that? I doubt it, because they're smart enough to know that if you build the platform you can restrict the software allowed on it. Same thing with iOS. Apple has no obligation to let other people replace core components of Apple's devices. Even Steve Jobs made this perfectly clear when he described the iPhone as a breakthrough Internet communications device (ie, web browser.) Would you expect Apple to allow developers to sell "alternative phone apps" for the iPhone? Why isn't Moronzilla complaining about that? It's the same problem there too.

The iPhone is not now, and has never been, and never will be, a general purpose computer. It's a special purpose device like a computer in your car or in your TV. There's no requirement that special purpose devices be allowed to support your choice of software. If you want to, sell your own hardware with your software in it. And if you did, would you be willing to let other companies replace all your own software? Probably not.