Less of an analogy, more of a joke.

I don’t see it happening for cars. Unlike vinyl, cars are... kinda expensive. Precious few people would be willing to spend that kind of money for, well, less.

Same reason I keep one of these in the closet:

really do know differently because we’ve lived through each and every day of it.

At this point, these headlines could just say “Trump was Trump”. Because this is all he does.

Sorry, your “logic” is not how it works. Ask anyone in ad sales, they’ll tell you they sell a demographic and their ability to deliver said demographic.That’s how it works; I have some professional experience with this.

Sorry, I cannot agree with your assessment and I don’t believe the logic is valid.

That logic doesn’t fly. The network is the product, since that is what they are paying for. They get nothing else. You just happen to contribute to making the network function. Doesn’t make you the product, though.

That isn’t accurate, Google does not sell your info to others. It is worth far more if they don’t sell it, after all.

You can be entrenched and still appreciate, listen to, and discuss opposing views. But that doesn’t mean I need endless verbal abuse from people, either, which I have enjoyed just about enough of today.

You put yourself in those two shitty spots, not me. I merely highlighted what you had done.

No, it isn’t. If you were the product, you would be what is being sold. But you aren’t. Access to the ad network reinforced by the anonymous data of millions upon millions of users is the product.

...flaw in my personality? Dude, I am here aren’t I?

“two entrenched people aren’t changing opinions.”

Google really isn’t the same thing. You aren’t the product for Google... their ad network is, you just anonymously help improve how well it works and how well it can target people with your own data.

That isn’t accurate. There are any number of things you don’t have to pay for on computers that don’t make you the product being sold.

What happened to you sucks buuuuut... it kinda was her fault. Not entirely, but she did play a part in it. Publically displayed opulence has always been pretty much begging someone to rob you. It sucks but that is reality, that is just how some of humanity is. Pretending otherwise is naive.

To be fair, showing opulence publically has essentially always been asking someone to rob you. That is just how some of humanity is. Pretending otherwise doesn’t change reality. The only way she could have been asking for it more was if she literally had on her post “Come and rob me, thanks”.

...I feel like you haven’t seen an iPhone 6 or iPod Touch...

Oh no, random websites are wrong, woe is me. Apple copied HTC, it is quite clear in the design. The design that HTC made first before the iPhone 6 ever came out. You are just full of shit.