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Ah, but the treasury is the people, so essentially people who don't want to pony up the $56 to qualify for free HBO are paying for the free HBO for others. The best way to avoid all that trouble is to just do nothing and let people pay for their own HBO.

OK, so you've already had government completely break up the system that involves the cable companies, where HBO is really $80 a month because you have to get all the requisite digital packages to qualify. Is the government supposed to pay for the digital tiers too, or the variety tiers? Because once you break up that…

Based on current cable models, it would cost around $200 billion a year to do that.

Capitalism is perfectly fair. Usually when people get fucked it's their own fault. The problem is people can't accept when they lose, and move on. Instead they try to de-capitalize the system and that is usually where all the problems come in.

certainly, wanting to watch is not thievery or entitlement.

If you wait for the a la carte services such as Blu-ray or legal downloads, you send a message to HBO that those avenues work as well. When enough people do that in lieu of subscribing to HBO, they will explore alternate distribution means, including re-evaluating the cable model. But since enough people currently…

Then you just have to move to the U.S.

You realize the shows are accessible from the first day HBO airs them. Just subscribe to the network. Anything else destroys the revenue stream that allows the shows and movies people want to be produced. That's the whole point of the article.

Well, when the brother in law was confronted by the first wave of evidence about his blackmail scheme, I said "dude better ask for a lawyer now," and then he confessed to blackmail, and only asked for the lawyer when they threw murder at him. In this case I really don't know what he was thinking confessing to…

For a few minutes I was thinking the fact that 50605 was a palindrome might have been significant, but it turned out to be just a date

I want a live Ewok in a glass case.

I stand corrected. I got caught up in all the comments calling him Leap Day Williams

"There's not a hair on my body I wouldn't let this woman trim."
Amy continues her girl crush on Penny, but Kaley Cuoco's look was priceless, quickly turning from a warm smile from the adoration into realizing how creepy that line was and then just staring into space.

Wasn't the mascot just Leap Day William? But the movie was called Leap Day Williams for some reason (and its just-released sequel, Leap Day Williams 2: Leap Baby). No attempt to be needlessly confusing there.

Well, if that was Roddenberry's intent, he was misguided and/or just plain wrong. Granted, his version of the Ferengi may be different from what they became on later TNG and DS9, since he wasn't around to guide their development. For all we know he would have insisted on keeping them as serious villains.

No, because they aren't animating the costume over him. That's a physical effect.

Except they aren't laisez-faire capitalists at all, and as seen on DS9 are the worst kind of crony capitalists that Ayn Rand (whose name was thrown about elsewhere in these comments) despised. There's the whole Ferengi Commerce Authority, which apparently can go to any Ferengi in the universe and seize their…

A Contract is a Contract is a Contract, but only between Ferengi — Rule of Acquisition 17

Before DS9 came along I remember seeing complaints that Roddenberry created the Vulcans as Jewish stand-ins