It's a very British thing to do.

It also doesn't mean that it does, though.

Why don't you go ask for your money back?

Most of Europe once owned slaves, too.  Who the fuck do you think we were buying them from?

Other than the fact that they haven't started the fourth season yet?

Is that the one without the Nuthatch?

That's not exactly true.  While someone might pay $60 (or $100) to only watch 3 programs, they may not agree that the price is fair, but they're not willing to pirate the shows (moral reasons, technical reasons, educational reasons, whatever) and not willing to do without, because it impacts other functions of their…

A standard cable package where I live runs over $100 a month.

Where are you getting on an airplane at?  The fools we have here at Sea-Tac are definitely no different from the pre-9/11 ones.

As if current airport security personnel are not ex-convicts and high school dropouts?

Additional security was not available because the Republican Congress did not authorize funding for it.  You gotta pay people to guard a place, that's just how it works.

Because that's how the intelligence community works, PhonyPope.  Information comes in from the field, and then is passed up the chain until it ends up on the desks of someone in some position of power in Washington DC.

I would pay for (as I currently torrent shows from):

While Comcast will go the dick-move route of raising the prices of the most-desired channels, that may still work out if one only orders 2 or 3 channels to be cheaper overall than the goddamned bundled bullshit they have now.

Justin Bieber is in a Chinese movie?  They didn't kill him or sentence him to a re-education camp?  Goddammit, my favored totalitarian regimes are starting to slack off.

Kinda my point.  If you're gonna go to a hipster show with the intent to pick someone up, you gotta bring your A Game.  You gotta front like you are the savant of indie-cred.

Eh, guess that's not too bad, still like, what, $30US?

It's still pretty early in the year, being only May, but I think the count is up to a hundred and thirty-seven, plus eighteen hundred miscellaneous shorts and television commercials.

Electronic, drunken goblins are people too!

Mebbe, sure… but before I drop $20 on a show, I'm at least gonna look up a band, listen to a few tracks on iTunes or something, you know?