That was actually a plot-point in the Altman movie.

I always get it confused with "Says You" and I can't remember which one I think is mediocre and which one I actively dislike. I guess I'm a product of my environment, because whenever the station where I lived tried them out, they never lasted long.

That happens, but not exclusively. I think I remember a couple of the radio stories referencing the events of "Pontoon."

That joke show cassette was my training wheels for escaping being a complete loser in Middle School. Apparently pre-teens are really into jokes. Didn't exactly leverage that into being a social butterfly, but it definitely relieved some of the pressure of being largely friendless and bullied.

The skits were always my favorite part, it'd be a shame if they went away altogether.

I'd just like to thank you for posting something remotely positive about him and the show as quickly as you did, giving me a brief respite from the endless pissing and moaning.

True, I was unclear. While the default was to use MP3 in iTunes (and later MP4), the devices themselves always had the capability to play WAV, AIFF or, later, ALAC, if perfect CD audio was a big deal to you. I'm sure it's a minority who actually did that, but anyone who did didn't need Neil Young to sell them a…

The hilarious thing is that that, in fact, happens all the time. Amazon doesn't (or didn't, I couldn't find current stories to see if it had changed) compensate developers when they promote a program as a Free App of the Day. Taylor Swift herself requires photographers to ceed all reproduction rights after first…

Are you not reading in chronological view? Did you not see where this thread started?

Funny about the vending machine. The office I worked, we had a fridge filled with free drinks (though they did let it run dry on occasion), free fruit a couple times a week and a candy machine where everything was a nominal $.25. Beats what happened now that they've moved me off-site, with no free anything and a…

Welcome to the dark side of digital distribution, where you don't have to pay a wholesaler up front to get the product.* Amazon does the same thing with their Free App of the Day (or did, for a while, after initially offering a reduced payment to the developer. Not sure if they started paying again).

Apple's just as guilty as the rest

I hate to sound like a Republican, but it's really so easy to spend something else's money.

Does anyone not?

I wonder if your crushingly stupid contractor is the same as mine. Bastards.

Electrons are pretty fungible things. People like to say "We power X with our solar panels/wind turbines," but if it's plugged into the grid, it's all going into the same pool of electricity, and there's no way to know which bits of power came from which sources. It's more about reducing the overall load on less…

Goddamn Disqus ate half my reply. The first half, so the part that was left made no sense. Well, it was good.

Lossless music is pretentious and/or horseshit, you mean. It's the mastering that's the problem, along with the fact that it's an engineering impossibility to make as compressed and awful-sounding on vinyl as you can on digital. Loudness war, argle bargle, and so on.

On the flip side, it's easier (by which I mean, remotely possible) to go it alone with the internet infrastructure. Social media, Patreon, Kickstarter, are all options that weren't available thirty years ago. I'm not saying it's easy or a sure thing, but I'd estimate that the amount of hustle, drive, and talent to…

Part of the reason streaming services never really appealed to me is that I don't have Top-40 tastes, so a deeper bench is a selling point. It's not so much about the 7 million third-tier songs you'll never listen to as the ten third-tier songs you love that no one else bothers to add because no one cares about…