My time is worth money too, and every time I lose 30-120 seconds sitting thru unskippable ads that’s MY time that’s lost.

That’s actually why a subscription model makes sense; you can check out a new content creator and if you don’t like it, you haven’t paid anything extra. I watch new content all the time on Netflix, and I don’t mind that some of it isn’t for me. You can guess how often I buy a new video off Amazon just to see if I like…

So, people should be on the honor system to pay their content producers if side step the regular funding mechanism? Obviously I have no idea what you do for a living, but would you go for getting paid through a system like that?

You’re arguing that it’s okay to side-step the traditional funding source and pay content creators directly, if you feel like it. That really is the difference between paying a cover to see a band, or telling that band to play for tips. Which do you really think makes more money for the band?

If everyone who side…

I keep seeing a lot of people responding that a better way to support content creators is just by donating money directly to them. I see the logic of cutting out the middle man, but this is a pretty crazy argument that essentially boils down to “we expect YouTube producers to work for tips.” We have this view of…

I keep seeing some form of this argument on every thread about YouTube red. I don’t know why so many people feel that some professions should have to work for tips, and others don’t. What’s special about YouTube producers that you think they should only get paid by people who feel like paying them, and everyone else…

Woah woah, I think we need to nip this in the bud. The only way this autonomous car thing is going to work out is if we all agree to pretend that everyone else isn’t masturbating in their cars. The sooner we all agree not to dispel that illusion, the better.

Seriously, the whole point of driver-less cars is that you can focus on something other than driving while in transit. I would take it a step further and say that I specifically want it to take some amount of time and effort to transition to manual driving mode (maybe even require the car to be stopped) because the…

An RTS/Action hybrid is actually a really good idea; but this isn’t quite the way it should go. That super-popular vein of AAA titles like Call of Duty and Battlefield would really benefit from an RTS interface where some player control the allocation of resources (vehicles, spawn points, etc) and assign tasks to FPS…

If someone intentionally side-swiped a car, they wouldn’t get attempted murder. Why should he get a more serious charge because the other guy decided to ride on a less safe vehicle?

I was expecting some overly self-righteous post like this. If these kinds of things are really safe for bikers to do; then they should actually do the work of passing new laws to make it legal. Bikers successfully lobbied to make lane splitting legal in certain states and circumstances.

You don’t get to claim that you…

I think a lot of people would argue that our military shouldn’t be focused on bombing people in mud huts. The reason the focus shifted from building weapons systems that were designed to defend against legitimate military threats is, arguably, that we made counter-terrorism the focus of our military agenda. That was a…

The idea that there should be ANY Star Trek game that is not a full fledged, gorgeous, authentic Star Trek version of the Artemis bridge simulator is nonsense. All Trek developers, drop what you are doing and make that.

Not to mention, to achieve that level of power transfer, you are talking about insane levels of voltage and current. It would be hard to package that in way that didn’t require lots of training and safety equipment to operate.

Dear Disney,

Stop fucking around and make a new X-Wing game.

Sincerely,

Everyone born before 1990 (we have money now).

Apple is leading the way with their innovative use of “found technology.”

As long as this feature is 100% internal to the system I have no problem with it; and other parents shouldn’t either (but maybe off should be the default state). The part that bothers me is that it sends the data to an email account, which means that now Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc are going to have detailed lists…

The problem is a sizable portion of Americans are on the wrong side of the war against gun violence, because they think winning it means losing their guns. I say we start taxing the living shit out of gun sales, but we tie the tax rate to FBI numbers for gun based crimes. That way, everyone involved in “legal,…

Alternative plan: tax the SHIT out of them; but make the tax rate variable based on the number of gun crimes committed every year, that way everyone involved in ‘legal responsible gun ownership’ from gun companies to private gun owners has skin in the game when it comes to ending our national gun crime epidemic. Use…

Huh, it’s surprising that Google is building a dedicated hardware platform here instead of just creating some kind of Android firmware/OS for routers and giving it to manufacturers for free.