Recent content by Inglix_the_Mad

But it's the cenzorships by teh ebil libby lib lib ivorty tower tech l337's! Whatever. Unless you want the gubbermint to take over the facebookz, they can do what they want as a business. Kind of like the people who concealed carry whine about business owners exercising their property rights to...

I have a couple hundred BD movies. I rarely go to theaters, do stream stuff, but some movies are just too good to lose when X streaming service loses the rights. Not only that but some movies really did benefit from going to DVD, and later to Blu-ray. Compare a good VHS copy of Bladerunner to...

The law of averages isn't favorable to everyone. Even I would be dinged here, as I usually only drive about 7500-9000 (at most) miles per year, but that allows for a good middle ground. Most states have been jacking registration fees to cover road funding shortfalls for a while now. You just...

To be fair to state agencies here: Classic car collectors in many states pay a one time registration for a "Collector" plate (yes it is more expensive) but never have to pay to register them again. The vehicles do have to be a certain number of years old (usually 20+ years old) to qualify.

Actually they've had to move onto other funding because gas taxes tend to be static. Want to raise the gas tax, expect to hear a howl no politician likes. This is like the fuel taxes for aircraft: they don't change very often because various interests howl. So what do they do next? They change...

As to point 1, there is no guarantee of that anymore than there is a guarantee of running out in X years. Always plan for the worst... ALWAYS. There is a reason the US military sees fossil fuels as trouble. Often necessary trouble, but still trouble, and a strategic problem. As to point 2: I've...

I actually support a fuel tax because it's still typical that the heavier vehicles do consume the most fuel and cause the most road wear on average. However I think we should probably be logical and just flat fee the darn thing for vehicles in tiers. Your vehicle runs on petrol/diesel? You pay...

My problem with DUI "checkpoints" is they tie up however many cops that could be out actively doing something else instead of stopping everyone in the hopes of finding a drunk. Let's not fool ourselves, this is really just a money grab. This will also get worse because as people get better (at...

I've subsidized old fossil fuel vehicles (and their attendant infrastructure, pipelines and such, not roads) for decades so quit making a fool of yourself. What? You didn't think the fossil fuel industry got massive subsidy breaks? How about the big vehicle manufacturers? You remind me of the...

It's a useful distraction from people weaponizing DMCA takedowns to steal revenue from mid-sized channels. Besides the downvote thing will please the SJW crowd who insist that it must be organized campaigns of people downvoting some crappy video, e.g. the Ghostbusters reboot, they like.

So what you're telling me is: that (TfB / Paul / Fred) sued Atari prior to the bankruptcy sale for their money (according to my lawyer friend, it is not showing up in L-N) to be listed as a creditor? that (TfB / Paul / Fred) filed for a contract addendum (according to my lawyer friend, it is...

"Ghosts of the Precursors" will be released at the same time as the Infinium Phantom. They are only "creating it" because they needed something, anything, to provide a publicly acceptable reason for their rent-seeking behavior. They know they waited too long to sue for the royalties they didn't...

HR will not be happy about this, it undercuts one reason for their existence.

This is actually a valid question. We all know how little the Chinese pay attention to patents, so given that tendency it is highly likely there would be long (possibly successful) patent challenges. Unfortunately collecting is another story, but they could get the car barred from importation...

^This^ Right here is why copyright should be returned to what it was originally intended to be: very limited. Copyright was never intended to provide a revenue stream, in perpetuity, to the content creator. No, the idea of copyright was to provide a means to compensate the creator as an...