The legally required minimum liability insurance for my 20 year old Honda is $36 a month.
My wife’s 2013 Lexus? Full coverage: $120 a month.
Both of them are paid off, but hers is “prettier” and so she wanted to keep full coverage on it when we paid it off.
laughs in 20 year old shitbox
chuckles in deep south
If I let it grow, my yard would look like a jungle within a few years…
Hell, there’s grass and stuff growing in the little narrow spot between my house and garage that is well over waist high now because my riding mower won’t fit there, and my push mower is dead and buried.
Oh, and one of my trimmers won’t start, and the battery powered one has a broken clutch and won’t spin the head.
And any money I could’ve spent to fix either has been going to the daughter who graduated high school last Tuesday.
That bit of growth happened in less than a month by the way. I used that battery trimmer there about a month ago and was on the process of using it around the rest of the house when it just … stopped. I haven’t had the time or inclination to take it apart yet. The gas one? The pull start won’t even turn the engine, just freewheels. That’s what I get for letting some kid “work on it” to replace a fuel line… When he put it back together it never worked again.
Sigh.
Because 27 degrees in the US would freeze you.
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The UNIX philosophy is “Everything is a file.”
systemd doesn’t follow that, with its binary logs and stuff.
Just part of why I keep going back to FreeBSD.
That’s pretty much how Amazon instant video works.
You can rent or buy it digitally. Some can’t be rented, some can ONLY be rented.
The problem isn’t the “last mile” vendor, it’s with how the entire movie and music industry is set up.
I’ve never heard of game producers telling Steam that they must invalidate all existing licenses, and Steam at this point, has enough market share that if that were to happen, they’d push back hard
But TV and movies go back much farther than the Internet, and rebroadcast licenses are not permanent, unlike your typical digital game license.
Digital TV and movies use the existing rebroadcast license structure, which means those license fees can change for existing media, and if the broadcasting agency, like cable/satellite providers or streaming services refuse to either absorb those fees or pass them on their own customers, then those providers lose access to movies and shows they have had access to.
Ever see those commercials run by broadcast channels saying “Your cable company is dropping us! Call them and complain!” ? It’s those media conglomerates using you to force your providers to pay higher fees, which then means you will soon, too.
And when those cable/satellite/streaming fees go up, who gets the blame? Not the media conglomerates.
They’ll just pull a Coca-Cola and make it slightly different but worse, then after a few years they’ll bring it back with a new name and a new patent.
Let me rephrase that for you.
Scientists reinvent the torque converter.
Yeah, it could have all sorts of interesting follow-on effects. Long term, damage-free storage of entire bodies next?
You forgot Really Ain’t Moving.