The movie and music industries have figured out how to maintain growth without having to change how their business works. Instead of getting more high-quality content made and released, they just want you to buy the same stuff two or three or four times. How do they do this? Different formats. I can buy the […]

I just heard on CNBC that the U.S. is beginning negotiations with South Korea to establish a free trade agreement. The Bush Administration, for all the things that they’ve done wrong (and about which I’ve complained fervently) in the past five years, has been doing one thing right — promoting free trade. During Bush’s first […]

I read an article yesterday that compares Windows XP to the most recent public build of Windows Vista (build 5270). It looks like it will be a pretty good upgrade to XP, though I have no intention on upgrading immediately upon its release (whenever that may be). However, I got quite upset when I saw […]

After what appears to have been mounting legal pressure applied by the RIAA, i2hub closed its doors today. This would seem to mark the end of the main P2P file sharing services that tens of millions have been leeching off of for years. This latest closure is hardly news save for the fact that it […]

I have always commented that Los Angeles has pretty good drivers when compared to the drivers of other various urban and suburban areas. However, in the past few months, L.A. drivers have proven themselves to be absolutely horrible and incompetent drivers. Amazingly so. At this point, I could probably start a book just on […]

Some time ago, we Californian used to get 92 octane gasoline at the gas station. But this has long since been gone, replaced with inferior 91 octane gasoline. Well, if that didn’t piss you off enough, here are some photos courtesy of Sharon, taken at various points along the eastern seaboard.
93 octane gasoline…

…but OMG WTF, […]

As I’ve said for years and years, the consumer debt in this country, while presenting a good picture of the economy now and in the near future, will eventually be our downfall into the troughs of recession. Well, I can’t remember the last time I saw a sign as strong as the one I saw […]

I wanted to segregate this rant since it’s rather lengthy and drawn out. If you don’t feel like reading a long rant, there’s nothing else here to read. Also, if you haven’t seen War of the Worlds and are offended by people ruining movies you haven’t seen, do not read further.
<lj-cut text=”Introduction”>So I just got […]