Odd this video has a browser hijack ad linked that takes over without playing. Course didnt work on my tablet

Hey that requires investing in a massive 3-second research project involving a modern computer or phone or maybe even a tablet linked to the internet to figure out that its really a myth, do you think these people are made of money?? Cut Hollywood some slack would ya?

In all seriousness: I didnt even type "brain":
http://imgur.com/HujVn1d

so why did larson draw the newspaper as paper instead of a tablet which would be period accurate. and the home should look like a cave, and not with finished windows.

Yeah for us!!!!

I don't have TV so I went to a movie instead. When I walked out, the manager was standing right there. "What's the score, do you know?" I was so sure that Broncos were going to cream us.

She giggled. "I've been watching the game the whole time." I notice then that she has a little tablet computer in front of her. She picks it up and hands it to me.

29-0. Are you SHITTING ME??!! Not at all what I was expecting!

Superb Owl indeed!!!!

Retailer strong-arming: So what? Movie studios do this to theaters all the time. So what if Best Buy only sells Apple -- in essence becomes an Apple store -- like all the other exclusive Apple stores? There will still be many willing and able competitors who will employ their entrepreneurial savvy by seeing the market need in selling non-apple tablets and make good money fulfilling that need that Best Buy may have (stupidly) stopped serving.

I repeat: Natural monopolies don't exist. And if they come about, they end up very short-lived because the world is full of competitors and competitor-wannabe's who will rush to fill any perceived market needs.

Misinformation: You find your trusted sources. The government is not one of them, I assure you. I, for example, trust way more the "Non-GMO Project" or the "Berkeley Ecology Center" far more than I would trust any (former-lobbyist/government kleptocrat) FDA-crony. Both of these (and many other) non-governmental organizations would still exist without government and in fact would be able to do more without government limiting what they can study or not about the products they inspect.

Patents: No, nothing good will ever come out of patents. If you want I will point you to countless articles I've read which show this to be the case.

New Technology: You're discounting reverse engineering? Why? If what you claim was so, then innovators would not even bother to patent, because then they could keep the technology "secret" forever. Clearly this isn't so. But, they get patents because they know of reverse engineering and other ways that the technology would be copied if they don't get a patent. In fact, right now, they can keep it "secret" by not getting patent. For example, Coca Cola does not have a patent on its secret formula for that very reason. Look it up.

The marginal utility of R&D: This is the standard old argument for patents. But you can find creative ways to make the inventions pay off. Did the music industry disappear because of piracy? No, it is making record profits, actually! Some companies would not be as mega wealthy, perhaps. Bill Gates would still be mega rich, but maybe not as rich as he is now. But, here you are complaining about extreme "inequality" while supporting the very structures which generate it.

Ignorance may be bliss -- but thankfully, we don't all have to be as ignorant as the least informed among us.

@Trancecoach: We're not going to agree, and that's fine. This'll be my last reply.

Retailer strong-arming: Imagine Apple makes up 95% of Best Buy's tablet sales. Off-brand-X wants to sell tablets at Best Buy. Apple says: If you sell Off-brand-X tablets, we will not let you sell our tablets. Off-brand-X is likely to only provide a tiny profit to Best Buy, compared to Apple, so they comply. (This actually happened, in a different form, with Intel paying computer manufacturers to not use AMD processors. See here). Also see price-fixing.

Widget-distribution-prevention: This is just an extension of the previous point.

Buying up all of the competitors: Ma Bell. Old AT&T. That should be enough said. But, if that's not enough, now Ma Bell is nearly entirely re-formed. The US was one government approval away from having cell carriers limited to Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T. That's been spoiled, now, but I don't think it's hard to imagine that future continuing on to two carriers colluding and price-fixing (as Verizon and AT&T pretty much have freedom to do anyway). This is another quasi-natural-monopoly situation (or at least a tragedy of the commons situation), in that the radio spectrum is not infinite. To keep the spectrum usable at all, blocks of frequencies are doled out to radio/TV/cellular/military/etc. etc. with stiff penalties for interference.

Patents: Patents present a litany of problems, but the world without them is even worse. You have two things happen, both of which are bad:
1) New technology remains veiled in secrecy indefinitely; no one else can riff on it even after patents would normally have expired
2) My previous point. The marginal utility of R&D decreases drastically based on the likelihood of a competitor being able to get hold of your secrets before you can profit on them sufficiently.
This is exactly why patents were created. It's a temporary monopoly granted by the government in exchange for the promise that the knowledge will be released to the universe after X years.

Predatory pricing: If excessive, it's illegal. That's why it doesn't happen very often. In a country with anti-trust laws, you just want to hurt your competitor, you don't want to drive them out of the market.

Natural monopolies: Since you brought this one up, you can choose your energy service because the government forces the utility to lease its lines and to decouple distribution from production. That is to say, you have a free market in production because the distribution is not free. See here. My state is the same way.

Misinformation: Who vets marketing claims in a free market? My competitor says that their food is organic. Well--hell, so is mine! They're environmentally conscientious? So am I! Their drug cures cancer? Mine cures it even better!

Oh, shit. Someone caught me in a lie! Well, I'll just force the media to ignore it and ramp up my disinformation campaign.

I wanna see the "socks and underwear" guy's face as he watches others getting cameras, tablets and large televisions.

I still have and use them once in a while. I still prefer old fashion cat5 network cables for stability and speeds with my desktops (no tablets!).

Heya @eric3579, thanks for getting Lucky's attention for me! Obviously been gone a little while if I've forgotten the basics

Thanks for taking the time to look into it @lucky760, appreciated After reading your post I thought I'd check the site on my phone, also running IE10 - same behaviour occurred, page loaded without comments, progress indicator stopped moving. Hit the refresh button and the page loaded with comments visible. Went to the site on my tablet that's just been updated to Windows 8.1 and has IE11 - on this device the page loaded fine including comments.

All 3 devices are connected through the same ISP, desktop is connected directly to the ethernet switch on the router, the 2 mobile devices are connected via wi-fi. I'm switching to another ISP next week, curious if that'll make any difference.

Thanks again for checking into the problem, that's why I like this place

Since the "5.0" the site has become very mobile unfriendly. I mentioned this to @lucky760 about a week ago in the lounge so he is aware of this. I told him that I would send him a list of my issues viewing the site via iPhone. About a year ago ago I was trying to show a friend of mine a sifted vid on her Android tablet and I found it quite frustrating also. I would like the Sift to be mobile friendly.

The Revolution is definitely coming and I'll be there day one.

You do mean, "The Revolution", that new open-world, sandbox video game coming out at the holidays?

Yeah, that looks totally bloody and realistic. Too bad it's a console exclusive. That's cool though because I just got my tablet PC and there's so many games and movies on there I spend like 6 hours a day just getting through the free stuff. It's like almost another full time job just getting through my entertainment library!!!!

Wait! Sometimes the government just gets me SOOO angry!

Holy cow! Speaking of, has anyone been watching shark week? What is up with Animal Planet and their fake Megalodon documentary? That channel used to be totally awesome for vegging out and watching educational programming.

Speaking of....MARIJUANA IS LEGAL IN MY STATE!!! Woohoooo! I can't believe it's taken this long for people to come to their senses...

Wait, what were we talking about? Recording stuff.

TOTALLY!!! My new cable DVR holds so many hours of HD recording it's insane! I've got, like, every CSI episode broadcast since March on there and still only 1/3 full.

....

Revolution maybe, public uprising in the US? ...never.

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someone needs to get this man photoshop and a wacom tablet.

this guy does same thing as Beardy, only Beardy is has been doing it lot longer.

Beardy does it all with his mouth, then he used to use Korg Kaoss Pad III's that this guy goes to halfway into the presentation. Which is also seems to be direct copy of Beardy's style. Since a lot of beatboxers started using Korg Kaoss Pad's Beardy sorta got annoyed and moved to using 2 tablets with proprietary software he had written he calls the Beardytron. Go to Beardyman's channel on youtube his concerts are free

http://www.youtube.com/user/beardyman/videos

here's his very old one before his popularity exploded when he used the Korg pads: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciVXUHTN10

What if you woke up to your cockatoo dancing on the keyboard tablet to his rendition of a Chopin etude?