| HappySqurriel said: In 2005 there were approximately 350 Million broadband internet subscribers worldwide (including business subscriptions) ... If you make the assumption that 20% of those are for home use and fast enough for movie downloads that means that there are more people today who could take advantage of a movie download service then will have bought into Blu-Ray by 2010. |
That is making the assumption that all of these people would want to not only download hi-def movies, but PAY for them as well. People willing to pay for broadband often know how to get what they want for free. Hell, the pirates often have a much better selection and better downloading programs too.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
