I hate Best Buy. I miss Fry's, there aren't any here in the North East. And I also miss CompUSA because when they were around, one wouldn't have to go to Best Buy if one needed something right away here.

I wonder why Fry's only has stores around the West Coast. Does that mean West Coast people appreciate computers more than the rest of the country?

Good old Radioshack. I wonder how they came up with their pricing policy of "find the typical price of this item and add $20 to it".

CompUSA was bought out I think, they didn't really "go under" here we have Tiger directs in the same locations. They still have the worst attribute of CompUSA though... their horrid rebate system.

Best Buy really does seem to suck now, I've had a couple gift cards from there for well over 2 years,(maybe even 4, it's been a while) and never find anything I want, and feel is priced right.

To be fair to Best Buy, their laptops have reasonable prices but everything else there is overpriced.

I get you. I freaking hate the movie industry. They are probably the most backwards intellectual property industry of them all: The Music industry has been DRM-free since like forever (even in the early music CD era, you could just rip the music on your computer). The gaming industry is making inroads with a decent selection of DRM-free titles from a couple of distributors. The book industry is slowly getting DRM-free for some niches (roleplaying books, IT books, probably others that I don't follow).

Good luck finding ANY commercial film DRM-free anywhere. Their backwards way of operating forces me to buy physical (Amazon, HMV, good pricing though), because that way I can crack the copy-protection and back it up on external drives (takes a fair amount of room though).

If I didn't love movies so darn much, I'd boycott the hell out of those aholes.

Man, that's some whiplash.

Also, competitive market == survival of the fittest. Capitalism has less to do with that, though since most capitalist economies operate in relatively free (and thus competitive) markets, it's a common mix-up.

Anyway, back to the point - people losing their jobs is *great* for everyone. When a job is simple enough to be performed by a machine, then the cost of doing that job decreases, which is the whole point of having an advanced infrastructure. It's a pain for the person who has to learn a new job, but that's how you keep improving your economy - maximizing your value. So you learn a job that a machine can't do, and thus the jobs continue to evolve apace with the technologies used in the workplace.
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Whiplash? How so? And yeah, you are right about one thing. I should of said "Laissez-faire capitalism" instead of just "capitalism". The rest of your words don't make sense. I don't see how people with no money to spend because they don't have jobs, improves the economy. Learn a new job that a machine can't do? You say it like it is so easy for people to do that. In real life, it's not. No, most people who lose their jobs will be unemployed for some time(then get another job if they are lucky) or become homeless later on if they aren't lucky. I don't see how that is great for everyone. During the time they are unemployed, they won't be spending much money. If they become homeless, they will spending almost no money. And what makes you think there's better jobs available for people who manage to maximize their value?

How come politicians are always saying they will help create more jobs for Americans? They are telling people what they want to hear, obviously. So it seems almost everyone thinks MORE Americans working is a good thing. But then you come in here and tell me, LESS Americans working is a good thing? What secret knowledge do you have that will change the way I look at the economy?

This was my reaction when Video Ave, closed down :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlQCW02Tbxc#t=144

They have a few (sort of) east coast locations. The one 9 hours away from me is north of Atlanta. I actually have visited that one and the one near San Jose quite a few times while on travel.

Never said that at all. What you're doing is projecting a strawman - assuming that we're disagreeing, and then building my argument for me.

Also, I put a hidden question in, sort of for myself, which you have answered: one post.

I tend to assume people on these forums are generally smart, so I'd ask you go over that one more time. I suspect you'll understand it if you accept that we're not really disagreeing much at heart. If I've failed to make it clear, and you care enough to ask, I'd be happy to be more verbose about it.

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Well I visited the place and they were still in Liquidation so they are selling thier stocks to people for $6.99 so I happen to purchase 1 game and movie, Yakuza 3 and Letters from Iwo Jima. But people really cleaned up the shelves I saw to old couples holding less than 20 cases of movies. In the gaming section the PS3 shelves were practically empty of PS3 games. And everyone already made out with Good moives. Someone bought the Blu-Ray Coppola Restoration of the Godfather Trilogy, The Director's Cut of Kingdom of Heaven on Blu ray, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers and the Pacific, And the first 3 Seasons of Game of Thrones, Lucky bastards :P
What did you say anyway?