[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:i5ndre$1e09$2 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> I only rarely see them now. I don't have any of that DVR stuff (never 
>> thought it made sense to buy a device, as opposed to a service, on a 
>> subscription model), so not only do I get the increasingly irritating and 
>> patronizing commercials (I don't normally have a problem with 
>> commercials, just the irritating and patronizing ones, which are most of 
>> them these days), but I also get those ads that stations have injected 
>> *over-top* of the shows themselves as a backlash against DVRs (Which I 
>> don't even have! And I have to be punished anyway!) So I've just said 
>> "fuck them, and fuck playing fair, since they obviously aren't" and I 
>> only watch shows on library DVDs now, or if the libraries either don't 
>> have it or don't have it unscratched then downlaod (but not Hulu - fuck 
>> web browsers, fuck flash video, and fuck "TV on a PC"). So usually the 
>> only times I do see ads is when a roomate watches TV.
>
> Me very satisfied Netflix customer.

For videos and music, north-eastern Ohio's library systems are absolutely 
phenomenal. And unless you're *ridiculously* irresponsible, the late fees 
are an order of magnitude cheaper than any netflix subscription. If I lived 
anywhere else, I would probably be a Netflix user.

(But unfortunately, these libraries are horrible for non-fiction books, 
unless all you ever want is "For Dummies"-level stuff, or if you just happen 
to be paying thousands of dollars to a college, or work for a college - 
*then* they give you the *cough* "privilege" of using the OhioLINK library 
system which is great for non-fiction books. But frankly, an 
enterprise-level MSDN subscription would probably be cheaper (literally))