Blockbuster, the killer of all the local Video rental stores, except in small towns like mine that zoned their ilk out, then, who then killed themselves. I pay almost nothing for movies. I also know how to convert almost any format into another, so even when this goes all digital, I will be able to have a hard copy. That is what is being done now. The industry does not want you to have a hard copy of anything. Welcome to the Cloud, or formerly know as vapor ware, now, vapor files. OOPS! We lost all your data! If you had paid for the ++ plan, you would have had a double digital back up! So sorry, if you pay for our Platinum Exoticus plan, we will make an indestructible copy! You pay, they burn it to a DVD and mail it back to you, for safe keeping.............................................end of line.
The price of vinyl albums, once blamed for driving gas up, were astronomically priced though obsolete for decades, paid for the CD age, which then appeared, never delivering the promised the price break, paid for the DVD age, throwing far too many people into jail, or bankruptcy, for downloading copies of their favorite songs, which they had purchased on average twice before, vinyl album, cassette tapes, (then many of you were born), the ones who have a vague idea of what I am talking about, those that don't, I scoff at you (just kidding, revel in your youth), were born into the digital age. A gazillion proprietary formats later, and I completely jumped over these things called 8-track, Quadraphonic, Quad Surround (mixing formats, players recorders), 8 Billion Sony varieties, and these huge black boxes called VHS, S-VHS, which I did make a lot of money fixing when they cost $100 dollars, all the way down to $500, and made a few more bucks from when in the following 3 days, they dropped from $500 to throw-away-now-before-they-charge-you-more-at-the-landfill, prices. I guess I didn't jump over them after all.
Watch how much that cloud costs!! Thank the fanboys of anything, they paid for it.
I get my electronics or parts, from the dump(now called a "transfer station). I just got a 36" by 48" x .040" piece of sheet metal, that was ironically shaped like a washing machine? It will be the floor for my M.G.. The Amazing thing is that it is coated with porcelain on one side, and rust resistant pain on the other, so, after I scuff it up, I will, primer, paint, coat, voila la, new floors!!
A friend of mine sold his machine shop. Through a mess up by the lawyers, the shop had no owner for 4 hrs. My friend asked if I needed any metal, as they were leaving, and did not want to leave anything behind I might need. 450 lbs. later, all were happy! :mrgreen:
