KevonLooney

Or make it.

Those are the legacy applications. This is the survivor bias 100%. You don't see all the projects that were created and then dumped after a year or two (see Google).

try to have a rational discussion with anonymous or outside-of-your-social-circle people, and any criticisms of a party are like blaspheming their god.

That's because of the nature of anonymous communication. It is literally pointless to try to convince individual people online. They rarely tell you their underlying motivations, and many times reveal that they know nothing about the subject.

That doesn't make sense because salaries are a current expense, not a capital expense to be amortized. And why 5 years? The work a software engineer does may be outdated in a year or two. Only certain legacy applications are around for 5 years.

The amortization time period is supposed to match the usefulness of the item purchased. Basically, software engineers are an ongoing expense, not R&D.

Don't wish for knowledge, wish for wisdom. Of course then you will just realize that you should have just wished to be lucky.

If the only way someone can beat you is by being younger, faster, stronger, taller, etc... that's good.

He was too old. We had younger choices then. Now we don't.

Many voters don't understand that the time to choose younger candidates is at the beginning, not at the end (in the general election). Most of these people complaining about no choices are not planning on volunteering for or donating to any candidates at all.

They're not making the pizza or paying for it, but they definitely want to choose the toppings.

Why do this?

It's related to something else. Unless a fear of large cutting boards is involved.

No one ever said "God wants me to have incurable tumors." It's always someone else who should suffer. This is the opposite of the early Christian message. I would almost say, if you are not helping people to the point of discomfort, you are missing the point of Christianity.

I also cancelled, mainly because "prime" shipping is meaningless now. But the addition of ads is the cherry on top.

Speaking of entitled cheapskates, most of the good content is older shows not new ones. Most of these streaming providers are coasting on shows and movies made before they existed.

I don't care about the "cost of new shows" because most of them suck. Just because you have a big CGI budget doesn't mean you made a good show. Not only that, but good new shows are all cancelled after one or two seasons.

The reason for this is obvious: creating a new show adds another "square" on the Netflix screen. Adding more seasons to an old show doesn't. Plus you can advertise "new show" and people will just watch to see what it is. Viewers need to stop watching things just because they're "new".