Objects you don't see much anymore

Default said:
I know I'm just trolling but;

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What am I missing?
 
walrus said:
What am I missing?
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Prices, I think. Otherwise it has to be the Flying A sign way in back there, that'd be a collector's item today.
davismanLV said:
I have no idea. I am filling up my tank because gas hasn't been that cheap here in ages. But other than that I have no clue....
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According to our Governor gas is cheaper in CA yesterday than it was a year ago. But I didn't like the price then and I don't like it now, Gavin.
 
Let's all be careful to keep politics out of the thread. No problems yet, but the price of gas is certainly a step in that direction. :)

I'm sure this has been covered already:

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But really, it's removable media of any kind. No more floppies or CDs or even DVDs. Sony is apparently abandoning BluRay which sucks. I desperately want a 1TB optical disk for backups. These days some games come with a link to download the game, which leads me to a bigger rant: Actually owning things.

I can't buy Photoshop anymore. I need to pay a yearly fee to use it. Many games require online servers to function so even if you bought it and own the disk it becomes unplayable if the company decides to stop supporting the servers.

Streaming video and music - my kids have never bought music - they just stream it over the Internet and then come to me when that doesn't work because I have actual media and backups on disk.
 
GAD said:
Let's all be careful to keep politics out of the thread. No problems yet, but the price of gas is certainly a step in that direction. :)

I'm sure this has been covered already:

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But really, it's removable media of any kind. No more floppies or CDs or even DVDs. Sony is apparently abandoning BluRay which sucks. I desperately want a 1TB optical disk for backups. These days some games come with a link to download the game, which leads me to a bigger rant: Actually owning things.

I can't buy Photoshop anymore. I need to pay a yearly fee to use it. Many games require online servers to function so even if you bought it and own the disk it becomes unplayable if the company decides to stop supporting the servers.

Streaming video and music - my kids have never bought music - they just stream it over the Internet and then come to me when that doesn't work because I have actual media and backups on disk.
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But the price of gas is off limits? Okay...... but corporate greed is okay. Gotcha!!
 
GAD said:
which leads me to a bigger rant: Actually owning things.

I can't buy Photoshop anymore. I need to pay a yearly fee to use it. Many games require online servers to function so even if you bought it and own the disk it becomes unplayable if the company decides to stop supporting the servers.
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As a former casual user of work-owned photoshop, I can recommend Gimp. It doesn't have all of the functionality , and the menus are different ,but it does work amazingly well for shareware. Macros are available to assist in batch processing.

A lot of companies have lost my business over the years over their ethics/business models. Adobe is one of them.
 
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bobouz said:
Found a lot of great blues & jazz albums in those old cheapo racks!
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When I went to college in Indiana, I was about 40 minutes away from Terre Haute. Some of the elders may remember that town from the Columbia House ads for 10 records for a penny.
Well, they would have a warehouse sale every year. It was a good deal to make the trek down the road and grab anything that looked interesting. I think they went for a buck and album in the early 80s.
 
davismanLV said:
But the price of gas is off limits? Okay...... but corporate greed is okay. Gotcha!!
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Nah he was just sayin' it was gettin' close to the edge and could be a flashpoint for undesirable discourse. Like when Frono does a green flag, I think: "Let's not go there". OK, I'm ok with that. ;) <end of veer>
 
AcornHouse said:
When I went to college in Indiana, I was about 40 minutes away from Terre Haute. Some of the elders may remember that town from the Columbia House ads for 10 records for a penny.
Well, they would have a warehouse sale every year. It was a good deal to make the trek down the road and grab anything that looked interesting. I think they went for a buck and album in the early 80s.
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I always wondered if those might have been "seconds" for the price they were offering in the ads. Heard a couple at a buddy's that seemed to confirm my suspicion, but one was the first Cream album which was notoriously badly produced/pressed anyway, I found out later.
 
adorshki said:
I always wondered if those might have been "seconds" for the price they were offering in the ads. Heard a couple at a buddy's that seemed to confirm my suspicion, but one was the first Cream album which was notoriously badly produced/pressed anyway, I found out later.
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I know at least some of the Columbia House records were pressed/printed independently of the original release, and likely of pre-consumer content recycled vinyl. I'm probably wrong, but I always suspected some of the work was done by inmates, given the location.
 
Rocky said:
I know at least some of the Columbia House records were pressed/printed independently of the original release, and likely of pre-consumer content recycled vinyl. I'm probably wrong, but I always suspected some of the work was done by inmates, given the location.
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I first heard of the recycled vinyl becoming a "thing" in the wake of the first oil crisis, and my experience predated taht, but did seem confirmed by quality of new American vinyl at the time. the record were thinner and "floppier" Suspected it was lower carbon content. The mid-60's pressing were notably "harder".

Also think you meant "post consumer" recycled vinyl? "Pre-consumer" wold be virgin or recovered from production processes, in the paper biz at least. And they didn't really make a distinction about "post consumer" content until the late '90's when the issue was actually shortage of landfill space, but was sold as "ecological responsibility". ("Post Consumer" referred to material that had been used for it one intended life and was diverted from the waste flow, de-inked and re-pulped and injected back into the paper stream, so never hit the landfill.

European vinyl in general was also notably better at the time.
 
Rocky said:
No, I meant pre. Bad pressings, trimmings, etc. Post would unsuitable for records. Even Columbia House ones.
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Yeah, production waste would be "pre". After the oil crisis I'd heard they were actually re-cycling poor selling records very quickly in the US, and that was major factor. It was unsuitable, as you say. I can remember some stuff that actually had a grayish hue to it, with corresponding poorer audio quality.
 
adorshki said:
Yeah, production waste would be "pre". After the oil crisis I'd heard they were actually re-cycling poor selling records very quickly in the US, and that was major factor. It was unsuitable, as you say. I can remember some stuff that actually had a grayish hue to it, with corresponding poorer audio quality.
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Sounds like something Morris Levy would do.
 
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