People only want to upgrade because their subconscious is raped on a daily basis by advertising. An iPod from two years ago really isn't any better than the most recent model, it's just a fashion statement.
Nobody actually needs to be able to hold 5000+ songs in a two-inch piece of plastic, but they have to buy it because television, radio, the internet, billboards, and the sides of buses tell them they do. Even though playing and storing music is it's primary function, that's not why people keep buying them, otherwise they'd buy one and be done with it.

I wish this wasn't true, and you were just talking out of your ass... But it really is true :(

I mean seriously.. Who would spend millions on marketing if it didn't work? It does work, it's part of my education too. We're learning to become sneaky fuckers.
I'd like to see myself as semi-immune to marketing though. I'm very aware of it, which makes it a great shield at all the unneeded subconscious brainwashing, but some of it probably still gets to me.
But mostly I research what I buy .. and stuff.

Eh.. Perhaps I should get an old pair of headset. I really don't doubt your words when you say those sennheiser headset are great. All the new headsets I've bought have degraded during maybe a month. Even my expansive one. ima kill em!!!

You think that Lady Gaga is pretty. You aren't immune to marketing.

This would be true if I thought her music was the greatest thing ever.

If you don't think Gaga is pretty, then you're gay!

She has a penis. Invert the genders.

Ooh! Well that makes it just that more fun for me =D!!!

She markets her image much more effectively than she does her music.

Does she?
I found her pretty with the long hair with bangs(It looks good on girls) ... She hasn't looked that pretty to me lately.
Also I liked how she looked a little awkward in her one video.

So yea, don't tell me how her marketing works left and right. I already know what her marketing strategy is.

But as I said. I'm semi-immune. I'm sure some marketing slips past us all, since we all grew up with it.

I dunno if Lady gaga is hot cos of marketing, or if its just cos I like her type. I liked her style before she came into fame.
I don't think that everyone who finds her hot is just cos of the media and whatnot. I mean.. She has boobs, and at least looks like a girl.

Anyway.. Appliances!!

Edit: Fuck.. I hate gaga-discussions.

Sorry. I didn't realize that you were privy to her business decisions.

Oh fuck off.

Way ahead of you.

You and me, we could write a bad romance.

Then they give the old ones to kids or other family members, it's just a continuous cycle until you have eight year olds walking around with cell phones because their parents need the newest iPhone.

In Russia, it's the 1980's every day.

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My thesis: Exchanging something technologically advanced for something that's technologically complicated is not progress.

I believe that something which is truly advanced is so out of its simplicity.

i think lady gaga has a nice voice

Nice voice... some of her songs are good:)

yer a black truth indeed, I heard she had released an album on vinyl, I'll definitely be buying that.

Wanna know the best thing about old tv's?
You can stack em. Try and do that with your flat screen ass tech.

How many TVs do you really need in a vertical pile?

Four on the left pile, three on the right, stacked adjacent to each other and all running from the same signal.

Yeah TVs stacked on top of each other, that'll look gorgeous!

Oh you know what I hate? All those new glass TV cabinets those look like such shit lol.

As many as possible. All shapes and sizes.

As many as it takes to watch all the Rocky movies simultaneously.

Losers have picture-in-picture. Cool people have multiple TVs.

Screw TVs, people are fucking obsessed with them today, they're gaming monitors to me and nothing more (that's why I like HD so much otherwise I'd agree with you Sekto) I don't even like movies. What's really taken a nose dive in quality is audio equipment. I was looking at audio amps today in a department store and it was all fucking home theater shit, it's like people prefer sound effects to music now, today's amps are complete JUUNKK

I only have one TV, an 80s TV, before that we had a 70s TV, old, made of wood, this'n is plastic but still, it's good reliable as was the one before this'n. Simple, easy to use, good speakers. Better 'n some plasma screens I assure you

I would never advise someone getting a plasma screen anyways, CRT's for the win!

Plasma screens are expensive, HEAVY, power sucking, theoretically complicated.... and run HOT.

Oh, and their lifespan is extremely limited at elevations over about 4500 feet.

Once again, we are the sheep.

Must... HAVE....



FLAT TEEVEE! :monster:

Heavy?! Compared to a CRT?! No way, an LCD is so much lighter.

But plasma is not.

But plasma is different

Because plasma is gay.

Ah fair enough I assumed you meant LCD. Yerh plasmas are crap, expecially when it comes to burn in and dark lighting.

Don't plasma TVs also require like two weeks of special image pasterns playing on the thing before you can even use it?

I imagine LED TVs are the most reliable, it would only make sense, too bad they're so expensive :P

I don't own a TV. I'm very happy about this to be honest. It's the most unproductive product to date. It really makes me a zombie.

The only reason I have a TV is for games, otherwise I'd just go to the movies once in a while and save a ton on cable which is COMPLETE CRAP. If you're not watching cable TV you're missing nothing. But it was stupid of me to say I hate movies because nobody hates movies.

Anyway check out my vintage audio set up I put together for about $130 (most expensive thing being the headphones)

80's CD player and headphones, 70's receiver and speakers

thirty year old receiver still works and it's American MADE what a surprise

Oh and here's something cool about HDTVs, you can hook vintage audio equipment to it, can you do that with an 80's TV Sekto? That's a pretty potent mix my friend. You could not get this kind of set up for ANYWHERE NEAR $130 in a store, which is bad for students and broke ass motherfuckers like myself.

Yeah, I expect LED sets are going to have a GREAT service record in the field because of their low power consumption, low heat combined with the reliability of the LED.

OH MY FUCKING GOD, what a cool setup. NICE Kenwood.

I'll have to post pix of my Hi-Fi setup.