Posted by StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt on 12/07/07 02:36

The commodore 64 computer, which was released in August of 1982 and had
a price of $595. It had a 6510 CPU that could do cycles slowly enough
that you could count them ticking off (not really).

Today you can get a Cell CPU powered computer,game, and movie player
platform that has 100 times the power of the C64 for $399.

Now... let's adjust for inflation.

That 1982 $595 is damned near $2000 today, if not more.

Today's $399 is still just $399 though. Back then, it would have been
somewhere around $100.

So stop pissing and moaning, ya little pukes. It was OUR use of the
electronics industry through purchases of home stereos, and other early
industry devices that made your pushbutton world possible.

The first Laser Disc players were $1200. Back when $1200 was a lot
harder to come by as well. Disc players these days are cheap even for
the good ones.

We paid for it, and you punks get to play with all the benefits of it.
You wouldn't even have 3D gaming realms if it were not for us.

It ain't free though, boys. If you want to play, you got to pay.

$400 ain't shit to get these days, and it sure ain't anywhere near as
hard to get as $600 was back then.

All you little shits could probably beg that much off of Daddy pretty
easily. That $400 amounts to like $100 of money back then.

Baseball cards cost 50 times what they did back then, and you get no
gum!

You dopes should count your blessings that the electronics industry
didn't bloat like other industries did or you wouldn't be able to afford
your toys. Hell without electronics to keep our economy afloat, we'd
have been at war years ago without it.

And then you little pussies complain about movie prices and come up
with a thousand excuses to pirate DVDs. The most common: "I have kids."
Whoopie fuckin' doo. TEACH your kids proper handling or manage their
viewing yourself. Use a media center computer and NAS drives you can put
all your kids' movies onto a hard drive they can pick then from a remote
and on screen menu. No more DVD blanks to buy.

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