Am American. The only nuance they missed is that not every American has 100 AKs, but the ones that do have been screaming about 'protecting us from tyranny' for decades, then sided with the tyrants
Peer to peer could solve the hosting/bandwidth issue. Just federate the network/index/front end for torrent-based streaming. Impose some ratio requirements for access and it's infinitely scalable
My uncle got an Xbox 360 specifically because Smallville was coming out on hddvd instead of Bluray. He could never find that hd dvd drive until the format war was over, and I ended up with the 360.
"Splurging" on one of the most prolific loss leaders in grocery is certainly one way to say it. We're buying them because it's the cheapest way to eat