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Is Netflix still t? Read their policy and it appears they now have it in writing that they give preference to those who have a lower turnover. I work at home and watch a lot of movies while working and when had Netflix gradually saw that I was not only not getting first run movies but delays in getting even older tiltes. What is the experience of those still using Netflix who also have a rapid turnaround?

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They just don't get it yet. It was ok to do CDs and cassettes and movies as long as the recording was done to TAPE, but do it digitally and now it's serious piracy. Doesn't make sense. I've thrown away all the tapes of everything I had! Everything was just replaced.

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Yea, back then, piracy didn't fund terrorism...now it does..

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@goodswipe

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Yea, back then, piracy didn't fund terrorism...now it does..

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Hate to burst that bubble, but all of us driving automobiles at $3.50 up per gallon are financing terrorism. Piracy of cds and dvds hardy would pay for a cherry bomb in comparison. And they are sticking it to us now and playing by our rules. Oil hit $120 barrel today.

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Oil companies don't set crude-oil prices; the global market does. Basically, the market decides what people are willing to pay at a certain moment in time. And a lot of that has to do with the fact that the world is getting richer. Countries like India and China are growing, and that has created more demand for oil and gas. In the United States, we're still going full throttle when it comes to energy use. At the same time, there have been supply disruptions and political instability in major oil-producing nations. So you have a situation where demand has been growing steadily and inexorably, and the system of supply is quite vulnerable. That's the basic recipe for high prices.

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Big oil companies are making most of their money by producing crude oil. They invested in oil fields when prices were much lower, with the expectation that they could break even at, say, $25 per barrel. Since the market price is now more than $70 a barrel, the extra money is gravy. It's like a farmer who can raise corn for $1.50 a bushel. If the market price is $1.75, he makes a quarter per bushel. If the market price jumps to $2.25, his profits jump as well. (If the market crashes to $1 per bushel, the farmer loses money. That can happen to oil companies as well.) Oil companies, like the farmer, are the beneficiaries of high market prices, but they can no more control those prices than a farmer can dictate what he gets for a bushel of corn.

Critics would say the oil industry is far less competitive than the corn market, which is certainly true. But if oil companies could control the price of crude oil, they would not have allowed the price to fall to $10 a barrel as it did in 1998.

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