Netflix Update through September 2006

Sorry about not getting an update out for August. But I’ve updated the charts with August and September numbers. Netflix is doing well with its turnaround time, although a few of the TV shows we had in our queue were shipped from across the country, which added 1 to 3 days to the delivery time. My charts only show processing time. Someone also suggested I do some charts for how long we keep DVDs. Usually we keep them at most 3 days, although there have been a few we’ve kept for as long as two weeks. We have a lot of TV shows in our queue (Emergency, Survivor, Loony Tunes, Little House on the Prairie) which are very nice because you can watch a small hunk of a DVD, without the time commitment of an entire movie.

Netflix Analysis

Netflix Analysis Ten DVD Average

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Liberty

“Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions and will receive praise or blame for them.” -F. A. Hayek

Re: Voting Sucks

In Voting Sucks, Devin Reams discusses his concerns with the entire voting process. His frustrations are fairly reasonable.

He should do what I generally do (95+% of the time): Vote for the person running against the incumbent. He’s right, incumbents almost always win. So I try to encourage the person with the guts to challenge the incumbent. And hopefully in future elections we will have people to challenge incumbents. Having a race with no “choices” is Evil.

But waiting 10 to 30 years for the current crop of legislators to die off isn’t a great strategy.

This summer Virginia had a primary election. I voted for one guy, and my wife voted for the other. The Democrat who was outside the polling station tried to recruit us, “since we’re obviously good Democrats voting at the primary.” His face fell to the floor when I told him we were just voting offset votes to encourage the election turnout rate. The final turnout rate was something 3 or 4 percent. So we could have had a huge impact on the final results.

That’s what the youth of America need to do (boy I feel old typing that). Get organized, get a candidate. Then show up at the polls.

(Link to original article updated on 2019-01-27.)