The Couch Potato Conspiracy

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It's all coming together now - the ubiquity of the net, the proliferation of online social spaces, the advent of WFH ('working' from home) - it's all a Conspiracy to keep us at home.

Let me introduce another cog of that insidious Conspiracy machine: www.netflix.com

For a monthly fee as low as $4.99, you get DVDs delivered to your doorstep, as well as access to movies online. Pay $16.99 a month, you get UNLIMITED DVDs delivered three at a time. It also comes with 17 hours of movies to watch online, if you're too lazy to even get off your butt to get your mail.

Suppose you watch 5 movies a month, whether on DVD or online, that's less than $4 per movie ...!

OMG.

No time to write more now, gonna go watch the director's cut of Bladerunner!

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