I paid for the ModernUI version of Plex. It was $2 or something and it's pretty much a showpiece for the touchscreen experience on Windows.
However, I own both a Surface and a Surface Pro, so I actually use it. I also own Plex on iOS, GoogleTV, the Play Store and Amazon's app store. Getting it for Windows 8 was really more about completing the collection.

If the ISP is redirecting every port coming from your IP, it doesn't matter what protocol you use. Instead of getting the "hotel" like page, you get nothing.

Exactly and literally. Smokey and the Bandit was still in or just coming out of theaters when I was 14. And yes, we were trolls (not on CB though). We did real world trolling. Smoke bombs, bottle rockets, bb guns, sling shots, chunking wax balls from those stupid wax sippy candy at cars (no damage, in case you got busted) etc. We used to do all kinds of crap that would have gotten our asses kicked if we didn't know the alleys and yards you could jump fences in without a dog biting you. Trolling on the internet is for pussies. We were bored, but we got a good work out, without inflicting TOO much damage. I don't recommend what I did, but kids that think that they are breaking the rules, trolling, from behind a laptop that mummy and daddy bought them aren't exactly rebels. They are just cowards.

Evangelicals are famous for sending out missionaries to try to convert other people to their religion, and supporting military adventures of governments they elect.

Any hypothesis that evangelicals are peaceful has to explain away their unswerving support of Israel.

What makes you so arrogant to think that you can sort out thousands of years of hatred that is built into the culture by bombing people and trying to impose a foreign style of government?

Sorry, but this is something that these people are going to have to sort out themselves.

Nobody has EVER solved this sort of issue long term from outside.

One of the things that you are missing is that Germany's electricity use is actually declining because of the crappy economy and current demographics.

So flat coal consumption is misleading - this would imply coal is growing as a percentage of energy mix given the economic situation.

We just finished with two useless wars. That tends to create a lot of leftover stuff.

Maybe here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The primary developer of Ambisonics was Micheal Gerzon, one of the best minds to ever work in digital audio. His academic background was in the field of axiomatic quantum theory.

Aside from Ambisonics he devloped

Noise Shaping Dither
Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP format used in DVD-A)
Soundfield Microphone

Taxes really didn't have as much to do about it as most people think. Read the Declaration, there are 16 other reasons listed before taxes are mentioned. Things like the Quartering Act were more important.

At the root it was really about self - determination.

Really you don't want a recliner. What you want is a tilt back chair and an ottoman.

The reason is that it is impossible to properly build a recliner with a good frame and spring structure. The reclining mechanism forces too many compromises to the structure of the chair. The result is the structure just doesn't provide the same support or durability that a proper chair does.

As far as suppliers, it's hard to argue with the quality of Hancock and Moore. Really first rate stuff.

Come one, how can you not have that as a choice? It has all the movie and nerd cultural references you could ask for.

Not exactly. There is no freedom of panorama in the US, so sorry, but you are mistaken. Some photos of the inside might be ok, but anything that has arguably has artistic content (ie: more than text) would be fully copyrighted by the designer. You could argue "Fair Use", but the copyright still doesn't change hands, it isn't yours. Years of arguing with lawyers and such on Commons will teach you that.

I hope they block Java and it's updates. It's ridiculous that this should include search hijacking by default.

If waiving environmental laws and giving huge tax breaks for big businesses is good for the state, then doing the same for small and medium businesses is also good for the state. In fact, this kind of thing is evidence that the laws should be revisited and possibly revised. I already felt that way about the tax laws here in California (some of the highest taxes in the country). I'm not so sure about the environment laws, however.