Yes, but we have the same number of "good" writers to go around it seems. Mostly it is 99+% reality schlock, QVC, "The Learning Channel", "History" (of UFO's), etc.

Even if you like watching some TV there is a strong moral argument to starve the beast and get rid of cable.

Same boat here. I only watch a few shows, and frequently I don't even get to watch most of what is in my queue before it expires. Heck, I am only halfway through last year's Southpark season.

I have a 2 year old that keeps me quite busy, so I am lucky if I can manage to squeeze in a half hour to watch John Stewart.

Craziness in the ad space has all the feel of being a ginormous bubble. Companies who have a business model of selling banner ads via an app and have no other revenue sources seem especially precarious to the perception of advertising effectiveness. If at some point studies come out showing banner ads are as ineffective as I think they are (I think they are a net negative to most companies who use them) the rug could get pulled out from the whole mess.

People are getting trained to filter this stuff out left and right. I find myself avoiding google when I look for certain things because I know that if they are common I will have to wade through a page or more of paid up links that are mostly only tangentially related to what I am looking for. I can't recall the contents of any recent banner ads, and there are a number of sites I just don't visit on my ipad because they are so awful without AdBlock running.

How about a new Kickstarter campaign where we pool our money to buy up highway billboard space and put up pretty murals instead of ads?

I can't quickly find it, but years ago I read a nice 1 page column that summed up how ot motivate your employees well.

1) Give employees the tools to do their jobs well (don't make us fight over licenses, etc).
2) Give clear goals and direction (know what you want before unleashing the whole team on it).
3) Get out of their way (keep the meetings and paperwork truly to a minimum).

All else seems to be window dressing.

Kool-Aid makes the taste of bitter almond go down easier.

I will happily sacrifice half the budget for the military industrial complex to invest in renewables and electric vehicles. I will aslo happily pay 5% mor in tax rates if it will apply to my bracket and higher.

Dropped the phone/TV, not the internet, sorry.

Thank goodness I upgraded when I did, I barely managed to stay broadband by bumping from 15/5 Mbps to 30/5 Mbps, and somehow payed $5 less a month ($35/mo now).

I finally started liking our FiOS once I dropped the phone/internet and figured out how to stop the incessant beeping when the phone backup battery died. The FiOS box does not properly maintain the lead-acid battery and it runs flat after a year or so, so I found the buzzer on the PCB and smashed it. No more battery at all. None of our phones worked without line power anyway, and we switched to Vonage for the house phone that we can't quite bring ourselves to get rid of.

Seems to me they are just jealous that the zone of lawlessness is excluding them from the picture. All was fine in their minds if the main law violators were mostly within the CIA/NSA/FBI/etc. Now that they have been cut out of the party they are spreading FUD like crazy.

Yep, we should hit them where they hurt. Such behavior should result in being disqualified for spectrum auctions, or similar censuring.

Speeding laws and their enforcement are corrosive to our sense of justice. Think of it as a gateway law to break.

Drive the speed limit and you get angry people tailgating you and angrily making unsafe passes even when you are in the slow lane. Clearly in most places the speed limits are too low. So most folks in decent highway conditions drive 10-15 mph over the limit, which makes them all law breakers.

Cops don't clearly state at what point they will pull someone over, or what cup size allows you to talk your way out of a ticket, which really erodes our sense of equal justice for all (and violates our constitutionally guaranteed right to equal protection under the law). In fact we all violate the law several times a day just to live like a normal citizens, and much of the time we are pretty unaware something was even against the law (a sure sign our legal system has gotten out of hand). Cops get to choose when to apply esoteric laws and when to ignore pretty basic ones (depends highly on skin color or the presence of a badge).

They claimed there was a 20 wavelength discrepancy. So it should allow a pattern every 5 cm along the length of the beam.

If they indeed can do this, I would have like to have seen a demonstrate interference pattern showing the beat note between the normal beam and the "slowed" beam. It should be roughly as simply as using a beam splitter, one though their mask, then back into a beam combiner. If coherent laser light is pump in the slower photons should create an interference pattern along the length of the beam that any crummy detector should be able to pick up.

Instead they compared time of arrival over a single distance (as best I can tell from TFA), which is subject to systematic offsets, such as the fixed delay to get through the mask.

Heisenberg's uncertainty limit does not say you can't know the speed and location at the same time, but rather there is a limit to the overall accuracy. So the more precisely you measure the speed, necessarily the amount of uncertainty on your measurement of location goes up. Heisenberg's limit it pretty damn small, FYI.

I read TFA and could not specifically find where they showed they adjusted the speed and not just added an initial delay. They ran it through a mask, then onto a ~1 meter long "race track" to compare. I really wanted a clear explanation that they ran the test over 2 lengths to factor out any static delay caused by the propagation through the mask itself.