That's not hypocrisy, it's R&D. If they can make more money doing this they will most certainly bring it to WoW. Patience friend.

Meanwhile people whose child or spouse is spared from death by this same research feel quite differently about it.

It's time to go streaming only. If everyone drops the DVD then they'll have to offer the content on streaming or get beat by a competitor that will offer it. By keeping that just-in-case disc subscription you delay the inevitable change.

There are indeed such websites:

http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Willie_Soon#Funding

Wonder if someone is an Oil industry shill?

http://www.pctechs.org/tag/attila-dimedici/

Someone seems a bit too much pro-fossil fuel.

Is this just a setup for the upcoming Asylum film "2012: Ice Age"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxbiNWSNPTk

Double Tap. That's most of what you need to know.

It helps to already have the cardio. (knowing that rule doesn't help so much unless you knew for a while and prepared.)

We can hear the idiots inside but they don't seem to be able to hear us.

The 5 letter swear word.

I'd gladly pay someone to stream the titles that Netflix still has on disc only. It's 2011 and when I decide I want to watch something I should be able to watch it NOW. When Netflix offered a lower rate to go streaming only I dumped the disc faster than you can say "Why would anyone wait for the postal service?".

I hope that this lights a fire under Netflix's collective butts to get more of their library available for streaming.

And until it does, I'd be glad to send money to someone that will stream these titles to me.

when you inhale it?

They'll get their karmic reward for the narrative depth theft by no one buying the game.

Beer (& Whiskey) open the way for civilization!

There was a recent discovery channel program called "How Beer Saved the World" and in Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain wrote

"How solemn and beautiful is the thought that the earliest pioneer of civilization, the van-leader of civilization, is never the steamboat, never the railroad, never the newspaper, never the Sabbath-school, never the missionary -- but always whiskey! Such is the case. Look history over; you will see. The missionary comes after the whiskey -- I mean he arrives after the whiskey has arrived; next comes the poor immigrant, with ax and hoe and rifle; next, the trader; next, the miscellaneous rush; next, the gambler, the desperado, the highwayman, and all their kindred in sin of both sexes; and next, the smart chap who has bought up an old grant that covers all the land; this brings the lawyer tribe; the vigilance committee brings the undertaker. All these interests bring the newspaper; the newspaper starts up politics and a railroad; all hands turn to and build a church and a jail -- and behold! civilization is established forever in the land. But whiskey, you see, was the van-leader in this beneficent work. It always is. It was like a foreigner -- and excusable in a foreigner -- to be ignorant of this great truth, and wander off into astronomy to borrow a symbol. But if he had been conversant with the facts, he would have said: Westward the Jug of Empire takes its way. "

It wasn't long after those Fortran, Pascal, and COBOL classes that we were administering said DEC VAX computers. I think I can still find a record of one of my DECUS program submissions ("MCLS" #V00200) out there somewhere. That was back when we called "open source" by the name "public domain".

So really no big deal then?