"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security."
I pirate TV shows that air on public airwaves. I receive the channel in glorious HD, but I rather download the show (even in SD) than to watch it on the TV, because of the horribly obnoxious advertising.
I would pay $50 for a service that offered all my favorite televised distractions without the obnoxious advertising. Unfortunately there is no such service. I ha-----
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-- I hate to have completely irrelevant junk interrupt an otherwise mediocre TV show or movie. They manage to stuff in 20 minutes of advertising into a 60 minute TV show, that's just insane, and obnoxious.
The U.S. government is already torturing Snowden by revoking his citizenship, by making threats to any country that might let him stay. Most Americans feel that Snowden is a whistle-blower, not a traitor. Yet, the government continues to treat him like a criminal. It's despicable that a government by the people for the people would not have the people's best interest in mind.
Let's face the facts, the government in this country has become corrupt with power, and merely pointing out that the government is corrupt has become some kind of treason, yet nobody is doing anything about it. People are slowly handing over more and more power to their government.
Unless we switch to solar, wind and/or nuclear for the bulk of our electricity generation, all electric cars do is concentrate where we burn the hydrocarbons to power them.
and that's a good thing because the concentrated hydrocarbon cremation facilities can generate energy with >80% efficiency, while a car burning the same hydrocarbons generates energy with only 20% efficiency. This means you need to burn about three times as much hydrocarbons if you burn it in the car instead of at a power plant.
The portable power plant you find in a car (internal combustion engine) does not even come close to the efficiency you find in a stationary power plant. The car simply wastes most of the fuel's energy as heat, and then wastes even more energy to get rid of all that heat it by swirling liquid around in a "radiator": a device whose sole purpose is to waste as much energy as possible to prevent the engine from melting itself. What's more, is when you step on the brakes all of the car's kinetic energy is wasted as even more heat. The whole thing is hugely wasteful and inefficient.
Yes, one of the skins that comes with Windowblinds is Aero. Combined with Start8, you can make Windows 8 look identical to Windows 7 --- except for window title bar text which always stays centered.
WindowBlinds' support for Windows 8 was added only a few weeks ago, and it's not that great. Most of the existing skins on the download page are broken for the "file copy" window of Windows 8, and some are broken in other ways. There are about 4 skins I found that actually work, but I think all 4 of them are better looking than Windows 8.
Unfortunately the window title stays centered... just like Windows 3.11. I think Windows 8 is supposed to be a throw-back to remind us how crappy Windows 3.11 was, and that we should be lucky Windows 7 doesn't look like that... at least in Windows 3.11 you could actually change title bar text color... Windows 8 you're stuck with black. Argh... stupid Microsoft.
You don't need Windows 8.1 to fix the problems in Windows 8.
What you need is three programs:
I had to get Windows 8 for work and there wasn't much choice. I struggled with it until I found those. I don't need Windows 8.1, Microsoft can go to hell.
If a thing's worth having, it's worth cheating for. -- W.C. Fields