That's what I call cloud computing! Beaming a gigawatt of power in microwaves from space... what could go wrong? :)

Seriously though, how is it that Japan is going to spend 21 billion to beam a gigawatt of power from space, but I still can't get wireless power for my laptop?

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I think that's coming up soon, since Disney will likely buy Archie comics next, and have a Scarlet Witch / Sabrina the Teenage Witch crossover.

Time to switch your Spiderman subscription to Spawn before the Cinderella crossover series starts.

This post hereby claimed as evidence of the new "If GWB did this" meme

When some news comes out about Obama's administration and some are condemning it but others are defending it...

It's only a matter of time before you get the posters saying:

"If GWB did this, the liberals would be screaming!"

etc..

Similar to the "In Soviet Russia" meme. :)

What Microsoft did to Netscape (drive their $30 Navigator browser out-of-market) is approximately equivalent to Comcast announcing "we'll give everyone free MP3s" and thereby driving Itunes.com out of business. It's called anti-competitive monopolistic behavior, and it's explicitly forbidden by U.S. Antitrust Laws that were passed ~100 years ago.

Kinda funny, I remember being pretty pissed that Netscape was charging money while Mosaic was free.

The idea that someday I may not be able to backup my CDs or DVDs, due to Windows blocking that action, troubles me.

If that scares you, run Linux or Apple.
Seriously, if you want there to be competition for the monopoly you hate, then support that monopoly's competitors.

Not even close to true. He doesn't own ABC, CBS, or NBC. He does own Fox, one of four major networks. On cable, you have Fox News owned by Murdoch (very Republican-oriented, granted), CNN owned by Ted Turner (debatable), but the rest of the news channels aren't close to right-leaning in general. For newspapers, he owns the WSJ, which is the only prominent right-leaning paper, with the Washington Post and New York Times being the two most prominent newspapers in the country. They also happen to be *extremely* left.

So your big Republican conspiracy is 1 out of 4 major networks, one or two major cable news channels, and one major newspaper. That's a lot more than those that are clearly left-leaning. The network news tends to skew left, as do newspapers in major cities.

Correct, Murdoch doesn't own the "most of the mainstream media".
He does own a larger percentage than just about any other single entity, (the New York Post too) but he doesn't control the whole picture.

ABC is owned by Disney, CBS is owned by Viacom / National Amusements, Inc., NBC is owned by GE

You could try and say that Disney, Viacom and GE are totally Republican because they're big business, but then you could come back and say they all love Obama so that makes them Democrats.

Fox is about the only one that with a very obvious news slant, typically coming from pundits like Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity, but they don't speak for the whole corporation.

The whole left/right slant thing is COMPLETE BULLSHIT for most news organizations.
The truth is, they're all about ratings and making money, regardless of left or right.

As for newspapers, isn't Google News the most popular? :)

I just watch Jon Stewart anyways, he must be neutral. Oh shit, Comedy Central is owned by Viacom so there goes that!

Honestly this looks like a pretty typical HR "ethical training" type of course.

We've been subjected to similar training where I work, it's pretty much all BS and nobody pays attention to it.
Just watch the dumb videos, take the quiz so you get training credit and that chick with the hot ass in HR will stop bugging you to take the sexual harassment training.

So far I think the product tie-ins for Eureka are pretty hilarious and creative, and possibly telling for the future of advertising.
They typically even have versions of the advertising on the syfy website too.

Somebody is paying attention and figured out that probably 99% of people that watch shows on syfy use DVRs and fast forward through the commercials.

Hopefully syfy is smart enough to not rely on the Nielsen ratings.
I'm so sick of the major networks canceling all the good shows probably based on incorrect viewing reports!

If the world goes the way of Hulu, then the networks won't need Nielsen anyways.