Lactose-intolerance and vegetarianism ftw!

I wonder if they can get any insight into other energy trading companies' plans and strategy based on the search activities of their employees and executive teams...

My advice - go to a country with a real healthcare somewhere in EU or Canada or Asia and get some hearing aids there. It will come out cheaper even with a plane ticket.

This is good advice.

My mother has had hearing aids for most of her life. Last time she replaced them she found it was substantially cheaper to drive 15 minutes into Canada and buy them there (despite having good health insurance through her employer). She's still pretty happy with this latest set afaik, and she saved a ton.

First, let's not talk about my iPhone. It is not insured and never has been.

Second, the point of my post is that moral hazard is part of the game.

Third, which insurance company do you work for to get so fired up?

Oh, I see what you did there. You didn't read the article so you don't know that it states that the company in question rejects approximately 25% of claims.

As far as I can tell this is standard operating procedure for insurance companies.

They'll happily take your money in exchange for 'insurance' for X. They get your money, you get peace of mind, it's all hearts and flowers.

It's just that if at some point you want them to follow through on their end of the deal... Well, then you're obviously a cheating, swindling bastard bilking them out of their money. Any excuse to deny a claim; if they can't manage that often enough they'll lobby for changes in laws to make it easier to do in the future.

The nerve of some people, expecting insurance companies to pay up when they make a claim.

Moral hazard is part of the insurance business- hire some people who are better at math so you can price your insurance product accordingly.

Dear AT&T,

I could've sworn I remembered seeing something on my monthly iPhone bill... Ah, there it is.

" DATA PLAN IPHONE 12/02-01/01 30.00 30.00
    Data Unlimited 12/02-01/01 0.00 0.00
        Includes:
        DATA ACCESS "

See, AT&T? It's right where you printed it. Unlimited data for a predetermined cost.

Now, AT&T, if you would please GTFO of here with this talk about billing me based on usage or prepare for me to take advantage of change in ToS so I can get out of my contract without penalty.

Best regards,
A guy who's looking forward to his contract ending so he can get an Android on a network that hopefully sucks less.

TV isn't hugely important to me, if I somehow find that I desperately miss a particular 30 second segment I'm sure I can find it somewhere on the interwebs.

To address the transcoding aspect, it plays lots of formats. MPG as I mentioned already, but also mkv's. I'll eventually be transcoding all of my recordings into mkv's.

No problem.

I just record HD (mpg) streams using my HDHomeRun. They play perfectly on the BD390.

Doesn't help with your .nuv's, though. Sorry. :-(

Reputation for dying:
http://www.google.com/search?q=yellow+ring+of+death

Evil corporation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal

No confusion here.

BD390 uses something like 18 watts.

PS3 uses... substantially more. And don't they have a reputation for dying?

So let's see... Costs more, less reliable, uses more power, and is produced by a corporation that famous for being evil. Yep, you definitely picked a winner there.

As far as modifying during playback...

It supposedly supports captions with .mkv files.

At some point I need to write a script to clip commercials from and transcode Myth's recordings into mkvs with subtitles.

And before anyone asks- no, I'm not remotely concerned about inaccurate results from trusting mythcommflag to catch commercials.

Does it stream NetFlix?

Network AV streaming devices are a dime a dozen these days. NetFlix is the killer feature of the BD390.

I'm still using MythTV for recording TV, but I'm currently selling off my MythFrontends.

For viewing I've switched to an LG BD390. Much less hassle, plays everything I've thrown at (including HD streams recorded by the MythBackend) via UPnP and also does NetFlix and YouTube streaming.