I can handle a static or rotating banner (which is what the suggestions thing always has been).

As long as they're not stopping content in the middle to hawk crap at me.

The thing is, I don't give a crap how much it costs to support streaming.
If you want to give it away, ad-supported, for "free"? Cool!

But if I'm going to pay a subscription fee, I'll be damned if I'm going to put up with ads on top of that. And if the sub price doesn't cover what it'd cost to go ad-free, then they need to rethink their pricing and delivery scheme.

In short "I don't want to see ads. PERIOD!"

No, what you're seeing is fewer ads, but longer overall.

Take an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode.

43 minutes of show.
Plus 6 (count 'em) 2-3 minute commercial breaks when you see four ads back to back.

Granted, that's only about 28% (when TV is 36%). Still, for someone paying the monthly fee, that's ridiculous.

One. Nobody "prefers Hulu". Except the people who implemented it but don't actually USE it.

Look at Hulu. It's a mediocre streaming site with ever larger chunks of intrusive video ads. And paying them doesn't make the damn things go away or space them out further or make them shorter ads. That's how the entertainment industry would LIKE people to consume their media. Paying them directly, then supporting them indirectly through ad revenue as well.

NO THANK YOU!

I mostly agree with your sentiments about it being bad that Comcast got paid for content their users REQUESTED and were already paying them to deliver.

Not entirely sure about lock-out though.

Just filed by TurboTax this year. Basically, this year has been STUPIDLY busy, and I've been working 7 days a week, and pulling an average of 12 hours a day.

So last night it kinda occurred to me, uh, maybe I should file my taxes?

Unfortunately I'm booked solid today. Ooops.

Now I've had my taxes done for me for the last 25 years (basically ever since I started working as a teenager). In all that time, I've only had one tax scare (due to my employer at the time screwing up my witholdings). So, regardless of how "easy" people say it is to file for yourself, I was always terrified of filing myself.

This time I didn't get a choice.

Luckily it was mostly pain-free. One small goof around educational witholdings (interest on college loans). But I got it filed.
And it's become cheaper, by far, to file this way than to have a service do it.

Now I just have to hope nothing got screwed up.
(I'll unclench my butt from my chair once the direct deposits go through.)

And everyone else post "AW! HOW CUUUUUTE!"

Where are you seeing that said? I've been searching around for a bit since you posted and I can't find information as to this policy cancellation ANYPLACE.

Holy crap. This is one of the first serious pieces I've seen in altogether too long a time.

Actually acknowledging that nuclear is a vital part of the way forward.

And it's the UN doing it?

Did someone slip me a mickey or something?

Accountable?

The US Government?

Pfft!

I'll believe that shit when I start seeing it.

I hesitate to label them crooks, because crooks couldn't get away with the shit our government does.

Not to mention that crooks are more careful with money than the US government EVER was.

And this simile negates the REST of my point...uhm. HOW?

Obama isn't in a position to "let" or "prohibit" SHIT (even his own).

He's a fucking douchebag, Chicago Machine politician.

He has no opinions or even feelings outside of what his little cabal of "advisors" tell him he does.

He's also in NO position to dictate to the NSA what they will or will not do with an undiscovered bug in a security device/program.

The NSA damn well WILL use it, and so long as nobody leaks it to THE PUBLIC, it's "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" from the rest of the government.

Even if Obama were to, God forbid, try something PROACTIVE, they'd still just ignore it and sacrifice yet another desk jockey stooge once caught.

Okay, you're stunned that a company as culturally blinkered and rapacious as APPLE isn't turning over some of their huge cash hoard to fund Open Source projects that are outside of their control and might sabotage their patent warchest?

Why not just walk up to Smaug, kick him in the eyeball and demand the Arkenstone "OR ELSE" there Bilbo!

As long as you are witholding something Apple wants, they're either charming as fuck or litigious as hell in an effort to acquire it.

Once they have what they want out of you, you're a one-night-stand, it's the next morning and they can't be rid of you fast enough.

Basically they're only worth the effort it takes to ignore or dismantle.
In the case of online protests, they can be safely ignored.
In the case of physical protests, if there's no rioting, they're ignored.
If there's rioting, they're suppressed.

And not just in the US.

Look at the Kirchner kleptocracy in Argentina. They had tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people rioting in the street.
Kirchner's response? What riot? Ooh! Prada shoes! I'll nationalize something else, and squeeze a bit more money out of my citizens and I can buy all I want!

We're pretty much at the point where the government has stopped giving a fuck. They have more and bigger guns than we do, and that's the end of it.

The only way to effect real change nowadays is if lots and lots of people are willing to kill, bleed and die for their principles.

Unfortunately, things are too damn cushy for most people to want to go that far.

So, in the gilded cage we sit.

There's still a minimum conductivity in molar water. But it's several orders of magnitude lower than than tap or bottled water.

Again, primary conductivity of water is via impurities in the water, not the water itself.

Yep. Got to fiddle around with Fluorinert cooling years ago.

Interesting, just not very practical.

You really DO need a fully sealed system and ostensibly clean-room assembly. Because, while the coolant itself is non-conductive, any detritus that accumulates in the fluid after settling out of the environment ISN'T. That's the main thing about water (straight H2O) isn't conductive. It's all the other things in the water, minerals, dust, etc that's doing the conduction.

Also, as noted, there's STILL going to be use of fans and water. Because you still need systems that extract the thermal energy from the liquid medium. You simply remove them from the main system chassis.

It also doesn't change the fact that it's still a TERRIBLY inefficient way to cool the system. Unlike water cooling loops, where you have no more than maybe a pint or so of fluid cooling the major heat sources in the system, you have QUARTS of fluid basically covering everything. And you really have no good flow control, other than extremely high volume fluid exchange, which is energy inefficient in and of itself.

That's PROBABLY what a lot of the board re-engineering is about. Centralizing all the thermally active devices into a centralized area to limit the volume of immersion coolant required and to simplify flow control.