Because they can. I'll bet they've thought about it and concluded that the most profitable option is to keep their cable bundling for as long as possible. I live in Sweden where HBO opened up shop about a year ago as a purely digital service for ~12 USD/month (at current rates).

Coming soon to the silver screen: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2335888/. Pretty good timing if you ask me. This is off-topic, but I'm looking forward too se how much blatant product placement they can manage in this instalment. Hamilton 2 was almost ridiculous when they had a Microsoft roll-up randomly placed in a Lebanese airport.

As the executive you'd still be allowed a wage one hundred times that of the lowest paid worker which seems very fair to me. Besides, your business is unlikely to ever reach the kind of turn-over where you could afford to pay yourself that much. If it does you'll be the owner of the company so your net worth would still be very large. An argument based on personal risk in this context is flawed. I'd rather see a raised progressive tax rather than a flat out ban on high wages though, because I have a feeling that won't pan out. Anyway, best of luck to you in the future.

...For nine hours.

It's about time we had some more nuclear monst^H^H^H^H^H boy scouts! They used to call me mad, you know. And why? Because I dared to dream of my own race of atomic monsters, atomic supermen with octagonal shaped bodies that suck blood...

I'm still on the iPhone 3GS, correct me if I'm wrong but the charging cable is basically 30-pin USB. Having to pay ~10 times the standard price of a USB cable for a new one is pretty shitty. You can get cheaper off-brand cables, but they keep trying to lock down on those. It's not a lot of money but it's the principle of the matter that bothers me. So in that sense, having a standard for the device as well is a good thing. Although, maybe the standard should be Lightning and not USB, provided that they disallow the manufacturer to deny cables from other providers.

I agree on all points and this is really all that is necessary to fix copyright. The original intent was to protect the creators of artistic works and at the same time give them incentive to keep creating. It was never this monstrosity that we call copyright today. Instead, the ridiculous time periods granted is hardly an incentive to continue creating but rather to create one or two smash-hits and then retire. I won't even go into the corporate mess that has arisen.

A comparison I've been thinking about is comparing with pharmaceutical patents. The pharmaceutical industry is super-high risk as the average pharmaceutical costs around $1b to bring to the market and yet 9/10 candidate drugs fails to get there. Even getting a drug out on the market is no guarantee for success. The patent right is only twenty years because pharmaceuticals are seen as essential to the general well-being of society, but it works. So why the hell should an artist (and then a corporation after the death of the artist) should have 70 years to collect profit when the risk is nowhere near as high? Not to mention that the artist is unlikely to be alive for that entire period of time, or as in the States be dead for 70 years.

Being from the "wrong" country/culture is hardly a viable reason. I'm sure there are millions of people who enjoy Dr Who in the US. I used to like it, I watched the 3 first (new) seasons and I enjoyed the first season. The second had its moments but the third was quite frankly hard to watch. I'm not sure if the show declined in quality or if I simply wearied of it. Maybe Tennant was simply a too implausible and contradictory character for my tastes. Anyway, I too have difficulty understanding how people can be almost fanatical about the show (calling themselves 'Whovians' and what not). Some arcs have been really good, but the overall quality of the series is simply too bad for me to be able to follow it any longer than I did. I am neither British nor American by the way.

I usually hike through Swedish Lapland once a year in summer. Even though night is like 2-3 hours, it does feel like it's easier to rise earlier in the morning when I get back. Although it only lasts for like a week or maybe two.

I agree. Besides, what is the point of pardoning someone who's already dead? To be frank, even an apology is short of the mark. There is nothing they can do at this time apart from what has already been done, making this a rather futile exercise.

What's for dessert? Vancomycin?

It works just like the start menu, only bigger. You use just like you would the regular start menu, type whatever you want to run and press enter. Don't see how this can be such a huge gripe. I haven't switched to Win8 yet but from what little I've used it, I couldn't find much of a problem with it apart from poor network drivers.

You don't have to harvest good bits from an insect. It's mostly just the armoured ones. A grasshopper or a spider you can devour whole.

LD50 is not a very good measure of safety though, try TD50 (or maybe NOAEL if that's applicable to food). Death is not really interesting for food, like you said most toxins don't kill until very high dosages or very long chronic exposure. If prolonged exposure makes you sterile or whatnot, that risk won't be described by an LD50 rating. Having said that, I doubt any farm grown insects will be exposed toxins. What would be the point?

Aspirin is actually used as the generic name in the US (and Canada?) from what I understand. It's certainly easier to read and remember, but doesn't say anything about the structure of the molecule.