Or Gravity

You haven't seen Inception.

I used to have Direct TV. For years... It was great.

But the monthly bills were too high, and I also had NF. I wondered why I had both and did some hard thinking about it.
I got rid of the satellite and kept NF.

I was totally satisfied with the DVD only plan for a while.
Then streaming came out and I tried that...
It worked great for about the first two years.
Now it is spotty and annoying.
Both NF and my ISP point the finger at the other one.

Right now I'm probably ok with NF not having the latest CRAP you can get from RedBox...
I always have to laugh at people who complain about what NF doesn't have...
I ask what films they want to watch and have to hide my derision.


NF actually has a large amount of incredible foreign and indie films, docs, all kinds of cool shit.
I never have a problem finding something to watch.
The problem is with the streaming itself.

What it doesn't have is the latest garbage peddled by the big studios, that for some reason most people want to watch.

The Hobbit?
Give me a break.

Inconvenient you say? Not for me...

I've been a NF user since they started(2004?) and have had a streaming plan with them since that was possible.
I can say unequivocally that their streaming performance has gone downhill to the point I'm considering cancelling and going back to the 3 DVD at a time plan.
I've called(yes you can do that...) NF several times to complain. I get the same excuses everytime, which boils down to "It's not our fault".
I've contacted my ISP who shows that I've got the latest/greatest DSL modem, etc and that speedtest and streaming others like Youtube all check out fine.

There is a problem with NF streaming.

Should I assume this has something to do with the recent ruling about Net Neutrality?
In my case the problem started about six months ago and has gotten worse in the last two, so it was before that.

So when I watch a DVD I don't have all the bullshit to put up with that I do with streaming. To me NF streaming is akin to the early days of telephone or telegraph.

And yes, I do TOTALLY blame the ISP, but I really have no way to prove it.

My other choice of ISP?
Comcast...(blech/blarg/belch/barf)

Wow, where do I begin replying to this...
1. When did I say I "don't want to reduce the air pollution that causes health issues"?
2. When did I "lie or mislead" to "make my case"?
3. Explain how I am "harming the environment directly", anymore than you are...?

And now to the piece de resistance(this is too good for words):

Do you know how nutty that sounds?
"Dark and twisted" philosophy? You need to crawl back into under your rock...

Damn Kendall, you gave me the best laugh I've had in a while!
Good luck on the comic book writing, and don't quit your day job!

There will come a time when the profits made by the corporations will start to be affected by the unemployment created by automation and robotics. It's inevitable.

How will the corporations and governments deal with mass unemployment?
That is as important a question as any of the other major crises that are headed our way.

Will we end up "living" in the "Foam Cubes", guarded and monitored by a Robot Police Force?
Will we end up like the people in "Surrogates"?

It is fascinating that no one wants to really take a hard long look at what is coming, isn't it?

Yes, we could live the utopian dream Marshall Brain presents in "Manna", but how likely is that to occur?
It is obvious with the manipulation that the 1% is marshaling, they are not going to let that happen under any circumstances...

This right here is something that anyone who lives in a highly polluted urban area knows instinctively. You don't need studies and scientists to point out that pollution(air) is not healthy, and that exposure to it over time(years) is bad and probably contributes to Asthma and Emphysema(would appear obvious) and also things like Lung Cancer and Heart Disease... Common sense would dictate this observation.

This Common Sense observation, that air pollution is bad, is my main, MAIN point of animosity towards all the "there is no human caused global warming due to pollution or putting carbon into the atmosphere" douchebags.

Who gives a flying f*&k if the billions of tons of air pollution each year are causing climate change? Really! Why worry and argue about that when we know beyond any sort of Koch brothers funded propaganda that air pollution, the same air pollution putting billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere, is also killing the oceans via acidification, browning the forest and(drum roll please...) killing humans.

We should be doing everything in our power to reduce the amount of air pollution we put into the air, if not for what it is doing to the climate, at least for what it is doing to our health.

It always amazes me these idiots who make bold and sweepingly broad statements about California: "It's a desert! It's always been a desert!" Well, people, WTFU, because California actually has quite a few different climatic zones, and declaring the Central Valley a desert is nonsense.

Thanks for pointing this out!

You mean they watched a movie using the computer connected to the GC...

If you have your acquisition pc network vlan'd AND have that vlan blocked from going to the internet via firewall rules and/or proxy and/or GPO, then they can't be streaming movies.

If the pc in question auto logs on, and the logon account isn't administrator(and this isn't XP), and the usb ports are turned off in BIOS, then they couldn't install DIVX viewer or other such software for watching movies.

But yes, people are ingenious in finding ways to get around rules designed to stop them from having fun.

Not true.
What do you think Silicon Valley and the surrounding areas were before HP, et al took up shop?
Farms, orchards and ranches. And this was before the 1950's.
From Salinas, Watsonville, over the hill to Los Gatos, all of the Santa Clara valley, up the peninsula, across the bay, up in the north bay...
Tons of food was grown and rasied around the bay area before it turned into a hipster billionaires playground. Hell, there may still be some orchards hiding in Los Altos...

I think you are talking about southern California, which is a desert.

The Mediterranean Climate areas of the state, and especially the bay area and areas north were extremely fruitful and supported the largest numbers of native Americans on the continent before Europeans arrived.

TFA speaks about alfalfa growers in the Imperial Valley of California, which was and is a desert.
From Wikipedia: "Bordered by sand dunes and barren mountains, it was uninhabited until 1901, when the Imperial Canal was opened and diverted Colorado River water into the valley through Mexico."

With the water restrictions that are coming due to changes in the Colorado River Compact(which is where Imperial Valley gets its water, not from any source in California proper...) the Imperial Valley alfalfa farmers are going to be hard pressed. Their cheap water is coming to an end and they know it...

There are water issues in the norther third of the state regarding the Delta and fish on the Trinity and Klamath rivers. However that is hundreds of miles away in northern California. Maybe those are the minnows you are mentioning. You need to remember though that there is a fishing industry that makes money from the Salmon up there, and they are being hurt by the water being diverted in northern California and southern Oregon for the same type of alfalfa growing...

It's usually better to research what you post before you post it. It saves you from looking like a tool.
Perhaps you should stick to letting Big Money steal elections in Michigan...

Yea, um, California has had a problem in that area recently...

FTFY

Semantics are a funny thing.

Not only that, but FTFA it shows that the Imperial Valley alfalfa growers are getting their water from the All American Canal, which by no means goes over the Sierra Nevada.

Essentially this situation is more of the same fucked up water management of the Colorado River Basin, where uses for the water are illogical and based on greed, cronyism and short term thinking.

Don't worry though, this will change.