The CIA runs on it's own. In Iraq they have their own camps, their own security ground forces, and their own aerial drones with attack capabilities. They strike targets that could be hit by the military, but spooks prefer not to tell anyone what they've found, know, or suspect.

Who needs the military? They're rarely on the same page anyway.

So the prog rock CDs i buy are expensive because of all the saturation advertising and airplay?

It's not necessarily a problem with the standard, it's a problem of specifications generally. Writing a specification that covers everything is very hard, and writing code to match a specification exactly is also very hard. You can realistically only get approximations. The same thing occurs with other standards. Look at how many differences you have between C compilers, Unixes, or (God help us) SQL databases – sometimes even when the standard is very clear.

Obama stated today that he would be pushing for stronger enforcement of current copyrights.
In other words, no copyright reforms are coming anytime soon.

We don't need to concern ourselves with those dead white guys and their warnings about corporate influences usurping the rule of the people and all of that other foolishness from ages past. History never repeats itself.

Later, they got a show feed they taped to be played later.
Network television still does that, which is why wild feeds were something to look for when you were bored and had a C-Band dish around.

Netscape had Netcaster and IE had Active Channels, both http push sytems where you subscribed to a feed and had it sent.
Doesn't sound far from the claimed functionality.

That's from 1997.

2 bucks for half an hour of entertainment? The average movie costs more to see, and the value of the entertainment is highly debatable.

I would expect the RIAA and MPAA to provide payments to every ISP and telecom company in the world to offset the labor and administrative cost of this requirement.

It would be the right thing to do.

What the hell is the point of having download/upload speeds if you can't utilize them.