A classic problem with fuel cells is extreme intolerance to contaminants. Even trace amounts of contaminants tend to damage fuel cells. Hydrogen fuel cells need cleaner hydrogen than is normally available commercially. Research continues on making fuel cells more tolerant of contaminants, but it's hard. Fuel cells are surface chemistry systems. 40 years of research hasn't solved this problem.

Reverse osmosis water purification systems once had the same problem. Today they routinely take in raw seawater and pump out clear water. They just need a backflush cycle once in a while to flush the crud off the membranes. Fuel cells aren't there yet.

Politicians will not change their behavior until politics is no longer a full-time job.

FTFY.

While you are correct (yes, my long-ago history teachers gave us the real story, not the sanitized one), the principle is still the same: "We left so we could do as we want, not as other people dictate. What we *want* is to dictate what others are allowed to do."

I'd say that our new class of surveillance overlords have a great deal in common with those early colonists. And we should give them the same choice as did the fed-up Dutch: "Either take the next ship out, or walk into the ocean. We've had enough of your shit."

And I'm thinkin' that deer-huntin' season is just a few months away.....

Either we stop this surveillance crap NOW, by any means necessary, or a total surveillance state WILL be our future.

DirectTV has a satellite downlink, with their own satellites and antennas. AppleTV just has the Internet. Only in countries with net neutrality will Apple TV win out over the offerings of cable TV companies and telcos. The Comcast 300MB data cap is good for maybe 60-70 hours of HD video. Average American TV consumption is 5 hours a day.

He'd probably think the market of people who want to pay for a whole new TV isn't all that big.

That's a dumb thing to say in virtually any context. It's especially dumb in this one because of Apple's excellent track record in bringing a good end-user experience. If the AppleTV rumors are true, the ability to to tell my remote "I want to watch Boardwalk Empire" or "record all new episodes of Game of Thrones" could be a game changer that will cause DirecTV to scramble to catch up.

That said, I do think he can afford to be somewhat defiant about it. A $1,500 50" TV is not likely to sell like hotcakes. If Apple holds to their current pattern he's got time to react.
 

I believe kittens are known to cause cancer in the State of California.
Thank God I'm not in California! /I manufacture and distribute kittens for the purpose of huffing

Her ramblings reminded me of this individual on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/poeticallady
Read that for a while and your brain will start to hurt. Especially when you realize that one of the accounts she talks to all day long is another one of her accounts with her own pic on it. She's spent two years harassing a friend who is a prof at a University, contacting his employers, and anyone and everyone she can find on Facebook and Twitter that shares a common last name with him.
I really hope that this "lawyer" isn't as persistent in trying to make Mr. Lee's life a living hell as the Twitter stalker is.