When translating from Chinese to English at http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=translate , the explanation is money.

October 14, 2011

Please note: This only affects the translation of text from Chinese to English and vice versa. The functionality to look up individual words or the dictionary definitions of any Chinese word in a text remains unchanged!

The translation page of this website uses (now and before) Google Translate to perform text translation. Google recently changed their previously freely available website integration APIs to a paid service. This has forced us to change the way translation results are presented.
from http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=20111014_newtranslatepage

I actually don't even know what iframes are, but this seems related. All I know is that the translations are full of google, and that two weeks ago they weren't. You need to paste or write some Chinese text in the box and click go to see the new output. Of course it won't mean as much if you never saw the old output without the word google plastered all over it.

There is no requirement that the data be sent on a CD.

Article 12
Right of access
Member States shall guarantee every data subject the right to obtain from the controller:
(a) without constraint at reasonable intervals and without excessive delay or expense:
- confirmation as to whether or not data relating to him are being processed and information at least as to the purposes of the processing, the categories of data concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data are disclosed,
- communication to him in an intelligible form of the data undergoing processing and of any available information as to their source,
- knowledge of the logic involved in any automatic processing of data concerning him at least in the case of the automated decisions referred to in Article 15 (1);
(b) as appropriate the rectification, erasure or blocking of data the processing of which does not comply with the provisions of this Directive, in particular because of the incomplete or inaccurate nature of the data;
(c) notification to third parties to whom the data have been disclosed of any rectification, erasure or blocking carried out in compliance with (b), unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort.

Netflix is not interested in mailing you DVDs for $2 a month. From their point of view, if you have streaming for $8, the correct price for adding mailing is $8. You may think of it as paying $8 for mailing and expect that you should be able to get streaming for an extra $2, but Netflix doesn't think of it that way. If you want them to maintain warehouses full of DVDs and mailers and pay for postage, they want you to pay for all that. Their price is $8.

I gave up mailed DVDs months ago when the price went to $10 and they first started offering streaming only for $8. Now you have the chance to do the same.

Amazon wants you to cheat on your taxes. It wants to help you not pay the use tax.

If the real problem for Amazon is computing the tax rate for each purchase, it could instead agreed to turn over to the Board of Equalization a list of all purchases shipped into California. Then the Board of Equalization could coordinate with the Franchise Tax Board to see if you paid the use tax, or the Board of Equalization could send you a bill for your use tax. In this way, Amazon would not be involved in computing or collecting the correct tax due.

Which would you rather: have Amazon collect the tax due or have the Board of Equalization know about every one of your purchases?

"Put on CD and try" has nothing to do with "install on my hard drive." Google liveCD or go straight to
http://www.livecdlist.com/

"what is the easiest version based on Linux for me to put on CD and try?"
Burning a CD should be equally easy no matter what distribution is chosen.

My income tax rate is higher than the tax rate on my wireless bill. So what? An appropriate question is whether wireless customers pay more in taxes than landline customers. Neither the article nor the study even consider that obvious question.

I have reel-to-reel audio tapes from the 60s that still play on my tape deck from the 70s. I have digital backups, but I don't know if they will last the same 40-50 years that most of the original analog tapes have. My most recent "recovery" was a transfer to digital form about four years ago.

Some of the tapes have degraded and are not recoverable as the layer from one winding of tape has stuck to the adjacent winding.

Don't try not paying tax on capital gains on your federal income tax return. There are lots of forms of income other than earned income: capital gains, interest, dividends, rents, etc. Unearned income is still income.