Disney does not sell access to ABC and does not get subscriber fees for it either. Broadcast stations are split up into local affiliates. These are generally owned by companies like Sinclair. Sinclair might chose to require subscription fees instead of listing as a "must carry", but this is completely up to the affiliate and not the broadcast network like ABC.

A better explanation would be subscribing to ESPN without being required to buy ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN News, ESPN Classic, etc.

Citation needed.

The state of Iowa has offered free preschool the last few years. The cost of running these preschools has more than doubled during these years. I just love that government efficiency!

Also, I live in a blue collar town of about 26,000 with about 35-40% of the town receiving government assistance. Previous to the new state policy we had 96% of 4 year old kids attending preschool. Now with the "free" preschool option we still have 96% attending preschool.

And how would you notify your workers of these meetings?

Especially since the Boston Marathon is an International event. It is International news.

How's all this "hope and change" bullshit working for you Obama supporters? He was supposed to close Gitmo within a year of taking office. He promised. I guess he's not a different kind of politician after all.

Now he has expanded his war on terror, crossing boarders, using more drones, signing terrible NDAA's, etc. How is this any different from Bush, other than the fact that the US media refuses to report on it? The media no longer notifies of us soldier or innocent civilian deaths. How convenient.

But wait - look over here!!! The White House is no longer giving tours because teh evil Repubers won't let us spend any money!!!

That's bullshit. All non-union private sector jobs have retirement accounts based on personal investment.

What you are describing is "must-carry" status. If a station labels themselves as "must-carry" then they cannot demand compensation from the cable or satellite provider. However, many of these stations are changing from must-carry status to retransmission consent status where they can charge for their content. Since many of the commercial must-carry stations are usually affiliates of nation-wide broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, etc) they have realized that they can make more money by charging fees for their content instead of advertising being their only source of revenue. We are seeing more and more of this with media groups like Sinclair changing their stations' status from must-carry to retransmission consent. Consumers don't like their bills going up, but they also don't want to lose the local news/weather and national programming.

While I generally agree with your statement, many of the modern live pop bands do the same thing live that they do on recordings. It's a shame that the live performances are just as doctored as the recordings are.

I thought with all of the sequester scaremongering from Obama that we didn't have any money left. At least that's the reason given for the furloughs days for employees....even though we are still spending more money this year than last year.

Why not? Just because they *appear* to be complying with a contract does not mean that they are following a contract. Maybe they aren't interested in physical combat and instead start attacking vital systems of South Korea, US, etc. Wouldn't that be the same thing?

It's on TNT every Monday night.

Well, technically the article only says that the large amount of data could be created. It doesn't say that all data created is sent over a network. I would guess that the system doesn't send all data, and the rest of the data could be downloaded once the plane has landed.

If you think the Win 8 interface is horrible, just wait until you try Server 2012. Metro. On a server. For reelz.

Why? WHY???????

Nah, I'm sure it will work this time.

"She reports that the program, which is attempting to replace the multiyear product drops for the Windows-branded desktop, server, phone, and network services products with a more agile release cycle, with better continuity across the suite"

This is just plain retarded. Why have "agile releases" of corporate software? We can barely afford to upgrade server OS and applications every 5-10 years including all of the time/labor for the upgrades! Now they are going to release Server OS, Exchange, etc every 12-18 months? I call bullshit.

Hell, Microsoft can't even have their flagship Exchange 2010 product run on Server 2012 yet....and that is 6+ months after Server 2012 was released. Now I'm supposed to believe that Microsoft will have interoperability between 5-10 server releases with 5-10 different flavors of Exchange, SQL, etc?

I can't even imagine trying to manage that mess - it's difficult enough now.