And one about a similar time viewer (I forget the name).

Perhaps you are thinking of The Dead Past by Isaac Asimov. That story features a researcher-for-hire's attempt to build a chronoscope in a society where all academic research is highly regulated and research into time-viewing is very restricted. It has a thought-provoking ending.

I've been following the U.S. elections for a bit (the selecting of the Republican candidate);

and they all want to increase their popularity with the Republican voters by jingoism against Iran.

I've noticed there was one Republican candidate who didn't do that...

I don't think that there is anything wrong with playing in a porno or even in a theatre production.
I would not watch the porn with them in it though.

I truly find your comment interesting. Please do not think my comment is some moral critique; I really am just curious about why you feel that way and how it lines up (or doesn't) with my thoughts on the topic.

Why wouldn't you watch the porn film with your mother, wife or daughter acting in it? Is it just because you wouldn't be as stimulated by seeing (for example) your mother as you would a stranger? (I.e. the `ick` factor?) This is a serious question: what if your mother was a really good actress? I.e. if she wore a wig and make-up that didn't make it obvious she was your mother -- or maybe the pornography just didn't show her face that much -- would you feel more comfortable watching her perform?

Although I do not support legislation to outlaw pornography, the knowledge that the women in it are somebody's mother, daughter, sister or, sometimes even, wife causes me to pause and think: "is it moral for me to treat this woman differently than I'd want my mother, daughter, sister or wife treated? If so, why?" Why would I be willing to patronize those women I know & love in any other line of work but not this one?

I've come to realize it isn't just the `ick` factor; I believe there is something de-humanizing about acting in pornography. I think the viewer does not appreciate the actress for the whole human she is, but instead reduces her to a status or respect level something below what one would want for the other women in his life.

Just curious what your thoughts are.

Great. I'm glad they're patching security vulnerabilities in their 32-bit product. But why do 64-bit users have to use a vulnerable version from 7 months ago?

Supposedly some of these spent fuel rods in building #4 caught fire

First off, the fuel pellets in these boiling water reactors are made of uranium dioxide -- a ceramic which has a melting point of 2,865 degrees Celsius and the zircaloy cladding melts somewhere in the range of 1,850 to 1,975 degrees Celsius (depends on which alloy they are using). I could not even find a combustion temperature for either material. That doesn't matter, though, because the temperature of the spent fuel in the pool would be somewhere around 200 degrees Celsius, depending on how long it had been taken out of the reactor.

So it is unreasonable to speculate that the fuel rods have `caught fire`.

Secondly, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said that an oil leak in a cooling water pump at Unit 4 was the cause of the fire the media keeps talking about.

I would strongly suggest anybody interested in following this event watch that web page and/or this one for accurate, knowledgeable, non-scaremongering reporting. I've heard too many news reports totally screw the facts up. (Like when they reported there was a 3rd explosion when really it was the 2nd explosion that happened in the #3 reactor building.)

You cannot blame *any* OS for poor administrator configuration of rights. Blame the sysadmin.

Although I understand and mostly agree with the point you are making, I think it is worth noting that Microsoft operating systems do share a large chunk of the blame.

Microsoft operating systems have never been easy for a home user to use when logged in as a non-Administrator. (I single out home users since I believe they are the majority of drive-by-download victims.) They all have their little `gotchas` when trying to temporarily elevating one's normal user privileges to that of administrator to accomplish a task.

Have you ever tried to setup a person as a non-Administrator on Windows XP Home? Microsoft purposely hobbled that OS to make it impossible to work with the system like an administrator should be able to. At least it is getting better, from what I've heard about Windows Vista Home and 7 Home. (So I've heard. I stopped supporting Home versions of Microsoft operating systems after the headaches caused by XP Home.)

So I feel like one certainly can blame the OS for encouraging users to run as administrators when those OSes make it overly difficult or impossible to temporarily increase privileges to accomplish needed tasks.

It sounds like Suddenlink has somewhat of a monopoly in your area. If that is the case, they are probably regulated by your local government. Although I am not optimistic this will have much effect, you should complain to the franchise authority / regulatory commission that oversees Suddenlink.

If enough people did, Suddenlink would have no choice but to deep-six this program.