'Cept I believe there's a real role for Government. And I think there are things often left as common interest, best achieved through pooling resources.

Especially when it comes to defending the weak, the powerless and helpless. You need either divinely guided, benevolent philosopher kings and knights of chivalry...

Or functioning institutions of an enlightened democratic society, in which government is but one functioning part, along with education and real money.

Consistent.

Fat.

Shall I go on? :-)

How so? What is interesting about a router doing...you know, routing? It's trivial from a technical standpoint. Routers do it all the time.

I'm not condoning it, mind you. I think it's a terrible idea and I'm glad I don't have Comcrap as my ISP.

You always mistake me for a Liberal. If I defy some of your other biases, that does not locate me on the other end of a bi-polar axis.

That's sort of the point. M-Theory might just be a dead end. If we don't find the supersymmetric partners in the next run of the LHC at the very least string/M theory will need considerable re-vamping if not a total scrapping.

A lot of people also think McDonalds tastes good.

I don't think there is one. Simply but probably poorly put, supersymmetry postulates that each particle that we know of and have observed has a heavier 'super-symmetric' partner particle. The significance of this is that if true it explains a whole bunch of how the observed Universe works. If it is not true it's almost as exciting really, at least to me, because it means there are some big missing pieces to our current models and a lot of new and exciting work will need to be done.

The short version of the article is that the LHC should have detected supersymmetric particles by now. There's still a slight chance that the next run will, but the energies that fit the current theories are running out. If they are not detected soon physicists might just have to move on to new theoretical models. For one thing, string theory will probably need to be scrapped.

It's all on one page, and it's paragraphs separated by useful, illustrative graphics. ADHD much?

The end was intent to cripple state government, making them mere Federal administrative delegated regions. Necessary along with the Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Income Tax amendment, to make the former "USA" defunct, and replace it with an American nation capable of completing its imprial advature beyond the boundaries of the continent.

It is no mistake that these actions are taken, as the final southwestern states are joined to the Union, and US begins transgressing into Europe and Mexico, after testing the waters with Spain.

The only known cure is to spend years in a basement alone eating cheetos, while insulting others' trivial math and lingual mistakes.

Mistakes in math and language or mathematical and lingual mistakes. ;-)

"Cable companies steal my free TV broadcasts

Is anyone doing anything about that?"

Actually, the OTA broadcasts that cable receives and "re-transmits" aren't being stolen because the cable companies have to pay those local broadcasters (which of course really means the cable subscribers do).

And the viewers via cable are just as much a part of the ratings as the OTA viewers, so ad rates reflect that higher number.

That's just the tip of the "capacitor plague" iceberg.

I had more than one Pentium II, BX chipset era motherboards flake out on me because of the caps in the voltage regulation for the CPU circuits, and don't even get me started on Series 2 and Series 3 TiVo power supplies.

Although the TiVo supplies are actually a fairly easy fix once you know that that's the problem.

Yeah, too bad there aren't some in there planning to go to work for the cable giants to act as a counterbalance to them.

A public performance?

You have every right to receive, for free, at no additional cost, any broadcast TV signal your antenna can bring in, and to record it on a DVR, and to have the DVR send it to the TV via Ethernet if you want to.

This is just subcontracting the antenna, DVR, and Ethernet part out to someone else.

A Series 3 platform TiVo would let you record digital OTA for $12.95 per month maxium, but that figure is for the entire TiVo service which includes a license to use the software as well as the guide info, and they've always sold the hardware cheap with the idea of making up the loss on selling the service.

In fact, you can probably pick up a used S3 or S3 HD or HD XL with Product Lifetime Service for $300 or less (check area Craigslists), then another $100 for a 2TB WD20EURS to slip into it and $10 -$15 for Low ESR 105 degree rated capacitors to replace the ones in the power supply pro-actively, and the only monthly cost will be the electricity.

Lurk at tivocommunity.com for a while.

You'll also find discussion of Myth and WMC there as well.

When you're paying for Aereo, you're paying as much as anything to have somebody else worry about providing you with an outdoor antenna.