At the end, isnt it just a game of who is closer in terms of network distance to the servers hosting the game?

Maybe like a banner ad that loads from a 3rd party server like ads currently load from advertising networks?
I'm hoping the blackout will have to be done manually though

If tech becomes significantly better, the next ship can just pick up the people in this ship on the way

What if you have cameras and motion analysis software tracking the entire game?

Powered off from the wall
Hardware is nothing special, just the cheapest Samsung that was available and the other is the cheapest Sony with DivX support that was available
But as someone else pointed out, could be because they are DVD only and not Blueray

Last time I checked, my DVD player did not take 45 seconds to boot up, its instantaneous: just like a TV or VCR
detecting the disk takes only 2-3 seconds
(Have both Samsung and Sony players)

Increased import, and the 15% is over and above current savings

Not really, most of the country is a monopoly, some parts a duopoly. very few areas have more than 2 providers (excluding high speed wireless which is prohibitively expensive for anything other than browsing)

Reliance, they arent really buddies AFAIK, but Reliance is a movie producer, so...

Usually the block is on IP basis and not DNS level
I cant say about the current one since my ISP hasnt implemented it

The block is being implemented by Reliance because it is releasing a movie on Friday
Think of it this way: If Warner Brothers had an ISP as well, and they blocked filesharing sites for 2-3 days before and after a movie is released by them, and they blame it on the govt. since the govt. gave them the permission to do so

The block is being done by Reliance on Reliance connections because a major movie released by Reliance is being released

yeah, clean install, everything on auto, no special settings .

Installing Ubuntu for general use takes about 20 minutes
The countless frustrating hours spent trying to imagine how a document should look, and how it does look are a different story

Well, it could be the other way around also, Metro being the base interface and Desktop coming as a paid addon