In those heady days when MythVodka was working with minimal jiggering, the quality of the Hulu streams wouldn't make you forget OTA -- but it was more than sufficient for me to finish out the season of Burn Notice after I canceled TV service from Comcast. No reptilians. Some pixelation in fast-moving scenes, but the quality was better than you'd think.

Best of all, I save $70 a month and got to watch stuff quickly, conveniently, and legally. There's no way Comcast was going to put up with that for long...

Police don't come knocking on your door for slander. Lawyers do.

In Minnesota, that works no matter what kind of car it is.

Haven't had my morning coffee yet. Irony detector may not be functioning.

Batman Begins: PG-13
The Dark Knight: PG-13

Oh no no no
I'm a rocketbat
rocketbat -- burning out his fuse up here alone

Dogpile, so you didn't have to pick one.

Damn it! Aunt Mabel bought me this iTunes card, but since downloading is a crime...

OMG incompetent guvmunt can't do nuthin right, right?

I'm so sick of this argument, especially as it relates to health care. We pay more and get less in return than the citizens in dozens of other countries. The difference? People in other countries ceded some and varying levels of control of health care -- a basic human necessity -- to an entity without a profit motive.

No amount of anecdotal "waiting lists" or complaints about phantom lawsuits driving up costs can change the objective fact, which is that we're being ripped off by the existing private system. It has failed to expand the reach of care, to control costs or to improve the health of the nation. Yet we continue to fall for idiotic "government can't do anything right" arguments despite all the real-world examples of governments that are succeeding in keeping their populations healthy while spending less per capita.

Ancient OS lives
pretty icons made of lines
what will run on it?

I guess it depends on your cable company, but Comcrap in Minneapolis has SA set-top boxes for digital cable that have active Firewire ports, and I was able to record everything -- including HD channels -- that wasn't pay TV (e.g., HBO) via MythTV. Until I ditched the cable, anyway. It was highly reliable with the latest Knoppmyth, and didn't tie up a tuner.

Think of it as a time-release capsule. All the medicine doesn't hit the body at the same time.

For infrastructure projects, yes -- it'll take some time for the jackhammers to hit the concrete. But there are a lot of things that lead up to that, including architectural design, material processing and procurement, real estate procurement, and other spending related to planning.

It's also a psychological boost for many industries. What's going on right now, even at my company, is prophylactic layoffs. People are losing their jobs because companies think things are going to be worse this year. If companies know that spending is coming, more people might keep their jobs. The calculus here is more than just $X per new job -- with more than half a million people put out of work last month, a job saved in this economy is about as good as a job created.

There's another thing that bugs me about all this talk about infrastructure and "pork" in the stimulus. In the last 8 years, we've ended up more than $8 trillion in the hole. What do we have to show for it? At least it seems like the stimulus is aimed at getting us either direct "stuff" or on the road to long-term changes in things like energy production that we should have started in 2001.

I generally agree, but the microwave has some advantages:

1) Your chocolate is a lot less likely to seize in the microwave than a double boiler.

2) Rice is a breeze in the microwave, and you don't have to worry about scorching (unless your microwave is hideously overpowered).

3) Microwave popcorn delivers consistently better results than popping kernels in oil on the stove.

4) Microwave an egg in the right sized ramekin and you've got your breakfast sandwich filling ready faster than you can toast your english muffin.

5) There's no way to use a conventional oven to make Peeps explode.

And I had a heart attack last month. At 39. If I'd known about this, I wouldn't have chosen to be from the Indian subcontinent!

From TFA, it sounds like he accused the chiropractor of insurance fraud. If he can prove it, no problem. If he can't, then the chiropractor was well within his rights to sue.

Depending on the facts, it may be a bit premature for /. to headline this as an act of suppression.