I think you mean, "so the middle men can pocket the savings".

I suspect it won't matter for much longer as the individual cable channels either sell directly via a streaming package that specializes in these things (see frndly for an example) or just turn into individual ad-supported streaming channels, or else disappear completely.

The format has become massively unpopular, and so likely the TV channels that depend upon it will become obsolete unless they repackage themselves for the streaming era.

We cancelled ours 5-10 years ago, by which time it had been supplanted by our Roku for 2-3 years completely.

I had a long discussion with my spouse on cancelling it because, in theory, it was the only reliable way to get local channels (I need to get on the roof and install an antenna as indoor isn't cutting it), and we live in Florida where hurricanes are regular events.

I think people don't generally *plan* to cancel something like this, after using it for decades, they instead realize they're paying for something they don't use. Then it takes time, "Are we really never going to need it again?" "What about...?"

My suspicion is that of that 5 million subscribers in the headline, itself a tiny number, only a few hundred thousand actually use Dish regularly. And of those, a sizable number are only using it for Fox News.

So you're saying they're putting delicate electronics that can't be fully shielded (because they're transmitting and receiving radio waves) in the Van Allen radiation belt?

Thank God Mac OS X hasn't been training people to enter their admin password whenever they install anything or do anything adminy using an easily replicated dialog since 2001. Otherwise people might fall for this!

This has nothing to do with AppleScript. It has to do with the boneheaded decision to have Mac OS X and its successor constantly prompting users for passwords to do "admin" things, even if they're logged in as an admin. This has been a flaw since 10.0, and I was complaining about it in the 10.2 days, and getting told I shouldn't worry my pretty little head about it and that nobody would ever write malware that puts up something that looks like a system request for your password, such a fraud would be unpossible!

If you want to have your operating system to request a user prove they're who they say they are, you need to have the OS prove it is what it says it is to the user first. Otherwise requiring passwords to authenticate is literally useless. Your OS is insecure. The only question I have is why it's taken 25 years for the actual malware writers to notice.

That has got to be the worst "We're reinventing scrolling!111!!!" website I've seen in a long time, and I've seen some pretty shitty ones. What the fuck is wrong with web designers? Do they know people are scrolling to read things, not watch some bastard child of a flash-animation and a lines assignment set by a teacher as discipline?

There's no ocean between New York and Seattle alas.

> Which is fair enough, it didn't go supersonic over the UK or Ireland either, the pilots waited until it was out to sea.

I've read this, but I can tell you that while it went over the UK it was f---ing loud anyway. If it wasn't supersonic 30 miles from Heathrow (where I used to live), it certainly had the worst jet engines.

Boeing didn't fail so much as stopped because they saw a fuel-sucking aircraft that could only carry a handful of passengers as having zero financial viability. Boeing could have built one. Nobody seriously believes France and Britain had access to some secret science that the world's largest aircraft company didn't. They just knew it wasn't viable.

The Concorde consortium, FWIW, felt the same way. The plane we know as Concorde wasn't meant to be the only supersonic airliner when the project started, it was the proof of concept. The consortium basically shut up shop as soon as they got it out the door, making a few of that model and nothing else, because it had no commercial viability. Sure, the UK and France weren't about to enact noise pollution-based limitations on what was seen as a major political symbol, and despite the claims above, Concordes flew from Europe to New York every day. But it had no commercial viability, and larger vehicles wouldn't have had either.

It was a... well, I won't call it a bad idea, because they had every right to expect it not to come out the way it did, but it was a flawed idea. It turns out the implications of supersonic flying were more than just "Needs longer runways and a bit more fuel."

No, they put them into place for noise. At the time most of the major aircraft companies were working on supersonic airliners, and trust me, it didn't go down well with the US aircraft industry any more than British Airways or Air France.

I used to live under Concorde's flight path (UK at the time, about 30 miles from Heathrow.) Every day sometime around 6-7pm it became impossible to watch TV for 30 seconds (or listen to it anyway.) There was no way laws weren't going to get passed against it. The surprise isn't that America did, it's that Europe didn't.

No he's not. He's saying the invisible hand of the market will avoid those jurisdictions with Net Zero laws if those opposed to them are right.

Of course, that's not true, which is why the Florida legislature is banning it. They want energy costs to soar.

In what way does AGW need to be legislated at the state level, still less actually banning smaller governments from minimizing their contributions to it?

This isn't small government. This is lunatic government abusing its power.

"Thank you Vera much."

This is complete BS from start to finish.

A level 2 NACS charger will cost around $250-500 plus installation. If you already have a standard 220V dryer port in your garage you don't need to install anything. If you need an electrician, the costs are likely to be around $100 unless there's genuinely no 220V supply within range of your garage in which case you might be looking at $500.

Trickle charging can take the car from 20 to 80% charged if done for 20 hours. Not ideal, but given the car has a range of 200 miles, and most people don't drive for more than 50 miles a day, you're more looking at charging constantly from 55% to 80% each day, essentially more than covered by an overnight charge. So for most people, trickle charging is fine. And what the hell are you talking about "spend an extra 15 minutes sitting in the grocery store parking lot"? Why would anyone need to do that? Do you think electric cars that are short on power somehow work better if left idle for 15 minutes?

For 99% of people the specs are fine even with trickle charging. Less than 50 miles a day is more than covered, and the occasional trip that takes longer will be covered by fast chargers en-route.