All very good points, in addition they feel the need to never have silence, so there is a continuous music or natural sound bed that just adds to the confusion in the sound.

I'd also blame the sound quality of the built in TV speakers, you just can't replace front firing cone(s) that require a proper enclosure with the noise generators that are behind the screen.

Thanks for the years of work. I've been reading /. for so long now I can't remember the internet before it.

Best of luck to you!

Here in Europe, and in the middle east the common tool is Websense to block selective things. How they determine what they block and don't block changes. Sometimes it is set to limit access to High Bandwidth sites (like the army's own webmail site), but then later in the day, that access is removed. Beyond that, all bets are off on what is/isn't blocked. It is a official network, no different then any corporate one. In this case though, if you don't like it you have to wait up to a year for your tour of duty to end.

Here is an article describing the filtering done in Europe by the military, from an end users perspective.

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&ar ticle=33734&archive=true

After this article, lots of the URLs mentioned changed availability.

Cheers,

Mstaj