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So what if a net filtering tool developer looks like Poppin Fresh? You must not have paid attention to the energy with which Poppin moves around in some of the Pillsbury commercials.

Land that jump dude
Show me your moves
I can dig up more.

There are plenty of other "acrofatic" characters, and you might be able to catch one of them on someone's P***scope stream.

(clicks TV Tropes link)
(sees Funding Choices message wall asking me to disable the Tracking Protection security feature of Firefox)

Since when has TV Tropes become a pay site?

Alternative source for users of Firefox Tracking Protection: "Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking" on All The Tropes

Is culture defined by language, is language defined by culture or both?

The Sapir-Worf hypothesis is that English and Klingon are not "sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality."

I have good news and bad news.

But they do need to come of with some way to notate pay walled articles

Good news: Google Search on desktop browsers fairly reliably notates paywalled articles through the lack of "Cached" in the down arrow menu.

Bad news: The down arrow menu doesn't appear in mobile browsers.

and while they're at it flag the sites that pester you to turn off your ad block to view an article.

Bad news: Now that Google has established its pay-per-article system known as Contributor, Google has actually joined the anti-adblock brigade. It even recommends that users of Firefox Private Browsing click a button labeled "Disable protection" to allow access to a site. (This is because most anti-adblock can't tell the difference between tracking blockers, which block only ad networks and exchanges that track users across sites, and actual ad blockers, which additionally block self-hosted ads.) Now that TV Tropes is using anti-adblock, I'm even more glad that I switched to All The Tropes years ago.

The job of the police is to draw chalk lines around the bodies.

Only if they want the DA to lose her case for having contaminated the crime scene.

All the TV networks should work together and agree that if two or more TV shows or films sound similar, just push off release/production of one of them.

Wouldn't collusion to avoid dueling movies smack of restraint of trade?

I think johanw's point is that restricting the universe of discourse to "end users in the United States" and "priced above 200 USD" creates an overly narrow superlative.

Then what's a better term that means "a work of real-person fiction published with intent to deceive readers into believing that it describes actual events"?

It stands for penetration testing, like what the Big Bad Wolf was hired to do in the short story "The Three Little Pigs".

You appear to have been sidetracked by the analogy, as the implied workarounds don't apply so well to Internet access.

What would they substitute for (1) driving

What alternative to driving were you considering, and what would its Internet counterpart be?

(2) alone

What's the Internet counterpart to carpooling? Visiting a public library that offers Wi-Fi access to patrons and uses aggressive caching proxy to aggregate cookieless retrievals of the same resource?

the only single lane road from place a to place b

(3) on that particular road

The stipulation in this analogy was that no other practical road exists.

(4) during rush hour when the congestion toll is highest?

Comcast does not vary the factor at which data transfer affects your quota based on time of day. As far as I'm aware, only satellite ISPs such as Exede do that.

Yo dawg, I put a ship in your ship[BWRAAAAMMMM]

But who or what is this ship in love with?

Imagine what TV watchers had to do to avoid spoilers by book readers (prior to the present season when it reportedly overtook the source material).

Did the blur somehow get worse, or did user expectations get better?

You already answered your own question.

Ah, the good old mathematician's answer: funny to some, but unhelpful. Which of the above was the answer?

It's caused by being low resolution and stretched across a much higher resolution display.

PC monitors in the DivX era had a typical resolution of 1024x768 or 1280x1024, but DVD-Video source material in North America and Japan was 704x480.* Movies were commonly encoded at resolutions even smaller than that due to preference for square pixels. So things were already stretched even then. And a 1024x768 pixel phone display would have roughly Retina-class resolution. Are you referring specifically to use of Binge On with Retina-class tablets?

* The Rec. 601 scanline, used by DVD and other standard-definition video standards, is 720 pixels wide because it includes 16 pixels of nominal analog blanking. This is not considered part of the 4:3 or 16:9 frame but is instead intended for recentering a signal.

Because of the language? Not the violence? [...] I suspect he's associating with Conservative Christians.

Likely. The Bible is full of violence and sex. But there's really only one word in the whole thing that can arguably be called a swear word: In Philippians 3:8, Paul refers to his old life before Christ as "shit" (Greek skubalon). I think they call that a "precision F-strike".

On a related note, I've tried coming up with English words for hexadecimal, with words for ten through fifteen starting with A through F, to represent a culture that counts in base sixteen. This way I can represent the convention of translating the viewpoint character's language while still retaining some of the local color. (A base 20 culture would use "score" notation.) These are what I have so far:

• Ten is "ash", based on the word for ten in Amharic, Arabic, and Hebrew
• Eleven I'm not sure. Apart from Huli bearia, there aren't a lot of natlang B-words meaning eleven. Any hints?
• Twelve is "carn", shortened from "carton" (of hen's eggs)
• Thirteen is "dreight", rhyming with "weight", shortened from German dreizehn
• Fourteen is "erb", shortened from Maltese erbatax
• Fifteen is "fleven", which I nicked from HBO's Silicon Valley. The rhyme with "seven" encourages interpretation as the second pass of counting to eight on fingers.
• Sixteen is "steen", and seventeen through thirty-one are "onesteen", "twosteen", ..., "flevensteen".
• Multiples of sixteen use "-sy" suffix: twensy, thirsy, forsy, fifsy, sixsy, sevensy, eighsy, ninesy, ashsy, ..., carnsy, dreighsy, erbsy, flevensy
• Sixteen squared is "one page", based on usage of "page" in MOS 6502 programming to mean that many octets and grammatically analogous to "one hundred"

Any better suggestions?

Why Does Defiance Suck So Badly?

Because it takes place in Missouri, not Ohio.

Why do all science fiction shows have to have rubber-faced characters?

Because they're cheap. (Source: "Rubber Forehead Aliens" on All The Tropes)