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All Access is CBS deciding that if they withhold online access to the recent episodes of their scripted dramas from other online distribution, they can get USians to pay them $10/month to watch their stuff online without ads. It doesn't seem worth it until you spend time with someone willing to sit through the broadcasts on the network's schedule and with their 30% advertising.

Why does every main character *have*to be a minority woman?

I haven't seen the show, but I'm looking at the cast list. There are 13 actors that the studio considers to be 'main character' enough to warrant a mention. Of these four are women. So your complaint is that the male:female ratio is only 9:4 and you'd rather it were 11:2? 13:0? It's hard to tell the ethnicities of the characters from the black-and-white photos, but it looks as if 8 of them are white males, so is your complaint that only 60% of the main characters are white male?

http://www.cbs.com/shows/star-...

From the trailer @ 1:29, the Klingons are a racist black caricature. Smooth move CBS.

While I agree with what you said about content disappearing, you've got everything else wrong (in fact, it looks like you're deliberately misstating things). A la carte pricing commoditizes the layers of the TV watching stack, allowing us to shop around and swap out parts we don't care about. Even for people who were taking full advantage of everything their package offered, it's almost assuredly cheaper with a la carte pricing, and for everyone else it certainly is.

Using my own town as an example, Suddenlink is the lone cable provider and their cheapest TV+Internet plan is $98.95 per month for new customers. The same Internet access is $39.95 when purchased separately as a new customer, so we can say that basic cable costs $59 each month, and that's before you include HBO ($+19/mo.), which, I'll note, you conveniently forgot to include in your traditional package example. Broken out that way, it should be obvious just how bad of a deal it actually is, since it's easy to find basic content for less than $59.

With that same $59/mo., we could pick up ALL of these:
1) Access Slim bundle from Playstation Vue for $29.99
2) CBS All Access for $5.99
3) HBO Now for $14.99
4) Amazon Prime for $8.25

All of which is to say, you can stretch your dollars a LOT further by going a la carte, since you'd be gaining HBO content, DVR functionality across all of your devices, and all of the benefits of Amazon Prime (e.g. free two-day shipping, unlimited music streaming, unlimited photo storage, etc.). And that's assuming you actually wanted everything in the basic package to begin with. For our family, we don't care about sports, we don't care about live TV, we don't care about current seasons, and we'd rather binge watch, so Internet+Netflix is more than enough for us.

But even if you're not so extreme, you can still shave dollars in other ways. Don't care about ESPN? Drop to Sling's $25 Blue package. Don't care about seeing CBS live? Save another $6. Don't care about live TV at all? Get Hulu's day-after content and save $22 from what you'd spend on Vue. Don't care about current seasons? Netflix or Amazon gets you old seasons plus a catalog of movies. Hell, you might already have Amazon Prime for the other benefits it provides, so it may be no added cost at all.

And now that our Internet isn't packaged with our content, we can swap the Internet service out. 50Mbps is already 5x more bandwidth than we need for two 1080p streams (which is the most strain we put on our connection), so the moment a cheaper plan is offered by an ISP in our area (fingers crossed), we'll be shaving even more off our bill.

It'll be on a torrent site 10 min after airing so you can watch it are you leisure.

Have hackers worked out how to rip CBS All Access streams?

I'm surprised that CBS All Access seems to be available here in Australia — the only country besides the US and Canada. But given the reports here that this subscription stream includes ads, I'd be hoping that they also made ad-free episodes available for individual or season purchase, in a timely manor.

When Caille took us on a tour of the site, we were fitted with dosimeters to tell us how much we were being exposed to. Suddenly, a sound we didn't want to hear. Bob Simon: Hey, there's beepers going off. Nicolas Caille: No, no. It's not. It's normal. Bob Simon: You're sure? Nicolas Caille: Yes, yes, yes. I'm definitively sure. Bob Simon: I don't like a beeper in Chernobyl. I don't like that sound.

However, although Bob Simon twice shows he has no depth of understanding, there is no technical error in the transcript of that 60 Minutes show. Aside from the ooh-wow reactions of Bob Simon, it is exactly correct. (I haven't watched the video. I can imagine there is more ooh-wow in the video editing.) The main idea of the story is illustrated by this quote: "There's still so much radiation coming from the reactor that workers have to construct the arch nearly a thousand feet away, shielded by a massive concrete wall. When finished, the arch will be slid into place around the Sarcophagus, then sealed up."

In fact, the expense of covering the extremely dangerous parts of the area is enormous. That is a very serious issue, an issue of concern to everyone in the world. After many years, the work of reducing the danger is still not finished.

There is a nuclear disaster area in the United States, the Hanford nuclear site. I've heard about the some of the problems over many years from a manager of one of the departments of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Wikipedia article mentions some of the problems. Here is one quote: "Citing the 2014 Hanford Lifecycle Scope Schedule and Cost report, the 2014 estimated cost of the remaining Hanford clean up is $113.6 billion..." [my emphasis] Retrieved Dec. 3, 2014.

Here is another quote from the Hanford Wikipedia article: "From 1944 to 1971, pump systems drew cooling water from the river and, after treating this water for use by the reactors, returned it to the river. Before being released back into the river, the used water was held in large tanks known as retention basin for up to six hours. Longer-lived isotopes were not affected by this retention, and several terabecquerels entered the river every day. These releases were kept secret by the federal government."

What is called cleaning Hanford has now taken more than 50 years. The Wikipedia article is not, at present, completely clear about that fact, apparently because, as the quote above says, the U.S. government managed the information so that it did not get into the news, although much of the information was not actually a secret.

The problem is not in what is said in the transcript of 60 Minutes show, but in what is communicated. The average viewer has no understanding of nuclear radiation. The author of the Atomic Insights story is annoyed by the fact that the 60 Min

Thanks for the reminder that Big Bang Theory starts tonight !

NBA CBS, Toyota, Bears, Obama, etc. care! [grin] ;)

You won't get the full seasons anymore, but you can get a few episodes. Free, legal direct from CBS. Typically they have I think the last 3 episodes that air available.

http://www.cbs.com/shows/big_bang_theory/video/

And the crappy CBS show it is based on.

No, it started seven years ago.

Tune into http://www.whitehouse.gov/, just like any other idiot box channel be it http://abc.go.com/, http://www.nbc.com/, http://www.cbs.com/, http://www.cwtv.com/, http://www.fox.com/, suck up the corporate cool aide and be informed, of what you are meant to know, and about how you are meant to think and whom you have to vote for. All the channels with the same corporate message, all the talking heads reading off the same Teleprompter feed. The US no longer has a president, it just has another puppet, saying what it is told to say, pretending it thinks for itself, and working ever so hard at dumbing down the airwaves. Of course the rest of the world is looking at the office of the President of the United States and realising just how a empty suit really occupies that position.

I had to try to explain to my mom what Bitcoin is and why it was created and how (if rarely) it is actually used for real world purchases. Even though I just have a passing familiarity with it from reading /. I know more than the average watcher of "The Good Wife". ;>)

Representative Paul Broun (Georgia Republican) said that evolution, embryology and The Big Bang Theory are 'lies straight from the pit of hell'

If he doesn't like The Big Bang Theory, CBS tells me that he can see 2.5 Men afterwards, or the Veep Debates after that. ...or does he think that Vice Presidents are all full of lies straight from the pit of hell, too?

IANAL, but I would imagine it has to do with precedent. As I understand it, if you have a copyright on something, you have to protect it. If you don't, you lose it.

So if CBS doesn't protect this script, what's to say that someone else isn't going to snag last week's script from NCIS and produce a "fan version" of the show. When CBS complains, they say, "Well, they didn't fight this guy! Why should it be different from us?" Keep in mind, also, that CBS still makes money from Star Trek.

Of course, the correct thing to do would be to require that these people pay them a "license" to use it--make it a dollar or two--just to establish that, yes, CBS owns it.

um who changes barber I have gone to a total of 3 barbers in my life and I am 50 ish

Whoooosh

Check the latest uploads in https://www.youtube.com/user/SesameStreet ... They even have two major The Big Bang Theory actors in it!

Thanks for the heads up, no I won't click the link!

Check the latest uploads in https://www.youtube.com/user/SesameStreet ... They even have two major The Big Bang Theory actors in it!

Hey! That would be a good idea for a TV show... A boss could go "undercover" in their own operation to see how things really work and find out what caliber of employees currently represent the company.
Doing it with middle management would not help as they would simply be looking to glorify themselves or cover their asses.

From the Home Office in Cupertino:
9."So...you don't want us doing that?"
7."Who doesn't like to be tracked like a wild animal?"
6."I just wanted to know where you were 24 hours a day because I love you"
3."Relax, we were just taking your private information and selling it"
1."That's nothing -- we also take photos of you in the shower

CNN shares a funny four minutes video showing a replacement for Andy Richter on Conan O'Brien late night show on TBS (mirror).

Next Media Animation (NMA) has an one minute and eleven seconds YouTube video.

Your ant overlord uploaded an one minute and 22 seconds Vimeo video from Late Night Show With David Letterman.

There was just an NCIS episode about this!

It's not like that belief isn't parroted *all over the internet*. I'm sure if you bothered to look you could find a few hundred such references here, here, here, and here. Concentrate your searching to the time when gun laws were being liberalized.

If anyone cares...

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Maybe I dreamt it, but I thought that the US and Canadian government bailed out multiple US automotive manufacturers, and where told to stop be dumb-***** pissing away money on dumb products, and concentrate on improving fuel economy, emissions, and affordability in a time of economy downturn (recession or depression).

I forget what was it in the end, something like $19 billion+ US dollars? Guess that doesn't buy much these days.

I still think they should of required every CEO and VP of the affected companies to spend four weeks doing various jobs at their companies, including two weeks of factory workers in order to keep their jobs. (I'm think in the style of Undercover Boss television show).

Since Green Acres was a television show, I naturally assumed they were referring to the Big Bang Theory a CBS comedy about some science geeks living in California with a neighbor from Nebraska.

They make Star Trek jokes, comic book jokes, they've had Wil Weaton on the show twice.

The core of the show is stereotypical shutin intellectuals in akward social situations.

The writers say they consult with real scientists on the math/science stuff they do in the show. Its funny, I've been watching it since it began, some times its patronizing, but if we can't laugh at ourselves or stereotypes of ourselves then we have worse problems.

One of the actors just was nominated for an Emmy for his role on the show.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_bang_theory/

It also got the highest residual deals for its syndicated reruns of any TV show ever.

What does this have to do with TFA? Well I guess they are saying you wouldn't be as bad off in the boonies as these guys on the show are in Southern California.

"[citations needed]"

http://cnn.com/
http://msnbc.com/
http://abc.com/
http://cbs.com/
http://nbc.com/
http://npr.org/

That's the short and easy list. Don't be disingenuous. I reference the prevailing popular^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmainstream media. To claim otherwise is ignorant. And/or insulting.

Defense or prosecution?

Because evidence processing for the prosecution has become a hero job.

Seriously?

You can't swing a dead theory of heat without hitting one.

They even have their own sitcom now.

Bazinga.

If Grok figures out that those eggs are easy to find and good eating, it doesn't take 25 generations of evolution to breed "nest hunting" behavior into the village. It takes a few months locally, maybe a few years across the entire area.

Yes but it could take half the season on CBS's Survivor...

here you go http://www.cbs.com/classics/macgyver/video/ just rip em from the website. then all you need to pirate is the DVD box pictures :P What I don't understand is how they put this content out there one way or another for free, and then expect people to pay for it later. If you broadcast it over the air, or allow streaming from a website its public as far as I'm concerned. This BS of suing users for content that's freely available elsewhere is like suing some guy taping your band that's doing a show on a street corner.

For however much good it'll do, here's the link to CBS online feedback/complaint form

Anyone else noticed DARPA's recent major marketing/publicity campaign? There is now this well-publicized balloon hunt. There was the televised robotic vehicle challenge. Even very recently, DARPA was central to the plot of an episode of NCIS: LA. Its research efforts have been given very visible press in magazines such as Scientific American. (Look here for another recent SA article about DARPA research.) DARPA has also been featured twice on 60 Minutes in the past few months. And, it now has quite a following on Facebook.

All of these somehow involve or inform the general public--not exactly par for the course given DARPA activities historically have been kept very much under wraps. What's really going on here? Why the recent publicity barrage? Two years ago, or less, I'm willing to bet 98% of Americans had no idea DARPA even existed. Might it be the old magician's trick of having us watch one hand while the other hand is actually performing the "magic?" For example, have you seen iRobot's shape-shifting Chembot recently developed with DARPA funding?

http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/video/video.php (region blocked to non-Americans I believe).

Ya until you get busted by MacGyver

10 goto cbs.com.

20 Look for a link called InnerTube.

30 Watch all you want.

40 And it's free.

50 You no longer have a reason to bitch.

http://www.cbs.com/video/?showname=primetime/big_bang_theory#video

60 STFU if you don't know WTF you're talking about.

I once had a job at a wireless ISP where I would regularly troubleshoot disfunctional rooftop routers located on an antenna mast. This sometimes left me balancing my laptop on top of a ladder in order to connect to the crashed device, which was particularly fun on high buildings during windy days. Every tried to troubleshoot and fix a kernel panic by tweaking kernel driver source code in a situation where you could fall to your death if you lost your balance? It would make an awesome geek extreme sport.

Like Laser Obstacle Chess?

Big bang

Oops, the link didn't work.

This might be a better place to watch The Doomsday Machine...along with any other episode from the original series.

Hmm... Just tried one here (from the US) and it stalled while loading - after a refresh it played ok. Didn't see the error message you got, so cbs.com also looks region-specific. Bummer.

I always thought this guy from this one soap opera reminded me of Max Payne. I always said if they make a movie he should play the part of Max Payne.

http://www.cbs.com/daytime/guiding_light/bio/robert_bogue/bio.php

Maybe him or possibly Bruce Campbell.

RedLasso has a video clip of last night's David Letterman's top ten (3/19/2008). It shows the ten cast members in their show outfits. Each one said a reason. Seen on SciFi. Here's the text version if you don't want to watch the video clip.

How is different from what cbs.com does with their videos?

You remember correctly - ST TOS episode 23 - "A Taste of Armageddon" linky to episode on CBS (flash req'd) http://www.cbs.com/classics/star_trek/video/video.php?cid=619493214&pid=d4jta0HHzzIp1bwgQ10osYAyZ03XIReJ&play=true&cc=0

Soaps not watched online? Not quite if it's on CBS. From reading the article linked above, the issue appears to be the existence of the genre at stake.

Soaps not watched online? Not quite if it's on CBS. From reading the article linked above, the issue appears to be the existence of the genre at stake.

Soaps not watched online? Not quite if it's on CBS. From reading the article linked above, the issue appears to be the existence of the genre at stake.

Soaps not watched online? Not quite if it's on CBS. From reading the article linked above, the issue appears to be the existence of the genre at stake.