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"However, there are just a few shows in our streaming library that are not included in the ad-free plan due to streaming rights. The good news is that episodes of the shows listed below will still stream uninterrupted -- there will just be a quick ad before and after each video. "
Also:
"If you subscribe to Hulu (No Ads) + Live TV, please note that you will still see ads during live streams, DVR recordings and the additional on-demand content that is offered directly by each network. "

Iâ(TM)m protected through old glory insurance.

"It's called CIMON, an acronym for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion, and it's headed to space to do science stuff."

C rew
I nteractive
M obile
C ompanion

looks like it spells CIMC to me. If they really wanted it to have a name out of an acrony why not CARLIE for Crew Autonomous Robotic Lifelike Interactive Entity?

I was wondering that too, but it's an acrostic, which is definition 3:

C rew
I nteractive
MO bile
companio N

But the real question is "Is it a bum looker"?

It's been tried already, with disastrous results. A documentary is available from the 1980s: https://www.hulu.com/watch/409...

Sling can add up, sure, but Hulu Live is in beta and looks to provide a better package.
And both Sling and Hulu offer
  free trials so you can see whether it works out for you, and
  no contracts, so you can start and quit whenever you want, and
  no cable box rental fees - just use your PC, phone, or get a Roku-type for your TV.

Cable TV still seems lousy to me.

Hulu has both a "limited" commercial version and a commercial free version.

https://www.hulu.com/nocommercials

Good lord. I hope the diamonds in your ass don't hurt on the way out. http://www.hulu.com/watch/3170...

Hulu offers commercial free for just a couple bucks more than Netflix. Good if you like current shows.

http://www.hulu.com/nocommerci...

For Amazon, it's really fucking easy to turn off the mixed melange of content:

1. Go to Amazon homepage.
2. Click Departments->Amazon Video->Included with Prime

NOW YOU HAVE ACCESS TO ALL THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS WITHOUT FIGHTING THROUGH ANYTHING ELSE! Add shows to your watch list from here.

You can even select by movie or tv genre, and all the results are prime!

What's amazing to me is when the government tries to pass policy "in the name of" victims who they use to create a propaganda framework for the policy... who then resist and speak up against the proposed policy...

The classic examples of bogus narratives for propaganda include Pat Tillman and his family as well as Jessica Lynch. The military tried to use both to help bolster support for the war. In both cases, there was resistance from the very people being "used" for that purpose, and it turns out that these people were more patriotic, strong, heroic, and complex than their "handlers" expected.

Can anyone think of other examples of this propaganda-backfires phenomenon?

Hulu says ad's allow them to provide their service at a lower price. Yet still refuses to offer ad free service at a premium.

That's not true anymore, they now offer an almost* commercial free experience for $11.99 vs the $7.99 subscription.

I canceled my Hulu account a while back sighting commercials as the reason.

I might try them again in a few months. Their show selection is not too compelling and I have plenty to watch on Netflix/HBO Now still.

* Exceptions:

Due to streaming rights, the shows below are not included in our No Commercials plan. You can still watch these shows interruption-free. They will play with a short commercial before and after each episode. The shows are:

• Grey's Anatomy
• Once Upon A Time
• Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Scandal
• New Girl
• Grimm and How To Get Away With Murder

Does anything but ads actually use Flash in this day and age? I haven't had it installed for several years!

Let's see... these are just some results using Firefox 41.0.1 on OS X Mavericks:

Spotify: "To enjoy Spotify, please install Adobe Flash. It's free."

Pandora: "In order to use Pandora internet radio, please upgrade to a more current browser or install a newer version of Flash (v.10 or later)."

Hulu: "Hulu requires Flash Player 11.0.1.152 or higher. Please download and install the latest version of Flash Player before continuing."

I'm sure there are plenty more, but just these three are enough to prove that you're dead wrong -- or just trolling. And no, there's no love lost between Flash and me, either.

RT.

Here it is on Hulu if you can stand the ads:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/4635...

At least I am assuming it is the same one. I did not verify it and I have JavaScript disabled so I did not double check. Should be though, it is from Google Video search. Will watch later.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4090

Honestly, I think that Nixon's stuff is worse. Spying on a journalist is bad - but not personal.

In addition, Nixon's crimes were both for his personal gain and hit democracy at it's heart - elections. Those make it incredibly evil crime.

The CBS reporter's incident, assuming it is entirely true, does not have these issues. There is no evidence that it was for any one's personal game, nor was it an attempt to circumnavigate political system.

As such, Nixon's crimes are far worse.

Yeah, right. Because Nixon politicized the IRS and set it against his enemies.

No, wait. He didn't. That was Obama.

Sorry, there's not much more fundamentally corrupt than politicizing the tax collector - that can and does take all your assets for no reason at all.

Is there anything Obama does that you wouldn't apologize for?

In the words of SNL's skewering of Obama's entire record of failure:

“Some people want to criticize the way our administration has handled this crisis, and it’s true we made a few mistakes early on. But I assure you, that was nowhere near as bad as how we handled the ISIS situation, our varied Secret Service mishaps, or the scandals of the IRS and the NSA,” he said. “And I don’t know if you guys remember, but the Obamacare website had some pretty serious problems too.”

He said that considering the rest of the second term, “this whole Ebola thing is probably one of my greatest accomplishments.”

To be fair, the IRS is supposed to go after tax cheats.

Honestly, I think that Nixon's stuff is worse. Spying on a journalist is bad - but not personal.

In addition, Nixon's crimes were both for his personal gain and hit democracy at it's heart - elections. Those make it incredibly evil crime.

The CBS reporter's incident, assuming it is entirely true, does not have these issues. There is no evidence that it was for any one's personal game, nor was it an attempt to circumnavigate political system.

As such, Nixon's crimes are far worse.

Yeah, right. Because Nixon politicized the IRS and set it against his enemies.

No, wait. He didn't. That was Obama.

Sorry, there's not much more fundamentally corrupt than politicizing the tax collector - that can and does take all your assets for no reason at all.

Is there anything Obama does that you wouldn't apologize for?

In the words of SNL's skewering of Obama's entire record of failure:

“Some people want to criticize the way our administration has handled this crisis, and it’s true we made a few mistakes early on. But I assure you, that was nowhere near as bad as how we handled the ISIS situation, our varied Secret Service mishaps, or the scandals of the IRS and the NSA,” he said. “And I don’t know if you guys remember, but the Obamacare website had some pretty serious problems too.”

He said that considering the rest of the second term, “this whole Ebola thing is probably one of my greatest accomplishments.”

http://www.hulu.com/watch/6924...

Things like Netflix don't need to run in a web browser at all. They just need to make full applications (or plugins in the case of XBMC and others) for all the platforms worth supporting.

Unfortunately, Hulu gave up on this ideal as of January 31st this year.

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for anyone with hulu plus, here's a southpark clip from about a decade ago that's sums up my feelings toward airports in general.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/265294/it's better than flying
everyone else will have to find a crappy handshot video of a tv on youtube.

Just to nitpick/be pedantic - Hulu Plus is not ad-free. I signed up for it back over the winter, and promptly canceled a few days into the free trial after seeing that the commercials were the same as watching OTA, if not worse.

And to make it even more bothersome, they couldn't be bothered to use a feed that just streamed the show with ads inserted after the fact, they more or less just straight rebroadcasted a station about 2 hours away and included their local ads.

I'm sure there's some sort of technical or monetary reason for that, but it annoyed the hell out of me.

Still won't be as good as the abracadabra.

BTW, my tits are hot . . . they're on fire! No! They're really on FIRE!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/197316 Very relevant. Set aside an hour to watch this. Free to watch, though you have to put up with ad breaks.

Sticker price?

what?
http://www.hulu.com/support/article/332610

In what way does that link contradict my statement? I posted that there are programs that can be watched via Hulu on a desktop computer, but not via Hulu on a Roku box.

You got the wrong link from the Hulu site. Try this one

what?
http://www.hulu.com/support/article/332610

In what way does that link contradict my statement? I posted that there are programs that can be watched via Hulu on a desktop computer, but not via Hulu on a Roku box.

You got the wrong link from the Hulu site. Try this one

No, he means exactly what he says. While there are Hulu apps for Roku and the Xbox 360, not all of the content is available to stream to those devices. It comes down to licensing but it is still very annoying. http://www.hulu.com/support/article/20116158

what?
http://www.hulu.com/support/article/332610

Are you high or stupid? or maybe a troll?
Hulu is supported on Roku:
http://www.hulu.com/support/article/332610
and Xbox:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/partners/hulu-plus

or do you mean you don't like them becasue they cost money to bring entertainment to you?

Your comment reminded me of this classic SNL skit...

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4156

http://www.hulu.com/watch/2340

Now I finally understand the purpose of Old Glory insurance. ;)

As John Belushi showed us, the true breakfast of champions is little chocolate donuts.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/2345

At the moment there appears to be more growth in ads on Hulu Plus and other Ten-Foot-Interface content companies than on mobile in general. Statistically people are more likely to watch an entire ad on Hulu than any other non-streaming cable method, and their CPMs are something like 10 times that of web ads, and those are twice over more than mobile ads.

Mobile ads are mostly a bill of goods Google sells to advertisers, and users hacking around at the edges of that isn't very important -- ads on TV are orders of magnitude more valuable real estate.

Money makes people really ugly and people who just lust after money above all else can never be trusted, believed, or act as my employer.

I think it's the opposite: money attracts "really ugly and people who just lust after money above all else can never be trusted,"

Self selecting population? Assholes like that are attracted to professions like that - a profession that theoretically should offer society a valuable service (efficient application of capital) that it really a parasitic, lying, entitled (their motto: "eat what you kill" - whatever) , fuck everyone because they can and therefore they have a right to.

Please watch Park Avenue on Hulu - PBS also hosts it but their servers suck - but go ahead and try it.

... that levels of alcohol in the system decrease the reaction time and such as they get higher and higher.

Not if you're Dr. Johhny Fever. http://www.hulu.com/watch/290

I actually just got through watching the original Cosmos series on Hulu. For 1980, it's a very entertaining show and accessible to normals. And anything that stands up against the tide of really awful, retarded television that has popped up in the last 10 years is good.

Reading some of the backstory, Seth McFarlane appears to be putting his money behind this as sort of an anti-Family Guy force, so hopefully it should be very good. Having it on Fox is also a good idea - there's probably more money being splashed around it, and it doesn't have the "stigma" of being on PBS.

Anything that sparks even the slightest interest in science is a good thing, even if it's wrapped up in an entertaining story. My man Carl said something like, "Everyone is born with natural curiosity. Most people get it stomped out of them early. A few manage to survive and become scientists."

There was a proposed lightbulb a few years ago, using some sort of technology that would have generated a signal that would wipe out every Wifi signal for a block.

I think they made a TV show about it. http://www.hulu.com/revolution

Too late.........

http://www.hulu.com/watch/274815

What are they talking about? Drones aren't murderous, they're just full of angst!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/426530

http://www.hulu.com/watch/30476

I wonder if this will happen.

What if one 'liked' both candidates and read their updates in order to make a better-informed decision come November? Nah - wouldn't happen. Cuz [sic] then all of your friends would see that you 'liked' the other guy, and would give you shit for making such a public preference. I would.

Bless your heart. You must be one of these.

That's why I got Old Glory Insurance.

Mathews and his crew track a stolen radioactive oil detector: http://www.hulu.com/watch/104147

Atlantis is a geologically absurd myth (or maybe a flying city), whereas linguists do agree that proto-Indo-European existed at some point. And the various efforts to pin down its origin seem to be pretty scientific, even if they do produce conflicting results.

Season 2, Episode 14: Advanced Dungeons and Dragon.

This man knows how to run from even the most well-connected foes.

> When I had hulu+, it was only $4 a month not $8... And I just canceled it about a month or two ago... ?

Not sure what deal you were getting, but the Hulu Plus page shows the cost at $7.99/month. That's what I'm paying.

Surely Mainway Toys will find a way to keep marketing tiny, super-powerful magnets.

That's gotta be a big disappointment for the big Russian - http://www.hulu.com/watch/124975

linky...

It would be like the All Drug Olypmics