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Re:I'm confused
The rest of the season has already started to air on SkyOne in the UK, we are fortunate enough not to be subjected to the lame "mid season hiatus" that America is although we pay for it by starting the season later
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Re:Pratchett's Hogfather
oh how apt... Sky One in the UK are showing part one of their adaptation on Sunday evening 8 pm GMT followed by the final part on Christmas Eve. Hopefully someone will have the decency to put up torrents...
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Re:Shutdown
Probably not a good question to ask Brainiac. http://www.skyone.co.uk/programmes/brainiac/
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Brainiac
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Brainiac
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Re:What a Scientific Conclusion!Yeah, well, I used to say that Jamie and Adam are engineers playing at science, but in fact they are mechanics playing at science. Their positive results are usually reasonable (it happened here so it might have happened before,) but their negative results are completely meaningless.
MythBusters is a bit smarter than Brainiac, but the girls, while undeniably pretty, aren't, well, like this.
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Re:What a Scientific Conclusion!Yeah, well, I used to say that Jamie and Adam are engineers playing at science, but in fact they are mechanics playing at science. Their positive results are usually reasonable (it happened here so it might have happened before,) but their negative results are completely meaningless.
MythBusters is a bit smarter than Brainiac, but the girls, while undeniably pretty, aren't, well, like this.
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Re:Damn it!
> How am I going to watch Enterprise now?
It starts with a "U" and rhymes with "BLUESNET".
All these episodes of Hex and uncensored Degrassi: The Next Generation and advance Battlestar Galactica I'm watching in the U.S. have to come from somewhere...
Funny how Europeans always complain about not getting American shows in a timely manner, when most of what I want are Canadian and British shows I can't get here (or can't get uncensored, like Degrassi), or U.S. shows that were cancelled here before showing all episodes but have all the episodes shown overseas (like the sexiest teen show ever on American network TV, The Opposite Sex). The new *Battlestar Galactica* is the only exception, but it's a joint U.S.-British production shown in Britain first...
I'd gladly pay for subscrptions to premium British and Canadian TV services if I could, but I'm not allowed thanks to geographically discriminatory content licensing. Content providers need to be pushed into broader worldwide same-date (or at least close--not many months or years difference) availability. Funny how in the era of "free trade" the multimedia content industry is the only one erecting more barriers to trade instead of tearing them down. While geographically I can't just subscribe to Britain's Sky Digital since their satellites aren't positioned for this side of the world, there's no technological reason I shouldn't be able to subscribe to Canadian services. I'm not permitted to by Draconian content licensing.
Artificial trade borders are gone on the Net, but instead of adjusting to exploit it the content industry is trying to protect the old fiefdoms. Instead, it should be doing for downloadable TV what iTunes did for downloadable music. But it's too complacent and protectionist to adapt. -
Re:Damn it!
> How am I going to watch Enterprise now?
It starts with a "U" and rhymes with "BLUESNET".
All these episodes of Hex and uncensored Degrassi: The Next Generation and advance Battlestar Galactica I'm watching in the U.S. have to come from somewhere...
Funny how Europeans always complain about not getting American shows in a timely manner, when most of what I want are Canadian and British shows I can't get here (or can't get uncensored, like Degrassi), or U.S. shows that were cancelled here before showing all episodes but have all the episodes shown overseas (like the sexiest teen show ever on American network TV, The Opposite Sex). The new *Battlestar Galactica* is the only exception, but it's a joint U.S.-British production shown in Britain first...
I'd gladly pay for subscrptions to premium British and Canadian TV services if I could, but I'm not allowed thanks to geographically discriminatory content licensing. Content providers need to be pushed into broader worldwide same-date (or at least close--not many months or years difference) availability. Funny how in the era of "free trade" the multimedia content industry is the only one erecting more barriers to trade instead of tearing them down. While geographically I can't just subscribe to Britain's Sky Digital since their satellites aren't positioned for this side of the world, there's no technological reason I shouldn't be able to subscribe to Canadian services. I'm not permitted to by Draconian content licensing.
Artificial trade borders are gone on the Net, but instead of adjusting to exploit it the content industry is trying to protect the old fiefdoms. Instead, it should be doing for downloadable TV what iTunes did for downloadable music. But it's too complacent and protectionist to adapt. -
Experiment suggests it's static
In the UK there was a pop-science programme called Brainiac, amongs there experiments was an attempt to set light to petrol fumes using a mobile phone which went like this:
[1] Take a small caravan
[2] Douse inside with petrol and leave pools of the stuff in trays
[3] Put at least 5 mobile phones in the caravan in various locations
[4] Shut the caravan door and leave for a while for the fumes to build up
[5] Ring the phones
Nothing happened, they then tried to use static electricity to ignite the fumes, que one long wire and a guy standing on an insulating mat. After half a minute of rubbing hands together and building up a static charge, he touched the wire and kaboom whent the caravan.
