What are you talking about? A9 isn't redundant! A9 is the best "search engine" ever!
(Okay, so now that's over with... Don't forget that 'frequent' A9 users get a pi/2 (1.57079632%) discount on all purchases on Amazon.com... So... Like... Can I keep my discount? I said A9 was good!)
Unless the United States doesn't count as a Western democracy, this is far from news. Pennsylvania has had a similar law on the books now for a few years initiating such blocking. Child porn sites--including some evil XVID codec download pages and I'm sure numerous other innocent sites--are required to be blocked by Pennsylvanian ISPs. I'd know; I run into sites that I can't load directly, but can through a proxy.
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I too was "taken" in by the first five episodes of the series. It created an interesting and exciting storyline about events that might, or might not have, happened in our past. Adding the Spielberg touch, he was able to draw the audience into a spellbinding story that made us wonder what was to come next.
After the weekend though, it felt as if Spielberg decided to take a nap and let one of his assistants take over. The story became uninteresting with two supposed "lovers"--ages apart--running around teetering from being "bad guys" to "good guys" to just plain "weird guys."
While the first five were good--the sixth, eighth, ninth, and tenth were manageable--the seventh episode was the killer. In the seventh episode we watched the inside of a room and the outside of a building for an hour and a half as we learned as little as possible about the rest of the story. Watching the preview on the eight episode was more interesting than the two hours of the seventh.
While I am critical about the last few episodes I feel that overall it was worth twenty hours (two per evening) to watch this mini-series event. Not only was it interesting--to a point--seeing twenty hours of rather "quality" programming in two weeks is hard to do with the shows on television. If you have the time, check out the reruns this weekend on the Sci-Fi channel (at least the first five).
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What are you talking about? A9 isn't redundant! A9 is the best "search engine" ever! (Okay, so now that's over with... Don't forget that 'frequent' A9 users get a pi/2 (1.57079632%) discount on all purchases on Amazon.com... So... Like... Can I keep my discount? I said A9 was good!)
Unless the United States doesn't count as a Western democracy, this is far from news. Pennsylvania has had a similar law on the books now for a few years initiating such blocking. Child porn sites--including some evil XVID codec download pages and I'm sure numerous other innocent sites--are required to be blocked by Pennsylvanian ISPs. I'd know; I run into sites that I can't load directly, but can through a proxy.
The Register: Pennsylvania child porn law causes 'massive overblocking of sites'
I too was "taken" in by the first five episodes of the series. It created an interesting and exciting storyline about events that might, or might not have, happened in our past. Adding the Spielberg touch, he was able to draw the audience into a spellbinding story that made us wonder what was to come next.
After the weekend though, it felt as if Spielberg decided to take a nap and let one of his assistants take over. The story became uninteresting with two supposed "lovers"--ages apart--running around teetering from being "bad guys" to "good guys" to just plain "weird guys."
While the first five were good--the sixth, eighth, ninth, and tenth were manageable--the seventh episode was the killer. In the seventh episode we watched the inside of a room and the outside of a building for an hour and a half as we learned as little as possible about the rest of the story. Watching the preview on the eight episode was more interesting than the two hours of the seventh.
While I am critical about the last few episodes I feel that overall it was worth twenty hours (two per evening) to watch this mini-series event. Not only was it interesting--to a point--seeing twenty hours of rather "quality" programming in two weeks is hard to do with the shows on television. If you have the time, check out the reruns this weekend on the Sci-Fi channel (at least the first five).