See that's the problem of if I can't see it, its not happening. Or worse, if I don't understand it, its not a problem. There are a million things that depend on precise balance and happen in infinitesimal quantities. NO2 happens in the junctions of your synapses in mind numbingly small quantities and lasts as NO2 for only nanoseconds. However, without that happening you cease to function. 1 pound of botulina toxic properly distributed is enough to kill the entire human population several times. You haven't the foggiest clue which species or processes are critical to the continued function of our ecosphere, how can you begin to measure what is or isn't significant without understanding that living things have indirect and profound impacts and implications.
Our planet functions on virtually countless feedback cycles, so when something over here shifts another system over there picks up the slack and tends to recenter the system. Increase the heat, more clouds and earth reflects more sunlight. Up to a point. Once you exceed the normal capacity for the "Global System" to absorb more energy/ CO2/ heavy metals/ plastic... whatever, then old systems breakdown and subtle but significant shifts begin to make themselves evident as fundamental perturbations in the existing system.
The change in carbonate vs carbonic acid in the ocean is telling (and making life for carbonaceous shelled sea life growingly more difficult.) The loss of glaciers and polar marine ice while possibly enhancing navigation, is already having significant impact both in rising sea levels and changes in ocean salinity. In fact a recent report suggests that as much as 40% of the increased sea level and reduced salinity is directly attributable to human enterprises over the last 2 centuries.
CO2 is in fact toxic, but not in the quantities one is likely to see on an earth that isn't in catastrophic environmental meltdown. I don't see such a meltdown happening in my lifetime of that of my grand children's. However there is a potential avalanche of greenhouse gases soon coming where the warming caused by CO2 triggers a sudden explosion of methane from decaying permafrost in the high latitudes and potential release of massive methane ice seeps in the ocean. Its all tied together. Its a little like someone saying I need some wire while driving a truck, and having your passenger go under the dashboard and cut you some. You might get away with that for a little while, but sooner or later something really nasty will happen. Why would anyone, keep cutting. Its silly. There's no need. The only folks who would truly suffer are the incredibly rich executives at companies that sell us our fossil fuel fix (and by the way the warnings of jobs are coming from the folks who I would suggest are far more worried about their golden parachutes and fat campaign contributions.) Let's simply make the move to saner energy sources, by all means nuclear, solar, wind, geothermal, add OTECs, Tidal hydro generation, new hydrogen technologies. Nobody can tell me that it would be more difficult to build a sustainable energy economy than to send a man to the moon 1960. We actually have sufficient technology to resolve our own problem today, all we lack is the leadership and will to implement it.
To hear about a young man on a path to providing joy and happiness to millions, only to lose his way and become a business executive. Where did we fail you Steve. You clearly had the potential. Antisocial, poor hygiene, you had all the traits of a budding young geek. Then somewhere a terrible turn south. Perhaps we'll never know.
First we got the bomb, and that was good,
'Cause we love peace and motherhood.
Then Russia got the bomb, but that's okay,
'Cause the balance of power's maintained that way.
Who's next?
France got the bomb, but don't you grieve,
'Cause they're on our side (I believe).
China got the bomb, but have no fears,
They can't wipe us out for at least five years.
Who's next?
The kill switch for the aircraft we sell to other countries, is located right on our pilot's flight sticks and they can even select radar or heat seeking.
You do know that the Mossad has been caught stealing and collecting American Top Secrets. In fact most of the nations above save perhaps Canada have at one time or another been caught either spying on us, or performing dirty deeds cheap against America's best interest. I'd say for the really classified stuff, like the internal security devices that monitor everything else... homegrown only thanks, and add that any enterprising person who's looking to get paid twice by screwing with the hardware or selling secrets to certified unfriendlies get's to cools their heels for VERY LONG TIME.
...Once the Germans were warlike and mean,
But that couldn't happen again...
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they've hardly bother us since then...
How about anything from a Walmart? or Target? How about a Costco? Face it folks, we're just getting better news faster. America has made a national passtime out of screwing every other country in the Western hemisphere for the last 200 years. Why does any of this surprise people now? Where do you think the term "Ugly American" came from? We've been busy starting wars to enforce our trade routes and controlling Central and South America for so long that there's a famous dialogue between Thoreau and Emerson discussing the immoral use of taxes from Thoreau's jail cell (look it up for yourself... it'll be good for you.)
If you need some bread crumbs, read about the history of Chocolate, Sugar, Bananas, Tea, Coffee, Rum, Pineapple, Rubber and Tobacco. High-tech goods are just the latest in a series of commodities going back to the time well before we became a nation.
Now if you're suggesting its perhaps time for us to begin getting responsible for our actions and actually relating to other homo-sapiens like they have a right to share the planet with us and receive some of its bounty, then by all means let's have that conversation. We come from a long line of xenophobic, self absorbed, greedy, grubby, tribal primates. The sooner we get that, the sooner we can actually be responsible for it, and perhaps create a new and more interesting future. Until then we'll wrap our primate social behavior in morality, and sociopolitical self justification or predatory capitalistic hoohah, and just keep perpetuating the same old dreary crap we've been doing since we went bipedal. Welcome to the wake up call humanity.
Solar power is nuclear fusion power... It is just that the reactor is really far away. The problem is one of cost effectiveness. Once solar panels are price competitive people will use them. Yet it is still an intermittent energy source so you will need some storage mechanism or backup generator increasing the system costs further.
Just the other day, there was an article on Slashdot crowing about a fantastic breakthrough. allowing for a cheap, easy to manufacture efficient, stable thin film cell. Even now the cost for solar is below a $1 per watt and most sources predict a $0.50 per watt solar cell by next summer making solar a viable contender against coal for power generation. Add the recent breakthrough in cheap, nontoxic, high efficiency catalysts for hydrogen production and now we can easily convert that electricity to hydrogen to manage power storage. No need for backup generators, no need for anything but repurposed liquid gas storage
Removing nuclear fission from the equation is stupid. It is cheap and plentiful, safer than most alternatives, and you either use it or lose it. All U-235 on Earth is going to decay eventually so either we use it before it decays or we will never be able to use it anymore. Solar panels are not necessarily clean. Silicon solar panels fabrication in particular uses solvents and acids in the manufacturing process which must be disposed of or recycled at a steep cost. Given that most solar panel production is currently in China I wouldn't be surprised to find out they simply dumped the toxic waste it into a nearby pond or river.
Agreed, however, there are a lot of exciting new technologies that remove weapon production from the equation. Talk to Iran, offer them Thorium reactors with international support from the U.N. so they can have their nuclear power, and join the rest of the modern world, and we can all be safe knowing they don't intend to blow anyone up in perhaps a synagogue near by? Small reactors that are virtually run-away-proof, are going to be the preferred technology of many developing nations. They are clean, right-priced, and can be mass produced like batteries. Could it possibly get any better?
The problem with temperature gradients in the ocean is that the temperature difference is too small for a heat engine to have decent performance. Try reading about OTEC power plants. Large and expensive infrastructure built in the ocean. Even if you use ammonia as the heat fluid the performance is crap.
I have done the reading, and as of 2009,10 and 11, respected researcher all over the map (with a high concentration in China) are saying OTECS are the wave of the future. The problem is to place them in the tropics in places with access to deep water. Here the temperature differences between warm surface water and deep water can exceed 60F. Added benefits include getting potable fresh water, high mineral seawater for aquaculture and the potential mitigation of violent storms. So besides generating huge amounts of power, OTECs can be used to provide fresh water to coastal cities in the tropics, and dramatically expand aquaculture providing whole new renewable ocean industries as well as significant carbon sequestration. Oh there are also several interesting designs for large ships/platforms using OTECs as their power source (obviously stable or slow moving), these sea platforms could be part of a new series of habitats for both surface and subsurface ocean living and exploration. Life is complicated. Every new solution brings new problems. That said, I'm hearing opportunity knocking hard and loud. I can't imagine a single viable reason why we shouldn't be answering.
With the advent of a new cheap, high efficiency catalyst (no noble metals involved) there is no reason that Germany or any other country can't use that solar energy to produce hydrogen in bulk quantities both as a fuel for transport and as a fuel to buffer electrical generation during nonsolar portions of the clock. In fact, one could stockpile significant amounts of LH, and you now have a perfectly viable energy economy that is in fact baseload driven.
The serious obstacles to a renewable energy economy are neither technological, economic, or political. They are in fact commercial. There are a number of very powerful, influential groups committed to maintaining the economic status quo because it serves their interests, even if it serves nobody else's. It would be easy to site breakthrough after breakthrough in just the last five years making solar technologies, wind technologies, geothermal, OTECs (ocean thermal gradients plus low pressure turbines), and tidal hydroelectric, real and viable alternatives. There are also a host of new nuclear technologies, including small, self contained, run-away-proof reactors, that could be honest to goodness game changers. This isn't about tree hugging. It is about embracing a sane and sustainable future and not walking away from opportunities. Germany will prove a lot of nay-sayers dead wrong, and then how will they justify their positions? Its time to wake up and build the future. Its also time to the tell those who would bind us to an unworkable and untenable future, that their wealth will not come at the jeopardy of future generations or of a healthy planet which serves the interest of those generations.
We just need to have a mole high in Iranian government smuggle plans for the Ford Pinto into their industrial complex. Within 5 years, Iran will be a smoldering cinder! Of course the plan must never get out or the U.N. will be all over us for human rights violations... Doh!
I dunno... could be they wanted to go straight to the people who would pay for this in the first place, and cut the whole felating an executive at Paramount to get funding part. Personally I think its creative and interesting, and if it works might be a great way to get a whole bunch of independent productions created. Or not. Only time will tell.
So apparently you didn't see the episode of Star Trek where the captain is forced to exchange bodies with Dr. Janice Lester? Or perhaps you also missed the episode of STNG where Riker spends a little quality time on a planet where the female/male roles common on earth are reversed and he is now some kind of sexy Amazon to the local female inhabitants.
As for the conversation regarding the homoerotic aspect of Star Trek, I'm sorry, but the whole conversation is left wide open, with a society that appears to have become civilized about so many things, I'm just guessing sexual practices and acceptable behavior had come a long ways by the 23rd century, though (from the comment made by Lieutenant Ilia), it seems even in the 23rd century that human beings are a sexually immature species.
I hope you know, I could sue for the eye damage alone... Now that's kinky. The mind reels, collapses, crawls across the floor, vomits then goes comatose!
Clearly you haven't the foggiest idea about parenting. A childs brain is developing at an incredible rate and human contact is one of the key determining factors to that child's functional development. In places where Mother and Child remain in physical contact well into toddling, children are healthier, more fully developed, and significantly more mentally advanced. Now I do agree the current trend of bubble wrapping children in western societies until late puberty is in of itself a form of brain damage and leads to young adults who are poorly prepared for the challenges of life, naive, barely house broken and oddly self obsessed.
Don't get me wrong, the forces that be, want desperately to make desktops go away... They can't be locked down or locked in the way mobile devices can be, and the people who use them well are unruly, demand their right and freedom, and typically don't play well with service providers walking all over them. So I understand the pundits claiming the PC is dead long live the mobile device!!!
The problem is that there's this peculiar thing. Its called a DISPLAY, and the one on a COMPUTER is just a wee bit larger than a hamster's cage mirror, sized display that passes for a screen on smartphones. I swear there will in 50 years be an entire generation of blind people dancing to their retro ringtones from devices long abandoned for the health problems. I personally want a great big, huge frigging display. One that won't make every person over 35 squint so hard, they look like they're doing a Clint Eastwood imitation. I want to see what I'm working on without having a microfilm reader's lens welded to my eyes. I like movies and art that fill my field of vision. I like lots of windows up so I can code, and debug, and document, and browse, and email, and edit pictures all at the same friggin time.
If the price of my great big display is that it sadly that leaves room for greedy clowns to slip advertisement into my field of view, so be it, I have to keep getting more creative to keep the stupid stuff out. This is a request for the world at large. Someone out there. Provide commercial media without commercials and people will gladly pay the premium. I would, in a heart beat!
You can almost hear Rupert Murdoch's crypt keeper claw closing into a fist, flailing through the air as he bellows "They're taking my MONEY!!! Die, Die, die all you dirty thieves!!!
Someone needs to tell him we've been fast forwarding through his commercials for years, shut up, and stop interrupting our entertainment with your commercial sewage. Charge us to watch you channel, but for the love-o-jebus just stop crapping on your viewers.
I hear Apple is already at work on the iPad 12, and it will come with an app to make decaf lattes... and another that will make your cat's liter box smell like African Violets...
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See that's the problem of if I can't see it, its not happening. Or worse, if I don't understand it, its not a problem. There are a million things that depend on precise balance and happen in infinitesimal quantities. NO2 happens in the junctions of your synapses in mind numbingly small quantities and lasts as NO2 for only nanoseconds. However, without that happening you cease to function. 1 pound of botulina toxic properly distributed is enough to kill the entire human population several times. You haven't the foggiest clue which species or processes are critical to the continued function of our ecosphere, how can you begin to measure what is or isn't significant without understanding that living things have indirect and profound impacts and implications.
Our planet functions on virtually countless feedback cycles, so when something over here shifts another system over there picks up the slack and tends to recenter the system. Increase the heat, more clouds and earth reflects more sunlight. Up to a point. Once you exceed the normal capacity for the "Global System" to absorb more energy/ CO2/ heavy metals/ plastic... whatever, then old systems breakdown and subtle but significant shifts begin to make themselves evident as fundamental perturbations in the existing system.
The change in carbonate vs carbonic acid in the ocean is telling (and making life for carbonaceous shelled sea life growingly more difficult.) The loss of glaciers and polar marine ice while possibly enhancing navigation, is already having significant impact both in rising sea levels and changes in ocean salinity. In fact a recent report suggests that as much as 40% of the increased sea level and reduced salinity is directly attributable to human enterprises over the last 2 centuries.
CO2 is in fact toxic, but not in the quantities one is likely to see on an earth that isn't in catastrophic environmental meltdown. I don't see such a meltdown happening in my lifetime of that of my grand children's. However there is a potential avalanche of greenhouse gases soon coming where the warming caused by CO2 triggers a sudden explosion of methane from decaying permafrost in the high latitudes and potential release of massive methane ice seeps in the ocean. Its all tied together. Its a little like someone saying I need some wire while driving a truck, and having your passenger go under the dashboard and cut you some. You might get away with that for a little while, but sooner or later something really nasty will happen. Why would anyone, keep cutting. Its silly. There's no need. The only folks who would truly suffer are the incredibly rich executives at companies that sell us our fossil fuel fix (and by the way the warnings of jobs are coming from the folks who I would suggest are far more worried about their golden parachutes and fat campaign contributions.) Let's simply make the move to saner energy sources, by all means nuclear, solar, wind, geothermal, add OTECs, Tidal hydro generation, new hydrogen technologies. Nobody can tell me that it would be more difficult to build a sustainable energy economy than to send a man to the moon 1960. We actually have sufficient technology to resolve our own problem today, all we lack is the leadership and will to implement it.
I'd outlaw sexual intercourse for Rick Santorum, until he stops trying to legislate everyone else's sexual practices.
Hey Beavis... he said Wang... Huh,huh,huh,huhuhuhuh.
how much can i get for a magazine he farted on once
A breath mint and some hand sanitizer. Ewwww.
To hear about a young man on a path to providing joy and happiness to millions, only to lose his way and become a business executive. Where did we fail you Steve. You clearly had the potential. Antisocial, poor hygiene, you had all the traits of a budding young geek. Then somewhere a terrible turn south. Perhaps we'll never know.
First we got the bomb, and that was good,
'Cause we love peace and motherhood.
Then Russia got the bomb, but that's okay,
'Cause the balance of power's maintained that way.
Who's next?
France got the bomb, but don't you grieve,
'Cause they're on our side (I believe).
China got the bomb, but have no fears,
They can't wipe us out for at least five years.
Who's next?
-- Tom Lerher "Who's Next"
Ahhh, and they just started enriching uranium again. I guess it's back to yellow cake, and mud pies. Thanks for playing "You bet your P.C.
The kill switch for the aircraft we sell to other countries, is located right on our pilot's flight sticks and they can even select radar or heat seeking.
You do know that the Mossad has been caught stealing and collecting American Top Secrets. In fact most of the nations above save perhaps Canada have at one time or another been caught either spying on us, or performing dirty deeds cheap against America's best interest. I'd say for the really classified stuff, like the internal security devices that monitor everything else... homegrown only thanks, and add that any enterprising person who's looking to get paid twice by screwing with the hardware or selling secrets to certified unfriendlies get's to cools their heels for VERY LONG TIME.
...Once the Germans were warlike and mean,
But that couldn't happen again...
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they've hardly bother us since then...
-- Tom Lerher, The MLF Lullaby
Yahoo should consider making disposable hybrid cars... or perhaps frozen fudgesicles... maybe even sportsware for little people.
How about anything from a Walmart? or Target? How about a Costco? Face it folks, we're just getting better news faster. America has made a national passtime out of screwing every other country in the Western hemisphere for the last 200 years. Why does any of this surprise people now? Where do you think the term "Ugly American" came from? We've been busy starting wars to enforce our trade routes and controlling Central and South America for so long that there's a famous dialogue between Thoreau and Emerson discussing the immoral use of taxes from Thoreau's jail cell (look it up for yourself... it'll be good for you.)
If you need some bread crumbs, read about the history of Chocolate, Sugar, Bananas, Tea, Coffee, Rum, Pineapple, Rubber and Tobacco. High-tech goods are just the latest in a series of commodities going back to the time well before we became a nation.
Now if you're suggesting its perhaps time for us to begin getting responsible for our actions and actually relating to other homo-sapiens like they have a right to share the planet with us and receive some of its bounty, then by all means let's have that conversation. We come from a long line of xenophobic, self absorbed, greedy, grubby, tribal primates. The sooner we get that, the sooner we can actually be responsible for it, and perhaps create a new and more interesting future. Until then we'll wrap our primate social behavior in morality, and sociopolitical self justification or predatory capitalistic hoohah, and just keep perpetuating the same old dreary crap we've been doing since we went bipedal. Welcome to the wake up call humanity.
Solar power is nuclear fusion power... It is just that the reactor is really far away. The problem is one of cost effectiveness. Once solar panels are price competitive people will use them. Yet it is still an intermittent energy source so you will need some storage mechanism or backup generator increasing the system costs further.
Just the other day, there was an article on Slashdot crowing about a fantastic breakthrough. allowing for a cheap, easy to manufacture efficient, stable thin film cell. Even now the cost for solar is below a $1 per watt and most sources predict a $0.50 per watt solar cell by next summer making solar a viable contender against coal for power generation. Add the recent breakthrough in cheap, nontoxic, high efficiency catalysts for hydrogen production and now we can easily convert that electricity to hydrogen to manage power storage. No need for backup generators, no need for anything but repurposed liquid gas storage
Removing nuclear fission from the equation is stupid. It is cheap and plentiful, safer than most alternatives, and you either use it or lose it. All U-235 on Earth is going to decay eventually so either we use it before it decays or we will never be able to use it anymore. Solar panels are not necessarily clean. Silicon solar panels fabrication in particular uses solvents and acids in the manufacturing process which must be disposed of or recycled at a steep cost. Given that most solar panel production is currently in China I wouldn't be surprised to find out they simply dumped the toxic waste it into a nearby pond or river.
Agreed, however, there are a lot of exciting new technologies that remove weapon production from the equation. Talk to Iran, offer them Thorium reactors with international support from the U.N. so they can have their nuclear power, and join the rest of the modern world, and we can all be safe knowing they don't intend to blow anyone up in perhaps a synagogue near by? Small reactors that are virtually run-away-proof, are going to be the preferred technology of many developing nations. They are clean, right-priced, and can be mass produced like batteries. Could it possibly get any better?
The problem with temperature gradients in the ocean is that the temperature difference is too small for a heat engine to have decent performance. Try reading about OTEC power plants. Large and expensive infrastructure built in the ocean. Even if you use ammonia as the heat fluid the performance is crap.
I have done the reading, and as of 2009,10 and 11, respected researcher all over the map (with a high concentration in China) are saying OTECS are the wave of the future. The problem is to place them in the tropics in places with access to deep water. Here the temperature differences between warm surface water and deep water can exceed 60F. Added benefits include getting potable fresh water, high mineral seawater for aquaculture and the potential mitigation of violent storms. So besides generating huge amounts of power, OTECs can be used to provide fresh water to coastal cities in the tropics, and dramatically expand aquaculture providing whole new renewable ocean industries as well as significant carbon sequestration. Oh there are also several interesting designs for large ships/platforms using OTECs as their power source (obviously stable or slow moving), these sea platforms could be part of a new series of habitats for both surface and subsurface ocean living and exploration. Life is complicated. Every new solution brings new problems. That said, I'm hearing opportunity knocking hard and loud. I can't imagine a single viable reason why we shouldn't be answering.
With the advent of a new cheap, high efficiency catalyst (no noble metals involved) there is no reason that Germany or any other country can't use that solar energy to produce hydrogen in bulk quantities both as a fuel for transport and as a fuel to buffer electrical generation during nonsolar portions of the clock. In fact, one could stockpile significant amounts of LH, and you now have a perfectly viable energy economy that is in fact baseload driven.
The serious obstacles to a renewable energy economy are neither technological, economic, or political. They are in fact commercial. There are a number of very powerful, influential groups committed to maintaining the economic status quo because it serves their interests, even if it serves nobody else's. It would be easy to site breakthrough after breakthrough in just the last five years making solar technologies, wind technologies, geothermal, OTECs (ocean thermal gradients plus low pressure turbines), and tidal hydroelectric, real and viable alternatives. There are also a host of new nuclear technologies, including small, self contained, run-away-proof reactors, that could be honest to goodness game changers. This isn't about tree hugging. It is about embracing a sane and sustainable future and not walking away from opportunities. Germany will prove a lot of nay-sayers dead wrong, and then how will they justify their positions? Its time to wake up and build the future. Its also time to the tell those who would bind us to an unworkable and untenable future, that their wealth will not come at the jeopardy of future generations or of a healthy planet which serves the interest of those generations.
Personally I think both white and black people would prefer a MacBook in or out of prison...
We just need to have a mole high in Iranian government smuggle plans for the Ford Pinto into their industrial complex. Within 5 years, Iran will be a smoldering cinder! Of course the plan must never get out or the U.N. will be all over us for human rights violations... Doh!
I dunno... could be they wanted to go straight to the people who would pay for this in the first place, and cut the whole felating an executive at Paramount to get funding part. Personally I think its creative and interesting, and if it works might be a great way to get a whole bunch of independent productions created. Or not. Only time will tell.
So apparently you didn't see the episode of Star Trek where the captain is forced to exchange bodies with Dr. Janice Lester? Or perhaps you also missed the episode of STNG where Riker spends a little quality time on a planet where the female/male roles common on earth are reversed and he is now some kind of sexy Amazon to the local female inhabitants.
As for the conversation regarding the homoerotic aspect of Star Trek, I'm sorry, but the whole conversation is left wide open, with a society that appears to have become civilized about so many things, I'm just guessing sexual practices and acceptable behavior had come a long ways by the 23rd century, though (from the comment made by Lieutenant Ilia), it seems even in the 23rd century that human beings are a sexually immature species.
I hope you know, I could sue for the eye damage alone... Now that's kinky. The mind reels, collapses, crawls across the floor, vomits then goes comatose!
Takes it away!!! It burns, it burns precious!!!
Clearly you haven't the foggiest idea about parenting. A childs brain is developing at an incredible rate and human contact is one of the key determining factors to that child's functional development. In places where Mother and Child remain in physical contact well into toddling, children are healthier, more fully developed, and significantly more mentally advanced. Now I do agree the current trend of bubble wrapping children in western societies until late puberty is in of itself a form of brain damage and leads to young adults who are poorly prepared for the challenges of life, naive, barely house broken and oddly self obsessed.
Don't get me wrong, the forces that be, want desperately to make desktops go away... They can't be locked down or locked in the way mobile devices can be, and the people who use them well are unruly, demand their right and freedom, and typically don't play well with service providers walking all over them. So I understand the pundits claiming the PC is dead long live the mobile device!!!
The problem is that there's this peculiar thing. Its called a DISPLAY, and the one on a COMPUTER is just a wee bit larger than a hamster's cage mirror, sized display that passes for a screen on smartphones. I swear there will in 50 years be an entire generation of blind people dancing to their retro ringtones from devices long abandoned for the health problems. I personally want a great big, huge frigging display. One that won't make every person over 35 squint so hard, they look like they're doing a Clint Eastwood imitation. I want to see what I'm working on without having a microfilm reader's lens welded to my eyes. I like movies and art that fill my field of vision. I like lots of windows up so I can code, and debug, and document, and browse, and email, and edit pictures all at the same friggin time.
If the price of my great big display is that it sadly that leaves room for greedy clowns to slip advertisement into my field of view, so be it, I have to keep getting more creative to keep the stupid stuff out. This is a request for the world at large. Someone out there. Provide commercial media without commercials and people will gladly pay the premium. I would, in a heart beat!
You can almost hear Rupert Murdoch's crypt keeper claw closing into a fist, flailing through the air as he bellows "They're taking my MONEY!!! Die, Die, die all you dirty thieves!!!
Someone needs to tell him we've been fast forwarding through his commercials for years, shut up, and stop interrupting our entertainment with your commercial sewage. Charge us to watch you channel, but for the love-o-jebus just stop crapping on your viewers.
Uh, uh. uh... mustn't forget the firing!!!
I hear Apple is already at work on the iPad 12, and it will come with an app to make decaf lattes... and another that will make your cat's liter box smell like African Violets...