[ale] [ot] what's good on TV - cord cutting

[Jim Kinney]

Acorn? Gets BBC? DO TELL!


On April 12, 2017 10:10:27 AM EDT, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
>Now, when people say cord cutting, in my mind, I also hear "technology
>cutting" too.    On the occasions when I do have time to watch
>something, my immense preference is for something that "just works". 
>
>Being able to come home, open a bottle of wine, start fixing dinner and
>just say "Alexa, play some music by Bix Biderbeck" and ... it just
>works... is infinitely better than dorking about with yet another
>recalcitrant computer for 15 minutes to get music.    (also being able
>to holler "Alexa, add mustard to my shopping list" while my head is
>stuffed in the fridge, and having that show up on my shopping list on
>my
>phone whilst at Krogers is almost magic. ) 
>
>In a similar vein, while impressed at reading the length to which
>people
>will go to record digital broadcast tv, we have found that a Roku box,
>the Amazon Prime video we already have for free with Amazon Prime
>shipping, and the Acorn subscription for BBC stuff is more than we
>would
>ever be inclined to watch.   And aside from the $5/mo for Acorn, there
>is no ongoing cost, and it truly "just works". 
>
>On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 09:45 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> I saw Rick and Morty the other night.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Finally, there's a cartoon character I can use as a role model. Thank
>> you Rick!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 9, 2017 7:37 PM, "DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>> 
>>         What's good on TV?
>>         
>>         NOVA, Frontline
>>         For example, here's a NOVA episode called "The Nuclear
>Option"
>>         http://www.pbs.org/video/2365930275/
>>         
>>         It is about thorium molten salt nuclear reactors that burn
>>         current
>>         nuclear waste to much smaller amounts (about 10% of the
>total)
>>         and leave
>>         waste with just a 69 yr half-life, not thousands of years.
>>         
>>         There's a cool youtube video showing a meltdown for a Molten
>>         Salt
>>         Reactor in Utah in the 1950s. They had visitors during the
>>         test, but
>>         when none of the guys working the meltdown test started
>>         running, so the
>>         visitors figured it must be safe enough. The reactor
>>         temperatures rose
>>         higher and higher after all reaction controls were removed
>...
>>         then the
>>         reactions started slowing until they stopped - with zero
>>         positive
>>         controls needed. No power. No pumps. No explosion. Do
>nothing,
>>         you end
>>         with a fizzle, not a boom.
>>         
>>         There are multiple "new energy" companies performing designs
>>         of this
>>         type.  Nothing full scale in the USA. I've seen a few
>>         proposals for
>>         20-30 yr modular reactors. At the end of their life, take the
>>         entire
>>         reactor out for processing and swap in a new one.
>>         
>>         China is building full-scale versions of these plants now.
>>         They are
>>         willing to take big chances to solve their power issues.
>>         Google for
>>         videos on "molten salt Nuclear Reactors china" to find more.
>>         
>>         NatGeo did a 2 hr episode about these reactors too.
>>         
>>         I'm pretty excited about a "green nuclear option" for clean
>>         power that
>>         works at night, without wind, and can produce power for
>>         50-200K homes,
>>         without the risk of an explosive meltdown due to electrical
>or
>>         pump
>>         failures.
>>         
>>         It is the next best thing until I can have a nuclear reactor
>>         under my
>>         sink next to the garbage disposal.  Hope they get solid,
>safe,
>>         designs
>>         approved and built in the USA, so we can start eating away at
>>         all the
>>         partially spent nuclear fuel being stored around current nuke
>>         plants.
>>         
>>         Plus these are entertaining:
>>         * Rick and Morty
>>         * Squidbillies
>>         
>>         
>>         On 04/09/2017 05:20 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>         > There's stuff on TV worth watching?
>>         >
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