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

[Pete Hardie]

My main problem with streaming is just that many of the networks dont keep
all the back episodes available. If I get busy for a few weeks, I don't
want to miss an episode b/c they only go back 3 eps

On Apr 12, 2017 10:13 AM, "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/ <http://www.pbs.org/video/2365930275/>23659
> 30275/ <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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