I'm kinda surprised more countries, especially China, haven't already done this.

Ew.

I guess its because its more tedious to hook up a laptop to a TV, since you then have to set up a wireless mouse and keyboard, and the way your TV equipment is arranged might make it a pain to plug in the laptop and put it somewhere safe.

She doesn't have an incentive now when her TV is still new, but in the next few years as set-up boxes become more capable and outstrip the Vizio she'll get one. As Mr. Barrett said, you can replace a set up box fairly regularly but you keep a TV for many years.

It's easy to say you don't want to live forever when you're young and could expect to live many decades more. Ask someone whose 95 and has been expecting to die soon for 15 years - ask her if she'd like to live forever in full health.

Well at least they don't call the LHC an 'atom smasher'.

Can't you just change them at a bank?

India is embarrassingly small and China's going to eat us some day. Russia looks like Mordor.

Personally I find that its more comfortable to sleep in a well made bed.

Yeah, my parents tried using this kind of strategy to get me to do 'chores' and it didn't work. I wish they'd done as you said and tried to make me responsible early, but I figure that's easier said than done.

The flame at the Montreal Olympics went out.

That's actually a very good question - personally I'd say that most brands I know I know only through TV commercials. The Brits must have a very different relationship with consumerism.

Yeah its too big and established now. Facebook has nearly a billion people and many people have been using it for 3-5 years, while the other sites only had tens of millions of users and were only popular for two years tops. It was very easy to drop MySpace in 2007.

Well to be fair Youtube is hardly the only source of ephemeral links. In my experience I've found that many if not most sources older than 5 years no longer work.

Can't you just vacuum the walls? Should only take a few minutes.

I'm not so sure. Ever read "Pride and prejudice"? Austen used a surprising amount formulations which are still curent and the book is still very readable.

Ahem. For one thing the long s died out about 1800, long before Victorian times, and for another it was never used at the end of words.

Yeah. I just did a quick calculation and it turns out that if you paid 2$ for every hour of TV you watched, and then you watched 4 hours of TV a day (the US average), you would end up paying 2,920$ a year, which is ridiculous.

Exactly. If you make it too difficult for people to access your content you can't cry fowl when users bypass you.

I keep on expecting that flag logo to start bouncing across the screen like a screensaver.