Users sign up for the service online, pay a flat monthly fee, order DVDs from Netflix's extensive online catalog, and receive them via snail mail. Finished DVDs are mailed back to Netflix shipping facilities scattered across the country, using the same mailers. There are no contracts, no late fees, and no postage charges for users.

Netflix shook up the brick-and-mortar rental chains when it appeared on the scene, but it took the company almost five years to turn a profit. Since then, the home entertainment landscape has changed drastically. Netflix did well by riding on the success of the DVD format, but new high-definition formats and distribution methods have upped the ante. On one side, Netflix has to deal with the transition to high-definition physical media such as Blu-ray, and on the other, the encroaching threat of online rental and delivery systems like iTunes.

Judge Torpedoes Navy with Sonar Reg, Seattle P-I Doesn't Note Clinton ...

So either the Bush administration or the navy or both don't seem to see this as that high a priority or they would have formed said committee. But then I'm sure the media would have these up everywhere:

Mass. foreclosures rise 128% in January

Nearly 800 foreclosures were recorded in January, the highest number of Bay State homes lost during a single month since August 2007, the Warren Group said today.

Petitions to foreclose, the first step in the foreclosure process, also increased in December, signaling that Massachusetts problems with foreclosures are far from over, the Warren Group said.

Slay That Green Dragon

Here on OpEdNEws, I haven't seen one single article supporting Hillary. It's not because we haven't accepted them. Matter of fact we welcome cogent, well written articles supporting ANY candidate, since we trust our readers to respond and balance out the perspective in the comments section.

It appears that the concensus of the readers and writers on this site, most of whom were Kucinich, Edwards or Paul supporters, are, except for the Paul supporters, now leaning towards Obama. .

Rural Bulletin Survey Results: Snapshot…

The other relates to controlling activities which could damage the national grid or put it at risk.

Submissions close 30 November 2007. They go to: Ministry for the Environment, PO Box 10362, Wellington, email standards@mfe.govt.nz. More information is at http://www.mfe.govt.nz/laws/standards/electricity-transmission-public-notice.html

Saving Seabirds

The Ministry of Fisheries (MFish) has published proposals outlining best practices for lessening the likelihood of fishing-related seabird deaths. These would apply to all trawl and longline vessels.

Seabird species globally are facing a number of threats, both at their breeding sites and when they forage at sea. One of the main threats is through fishing activity. In longline fisheries, the baited hooks float on, or just below, the surface for a short time before they start sinking.

Secret sharer

In L.A., Nathaniel avoids the obvious as long as he can, avoids his grad-school notebook on the floor of Coolberg's car. When, finally, the subtext becomes the text, the novel resolves itself around two documents, one a sealed letter, addressed to Nathaniel, from Jamie. He's never opened it. In that way, he claims, he keeps hope alive. In that way, we think, he keeps the wound open and the delusion alive. (Perhaps we're too harsh.) The second document you hold in your hands, dear reader - "The Soul Thief," but to say more would be to say too much. Except this: Whoever wrote "The Soul Thief" knows that we write about what keeps us up at night, that a writer gets to inhabit many lives, and that he who tells the story makes the meaning.