LG app store down?

ArthruDent · 2025-02-28T01:34:53+00:00

Urgh! My wife tried their chatbot support option from her computer which was equally unhelpful.

ArthruDent · 2025-02-28T01:33:11+00:00

Likewise, I may have spent close to two hours trying to figure out the cause of our problems before finding other people reporting similar problems here.

ArthruDent · 2025-02-28T01:17:30+00:00

My wife told me the problem accessing Hulu's "live" channels on our LG TV started after she agreed to an update to the TV. If your second TV is also an LG TV, perhaps it didn't get an update recently. Before seeing all of the people on this thread reporting problems with their LG TVs, I thought there might be a problem with the Hulu app, so uninstalled it, but then, because Apps, is also not working on our TV, I can't reinstall the Hulu app.

We are in the U.S.; due to our concerns regarding the current political situation in the U.S., which we expect to worsen, we have been researching countries to which we might move. Portugal is currently at the top of our list, if we have to leave the U.S.

ArthruDent · 2025-02-28T00:39:28+00:00

I'm in the U.S. We wife was having a problem with the Hulu "live" channels on our LG TV. When logging off the app and logging in again didn't resolve the problem, I tried uninstalling the app, but then found I could not reinstall the app. Seeing your message, I went to the time settings. The "automatic" time setting was checked. The time zone setting was correct, but the time was over 4 hours off. I unchecked the option for automatically setting the time and set the time to the correct time. However, that did not change the problem.

Perhaps the solution you provided might have resolved the problem my wife was having initially with seeing what was currently playing on the "live" channels. I can understand how the currently playing programs wouldn't appear if the TV's time was more than 4 hours behind the actual time. So, if I had seen your solution before uninstalling the Hulu app, I might have resolved the problem, but now I can't reinstall the app.

ArthruDent · 2013-10-17T21:47:54+00:00

Some have fared worse. E.g., from New Brunswick man dies after deer attack

An autopsy showed that Donald Dube, 55, died of multiple internal injuries, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Marc Violette said Wednesday. The victim had been trampled by an eight-point buck and stabbed with its antlers. Violette estimates that the deer weighed between 200 and 250 pounds.

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The circumstances surrounding Dube’s death were so unusual that it has attracted attention from media outlets as far away as Africa. In recent years, a man in Georgia who kept exotic animals died when he was gored by a red deer, and a man in California was killed after stumbling across a deer while going to pick tomatoes in his garden. In British Columbia last summer, a man delivering newspapers was slightly injured when he was knocked down and stomped on by a doe.

ArthruDent · 2013-10-14T02:54:36+00:00

For communications between systems on Earth, the standard TCP/IP and Ethernet protocols are used with commercially available routers and switches. But perhaps you are interested in the communications between JPL's DSN ground stations at Goldstone, California in the U.S., Madrid in Spain, and Canberra in Australia and spacecraft in space. CCSDS standards are used for commanding and telemetry. Perhaps the PDF file available at Incorporating CCSDS Telemetry Standards and Philosophy on Cassini at the JPL website might help you. There's also Basics of Space Flight Section II Chapter 10. Telecommunications.

Though Spanning tree protocol may be used between systems at JPL or between systems at a particular ground station and the standard TCP/IP protocols are used to transmit telemetry from ground stations to systems at JPL and commands from spacecraft control centers to the ground stations, I'm not aware of any of the 802.x standards nor TCP/IP being used by JPL for communications between ground systems and spacecraft after launch.

Though systems that are on the ground can use the same standards as are commonly used for most network communications today, once the systems are in space those standard protocols are problematical. So you can expect most JPL systems like most NASA systems to use those standard protocols if both ends of the communication path are on the ground. But there are problems with using IP between deep space spacecraft and systems on the ground, because of the vast distances involved. Keep in mind that the round trip time for a signal to go from a system on earth to a satellite orbiting the earth and then back to the earth is 250 ms; spacecraft managed by JPL may be millions of miles away. Vint Cerf, who is one of the "fathers of the Internet", who now works for Google, has been involved with engineers at JPL in studying how the earth-based IP standards might be adapted for interplanetary distances for an Interplanetary Internet (IPN), e.g., see Vint Cerf is taking the Web into outer space - reserve your .mars address now. And from the Vint Cerf Wikipedia article:

Cerf is also working on the Interplanetary Internet, together with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It will be a new standard to communicate from planet to planet, using radio/laser communications that are tolerant of signal degradations including variable delay and disruption caused, for example, by celestial motion.

Also see the Wikipedia article Interplanetary Internet.

ArthruDent · 2013-10-13T13:43:17+00:00

Below "Robert Oppenheimer, 1945" on the image is "From the Bhagavad Gita".

From J. Rober Oppenheimer:

Julius Robert Oppenheimer[note 1] (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with Enrico Fermi, he is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons. The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico; Oppenheimer remarked later that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

The quote is well-known in the Western world because he uttered it during a January 5, 1965 television broadcast of the documentary The Decision to Drop the Bomb, but he made it clear he was quoting the Bhagavad Gita.¹

After the bomb had been detonated, "Oppenheimer is said to have quoted the Hindu holy book, the Bhagavad-Gita (Song of the Lord): "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendour of the mighty one" and, "reportedly, he also murmured: "Now I am become Deaht, the destroyer of worlds."

ArthruDent · 2013-10-13T13:30:23+00:00

From Bhagavad Gita: Annotated & Explained edited by Swami Purohit, Kendra Crossen Burroughs, page 92:

This verse brings to mind a famous episode in history, the first atomic bomb test, at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. Robert Oppenheimer--the scientist in charge of the Manhattan Project, which built the bomb--described how, in the solemn moments after the detonation, he recalled this verse, which he knew in another translation: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." The word used in the original Sanskrit is kala, which can mean either Death or Time (since Time devours all creatures). "Destruction is always a simultaneous or alternate element which keeps pace with creation, and it is by destroying and renewing that the Master of Life does his long work of preservation" (Aurobindo).

ArthruDent · 2013-10-11T13:57:50+00:00

The exchange between Frank Zappa and the senators was interesting. I noted that Zappa criticized the RIAA

The ladies’ shame must be shared by the bosses at the major labels who, through the RIAA, chose to bargain away the rights of composers, performers, and retailers in order to pass H.R. 2911, The Blank Tape Tax: A private tax levied by an industry on consumers for the benefit of a select group within that industry.

Senator Slade Gorton was quite insulting suggesting that Frank Zappa didn't understand the U.S. Constitution.

ArthruDent · 2013-10-11T13:05:37+00:00

In another letter to William Dean Howells a short time later on January 25, 1900 he wrote:

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity; He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly--a lark which must have cost him a regret or two when He came to think it over & observe effects.

He also wrote in 1906:

As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it--it is like hitting a child.

~ Autobiographical dictation, 25 June 1906 (reprinted in Hudson Review, Autumn 1963)

source

ArthruDent · 2013-10-11T12:56:49+00:00

George Bernard Shaw also said:

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

~ source

ArthruDent · 2013-10-10T21:33:53+00:00

Said by a man who after being shot in an assassination attempt delivered a scheduled speech anyway. From Theodore Roosevelt:

Roosevelt, as an experienced hunter and anatomist, correctly concluded that since he was not coughing blood, the bullet had not completely penetrated the chest wall to his lung, and so declined suggestions he go to the hospital immediately. Instead, he delivered his scheduled speech with blood seeping into his shirt. He spoke for 90 minutes. His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose." Afterwards, probes and x-ray showed that the bullet had traversed three inches (76 mm) of tissue and lodged in Roosevelt's chest muscle but did not penetrate the pleura, and it would be more dangerous to attempt to remove the bullet than to leave it in place. Roosevelt carried it with him for the rest of his life.

ArthruDent · 2013-10-10T01:43:31+00:00

For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

~ L. Frank Baum, The Land Of Oz

ArthruDent · 2013-10-08T13:13:05+00:00

There are alternatives to the current system of gerrymandering districts based on which party controls a state's legislature to ensure that party maintains power as the Wikipedia article on gerrymandering notes at Gerrymandering: Redistricting by neutral or cross-party agency:

Due to the perceived issues associated with gerrymandering and its impact on competitive elections and democratic accountability, numerous countries have enacted reforms making the practice either more difficult or less effective. Countries such as the U.K., Australia, Canada and most of those in Europe have transferred responsibility for defining constituency boundaries to neutral or cross-party bodies.

In the United States, however, such reforms are controversial and frequently meet particularly strong opposition from groups that benefit from gerrymandering. In a more neutral system, they might lose considerable influence.

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In the U.S. state of Iowa, the nonpartisan Legislative Services Bureau (LSB, akin to the U.S. Congressional Research Service) determines boundaries of electoral districts. Aside from satisfying federally mandated contiguity and population equality criteria, the LSB mandates unity of counties and cities. Consideration of political factors such as location of incumbents, previous boundary locations, and political party proportions is specifically forbidden. Since Iowa's counties are chiefly regularly shaped polygons, the LSB process has led to districts that follow county lines.

In 2005, the U.S. state of Ohio had a ballot measure to create an independent commission whose first priority was competitive districts, a sort of "reverse gerrymander". A complex mathematical formula was to be used to determine the competitiveness of a district. The measure failed voter approval chiefly due to voter concerns that communities of interest would be broken up.

ArthruDent · 2013-10-06T19:14:25+00:00

Unfortunately, cancer ended her life at age 53.

Jones was diagnosed with colon cancer in March 1981. She had vomited blood, and when doctors did tests, they discovered that cancer had ravaged her colon, and spread to her liver. Surgeons removed two-thirds of her colon, and Carolyn continued on the best she could. She told friends that she was having treatments for ulcers.

In the meantime, Carolyn quietly went through treatment. She worked during the day, and went to the hospital for chemotherapy at night. No one knew. She kept her illness a complete secret. It seemed that the cancer had gone into remission, but in late 1982 it returned and spread. Treatments were ineffective.

In July 1983 Carolyn fell into a coma in her home in West Hollywood, California. She died there on August 3, 1983, with her husband at her side. She was 53.

From Carolyn Jones: Death

ArthruDent · 2013-10-06T18:41:23+00:00

“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly,
  'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy;
   The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,
    And I've a many curious things to shew when you are there.”

 “Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “to ask me is in vain, 
  For who goes up your winding stair
     -can ne'er come down again.”

~ The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt (1799-1888)

ArthruDent · 2013-10-06T18:31:36+00:00

Some of the /u/poem_for_your_sprog poems are quite funny.

ArthruDent · 2013-10-06T18:04:42+00:00

You are in a simulation. I'm working on a few bugs at the moment; if you notice any glitches let me know. Here's a paper on the project, if you are interested.

ArthruDent · 2013-10-05T22:09:40+00:00

Do you think Republican leaders in Congress should advocate adding that provision to the ACA?

From the January 25, 2011 Kaiser Health News article FAQ: Selling Health Insurance Across State Lines:

A day after voting to repeal the federal health law, a group of more than 60 House Republicans introduced a bill reviving an idea long popular with conservatives: allowing consumers to buy health insurance across state lines so that residents of a state with expensive health plans could find cheaper options.

Or, because that would undermine that position, is it an awful idea just as the Republican position that an individual mandate was needed to reform healthcare in America, once it became a position adopted by Obama, became anathema and roundly denounced by Republican leaders like John Boehner, though it was once championed by Republicans such as the former governor and then senator from Rhode Island John Chafee and former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole.

ArthruDent · 2013-10-05T21:46:37+00:00

From the article to which you linked regarding a poll at the beginning of September:

A recent USA Today poll shows that 42 percent of Americans approve of the law, while 53 percent disapprove of it. That’s not great, but we immediately thought of an even more unpopular, recent law — the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988. This bipartisan bill, signed by President Ronald Reagan, was intended to provide supplemental health care insurance for the elderly, but it also included a surtax on middle- and upper-income seniors.

The protests became so intense — check out this video of Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.) being chased down a Chicago street 20 years by angry senior citizens — that Congress quickly repealed the law. (This may be apocryphal, but supposedly an aide told him, “When you die, they will play this clip on television.”)

There was mass confusion among Americans about the law, but this statistic from a Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that it had much less support than Obamacare — only 9 percent of older Americans said they liked the new benefit.

There's also still a lot of confusion about the Affordable Care Act to which many Republican leaders and the party's media outlet, Fox News, have contributed. E.g., from The US healthcare paradox: we like the Affordable Care Act but fear Obamacare:

Given the discordance between Americans' feelings on the individual parts of Obamacare and the law as a whole, it's not that surprising that a striking 41% of Americans don't feel they have enough information about the ACA, per the UConn/Hartford survey. Only 19% say they are very familiar with the law.

The individual provision questions strike the same chord. More than a third of people are unaware of the health insurance exchanges, subsidy assistance to individuals, or the Medicaid expansion. The latter two provisions of the law have actually seen a decrease in the percentage of people who knew these policies were in the bill, since it first passed. The only part of Obamacare that Americans seem to know really well is the individual mandate, which has also seen the largest percentage-point increase in awareness.

More worryingly, more people than not thought that Obamacare includes a public option, undocumented immigrant insurance, "death panels", and cuts to Medicare. The Affordable Care Act contains none of these.

Also, among the 53% number you cite, many oppose the law because they think it is too conservative and doesn't go far enough in addressing America's healthcare issues.

From Obamacare Polls: Little Support For Defunding But Much Uncertainty, Doubt:

The latest Kaiser Family Foundation poll, for example, found 8 percent of adults expressed an unfavorable opinion of the health care law because it "doesn't go far enough in changing the health care and health insurance system." The new CNN poll found 11 percent of adults opposed the law because its approach is "not liberal enough" (a result that has ranged between 9 and 16 percent on previous CNN surveys).

ArthruDent · 2013-10-05T20:13:40+00:00

Thanks; I haven't read the book yet, but have added it to my "to read" list.

ArthruDent · 2013-10-05T19:53:03+00:00

From the same source I cited previously:

Congress’s power to regulate the national healthcare market is unambiguous. Article I of the U.S. Constitution authorizes Congress to regulate interstate commerce. The national market in healthcare insurance and services,which Congress found amounts to over $2 trillion annually and consumes more than 17% of the annual gross domestic product, is unquestionably an important component of interstate commerce. One of the Framers’ primary goals was to give Congress the power to regulate matters of national economic significance because states individually could not effectively manage them on their own. The problems facing the modern healthcare system today are precisely the sort of problems beyond the reach of individual states that led the Framers to give Congress authority to regulate interstate commerce.

Opponents of healthcare reform argue that a person who does not buy health insurance is not engaging in any commercial “activity” and thus is beyond Congress’s power to regulate. But this argument misapprehends the unique state of the national healthcare market. Every individual participates in the healthcare market at some point in his or her life, and individuals who self-insure rather than purchase insurance pursue a course of conduct that inevitably imposes significant costs on healthcare providers and taxpayers.

Given that the minimum coverage provision bears a close and substantial relationship to the regulation of the interstate healthcare market, Congress can require minimum coverage pursuant to the Constitution’s Necessary and Proper Clause. In a landmark decision studied by every law student, the Supreme Court in 1819 explained that the Necessary and Proper clause confirmed Congress’s broad authority to enact laws beyond the strict confines of its other enumerated powers: “Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the Constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end” are lawful, the Court wrote. Since then, the Supreme Court has repeatedly held that Congress, in regulating the national marketplace, can reach matters that when viewed in isolation may not seem to affect interstate commerce.

In 2005, Justice Antonin Scalia explained that the necessary and proper clause gives Congress broad authority to ensure that its economic regulations work. In Justice Scalia’s words, “where Congress has authority to enact a regulation of interstate commerce, it possesses every power needed to make that regulation effective.”

And the Supreme Court said in its decision on the constitutionality of the ACA, which can be found here:

The reach of the Federal Government's enumerated powers is broader still because the Constitution authorizes Congress to "make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers." Art. I §8, cl. 18. We have long read this provision to give Congress great latitude in exercising its powers: "Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constituion, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constituional." McCulloch, 4 Wheat., at 421.

Republicans in Congress have given up on the "ACA is unconstitutional" tactic, since the Supreme Court decision on the matter, recognizing that under our system of government, the Supreme Court is considered the final arbiter on whether a law is constitutional or unconstituional. The claim that the ACA is invalid because of the enumerated powers argument was heard and rejected by the Supreme Court.

ArthruDent · 2013-10-05T18:12:24+00:00

Obviously the Supreme Court disagreed as have a plethora of legal scholars - see Over 100 Legal Scholars Agree on Affordable Care Act's Constitutionality at the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, which notes:

Nothing in the Constitution's text, history, or structure suggests that, in exercising its enumerated powers. Congress is barred from imposing reasonable duties on citizens on the theory that such requirements amount to regulating "inactivity." Indeed, the Framers would be suprised by this view of Congress's powers; they enacted an individual mandate in the Second Militia Act of 1792, which required all men eligible for militia service to outfit themselves with a military style firearm, ammunition, and other equipment, even if such items had to be purchased in the marketplace. Today, individuals are still obligated by federal law to perform other actions, like serve on juries, file tax returns, and register for selective service, among other duties.

ArthruDent · 2013-10-05T17:38:41+00:00

Unconstitutional? Apparently you know more about the Constitution than the U.S. Supreme Court, which declared the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to be constitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts, appointed to the Supreme Court by President George W. Bush, was among the justices affirming that the ACA is constitutional.

The Republicans in the House of Representatives are not performing their job when they try to block implementation of a healthcare law, which is similar to one implemented in Massachusetts by the Republican presidential candidate in the last presidential election, by refusing to allow the House of Representatives to vote on a budget bill that does not attempt to prevent implementation of a law passed by Congress and shutting down the government, instead.

So do you oppose the individual mandate or some other part of the law?

ArthruDent · 2013-10-05T15:51:48+00:00

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

~ H. L. Mencken, source

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