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Just now, Razors Edge said:

He is onto something, though.  That seems like "airplane" viewing, not relaxing in paradise viewing. 

Go for a swim.

If I want to stream something as I relax on the beach, between swims, reading, and tropical drinks, is it really any of your or his bother? Or what if I was trying to stream it last night, after dark? Would that be more acceptable?

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There have been late evenings in hotel rooms in Paris, Cairo, Beijing, Jerusalem, etc. where I've turned on the TV to get a sample of LOCAL TV but only once did I want to watch American news - and I couldn't get it.

In 1996, my companion Phyllis and I took off from JFK Airport in NYC, headed for a connecting flight in Amsterdam to take us to Athens for the beginning of a 2 week "Aegean Odyssey:" Athens/Cruise/Istanbul.

15 minutes after we took off, TWA Flight 800 took off behind us from JFK and blew up over the Atlantic Ocean!  We knew nothing about it on our flight. At Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam we wondered about the extra careful baggage and pocket checks, but were told nothing.  After we landed in Athens, we were escorted to a conference room in our hotel where about 20 of us from our flight who were on the same tour were briefly told about TWA Flight 800.

For the next 2 weeks, we kept trying to find American news channels that described the crash but all we got were discussions about examining the wreckage, etc. with absolutely NO information about the plane crash itself.  Phyllis said, "I'm glad we got the package that starts in Athens and ends in Istanbul instead of the reverse because I trust the Turks to have better airport security than the Greeks."

On the two flights back, Phyllis's knuckles were white from tightly grabbing the seat rails. The flights were unusually quiet. When we touched down in the USA at JFK, the entire 767 erupted in loud and long applause.  My guess is few on that plane knew many details about what had happened two weeks earlier or what potential dangers remained.

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1 minute ago, Prophet Zacharia said:

If I want to stream something as I relax on the beach, between swims, reading, and tropical drinks, is it really any of your or his bother? Or what if I was trying to stream it last night, after dark? Would that be more acceptable?

Nope! I've determined that too is unacceptable.

I will pop on the boob tube occasionally on vacation.  But not really to fully "watch" something, as much as 1) force of habit, and 2) to unwind after go, go, going all day. 

But still, not acceptable for you!

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34 minutes ago, MickinMD said:

There have been late evenings in hotel rooms in Paris, Cairo, Beijing, Jerusalem, etc. where I've turned on the TV to get a sample of LOCAL TV but only once did I want to watch American news - and I couldn't get it.

In 1996, my companion Phyllis and I took off from JFK Airport in NYC, headed for a connecting flight in Amsterdam to take us to Athens for the beginning of a 2 week "Aegean Odyssey:" Athens/Cruise/Istanbul.

15 minutes after we took off, TWA Flight 800 took off behind us from JFK and blew up over the Atlantic Ocean!  We knew nothing about it on our flight. At Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam we wondered about the extra careful baggage and pocket checks, but were told nothing.  After we landed in Athens, we were escorted to a conference room in our hotel where about 20 of us from our flight who were on the same tour were briefly told about TWA Flight 800.

For the next 2 weeks, we kept trying to find American news channels that described the crash but all we got were discussions about examining the wreckage, etc. with absolutely NO information about the plane crash itself.  Phyllis said, "I'm glad we got the package that starts in Athens and ends in Istanbul instead of the reverse because I trust the Turks to have better airport security than the Greeks."

On the two flights back, Phyllis's knuckles were white from tightly grabbing the seat rails. The flights were unusually quiet. When we touched down in the USA at JFK, the entire 767 erupted in loud and long applause.  My guess is few on that plane knew many details about what had happened two weeks earlier or what potential dangers remained.

I was in Nieuwpoort the morning of the Boston Marathon bombing. I had friends running and at the race. TV news wasn’t much help. Facebook proved the most useful source of personal information.

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1 hour ago, MickinMD said:

TWA Flight 800

I have an acquaintance from here in Grand Rapids that had been the captain on that flight crew just prior to his retirement due to cancer a couple months before the disaster.  That crew at TWA had been his for several years.  The captain was obviously a replacement but also a good friend.

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1 hour ago, Prophet Zacharia said:

I was in Nieuwpoort the morning of the Boston Marathon bombing. I had friends running and at the race. TV news wasn’t much help. Facebook proved the most useful source of personal information.

We were in a hotel in Lima with my wife sick as a dog.  As the manhunt played out, my wife was able to focus on the BBC news broadcast all night long and not sit in the bed simply suffering.  That was a rough night, but having the news on with a developing story like that certainly kept her distracted enough from her own woes. I remember waking up sporadically all night to the BBC news intro tune.

 

4 hours ago, Prophet Zacharia said:

Het Volk

Hoping these early season events don't start getting cancelled.  I think Milan-San Remo is at risk with Italy's new outbreak.

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I had the same issue trying to log in to Hulu on my Nephew's TV, got a message that I can't do that unless I change my home to the current location.  I was not about to move in to his house just to watch one hockey game!  I only had to do it because they are all Rangers fans up there and the local TV wouldn't show the Flyers game.

I pay for x number of screens per day, why should they care where those screens are?

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20 minutes ago, 12string said:

why should they care where those screens are?

Legal agreements.

You and PZ apparently don't read the fine print.

It is funny, though, in a world without borders in so many ways, there are the artificial ones that are being thrown up around all these sorts of things.

Remember those dopey region codes on DVDs???

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24 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said:

I agree, I didn’t. I just assumed I could watch the contents of my DVR where ever I was if I logged into my home account. Because obviously, it’s me. Would Sling permit remote viewing from another country?

Probably not.  But there always are the less "legal" minded companies that play loose with those sorts of things. I assume big ones like Verizon or Comcast are locking it down. I wonder how Netflix or Prime or Disney + or similar are in Curacao?  Have you  tried them? They'd likely also be regionally locked :(  Sling is "big" enough now to likely play be similar rules to Verizon & Comcast, but I bet several years ago, they were loosey goosey.

Netflix does let you pre-download some stuff, so maybe that's the path.  Or a VPN (but that seemed to be mentioned in you screen pic). 

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