HNMNBies don't stream video and library
Lisa Turken was having a glass of wine with her friends, Jenny and AuTessa when they outed. It happened when she mentioned a streaming video show, "Angels on High" and they looked blank. After she went on for a minute regardless, AuTessa rested her hand gently on Lisa's forearm, waited to catch her eye and said I don't stream.
Lisa, caught off guard, looked at Jenny, at all? Jenny smiled weakly, almost in pain at the direction the conversation was going, me either. I haven't watched broadcast TV in 30 years. My husband and I tried streaming, but it was wierd, the "based on your likes", creepy.
Where do you get your entertainment?
Well sometimes, I buy movies at Walmart, some of the great shows are in the bargain bins.
Lisa was a skilled homemaker, unlike her friends, her job was to manage her household, she knew how to shop on sale, a trip for groceries often involved 3 stores. It worked, in fact when you factor in her tax bracket, 1 car instead of 2, not needing the latest professional clothes, while they didn't have as much disposable income as many of their friends, they lived a happy, secure, life. Still, the calculus of purchase decisions was second nature. She paused, looked up, 5 movies from Walmart is a month of streaming. If you watch 90 minutes of programming a day, that would cost buckets and you would be so limited in what you can see.
Jenny, the closer friend of the two, leaned over and said in a loud whisper, we, that is, my family and I, don't watch 90 minutes of programming a day, not even close.
Lisa felt her world start to shake a bit. A normal day for her was a quick check of the news, a regular cooking show, Dinner by Aunt Betty, where she planned tomorrow's meal today. When her husband got home from work, they usually watched, Harold's News Recap, together over a glass of wine or a cocktail before dinner. Then after homework was done, the family often watched a show together. It seemed close, quality, normal, the American way. She was happy with her tier III programming package, hadn't even thought about life without it, besides they still have 5 more years on their contract. Still, she was intrigued. Tell me more, starting with the news, how do you get your news?
Jenny said, my husband subscribes to the Wall Street Journal, he only gets the weekend copy on paper, the rest is online. I tried it, too much financial stuff, so my homebot curates my news from a dozen or so feeds. I've tuned it for what I want to see and of course the top 10 global stories are there so I'm not afraid that I'm missing out.
I don't watch cooking shows. We subscribe to the Meal Daily service for supper and breakfast and lunch are catch as catch can. But we have had you and Roy over for dinner. You said you enjoyed Meal Daily, expert chefs, customized to your needs and preferences, for a working girl, it is worth every penny.
Evening entertainment, we love to sit around the 16k just as much as you do. And no, we don't try to stretch 4 16k movies over a month, we use the Blu_Mobile.
The what? Of you've seen it, plays a song like ice cream trucks used to, I miss ice cream trucks. Anyway, it is based on the library bookmobiles from the 50s and 60s, but it is mostly movies, kids, educational, adventure, drama, adult only, you name it. All you need is a Blu_Mobile card. The menu is online, so you can choose what you want before the truck comes by.
But, what if they don't have what you want?
AuTessa laughed. That seems impossible. They have at least a million titles, the trick is knowing what you want. If they don't have it in the truck, they can do print on demand, but they usually have it in the truck. And if you have a movie you have watched they will do a swap, title for title.
I don't get it, what's the advantage?
Besides cost AuTessa said, a Blue_Mobile card is only $100.00 a year, nobody tracks what you are watching. Your card is your key.
After that conversation, Lisa did notice the Blu_Mobile in her neighborhood. She tried looking them up on line, but all she found was a static page. She made a mental note to ask her friends more the next time they got together.
= = = Blue_Mobile
Rochester NY, 1892, going to the store for milk was unheard of, it came to you. Well groomed men in white shirts, the subject of many a housewife's sexual fantasy delivered fresh, chilled, milk in shiny glass bottles. By 1950, the service was all but gone. Rochester NY, 2020, the battle for meal kit dominance was in full swing. Some providers like Fresh Kitchen to Table, had a business model where you picked up the kits from their convenient stores, guess they missed the lessons of the retailpocalyse. Robotic delivery, micro grocery stores on wheels won the day. The majority of sales were by order, but most mobile kiosks had impulse buy selections as well.
Blue_Mobile was just another meal kit provider, but they won the day with their news subscription. When the kiosk arrived, you could pick up your food, but also download news onto your key. You could also order movies, television shows. It just made sense, a 50 terabyte module of content took up less space in the kiosk than a grapefruit and gave you a low cost alternative to the packages.
What made the service unique was HNN, the HNMNBie News Network with its free basic thumbnail sources according to your liberal/conservative preference, and ability to access more detailed premium content for very low cost, usually about 1¢ per story. Once you tried it, you tended to find that there was much more available than just news.
= = = HNN and NNTP 2
The engine of the Internet depends on fast switches. To stream "Tammy and the Millionaire, 1967", 1.5 Megabits/second, (Mbps) is fine, there just isn't any resolution, it works best on a small screen, or part of a larger one. 4K Movies, pretty much the standard, 25 Mbps. 16K movies, at full speed, 156 Mbps, so the 250 - 750 Mbps connections being sold by top tier providers in urban areas are more than enough. And if you look at their price sheets, Internet only doesn't cost that much when you factor in what you get, $150 - $250 a month with a 5 year contract.
The problem is, Internet only is almost impossible to buy. They list it as an option, keeps the FCC at bay, but take a look at the fine print. Both of the largest providers offer that price for the first year, then it goes up 10 % every successive year, $150/mo becomes $165 and so on. To take the sting out of the call, they offer you more, the packages. In addition to basic Internet, they have a gazzillion channels, private label entertainment, some have home alarm systems, (read the fine print, they own all the equipment). The next thing you know you are in for $3k year with a 5 year contract. With salary positions being converted to contract and jobs lost to automation, that can be a quick path to a debtor prison, or worse.
That opened up the business opportunity for HNN, MeshNet, and a host of other protocols and services, but HNMNBie News, is certainly the largest. Wonk reasoned that except in a crisis, hurricane, snowstorm, massive terrorist attack, and so forth, you don't need real time news. 99.99999% of the time, news 12 - 24 hours old is just fine, especially if it has expert commentary and supporting backstory.
= = = Margarette Meed, Curator
Margarette nearly lost everything when she was imprisoned for indebtedness. Charlie Galaxy, a friend, helped her move her worldly belongings including her beach glass collection into a storage facility while she worked off her debt. She was assigned to a back story division of FAKNEWS.
Seven days a week, though time off for chapel was available on Sunday, they prepared stories on contemporary topics. A memorable example was when her group was working on the upcoming partial solar eclipse that occurred March 29, 2025. It was only January but search history showed that people were interested in solar events. Their mission was to use that interest to distract them from news about climate change, the increasing problems with corporate and national debt, (especially ours), nerves, crime, or opiate addiction.
With the help of searchbots, they created stories about maps, where to see the eclipse. Recycled and updated stories about eclipse safety, including cautionary tales about what had happened to people that looked directly into the sun. Solar retinopathy doesn't sound that interesting until you interview a few victims and doctors and put the human spin on it. The articles were never technical, followed the guidance about the average person from "The Big Chill", but a la "The Learning Channel", you would pick up a useless fact or two about annular paths, saros series, or great eclipses of the past, to impress your friends at parties.
Margarette completed the pin hole from a shoe box step by step article complete with pictures well under the time allotted and was using the time remaining on her job order to research "The Eclipse Show Jar" project. A club of photographers in Iceland, a 50% visible location on the eclipse map, were building mason jars with recycled glass with the intent of capturing photographs of the light after it passed through the jar. The story was accepted, she was assigned to follow up on the story of the glass itself, how it was diverted from the waste stream into the project and so forth. Some of the photographs they produced won awards; more stories and in each she managed to mention her own passion, glass.
As time passed, she learned more, wrote more, the world appreciated her knowledge of beach glass, craft glass, leftovers from stained glass, recycled glass. From time to time readers would send her their finds, both glass and story leads. She was awarded the vaulted Curator status from the prestigious publisher's Global Knowledge Foundation for beach and craft glass. When her indebtedness was paid off and she was reintroduced to society, she managed to find an apartment she could afford in a CF post debtor project, (Crime Free, if you were convicted of even a misdemeanor you could not stay there). One of the giant publishing houses ran the project, almost everyone there worked in either the content production division, or package sales.
Margarette has passed on, but if you visit the project in downstate Illinois her beach glass "Cabinet of Curiosities" is still on display in the South entry lobby. Over 30 of her works were licensed by the HNMNBM library's encyclopedia division.
= = = HNMNBie Library DONE in 1.4
Jared F. Carson was the first significant donor to the HNMNBie cause. He made his fortune in automobile recycling, used parts, Carson's Cars. He battled cancer for almost 10 years and even before his death the shift to EVs began to diminish the value of his collection of 100 hectares of car parts.
As sometimes happens he was a bit of a collector, some would say a hoarder, but nobody could deny he liked books. Fiction, non-fiction, older books, as the need for space in the Carson industrial part for car parts diminished, he started using one of his largest warehouses for books, the Carson library.
He focused his collection efforts on the opiod states, buying books, magazine collections and moving them to Nevada, where his used car business was headquartered.
Lisa, caught off guard, looked at Jenny, at all? Jenny smiled weakly, almost in pain at the direction the conversation was going, me either. I haven't watched broadcast TV in 30 years. My husband and I tried streaming, but it was wierd, the "based on your likes", creepy.
Where do you get your entertainment?
Well sometimes, I buy movies at Walmart, some of the great shows are in the bargain bins.
Lisa was a skilled homemaker, unlike her friends, her job was to manage her household, she knew how to shop on sale, a trip for groceries often involved 3 stores. It worked, in fact when you factor in her tax bracket, 1 car instead of 2, not needing the latest professional clothes, while they didn't have as much disposable income as many of their friends, they lived a happy, secure, life. Still, the calculus of purchase decisions was second nature. She paused, looked up, 5 movies from Walmart is a month of streaming. If you watch 90 minutes of programming a day, that would cost buckets and you would be so limited in what you can see.
Jenny, the closer friend of the two, leaned over and said in a loud whisper, we, that is, my family and I, don't watch 90 minutes of programming a day, not even close.
Lisa felt her world start to shake a bit. A normal day for her was a quick check of the news, a regular cooking show, Dinner by Aunt Betty, where she planned tomorrow's meal today. When her husband got home from work, they usually watched, Harold's News Recap, together over a glass of wine or a cocktail before dinner. Then after homework was done, the family often watched a show together. It seemed close, quality, normal, the American way. She was happy with her tier III programming package, hadn't even thought about life without it, besides they still have 5 more years on their contract. Still, she was intrigued. Tell me more, starting with the news, how do you get your news?
Jenny said, my husband subscribes to the Wall Street Journal, he only gets the weekend copy on paper, the rest is online. I tried it, too much financial stuff, so my homebot curates my news from a dozen or so feeds. I've tuned it for what I want to see and of course the top 10 global stories are there so I'm not afraid that I'm missing out.
I don't watch cooking shows. We subscribe to the Meal Daily service for supper and breakfast and lunch are catch as catch can. But we have had you and Roy over for dinner. You said you enjoyed Meal Daily, expert chefs, customized to your needs and preferences, for a working girl, it is worth every penny.
Evening entertainment, we love to sit around the 16k just as much as you do. And no, we don't try to stretch 4 16k movies over a month, we use the Blu_Mobile.
The what? Of you've seen it, plays a song like ice cream trucks used to, I miss ice cream trucks. Anyway, it is based on the library bookmobiles from the 50s and 60s, but it is mostly movies, kids, educational, adventure, drama, adult only, you name it. All you need is a Blu_Mobile card. The menu is online, so you can choose what you want before the truck comes by.
But, what if they don't have what you want?
AuTessa laughed. That seems impossible. They have at least a million titles, the trick is knowing what you want. If they don't have it in the truck, they can do print on demand, but they usually have it in the truck. And if you have a movie you have watched they will do a swap, title for title.
I don't get it, what's the advantage?
Besides cost AuTessa said, a Blue_Mobile card is only $100.00 a year, nobody tracks what you are watching. Your card is your key.
After that conversation, Lisa did notice the Blu_Mobile in her neighborhood. She tried looking them up on line, but all she found was a static page. She made a mental note to ask her friends more the next time they got together.
= = = Blue_Mobile
Rochester NY, 1892, going to the store for milk was unheard of, it came to you. Well groomed men in white shirts, the subject of many a housewife's sexual fantasy delivered fresh, chilled, milk in shiny glass bottles. By 1950, the service was all but gone. Rochester NY, 2020, the battle for meal kit dominance was in full swing. Some providers like Fresh Kitchen to Table, had a business model where you picked up the kits from their convenient stores, guess they missed the lessons of the retailpocalyse. Robotic delivery, micro grocery stores on wheels won the day. The majority of sales were by order, but most mobile kiosks had impulse buy selections as well.
Blue_Mobile was just another meal kit provider, but they won the day with their news subscription. When the kiosk arrived, you could pick up your food, but also download news onto your key. You could also order movies, television shows. It just made sense, a 50 terabyte module of content took up less space in the kiosk than a grapefruit and gave you a low cost alternative to the packages.
What made the service unique was HNN, the HNMNBie News Network with its free basic thumbnail sources according to your liberal/conservative preference, and ability to access more detailed premium content for very low cost, usually about 1¢ per story. Once you tried it, you tended to find that there was much more available than just news.
= = = HNN and NNTP 2
The engine of the Internet depends on fast switches. To stream "Tammy and the Millionaire, 1967", 1.5 Megabits/second, (Mbps) is fine, there just isn't any resolution, it works best on a small screen, or part of a larger one. 4K Movies, pretty much the standard, 25 Mbps. 16K movies, at full speed, 156 Mbps, so the 250 - 750 Mbps connections being sold by top tier providers in urban areas are more than enough. And if you look at their price sheets, Internet only doesn't cost that much when you factor in what you get, $150 - $250 a month with a 5 year contract.
The problem is, Internet only is almost impossible to buy. They list it as an option, keeps the FCC at bay, but take a look at the fine print. Both of the largest providers offer that price for the first year, then it goes up 10 % every successive year, $150/mo becomes $165 and so on. To take the sting out of the call, they offer you more, the packages. In addition to basic Internet, they have a gazzillion channels, private label entertainment, some have home alarm systems, (read the fine print, they own all the equipment). The next thing you know you are in for $3k year with a 5 year contract. With salary positions being converted to contract and jobs lost to automation, that can be a quick path to a debtor prison, or worse.
That opened up the business opportunity for HNN, MeshNet, and a host of other protocols and services, but HNMNBie News, is certainly the largest. Wonk reasoned that except in a crisis, hurricane, snowstorm, massive terrorist attack, and so forth, you don't need real time news. 99.99999% of the time, news 12 - 24 hours old is just fine, especially if it has expert commentary and supporting backstory.
= = = Margarette Meed, Curator
Margarette nearly lost everything when she was imprisoned for indebtedness. Charlie Galaxy, a friend, helped her move her worldly belongings including her beach glass collection into a storage facility while she worked off her debt. She was assigned to a back story division of FAKNEWS.
Seven days a week, though time off for chapel was available on Sunday, they prepared stories on contemporary topics. A memorable example was when her group was working on the upcoming partial solar eclipse that occurred March 29, 2025. It was only January but search history showed that people were interested in solar events. Their mission was to use that interest to distract them from news about climate change, the increasing problems with corporate and national debt, (especially ours), nerves, crime, or opiate addiction.
With the help of searchbots, they created stories about maps, where to see the eclipse. Recycled and updated stories about eclipse safety, including cautionary tales about what had happened to people that looked directly into the sun. Solar retinopathy doesn't sound that interesting until you interview a few victims and doctors and put the human spin on it. The articles were never technical, followed the guidance about the average person from "The Big Chill", but a la "The Learning Channel", you would pick up a useless fact or two about annular paths, saros series, or great eclipses of the past, to impress your friends at parties.
Margarette completed the pin hole from a shoe box step by step article complete with pictures well under the time allotted and was using the time remaining on her job order to research "The Eclipse Show Jar" project. A club of photographers in Iceland, a 50% visible location on the eclipse map, were building mason jars with recycled glass with the intent of capturing photographs of the light after it passed through the jar. The story was accepted, she was assigned to follow up on the story of the glass itself, how it was diverted from the waste stream into the project and so forth. Some of the photographs they produced won awards; more stories and in each she managed to mention her own passion, glass.
As time passed, she learned more, wrote more, the world appreciated her knowledge of beach glass, craft glass, leftovers from stained glass, recycled glass. From time to time readers would send her their finds, both glass and story leads. She was awarded the vaulted Curator status from the prestigious publisher's Global Knowledge Foundation for beach and craft glass. When her indebtedness was paid off and she was reintroduced to society, she managed to find an apartment she could afford in a CF post debtor project, (Crime Free, if you were convicted of even a misdemeanor you could not stay there). One of the giant publishing houses ran the project, almost everyone there worked in either the content production division, or package sales.
Margarette has passed on, but if you visit the project in downstate Illinois her beach glass "Cabinet of Curiosities" is still on display in the South entry lobby. Over 30 of her works were licensed by the HNMNBM library's encyclopedia division.
= = = HNMNBie Library DONE in 1.4
Jared F. Carson was the first significant donor to the HNMNBie cause. He made his fortune in automobile recycling, used parts, Carson's Cars. He battled cancer for almost 10 years and even before his death the shift to EVs began to diminish the value of his collection of 100 hectares of car parts.
As sometimes happens he was a bit of a collector, some would say a hoarder, but nobody could deny he liked books. Fiction, non-fiction, older books, as the need for space in the Carson industrial part for car parts diminished, he started using one of his largest warehouses for books, the Carson library.
He focused his collection efforts on the opiod states, buying books, magazine collections and moving them to Nevada, where his used car business was headquartered.
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