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Our convenient colleagues down the hall at Consumer Reports brought our attention to this new product. No, it’s not the DRM-laden Keurig 2.0 system, but the older single-serve K-Cup system that can also make hot chocolate, iced tea, and soup.
GE claims that this is a feature that customers have actually asked for, especially after they introduced those refrigerators dispensing hot water in 2013. These customers wanted the ability to have the fridge dispense coffee or tea without having to navigate the use of instant coffee or teabags, maybe.
In GE’s press release about this new and exciting product, they quote Keurig’s chief product officer of hot beverage systems. “As an innovator in the personal beverage system industry,” Mark Wood says, because the “personal beverage system industry” is an actual thing, “Keurig is excited to partner with GE and to be the first to offer hot single-cup technology right from a refrigerator.”
The personal beverage system refrigerators will be available in the latter half of 2015, on GE’s refrigerators that have French doors and a freezer drawer on the bottom.
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Foie gras means “fatty liver,” and it specifically means the fatty liver of a duck that has been gorging itself far beyond how a goose would normally eat. (There is theoretically a way to make captive geese eat to excess on their own, but the method has flaws and still ends with slaughtering the geese.) The methods used to cram food down the animals’ throats are very controversial, and the Huffington Post reports that chefs who are delighted to be serving the end product again are now the targets of scary phone calls.
“I’m gonna find you; I’m gonna murder you; I’m gonna find where you sleep and shove a pipe down your throat,” one chef paraphrases threats that he has received. Another chef reports receiving similar threats, and one particularly disturbing message threatening to hang him from his ankles and slit his throat without knocking him out first. You know, like slaughtering birds.
Activists have been engaging in normal activism by holding protests outside of restaurants that are serving foie gras, and a demonstration in San Francisco. For their part, PETA doesn’t believe that anyone, let along their own members, is really making any threats against the chefs. “PETA is skeptical of the claim that threats are being made,” the group’s president, Ingrid Newkirk, told the Huffington Post in a statement. “Anyone who’s desperate enough to want to serve up the diseased, fatty livers of tortured birds is certainly not above making up a fat lie.”
The statewide law was overturned because a federal judge ruled that only the U.S. Department of Agriculture can regulate poultry production. People and groups against the creation of more foie gras hope that the state appeals the decision to the next level, the federal circuit court.
California Chefs Face Death Threats For Serving Foie Gras [Huffington Post]
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Yesterday, the FCC sent Dish a request for information [PDF] as part of its deliberations on the Comcast/TWC deal.
It seeks info from Dish on its programming agreements and documentation of negotiations with A+E Networks, CBS, Comcast, ABC, E.W. Scripps Company, and Turner as they relate to Sling TV.
It’s worth noting that most of these companies are not on Sling. While ABC’s parent company Disney made a deal that includes the Disney Channel, ABC Family, and two ESPN channels, the ABC broadcast network itself is absent from Sling. Disney also owns part of A+E Networks, but none of that company’s cable offerings are currently part of the new streaming service.
No channels from Comcast-owned NBC are available on the service, nor are any from CBS. And though Sling does have HGTV, Food Network, Travel Channel and Cooking Channel from Scripps Networks Interactive, the SNI operation is no longer part of the E.W. Scripps Company which owns many local network affiliate stations around the country.
Dish has been a vocal opponent of the Comcast/TWC merger, arguing that an even-larger Comcast does not benefit the public interest and would harm competition in both the TV and broadband spheres.
The FCC has already heard from Dish, most recently in a 266-page filing that details the satellite company’s opposition to the deal, so why the sudden interest in Sling?
Because Sling, even though it’s currently quite spare, represents a direct challenge to the traditional cable industry model — No contract, no cable box, available on multiple devices, transportable from location to location. At the same time, it relies on the cable industry — as the way in which most consumers get their home broadband — to deliver its product.
So it may not be able to bring Sling to consumers if Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, TWC, et al, do what they did to Netflix, allowing data to bottleneck to the point where subscribers were getting a sub-standard product, or nothing at all. That is, until Netflix paid up for a better connection to these service providers’ networks.
But while Netflix gives consumers something to watch other than cable TV, it doesn’t actually compete directly with cable, in that you can’t watch live broadcasts of House Hunters or SportsCenter on Netflix. Thus, there may be even more of a motive for cable-owned ISPs to do what they can to make the Sling experience as unappealing as possible. And with a combined Comcast/TWC controlling nearly half of the market for high-speed (25Mbps or more) residential broadband in the U.S., it could easily crush Sling if it chose to.
Additionally, Dish/Sling and the cable companies are competing for carriage contracts with the broadcasters. If Comcast acquires TWC and another 10 million customers, it will have even more ability to leverage that audience and keep networks from making deals with Sling, or with the planned Sony live-TV streaming service.
As Re/code’s Amy Schatz points out, the FCC has made similar requests for information from Google, Amazon, Hulu, HBO, Netflix and others. The Commission has also requested data on peering agreements like the ones Netflix recently made to ensure that its streams get to users with minimal interruption.
We don’t need to tell you about the existence of the site, because at least three of your Facebook friends have already posted a news story about it, along with a warning along the lines of, “don’t piss me off lol!!” What you may not know is that the site has closed itself to new orders and put itself up for sale, now serving as a cautionary tale for how quickly an idea can go viral, scaling up beyond what its creator is even capable of imagining.
The site’s apparent creator is a 22-year-old serial entrepreneur in Australia. He would like someone to buy the website, now, or help him fill orders. Please.
“I’ve received Christmas and birthday cards over the years from family and friends who put glitter in the cards,” Glittermaster Mat Carpenter explained in an interview with Slate. “I hated it, and I wanted the rest of the world to feel my pain. So that’s how the website was born.” Anyone who has ever received a glitter-laden card can understand that perfectly.
The site describes glitter as the herpes of craft supplies, which is accurate, but that’s probably why filling the orders is so bothersome. As of yesterday afternoon, pranksters had placed more than 2,000 orders.
Why did it take off? The site’s text is perfect, not over- or under-selling the product and containing a perfect mix of corporate babble and profanity.
ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com [Official Site]
The Founder of ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.Com Wants the Rest of the World to Feel His Pain [Slate]
Officials with the CDC say the results of its new study were among the worst it’s had since the government started tracking how well vaccines work a decade ago, reports the Associated Press.
“Commonly, it’s been closer to 60 percent,” Brendan Flannery, an epidemiologist at the CDC’s influenza division said, according to the Washington Post.
This season’s vaccine, however, doesn’t protect against the virus that’s making most people sick, prompting officials to warn consumers earlier in the season.
But it’s still a good idea to get vaccinated instead of not, as the vaccine protects against many strains of flu that could still make you sick: The CDC points out that even a vaccine that’s only 10% effective could prevent an estimated 13,000 hospitalizations in older people over the course of a flu season.
CDC: Flu vaccine only 23 percent effective; didn’t include virus making most people sick [Associated Press]
CDC: Flu vaccine only 23 percent effective this season, but still better than nothing [Washington Post]
According to the suit [PDF], filed earlier this week in a U.S. District Court in Illinois, the customer never authorized Comcast to pull his credit report in spite of the waiver.
Additionally, the complaint cites multiple posts in the forums on Comcast.com as evidence that Comcast has repeatedly pulled credit reports for other customers who paid to get around the credit-check requirement.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act generally requires that a consumer must authorize the release of a credit report, though it can be released without explicit authorization in cases where “the transaction consists of a firm offer of credit or insurance.”
The lawsuit claims violations of the FCRA, along with Breach of Contract, and Unjust Enrichment on Comcast’s part. It seeks to define the class of plaintiffs from Comcast customers who paid to not have their credit reports pulled but had them pulled anyway.
Comcast may have a card up its sleeve that could short-circuit this lawsuit. Its consumer agreements include a mandatory arbitration clause that compel customers into binding arbitration and prevent them from joining together in class-action lawsuits.
We contacted Comcast regarding this story, but a rep for the company says it can’t comment on pending litigation.
