Way too many commercials-- any over 20 seconds should be banned online actually(as well as one per segment/interview/news/emcee jabber... which can be shorter than the commercial itself)-- 15 seconds is tolerable, but not 30 or 45...AND not one with 'each' forward to new song / inane host banter.

Folks should copy the Reuters Video News format rather than crappy Fox news.

There's nothing wrong with capitalism, just like vitamins that are good for you. But even vitamins become toxic & sometimes life-threatening at too large of a dose.

Al GORE thee obese one produced more C02 attending one concert then one American will in a year......

LOL

At leaat he ditched his Taliban cleric beard.

By the way, this isn't the complex issue that politicians make it appear to be; it's fake science that people are lazy and ignorant enough to believe.

I'm surprised more people aren't here to argue...Okay, I feel like playing Burning Crusade too :D

Yes people watch free things.... I hear the turn out to the concerts were ok at best. Those concerts could be to support killing of baby sheep via shotgun - and people would still watch for the bands.

lol, oh that was serious.

Sad but true.

In Johanesburg(sp?) Africa, the turn out was minimal. According to the Global Warming folks, it was too cold for people to go out.

*laughs*

Too cold. Too funny.

In desert country? Not on Gores watch *cough*(I mean wallet) it wasn't!

lol :=)

Well, I keep getting a "Technical Difficulties" error trying to stream any of the shows.

Things seemed to work a lot smoother for Live 8.

I,too, got problems later in the day. I had started watching at 2AM PST, and by 10AM I was having problems with the stream keeping up. Not sure if it was MS or Verizon...but I do have a 3Mb feed, and earlier in the day I was downloading heavily and watching at the same time.

...and?

Exactly, it's not like they'll be getting a trophy from Guinness or anything.

This crap is the reason we pay $250 for Windows now, M$ blows our money on bullsh1t.

Lol, damnit I wan't my $250 back gdamnit!

You paid $250?

*laughs*

I bought Ultimate online for $180, man.

Sheesh...

Watched several streams, very smooth. No glitches!

Great Job MS!

I can only hope that most of those people watched for the music instead of the global warming facade/scam/liberal conspiracy.

The folks watching, probably.

The folks there? They just wanted to feel part of something. How incredibly callous of you to take that away from them by revealing the convenient lie. :p

You can be so cruel sometimes... Jerk.

You're right, I like to kill dreams.

Especially when it comes to people who think they're gonna make a difference :D

Hey Gore, I know about the hypocritical story; you getting a secured copy of the final sopranos on dvd weeks before anyone else even saw on TV...and the unique lock was from HALIBURTON you nut!!!

Gore has gotten too much power and his initiative is to get people to drive tiny little cars that won't make a damn difference on the environment. One reason we became the greatest country in the world...BIGGEST AND FASTEST CARS BIZATCHES!

This whole event was rediculous, alot of good channels wasted money airing this sh1t, the streaming record doesn't even matter here, look at what it stands for.

Here's a convenient truth, Gore is just lining his pockets; global warming is a scam that has nothing to do with our "emissions".

are u at all an expert in the feild. if not then what you say is worthless even if you're totally right cuz it would be just a lucky guess. the climate is changing, it's a totally complex issue and probably no one reading betanews is really qualified to speak on it to say if its us or aliens trying heat up the planet to invade like in that arrival movie.

I can say without any doubt, it's not the aliens. They want us to live. We're tasty with ketchup.

As for Global Warming (or "The Climate Crisis" as they're calling it now since we've undergone record lows in many areas within the last 6 months), it's a load of hooey. The Earth's climate changes periodically. Who knew?

Oh, yeah, just about every scientist *not* on the payroll or in the pockets of the Liberals.

Tell me this, scientist estimates(at least what liberals label as scientists) "report" that the earths global temperature at most would rise 3 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, like that would do anything, not only that, anyone who's looked at history books will note periodical temperature rises that are completely natural that happen every couple centuries.

Driving a little hybrid or using E-85 isn't gonna solve anything except rise the prices of regular unleaded even more. Think of this, E-85 has to be shipped by trucks using fossil-fuel based DIESEL and GASOLINE, ethanol can't be piped and because it's main component is water, it's ruined many engine and is less efficient, FAR less efficient, so money savings are fake.

What I'm saying is that global warming is not only a scam, we're wasting money investing in a crappy fuel. Biodiesel shows potential but that's a different story.

deminicus, just read up more, BBC has confirmed Earthly warming periods, I saw an Inconvenient Truth, and from studying Earth Science very closely as well as reading dozens of reports from reknowned scientists, it is NOT REAL. One scientist even confessed to being tipped by Gore himself...

Oh, and one last thing, Carbon makes up every life form on this planet, wanna get rid of it? Kill everyone, then there wouldn't be any morons to argue it between.

I won't argue this sh1t anymore, online communities always try to get into things that seem good, especially software communities that are trying to create a perfect world without any Bias, race, or religion; and it's a pathetic process they do because they're afraid to stand for something that they truly believe in.

Meh, I got carried away... PCTool, a friend of mine has a tracter-puller that would make Gore sh1t his pants, 4 air-craft engines which basically translates to less than 3 miles per gallon. :D I Love this country.

You're certainly right, but don't they figure if they warm up the globe with "carbon" they could save a bit of effort not needing a gigantic oven to cook us?

If the "climate crisis" was ever real, I'm appreciating it here in Kansas; the extra rain is keeping it quite cool. But we know better than that, our state isn't brainwashed by too many liberals...

Also note:

Everyone says we need to stop Global warming. Seeing as how we humans contribute less than 5% of the CO2 in the atmosphere, there's really only one way to stop it completely (merely changing our ways would only reduce that 5%).

It's called Nuclear Winter.

So all those folks crying out for the end of Global Warming? Just *begging* to be nuked into oblivion.

I say, give 'em what they want. ;)

*laughs*

Kansas?

Who needs Global Warming when you have Intelligent Design? :p

Ouch, that's the replacement for the Dorothy joke. :D

So you're telling me science is gonna kill us as opposed to God? If the environment is named Kenny...YOU BASTA@RDS!

Admit it, the Dorothy joke was getting old...

I bet that's the whole reason ya'll did it.

"Hey, we gotta kill that damn Dorothy bit. What could we do that people will point and laugh at us about?"

But alas, I fear I'm giving you Chief's fans too much credit. I mean, you're Chief's fans for God's sake.

Ah, you're wrong there. Fortunately I'm not a sports fan at all, bash the chiefs until they knock on your door for all I care.

Damn stereotypes, gotta love 'em and hate 'em too.

demi, want to get really depressed? Actually do some research before spouting that everyone else reading is clueless, and check on where some of those greenhouse gasses come from. Want a fun example on a quick one to check? Compare methane from humans and our direct pollutants and methane from cows. Want to save the environment? Kill all the animals...

"Kill all the animals..."

Woot! MORE BEEF!!!

That just means you haven't come out of the closet yet. Admit it, you're a closet Chief's fan. You know you want to...

...until they're all dead.

Then what do we do? Moon Cows?

Simple, genetically cloned cows. And in the process we can fix the DNA so they don't fart so much.

I hate Indians in general, so in no way could I like Chiefs, Indians, Redskins, or p**** Bronco's.