But for customers with Time Warner Cable broadband on Friday, CBS.com was blocking the streaming of shows, instead posting messages.
In the traditional media, he says, advertisers are always "trying to block the stream of information to the user" in order to "blast their message" to him.
Except work's gone and blocked the stream", tuts Joanna Harris in New Zealand, "Of course there's no saying TVNZ would have shown the swimming; so far their coverage has been pretty appalling, for example hours of beach volleyball and boxing instead of rowing (we got the Kiwis' races, but that was it).
In order to satisfy these rules, a system reconfiguration must be reliable (i.e., avoid erroneous outcomes and impacting on the system's availability), and not disrupt or block the stream.
The resulting rock-and-sediment-filled debris blocked the stream flowing from the lake, raising water levels about 100 meters and dramatically expanding the lake's size, says Cornel de Ronde, a geologist with GNS Science, a government-owned research institute based in Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
They advise a strategic approach - taking a tributary stream to a main river then foresting the area round it, allowing the stream to make its own meanders, and letting dead wood from the forest to block the stream where it will.
Earlier this week, lawmakers in both houses announced bills to block the stream protection rule, an update to regulations that the Department of Interior finalized toward the end of President Barack Obama's tenure.
We farmed excessively, we blocked the streams and the waters that used to sustain the lake, and we all played a part in changing the temperature that's now drying out the lake.
According to a study conducted by Modis, an IT staffing service, over two-thirds of the 500 IT professionals surveyed said they had taken steps to either lessen or block the streaming of non-work content during the annual NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship or "March Madness".
Nevertheless, there has been success reported using the so-called "credit card" method with protein crystals: a sample is annealed by warming briefly to room temperature by momentarily blocking the cold-stream of the cryo-device using a small piece of plastic or card.
This wouldn't have happened if he'd earlier on accepted some friction in the Franco-German relationship – for example, by challenging European fiscal rules or blocking the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia (the move would have earned him tremendous support in southern and eastern Europe).
