Well lucky me i have the least worst ISP for netflix in america.

Of course everyone is imperfect, but as it is its much worse than it should be. When companies can act like citizens money starts flowing uninhibited, and REAL citizens are largely ignored. How can you say one mainstream candidate is better than another and more worthy of a vote? It can be improved and it needs to be improved. There just hasn't been a large enough outcry to fix the electoral system. I don't know what it will take but right now its looking rather hopeless. Especially since guys who want to keep their power are making the laws. I will only vote for a third party candidates and on things that i can control like property tax levys.

Actually js3 is right on. You're just living in a dream land where you can vote for who you ideally want. How do you think candidates come about? Why do you hear about this candidate but not those others that are on the ballot list? Did the most popular ones just pop up and say: "i want whats best for the country/state/county" and are automatically given the nomination?? No they are vetted through their particular party and during this process much of what they might or might not have stood for is stripped away. Now they come into office and have people to pay back, companies to pay back etc... Its politics as usual and its on both sides of the aisle.

Politics is just one coast to coast ass blast (thanks its always sunny). I'll only be voting to vote down a property tax hike "for the children" wont somebody PLEASE think of the children??

Lets see.... an extra 10 bucks for a recovery disc or an extra 200+ for the apple tax. Tough one! ...... not!

Great! Just what I've been asking for more Naphtha!

"I think this would be ideal: make carriers compete on network quality alone, and make handset makers compete cross-carrier on handset quality alone." I think we can all agree that is the ideal, but just how is anything that Google doing going to change that? If everyone starts paying full price up front, there's still no motivation for phone companies to bring down the (much inflated) price of their "service". If google offered a good cellphone service (and sold phones up-front) they might be able to change the status-quo. If they don't have a network they don't have a bargaining chip and the American public has no motivation because they'll be paying extra for the phone and for the service. Unlocking a phone is nice for those crazy phonophiles but for average Joe bag-a-donuts it doesn't warrant the up-front cost without extra incentive (such as lower cost plans)

Unfortunately at the time of "Prarie Home Quixote" i had no frame of reference for bad entertainment (having not seen the star wars holiday special yet) i just assumed that was the worst. When you haven't seen the bottom you don't know how much farther you can sink.

Aren't canonical...just what could that mean?? The Letter of Clement I and The Gospel of Thomas... those arent canonical. The starwars christmas special is just bad.

the mixed blood theater is in the business of atrocities... i went there once to see "don Quixote de la minne" basically its don Quixote with a bunch of Minnesota references... and crazy ladies in white robes running around nonsensically. we were forced to see it in a college art appreciation class afterward my teacher apologized for how awful it was.

its actually forFty percent... Homer: Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forfty percent of all people know that. http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F09.html

Though i suppose there are many other more valuable questions to ask that was my first and most pressing question in regards to this story.

How many PROFESSIONAL strip club/prostitute researchers are there out there? Is this an established job? But the most important question is why didnt my high school counselor tell me about these jobs?

Oregon is definitely not on the list of best places to bring or start a company despite their lack of sales tax. Unless you are a "green company" then they'll just hand you 40 million dollars to start a manufacturing facility because that's how they work. http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/11/sanyo_solar_plant_opens_with_o.html

"I know that for the next month I will laugh whenever I see a Cisco logo because of last nights 30 Rock. " That was so hilarious! I love how they make fun of product placement and yet are still doing it effectively