Is it good or bad when "bob" goes down?

How about their racks? ChristyAA, ChristyC, ChristyDD...

She knows.

Really? The headline reads "Trooper was on laptop moments before crash"

Whatever you do, don't say "this breakfast cereal sure is postnatural."

That would be a biological weapon delivery system. "Fetchez la vache" is so 12 seconds ago. We don't have to launch a whole putrid carcass over the castle walls, just a few puffs of bad air.

"Terror" is the strategy for those with no other options. The best weapon against terror is blind and principled justice for all.

1) Given that there are only so many seconds in a month, a rate cap automatically limits a plan that was sold as "unlimited". You cannot download more than 9GB/month at 14.4kbps. 2) Every time I see the AT&T ads with people exclaiming "that was so 29 seconds ago" I chuckle. They are selling performance as the primary feature of their service, then hobbling that performance when customers make use of it. 3) AT&T is framing this as a tragedy of the commons problem: unilimited access to a finite common good leads to a collapse. (Grazing sheep on public property, fisheries, etc.) Is this really a finite good of just a failure to invest in capacity?

The academy awards serve a purpose. Just as the Superbowl is more about the ads than the game on the field, And Oscar night has evolved to become more about the red carpet than the statuettes. SciFi = Summer Blockbuster (generally). Blockbuster summer films just don't seem to require the type of hype machine that the Academy dishes up.

There is a simple solution. At each airport, the state should provide a traveler's advocate with superceding authority (yes, above TSA) to allow travelers through security, ignore the "no fly" list for people with common names, allow grannies and cancer patients to avoid groping and disrobing, etc. Any traveler could say "Get the traveler's advocate" and have them there within ten minutes. The advocate applies immediate, common sense judgement of "risk" to minimizing harm to the individual traveler against protecting the general flying population. This would actually help the TSA agents by allowing common sense to prevail over politics and policy.

Female customers who have recently 1) purchased a pregnancy test kit, 2) stopped buying tampons, and 3) purchased morning sickness remedies such as Saltine crackers.

This demonstrates low cost mass production. Just add mobility, communication, coordination, and sensing. Drop a swarm of these into any dangerous environment and, voila, instant info. Now, think of GPS surveillance, peeking through walls for IR signatures, drone surveillance aircraft, night vision, ... The first use of microbots will be for military or hazardous waste cleanup or such. But microbots, like their predecessors, will ultimately be used to monitor the general public.

Rate * Time = Usage

There is a fixed amount of time in a month.

If your rate is limited, your usage is limited.

Like so many other collapsed fisheries, this is another example of over-exploitation of a scarce resource. "The tragedy of the commons is a dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally consulting their own self-interest, will ultimately deplete a shared limited resource, even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long-term interest for this to happen." And the fishermen always argue for the status quo.

Either complain about dropped calls and other service defects OR complain about rationing or usage-proportional tariffs OR complain about AT&T attempting to buy out a competitor to absorb their under-utillized network. But you cannot take all three sides.

The inflated damage amount was calculated by Professor Cockburn.