You can save a lot of money by switching to an economy plan, instead of the normal local unlimited plan. The optional calling features are a complete rip-off.

Right, the "Vast Western Conspiracy" to talk trash about China. That's the sort of thing I hear from Chinese students who have little experience with other societies.

The sad part is all the people who get crippled by playing high school and college sports, motivated by the very unlikely prospect of a professional career. They are cannon fodder for a system that makes big profits for the schools and TV networks, and does little for the athlete.

There's a big difference between historical facts and predictions of the future.

It isn't the cost of the box, it's the generation of the chipset. The latest chipsets do a much better job of handling multipath. So a cheap box with a current chipset may trounce older and more expensive boxes.

It's on the FCC web site, in excruciating detail.

I'd be interested in how the American soap operas compare to their counterparts in other countries. From what I've read, telenovelas are very popular in Latin America. When I lived in Hawaii, a local TV station used to play a Samurai soap opera series from Japan.

According to the article, the projectile had a hollow center, and the target was a cylinder that fit inside the hollow center of the projectile. That's the opposite of most descriptions of the weapon.

Sometimes you have to keep on complaining. I had a similar problem that wasn't solved until they finally sent out a team of real technicians with a spectrum analyser. Even then, it took them several visits to locate the faulty equipment that was generating interference on the local cable distribution system.

No, the problem is the design of the network. The uplink and downlink use completely different paths. The uplink path has limited capacity.

Sorry, you are quite simply incorrect. Channel capacity is a function of bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio. See the Shannon-Hartley theorem.

I know what 5.56 mm is. Say hello to my little friend.

There are quite a few people who do not have a landline for voice or dialup. For poor people, there are often issues about old unpaid bills, credit checks, deposits, and the inability of the head of household to control expenditures made by other members of the household or visitors.

Just increase the voltage. That will keep them on their toes.

There's something called prosecutorial discretion. Around here, the district attorney is not interested in wasting his time on weak cases. He has a limited budget and staff. He also has an ethical obligation to not prosecute people that are innocent.