But AMD didn't make graphics chips until the merger. So really, three companies (ATI, NVIDIA, and Intel) became three (AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel). Do you need charts to illustrate that?

If that were the case, wouldn't the city have to maintain my driveway and sidewalk to my house? Since they don't, it is private property. That and the fact that the technical term for what you are describing is an easement, which would have to be declared when the house was sold. So again, I don't think you'd get much traction arguing that my driveway is an extension of the public street, and by extension public property.

You seem to be missing an important point. Bags of cement and boxes of ceral aren't advertised and sold as "up to" 50 pounds (for cement) or 18 oz (for cereal). They are sold as that weight, which is why they normally weigh pretty darn close to that weight. Your comparison/complaint would only be valid if the ISPs were offering "8 Mbps", not "up to 8 Mbps".

Clearly there is an Intelligent Designer, and his name is "evolution".

Sure, that's what we think Net Neutrality means, but does Congress think that's what it means? Who knows what the "Net Neutrality" bill will actually say or dictate - it's ripe for bait and switch.

Yes. Yes, you are such a crackpot now.

I know, it's so terrible. Now, do you need a Kleenex to wipe your eyes?

That's what you call win-win.

Not to mention that a lot of that cost is probably really just overhead. I'm sure Google's legal deaprtment costs them a pretty penny and this $100m is just part of the total, not above and beyond.

Perhaps the reason other countries don't have to "meddle in other's affairs"" so much is because the US is doing it for them? The rest of the "free" world has pretty much outsourced the security of said "free" world to the US, so it is a little bit hypocritical to start complaining now.

Wow, and over 38,000 people "liked" the article, according to their Facebook counter.

Nope, they are going defy skeptics like you and defiantly put out a good tablet.

I'm guessing that has more to do with the heat coming off all that tarmac than it does with the aircraft themselves.

Because government regulation, which Obama is in charge of, has a lot to do with whether something is a good investment or not.

I just assumed that it meant the screen was made from the retinas of baby seals and bunny rabbits. Or maybe ex-Foxconn factory workers.