The question is, though: To whom would they be selling those gobs of bandwidth? The nature of bandwidth, overall, remains geographically fixed; you can't sell (much) of your bandwidth capacity in the united states to a company in Japan; they still need the pipes going, overall, from Point A to Customer B.

At the volumes in which they are dealing with, they don't really have a lot of customers who can conceivably use that much bandwidth. So it's definitely in their best interests to trade with them preferentially.

If the options are A) Trade to defer costs, or B) Try to sell to others and discover nobody else wants to buy a tenth of our capacity, they'll usually find that A) is a smarter business decision.

I swear to god I'm going to write a script for my browser that blocks loading any page with the word "boffin" in it.

Anywhere I can get a SERIOUS interpretation of this event that isn't busy self-fellating over how gigglingly clever it's own writers are?

Where can I find information on these RWGS process engines and this specific means of manufacturing gasoline? In the modern parlance of our time, I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I use the 22" version of those monitors, two of them, and depending on what I'm working on I use the built-in portrait swivel and switch to portrait mode at times. Particularly useful for working on projects that span four or five documents at a time.

The plural of anecdote is not "fact".