is rather like whipping a dead horse. Yes, there are sources where you can get the service, but you are going to pay a small ransom and keep paying as you use it. That's the upshot of the deal.
The downside to it is that you are going to be set back to the good ole days of 56K dialup. No viewing of multimedia stuff, no gaming, save for turn based board games perhaps, and no huge email attachments, both outgoing and incoming.

Even with the new Iridium birds being fired into orbit, you will never, ever get faster than 256K, maybe 512K. And the ping times? Forget it. 1500ms will be as fast as you can get, even with the low-orbiting Iridium network.

SATCOM is a no-nonsense, no frills system. You want the speed, you pay the piper.

If you want a bad teacher, here's an example.

This was back in the late 80's when this happened so this dates me. There was one English teacher who would make certain student's homework "disappear" then claimed that she never received it. This was obviously having an impact on their grades and school performance. So yours truly chimed in on making copies using either carbon sheets or the school's copier. We got the endorsement from our home room teacher and started to use the school's copier to make "backups" of our homework.This caught her in the open, forcing her to back down and start accepting the homework like a good teacher. We never did have hard proof of her making it disappear on purpose though. Several years after I graduated she moved on, either being sacked or resignation.

No Spot! Don't chew on that... *FZZZTT!*

NO TERRIER

Oh man, that just made me get uneasy there for a while. Fantastic piece of writing you have done! You really should consider building that skill up and start submitting manuscripts.

Several things prevented this discovery from happening right off the bat:

Soviet occupation, the sov's were more interested in shaping the afghans into the "True Soviet" instead of prospecting for minerals. In essence, screwing up pretty badly.
The taliban; who would want to see an extremist group like them filthy rich on metals, including possible the most massive Lithium deposit? We'd never be rid of them, not without all out war.
And now they got a good reason to go dig.

I wish them the best of times and please keep it as green as they can.

Better than that blasted poppy, IMO.

...with so many people banging the gong. A quarter way through the article, I had to get my hip waders out, the BS being so deep. Half way through I pretty much closed the page up, I could not stand the PR parrot and his drivel. My god, do they still believe in that, even though almost all his points are pretty much demolished?

They simply need to tear down their current pricing structure for printers and consumables, rebuilding it into a more balanced, more consumer friendly pricing scale.

What really got my goat was his arrogant statement that "Manufacturers have to police themselves." They have been and their yields have come up, but at a cost for the consumer to pay.

His sniping at Kodak was a simple diversion from the actual issue at hand, an easy trick for a PR flak.

Finally, a little common sense kicks in and puts some responsibility onto the CID/POTS admin to maintain their CID/DID systems. Hopefully this will go double for the scamming telemarketers that use blank or spoofed CID idents.

They might as well get started up on passenger service and start transporting people across the seas to make up for the loss of passenger service.

Artistic License. The artists at the time were portraying this painting in their own eye, during times that when food was increasing in supply. Same deal with Rockwell and his work.

This is a riot that a obesity study group would try to connect the lines between historic and religious art with obesity. That is rather like trying to associate American League Football with blood sports.

You may put lipstick on a pig, teach her how to dance. But the bottom line she's still a pig. EA's bungling things in a bad way by nickle and diming the masses for software that is not stable, not final. They are going to lose out on that badly.

Now you'll have a fresh material to argue which came first...

NO2 injection is not without its own costs and risks. It will add to the performance of the vehicle, but adds to the risk of predetonation, or worse. Plus you need a steady, cheap source of the gas, which is not really viable as an mass marketable additive.

That and NO2 is a contributor to climate change, reacting with ozone to the atmosphere when it burns.

So much for that.

As one /. poster has mentioned, they live in a arid, dry part of the state, where they have to pipe their water in over long distances. Voters and the state passed laws mandating water saving fixtures be installed in both new and existing structures.

Now we got this county quibbling with a homeowner who decided to do xeriscaping to both save money and resources.
There is no compliance issue here, this reeks of politics and someone trying to cover their a$$. If this does go to trial, it will set precedents, either way.

The articles regarding multiple stations going over each other are intriguing. While propagation of radio varies depending on how the ionosphere reacts with sol, the question is could solar interference cause radio waves to change wavelengths? Meaning that 1440 ABC AM's broadcasts be shifted enough to interfere with 1400 or even 1350?

And you probably used a teletypewriter to code with too. Put a sock in it old man, at least they are going forward.