Well put.
Interesting, and looks like it's been around a while based on whois (2000). Wouldn't be surprised if the evildoers were dumb enough to use that exact site. Also wouldn't be surprised if the 3-letter agencies have been watching the plaintext entries for many years.
Huh? The reason why Windows 8 flopped was not because Microsoft didn't force users to upgrade hardware. It's because the user interface in Windows 8 sucked.
Re: $300, it really depends on your overall blend of cell usage. I've used Ting's pay as you go service for a couple years and do the same thing the op does, turn on $3/100MB mobile data for email on my S3 when I'm traveling. They're a Sprint MVNO, so coverage is predictable by looking at the Sprint maps.
Bottom line is that if all three parts of your voice/text/data usage are low, then $25/mo is not only doable, it's actually a little high.
Never heard of this Anita person before, but after watching the interview it looked to me like just a standard/funny Colbert interview. Shrug.
Btw, your youtube link was wrong. Here's the correct one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Put it this way, before 1980, sure. But over the last 30 or so years it's been a different ballgame.
There were 100 baggers available by selling at the top of the internet bubble. Or buying MDVN 10 years ago or tucking away some AAPL in the dark days. And these opportunities aren't dying out; for example, the same scenario is playing again right now in immuno/gene therapy.
Expand that out to real estate, Forex, domain names or just about any other investment/speculative vehicle over that time and you're talking a massive # of individual opportunities that yielded multi-fold returns. Returns that could be parlayed into further opportunities.
So imo it's not unreasonable for someone to turn $1m into $30m over a 20 year span even with average discipline, intelligence and luck.
I think there's a world market for about five computers. -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943