Hey! That obscure city is where I live!

...then again, it's usually listed as "a suburb of Salt Lake City" even though it's 40 minutes away...

I used iProvo back when Provo city was still running the ship and it was perfectly fine (except the install process). Each time it moved hands it seemed to get worse. This final move will hopefully be the last. I texted John Curtis (Provo mayor) as soon as I heard the announcement. His response? "It's a great oppurtinity for Provo." I find that somewhat telling as Provo city gets 25 buildings wired to gigabit for free, while the taxpayers (myself included) continue paying for the $39 million bond.
iProvo was sold for one dollar ($1 USD) to Google. Google upgrades services at their cost, provides free internet to Provo citizens at 5 mbit ($30 install fee) and to Provo goverment (and library, etc.) at 1 gbit, and Provo gets to put a big smily face on it's city while continuing to pay $3.3 million a year towards the bond. I guess the idea is that this will get more high-tech businesses to setup in Provo, but as far as I can tell, it's mostly just a "we hate Veracity" measure to get them to not be the provider anymore.

yep. That pretty much sums up rehab.

Unfortunately, I say the answer is quite likely yes, and probably better than it would treat drug addiction.
Unfortunately, as people aren't rats — and probably the best thing I took away from rehab — you don't have a drug problem, you have drug solution to your person problems. People use drugs to turn off their shitty lives. Of course, drugs lead to shitty lives and the cycle continues, but fixing the "I'm not addicted to drug X" problem won't fix the fact that people relapse after years and years not because they are still dependent, but because drugs work very well at turning your life off, if even for just a little while.

As someone who works-ish (contract for a NOC) with HP, I can say yes, floundering as they are, they exist. Some things like eprint (buzzword) eInk (buzzword buzzword) and instant ink (buzzword buzzword buzzword) do very well. There was a company-wide e-mail a little while ago about 3-d tech that was very, vague. I think this is what they were talking about, and I think it might put hp back on the map.

Yes, they got their shit together, but people and machines still have to bend that shit. MIT's shit bends itself.

Having the fitbit myself I can say yes, I can share that I'm active in the middle of the night with some torrid affair, or, being slightly aware of my actions, just take it off during said torrid affair. I can then just say I forgot to push the sleep button the night of indiscretion, and nothing more than that would ever be known (assuming I actually were having an affair, or had a girlfriend/wife to have an affair with....geez, when did FUD become so depressing...).

Sigh.

While there is a slight argument to be made as to whether or not it was for "political expediency," those are indeed beliefs and traditions the LDS church has followed at one time or another (speaking to you from the heart and soul of Mormonism in Provo, UT):

• Polygamy
• Adam/Eve aliens (key word being "from another planet")
• Blood Atonement
• Blacks in the priesthood

Now as far as the Warren Jeffs, 12 year old bonking crowd, yes they're crazy, but no they merely started at the same root of the tree. No original-orthodoxy Mormons are left, they're dead. The rest -- at least much of the rest here in Utah -- seem to want to live their lives with blinders on about the past (and the outside world, help! I'm trapped in a bubble!). Go and ask your bishop about all of these things and he'll, a: sigh, and b: give you a well thought out, and historically accurate accounting of the church's somewhat malleable belief system.

I would mod you up, but my bucket of mod points is empty. Greatest song ever.

...and we will call you Hannibabar!

Thank you. I was beginning to think I was the only one.

Any time any study uses self-selected volunteers from the internet, I immediately disregard the result as nothing beyond warranting further study.

While I 100% agree that this is a formula for investor fraud, it does have some significant safe guards to prevent a people wiping out someone else's savings with a scam. From the NYTimes link provided in a previous post:

The House bill would allow individual investors to invest up to $10,000, or 10 percent of their annual income a year, whichever is less. The Senate bill would limit those investments to the greater of $2,000, or 5 percent of either annual income or net worth, if either figure is less than $100,000.

Investors with annual income or net worth of more than $100,000 could invest up to $100,000 or 10 percent of annual income, the Senate amendment states. The amendment also requires companies to disclose more financial results as they increase the amount of money they intend to raise.

Considering how many pump and dump stocks bilk people out on the stock market, with no caps on how much the company can earn or how much someone can invest, I think this is a slightly better alternative way to get scammed.

Agreed. Lameness has been had.

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I love MSSE, but Microsoft bought it. It wasn't developed in-house so much as re-branded in-house.