I'm excited to be that much closer to Star Trek-type replicators, even if we're still just a half-step into a long journey. Synthehol and hot Earl Grey tea, here I come!

Tablet makers should shut down and give the money back to the shareholders.

Fallacy of sunk costs?

But don't tell my wife I called her that.

I don't want Ron Paul outside naked *anywhere*.

What if he was naked outside the ionosphere?

you insensitive clod! (Are these types of posts still allowed?)

Get your HP short positions in order!

It's possible AT&T is trying to sell spectrum in sparse markets, where smaller carriers have a better business model. If AT&T can pick up 10mhz in New York, it's worth the price to buy and re-sell 10mhz in Killdeer, North Dakota.

"...could have wider application like disaster recovery."

Carriers already have a low-cost (for them) DIY cellular disaster recovery option, they're called Cells on Wheels or COWs. COWs have their own power sources and can be rolled in for disasters, or to augment coverage for large gatherings (sports events or concerts) and are already set up to integrate to their own established networks.

All bonuses should be tied to the long term corporate welfare.

Need to make sure the company is guarded against the "mass firings, short term gain pump and dump" schemes that seem to be so popular these days.

Verizon grows in wireless was because they had some of the best plans back in the late 90's. Back when Cell Phones charged you for Local, Long Distance calls, roaming fees.... Verizon was one of the first to give people a plan that allows a call to be a call no matter where you were at or who you were calling... A big deal back then. It opened Cell Phones for being a toy for the rich to an every-man tool.

Actually, that was an AT&T Wireless Services plan, the Digital One Rate, introduced in 1998 (the same year that Bell Atlantic and GTE merged to form Verizon Wireless).

Actually, we don't call smart criminals anything, because they're never caught and we don't know who they are unless they want us to. Ask Kaiser Soze.

Whoops! Flood planes should be flood plains; though floods do tend to congregate on low-lying planes.

I'll charge them 1% of whatever they're going to spend on "boosting security" to advise that they do not build reactors in flood planes or on fault lines.

Do I get to retain what I know now? I guess it doesn't really matter. I'm going to say Jr. High/Middle School, as that's the set up for everything else you do in life. Nobody cares what you do in grade school. Paste eaters get moved on just as much as early readers. But outstanding students in Middle and High School get to basically print their own tickets. Access to better colleges, more money for better colleges, better jobs, etc. Plus, it's right around the same time I got my license, and I would just love the opportunity to have another crack at high school girls, this time with a (somewhat) more mature and (definitely) more devious brain, and not be Wooderson from Dazed and Confused. I'd also be sure I'd memorized Gray's Sports Almanac before starting out.