"8 is related to a pre-existing requirement from awhile ago, they just want it extended for 5 years and to apply to the merged area, but even so, then what, whos going to use it or build a business around it knowing it will killed off after 5 years?"

Who? An organization who just wants to provide broadband, instead of a corporation which wants infinitely increasing revenue. For instance, a municipal government, or a companied chartered by that government. Who can also simply say "It will be so!" and lay the lines whereever they are needed.

I really don't care about the motive to make infinite profits. Water and electric and gas were provided for over a hundred years at a reasonable cost. People got paid to run and maintain the systems, and it worked. They're selling our municipal utilities off while we're speaking. Result: prices are doubling and will redouble, and service goes down or practically disapears, the systems disintegrate, and a few billionaires get rich.

Great, I always wanted to be able to fly.

So, that means more than 40 000 cases, for us non-USAsians? That's just insane.

What about my (presumed) right to be forgotten?

Yeah, but the advertisers don't know that you are dead. Do you think the line for screwing over should be drawn between those that pay and those that don't?

"If you define "crime" properly, pretty much _everything_ anybody does on the Internet is criminal."

Well said, and correct, Anonymous poster. "Criminal" has no meaning, or any meaning they wish.

In Russia, criticizing the Orthodox Church will see them slam you in prison, and calling out Putin as a pedo will get you and half a restaurant radioactively poisoned with polonium, which only comes from government nuclear reactors.

In Israel, trying to leave your ghetto may get you killed, tortured, or dumped in prison, or all three.

In Saudi Arabia, pretty much anything is "criminal" (except, of course, anything royals choose to do, including creating and running Al Qaida).

Everything and nothing is a crime. Bedspreads are golden sprinkler cookie clowns. See? So much fun when words mean nothing at all.

Well, arguably Project Lombok is a small but good start.

Some people have the sun shine out of their arses. You should co-op them and feed them only cucumbers.

Not to be a pedant, but since Greece to my knowledge doesn't experience ground freezing temperatures, houses there probably do not require (expensive!) ground excavations and basements that take the house's foundation to below the frost line. I have no doubt that in such warm climes a cellar is a very good idea due to the temperature-buffering effect of all that thermal mass around it (useful i.a. for aging cheese and wine and storing other foodstuffs), but to build one would presumably not necessarily be within the financial means of the poor.

Also, once those people start receiving rent from such (or any other) operation, they might no longer be "poor".

Even the place where I live, which must have one of the world's most intellectually-challenged (and by the way also very socialist-oriented, but I repeat myself) governments, basic amenities (water, electricity, etc.) are only provided without charge to the poor for the first X number of units, where X is really very basic survival usage, any usage above that is charged at the usual prices. Not saying that is what the Greeks plan to do, but they would be really stupid to offer "uncapped/limitless".

"You can no longer buy a domain name from Millin. Instead, he will work with your company (or your idea for a company) to build out a product, then he'll lease or lend you one of his domain names in exchange for partial ownership." (emphasis mine)

Fox News never showed the 60,000+ Iraqis we incinerated, shot, and crushed to death. Nor the burnt and mangled children and adults who survived our attacks. Or the prison camps, mostly holding people who we felt like might be a problem - and who are probably still in the camps. If you wanted to cover such things, you could go to hell, as far as the military was concerned. People died finding truth while Fox's old draft avoiding men and MILFy women pseudonewspeople in tight skirts sat in air-conditioned studios and made. Shit. Up.

Well spotted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

And in another decade, that system is overwhelmed, and in two more decades, useless. Population growth problems expand geometrically, not linearly. Too many people in too little space trying to do things as their great-great-great-grandparents did on the open prairies and mountainsides. No matter what is done, in one or two generations it is overcome again. You have to shoot where the bird is gonna be, not where it is - solutions that solve your generation's problem will be a disaster to a future generations who are much more numerous, not to mention their proclivities to consume more each year.