That won't stop us from sucking Quatari dick to maintain access to their ports. Besides, it never hurts to be the arms dealer in a proxy war.

If you have a Verizon worldphone with GSM support you have more options. I'm switching over to a GSM provider soon and will be curious to see what happens when a different SIM is used in the US.

Well we can all sleep safely knowing that at least baseball players will be smacked down for daring to lie to Congress.

There is a legitimate problem, though, that a disproportionate number of degree holding blacks aren't working in their field. The CEO of McDonald's is an EE. He's not doing bad for himself these days but you have to wonder why he couldn't establish a career as an engineer.

The AHRA requires the use of serial copy management for digital copying. You aren't protected by the act if you don't follow that provision which presumably no hardware manufacturer does these days since most CD audio is handled by generic CD-ROM assemblies to permit more flexible data usage.

BeagleBone Black is that board. Better GPIO, no broken USB stack and other Broadcom SOC BS.

Without Ethernet, I don't see how this is supposed to be competitive against RPi considering that TI has the nice EK-TM4C1294XL Tiva C Series Connected Launchpad for $20.

This imagery is from one of those commercial interests - Digital Globe. The US hasn't released the significantly better imagery they have from their military satellites.

The little known "secret" is that the last generation of commercial imagery satellites was all funded by the US taxpayer to serve as a stopgap against a hole in their coverage from the classified units and to avoid having to purchase any imagery from the commercial operators in the future as was needed during Iraq 2.

This imagery is from unclassified civilian satellites. The early-warning satellites that detect IR emissions from rockets and explosions a) don't produce sexy high-res imagery, and b) releasing said imagery would expose our capabilities.

Well you see, the scheduling's all wrong. We have to wait another 10 to 15 years before we can start another major offensive to prop up our MIC. Until then we have to depend on our proxies to use up the ordinance we sell them.

The first generation of Disney Princesses are now in the work force demanding to be respected, and catered to by all slovenly men who would dare to gaze upon them.

There's also the little matter that the CEO made many public statements about the disc side of the business remaining strongly supported. Then two years later they tried to dump it.

This is just a political move because Verizon didn't like all the obvious holes poked in their argument that Netflix/Level3 should carry balanced traffic when that is impossible considering that their customer base is almost all on asymmetric links.

Now Verizon can lie to Congress when they pull out the charts and graphs that conveniently show how Level3 isn't holding up their end to receive 50Mbps uploads from their entire customer base simultaneously over the four 10GB Ethernet links they share. Never mind that consumers have little need to upload high volumes of traffic and private servers are still officially banned on residential.

That isn't losing out on anything. Your economic power remains the same. What you lose is the ability to sneer at those making significantly less than you.

Humans judge their happiness by evaluating themselves relative to the local population. That is why people in poorer nations with fewer resources then your typical homeless American are generally happier than those under similar circumstances in a developed nation. You just didn't like the perception of being in the bottom of the heap even though your position hadn't changed.

No. I came up with this sig on my own 10+ years ago but I see other people using variants of it from time to time. I enjoy the grammar nazis who occasionally point out that becoming isn't a gerund, missing the inner joke.

I never heard of Yank Barry before but now I know all about his extensive criminal record.