My house is dark (to save energy).

The real issue is not the amount of radiation but where it is FOCUSED on the body - i.e. on the skin.

If we continue using these things, there will be a rash of skin cancer outbreaks among weekly travelers. Also sterilization of men's sperm too.

>>>>>- Government owns cables that are 50-optics bundled together..... companies like MSN or AOL or Apple or Comcast or Verizon then lease those lines. That way customers would have upto 50 different companies to choose from --- a true free market.
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>>Monticello got their asses sued off by TDS when they tried it.

Who? What?
More info please.

'I spent so many years battling with Linux and something new is broken every time

Precisely.
Linux is GREAT when it works, but can be a real PITA when it doesn't. For example my brother's Ubuntu 9.1 laptop still doesn't play flash videos (except youtube), and I can't figure out why. It also doesn't handle Atari Stella emulator very well (half the ROMs don't work) or connection to Netscape Dialup.

So I decided that I'll use Windows as my base (since it's free with the computer), and open source for everything else (OpenOffice, Firefox, WinAmp, etc).

>>>We are a representative democracy

No.
A Democracy is run by a simple 51% majority.. i.e. no laws but simple 51-49 votes by the legislature..... which means there are no laws to protect your individual rights. (If you're still not understanding, see Ancient Athens and how the Demos killed Socrates, because he exercised free speech, and they didn't like his opinion, so the majority voted to kill him.)

>>>or a democratic republic

Correct.
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I've read about this guy in the Economist.

Basically he started selling his book at $2.99, dropped it to 99 cents when it started sliding to the bottom of the Best selling chart, raised it to $2.99 when it peaked, dropped it to 99 when it moved to the bottom, and repeat.

So his total earnings are a combination of 0.99 and 2.99 mixed together, as he played with the price to maximize his profits. He's a very good businessman.

"If I knew how to do computer, I would help You so you should help me." Well my brother did help me move from my parents' house to my apartment --- ten years ago.

Meanwhile the computer service continues onward year-after-year-after-year.

And I wouldn't mind if he actually LEARNED something, but he's still stuck at the "how do I make firefox fill the whole screen" or "I have firefox open - how do I get back to desktop?" stage (try minimize and maximize like I taught you back in 1999). He never learns.

They are being selfish keeping this all to themselves! (just kidding)

300+ MPG - http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/volkswagen-world/news/282/volkswagen-unveils-the-xl1-super-efficient-vehicle-in-qatar
250 MPG - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car
88 MPG 5-seater - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo#Lupo_3L

I'm one of those who doesn't do updates. Mainly because I've read too many horror stories of updates making computers unbootable, or breaking the software, or whatever.

Instead I wait a month-or-so until I'm sure there's no negative outcomes being reported by the press.

More likely it's just because Bill Gates' protege Ballmer doesn't think software should be free. See his infamous Computer Users Group letter from circa 1977. He cited the unfairness of gaining the benefits of software authors' time, effort, and capital without paying them.

It's also reminiscent of how Microsoft sent letters to schools warning them that using open source and/or pirated software could be dangerous with possible legal consequences. As a result we have stories like Karen the Teacher sending a student to detention, because he was handing-out Linux OS discs. (She thought she was doing the right thing based upon Microsoft's warnings.*)

MS actively fights against open source.

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* "No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. These children look up to adults for guidance and discipline. I will research this as time allows and I want to assure you, if you are doing anything illegal, I will pursue charges as the law allows."

>>>loss at ã120 then the "hurt feelings" at ã1,000,000.

That's not quite how it works. The courts sue the company the value of the product PLUS a multi-million dollar punishment to discourage the corporations from acting like assholes in the future.

AKA punitive damage. I'm surprised the UK doesn't have a similar way of punishing corporations, else they'd just keep screwing the citizens again and again.

>>>I know of two lifetime replay TV units that are still getting data

They have cable and still receive cable updates. But when freeTV Analog was turned-off, replayTV stopped supplying the data to those users.

Of course RTV could still supply FreeTV digital, but they simply choose not to. Instead the screen comes-up blank as if no over-the-air stations exist.

They have cable and still receive cable updates. But when freeTV Analog was turned-off, replayTV stopped supplying the data to those users.

Of course RTV could still supply freeTV digital, but they simply choose not to. Instead the screen comes-up with just one lowpower analog station, and none of the digital channels. (I get about 50 of them.)

>>>loss at £120 then the "hurt feelings" at £1,000,000.

That's not quite how it works. The courts sue the company the value of the product PLUS a multi-million dollar punishment to discourage the corporations from acting like assholes in the future.

AKA punitive damage. I'm surprised the UK doesn't have a similar way of punishing corporations, else they'd just keep screwing the citizens again and again.

>>>>>10MB broadband.
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>>Ah it means speed, not volume. I am in Australia so 10MB seemed strangely low [data cap]
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This is funny. Up above we had a discussion about how diluting terms like "brick" can cause confusion when speaking to other people, and now here we see an example of that.

It's not 10 MB broadband. It's 10 MB per second or 10 MB/s broadband. The former is not correct, but the latter is - volume versus speed. (If this was college, the professors would take half a point off for having an incorrect answer.)