many of the countries with 100 Mb and gig to the home almost universally do not have for-profit privatized telcos.

they have nationalized telcos, and if the leader of their administration says "run fiber, not wire," they get the money and power to do that.

the rest back up "requests" to speed it up with subsidized dollars to make it work.

in the US, if you can't make your dividends and trench down fiber, the fiber doesn't happen.

it's been 3 or 4 years since several telcos petitioned the FCC to set out the guidelines for making VoIP replace copper, and take care of all the legal aspects in the separate states. until that happens, NostrilDrippus Predicts! (tm) there will be precious little formal abandonment of wireline cables and service. it's still possible to make a buck on the copper, but increasingly the way that works is to cut the ranks of the techs who repair it.

or, to hear them whine, if we tax them a dollar more, they will shrivel up and POOF! a wisp, and nothing. end of the uber-rich.

we can call it the Freedom Levy, and let's write our Congresscritters (a division of Big Money, Inc.) ... uh... geez, on to plan B.

Ve haf not yet a system zu Look in ze Minds of all ze Peasants...

and start manually sticking the tank to figure out manually how much gas is in there. station managers used to have to do that twice a day. the drivers stick the tanks to see whether they can take the amount of gas that was ordered, always.

or Old Overshoe or homebrew or whatever... there is always a fringe group of wackos that self-appoint themselves as avengers, just as soon as they get a little numb and it's dark enough...

those guys will eventually spill the beans to a buddy over a cold one. cops might solve a quarter of their cases that way, working their way in to being that buddy.

dating back to the original assassins, who had to get hopped up on a little hash before doing their tasks.

not only would I take them to court and file a civil rights compalint with the Department of Justice, I'd blog every step of the fight, with the phone numbers and home addresses of those pinhead dictator school board members.

and if my kid HAD cyberbullied, they would be so grounded. I'd take the smartphone away and they'd have a Jitterbug like Granny.

12-gauge shotgun with modified choke ought to take out the plastic birds

"he did it! he did it!" yeah, they're taught that song at birth.

>> Microsoft says there's no evidence these flaws have been successfully exploited.

and just how the hell did you get in here?

I think these guys are the "real killers" too

at what point do they trot out Vinnie and Butch before the strongmen get rushed into the Witness Protection System? this looks like the eMafia.

so I'm so confused, your honor. there is this thing of radio pipes, right? but you can hide pipes inside of pipes, so you are running poo inside of drinking water? but it's drugs instead of poo? and they are stuffing fake money in with the poo, except it runs the other way? and it's all hidden so we can't see it, except bad guys can, and sometimes the cops? except it wasn't really there?

you got any booze in that desk? I need a big swallow...

obviously, this will be big among executive offices, saves time trying every password they have used in the past 20 years to watch videos during phone conferences.