Is that the one that runs down Cypress Hill? Or am I just being insane?

Have fun with your five 2-year cell phone contracts which will probably cost you over $7000 over their course.

The summary is rather inflamitory. There are no "free" cell phones, they only look free if you ignore the contract component.

We're talkign about big publishers here.

Historically Amazon said "Ok, we want 1,000 of ebook X. What do you want for it" and then bought 1,000 of ebook X at wholesale. Apple came along and said "Hmm, tell you what, we'll let you set the price and we'll sell the books for you and keep 30%" Suddenly, the publisher can go to amazon and say "Well, sorry, we will only sell like this now, and if you don't like it too bad, we'll still be able to sell through Apple".

Your bizarro scenario doesn't come in to play at all because Amazon was buying the books at a per unit price and then selling the books for whatever they wanted to. The price didn't impact the price amazon bought the book for.

Maybe you're talking about some tiny little self published agreement, but that isn't what this is about at all.

I take it you've never been to Bush International Airport in Houston. Over the speakers they actually threaten arrest to anyone who criticizes or makes a joke about security.

Of course, we were so floored by that that we were making jokes about it until we left (as that's human nature for totally bizarre situations), but still. I'm saddened that whoever made that decision hasn't had a massive judicial slap down yet.

I won't argue with you there, but we cannot evaluate this policy on the assumption that your scenario is the case, as it appears that this policy is intended to cover any return or exchange. If they expect the return of defective products to be covered under this policy, they are running afoul of a few laws.

If the policy were such that they would only refund, or swap to a different product once per 90 days it isn't an issue. They aren't obligated to allow you to change your mind. They are only obligated to insure that what you purchase is functional if it is sold as a functional item.

You assume that the store has the right to refuse a return if you refuse to provide this information or if you're a frequent shopper that has more than one purchase of faulty goods. The agreement with the store is to exchange your money for a working product. If the product doesn't work, and the store refuses to refund or exchange it, they may have issues.

They may have a leg to stand on if it were refunds only, but the summary specifically includes exchanges in to this mix.

No satellite you say? I don't think you understand what a satellite is....

Granted, it sucks compared to most everything else, but satellite internet is much better than dial up. It's not going to be as cheap though.

These laws are unconstitutional. The states are free to try to amend the constitution, but as it stands today, their inability to tax purchases like this is one of the most non-vague areas of our constitution.

... is demoted for rejecting the whole basis, or showing that he has a severely flawed understanding?

Who would have thought.

Don't forget the need for as of yet undiscovered/undesigned materials that can support their own weight at such lengths.

No. Not abuse. Their *use* leads to much more harm than good. The only place that "use" is not abuse is turning them on in a private faraday cage on your own property.

There is no use case for these devices that do not run afoul of extremely well reasoned laws. In fact, the laws prohibiting the use of these things are one of the few sane laws that we do have.

Every time I've used an LTE USB modem, the typical speeds I got were heavily dependent upon the city I was in, of course.

Chicago, it was common to seed speeds of 20Mbit down/10Mbit up. San Antonio was closer to 10/2, etc. Phones, are much different due to being much more constrainted on power, of course.

The speed of light is a huge issue.

Try to design a system for a synchronous data replication from, say, New York to San Francisco. You can't without killing performance because the round trip time between the two for fiber or copper connections is 40ms. Even with 0 switching time, the speed of light is too slow to do such a thing.

At university, the hardest course I ever took had take home open book, open note, *open internet* tests.

The course was abstract algebra though, so, the internet wasn't much help (c. 2001).

The individual you were referring to obviously meant accident. Hiroshima was rather on purpose. I don't think anyone would disagree.

You can't really compare the effects of nuclear weaponry a few generations later to the effects of power plant disasters either. They are entirely different beasts.