Same situation in Chicago. Earlier this year I met a girl who had the G1-HTC-Android-whatever, and asked her why she kept 3G turned off. She said Edge was fast enough for her needs, so she preferred conserving battery life over the higher speed of 3G.

I tried loading up cnn.com (full version, not mobile version) on both of our phones simultaneously - sure enough, her phone (with 3G off) smoked my iPhone 3G (with 3G on).

I was bitter.

You just described a vast majority of voters all across the political spectrum. I wish every halfwit would shut it with the political commentary now (especially since I seem to have a "Tell Me Your Thoughts About Politics" tattoo on my forehead that's visible to everyone but me).

I'm gonna go out on a limb here & guess that your Rorschach test answers would result in the psychiatrist raising this eyebrows, taking notes furiously, and asking his secretary to hold his calls.

No way, man! That's obviously someone giving two thumbs up, Fonzie-style. Ayyyyyyyy!

de-orbit - v.: to remove from orbit

If the ISS is somehow hurled out into space, is it still in orbit? No.

If the ISS is allowed to let Earth's gravity do its thing, is it still in orbit? No.

Now tell me, which do you think is cheaper & easier: to shuttle a bunch of fuel out to the ISS, then use that fuel to rocket that thing out of orbit in such a way that it flies off into space? Or to use what fuel it already has onboard to send the ISS, one module at a time, into controlled re-entry?

Please feel free to explain which portion of the compound word "de-orbit" explicitly points to "send out into space" as opposed to "allow to re-enter the atmostphere".

Your comment would be funny if the Internet were a big truck that you could just dump stuff on, but it's not. Sheesh, I thought everyone knew that.

Now if you'll excuse me, someone sent me an Internet yesterday, and I need to find out why I still haven't received it. I bet it got tangled up in all those commercial Internets that keep clogging up the tubes.