Probably not a large percentage.

FWIW, It's my job. I could use the company network, but big corps make it difficult/bureaucratic to put up servers or push such large files without IT's alarms going off and having to be managed. It's a reasonable compromise to walk it out of the building and serve it from my Fios at home.

It's not backup. It's sampled data for analysis. It's not a background operation.

Yup.

From what I've read, it seems that plate tectonics have something to do with bringing water to the surface, so it might be a more co-dependent relationship between P.T., oceans and continents.

That's why I said surface water.

My statements wouldn't apply to a realistic scenario with underground water.

Just put the PDFs on a website for parents and school children to download.
Also put the source files up so that people can enhance the texts.

All US schools seem to have a web site, so the incremental cost of distribution is close to $0.

>Your proposal then requires the school boards to fund such productions
Minus the cost of paying huge sums to the publishers. The savings will accrue pretty darn quickly.

>textbooks were $50-100+ a piece

They cost that because the publishers are in a nice corruption loop with the school boards.

The school boards bless particular books from particular publishers and the publishers update the books each year so they have to be re-purchased. Unknown benefits flow from the publishers to the school board members.

Obviously it would be cheaper for education districts to band together and commission their own textbooks that cost $0 to distribute once written. But the school boards are strangely disinterested in this option.

Try BeOS.
Not a high profile target for the feds, the police or the Russian mob.

>I personally don't see what the point of Gigabit speeds at home are.

Moving data. When I'm moving a 1TB file of binary data, I would prefer I didn't have to leave it running overnight.
I do this every few weeks. As it stands I usually end up using walknet with a hard disk, but that doesn't work when the onward journey is to the other side of the county.

> BTW, if you averaged all the elevations on earth, none of it would be above the level of the ocean.

This would be true of any planet with any amount of surface water.
Given a perfect sphere, the water is just going to spread out and cover it.

You can't go around leveling the land without impacting the water level. They are linked.

I'm not a money launderer, but if I was, I think my laundering channel would be pretty well hidden.

Maybe if I didn't know how to set up such a channel, I wouldn't be gainfully employed in computer security and would have to turn to money laundering.

This makes sense. The University of East Anglia exists in swampland that is slowly sinking while the sea is slowly rising. It's halfway to ocean already.

If Netflix won't do it, the hackerites will do it for them sooner or later. They should get on it.

That raises the question, why aren't you using begging the question incorrectly like all other good upstanding 'muricans?

Begging the question:

Please please please question, don't hit me!

It's a system of threats and balances. The queen grants a constitutional basis to the parliament and the parliament grants continued existence to the queen. It's worked quite well since Cromwell. Much more stable than these new fangled republics.