And you should be able to compose great music via sheet music alone, but it might be a good idea to actually listen to your music.

Cold temps suddenly seem much more bearable.

Shouldn't an ISP have at least 2 and preferably 3 or more separate trunk links?

Running fiber is about 40% of the overall cost of a fiber last mile network. Trunks are relatively cheap compared to the last mile network. Customer support is the single most expensive part of an ISP. Keeping customers happy is the best way to keep costs down.

-20f nights and 0f days are great at keeping hard core druggies away from here. Nearly all of our crime are along the lines of some bored teenagers trying to lift candy bars at Walmart. I remember this one time that someone was actually shot and killed. That one murder filled the news papers of several local counties for months. It was my first time ever hearing of one happening locally.

Don't like your government? Replace it. Don't like your opensource software, add a feature.

only 8 pages of rules, the rest were comments.

Who gave him direct table access?! They should be fired!

Yep, nothing quite like a bunch of frameworks strung together in a way they were never envisioned and doing things that look the same on the surface but are quite different underneath. If you don't understand how a framework works, you'll never use it correctly.

In my limited experience, what people claim to be "agile" is "I don't want to have to design or plan". Agile is a method for programming, and has little to do with design.

Forgot to add. "Dark energy" definitely exists, otherwise we'd be running into problems with the fundamental laws, like conservation of energy. Space itself is expanding and that takes energy, a lot of energy.

That is exactly what Dark Matter is and has always been claimed to be. It is a gap in our knowledge with certain characteristics. We know it is not baryonic matter, we know it is not an issue with gravity, as assume it is matter because matter has mass and mass distorts space(aka gravity). The biggest problem is that Dark Matter is the longest standing unknown in all of history. Through all of recorded history, problems have been solved shortly after the discovery of the problem. Dark Matter is nearly a century old and almost a magnitude worse than any other problem.

Plenty of great minds have looked at the problem. Our only hope is to keep running more tests and for technology to allow our tests to get better.

Current Atom CPUs are 8 core with ECC so-dimms, only consume 25watts at the wall at full load and perform non-SIMD related workloads between 1x and 0.5x of a quad-core 8 thread Haswell Xeon of similar frequencies, will nearly identical AES-NI performance.

That's not true. The government gave Right of Way access to Telcoms and Cable companies, which so happen to also be ISPs, but ISPs are not always telcom or cable. If you want right of way access at the federal level, then you need to be Title II, not what ISPs current are. Local governments are free to grant ISPs access to right of ways, but there is little incentive to do so and it complicates things. No one wants more people digging up their land, it's hard to pass with voter support.

Without major changes to current laws, the best way to give ISPs right of way access to make them Title II. No changes to laws, just a reclassification.

AT&T actually sued my state because we gave an ISP right of way access. In the end, the ISP was not allowed to compete in the private sector, they could only sell services to public services like Schools, hospitals, and libraries. But at 1/1300th the price and better customer service, AT&T could not compete against the $300/month dedicated 1Gb/1Gb fiber with an SLA, operated by a non-profit with no government support other than RoW access. At the time, AT&T was charging $100k/month for the same services, but they had a lot of customer complaints, ignoring the huge 333x mark-up over the wholesale. 99.7% profit margins are nice.

You don't have to use their cable, the FCC will not be enforcing line sharing, only right of way access. A new ISP could lay their own infrastructure or beg the local incumbent to access their's, but at least the local government won't be able to stop a new ISP from moving in like they current can.

If you do line sharing, you don't actually use right of way access, you pay the owner of the lines to do the work for you. This has caused great headaches in some areas. There are a select few ISPs that actually line share in the USA, but they get little support from the line owners because the line owner doesn't want the competition, so they treat them poorly. Technically they're not supposed to do that, but in reality, they get away with it all of the time. Many Tech Savvy ISP customers have complained that when using Tech Savvy, they had many connection issues, but if they switched back to AT&T, who owns the lines, AT&T would immediately send a tech, fix the issue, then the customer would switch back to Tech Savvy and all would be well. Anyone line sharing is at the mercy of the line owner.