VoIP still requires some form of service to the house, and that's almost always copper in rural areas.

Borrowing and spending their way out of it, combined with a national past time of cheating on the taxes. Combine with politicians elected based on angry backlash instead of logic and there's going to be a lot of upcoming economic troubles to make austerity look like the good old days.

Economics is a soft science, woven throughout with politics and ideology.

EU is a fail by allowing Greece to join in the first place. Greece would have been far worse off today without joining the EU, and the EU would have been better off.

For people who live in NYC, all other locations in the universe are purely theoretical, including Boston.

No, there is no statistically significant modeling of ping unicorns invading. However there was an extremely good prediction of a major snowstorm using state of the art science. The prediction was *correct*, only it skipped NYC.

That's money. What about lives if the storm was big (which is actually was, just not in NYC)? Money is easily recovered, and should never be considered the most important factor. So people don't go to the grocery store today, but they will go tomorrow. Maybe we should cancel all holidays and really make huge amounts of money because those expendable workers will be productive instead of plotting with their unions. Cancel weekends too. Even better, make those CEOs *work* for a living by working on the assembly lines or flipping the burgers.

Maybe a bigger issue is how to stop them without having collateral damage to the constitution.

I always found much of it distracting. Not necessarily the translucent windows and things but the overall look. Why do we still need window borders? We've got MacOS without borders, xfce windows w/o borders, etc. Similarly, shrink down that title bar and don't make it glossy. The fake 3D look is pretty archaic.

You can skip it, it's just clear at first glance how to do so. This feature convinced me that the primary goal for Windows 8 was to push their store, they want a piece of the pie that Apple was getting with their store (which no one on the mac would ever have dreamed of using at the time). Consider that even after installing without getting their Microsoft account, that some apps still want to use it. Ie, Mail refuses to work without also giving your Microsoft account in addition to your real mail account, you can not download any free apps without the account (though you can get the free 8.1 upgrade w/o out it).

And you know this place must exist somewhere. If not San Francisco then in Portland.

They've had silly FOSS names for some time now, over a decade. Not just code names for a release but actual daily use programs. Orage, synaptic, avahi, thunar, dolphin, konqueror, etc.

Not like good old classic Unixy names like grep, man, awk, sed, and the like. Everyone know what those meant.

I like the flat looks. Aero was the thing I liked least about Windows 7.

Doing things the old fashioned way is expensive. That's a good thing. This means the government should stop and think first before bugging someone. They can't bug every single person, especially with a warrant for each, which is why they want the inexpensive solution of tapping into the central phone system. So pay for the tech, send actual technicians into the field, do a lot of undercover work, and the government will start focusing on the important targets.

That explains the lag I had all weekend.