Where the fuck are you going to see movies? Seriously I have no idea.

Are you going to a circle of hell that only caters to people who don't like movie theathers because almost nothing you've described accurately resembles a movie theater run in the last 50 years except maybe the price and cleanliness.

The least you can do is give us a ballpark location so we can look at a coverage map. Sprint or T-Mobile have have deals going with unlimited data.


Personally I'd go with Sprint, but I know their coverage can be spotty in certain places, though it has gotten a lot better since I signed up for it 5 years ago.

It's not really a direct competitor. The smart search answers have 3-4 sentences topically explaining something. Wikipedia has, almost always, exponentially more data.

'Smart search' is great for questions like "Who won the World Series in 1987" or "How many Grand Theft Auto games are there". It's not so great for "What is the plot of GTA V".

Google is so large and has such a massive need for talent that if you have the right skills, Google is really enthusiastic to hear from you

Well color me shocked. Is the army looking for people who can accurately fire rifles and follow orders? What about the FAA and air traffic controllers?

Whoever wrote that and whichever (copy) editor let it through need to reevaluate their life choices.

No I understand that, and the US model is not great shakes. Needs more municipal broadband.

That doesn't mean that Sweden's particular use-case is applicable to the US. It's roughly 5% of the lower 48 states. The economies of scale for distance blow the Swedish model out of the water.

2/3 of Sweden is empty. When you can concentrate your population in 1/3 of the country, the population density flies out the window:
http://www.nordregio.se/templa...

The sheer distance makes it exponentially more difficult and expensive

Not if you look at the population density. It's mostly on the coast and in the south. 2/3 of the country is devoid of anything but Møøse and possibly squirrel

http://www.nordregio.se/templa...

You are using the wrong word. Hostile, yes. Unlivable, no. If it were, there would be a lot fewer people left in the US.

Well I will just say, like the others, that you do not know what you're talking about. I installed win 7 on a few PIII netbooks with 768 MB RAM, with the typically office image. Worked fine. I've used it on Dell D410s and D430s with 1 GB of RAM. Did absolutely everything I needed and wanted it to do.

Wow really? I can't remember a year of my life where I didn't experience sub zero temperatures and 100+ in the same year. There might be a few years where it was from 0-5 degrees or upper 90s, but that's pretty much the climate in most of the US Midwest region.

Some courts, not all. It varies by district. Most do not in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

That is, unless you're outside the US. I'm not super familiar with laws in other countries, but I believe most require a defendant to provide the password.

They should be bearing the cost of the training and conferences. The only time I've shelled out cash for anything was when I didn't prepare enough for a certification test and needed to retake it. That was all on me though. Had I studied a bit more, I'd have passed on the first time.

Companies that want to retain talent need to shell out for training and conferences, especially if the budget isn't a concern for the time being. It's not as if they squirrel that money away for a rainy day. If the conference is as relevant to your work as you say and isn't insanely expensive, this should be a slam dunk.

There's essentially no difference between purchasing a firearm in the US vs CH, assuming one is not a prohibited person in either country*
The only real substantive difference is the statutory vs constitutional issue. The universal militia service is a misnomer, since the majority of swiss can purchase a firearm but don't serve in the military. There are even parts of the US where you get a purchase permit (MN, NJ, CT, CA, DC, IL). I live in a state where I have to have a permit/license to purchase a gun. Frankly I think it's a bit ridiculous as the process to get said permit is identical to what I need to do to purchase the gun. Lots of redundancy that doesn't really accomplish much.

* Swiss law bans several nationalities/ethnicities from purchasing firearms (primarily Balkans peoples). They can do that as its firearm ownership is a statutory allowance in CH versus a civil right in the US.

"We" didn't cross talk. You can't read the conversation properly. What is required to get that 'license' in CH? A instantaneous background check? By the way, it's not a license, it's a permit. Literally the only difference is stopping at the police station and forking over some cash. The US simplified the process, most likely because it's a civil right in the US to bear arms and it's not in Switzerland. And once again, there is a difference between a carry permit and a purchase permit

That's wasn't the point of the OP or my refutation. That's something you invented out of thin air. It's more or less as easy to get a gun in Switzerland as it is the US. It requires a passed background check (and some additional cash in CH). Muzzleloaders are free of background checks in both countries. No militia or firearms training is required to own a gun in either country. Only difference is point of sale versus at the police station. If you want to get into carry permits, well you'll find it very similar in the US. In the big cities and a lot of states, carry permits are impossible to get. In other, especially rural states, they aren't difficult to get at all (or you don't need them period). Same with urban vs rural cantons in CH.