If you have dry summers and wet winters, reservoirs supply enough water for the summer.

It's simple: Facebook's advertising technology employs a large number of Irish leprechauns who carry your ad from your computer through the series of tubes to the screen of the person you're advertising to.

Show me the oral traditional of annual rainfall totals. Or for that matter, show me when Mayans Aztecs or Toltecs were in LA.

But here is my larger point: who cares? Yes people can be difficult, they may be jerks, or worse; but this kind of crap is never justified.

You don't have to endorse "going postal" to consider that it may be a symptom of workplace problems in the industry. Likewise you don't have to endorse this sort of thing to care about addressing the causes of it, mainly the poor policies of comcast making their support employees miserable.

Humans are not machines. Many of them come to hate their jobs beyond the point they can bear, especially if said job involves being yelled at and blamed by angry people all day about things they have no control over. It's natural to direct that blame back at the people yelling at them, and to be on a short fuse after a while. Sure they have to be fired when the insults become public as a matter of public relations, but I sympathize with them even if I'm one of the people they've labeled insultingly.

Statistical extrapolations of repeating arrangements of matter based on the projected size of the multiverse has nothing in common with spirituality.

Are you sure the bottom of the pacific ocean wouldn't actually be the best place for radioactive materials? Miles below the surface surrounded by an unfathomable amount of water?

Realistically, the price of clothes would increase until people learned to sew or shop in second hand stores again like they used to -- at which point the demand would stabilize at a much lower level. People would stop throwing out half of what's on their plate and locally grown food would start to out-compete food that has to be trucked further. Etc. Increasing prices always reduces demand. Gasoline costs twice as much in Europe as the USA, but life goes on with people adapting to use less of it.

Americans use twice as much energy per capita as the EU currently (source), so it might actually take a large energy supply reduction to drastically affect quality of life.

As opposed to the $5 you'd pay if you walked into Fry's to buy the same thing (according to a quick google). Not much savings for dealing with strangers of questionable reputation.

Distrowatch is not a measure of users. http://stats.wikimedia.org/wik... isn't representative necessarily either but at least it's an actual measure of users of something, and shows Ubuntu as over 100 times more popular than Mint.

Space telescopes are moving at orbital velocities. Compared to that, a balloon is practically stationary.

If they've litigated away their competitors, why do their competitors have most of the market share by volume?

I paid for Opera, back in the day. So did many others.

Cubans, Chinese and nearly everybody except North Koreans can make posts critical of their government. It's when you try to organize a group of critical people that they come after you.

I used to have 15 Mbps, and downgraded to 6 Mbps to save money. Never noticed the difference. 3 Mbps would probably be fine too -- plenty good enough for 360p video. Not everybody wants HD. On the other hand, I do feel a huge difference compared to the 1 Mbps my parents have (can't really watch video with that). So I'd define broadband as being ~3 Mbps+.

Some consumers, of course, may benefit from more. Call it broadband HD or broadband+ or something. It's important not to obscure the more important distinction between those stuck on connections too slow for the modern internet and those with broadband.