Cisco may be overpriced by a good bit in a lot of areas, but they also have a lot of competition that is the equivalent to a Resident Evil zombie as far as intelligence goes.

Example: Have you ever used dell switches? Go ahead, ask them the buffer sizes for the ports and or the backplane connection / ASIC mappings, good luck even *finding* someone who can tell you, because they sure aren't documented anywhere accessible.

Libretarian complaining about how corporation treats little guy when they're the little guy...

This is such bad design I don't even know where to begin. You aren't looking for a database with that design, you're looking for a text file.

Famine is far more effective than any army or disease could ever hope to be.

I'm pretty sure it's the part about disagreeing with them that does it more than anything else.

It does if they want to receive government subsidiarity, on both of your examples. I don't know if you're just trolling at this point, or really this ignorant.

Vouchers are a backhanded way to have taxes fund schools that don't have to follow separation of church and state among others, and that is the main issue with them. Go back to your rock.

You lost all credibility when you said "banning the light bulb".

No one has done any such thing. There have been efficiency limits set for light bulbs, just as cars, and many other things you use, have had set in the past. Claiming that light bulbs have been banned, even incandescent ones, is simply showing ignorance, and or an agenda of misleading others.

The Taliban feel the same way about women covering their faces in public, or insulting their prophet, as you do about a woman and a doctor choosing wether carrying her child to term is best for her and or the child. You should really think about how you feel about their moral belief on those issues, and would you like to be subject to their laws, before you condemn others for not agreeing with yours on another.

Just because you believe something is a mortal sin, does not make it right for you to enforce your beliefs on others. Don't you believe they will be judged anyway by your diety? Why do you believe that it is your duty to impose the will of your diety, do you not believe him capable of it without your might, let alone your two cents?

Religious freedom is also not just about your ability to practice your religion in peace, but for everyone else to practice theirs as well.

It's a lot easier to stop a car engine while running by playing with spark timing if you have no idea what you're doing, than it is to start it while doing the same.

And people are yelling about how freon costs so much and the government should not be picking winners and losers.

Yes and that's all anyone cares about of them. Sony won't need a distribution channel for games when they're avaliable through psn and amazon.com.

Last I checked, walmart still sold the consoles, so no one really needs Gamestop from supply side.

Concordia wasn't a huge problem because it drifted onto solid ground shallow enough to keep it mostly above water. If it had not been carried by onshore winds, it would have been a much different story. The captain waited far to long to declare it time to abandon.

Hate to break it to you, but those aren't extreme cases. I've personally set up sites with 2 T1 backhaul that sold 6mb DSL.

Wifi only works because it is extremely short range, and even then it sucks in sufficiently crowded areas. Trying to do cell service that way would be a disaster.