Sounds like a very expensive donkey/mule replacement. Why not just use real animals?

> pro-U.S. propaganda: The Russian space program sucks.

I remember when I learned (well into adulthood) that the Russians had landed probes on Venus, and even sent photographs back from the surface. I was obsessed with space travel as a kid in the 80s, and really feel like that was kept hidden from me as an American student.

I would donate too, and I'm not even american nor live there.

Those trillion dollars would create a lot of jobs building a thing like this.

Or all those billions going to the moon were wasted and nothing good came out of it?

I'd settle for decent shelf space at the local book stores.

As I see it, sci-fi get relegated to the bottom shelf on a hidden corner of the store, while esoterism, alternative medicines crap, and the latest celebrity endorsed diet gets to the front window.

I don't need huge total volume, I just want blisteringly fast for shortish periods.

In other words, porn.

Most of Google's business model is based on Internet-based client-server interaction. The faster people's connections are, the better their core products work.

Since the state of high-speed internet in the US today is basically an abusive oligopoly, Google has a huge interest in changing that market for the better.

If that's the case, it's a shit design -- it should never allow such a differential between "current actual" and "current goal" speeds. If you keep mashing the button after the differential hits, say, 5mph, it should ignore further presses until it's back in range.

Sounds like you need this. I have one a vendor gave me a few years back, and it's great.

> At some point along that line, it no longer becomes immoral to remain in business The point where that occurs is where your actions and decisions no longer have a significant impact. Microsoft, and your wagon makers, are both far from that point. It's entirely within the wagon maker's power to refuse to fill that order for 1,000 new wagons to the Nazi Party. If the wagons are making it to the Party through aftermarket back channels, THAT's where the wagon maker can begin to claim no moral responsibility. That's not where we are, though.

Meh, your little brother's comments are usually more insightful than yours anyway. Zing!

it does, and you don't need to restart anything.

the thing is, if you already accessed the url, the result for the dns query (or hosts file) is cached and it doesn't need to do the query again.. try it with a url you never accessed before.