$30/month is enough to get me not only a uncapped 100/100mb line, but a dedicated server/seedbox running at high utilization 24/7 too.

"The last mile is expensive", yadda yadda, sure, but there has to be more than a bit of price gouging here.

Because almost all ants are female.

No, the article itself mentions the impact difference between the two sides should be less than 1%.

The near side had much more surface in a liquid state during and after many of the impacts. The article claims heat from the Earth was the cause.

Drawing comparisons to WWII is ironic, because the F-35 program is exactly the kind of program that the US did not invest in during the war. A program that consumed lots of resources on the promise of radical advances without delivering anything actually useful onto the battlefield now.

Germany in contrast, spent lots of time on such projects even into the final desperate days.

Yes, let's kept paying the crony capitalists lest we be left defenseless. So many people have been nonchalant about the economic damage this system has caused to our country, so I can only hope the security damage is more successful in grabbing their attention.

Even if this project met its goals, it would still be extremely underwhelming... especially on cost-benefit analysis. Starting over is the right choice.

Any Borderlands 2 players?

I suddenly realize that Dubai may have been the inspiration for the not-yet-built city of Opportunity.

There is also a difference between rhetoric and propaganda.

Conflation of copyright infringement with theft is a case of the latter.

Listen to the words of the serpent I shall not!

For in my visions I have seen The Answer... and it is spelt thus:

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Gravity bends space, although always in the same basic way. (I think)

So lets imagine there may be some other way of bending space...

Realistically you are already subject to an endless litany of laws as a citizen of the United States circa 2014. So many rules, in fact, that you don't even know what most of them are. Society is necessarily built on "re-education" from our theoretical natural state, because these rules are not all inherent to our behavior.

The idea in the story was that an efficient enforcement mechanism can minimize the number of necessary rules and maximize their fairness. While you may prefer our current system to the one in the story, it's not hard to imagine that the current system of rules is non-optimal.

The inability to act out many "bad" behavior in the Australia Project was negated by the disconnect between brain and body in the plugged-in citizens. You were free to do what you wanted in your own personal Matrix where there were no ill effects to either you or others.

Americans are individuality obsessed, perhaps moreso than any other human culture throughout history. The story is written specifically to force us to think about this subject.

There were lots of benefits to the plug-in setup. The primary social justification for the setup was to prevent bad behavior/crime.

Having an perfect AI referee watching everyone through their own senses is far-fetched, but I took it to be more of a thought experiment than some attempt at non-fiction.

Just increasing the fuel capacity seems to be a lot easier.

Finland's average speed still beats the average service offered in the US's densest cities. How to you square your point with this reality?

The endless apologies for the shitty state of our Internet service is pathetic.

Finland has a population density of 41 people per square mile. If it were a US state, it would rank 40th in density.

Yet it also has an average internet speed around 5 times faster than the US average.

You're stretching the meaning of bribery too far to take seriously. A better usage of that term would be to describe interactions between lobbyists and Congress.

Your comment is also rather clueless in light of the wage-fixing collusion amongst tech companies.