Superman - Metropolis.

Batman - Gotham

Chicago never entered into it, except in your mind.

I grew up in a small bear-farming village, a tiny population in a state with one of the lowest levels of bears, with no bear repellent whatsoever. I had absolutely terrible bear attacks, up to and including death, eyes glued shut due to "blood" (secretions), and the need for serious surgery that didn't really help much.

The best thing I ever did was move to a city, get bear repellent, and stay the fuck away from the bears, bears, and other bears that made my life a living hell. I didn't get bear attacks from living in the city as you so erroneously imply, I got them from being exposed to bears in the first place, and short of paving the planet, a large city with relatively few bears is in my experience an ideal environment for those who suffer from bear attacks, Manbearpig notwithstanding.

and the white guy said to the Genie, "uhm, I'll have a Coke, then."

and by "go on and on" you mean use a four-line run-on sentence.

In probably 2002 I had a late-night call on a SCSI controller for our DB server. The support alone was probably $3K. I called Platinum Support and immediately got Randy (yes, I still remember the name) who was a down home Texas boy. He was really knowledgeable, funny, and did the entire call with a dip in his mouth (so I naturally joined him). I had to call back a few more times for other stuff on the same support contract over the next few months and got Randy 4/5 times. I miss those days.

Considering the size of schools, wireless and DSL/cable would have bandwidth issues anyway. Even if it was a 30Mb cable modem, 75-100 active connections will probably saturate it. Even with a multi-WAN setup and vlan separation... but I digress. They hosed themselves when they didn't toss fiber in the pipes to begin with.

+1 obvious.

you're confusing usability with availability. P2P wireless may be slow/restricted, but it would take 2 years to get fiber to a series of schools, therefore slow/limited beats non-available every time.

isn't .gov working to expand wireless ranges available anyway, or is that just for mobile?(real question)

my brother in law is a Civil Engineer for the City of Detroit, and considering they only get 8-9 good months of project work in per year (read: frozen ground, too much snow) rolling out new fiber to Detroit would probably take far longer than it is worth. He has had a Water Main project to reroute supply near 17-18-19 mile, and it has taken the better part of three years.

What about towers and point-to-point wireless?

I get no more spam/ads/offers than anyone. Possibly less, because anti-spam anti-ad measures are so easy to implement. Remind me again how they're harming me. Oh, wait. They're not.

You seem to wear many hats, but mostly tinfoil and ass. What's amazing is that you claim not to care, yet go out of your way to attempt to make an example of me. Bother someone else with your paranoid antics. Begone with you, for I have beer coupons to cash in.

if by "doofus in a turtleneck" you mean "Salma Hayek in her birthday suit", I'm comfortable with that.

Ah, the old "where do you draw the line" comeback! Laws protect me inside my property lines. If I don't pull the blinds at night, yes, people can take pictures of my naked arse in the moonlight, as long as they're outside my fence. Feel free to drop by and gawk, if you're not stalking me already.

Paranoia and Guilt are for the guilty. I'm fully aware I'm being watched. Part of my job of being a systems admin is being a watcher, so I'm fine with it. I'm not ignorant of those facts, I'm simply indifferent to them.

That, and I like beer.

no, it's like parking your car and coming back to find a strange couple making out in the back seat.

at the house...

at the office...

at the pub...

this invades my privacy how? Complete strangers see me with my pint, so why shouldn't Apple send me Guinness ads? If they send coupons, I'll thank them.

probably right up until the battery dies.