Damn! You were demoted?

will the bios power it up against my will?

Maybe

Like the bankers, too big to punish. Everybody should know who wears the pants in government-corporate relationships.

Success via Microsoft will not produce 'competition'. They're not getting 'free money'. It always comes with lots of strings.

Exactly. This is a government job. It's one of the things we hire it to do. We should replace it when it fails, as it is doing now. Turns out the corruption is at home.

Well gee, if you're gonna get picky...

No, the issue is pure corruption. The voters simply will not stop reelecting their favorite crooked politicians that 'bring home the bacon'. There is absolutely no technical reason for the lag.

Population density is bullshit. Damn near everyone in the US has, or had a telephone line running to their house, and every so often somebody squeezes higher bandwidth out of it. It is pure corruption that holds back progress.

government owned fiber

I still like copper. You don't need magic black boxes to use it. You can use a simple spark to get the message out.

Even 'natural' monopolies require government protection (police/military) of their exclusive claims to natural resources, like land and water and air. Those things are the 'means of production' that belong to everybody. Some cities are restricting water use to make sure there is enough for the bottling companies.

A four engine plane will land on no engines.

It looks and smells like oligopoly-based crony-capitalism controlling the strings...

All brought on by voters that won't kick out corrupt politicians. *We built this city.* Now we have to live with it or fix it. The choice is ours.

Yeah, I know that one. It's like singing in the bathroom so nobody hears you farting.

Fortunately/unfortunately (depending on your POV) it's getting easier to detect the signal inside the noise.

No, it's something that would hardly ever be noticeable at the time.

Yes you can edit journals. If you open a specific one, you should see a 'gear' icon to the left of the title in the gray bar. It's kind of a pain in the ass because preview doesn't work, so you have to post and reload the page.

You can also try this. You should see an 'edit' button there