Washington has laws against such things.

Maybe they should have passed two or three more laws against them, so the guy wouldn't have done it.

The natural enemy of fiber... a backhoe?

Fiber has been the "You should do this for future-proofing" for over a decade. But it never quite comes true... copper keeps being sneaky.

I would just run a few cat6 lines to each room, and call it good.

Does accuracy matter? They got you to surf and comment, didn't they?

Here you go.

"So you might like the characters.... you know, if you're stupid."

Funny and smart. This guy is good.

Touche!

It could have been. Or it could have been that the city of Chicago is synonymous with ghettos, corruption from top to bottom, gangs, and crime. Tough to say.

Yeah, you sound like one of those wacko types that don't fit in here.

You sound like you can understand the likely outcomes from making certain decisions... around here, we just believe in entitlement. Go back to your own country, freak.

"My baby didn't do nuffin!" or "But I wasn't doin' nuffin!" are all too common. Nobody says "Oh, yeah, I really deserved that."

"He was just asking them questions" can just as well be "He ignored thirty seven requests to get back in his car, and ten additional warnings."

Before I jumped to any conclusions... I would want to know what really happened.

I used to be swamped with requests for free tech support from my immediate and extended family. 4 nights out of the week, I would spend working on others' computers - nearly always at their house.

Finally, I told everyone that I would continue to provide tech support, but it would be the first and third Tuesday of each month, from 5 to 10, at *MY* house.

Evidently, all of their problems which were massively urgent before stopped happening... since it would require them to go to the length of driving their computer to my house, I have only had TWO INSTANCES of doing tech support since then.

Not only that, they lauded the Italian plugs for handling "up to 10 or even 16 amps". Any standard American plug will do 15, and for a couple of dimes more, you can get one that will do 20 amps.

They deride the American plug because an ungrounded (2-prong) plug can make the cord easy to pull out, laud the 3-pronged European plugs for being harder to pull out... but ignore 3-pronged (grounded) American plugs.

The shuttering that they say makes UK plugs better... is now mandatory in the USA.

I agree on the "nationalistic garbage" stuff. Maybe there's a bit of ignorance mixed in, but still... he just wanted to gripe about the Americans.

You mean that somewhere, someone has NOT taught their son to be a pansy, and fear anything that has any remote chance of hurting someone? Oh, the horror! The next thing you know, he'll let the kid have his own POCKET KNIFE, for crying out loud. Won't someone please... THINK OF THE CHILDREN????

It hasn't stopped many people. Just last week, a young kid swerved a good 4 feet into my lane, and nearly hit me. He was looking down, cell phone in hand, texting. Ah, well.

I put up one of those cubicle bookshelf, (like this one), that has a lid that comes down. I stuck a couple of Micro ATX machines, cables, and switch in it, and I'm done. Since they're low-power machines (one is a Via C3, the other is a low-power Athlon X2), I can run it closed up just fine.