Or maybe they intentionally did a bad job so others wouldn't even try?

Same thing in Surrey, BC (south-east of Vancouver).

Maybe not, but the flicker (not present in LCD technology) gives many people a headache. In our old high school, there was this 1 monitor that had to be kept at 60Hz because of a high-voltage line going up the wall behind it (the other side of the wall was the metal shop with a CNC) and any other resolution would cause the monitor to go squirly (wavy lines, etc). People *hated* sitting at that computer, even those who had no idea we'd changed the refresh rate from the 72 (which the rest of the monitors used) to 60, it was literally painful to look at close up.

If Comcast blocked Netflix, the first thing to happen would be consumer outrage. The second would be that Netflix would take a noticeable hit, but continue to survive from the rest of their subscribers from other ISPs/countries. I highly doubt Comcast users make up the same presentage of Netflix subscribers as Google users make up Metafilter visitors.

Your comparison makes no sense. Netflix depends on their customers having "a" Internet connection, they do not rely on any single company like Metafilter was with Google.

Ah yes, the "good old days" when we had a thousand crappy search engines. Now all we have is a thousand crappy search engines, a few half-decent ones and a good one. Maybe you should write the second good search engine and give Google some competition.

I wonder how many of these supercapacitors you could charge with a lightning strike.

In a situation where a Alice shot Bob but says that Bob threatened Alice first (and thus it was self defence), there would actually be 2 questions. Question A is "Is Alice guilty of murder" and question B is "Is Bob guilty of assault (the legal term for a threat against your life)". If there is not enough evidence in either direction, the court CAN actually declare them both "not guilty". This is because North American courts cannot actually declare someone "innocent" (we believe you didn't commit the crime), only "guilty" (We believe you committed the crime) and "not guilty" (We don't believe you committed the crime). There is a significant difference between believing (being convinced) someone didn't do something and not believing (not being convinced) they did it.

How is that the same? Gmail isn't affecting the working status of your other email accounts. iMessage likes to "take over" your text messages. If Apple wants to fuck with the SMS system offered by another company (your service provider), they need to make DAMN sure they don't break it in the process.

I agree with the rest of what you said, but Canada would like to debate you on that last one.

Or you post using a machine on the same subnet as the server. It's 11:00, do you know where your VPNs are?

We may never know that there isn't, but we very well could know that there is.

To be fair, sandals didn't have laces for his supposed first time around.

My shoes were by far the first knot I ever learned to tie. I then became very good at tying knots in scouts (I can tie a bowline around my waist with 1 hand). It wasn't until I watched the video that I actually bothered to look at the knot I'd been tying everyday from muscle memory and realized it was a granny knot. The instant I actually looked at the knot on my shoe I knew it was wrong, I just never looked at the damn thing for 20+ years!

Ted already did that one.