What kind of accommodations can you get for full time minimum wage work in your country? In the US, you can absolutely support yourself on minimum wage. You will have to live with roommates and eat inexpensive food and probably not have much left over for luxuries. Minimum wage is about $1000 a month after taxes (which you probably will get refunded anyway). $500 for your share of rent, $100 for a monthly bus pass, $100 for your cell phone, leaving $300 for food and entertainment and savings. It isn't pretty or fun, but it is certainly doable.

There are only two signals you can send to your cable company: giving them money or not giving them money. When you keep giving them money, you are telling them that you approve of their behavior and wish them to continue.

Continuing to pay them for a service you don't think is worth the money is utter stupidity.

That is silliness. You could use the same logic to say that the public shouldn't have the right to bear arms, because in 50 years, some future Hitler could confiscate all those guns. Not to mention that all dictator-types can circumvent any law they want, simply by disregarding it, or getting the people to happily demand the old law's repeal.

Exactly. The paranoid reasoning for this is that: turn off all the proletariat's phones, leaving the network intact for the privileged civil service to perform this functions.

I though Under Armor was just t-shirts and whatnot that people wear so they can feel "tactical".

My stupid little village can't even keep the streetlights running. I'll be goddamned if I want them playing with fiber optics.

Then cancel your service.

How is it in jeopardy? Each consumer will still have the same amount of choice they started with. Cable, FIOS or ADSL, or satellite. If Comcast sucks, they will chose the other options. It doesn't make a shit-sack of difference whether my cable choice is Comcast or Time Warner, nor does it matter whether I have the same cable choice as someone in Portland.

Right, but the poster said it costs nothing to make.

If your hardware still has bugs that need to be fixed after the three years of warranty coverage, they can't be all that important.

Or you could invest a couple hundred bucks and become an HP certified professional. It's 2014 for christ's sake, there is no excuse to be selling your services without something as basic as that.

I'd be willing to bet that this will really only effect small shops with a few machines. I'd also be willing to bet that those clients cost HP a lot more in support (per dollar of sales) than your giant enterprise customers. Perhaps this is a conscious effort to unload that sector of the market.

That's what I loved about the HP/Compaq lines of machines. Everything was available, free and easy. Going all the way back to when you could dial into their BBS and download service packs for BIOS setup disks.

It costs Netgear something to create the patches.

How would the switch know what is inside the ethernet frames?