I had the unlimited plan. I was keeping it just to keep it. At the time I had two phones and ran a Blackberry through AT&T.

I never used more than 2 gigs of data but I loved the idea of having an unlimited plan. After the caps were put in place I held out hope it would change. While it never truly affected me I ended up canceling and leaving AT&T all together out of principle about a year later.

I've been waiting for this fix so I can finally drop SSH

Maybe. Would cities start? Sure. But how long would it take and at what cost? We've had electric cars for a long time now, but no charging stations. The cost is too great to do it for the small few. So fuck them. Basically that's what it amounts too. And rightfully so.

Same with cities and streetlights. It's easy to say they'll change them. They may... over time. But those first self-driving cars will find themselves in horrible fucked up situations. Then what? And of course those bad situations will make it harder to sell the car. Less cars, less incentive to change things over.

And even if the city does change, the rural world won't. Rural towns don't have the money to paint some of the roads. (My town doesn't even have a single stop light actually). Our roads aren't really wide enough for two cars in some places so it takes smart driving skills to know when to move over and off the road, the roads are not painted (no yellow line, never mind a white one) dirt roads, pot holes, snow cover where you can't see the road, and mountain ranges that will even stop a satellite signal.

The point is, there are a lot of situations a self-driving car just won't work so not everyone is going to get one, which decreases the incentive to change things over and incur a large cost for the benefit of a few.

Between road detours, new red lights, which red light is mine in some cities... but the biggest issues are for those of us who live off in the north.

We have add things to avoid. Deer, turkeys, and lots of pot holes. I will swerve to miss a critter, but not at the cost of my life.

As a driver I'm smart enough to avoid the slippery leaves that land on the ground in the fall. There are bridges I can't cross because my truck is too wide to do it at the same time as another oncoming car. I can glimpse the car coming through the trees so I just stop and wait.

Half our roads don't even have a double yellow line, never mind the white line. Hell, we have dirt roads. What is a car going to see then? I have areas (mountains) where even my satellite radio will go out.

Lastly winter. There are times with the new snow fall that I have no idea where the road is and have to drive in the middle of the road. Not because that's where the lines might be but staying away from the edge is safer, driving in the lane where someone else has driven is safer, etc.

Lastly, for Google to originally think they weren't going to put a steering wheel in the car just shows their stupidity. After kids put cones in the road, and paint some lines via detour and watch the cars line up down a dead end street or something like that. It won't end well.

I honestly think it's hard to feel empathetic for more and more people when WE ourselves are doing what we can to just get by...

Sure, we have our luxuries (cell phones, cable tv, internet, car) but then again more and more of these things are becoming necessities in today's world.

Need to do some work from home? internet needed. Emergency work call? Phone needed
Car? To and from work.

But just being tax day, and I owned another 3600 in taxes, it's hard to truly "give". Sure I'll toss a dollar or two when I've been asked. I don't do it out of guilt, I do it because that's the kind of guy I am.

Now I have it in my abilities to give a lot more, but I don't. Why? I feel that when I pay so much in taxes that I know are sadly going to people sucking off the system, EBT cards in strip clubs, etc. I have no more respect for the system and feel I've given more than enough.

Give me my money back, show me you're cracking down on abuse in the system, and I'll gladly give you more directly to those in need.

When the phone rings, pick up and say:

911, what is your emergency?

When asked, say that the phone number is automatically being forwarded and any further abuse will be the police involved.

Go for the bluff.

May have jumped the gun with your name... but either way, I'm done.

Right or wrong, I'm no longer bored...

Ok, last bit... I got your gmail. Starts with a V and ends with a Y and is two words.

Ok... one more search, and I think I finally found you. Your name is Chris. Have your last name too, but not posting it.

Good job though, that was hard. I'm a bit too net savvy, so please understand not too many people can do what I just did, but with enough cross referencing I could do it.

PM me if you want to know how I did it specifically and I can point you to the places you could have fixed so someone can't do what I just did.

You live in the UK, you're married, and enjoy cycling (or at least used too).

You work with computers/programming and by the looks, you're pretty good at it.

You're probably writing this from your Asus Transformer, and you also know a thing or two about astronomy.

I could keep going, but I'm bored (but I was bored and why I started this endeavor) and starting to feel like a stalker.

Good day sir!

When Google does it, it's capitalism. When Bane Capital did it, it was EVIL and wrong.

Double standards in this world never cease to amaze me.

And this is why the ADA fails.

Everest alone is growing ~ 2 inches every year. That's just there. So yeah... A geologist you are not.