Appologies to Neil Stephenson :)

People like to read stories that confirm their own preconceived notions.

"Damn kids, back in my day we didnt do that sort of thing, we did it another way, and it was better! Kids ain't got no respect these days. And see? This book proves I was right!"

Maybe a nice soothing viewing of the human centipede?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_centipede

(warning, even reading the description will make you reach for the brain bleach)

Simple. The three plan (Internet, TV, Phone) all worked out to be cheaper and better. I got faster and more importantly, more reliable internet. When I was with cablevision/Optimum Online I would get maybe 5Mbit speeds that would flake out during prime time hours since they were over subscribed. Now I get 20 Mbit consistently, even during peek usage hours. The TV was a better quality image, more channels and more innovative products (Multi room DVR rocks). Phone is nothing exciting, but since we also have cell phones with verizon, we get a small discount for linking all our bills together.

Overall, I got the impression that cablevision simply stopped innovating since they were the only game in town, and they did not care that much about their customers. They sure got a big surprise from Verizon, and they are calling us up every week it seems begging us to come back.

From the cited web page:
Paul Noel, 52, works as Software Engineer (as Contractor) for the US Army at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. He has a vast experience base including education across a wide area of technical skills and sciences. He supplies technical expertise in all areas required for new products development associated with the US Army office he works in. He supplies extensive expertise in understanding the Oil and Gas industry as well.

Born in Lynnwood Washington, he came to Huntsville Alabama, when his father moved to be part of NASA's effort to put men on the moon. Neal Armstrong may have gotten the ride, but his father's computers did the driving.

Paul is also a founding member of the New Energy Congress.

So..this guy has no training on physics, geology, chemestry. He __says__ he supplies extensive expertise in oil indusry, but how exactly? Software engineering?

I'm sorry, but I'm not going to get too freaked out by what this man says. If I can get some supporting information from a geologist I'll then worry.

I wonder if the bills will have encoded RFID chips somewhere, somewhat like they do with passports? Being that a lot of 100 bills circulate outside the US, this would be a good way to track them, and see how money passes from person to person. Antiterrorism effect perhaps?

I would imagine that cows that get regular exercise like this probably have meat that is much leaner than regular feed fed cows.

Power to help the farm AND a healthier product for the population at large? Sounds like a double win.

Collective wisdom? In today's popular culture? Surely there must be a better term than that.

If the same number of FoI requests were submitted in 2009 in 2008 then there is reason to be angry. However, if there were twice or three times the requests, then an increase in denials is consistant.

However, there had damn well better be good reason for this. O promised to be a more open administration.

Exist may have been a wrong term. Try "You are at your job to work for them...."

Please.

You are at work to work, you are not at work to read slashdot and gmail.

You have this awful sense of entitlement. Free coffee? Have to justify travel expenses? C'mon the company does not exist to serve you, you exist to work for them and provide value at a minimum of expense.

The companies responsibility is to its stakeholders to provide maximum profit. Employees are the largest expense a company has, so in lean times like these, they have to cut spending of all expenses to survive.

So suck it up and be happy you have a job, and not be part of the 10 percent who wish they had one.

I work in downtown NYC, and I can attest that the iphone does get horrible service. Data transfer rates are very spotty, and cell phone calls will disconnect at a rather frequent rate. Outside the city, on Long Island, service is much better. So i can well believe that they are oversubscibed.

Thats 30 million, not 300 million.

My BS alarm was going off at 300 mil, so I had to go RTFA.

They advertise the Iphone and the other media phones as being able to get streaming music, check football scores, write email, do all this neat stuff with AT&T! .....and then they get pissed when people actually DO it?

thank you for your ,02 cents.