The moon has ~10^-7 pascals of pressure, and Mars has ~.6 kilopascals of pressure. I leave computing the order of magnitude of difference to the reader.

Yeah, but it's different in Australia. By they time you're ten, you've survived dingoes, death adders, recluse spiders, great white sharks, and deadly post-apoc race-cars covered in spikes. To the average pedo, you're not low-hanging fruit.

Your parents have been ready for long time, now.

Schadenfreude is a hell of a drug. Many men will cut off their own nose to spite their face.

As it turns out, "Anonymous Coward" is an actual person with no job, a lot of time, and a lot of conflicting opinions.

"I am not left-handed."

...that Bennett Haselton has an account on Slashdot called Nerval's Lobster.

Notice the tag at the end: "Long-form submissions are welcome"? It's a cry for help from the Slashdot editors, "Dear God, someone else send us a long-form submission. Bennett is the only one who uses the damn link, please, please someone else use it."

The deregulation of the phone lines that led to multiple phone providers was an absolute success. You have and still have multiple options, each one vying for your services by pricing and value-add. And each one of them alone is miles away better than the old status quo of Big Bell charging you whatever the hell it felt like and ramming you up the ass on long distance charges.

Please describe how utilities and cable fit in a "market-driven model." As I said; there is not and never was a market. The government picked a winner and banned the rest from operation.

The market is not failing us; there is no market. This is a step towards creating one.

More robust competition at the local level will raise speeds and lower prices. And one day, one bright, glorious day, I can tell Comcast to take a hike.

NOOOOO! That is the one thing we must not heeeaaaaar!!!

Since we all know II, IV, VI, and First Contact were awesome, you are clearly implying that ST:TMP is awful, and Insurrection is awesome. On these two counts you must be burned at the stake as a heretic.

IMHO, the best versions of Windows are (in order): 7, XP, and 95 OSR2. Note that each of these was a significant performance enhancement over both their respective predecessor and successor. Microsoft just can't let good enough be good enough; they always gotta screw up a winning formula. I do give them props for the longevity of XP; I coasted through Vista without ever touching it once.