The coolest things have X:

OS X
Windows X
Xbox
Malcolm X
Mega Man X
X-wing ...
Xylophone

Wouldn't housing associations and streets be better off with something like Bloom energy fuel cells? This plus solar seem to be the way to go.

I was just about to link to Bill Black. kudos. It is laughable for any person to say laws were not broken. Such person should be labeled a psychopath.

Hire India?

What is the issue with using a web mail provider? Gmail optimizes for low bandwidth links.

You mean like economic sanctions that prevent me from buying Cuban cigars in a voluntary economic transaction?

*see what I did there?* :)

They already do this. Microsoft Ireland, Microsoft UK ltd. Etc.

Federal government isn't spending your money either. Federal government is not revenue constrained.

"Taxes for revenue is obsolete."

The Ayatollah speaks the truth. Just look at America. Everywhere there is broadband, heathens have flourished, while is REAL America, where dial-up reigns, people are living nobly under god's laws and the Bible. Preach it Brother Ayatollah! AMEN!

I don't get the context of your comment. What are you commenting on?

Man! Aliens would invade and most people wouldn't even know!

I did public finance and Econ in grad school...post Keynesian bent. :)

No one I know says this. It should pretty cleanse that telecoms, cable, are not functioning in any Market. As you correctly say they are local government monopolies whic are further protected by the states, for stupid and nonsensical reasons.

I'm waiting for a 'true Scotsman' comment :)

As mentioned over many years of slashdot posts, x86 as a hardware instruction no longer truly exists and represents a fraction of the overall die space. The real bread and butter of CPU architecture and trade secrets rests in the microcode that is unique in every generation or edition of a processor. Today all intel processors are practically RISC.