Dice.

I'm sure that the mining companies dynamite the entrances to the mine just as soon as they decide it's no longer profitable, and only mine Uranium and nothing else.

No, actually they just leave a hole in the ground that they can come back to any time they want to, or continue mining all the other ore in the same dirt, and just keep the Uranium around for when it's needed.

They're thinking that this Congress can't even get with the decades old plan that was already in motion, and can't do anything besides name post offices and bicker about how the other party is the problem.

The clock is winding down on this Congress, they're hoping the next one might actually get their shit together. It's stupendously unlikely, but they're gonna hope anyway.

That's because sodium hydroxide and ammonia don't use the scary word "nuclear".

Never mind that nuclear waste has been shipped around all over the place for decades - does anyone think the US Navy just lets that shit sit on the dock after it's removed from aircraft carriers and submarines?

Tape may not have the capacity, but it's designed for resiliency. No chance in hell this drive could sit in a safe for 10 years and still spin up. LTO can.

Or marketed towards people with real data disaster recovery or archival needs. Like businesses.

Go ahead and try backing put a couple PB onto rotating disk, and then expect it to last for 20 years. See how well that works out for you. I know how it will work out on LTO tape, because it's designed to do it.

The lights on the modem only mean you're talking to the CMTS on the other end of the neighborhood wiring, and that you were able to provision through DOCSIS.

If they fuck the routing over, you'll have all the blinkinlights in the world, but no packets get where they're supposed to.

They probably have a peering agreement for edge servers to lighten the load.

I get the sarcasm, but this outage almost screwed me - I was scheduled to work from home today so I could be here for a service appointment. With no data service, I can't do that.

There are real uses for home Internet connections besides porn and Twitter, you know. =)

Same with Cincinnati, OH. The little crumb crunchers are already done with screwing around for the summer.

Damn, now I want to buy a rocket capable of putting several tons into orbit via PayPal.

What, I can't find that on Amazon? No free two-day shipping available via Prime?

No, there's still plenty of horse shit being tossed around. Probably more.

It might be metaphorical horse shit, but it's still there.

I've never understood it. For some reason, everyone needs to go to college for a master's degree and have a career path that includes a corner office at some point.

Apparently, all the people that keep pushing this philosophy never need electricians, plumbers, municipal waste pickup, roads, and restaurants.

It's okay for people to have high school degrees and work in the service industry. It's okay for people to have associates degrees or vocational certificates and keep the world running. I don't know why anyone would possibly think that it isn't.

Yeah, because I was being completely and totally serious.

Lighten up, jackass.

And, ultimately, have the power to shitcan the laws under Article I, Section VII of the United States Constitution:

If the President really doesn't want something to happen, and the other side doesn't have the 66% + 1 vote to override, that's the way it's going to be.