See, even I can learn something new every day.

$luser@yourbox:sudo su -
Please enter the password for luser:
#passwd

Yeah, that's tough. And the first thing I do on a new Debian based box.

*"You're a grammar Nazi" not "Your a grammar nazi"

I believe GP was correct with "it's methodology" being the methodology belonging to the report. I could be wrong, I often am.

Can they file suit if you only share part of the file? If so, how much?

I guess none of the work around/hacks for watching netflix overseas work in Canada or Mexico. Really, if those really don't work, then you'd be stuck with TED, or another torrent searching program like TV Trigger, or sickbeard, or one of many others.

The problem, as I see it, is that they will include this service as an add on rather than an "instead of" service. I dropped DirecTV this past week because for $110 less a month I can get every show I watch on netflix, hulu plus and TED.

Oh good, I'm not the only one who noticed that a grain of salt is smaller than a match head. I thought for a moment they were talking about the little dot in the middle of that thing, not the whole device itself. Whew... I may not use mm to measure very often, but I didn't think my perception of it was that off.

Didn't Tom Clancy use this in one of his novels to blind the Japanese pilots like 15 years ago?

I imagine if you have the means to buy a $100k electric sports car, the extra battery pack cost isn't going to be something you have to figure out how to finance.

One of the first new 3D movies I saw was Beowulf. After about 10 min of trying to figure out why the screen looked like crap, I experimented and flipped the glasses upside down, fixed everything. So, I would say that sometimes having the glasses on backwards is a good thing :-)

I'm glad you have good service in France. I cannot say the same when I lived in Germany. Their landline service was spotty at best and frightfully expensive. It's a source of amusement to me that everything Tmobile is in the US, DT wasn't in Germany.

I think they will justify it probably under the interstate commerce clause, since some of the materials to build some of the roads are brought in from out of state, they will claim the ability to regulate the taxation of the vehicles that drive on them, or something along those lines.

Really, the taxes for fuel now should be spent at the state level, and not sent to the feds so they can be withheld as ransom to force the states into passing legislature that the feds were unable to do so.

Frankly, and i don't mean to troll or start a war here either, but I really do think the federal government has reached it's own breaking point and the people will demand that it be cut back in size. It controls and legislates over way too many things that it has no valid authority to do so via loopholes in the commerce, welfare and taxation clauses.

So they found a way to make money on what would normally be overhead, I don't see a problem with that. For me, it's worth the $10 I spend on each of my lines for the family to have the option to txt the kids, or them to txt me. Even tho I account for maybe 1% of the messages each month, I don't have a problem paying for the service. I got caught paying per message fees once with my teen aged daughter, worked out a deal with the carrier to back date the unlimited plan. They were quite reasonable about it.

It seems everyone gets really upset when a company finds a way to make a profit. Companies that don't make money go out of business.

You are certainly correct in that I should have been more specific. I inferred, perhaps incorrectly, that he wasn't well educated on the subject because of the statement that consumption taxes, specifically the fair tax, are regressive. The program includes a "prebate" that covers what the tax will cost on the necessities of life. So the lowest income earners, those who spend nearly all of their income on necessities will in effect pay zero taxes. The wealthy, who spend the majority of their income on luxury items will now be paying taxes instead of finding loopholes. This also will effectively tax the gray and/or black markets which operate on a cash basis.

I know it's not a perfect tax, but I believe it's FAR better than what we have now.