keep in mind that coverage and price is VERY state dependent and even city dependent

I agree, this is the way to go. Cost will vary state to state, but I have done this in texas and for me and my wife, major medical cost like $200 a month or so. When going to the doctor, we would pay cash and the doctors cash price can vary. We found a walk in clinic for those times when you are just sick and need medicine and it was like $60 the first visit and only $45 for every other visit. (Stinks because I was already paying a $30 co-pay before!) Our regular family doctor cost about $70 and my wifes "girls's doctor" (nudge nudge, knowwhatImean) was like $100 per visit, but hey, he is a specialist and takes care of important stuff!

We really did not go to the doctor much, like maybe 3 times a year, but we wanted to have the extra coverage to cover any surgery or a car wreck or whatever.

Bad part is NO MATERNITY was covered at all, so we would have to pay cash if my wife got preggo. Called around to hospitals and it would cost about $8k to have a baby.

Add it all up and even having a kid every year on cash is cheaper than corporate style insurance for the self/un employed.

Don't stress and keep in mind that while insurance companies and hospitals may be soulless cash sucking machines, most doctors are people and hate the system to.

One company I used to work for would give us like $150 a month if we did not take their insurance, and to tell the truth, I would take the cash and do that now if my current employer would let me.

So, if they leave the whole town abandoned, what is going to keep all of the abandoned properties from becoming meth labs, crack houses or interesting places for a rave?

look at it on google maps, street view. It is mostly old trailer homes. I think that 3 mil is probably way too much.

I seriously doubt it. Look at the satellite images that you posted! Drag the little man to the map in Cardin and look at the street view. All those white spots are not lakes or mountains, they are 50 foot piles of chat, just showing that area is probably pretty nastified too. Besides if that is in the water table then you are going to have a much larger contamination area.

Keep in mind though that it does not state that you can not use software that does not include this notice and I would assume that if I download a P2P program that was developed and distributed from China, this would not apply in any way. Or maybe it could come from Sealand... I'm just sayin'...

What about using old software written before the law takes effect?

And wire kinks. They cause problems too. The 0's do not really have a problem, but the 1's get caught in the kinks pretty easily. I offer a wire straightening service if anyone is interested.

You are right that you can not take a Direcway or HughesNet satellite dish and set it up on your own, but Ground Control and other companies make mobile satellite solutions that will locate the satellite and do all of the setup without your help. They even have an in motion solution. If you are going to be remote, this is the only real solution but it is pretty expensive. There is lag, but the connection is fast when it is constant. I would combine this and 3g from ATT and 3g from Verizon. I would include Verizon because I have found that ATT does not work too well in remote places of the pacific north west like Montana, but it really depends on where you are going.

That's true. There are other sites that use data from tweets too, so maybe they need your permission to do so, or will need to remove content if you claim copyright infringement. Maybe you could get a recommendation for a lawyer from the RIAA...

Sounds like they get to have their cake and get to eat it too. They get all the benefits of using user generated content any way they want but have none of the liability. Good for them.

if you have problems with facebook apps like Mafia Wars and Farmville all you have to do is block the app and then it goes away. Not too hard...

What makes you think that a world leader would not be suicidal? What makes you think that it takes a world leader to detonate a nuke?

World Peace is entirely achievable. All it would take is the extermination of every human on earth. So, maybe the day after Armageddon we could see this happen and since Armageddon was not on the list of unlikely choices, I would assume that people believe that ... well, that it's bound to happen.

If so, we get world peace too. :) BONUS!

the Dharma Initiative people could do it, why can't we?