$150/mo is about what I'm paying for ISP/TV/DVR now.

/ other local providers suck just as hard, though.

This is China we're talking about. If you grease the right palms, it's the Wild West (East?).

Secret law enabling secret courts to charge and try you, in secret, and no one is allowed to say anything without thus becoming criminals themselves.

That ain't American, but that's where we've been for 13+ years now.

The National Security State will arrive, not with tanks and guns, but wrapped in the flag and carrying the word 'TERRORISTS!'

A tragedy is when I get a paper cut.
Comedy is when you fall down an open manhole and die.

When you can afford the very best (and totally amoral) marketing ...

If Voyager, MRO, Gallileo and Rosetta are spaceships, so is this busted pickup truck. .. or is the distinction you wish to draw between spaceSHIPs and spaceCRAFT?

We already knew that. They make the Koch brothers look honorable.

Who can afford better lobbyists, the ag industry or the dental?

Right on - you can hear what, seven octaves?
You can _see_ less than one, and there's lots of useful information outside that range. If some fundie complains that it's all lies because it has the word 'false' in it, ask them whether they believe infrared cameras show 'real' image. Same color-mapping principles.

Face it. We're a virus with shoes.
      -- Saint Hicks

More evidence humans and chimps evolved from a common ancestor.

A lot of fat in those (North Americans and Northern Europeans) who don't starve to death.

Skim all they can until radio stations are suddenly very affordable as label-exclusive marketing arms ... as if they're not 90% of the way there already.

Successful Dutch men must, on average, be very tall and have executive style hair.
/ Dilbert referencee

Of course they won't. Caring about the peons doesn't maximize shareholder value.