I think that things like this are caused by in-flight food service. We must ban in-flight food, because we have no evidence that these events are NOT caused by the in-flight food.

I used to do that for a 200MB file on on dialup. I think the point is that content sizes are growing rapidly, expecting broadband speeds to keep up. The concern is that people are afraid of the current stagnation, and how it might mean that in a few years, your download of that 50GB patch will take longer than 30-40 minutes.

All the more reason to do the opposite of what marketing tells me to do.

You realize that if large enough quantities of people began to do this, marketers would catch on and take advantage of that, right?

Have you tried X3 from Egosoft? X3: Terran Conflict (standalone expansion) is a mighty fine game.

Also, less poo and more boom. Explosive poo?

And just think: if it overheats, your computer becomes delicious

Honestly, I found the name "Unobtainium" no less plausible than a number of the heavier elements in the periodic table. Comparing "Unobtainium" to, say... "Promethium", "Ununoctium", "Berkeluim", "Californium"; not to mention a number of the proposed names for the current temporary ones... How does "Unobtainium" defy logic any more than those do?

Or are you claiming that because we haven't discovered it yet, it doesn't exist? In a science fiction movie. Really? Really?

As for orbital bombardment... That's probably the part the Cameron didn't show. Humans go down to the surface and try to strip-mine politely because of politics. Think of the PR win that it would be for the (then current) administration if they can convince these primitive creatures to live/act like humans! But now that we're kicked off planet, time to warm up the nukes.

I think it's more "don't artificially limit it via per-user throttles".

Evolution is entirely random. Natural selection is not. You are using the term evolution to describe both processes.

This only works when the profile actually has public information. If _everything_ is private (as it is on mine) and nothing is visible on the 'distress' page, then this would be a clear red-flag that you're not showing the right thing.

I think it's also important to remember that at the moment, customers provide the transport-to-home. This is a non-trivial number of routes that must be serviced, and would take a significant number of drives in order to service in a reasonable timeframe. Perhaps it would be doable if you would accept that you can only receive delivery on specific days (maybe only monday and thursday, for instance, or even just monday in underrepresented markets), but then the brick and mortar stores are needed to provide the incidentals or the last-minute "oh shit, I forgot that" items. Either way, you're going to be paying a delivery charge. The charge could be bundled into the price of the items and averaged out over all the items, sure. But then you start dealing with psychology and "oh, it's cheaper if I drive myself to and buy it. Look, I'll save 10 cents per pound!". Psychology is also in play as people prefer to pick out their own items. Every time they get a banana with a couple brown spots, they'll be wondering if there were better ones that they didn't get. You mentioned a big box to receive deliveries in - I think this is simply not doable in cities when you start considering apartment buildings with 20-400 units in them, simply due to space considerations. Rural areas and suburbs, sure - that could work. tl;dr - I don't see B&M stores going away for a long time.

You mean like this? http://www.peapod.com/

[Tangent started] There could be a variety of reasons for tolerance in a 'true' religion. 1) if their God had demanded that everyone be allowed to make their own choice; 2) A religion that says simply the act of faith is necessary, wherever that is placed; 3) A religion that holds ALL religions to be false, and thus not matter at all. [/tangent]

tldr; Truth in a religion has nothing to do with how tolerant it is.

The problem is that many people will feel "comfortable" at speeds that they personally are not safe at. They'll continue to feel "comfortable" right until they look down at their makeup/phone/breakfast/newspaper and crash.

The more comfortable a person is, the more comfortable they will be with directing their attention elsewhere. And the more someone drives at higher speeds, the easier it becomes to be comfortable at even higher speeds than that.

I'm sorry, checking your email on your phone while cruising at 85-90 on a busy freeway is not the safest behavior.

One way that I did it with AT&T was to sign up for a plan, but _don't_ sign up for a data plan. Since all iphones are required to have a data plan, in a few months they'll notice and just tack one on to your bill.

No contract required.

That's how I did it a few years ago when I moved back to the US from Australia with my aussie iphone.