You want to bet that number subtracts the cost of their network build out from the profit margins? The bulk of the costs are the labour and equipment needed to run the fiber. Once the fiber is in place, upgrades are just a matter of swapping out the equipment at both ends and the costs will drop sharply.

They are making money, it's just that internet is less of a profit center than wireless so they would rather put the money where they can make the higher profit.

All the property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.

- Benjamin Franklin, letter to Robert Morris, December 25, 1783

Also, I think you're a racist old fuck. How is "rap shit" music at 1200dB any worse than your 455 also blaring at 1200dB?

Where at all in my post, did I mention the race of anyone listening to rap shit?

I think you're the racist if you start playing the race card based on a statement about loud obnoxious music being blared by someone whose race was never mentioned.

Your the exact kind of asshat the proves why new laws should be implemented to reduce the sounds vehicles make at their exhaust.

Where did you get the impression that I'd be doing what I said with my car that would be outside the bounds of current laws and noise issues?

I'm talking about restoring a car that was and would be perfectly legal, it also just happens to sound really good. It isn't like I'd be running straight pipes like one would at a race track...geez, lighten up Francis.

What I'm talking about driving is certainly less loud and obnoxious that those that drive around in cars with sound systems at full blast, constructed by those that I guess have no concept of midrange and highs, only bass..pumping out rap shit music at 1200dB and rattling peoples homes for a 4x block radius.

Lemme guess, you hate legally constructed and outfitted motorcycles too, right?

From the reviews I've read it's basically it's cool, quiet, has all the latest features but in the end has almost the same performance as the 760. Where the 970 went really aggressive on pricing the 960 looks to be their "money maker" that TechPowerUp called "a cheap-to-make GPU they paired with an extremely cost-efficient PCB design that has loads of margins in it for future price wars with AMD".

Not that I think AMD is in any mood for price wars after their Q4 financials, they posted a $330 million loss, a lot of one-time charges but also a $58 million inventory write-down on their APUs. Last quarter revenue was down 13% and guidance for Q1 2015 is another 15%, they really could use some killer graphics card very, very soon. Or to put it even more harshly, their last quarter wiped out 2/3rds of their stockholder value and one more quarter like would put them in bankruptcy court.

I really don't see it, in the city any point-to-point beam is going to be a lot slower, unreliable and probably more costly than just running a fiber. Wireless for consumers is a different story, people expect their cell phones and tablets and wifi laptops and whatnot to run at higher and higher speeds but this will be useless for that since it can't penetrate buildings.

Near my cabin in Norway they're planning a fiber rollout now, population density of county is about 35 people/km^2 (92/square mile) or a little higher than the US average. The planned build-out cost is $4500/house, of which they want $1000 up front and the rest over the lifetime of the fiber. While it hasn't been made explicit in the subscription cost you can estimate that the fiber will last 30 years = 360 months = $10/month. The rest of the monthly fee is paying for maintenance, data traffic, support and other overhead. That's a pretty rural community in a high-cost country and I actually expected it to be higher.

I guess you like some others consider a car as *nothing* more than transportation to get from A to B. I think that's sad. I've never owned anything but 2x seat sports cars with the exception of a great 1986 911 Turbo which "technically" had 4 seats but the rear ones wouldn't even hold groceries, so doesn't really count.

The cars I buy and drive, are basically a fun adventure to me every time I sit in it and turn the key on. Right now, I'm trying to get a good, rebuilt mid 70's or so big block engine...something hopefully before catalytic converters and mostly just mechanical and non-computerized. Something with brute force and power.

Now THAT is fun....and hell, I can afford the gas.

In either case there is no need for them to be annoying to the driver, which engine noise is to many people.

I'm guessing you don't like the sound of a nicely tuned motorcycle engine too, right?

I'm not talking over the top obnoxious, but one that you can hear readily within the block.

I mean, a silent electric motorcycle would be no fun whatsoever with no sound.

That engine, sounds GOOD. And with a little new exhaust magic, and cutting through the shaker hood so that it become functional again, it will sound AND have close to 500HP.

Sure it gets 10gal to the mile, but its fun,and I have a job where I can afford it. I miss cars with tons of torque and that sound. I don't want a silent car, what fun is that?

Distribution of classified information?

Not sure what the former is, shouting "fire" in a crowded theater?

Threats? Fraud? False advertising?

Obscenity? Showing porn to minors?

Libel and slander? Copyright?

Doctor-patient privilege, attorney-client privilege?

Judges can't bias the jury? I don't know.

Seems to me most these loopholes are alive and well in the US too, despite the constitution not having any exceptions whatsoever. Yes, it's really hard to come up with a constitution that properly captures all the small details that "speech" is not simply "opinion".

But not on your internal speakers, at worst you have to install an exterior speaker to deliver "engine" noises. In fact, you can probably do active noise cancellation of it internally so you barely hear your own engine. The turn signal on the other hand serves an actual purpose, to remind you that you're still signaling to other people that you're turning as in some curves it won't turn itself off. For driving a manual car the engine noise serves a purpose too, but it's getting more and more rare even here in Europe.

You talk like Firefox could implement it, which they can't. They need keys, those keys need to stay secret and the content needs to stay protected until you can hand it over to the OS/graphics driver and probably all sorts of other nasty liabilities and penalties if you don't. The music industry had to abandon DRM, but the movie industry is still going full steam with HDCP 2.2 for 4K and when they finally make 4K BluRay this year it'll be choking full of AACS 2.0, BD+ 2.0, Cinavia 2.0 and whatever else they can throw at it.

I think they know this is their really last chance, BluRay looks pretty damn good (1080p, uncompressed sound) and 4K BluRay adds all the last bells and whistles like resolution on par with DCI 4K, high frame rate, 10 bit color, extremely wide color space Rec.2020, bigger dynamic range ,>HDTV 3D even if you only get half per eye, HEVC encoding... if you can rip one of those discs the source is likely to be better than anything you can play it with, so far there's not even a reference monitor at any price that can deliver 100% Rec.2020 coverage.