And you insult his English?

Haha, fair point :)

I didn't specifically disagree with any of the rest of what you said ... he can never return, regardless of any assurances the govt. may give him.

Wait, sorry, what? I realize it feels like forever ago, but quick Googling says 25 months. Or did I misunderstand you?

Before anyone comments on my source, it was the first timeline I saw, get over it :)

My daughters' phones are $10 (each) every four months on a VZW MVNO (PagePlus, winds up being 25min/mo with rollover) & I only recently upgraded my phone from $10/mo (Airvoice) to $20.93 (Lyca Mobile) so I could have unlimited voice/text/data

Yes, I am throttled to edge speed after 100MB LTE, but it is fast enough to listen to Pandora and use navigation at the same time (not fast enough for Netlix, but I have wifi everywhere but the car & I don't watch TV while driving :)).

Best part is these are not 'before we tax and fee you to death' prices, but what I actually pay each month. People spending too much are either not shopping around or think looking at the "popular" plans (read: popular for the phone companies so they are the plans that are pushed) of the big-4 is shopping around.

I've never felt like there was a conservative or liberal majority on Slashdot, but a very well represented (albeit oft-trolling) pool of each. Occasionally each side is well represented with intelligent discourse, but not as often as I'd like.

an independent Slashdotter

It's a good way to get trans fat in the middle of a ban, though :)

I read that, many (most? all? duhno) artificial sweeteners do, but according to the Japanese (I am too lazy to look it up for you), Stevia (not an artificial sweetener) does not. There is evidence it may be good for Diabetics beyond replacing sugar with it.

Fair point, they can be used as a BS number, but they are also awesome (I agree 100%).

I have to say, I found this post refreshing (and I don't think it's offtopic, as it has a tonne of replies ... maybe we need a new +1 'topic changing') as I expected to see nothing but people complaining about how it wasn't really 3D printing. :)

A GV phone number not forwarded to your number can only generate emails/text messages - you see one you want to deal with, you listen to the recorded message.

I completely get not dealing with a company with policies you don't approve of, but unless it is a moral objection, it is a trivial one to bypass with technology.

You could just give them a BS phone number (like a Google Voice number - one they can verify, but never actually call you at).

Palm (PalmOS, not WebOS) did this very well (and the way they did it would be trivial to copy).

I would *totally* buy a Nokia WebOS phone ...

Incidentally, how were you born on 8/00? :)

I have to live to be 7811 years old to get mine ... at least I'm not Jewish, then I'd have to live to be 65,905!