That's so ppl can buy 150Mbps for $200, resell 6 15Mbps streams for $50 each and recover their cost, make $100, and still have 90Mbps left over for themselves.

It's an essential part of building a time machine to go back to 1976.

Well, here's my method of dealing with all environmental issues: here

Perception is reality

Is he on an Exoplanet?

if we could detect dinosaurs

sound recorder; video recorder;

If it could detect alien lifeforms it would be a tricorder

Now if they can just hire Jodie Fisher for his assistant, Mark will be one happy co-prez.

Schadenfreude baby...

Sort of off topic but there was a science fiction story about this scientist who created a potion that could make him smaller, and he just kept shrinking and shrinking, and all the different worlds he went thru each time, atoms turned into solar systems, and he just kept going down, down, down into infinite smallness. The story is here.

Good idea tho, actually, if we put politicians through a civ test or *something* we the voting electorate might be able to tell the actual skilled legislators from the big mouthed wannabees.

They told the London populace that German V-2 impacts were 'gas pipe' explosions to keep panic down.

My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!

I'm so stuck up, my vocal cords ossified from not speaking to anybody.

The most expensive cable I can find, WireWorld Platinum Starlight, legend has it costs a thousand bucks a meter, boasts of, "carbon fiber connectors and 24 solid silver conductors in the DNA Helix design, to deliver the richest sonic textures and the most tactile images that the finest A/V systems can produce." It's not just twisted pair, it's "patent-pending DNA Helix cable design, which has 24 conductors – double that of conventional HDMI cables – arranged in an innovative symmetrical geometry that reduces noise while providing a precisely balanced 100-ohm impedance at every point along the cable’s length. These advantages minimize the timing errors known as digital jitter and the resulting data corruption, to produce amazing improvements in sound and image quality". Not only that, but "Common lengths of Platinum Starlight HDMI cable are capable of transfer rates above 30 Gigabits per second, far exceeding the HDMI v1.4 High Speed with Ethernet specification of 10.2 Gigabits per second. These extraordinary cables reveal an astonishing new dimension of acoustic and visual detail, bringing music, film and sporting events to life in your home."

Bwahahahahah. Can you imagine being invited to your gay boss' party and trying to keep a straight face while he explains why his A/V system is so much better than everyone elses.