Not really... as soon as the physical copies hit the stores they'll get ripped and the original torrent will die.

I'm 30 and I only know the 2nd one. These questions are better suited to the AARP crowd.

Sorry D:

They absolutely don't all throttle P2P traffic. I live in WI, have AT&T, and I max out at 2Mb/s (what I pay for) and it stays there until the torrent is downloaded.

I completely agree, but you still have to remember that there are maybe I don't know, 6000 pro athletes in the entire country and they have to fight even harder for jobs while also sacrificing any kind of plan B. Compare that to maybe 600,000 scientists who will get a decent paying job no matter what.

Yeah athletes get paid a ton, but they entertain millions and there are not very many. It's like winning the lottery.

Anyway, go scientists!

Mod parent up.

I work at a gas station. You get the next ticket in the roll, there is no picking your ticket. Also, we cannot play lottery for obvious reasons. So working at a convenience store won't help either.

What the hell is insider baseball?? He keeps using that term but never explains what it means. Renders the article unintelligible, to me, anyway.

Think of it this way: In day to day life, for everyday objects, x = 2y describes gravitational interaction. Test it over and over, and it works just fine.

Now, when we look way out into the universe at galaxies, x = 2y doesn't quite work, but if we use the formula x = 2y + .01 everything falls into place. And it works over and over.

We don't know what the .01 is, so we call it dark matter. Someday we'll figure out what it is, for now we call it dark matter. That's it.

So, if you use more than email you are a heavy user? If that's all people used the web for, I doubt it would even exist anymore.

Are they? Who knows?

Can they? No doubt.

There is a reason for this! I used to work at a gas station, and law requires that we are within X cents of our nearest competitor and can only change prices once every 24 hours. Most stations opt then to do it right away in the morning before there is a steady stream of customers. These laws went into effect right after the gas crisis in the 70's to prevent price gouging.

Also, there is a good chance that all the gas stations in town buy from the same distributor anyway, so they all have the same cost of buying gas in the first place. Just because it's a Mobil for example, doesn't mean they by "Mobil" gas. The name really doesn't mean anything.