If you can't wait for it to boot you can sleep it. The difference between sleep and off is minimal on a modern machine.

Sleep on a modern machine is pretty damn good. On my main gaming PC if you turn off the monitor and sleep the system it uses 3.18 watts. If you turn the machine off rather than sleep you use 2.92 watts.

I actually looked at this when I had the power meter out. To play Spider Solitaire is about 102 watts on the same machine that needed 157 to play Dawn of War 2. That machine idles at 100 watts.

You're just saying that because I get your sense of humor.

So your post is now at "0", up from "-1"?

I'm grad.

And may I say that I don't want you to be at the bottom of the ocean, either, at least until it's your time :)

Right. Now it remains to be seen whether the Judge is going to call Verizon in on the carpet. If I were the Judge, I surely would be doing that, but I haven't seen any hint of that in the Court's orders.

So far.

None of the procedures you described are applicable in this court.

It was a subpoena, issued by an attorney, not a court order. Verizon was responding to a subpoena, not a court order. The only court order at the time was an order permitting the attorneys to serve subpoenas.

It is not a "sign of respect" to provide responses to a subpoena when a motion to quash the subpoena is pending; it is a "sign of contempt".

Most of us do know that, but plaintiff's lawyers are hoping that the judges are among those who don't know.