And stop anthropomorphising corporations

The concept of "corporation" itself is inherently an anthropomorphization!

I'm being entirely serious. In fact, you're only supporting my point: even though it's on the same network, buying the service from those brands is much, much cheaper. Paying more for the same service just because it's the "name" brand is what makes the big-4-brand users chumps.

Anyone using AT*T, Verizon, Sprint or T-Mobile is already a chump. The smart people are using carriers like Straight Talk, Net10 or Virgin Mobile.

Indeed, I hear that the crossing between Vermont and Quebec is particularly long and treacherous!

It's even worse than that: we subsidize the rural rednecks too. And what do we get in return? The answer is (for example with the Transportation Investment Act), we get to bend over and surrender control of our transit systems to the state (i.e. GRTA) just to be allowed to propose a tax on ourselves! It's absurd!

The only flaw with the DMCA is the ability for the content owners to use infringement notices with impunity.

On the contrary, the flaw in the DMCA is that it criminalizes DRM circumvention. By doing so, it makes a device owner's actual property rights subordinate to a copyright holder's "Imaginary Property" rights. (And make no mistake: copyright is 'imaginary' in the sense that it exists only at the whim of Congress, and even then only for the sole purpose to "promote the progress of science and the useful arts," not to confer any kind of benefit for benefit's sake upon the copyright holder!)

At least that's the most fundamental flaw. All the other flaws, such as the one you mentioned, are incidental to it.

I sure hope you're wrong; I bought an LED-backlit TV specifically for maximum longevity.

The other thing burying your habitat does is protect it from landing craft. The rocket exhaust from them tends to throw any loose dust around at high velocity. Even if you pave the landing pad itself, there will be loose dust around that.

Make the landing pad slightly bowl-shaped.

I would think that the only limitation to the amount of space you can carve out would be limited by the mean time between failures rather than not having enough high density building material.

Energy would be a limitation too. Your digger would need to be nuclear-powered (or come with solar panels attached by a really long extension cord).

Sucks for the folks who bought 120Hz TVs in an attempt to eliminate telecine judder; now they'll have to upgrade to 240Hz.