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Why do these assholes even take an oath of office these days? The fourth amendment isn't ambiguous, and the failure of the courts to enforce it doesn't change what it says. The NSA is committing billions of felonies.

-jcr

So, how many connections will feed into this CoLo you mention? And, do you have a study which compares the cost of running all those home runs to simply aggregating traffic on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis?

I will preface this by saying "this is really true" because you probably would otherwise read it as a nonsense, sarcastic, or glib comment.

I heard a conversation the other day about some of the terrible new buildings at the nearby university. A very senior administrator said (paraphrased), "you need to hire a hot architect and pay him 20% of the project price to come up with some really shocking architecture, to prove to prospective students that the school is still relevant."

I think he was talking mostly about the atrocity that they added to the Medical School, which looks suspiciously like the post-accident Chernobyl reactor. The "architecture" part of the project probably added $20M over making it look like a classical higher-ed building. I believe this administrator had final sign-off on such an expense.

It is not like an educated population is some kind of public good.

It's not, if you're speaking about the economic term. A 'public good', to an economist, is something that cannot be provided by the private market (a "market failure") and therefore must fall to a government to provide. Education is one where the private market excels in comparison to the public provision, which would be a counter-example.

And how should the government do that? With the tax income that these companies managed to avoid paying? Cool story bro.

The government should take money from the poor and funnel it into the coffers of these corporations. Did you miss the part where government is for the privatization of gains and the socialization of losses?

The alternative is asking for bankruptcy.

I can just about guarantee you that several buyers of bandwidth in Phoenix had contracts with the people who owned this fiber and those contracts specified multiple redundant paths out of the city.

Odds are we're looking at backup system failure or contract fraud. Probably the former.

How so? Everyone gets the same speed....

It's almost as fair as the toilet paper supply in Venezuela, Comrade!

Ah - they'll face opposition in some southern cities where they want to expand Google Fiber, but they won't suffer the wrath of the LGBT... community.

Put the key in off the license sticker on your PC

Yeah, the one that rubbed off the bottom of your laptop in three months and you forgot to take a picture of it when it was new...

Ah, I hope Redbox helped fund this feature since they're going to be a primary beneficiary!

Google "Jimmy Hoffa".

-jcr

Collective bargaining forms the basis for an intelligent, social civilisastion.

Bullshit.

Unions in the USA exist to steal money from workers to buy hookers and blow for mobsters and politicians. The teamsters in particular are as dirty as they come.

-jcr

I just don't want the boss to be disrespectful to me when the estimate is not accurate. Get us some estimation training or something. Don't give me a lecture. I'm too old for lectures.