Oh, granted. But the (to be stereotypical for a moment) welfare-riding, pop out kids to get additional money on the check, high school drop out breeders will outnumber people who realize how an important an education is to society as a whole. We don't want that to happen. Or more importantly, we don't want that to happen any more than is already occurring.

The problem one risks with that policy is long term. Stupid people will breed more stupid people, and more often, than educated people will breed educated people. Eventually, over the course of time, the stupid people largely outnumber the educated ones, and they start determining the course of legislation and whatnot. The educated lot needs to get some safeguards in place or 5 generations down the road, our children will be mindless sheeple.

That's how LNP (Local Number Portability) works. When you get a phone, the law has determined that you own the number, essentially. So you can carry your home phone number over to a cell number with tracfone, and then later take it over to AT&T, should you so desire. Most carrier's will have you set up your new account with them first, let them know where your number is coming from, and they will take care of the transfer. So you do have two accounts with the same number, albeit very briefly.

I used to work in one of Verizon Wireless's call centers, and I have to say, you must have talked with a bunch of idiots. As of 5 years ago, anyway, I could tell you exactly where to look in your file in their database to tell where to verify all this information. Sounds to me like they've taken a lot of power for the CSR's to fix things, too.

Oops. Guess I should read further before I post. Beaten to the punch!

Sisko's father owned a restaurant back on Earth.

BSG may have done that for the tech, but they certainly didn't do that for the plot. They pulled stuff out nowhere all the time, plot-wise. /I hate seeing people putting Firefly and BSG on the same side in a comparison.

Touche, sir.

Who marked this as "Funny"? This is +5 "Informative". He's being serious here, folks.

I thought the first episode was like BSG crossed with Voyager. Dr. Rush appears to have too many similarities to Baltar for my comfort. I, for one, thought the premise was a little weak. Didn't grab me, nor did any of the characters seem that interesting. I was completely bored with the Senator's sacrifice moment, too. I'll watch a couple more episodes to see if it comes together.

The folks at Computerhope.com are a great resource for helping users fix their computers after something like this happens. They usually have the users asking for help run through a battery of programs, such as Avast!, SuperAntispyware, Malwarebytes, HijackThis, etc in order to catch most things.

Very helpful site for those pesky "antivirus" viruses.

Huh. I've been living in various places in the Seattle area for nearly 20 years, and I have never heard anyone do that.

They might say, "Seattle", "U-district", "Bellevue", "Northgate", "Greenlake"....

With so many smaller neighborhood names...what would be "the city" people are referring to?

San Diego and Seattle don't.

I've lived in the San Diego area, and I live in the Seattle area now. Got news for ya: NO ONE says "I'm going into the city today". They say "downtown", or the neighborhood/district they are going to.

SF is unusual in that aspect. Even Eddie Izzard commented on it.

Oh, well then I suppose I can accept plausible.

I'm with you on that drinking thing. :)

And I'd almost be okay with that, except they aren't introducing this person/force/group till the very last of the series? That is horrible internal consistency. There has been no evidence that would lead us to believe other races exist in the galaxy. To suddenly go, "Oh, by the way, here's another alien civilization that's just been screwing with you."...yikes.

I wouldn't put it past them, to be honest. But...ugh.