The point of net neutrality is that net traffic is treated as a commodity. If service providers can choose which packets to give preferene, they not only compete on price and speed, they also compete on the shape of their packet preferences. This means competition moves from a commodity model to a monopolistically competitive one, which is less efficient. Granted, a duopoly is much less efficient, so it may be a moot point, but net neutrality is overall good, no matter how many ISPs there are.

Option D : More likely, large mobile providers in the more populous countries of the EU will stop making supranormal profits from corporate customers who travel for work, a hundred small operators from smaller countries will go bankrupt, and most others will merge or be acquired by a larger firm.

I'm not trying to be funny. It's very easy to switch mobile operators, and there are a lot of mobile operators, which makes it very unlikely that they can collude on high prices. Most likely there will be an shift in the industry's organizational landscape from country-wide four- or five-firm oligopolies into a more integrated continent-wide model. The largest obstacle for this to happen is that while no roaming charges may apply yet, we still have higher prices for international calls within the EU. These would need to go if we want to see a single market in Europe for mobile telephony, and to be honest, it should have happened years ago. Perhaps with the elimination of roaming charges the largest emerging mobile operators, who now have nothing to lose, will push for a single market.

Duh, it was always meant to be backwards compatible.

You don't need a simple majority when you're anointed by God.

He actually loves it. In fact, he was named after Linoleic Acid.

What do you mean allowed? Who is going to stop her?

I'm correcting myself here. You actually have to use open.mapquest.com to view the map with OSM data. It's still in beta, but it seemingly does not suck.

No it does not. OSM is a cartography portal, where you can map shit that's in the real world. You can't really do many useful things in openstreetmap.org but look at the map and edit it. If you want to use it like google maps, you'll have to either download the data and some software to interpret it for you, or use a third party service like mapquest. However, it sucks.

He must have done a lot of shoveling to keep that place warm before.

This is only because Britain drives on the left. The one true side of the road.

There are actually more reasons than are included in the summary. From TFA:

But I guess 'Organ Carriers to be given Permission to Speed' is much less of a headline. I do like the idea of speeding with a reason, but I don't know how viable that would be. How do you make sure every report is filed?

Well at least we're getting round to it now. Nuclear energy was deployed well before it was ready to produce electricity in such scale, and the insecurities we built into the plants because our engineering wasn't up to the task yet produced many violent and unfortunate accidents. But we're going to have to embrace nuclear energy in one form or another if we plan to have a cheap source of clean and reliable energy in the coming centuries. It's best research into preventing nuclear core accidents and preventing any radiation leaks be done as thoroughly and frequently as possible.

It's possible that because of some failure, their test reactor does not melt down.

I also do not think the ggp was being racist. It is a shame because I was agreeing with the gp's point that the rise of the east is good for the world. It will bring prosperity to millions of people who previously had none. What we need most to be worrying about is how to make sure they also obtain the rights and freedoms that we now (or once did :-s) enjoy. China is making greater investments in R&D, and growing them at a much higher rate than Europe? That's great, that benefits us all.

It'll be a few years. You mean to list the EU as the third power there? We can go by numbers:

GDP

• Europe: 16.7 trillion
• US: 15.7 trillion
• China: 8.3 trillion

Population

• China: 1362 million
• Europe: 507 million
• US: 317 million

Aircraft carriers

• US: 10
• Europe: 5
• China: 1

Nobel Prizes (ignoring Literature and Peace)

• Europe: 442 (317)
• US: 323 (290)
• China: 7 (4)