It's not illegal to be riding and using a cell phone at the same time.

It is illegal to cause harmful emissions (jamming)

Why are you so against Levar Burton?

https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
If there's one worthy kickstarter out there, it's this one.

Switch to Cricket (formerly AIO), best of both worlds. Auto-pay gives discount, same price as Straight Talk, uses AT&T network (like ST).

I used to work for a small retail chain (75 stores) working specifically on the POS system (including CC processing). Chargebacks are a huge issue.

Our staff had to deal with 30-40 chargebacks a month during our busy times. Each of those required at least an hour of research on the transaction, filling out forms and then getting the information back to the credit card processing company. All of which typically resulted in money coming out of our account, even though the customer was in the wrong (Along with other things, we sold monthly subscriptions to our service. A customer would dispute charges because they went to a store that started with the same first 4 letters of our name and didn't recognize the charge.).

Chargebacks cost us 1 employees time for an entire week every single month, and we where an honest retailer (refunds for anything even have way reasonable).

EXACTLY

And to top it off, there is already a service for high priority traffic. It's called: Guaranteed bandwidth and QoS.
So long as both ends agree on which packets get delivered first, this is already a widely deployed (and acceptable) practice. An internet "fast lane" is not a solution to the heart monitor "problem".

All of the above, plus "You can only watch this movie on a Windows PC".

I don't own a single Windows PC.

DRM sucks. Hard.

Ummm....
You say "One shallow, useless promise begets another..." but there simply isn't a promise in your quote.

Asimo's are now going to form a union and demand equal pay

So? Run LibreOffice everywhere, Windows and Linux. MS Office is arguably more vulnerable to attacks than the core of Windows XP.

No, re-read the license.
You can have it installed on up to 10 PC's. The company itself can have hundreds, so long as it's not installed on more than 10 you're still good.

Free Dynamic DNS is fine but....
I've used Namecheap.com for my personal domain for a few years now and recently found out you can do dynamic DNS with them too. I realize it's not free, but, it's my own domain on a service I'm paying for. It's nice having house.(mydomain).com...

And now he's one of the biggest advocates for science and technology in the country (CEO of the Planetary Society), of which there are far too few. Remember people, you are not born a scientist, actor or comedian. These are things learned over time. Plenty of people switch jobs when they find something more enjoyable. Bill Nye happens to be in a position where he supports science and has influence because of his past roles.

I, for one, applaud his effort to bring science to the masses. One doesn't have to be doing science research to make a difference.

Now stolen iPhone's from the US will be worth SLIGHTLY less. Because nobody can clone an IMEI...

That is a terrible analogy. By comparing space exploration to vacation you are suggesting that the science has no value other than to satisfy someone's curiosity, which is simply not true.

A better analogy: Going to Europa is like a manufacturing company investing in a robotic production machine. It costs a lot and takes a considerable amount of skill to setup and use, but once it's going the payoff is enormous.

We should be taking money from other things and putting them into the space program. We need these investments. See: http://www.investopedia.com/fi...

I think you misunderstand what QoS is...
QoS isn't throttling, it's packet prioritization. It means that this VoIP packet get's out first and the HTTP packet get's bumped it's place in line; but it still get's delivered and it has to happen within the TTL (time to live). QoS does NOT mean "this Torrent packet might get delivered".

Throttling, on the other hand, means the amount of packets which are coming from Netflix servers are limited to X per second. Throttling is what we're talking about here, not QoS.