You are clearly ate the fuck up.

I think you are bogged down in standards.

If the IT department is short on cash, and long on available hours, it can be cheaper to do it to your own spec, especially considering productivity gained in the supported departments.

This would only give carriers more bandwidth to charge the same amount for. In an age when people actually believe their kids are entitled to a cell phone with data and texting, demand is clearly there, regardless of cost.

Parent is NOT a troll. There is this thing called personal responsibility. In this country, we seem to be migrating to both entitlement and a responsibility - free belief system. The way things worked for a great many years is that you are responsible for things you do, and not entitled to anything you have not earned. I have a family plan with 4 phones on it, and a measly 700 minutes. We don't pay for overages. We don't pay for them because we don't do them.

The law requires that you are able to keep your old number.

Request a secondary number to ring to that phone, or pay x dollars to have a number activated and auto forwarded. You could also possibly use a low end PC running a script and magic jack to auto forward the calls to a cell.

Note that he covered your exceptions as a given....

IPV6 will allow any properly secured device, even your TV or refrigerator to be directly accessible from most parts of the world. This will usher in a new era of programmable and remotely controllable houses and devices to automate many aspects of our lives. Imagine resetting your alarm clock, coffee maker, and thermostat settings to accommodate your plane arriving late..... while on the plane! It could be done from any web-capable laptop, phone, kiosk at the airport, or many other internet- enabled devices.

That is a lot of name calling with zero facts. Funny thing is that Glenn Beck backs up his stuff with easily provable facts. Where are your sound arguments/facts?

I suggest you do as many smart independent thinkers do: Watch Fox and some mainstream, and derive your news from that mix and some google scholar searches.

It's easy to call names, and make sweeping generalizations. You have zero credibility, and your message has no weight, however.

Banning does not solve the problem. Banning just gives the government more excuses to intrude into our privacy. You simply make a blanket "Driving while distracted" bonus penalty.

Best solution:

Mandatory REAL driver training. You are piloting a vehicle. Force future drivers to drive distracted on a road course. Force them to try to stop in inclement conditions, etc.

FORCE THEM TO KNOW HOW TO DRIVE!

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It doesn't help that Anandtech has become intel and Nvidia-biased of late.

It is very sad that some folks refuse to consider the MANDATORY motherboard change cost. The exceptions favor AMD, with the socket AM2 lasting for about 4 years, and 2+ lasting close to 3, when considering the MOST current CPU of the moment. Intel boards cost morer and last less time. Any top tier (parts-wise) AMD PC built in the last 3 years can move to the latest and greatest processor, by a imple CPU swap. Intel cannot even get you in the i7 GENERATION without a board.

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