Not just dialup. I was able to get T1 service locally for less than I'm now paying for DSL. Plus, the provider was staffed with nice people who went beyond the call to help. The service was fast and I could host from home if I wanted to. No bandwidth limits or warnings.

Try to find local access like that any more.

Except when bukkake is involved. Bukkake requires facial queues.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

Standing up and risking fines or imprisonment is for the little guy. The citizen. We can't have CEOs of the largest corporations in the world making this sort of righteous stand. It's not like they could muster the resources to publicize what was happening to them, or fund a defense team, or a lobbying team to work on their behalf, or have powerful connections to help them. And it's certainly not like you would muster up intense support and loyalty from customers, future customers, and everyone in general by taking such a meaningful stand.

Nope. Keep your mouth shut. Keep your $500/hr shiatsu massages in your corporate office, and shrug a big dumb brainless don't-give-a-shit shrug when it is revealed that your entire company bent over every time the government demanded it.

PS: It isn't "treason", just because you do something the government doesn't like.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/bombardier.html

"how can it evolve? it will blow up if it doesn't get it just right!"

we should all realize that, unfortunately, creationists will immediately alight upon these gears as "intelligent design" and disproof of evolution

"how can it evolve? if the gears don't mesh, it doesn't move!"

you can't argue with the dull and intellectually dishonest

That's my point. And yet, every time a new iPhone comes out, inventories are depleted within a few weeks.

How do they "sell-out"? By turning you, the consumer, into the consumed. You're not buying their product, you're what they're selling. Their real customers are AT&T and advertisers and the strategic deals they have with their content providers.

Hell, they could give away their products and still make money.

You think for one minute that Verizon and Comcast want a "free market"?

Is it a free market when there are only a very few players? Are you old enough to remember when there were hundreds of ISPs in every city? When there was actual competition?

The problem is, we're not really Verizon or Comcast's customers. None of us choose them because we like those companies or the services they offer. We choose them because there are no other choices. So now Verizon pays $130billion (with a "B") for Vodaphone, and the only reason they do is because interest rates are near zero (look at the bond prices, not the prime rate). Forget for a moment that if we actually had any enforcement of the law, that merger would get laughed out of court. For that to be worthwhile, interest rates would have to stay near zero for 20 years. But Verizon sees the writing on the wall. They figure they can take out another competitor and then just soak the people who pay them for service (not customers mind. the customers are their "strategic partners", production divisions, advertisers, and the people who they sell your information to).

You're not a consumer, you're the commodity. You're what they selling. You're trapped. Go ahead, move to Comcast and Comcast can say, Go ahead, move to Verizon. They don't give a fuck because they're gonna get paid either way. 'Cause where you gonna go?

Welcome to Corporatism 2013: End-stage Capitalism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writ_of_assistance

the historical events that served as the basis for the fourth amendment

and exactly the type of abuse the NSA is perpetrating on the american people

what we are talking about with the NSA program is a thorough, gross violation of and clear, undeniable contradiction to a founding principle of this country

...and yet any new repackaging of their material is met with instant sellouts.

Sellouts yes, but those venues get smaller and smaller.

They got 60k at Comiskey when I was a kid and went to see 'em. Now, they get 10k at the United Center, and that's with every radio station in Chicago giving away tickets. Sure, it's a sellout, but it means less and less.

But now that I think about it, "sellout" is a good tag to use for any story about the Stones or Apple.

Truth may sound like, but not actually be, snark.

If the task sounds daunting, the truth is even worse. Wood is working on another book about King, but in 2010 he learned he had Lou Gehrig’s disease, and 80 percent of patients die within five years of diagnosis.

dude's life is horror, all around

That wasn't "wastewater", that was Exxon's proprietary formula of Hydroxylic Acid. And any children who are found with Hyrdoxylic Acid in their bloodstream better get ready get sued by Exxon.

Job CreatorsTM, bitches!

The only way to stop a bad guy with a grenade on an airplane is a good guy with a grenade on an airplane.

Oh wait...

Most Libertarians (both big and little "l") don't want state sponsored corporations with special privileges not afforded their individual members.

Let me add that to the list of positions which Libertarians claim both sides.

Correct. You can stream to your PS Vita from the PS4 the same way the NVIDIA Shield streams from your PC.

The PS Vita TV does the same thing, but with TV-OUTs so you play it on another television.

This may have limited appeal, but for those who want it, it'll be terrific.