I would rather pay this artist $10 for blank media than risk letting one Shekel of my money finding it way in to the greedy hands of those shysters at RIAA or their clients!

JMB 'Executive' Summary

A packaged cable from any vendor still has a ~2% failure rate even with the 900% markup.
Even a 'perfect' cable installed with incompetence will fail 100% of the time.

If You hired a professional to install your network perhaps you should trust his judgment...
You did hire a professional didn't you?

BINGO!

It's not about managing their network infrastructure. Their own numbers show network load is far below capacity. This is about new revenue streams AND strengthening their monopoly on your access to data and services. I'm complaining again to my elected officials as soon as I hit save here.

Cable has far outgrown the need for protection from regulation, Let them pay the same fees to government that coper and fiber carriers do ans see if they're still competitive. If it looks like a public utility and acts like a public utility it should be managed as a public utility! No More Exemption!

Agree with most of what Elvind says. Where he is wrong is that two 15 year olds sleeping with each other IS consent in all US states. For that matter, two 13 year olds sleeping together IS consent. In most states the two participants need to me more than 24 months difference in age for Non Consent laws to apply.

What I want to know is why the over zealous prosecutors are not charged with child abuse for subjecting these kids to this kind of treatment. These cases serve only one purpose. Generating free publicity for the up coming election cycle. I see these cases as sexual exploitation of children for political gain.

Remember District Attorney George Skumanick and vote him out next election. His behavior here is reprehensible.

Here is another example of western mobile carriers stifling innovation. It does not matter if the Dell platform was boring or not. It's up to the market to decide, NOT the carriers. It's time for the carriers to be required (as a Public Utility) to open their access rules. Locked devices and exclusive contracts are creating artificially high prices for wireless and blocking device manufacturers from entering the market on a level playing field. They have no problem operating in other countries that do not allow these practices but decry the fate of their industry when lawmakers suggest they open up here. I say Bull Shit! Let them compete by offering better coverage and services and not on who has the coolest gadget maker locked into an exclusive contract. US falls way behind other countries in wireless quality and diversity.

Young people don't think they can go in the streets and do anything they like because they listen to rap or play violent games. Young people go in the streets and commit violent crime because they feel frustrated and disenfranchised by the actions of the aristocracy and self righteous people like Richard Taylor! It's an act of rebellion against candy coated repression.

If you want to do something about the problem of violent street youth. Open a resource center providing services to homeless and disenfranchised youth. And for God sakes, stop listening to idiots like Richard Taylor.

This year I was able to join the ranks of Yet Another Generator User in my neighborhood. We live in a fairly rural area of Southern Maine so we were black for 8 days this season. As a telecommuter this was particularly painful. While the furnace is 120V the well is 240V and the furnace will not run if there is no water service.

When we were dark last season I found myself whining to my father about no power, heat, water. He informed me that he had an old Chicago Power 40411 portable generator he no longer used because it made so much noise all the other campers kept giving him dirty looks and rude comments whenever he fired it up. A couple weeks later I found box with generator parts in my driveway. It took some fussing but I finally got it running. Cost: three weekends of small engine repair and my pride.

On the first day of darkness this season my wife asked why I had not actually hooked up that generator so we could have heat and water. Um, so a few hours later and a trip to HD I added a HEMA L14-30 outlet near the cellar window and 20ft of 30A extension cord. Cost: $130 in parts, 5 hours, my manhood.

The key here is that the generator has a 4 connector outlet and is rated at 5.5kW @ 240V. This allows me to run both sides of the circuit breaker panel. So long as I remember to open the main breaker switch. Fortunately my main switch as 3 contact (red, white, black) so when it's open I'm isolated from the grid. I'm told this is not always the case so if you're going to back feed your circuit breaker panel like I did you need to check this or have an electrician install a cross over switch. Cost: ~$300 installed. While I don't need this I'm having my electrician friend come over and help me put it in so I'm code compliant.

I can't stress the safety of this enough. Back feeding a circuit panel is handy but can be dangerous. I put the plug I use on a separate thermal magnetic breaker with ground fault. The generator runs outside, under an awning behind the shed so we don't get exhaust gas back in the cellar. I'm installing a separate cross over switch so I can't get electricity from it unless I'm isolated from the utility grid.

That said, this little puppy has enough umph to run the well and furnace and a few lights. I get about 3 hours per gallon of gas which is less than ideal but this is a backup system that might see 2% usage. Unfortunately the power is not clean enough to run my home office. I have 4 systems on a 2kVA UPS to do Enterprise Software Development. Unfortunately, the UPS didn't like the generator's power and kept shutting off when the well kicked in. I ended up using a little Honda generator to drive my office that week.

Every time I see one of those 22kW propane generators with auto start outside HD my heart skips a beat and my trousers get a little tight but then I look at the price tag and think; Yea, for a few days a year I need this I can live with my hand me down generator a little longer.

My advice. keep an eye on craig's list this summer and pick up a cheap used generator. Get your electrician friend to help you install a cross over switch and the big extension cord. Shove the thing in the back of the garden shed and sleep easier knowing it's there.

It well may be that George W is the first president prosecuted for High Crimes and Misdemeanors after leaving this office of President. At least, I hope so.
I must take responsibility for my part in this travesty. I was angry and wished to unleash the dogs well supplied with cans of whoop-ass. I knew GW was a slime ball when I re-elected him but I wanted revenge (not retribution or justice) upon the fears in my mind. Now matters are worse.

I am responsible for cleaning up this mess I helped create with my vote. Fortunately, I have a strong Constitution. It's power lies in it's endurance and slow methodical workings. Our founding father's knew there was no way to prevent whack jobs like GW from taking control of a country. History is re pleat with examples. What they did was prevent them from holding power for long and ensuring that they could not permanently damage "This bold experiment". As these gag orders are lifted we'll learn the extent of the damage caused. Hopefully, our outrage will not be tempered by the fear and grief of September. I for one am demanding accountability for criminal acts.

If you'll excuse me now, I have to write my representatives and light a fire under their collective ass.