That's lucky for you. I lived in the UK for the first 30-odd years of my life; now I live somewhere you can't get a fair price for used media.

"Then why not sell it back to your local game shop, get money back in your pocket..."

Were you to try that, you would likely get less than a tenth of 'your money' back in your pocket.

Contrary to popular belief, you can't just submit a film to a festival and have it shown. They're very picky (who knew?), and you'd have to submit to something like 10 festivals just to be accepted by one - if you're very lucky. Some friends recently had this exact scenario happen (submit to eight, rejected by six, accepted by one, still waiting to hear back from one).

That was an even quicker death than the Nexus One.

You mean like the carcinogenic aftermath of bovine growth hormones showing up in milk? You're right, no corporation would be that stupid...

Perhaps this could signal the death knell for the **AAs, the music and movie industries as we know them. I'd love to see people just refusing to buy their crap, not downloading their lousy movies and turning their backs on the whole situation. Only buy CC music, only download and use FOS software and only watch independent (true independent) movies.

You may say I'm a dreamer... but I'm not the only one.

I, for one, welcome our evil alien overlords. I've been curious about the taste of brains.

I don't even know if it's a docsis 3.0 or not. I've had it for years, but I guess they could still have flash-upgraded it without my knowing.

Really doesn't surprise me that the 'results' I'm getting aren't genuine...

I applaud Google's decision to enter the fray.

What I don't understand is that, when I went to the 'sign me up... please!' page, I decided to run the network speed tests. I pay Charter in the Southeast for what I thought was 5 mbps (advertised) internet; the tests tell me I'm getting between 9.55 and 26 mbps. Twenty six. I had to run each of them about four times, I was in such disbelief.

Why do I think that Charter is somehow accelerating all network tests I run after visiting the Google page?

I was just going to celebrate the fact that for once South Carolina, being one such state, is not behind the rest of the country!

Full disclosure: I live in South Carolina.

...is it all right for a professor to criticise (shut up) the standard of students' grammar and spelling, and use 'sort of like' in a sentence?

I prefer the much-more subtle (and slightly less fictional) Kate Bush, with "Experiment IV."

"...and they told us/what they wanted/was a sound that could kill someone"

Where've you been? They've been doing that since the Cold War.

Wouldn't it be better to have a limitless variety of actual applications?

... because pretty soon we're not going to have any rights online.