Answer: convenience.

I actually installed a RPi-based hotspot in my car with a Verizon stick. It's really nice to be able to access Internet on my laptop and non-3G tablet without bothering to activate a hotspot on my phone.

To be fair, he also introduced a bill to make NSA more transparent.

And Svoboda party got 50% of government positions, even though they got less than 5% of popular vote. Things get crazy after revolutions.

I lived for a couple of years right on Kings Highway and I never managed to get a yellow cab. Though a lot of limousine service cars violate their rules and pick up passengers on streets.

Hey, I'm about as socialist as it's possible in a capitalist country. I totally support the right of cabbies to make a good wage. And in theory, taxi regulations are the text-book case of protecting consumers.

However, taxi companies need to get their shit together. Right now all the taxi services in the US that I've seen are an embarrassment. A general computerized dispatch with easy-to-use phone apps is a must, with an ability to get a fare estimate beforehand. As it is, getting a cab at 2am right now is way easier with Uber - I know this because I used it many times to get home at 3am.

As for your objections, they are valid. But Uber can fix them by providing incentives to drivers to work full time - by increasing the fare prices at night or by introducing a realtime marketplace for fares.

Ok, that makes sense. IN MANHATTAN. But nowhere else.

It's impossible to get a yellow cab in Brooklyn or Queens. You have to call a car service (typically a company named something like "Supreme Leader Taxi and Limousine Service"), listen to 5-10 minutes of music then try to explain where you need a car to someone who barely speaks English. Then wait for 20-30 minutes to get a car. Maybe.

Fair? Not really. For one thing, Russian Empire hasn't seen a cent from that payment. You see, it sank.

Don't you know, that the Evil always triumphs in the middle?

I can haz sterilization without surgery? Where can I get some of this vaccine, please?

Here's a list of independence referenda, quite a few of them have 80%+ turnout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I... It is NOT unheard of.

Ukraine's very own independence referendum in 1991 had 85% turnout with 92% voting for independence.

All the sites refer to TSN.ua which is a bit, shall we say, violently anti-Russian. In reality, foreign journalists have not detected any major incidents of fraud during the referendum.

That might matter if we're talking about transit networks where reciprocity makes sense (i.e. "I'll forward your traffic if you forward mine").

However, Comcast is overwhelmingly an 'eyeball' network - its customers PAY to get access to this music/video. By refusing to setup additional peering interconnects Comcast hurts its own customers. If there was some real competition then they'll be under pressure to optimize their infrastructure and reach an agreement with transit providers on fair and equitable grounds.

Some people also mix an issue of transit there. For example, if L3 and Comcast have a peering interconnect in Dallas, for example, and L3 wants to use it to send traffic to Comcast customers in San Francisco then it _might_ make sense to ask L3 to pay fair price for long-distance transit.

Incorrect.

Farmers in California's San Joaquin depend on government-provided water. The federal government built aqueducts and channels and so it can control water allocation.

Mars is capable of holding atmosphere for hundreds of millions of years. Mars has more than enough gravity to hold together Earth-like atmosphere with negligible losses.

The main problem is the solar wind, it consists of fast-moving particles that can give enough push to ions and atoms in the atmosphere to achieve escape velocity. But solar wind is very thin, so it's not like it'll be an immediate threat.

That might sound insightful, but it's not. It's just funny. The first verse means that the Earth was created before the first stars, which is not true. And even the second verse is not correct, as the first moments of the Universe's existence were so bright that it took millions of years for it to cool down to mere 'just hot enough to melt steel' temperature.