Putting 'cause, with the apostrophe like that, is informal, but perfectly grammatical.

Using cause for because without an apostrophe to indicate the missing syllable IS wrong, however. It's also frustrating because cause, as in cause and effect, is pronounced differently from the last syllable of because. I prefer "cuz" to "cause", but autocorrect has gotten rid of that, it seems.

Or, let's just all migrate to IPv6 and be done with this.

Most likely your player is bad. I've been using DVDs and Blu-Rays for nearly as long as both have existed and have never had a disk spontaneously fail. I certainly have had players fail though.

Greater lossy compression than you find for the video on Blu-Ray, and lossy compression on the audio (Blu-Rays generally have lossless audio).

MakeMKV + HandBrake (HandBrake can do almost all DVDs and some BluRays without MakeMKV, but MakeMKV is needed for some encrypted discs). MakeMKV is shareware (free beta period but reasonable to pay for if you don't want the hassle); HandBrake is open source. Both run on Linux, OS X and Windows.

A huge portion of landmass but a tiny portion of the population.

Geode:

    processor : 0
    vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
    cpu family : 5
    model : 10
    model name : Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS
    stepping : 2
    microcode : 0x8b
    cpu MHz : 498.048
    cache size : 128 KB
    fdiv_bug : no
    f00f_bug : no
    coma_bug : no
    fpu : yes
    fpu_exception : yes
    cpuid level : 1
    wp : yes
    flags : fpu de pse tsc msr cx8 sep pge cmov clflush mmx mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow vmmcall
    bogomips : 996.09
    clflush size : 32
    cache_alignment : 32
    address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
    power management:

    Linux fqdn.domain.tld 3.16.0-4-586 #1 Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u4 (2015-09-19) i586 GNU/Linux

This is from an Alix 2D3 which is (but not for much longer) my router.

He failed to argue that point.

Quite a few North American carriers use 2600 MHz (2.6 GHz) spectrum, although that doesn't change your point that much.

My mobile phone in 2001 was a TDMA (digital) phone. And that was 14 years ago.

Except nobody said they didn't need oil in their Volt. They didn't need oil changes in the eGolf which is an electric car, not a hybrid.

And every aisle too. Not just on islands. :)

I think the problem here is that yes, you don't want to waste the time, but you (and few others) are willing to pay what it would really cost to offer fast airborne bandwidth.

A few Mbps are really quite adequate for 99% of the users that *need* in-air connectivity (or simply want it to prevent being bored, like me with IRC and web browsing). If people want to do heavy VNC work or video streaming on board aircraft, they're going to have to pay more than $20 for it. It's that simple.

It does 3G, just not North American 3G, based on the original article's assertations. I did some googling and found nothing to go against this.

Its 3G is 900 and 2100 MHz - neither band is used in North America (excepting isolated areas like St. Pierre and Miquelon).

This phone simply doesn't support the North American 3G/"4G" bands. The phone would need different radio hardware to support North American 3G.