wrong, the pipe is directional....so it pushes most of the sound to the rear, only a fraction of the sound goes allround.

private use, there is only one place in the world afaik that even has gbit internet, that's korea.
In europe, highest you get is 200mbit(down) in sweden/finland/norway, only in mayor cities.

200 mbit per customer, means only 5 customers for a gbit. a small area in say stockholm could easily contain 500 customers, that's already 100Gbit.
Connect all of stockholm or a similar place, and you will need huge backbone connections already, and that is still on city level, not even national, let alone international

wow, pathetic bankaccount protection in the us and aus then....
My (old 2000ish) dutch bank had an account nr. with a randomised number generated with a special digipass that used the bankcard, pin and time with a random seed.
My current finnish bank uses a accountnr, pincode and a onetime pad code to access and confirm

Bullshit, i've had some great meals under 10 euro's a head, and some horrible ones at so-called star restaurants.
Price is not quality, it can be an indicator of a very good chef, or just an overhyped idea.

The best food tends to be from one-dish foodstand style places(also the worst, but meh)

Glocks have a ceramic frame, but are not entirely ceramic.
There are no guns that have barrels of anything but metal(mostly highgrade carbon steel)

That's exactly why they work so hard to keep it secret.
There is no copyright on it.
of course, they can put a heavy clause in anyone's contract before they get to see it.

The average salary has gone from having a family, a decent house and a small car on one income in the 50's and 60's to
I hope the money will last for rent and noodles on 2 incomes in the 90's and 00's.

That just proves atleast 25% of best buy customers fail to read even the packaging.

actually, vanilla wow wasn't hard obectively compared to current wow.
TBC was probally the hardest in pure by-the-numbers hard, and wrath had some of the best mechanics difficulty.
People got insanely better at group challanges in games since vanilla wow.

And yet it is still (sadly) the best mmo out there, both in actual playability and scaling.
sadly, all the wow "killers" i played (warhammer, swtor, rift) didn't get anywhere near the polish that wow had and has.
Rift is really the only (fantasy) mmo even close and sadly their engine still sucks donkey balls.

yep, they are priced by bandwith.

around 5 euro's, you'd get 512/128 from my provider(not his, not sure there)
10 ish gives 2 mbit/512
if your area has the new 4g network(rather limited still to the mayor 4 cities at this point, but scheduled to grow fast) you can get 40 mbit for about 20 euros

I live in a tiny city in Finland(30.000), nearest mayor town would be about 200 km, and even that town wouldn't be counted as mayor anywhere outside of finland :D

We have had lte for more than a year now and should be getting real 4g coverage somewhere first quater next year.

I pay 5 euro's for speed limited, but otherwise unlimited connection for my phone.

LOL, you really think the dems are leftwing?
They talk slightly more leftwing than reps, but their politics are the same

According to several american friends here in finland, the costs and taxes are pretty much the same until you go over 100k a year.

At his wages and hours, he would be in the 30% tax range in most countries. Taxes are more fluid here, so at minimum wage, it might be 10% or even less, where as at 60k and above it can go to 50% or more(minus tax lawyer crap)