Europe already tries to ban (or already banned, I'm not so good a reader of stupid news) fried potatoes in restaurants.Actually restaurant can still fry the potatoes, but the result must not be brown...

I'm pretty sure though that the possibility of getting cancer by occasionally eating some fried/browned potatoes is pretty freakin' low compared to just walking around in average city.

Oh whatever.

Yes, this. One has to remember that we are talking about Russia and Russians.

You probably did DROP instead of REJECT.

Really, this sounded like those modest 9-star IMDB user reviews for a really shitty movies (worth of 3/10 max) starring the megastars of times gone by long time ago.

It's not that expensive to own and use a satellite phone. If you can buy new iPhone every year - then you can definitely afford a probably cheaper SAT phone (too).

Some of use JIT! So that should mean you must never interrupt me!

Brianna Wu just watched last episode of The Expanse before making the statement?

Waiting until they switch from iOS to Android too...

Sry, that's a lady's toy.

What we want is something Sony Xperia Z1/Z3/Z5 Compact came pretty close. Approx 4.5", quite powerful, stays working after little rain, battery lasts quite long. Sony abandoned the concept in X series - Compact in that series lost the IP rating. What they should've done - add less plastic-y frame and back cover (fingerprint smudges only on screen please) and make the phone 2mm fatter to give even more battery power.

But the marketing department knew better...

So, still only Sony? What a world!

It seems that at some point they broke Win 8.1 too. Just had one (i5-4xxxU CPU) which wasn't updated for 2 years and it just wasn't able to get that done.

Just 'Searching for updates' for long time. At least 24h wasn't enough. What was enough was installing latest 8.1 Servicing Stack + latest Windows Update package - 5 minutes searching after that and the downloading of updates began.

and Chrisjen Avasarala will be the Secretary of UN some time in future.

An European here cannot comprehend what's preventing creating a Pinetop Municipal Broadband Company which will provide the connection to locals and contractually buying bandwidth/network and other related services from the Wilson guys?

Zalman ZM-VE350 or such is very helpful in this case. Use any old hard disks and fill with .ISOs. Boot whatever you need the moment. Granted, won't work for really old computers without (proper) USB optical storage support. There are some glitches even with newer ones. But overall - very nice device. No need to hustle around with strange reflective disks.

... CD-s. Car radio is able to play MP3s but no USB mass-storage input or such. So I write music to CDs to consume in car. DVDs are not supported either. I haven't paid attention to the brand as long as it's a recognizable one - Verbatim, TDK, some more. Older discs still seem to work after some years (except when really scratched physically).