This is a bonanza for scrap metal dealers and the scroungers who steal things like lamp posts, wiring and plumbing from abandoned houses, etc., because the contents of one of these unmanned micro data centers must be worth lot more than a lamp post to scrap dealers.

"WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

Guess I'd better tell Alex Trebek that he and Jeopardy were wrong.

Neither the US Constitution nor the Bill of Rights protect you from anything at all, since they are merely historical pieces of hemp paper that our federal government has been completely ignoring for a long, long time. The Constitution was written in plain simple language so that everyone could read and understand it. They expected the people to read it and understand their unalienable rights and the restrictions placed on the federal government by the Constitution -- but most importantly they expected the people to enforce the Constitution, which is one of the reasons they were vehemently opposed to a large standing government army and preferred a militia composed of the people.

I know two Chinese women who are here on temporary green cards (one for work, the other for marriage) and they both have a driver's license and SSN but neither are US citizens.

Anything but the pure C as defined in the sacred Whitebook pollutes the simple beauty of C and obscures the language's clarity and its similarity to the instruction sets of most common CPUs.

He was hungry.

The cloud is raining.

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Oh I was quite willing to give up television and maybe cut my Internet speed even, but Comcast said they have no lower speed plans to switch me to. Besides, all I was asking was how much I would save by cancelling TV. I only told them that I needed to cancel TV or cut back on service rather than cancel the entire thing. I wasn't threatening to cancel my account. Even so, they essentially paid me money by reinstating my discount in order to provide more costly television service. It doesn't make sense because the discount saved me more money than eliminating TV from my package would have saved if I hadn't been given the discount.

Incidentally, that department might be "officially" called the Customer Retention Department, but that's not what the customer reps on the phone called it when they were talking to me. "Downgrade" or some-such vaguely negative term was part of the name they used. I remember because I repeated the name to the customer service rep and asked if they really had a department with that name and he said yes. Maybe it's an inside joke or something. I was planning on installing a small indoor TV antenna so that I could get the local station(s) and I think I would be perfectly happy with that because I rarely watch television at all.

Each time you want to "upload" more files, burn them onto a cheap CD (they're so cheap they're practically free these days) and mail them to your home address. Each update is only the cost of a postage stamp and if you want unattended operation, have your wife or kids do it. :P

Yes, that was what happened to me. My package discount ended and Comcast raised my monthly charge. I called and told them it was too expensive and that I had to cancel something or cut back on services, and asked how much I would save by cancelling television service from my "Triple Play" package. They transferred me to some sort of "Customer Downgrade Department" (Yes, Comcast actually said they have a department called something like that, although I'm not sure of the exact name). The "Customer Downgrade Department" person was the one who told me that Comcast had reinstated my package discount (and I hadn't even asked them to do it, hooray!), and because of that it would cost me more each month without TV included in the package than with it, so overall the end result was that the telephone call did save me some money even if their policies do seem insane.

I recently inquired with Comcast about my cost savings if I were to eliminate television from my subscription. They told me that my cost would actually increase because I would no longer be getting the XFINITY "Triple Play" discount (TV, telephone, and Internet). It sounded like BS to me, but that was the story I was given by their service rep on the telephone.

Yes, I should have looked up the Asterisk (PBX) before commenting. Thanks.