Richardson County Nebraska has FTTP to every home in the county. The county population as of 2010 was just over 8000. The population of Jackson County Kentucky was just over 13000 as of 2010. But where I live, just 15 miles from the capital with over 300,000 people, the best I can get is bonded DSL...

Did I miss some advances in nuclear power? Isn't their waste still a HUGE environmental problem? Everytime there is a story about energy production I see people advocating for nuclear, so what am I missing?

We use a Roku, and a Tivo to get all our programming off the net. We use Netflix and Amazon mostly. We sometimes rent a dvd...and hardly ever go to the theater anymore. Too damn expensive. The wife and kids have no trouble with it either, and enjoy not having the advertisements.

I still run a LaserJet4+ and have a spare in the basement. Toner is dirt cheap, and it still prints great. Mine has the duplexer on it too. Got the whole unit at a state surplus auction for $30, full of toner, and it has the large capacity paper tray too, and a JetDirect card! Then when I wanted color, I got a Tektronics 740 color laser networked printer at a university auction for $15...works great from the multi purpose tray...normal tray doesn't work. A few months later, I got a full set of toner and other consumables for it for $40. That will probably last me the next 10 years, and I don't have to worry about the ink drying out. For copies, I have a ScanJet 5p on SCSI.

February of 2009, I left the IT industry in the gambling sector, and became a Maintenance Mechanic at a grain mill in the small town I live in. I got a $4 an hour raise, and cut my commute costs by about $100 a month, and lost 15 pounds by riding my bicycle to work. I now make the most per hour that I ever have. It's still owned by an evil corporation, but at least the local surpervisors seem decent. I still get my IT fix, by keeping my household up and running, as well as doing computer work on the side. The mill also has me do internal computer work, and they pay me a premium whenever I do it. Their actual IT guy is several hours away. 6 months after I started, I became an Electrical Trainee, with another pay raise. Worked out great for me!

I can't believe I left out the National Roller Skating Museum in Lincoln www.rollerskatingmuseum.com

While I very much enjoyed the MIT museum http://web.mit.edu/museum/ while hunnymooning in Boston, we live in Nebraska, and I can recommend a few places here... Pioneer Village in Minden http://www.pioneervillage.org/ Stuhr Museum in Grand Island http://www.stuhrmuseum.org/ Of course there is the S.A.C. museum near Omaha http://www.strategicairandspace.com/ Elephant hall in Lincoln http://www-museum.unl.edu/ And the Omaha Zoo http://www.omahazoo.com/ There is also a local history Museum in Gohner, http://www.sewardcountymuseum.org/home.html which has a miniture live steam train that you can ride on weekends http://www.the-chippewa.org/index_content.html

It doesn't crash?