Here's a compromise for AT&T: serve everyone as a utility or common carrier, but offer an optional alternative as an Online Service Provider, like AOL or Compuserve back in the day. Customers can choose which they prefer, with a price drop for the latter due to advertising and corporate subsidy. If they truly believe that this sort of metering and customer-side QOS control is what their customer base wants, let them have it as an optional service and see just how many people sign up.

The first few difficulty levels of each of the Trials Xbox Live Arcade games are challenging, but fun. Then all of a sudden, you're expected to be able to vary the gravitational constant of the universe. How does anyone actually work through and enjoy that sort of difficulty?

Unfortunately, however, steamed hams don't cook well in arctic Europe.