My internet is nice and fast (220ish down, 50ish up), but I pay a $20/mo base and $0.20 for each gig used.

Some months it's great and cheap, other months not so much...

As a small business owner that lives in a small town in the middle of nowhere, that $80 a year makes perfect sense.

Being able to order computer parts with free two day shipping is a huge boon. I can't buy them locally (as in, they don't exist in a 130 mile radius), less downtime makes my customers happy, and free shipping increases my margins.

I place anywhere from two to ten orders a week with Amazon. First name basis with my UPS and FedEx drivers AND their backups. Amazon Prime has been tremendously helpful to getting my business going.

Sure, if you live in a metro area surrounded by Best Buys and WalMarts it makes less sense, but many of us don't.

Amen to this.

The only downside would be having to buy a joystick again. I haven't needed one in years, but a new X-Wing or TIE Fighter would change that.

Such a dumb name. Anyone that's ever seen one knows they're clearly jackadeer.

How many of us did a similar "brief animation project" in BASIC on an Apple II, TI-99/4A, or Coleco for a 7th-12th grade project back in the early to mid 80's?

Granted, it wasn't on paper, but still... I did a four minute graphic story on an Apple II in 8th grade back in ... math math years .. 1983ish that this reminded me of.

Not my fault the dirty reds were 15 years ahead of me. These guys were all PhDs and shit.

Still got an A... bah.

Color me naive, but I imagine that things will go bad with EITHER Israel or Iran... one leads to the other. We'd have to REALLY fuck things up for things to go bad with both.

Then again, I still don't fully understand what Obama's got planned...

Alex Trebek?