Margin of error in the poll results.
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That's the percentage of truly stupid people in the population.

But would it also deter the idiots from applying? Do you really want all your city's jobs filled by idiots?

Do use books from gutenberg.org. Inkscape/Gimp the photos to make them look antique, and steampunk the drive cases.

Can we say small air horn.

They are far worse than ax murderers as their victims don't have to put up with their ilk more than once.

Despite what their ads say, the goal of a large corporation is to make the shareholders happy by having steadily increasing profits. They do this by providing "bigger, better, faster", by cutting costs, and by finding additional revenue streams. Unfortunately, this often screws the customer, and in a virtual monopoly, the execs could care less about that.

Forget "bigger, better, faster" in the US because there is virtually no competition and they don't want to spend money on infrastructure upgrades when their customers are already chained to them with no hope of escape.

Cutting costs, well, I for one have a much easier time understanding heavy Indian accents than I did a few years ago.

Finding additional revenue streams, yep that US$0.001 per mis-typed domain name adds up quick when you are looking at 100s of thousands of them per day. The truly clueless will be thankful that the ISP is providing this "service". The average user will be slightly annoyed at worst, but most likely won't care. The rest of us will just start running our own DNS servers, and skip using our ISP's DNS servers all together.

I started running my own DNS servers years ago when mt ISP's DNS servers were becoming non-responsive. Much better response times, and no unwanted redirect crap.

One could say that they are arguing for the rights of the taxpayers/voters to decide how their local taxes are spent, and what services their local government provides. This is why we have local elections, so that the citizens can decide whether or not their local government can provide desired services that are not otherwise available.

As for the argument of TWC "not competing", if they didn't want to compete with a local government provided service, then they should have established the services the citizens wanted when it was requested. As it stands here, TWC was asked to take the lead, they declined, and now they are crying because their customers decided that TWC's services weren't sufficient and they voted to use their tax dollars to provide for themselves.

TWC felt that the potential customer base was too small to warrant addition investment, and they were proven wrong. Now they are crying at the legislature so that their bad business decision can be reversed.

You might accidentally break the bank. You may want to try putting the server and a rackmount UPS into something like the cases you can find here. Take along a back-up generator. And lots of fans and filters. Spare parts for the server would also be helpful.

Or clean-up the mistakes people can't back themselves out of if they screw the layout in Dreamweaver, etc... "Hey, lets pour through all this machine generated/bloated markup and find where the user screwed the layout", talk about a fun time.

About the only professional sport I like to occasionaly watch is hockey. The other pro sports, while I'm not all that fond of them, I do understand why people would want to watch it, with the exception of basketball. I can't fathom how people enjoy that sport, court is too small, scores are too large.

I am completely unable to grasp the reason there is a large enough potential audience to make pro video gaming profitable. No doubt that the gamers are serious about what they do, I fail to see where the leagues or sponsors are making any profit on their investment. No profit for leagues or sponsors == no pro gaming. Shit man, if I'm gonna spend the time watching someone else play a video game, I may as well be playing it myself.

It doesn't take that long to hit 5Gig when the cat lays on the keyboardddddddddddddddddddddddddd

The thing that I find to be most outrageous is that there are pro video gamers in the first place. Last I checked, they weren't showing up anywhere on ESPN. WTF, was that just some sort of feeble attempt by the game publishers to get more people buying their warez? "Oh, if you get really really good, we will pay you to play video games all day long. (You gotta be in the top 0.0000005% to get that though, in the meantime we will still take your $$$)"

Does anyone here use their ISP's DNS servers anymore?

And the effects of that UAC are different from Microsoft's UAC how? OK, I will grant that no one has actually exploded yet.

I'm thinking it may do quite allright as a cheap touchscreen kiosk type of thing.