And there are still huge areas of the country (I live in Australia) where the only ADSL2+ access is with Telstra, who both charge for uploads and are almost always the last to increase data-per-dollar when the market makes a push. It's a shit situation, and BitTorrent does nothing to solve it.

Your kid's doctor made that as his/her own judgement call - sometimes incorrect action can be worse than inaction. This has nothing to do with the health insurance system under which he/she operates. A lack of staff demonstrated underfunding, which is not a fundamental flaw of the system but one of scalability. Also, aren't rotary saws safer than scissors, since they are less likely to break the skin while cutting the cast? (or am I imagining the wrong instrument?) Gotta say though, that wisdom teeth story gives me the heeby-jeebies.

It's not about traffic. It's about having to hook up my 3G connection from my phone just so that I can get 16 rowdy, drunk gamers to authenticate with BNet before we can ST-ST-ST-ST-ST-ST-ST-ST-ST-START THE GAME, ALREADY!!!!!111one