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Comment Re: "Prices have also adjusted" (Score 1) 64

Then the other side of a free market will occur. Businesses will realize if they want their goods to sell; they will lower prices to a point where they will. Be patient and wait for the price to drop, or buy if you must. But how much you pay is on you, not the business.

It's just like with the scalper's and video cards, they can only charge as much as they are because people are willing to pay it. So stop paying the crazy prices and wait for supply to increase and prices to drop.

Comment Re:Star Trek changed "No Man" to "No One" long ago (Score 1) 118

But if "no one" has been there before what do you expect to find? I do realize the Federation is made up of many races so using "man" which if not meant in the sense of race, but in the sense of sex then leaves out "woman", and if meant in the sense or race "man" or even "human" isn't much better because it basically it then leaves out Vulcans, Klingons, and whatever other race from other planets you wish to mention who are part of the UFP.

To put it another way "no one" is not a change for the better, because "To boldly go where no ONE has gone before!" means you aren't going to be able "To seek out new life and new civilizations.", because "no one" has been there yet!

Comment Re:Battlestar Galactica, because . . . . (Score 1) 364

Mostly true, but if you didn't watch season 3 you didn't see Galactica jump into the atmosphere of a planet begin free-falling like a rock, deploy Vipers while falling, and then jump back into outerspace. That was one of the coolest scenes in either series!

Comment Re: I never thought I'd say this... (Score 1) 353

We can push over 100Mb/s over 5,000' of copper _today_ using the latest, already shipping DSL technology.

Your other points aside. It still requires that the copper plant is in decent shape, which for many areas out there it is not. Water penetrated, corroded, rotted insulation, undocumented bridge taps, squirrel chewed on, aging, weather beaten, copper line that can barely sustain a 1.5Mb/s connection isn't going to handle a 100Mb/s connection very well.

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