" Since unlimited plans haven't been available for years now," Not only are they still available (I have one from another carrier) Verizon still offers them and tried to get me to come back on an unlimited plan when I left them early this year. The problem was simple, they wanted more money than the other carriers offering unlimited plans, and after they ended my unlimited terms on my eight year old account, I no longer trusted Verizon.

"Verizon doesn't offer unlimited plans" Yes, they did offer those, and the contract terms were such that as long as you did not upgrade your phone, the terms were the same. They were only able to change those contracts by giving sufficient notice of a change in the terms. I know because I had one of the those contracts.

Verizon is just stupid. I had an unlimited plan that I had kept for over eight years.. Without notice they decided to raise my price. I considered that a breach of contract but they did not. That was enough to move me to another carrier with unlimited data. But the stupid part is, I rarely use a lot of data. Once in a while I am on a drilling rig location and have to transmit a lot of data over my phone, because our satellite connections tend to suck, so I will run my computer through my phone. So maybe once a year I use a lot of data, for a week or two. Then I rarely use any. But I can't afford to be throttled or to be limited when the time comes that I need the data, and I can't afford to be stuck renegotiating with a moron at customer service when I need to use it. I am sure I use less data overall than the average kid playing Pokemon Go, but Verizon only cares about being greedy. It has nothing to do with bandwidth. I will never go back to Verizon in my lifetime.

If the password in question was "password" is it still a crime?

As a geologist I have actually prospected for helium. The only reason there even appears to be a shortage, is that the US Government is still manipulating the price, and using an artificially low price to restrict the market. Natural gas fields are the major source of helium today, and many natural gas fields contain anywhere from a fraction of 1% to several percent helium. As helium is generated in the Earth by radioactive decay it migrates upward, often to be trapped in the same geologic structures that natural gas is trapped within. Gas shale reservoirs may be the only major gas reservoirs that do not contain much helium. Due to US Government controls on the helium reserve and the market, the price, and the supply have both not been a function of a true market. Federal dumping of National Helium Reserve stock into the market depressed the price of helium so much that it was being used as a cheap substitute for argon and other gases that have a much less limited supply. Now we have auctions, with a limited supply being sold, but still enough to destroy the market for new sources. Once the US Helium reserve is sold off, natural gas processors are likely to start capturing the helium they presently waste due to the economics of removing it from natural gas. Other countries have huge reserves as well, including Qatar 10.1 Billion cubic meters Algeria 8.2 Bcm Russia 6.8 Bcm Canada 2.0 Bcm China 1.1 Bcm And any country that produces natural gas has a potential addition to the supply. Sorry, but we will not be running out any time soon. It is true that once released to the atmosphere, helium will leave the planet, but if the price goes up enough, that waste is less likely to occur.

Every time I post "I HATE FACEBOOK" on my Facebook account they close another account.

Just spoof your location on your phone. They be recommending good gin joints in Casablanca in no time.

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Aren't those big gray boxes on utility poles with coax cables coming out of them kind of hard to miss? What do people think they are? Bird houses? In my neighborhood the roof rats would nest in them!

Trent, I think there are some good videos on YouTube that will explain to you what an IPO actually is. While you are at it, look for "Terms of Service" and read the section about "Digital Millennium Copyright Act."

Then why is it there is no current lithium recycling operation in the US? Currently only one company in the WORLD, in Belgium has a process for recycling lithium-ion batteries. http://www.altenergystocks.com...

Yet, the first internal combustion engine, built in 1806, used hydrogen as fuel. Electric cars did not come around for another century.

Commercial hydrogen today is not made with electrolysis, and neither was the hydrogen used in 1806. That hydrogen came from ammonia, and today's commercial hydrogen mostly comes from methane. Since methane has twice as much hydrogen in it as water, it can be converted more economically. Tarpenning is simply showing his bias, and some of his points are valid, but there have been amateur tinkerers running cars on hydrogen since the early 1970's when a college student used to drive his old station wagon around my town using hydrogen stored in rubber inner tubes in the back of the car. At the time I ran my VW van on propane using nothing more than a regulator and an extra nozzle in my carburetor that I installed myself. Neither one of us ever exploded.

The article is from a peer-reviewed scientific journal titled "Atmospheric Science,' published by Elsevier. Maybe you need to read the article.

"Professor Ranga Myneni from Boston University, told BBC News the extra tree growth would not compensate for global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers, ocean acidification, the loss of Arctic sea ice, and the prediction of more severe tropical storms."

He failed to mention the worst consequence of admitting that this might be a positive factor. It would not compensate for his loss of grant funding from NASA (he has three grants) that pays for his salary and graduate students.

I was flown at a company's expense from San Diego to Paris, France for a two day interview. My resume was US style, with no indication of my age, and when they met me they openly asked my age. I was simply told that they did not want someone as old as me, despite my extensive skills.