In 100 years or so if the ocean levels keep rising you might get your wish!

What is this "tax" thing you speak of?! No cash exchanged so 6% (my state tax) of nothing is still nothing!

I also use the idea of exchanging services and use it whenever possible. I have had some amazing body work done to my cars just for fixing some simple issues on a few computers.

There are PLENTY of places in the rural United States that would love better connectivity. But I guess those places are tied too tightly to the ISPs. They are doing it for a better quality of life while here in the States we worry too much about making our money back in a timely manner, ("What?! You mean it'll be 5 years until that infrastructure is paid for?!") so a lot of people really do miss out.

I mean hey...if they want to see our "private" facebook page, they might as well pay a private investigator to follow us around and see what we are up to in case we forget to post something to facebook. I'm sure there were a few "shady" things I've done that an employer would love to know but outside of the 8-4 they don't have much of a right to know what I'm up to. Maybe I'm wrong but I guess there should be an certain expectation of privacy. Then again, if they really want to see my facebook profile they will see how boring my life is and how I only post pictures of my dog.

How is this "News for Nerds?" I know I'll get modded down but simply posting articles from some random dude on the Internet really isn't news...