I honestly do not recall the last time I got an Amazon package via UPS (and never FedEx). And this is in a decent sized suburbia. For at least two years now, probably longer, everything arrives by USPS and frankly they are just as reliable as was UPS, perhaps more so.
What is the difference if you are not prepared? Will you fail at it?
The Moon's biggest advantage over Mars is that the gravity is low enough to make a space elevator with existing materials technology as the first project.
Who's stupid enough to keep a foreign queen as head of state?
A foreign queen whose only real political power is in charity fundraising seems like a brilliant move compared to what most people get when they have a local monarch.
In addition to bandwidth is free you forgot the one about how since the hardware infrastructure for networks is a sunken cost it should be free to use. I haven't figured that one out yet; apparently the underlying assumption is that the investors who paid up front ought to be robbed of their expected returns.
A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. -- S. C. Johnson
