Except they aren't. The whole precedent here is the Texas case, where Amazon had fulfillment warehouses. So not an interstate transaction. That's also why the 14 states in which Amazon will eventually charge sales tax are the states they are - fulfillment warehouses in each of them.

The who?

Well, Android User Space is licensed under Apache v2. The kernel is GPL. And none of that is inherently germane to what happened here.

Near as -

Jesus, you're thick, you know that?

OK, I tried to be nice.

um...whut?

You know, a much easier way to reconcile your faith and the facts of science is just to understand that evolution is the tool God used to create life.

Human/Chimp common ancestor was only 5-6 million years ago.

You mean "in stores" other than Staples, Office Depot, Game Stop, Sam's Club, or Wal-Mart?

You and I are very much on the same page on this issue:

Is Cricket wireless an option where you are?

If you want to buy it at $150 off retail from Verizon, you can bet your sweet bippy that there's going to be a requirement for a contract and a required data plan.

That's a fair point. i think though that the idea of more distributed base stations could be workable, especially if the fiber backbone was public works - i.e. less maintenance/investment on the back bone means more capital and labor available for the network front end. And it could very well be that such a solution…

If I understand the technical issue correctly (and I fear I might not), the biggest issue is backhaul. If that's the case, wouldn't ubiquitous broadband and cell carriers becoming dumb pipe go hand in hand? Shared backhaul infrastructure via fiber seems like it would facilitate a wide enough pipe to eliminate the need…

This is exactly my point.

Well, that's what we get.

Hold up there, Norv.

For me, it comes to this - profiling is almost always bad, and is always wrong. The more noise in the signal, the less useful the profile.