Here in Canada several of the Smaller carriers are offering unlimited Talk, Text, and Data for between 25 and 30 bucks a month (contract free, and guaranteed to keep the price the same for life). This would be why I would buy an unlocked iPhone. That's half the price of your average smartphone contract in Canada.

Actually they invented this thing called the "Plasma Window" which is essentially an energy shield. The only problem is getting enough energy to power it. It requires 20 kilowatts per inch in a round window.

I Am Canadian. (not a beer ad)

@HumanAbyss: I would point you to any introductory statistics textbook, but it's probably easier just to note how Gallup and other polls compile random samples to estimate NATIONAL statistics (for approximately 300 million Americans).

Snow Crash anyone? Published in 1992 I believe. Possible prior art?