I think a lot of it is because it really destroyed the idea of the controllable world. Americans had a god complex for a long time. We were the bastion of democracy, and the last defense against authoritarianism and terror. And, if anything, the nineties convinced us that we really were untouchable. The cold war was…

Yeah. Those make me a bit skittish, too. Having something make sense is different than proof, which is what pisses my off about most of that stuff. People treat their guess as fact. You can make a hypothesis about why something exists evolutionarily, but the reality is that you can never really prove it. Or come…

Yeah, this seems... odd. Like, some of the psychological hormone stuff seems like it makes sense evolutionarily, like the increased libido around ovulation and the risk-aversion after that. But the rest of it seems like it's a series of assumptions made around a book deal some fuzzy science.

My understanding of why AT&T cut their unlimited data was because the existing infrastructure couldn't handle people just gorging on data, and it was adversely affecting network quality. On cell networks I get limiting data, since whole thing is relatively new and more vulnerable to overuse. Where I get my pitchfork…

I wonder if it'd be substantially worse for their bottom line. I know next to nothing about how network administration works, but I'd be interested to see the difference in cost for the carrier. Heck, I'd pay a little more every month for the privilege, if that made it feasible.

I'd be okay with the plan I've got with AT&T right now (2 gigabytes per month for something like 30 bucks) if I got rollover data. Most months I barely break a gigabyte of data. But when I'm on a trip out of WiFi range a couple times a year I could really use the extra few gigs I've accumulated. But I'm sure AT&T…

Hopefully not before we get pending comments back.