This is perfect.

Nice. Alas, there's not much expectation of privacy in air travel. And a whole shitload of anecdotes don't equal data.

I return you to your original ranting and raving.

Interesting. Your map looks a lot like mine, although we are not at the edge of the different coverage areas. Close enough, though.

Train 1, Truck 0

Oh, yes. So true. Flying up and down the East Coast on a clear night can be a real treat.

Watch out. Clear/Sprint have pretty serious dead spots, even in areas with adequate 4G and 3G coverage. My experiment with trying to rely on 4G lasted one day. Even thoughh the coverage map showed me as having good indoor coverage, and the sales rep said that it would work "great," the tech support guy from Time…

Thanks. That's way I read this too. And I am not a lawyer, but can read English, and the one nice thing about the TOS is that it is pretty much in plain English. But this is not the same thing as clearEnglish, so your chiming in has been quite helpful.

Yeah. And I'm one of those fat guys. OK, not as big as this dude I sat next to on an RJ recently. But, yeah, big enough. Believe me, I try not to take up more than my fair share of the space.

I wish I could be as calm about this. I hate the middle seat.

Yes, much safer, much like its mines, nuclear plants, cars, airplanes (which Tupolev crashed today, Ivan?).

That's right. I'm good if 3G and 4G are unlimited. Because my next biz trip is to a place that appears to only have 3G. Although I've found that if you put the phone in a window, the 4G sometimes magically appears (in a 4G coverage area, of course). I don't understand why a 4G signal cannot pass through a few inches…

Why not include Syncplicity? I have had very good luck with it. Although did, until I got an Android phone, iPad, and put Ubuntu on my netbook. Which reveals Syncplicity's problems. But if you live mostly in Windowsland, Synplicity is a great tool.

No, because I didn't give two shits about this trial, and had barely heard Nancy Grace's insane ravings about it, until I was stuck in ATL airport (of course) and HLN* was showing her going off half-cocked on some bullshit with a panel of "experts." Remember the Onion headline, "Nation Longs to Care About Stupid Shit…

Nancy Grace is one of the worst sociopaths I think I have every seen. She's as crazy as any character in the film Network, without the decency to attempt her own suicide. Murdering a 2 year old baby—or even covering up its death—is really awful. But deriving so much smug self-satisfaction from covering the trial of…

In a similar way, if I copy a bunch of text from a PDF, and don't like the line breaks, I can copy the text into Word, do a search and replace on the line breaks (^p or ^l, depending on the type" and then have nice clean text to paste into, say, a Zotero note. I've not found anything that works better for me.

Wow. For someone just offering an opinion, this is mightily defensive. But you're right—we're not going to persuade anyone. I perhaps wrote too much when I asked to you to justify why you believe that using text expansion is a rationalization for laziness. Or, perhaps, I just met your dismissive tone with my own…

Good. Then when I get the protoliterate goof-offs in my class, I'll know who to call. Bonus.

Umm... because they drop the "Feeling Lucky" button? At last check, Larry and Sergey aren't promoting GOOG through sexually titillating ads aimed at the doucheoisie, or killing superannuated African "wild"life for "sport." And GOOG does provide useful services. That's a big difference too.