Very well stated. Perhaps, one day, we will get to the point where it is as simple as electricity.

Not directly, but the availability of Verizon FIOS definitely factored into the decision to purchase the house I’m in.

You mean until 20 January, 2021, surely?

Or, move someplace where Verizon FIOS is available, like I did five years ago and never looked back.

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You’ll love this:

...a gawking-at-a-car-crash kinda way...

Screens don’t work in desert climates?

Go to a trade school instead. Très cheaper and you’ll probably end up making more money that way.

LOL. While I was reading your post I kept saying “they must be talking about Heathrow” to myself.

Next up: How to Be More Spontaneous in Five Easy Steps.

They don’t want to risk you overstaying your passport validity, so they require you to have some buffer. Some countries require three months, some six.

The link to the list of upgradeable Macs doesn’t work.  It appears to go to some unknown page under the Australian language site.

Not saying she was speaking for the company, just saying this is what she thought based on her supposed experience with this these things. Believe me, I’ve given her plenty of grief over it. Of course, she wasn’t the only one who was wrong.

Cripes. Just cripes.

It’s all fun and games until somebody gets cholera and dies.

When I read the title I thought you were talking about an economic depression. 

Yes, that’s an excellent point.

I had to show permission from my wife to get my vasectomy (remnants of Puritan Massachusetts, I guess).

But it only topples for (or on) a certain segment of the population. See: late 18th century France. Of course we know what happened next.