Band camp.

It's a crash safety thing.

Modern cars have too high of a beltline, particularly in the rear. Rear windows are becoming useless.

And some people think it's all daises and everyone gets a pony. They need to come out here and visit the real world. We still get news stories every few months showing copper-pair cables cut down a few hundred feet at a time by our local addicts.

... will be pulling these things over with weapons drawn.

Now, segmentation faults with a blue background.

Are they sure that number wasn't from a bug in the floating point processor?

That's past retirement age in Internet years.

What about all the people around here (Seattle area) who lose POTS service every time a meth addict cuts down the phone cables for the copper?

The lasers will go wherever the sharks take them.

Why are they not locating this DC in Shivering Moose, Montana?

... open mic on poets night.

At least, I can switch to wood or coal to heat my house. Data centers have no such option.

Principally due to the fact that such large scale operations are point source and easy to detect. Restrictions on residential burning are practically imposible to enforce.

Interestingly, the last restrictions against insider trading by Congress were passed (bipartisan) under Obama. The issue is again being raised. Possibly due to recent incidents.

It appears that, while slow, the system does work.

People learn by example. And, to date, no good examples of these exist.