Did they only poll nudist colonies? Everyone I know would much rather have a laundry robot that sorts/washes/dries/folds than a dish robot. Dishwashers already do 90%+ of what I want done with dishes.

all five actually work for the law firm Brydon, Swearengen & England in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Cocksuckers!

I'll put in another nod to JuiceSSH on the phone. Minimalistic for the most part, but that secondary keyboard that pops up has exactly what you need that phone keyboards don't while being easily hidden when you don't need it.

That's what? 10 Macbooks?

When do they add the throwable chair?

If this joke goes over someone's head who's sufficiently dense, does that affect it's arrival time?

Derr, nevermind. You were saying the same thing. The - threw me off.

:w

Ah, the Machete Order http://static.nomachetejugglin...
My favourite is actually a slight variation:
4 - A New Hope
5 - Empire Strikes Back
1 - The Phantom Edit (Fan edit version with lots of the hokey crap taken out. Actually makes it a decent movie. It's mentioned in the link above).
2 - Attack of the Clones
3 - Revenge of the Sith
6 - Return of the Jedi

Maybe 200 years in the future they managed to make flash memory ultra thin and flexible, and decided to string them end to end to be read or written sequentially? /me stretches

Why did you even mention gasoline?

Wait... so you're saying there's times when using a car analogy on slashdot ISN'T appropriate?

Oh wait, that's right, you keep going on and on about their monopoly.

Seriously? I never once mentioned monopoly. None of the 3 articles I linked mentioned monopoly once. So... never constitutes going on and on. Idiot.

Older article, but talks about how ISPs are making huge margins while actually reducing their capital investments:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

Two more recent articles looking at the margins ISPs make:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/...
http://gigaom.com/2011/05/12/n...

True revenue and profit reports aren't easy to get ahold of for the big ISPs. Yes, I'm sure the profits are higher in higher density areas. No, I never made any comparisons to prices paid in North America vs. Europe and Asia. The fact remains that the big ISPs took huge amounts of money SPECIFICALLY to provide broadband to rural areas. They can't then turn around and say they couldn't do it because the cost was prohibitive due to population density. They knew the populations when they took the money. You make a statement like the big providers are going bankrupt and tell me I have no idea what I'm talking about, without providing any sources?