if you are running over a line as expensive as a 20mbit, and buying it for capacity ... why bother doing something bottom dollar like buying a cable.

Its like spending a fortune on a sportscar and then changing your oil. Why bother? Unless you think its a slight to your madskills or something and thats something for the shrink, not slashdot.

or make a jaw-dropping investment with such potential for failure it will bring us back to the electronic stone age.

what does Intel have that Ford didn't before?

NETWORK NETWORK NETWORK.

you get jobs at places like LUG's, special interest groups, monthly chat-and-drink meet ups, hobby meetings, the library, etc.

there is always room for "qualified" drones to fill out rosters with "acceptable risk" employees, ones that are likely to output a consistient boring amount every year and follow the rules - but the bulk of real work in most IT shops is consultants, people who are too weird or far out or unemployable to get in the normal way but are willing work outside the box or long long hours at home to make stuff "really work." ... Don't expect medical benefits and alot of luxuries that Well Branded Workers (tm) get, but there is plenty of room to work.

Just don't be overconfident of your abilities and maybe work as hard on your social and interpersonal skills because thats what catches up most of the skilled sneak-in workers and consultants. Wearing clean clothes helps too.

I have a solution.

Clone dinosaurs. Bury them. Use the oil they turn into.

Cryogenic freezing in the meantime powered by the sun.

Over-seen by Skynet.

YAY.