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Growing up I read Dilbert in the paper every morning. At some point I got one of the compilation books and for some reason in an epilogue Adams included his alternate theory of gravity which was essentially that gravity as force didn't exist and things pressed down on each other because everything was expanding at the same rate. He said he had yet to find anyone who could refute this.

Even at 12 I could tell this guy was an annoying idiot. Loved the comic though.

"These people wanna see a lobstah!"

Untrue, I just looked at my phone and I have an NYT alert from 3 hours ago: "Inflation hit the highest rate in a generation last month. Consumer prices rose by nearly 7%..."

It's also right on the front page of NYT.com

Came here to say this. Very informative, if somewhat laudatory, videos.

I got Frontier after moving into a house with no internet in upstate New York ("Upstate" being 100 Mi north of NYC). I ordered the 20Mbit plan and after missing and having to call to reschedule 3 installs (w/ 12 hour windows), the first words out of the installers mouth was "you got scammed". Indeed our signal was so weak we were only able to sustain about 0.5kbps. They wanted $75/mo for this and made it as hard as possible to cancel.

The basic history of Frontier in my area is that they bought up all of Verizon's old copper lines and have done exactly nothing to improve the capability. They don't even know what the capabilities ARE. Areas are either oversubscribed or so far from nodes that the signal is worthless. They're trying to squeeze every last cent out of rural houses with no other options and letting the underlying infrastructure slowly fail.

I ended up using a pretty performant (~50Mbit) LTE connection, hacked AT&T hotspot and yagi antenna for 2 years. Finally, as part of a rural broadband grant program New York State got Altice to come in-- probably in exchange for a monopoly in a more attractive part of the state. Now I have 300Mbit cable for $100/mo. Altice (aka Optimum) is also a terrible company, but Frontier still sends me postcards claiming to be "the best internet in <my town>".

These guys are selling a product that doesn't work. They deserve to be sued and I'm disappointed that New York State isn't involved.

I visited this town! SCAD has done a great job and the students were lovely. What a magical place to study abroad.

Just replaced the battery and threw new thermal paste on my Mid-2014 15" for $300. Discrete graphics, no TouchBar and a keyboard with travel. I hope this thing runs for another 5 years.

Between this and net-neutrality, it's a big week for the internet.

I was on a Northeast Corridor trip once when the train was struck from the side by a rock. It sounded like a gunshot went off inside the car-- everyone jumped and there were more than a few shouts. I can imagine being hit head-on by a rock at night would be enough to distract an engineer for a few critical minutes. What a shame.