the new country club, golf courses and tacky hotel tower won’t pay for themselves, ya know.

i have a couple dozen older systems sitting around here, mostly 2nd to 4th gen–a few newer, a few older. that i cannot even give away. i’m gonna end up binning all but the ‘best’ 5 or 6 this spring when the recycle truck makes its annual trek here.

i’d build it, and i wouldn’t put any money into it… imho, it’s too old to throw any money at–unless, perhaps, it was my only system (it would not be) and i had no chance at getting anything else newer or better any time soon (this part might be true, but i have a little better than that already).

throw it up on ebay, get most or all your ‘investment’ back. just make it the cheapest comparable BIN.

the “real id” marked state id and dl also do, but have also been ignored by the police state.

it was factual then, as well.

people have proved their status or citizenship only to be assaulted and detained anyway…

so, FUCK OFF.

so they also chose the venue? that venue??

like this DoJ would actually follow laws that get in the way of carrying-out the rapist-in-chief’s (also illegal) orders.

technically, yes.

(with a downhill in between)

in my rural part of the u.s., the telco only sells dsl to a max of 10 mbps (and as slow as 384kbps if you’re at the end of the signal’s reach–at which point they also charge you more for the shit-tier speeds)… even if you’re literally next door to their central office… and even if they don’t have fiber down your street (which is their reasoning for the artificial limit–to push people towards fiber so they can pull the copper).

when i worked for an ‘authorized agent’, our payments from the carrier were based on number of signups or contracts, and not at all on the cost of phones associated with them.

televisions of the near future when you first turn them on: “Internet connection and account required to complete initial product set up.”

i remember “playing” typer shark a long time ago. i think it still exists somewhere today.

i suck with the number row, too, because i was ill and in the hospital during that part of the term i took a typing class during high school. text i can do at ~ 100wpm and i’m a monster on 10-key, standard or inverted. while i am getting better in the decades since, the number row and the symbols on it still slow me down.

“back in my day” (k12 in the 1970s-80s) we rarely got snow days. sure, it snowed. a lot. buses might roll into school a little late some days, but it took a big blizzard for them to call-off school. we had mud days in the spring more often, as many of the rural county roads in our very large (~ 100 miles across) district were narrow or windy dirt or gravel roads.

update: they won’t honor it, and require a plan that costs almost as much more as the 30/mo credit would give.

gonna call those turds tomorrow to make sure the one phone we got from one of their retailers is unlocked. and then bitch (again) about us purposefully paying full retail for it to avoid payments and a contract, and having the agent forge (!) a contract for it anyway after-the-fact (for a dollar) so they could get the commission.

and when they don’t find anything, they’ll make something up.