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    Why I'm giving up broadband

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    if you`ve got a weight problem try this....... :bigsmile:

    Low Fat Broadband

    Capped and slow, but less expensive

    With early adopters already wired for speed, the hunt is on for ways to migrate dial-up users to high-speed connections. In the States, providers are hoping to do that with cheaper, slower introductory tiers; something British Telecom has started offering across the pond (though with a 1 gig cap). The provider has announced (BBC) a £19.99 (around $37) 512kbps DSL tier. The only catch is that the tier features a gig per month cap, something many of our users would burn through before finishing their breakfast cereal.

    "This is plenty for half of all broadband users," says one British Telecom representative in the BBC article. "It is pretty generous and makes quite a significant difference to our economies." In addition to the cap, the report claims the DSL tier "does not support home networking". How exactly BT would hope to enforce that restriction isn't made clear.

    UK provider Tiscali recently unveiled a similar tier overseas. Users now able to get a 150Kbps connection for £15.99 ($26.50) a month, though whether or not that can even be considered "broadband" is highly debatable. UK cable providers have likewise joined the low-fat broadband race, cable company Telewest offering their own £17.99 a month discounted product in the hopes of countering BT's move.

    The telcos in the States have been toying with similar plans; BellSouth being one of the first to offer a "Lite" 256kbps (128kbps up) tier for roughly $40 a month last year (less if you bundled). Since then, SBC has shaken things up with their price reductions, and many competing providers are offering 1.5Mbps or more for that price - making the "low-fat" push here in the States less relevant for the time being. It would seem the ideal "dial-up killer" tier would offer 512kbps or slower for less than $20.

    The slow adopters and "Aunt Bethels" (cost conscious dial-up users who primarily surf and use e-mail) are now the targets of the industry. They've found themselves stuck between the marketing pitches for dial-up accelerated products (some of which until recently were charging as much as $28 a month for the honor) and low-fat broadband. Several cable providers here in the States are expected to offer their own, sub 1Mbps discount tiers before the end of the year.

    Uh huh

    fatty.

    Does Santa Exist?

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    Screw scientific research, what do those with high IQ's know anyways.......I for one say yes, there is a Santa Clause.

    Maybe not in the sense that this article describes but in the hearts of all children around the world.

    Does Santa Exist?

    Is There a Santa Clause?

    1. No known species of reindeer that can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not completely rule out flying reindeer (which only Santa has ever seen.)

    2. There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total-378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.

    3. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept),we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second-a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

    4. The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload-not even counting the weight of the sleigh-to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison-this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.

    5. 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance-this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.

    In conclusion: If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.

    i bet this guy gets it every day and nightly and ever so rightly

    bros before hoe's

    am i right?

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