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”Preparing for the exaflood is critical to the nation’s success. The Internet infrastructure must be robust enough to handle all of the new data…”

Electricity reached one-quarter of Americans 46 years after its introduction. Telephones took 35 years and televisions 26 years. In just six years, broadband has reached 25 percent penetration, according to McKinsey & Co.

The exponential explosion of digital content on the Internet is striking. YouTube alone consumes as much bandwidth today as the entire Internet consumed in 2000. Users upload 65,000 new videos every day and download 100 million files daily, a 1,000 percent increase from just one year ago. The market research firm IDC predicts that this year the amount of information created will surpass, for the first time, the storage capacity available. Those fearing a bandwidth shortage are taking preemptive actions, such as the Defense Department’s recent cutoff of soldiers’ access to content-rich sites such as YouTube and MySpace. More »

Explicit Lyrics ! If you’re under 18 don’t press play, or if you do and get scarred for life don’t blame me. I warned you.

I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.

But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the deck, above the table, and next to the barbecue.

Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table…everywhere.

Then some of the birds turned mean.

They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket.

And others birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.

After a while, I couldn’t even sit on my own back porch anymore. I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. More »

Normally, I start these things out by saying ‘My Fellow Americans’.  Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don’t know who more than half of you are anymore.  I do know something terrible has happened, and that you’re really not fellow Americans any longer.

I’ll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: there’s been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office.

The reason I’m quitting is simple… I’m fed up with you people.

I’m fed up because you have no understanding of what’s really going on in the world. Or of what’s going on in this once-great nation of ours.  And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.
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