There are essentially two because there are an overwhelming number of XX or XY and the others are all medically classified as one or the other for gender. If you count them as "other" (whether a single other or a spectra), they are such a tiny percent of the population that it is essentially irrelevant.
It doesn't matter how many there are they still exist.
That should be "Y" rather than "X" right?
You're right, it was a Y, Thing is is only men have Y Chromosomes, which she had, yet she also was pregnant and delivered a baby, which only women can do.
So I would think the Olympic ruling is sane. A Y-chromosome defines male. The organs the chromosome are supposed to trigger to be made do not.
So, someone who has a penis but has 2 X Chromosomes is not a male, and someone who has a vagina even if they have a Y Chromosome is male? I bet you that most people would disagree with you. They'd say if the person has a penis he is a male and if she has a vagina she is a female. Even dictionary definitions of males they a male "belongs to the sex that cannot have babies", " an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)", "for or composed of men or boys". Female>/a> on the other hand is defined as "an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)", "a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies", and "being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop".
Bull. Just use a debit card instead and gain some control over your personal economy. Don't buy things you can't afford. Save first, then buy.
If you fill out a form to get that debit card, the info goes into a report. The only way info does not go into a report is if you pay cash and there is no paperwork.
As for living, how do you live? If you own a house, you have a credit report. If you rent the landlord probably requested a report and will notify the agency as well. Employers use credit reports as well as utilities such as phone companies, landline and cellphones, power companies, and gas. The only way to avoid having a credit report is by avoiding living in the modern world. Heck some people steal IDs just to avoid having a credit report in their own name.
As someone else already said about the only way to avoid having a credit report yet still live in the modern world is by living in your parent's basement.
if you own your home, you are everywhere, tax rolls, and such. If you rent, most landlords run checks now, and even running a check generates an entry on a report. Jobs check it. Utilities check it, and often report to it.
Yea, more and more are using credit reports, even when it's not necessary. This was years ago but I went into a video rental store and asked about what it takes to rent. The person handed me an application and on it it asked for credit info, asked about that and the person said they run a credit check. So I handed it back and walked out.
Of course, living in your mother's basement with no job and no credit will keep you off the grid, but only until she throws your lazy ass out.
I knew people who lived underground, that is they were paid in cash and paid with cash as well. While I hate it as high as taxes are, I don't know if I could make a living underground.
And even then, you may have a credit report from an error. Last I looked, I had an alias name, SSN, and DOB. So, anyone looking up my credit report will also get my sister's full name, SSN and DOB. I'm not sure how or why those got on my report. I'd guess because we shared an address at various times. But her information will forever be on my credit report...
How long ago did you share an address? That is only supposed to be in credit reports 7 years. If it's been there longer you should write to the credit report agencies, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion and try to get them to correct it. While Experian and TransUnion may Equifax probably won't, it is the hardest agency to get to correct mistakes. Unfortunately I dealt with all three, years ago. Whatever you do I'd advise you not to use some of those so called credit repair businesses, all some do is send letters to the agencies and dispute bad entries, the agencies just toss them out when they get bombarded.
She may of very well thought of you as a man, just not one she would be romantically interested in. As a full time college student I had a number of girl friends, though female may of been more appropriate, that or lady or women friends. Perhaps just "friend". I had more female friends than I had male friends and while we'd hang out and do things together, there wasn't much if any romantic interest either way. There were 4 of us real close, two females and two males. For a while one lady was dating a man she worked with but then she started seeing another one. Eventually she married that one, who was in the Navy, and it was practically mandatory we all went to the wedding. The three of us almost felt like we were giving her away.
Thankfully I'm married now and don't have to go through that sort of thing anymore.
I thought I'd be married by now, but while I'm not I don't date either. I had an accident that left me with a disability and I eventually had to move across the country to continue with therapy. While I had a number of friends where I previously lived, and was pretty active, I haven't made friends where I live now. Hopefully that will be changing, several weeks ago I met an aide who will be working with me as part of therapy. Both he and a health care coordinator at my doctor's office are working to get me socially active. I'm hoping they can also help me get financial aid so I can get back into college. Between the three, people I'm working with, social activities, and college I'm hoping to start dating again as well as make friends irl.
Rejection on the other hand is still rejection, it hurts even if done politely.
I know all about that. As noted above I have found it hard to make friends never mind date where I moved to. If you look at my posting history I post almost all day long, well almost all after noon and night long. I have an apartment, live alone, and other than to work in my garden about the only reason I get out is to go shopping.
There is the issue of what makes a person gay, straight, or bi.
It goes beyond that. Unlike what most people think not everyone is either male or female. Some people are born with body parts that are "male" and "female". Genetically females are said to have two X Chromosomes, XX, while males have an X and a Y, XY. However some people are born with XXY, XXXY, and XXXXY karotypes. These people are said to have ambiguous genitalia and are called Intersexuals. The more commonly known name for them is hermaphrodites. I don't know but the South African female athlete who's been in the news because of the question of her sex, with some saying she's not female, may be one.
A computer fed with a few hundred megabytes of personal data can now determine in minutes what most of us in the life know as soon as we see the person.
That must be a nifty trick, to be able to tell what someone's sexual orientation is just by looking at them. How do you do that?
I am really curious if it thinks I'm gay (does it consider bisexuality?).
I'm sorry if this seems assholish, but does it really matter if your bisexual or gay? The people who would hate you for being one would hate you for being the other.
The difference is that if you're bi not only would you have straights hating you, you'd also have some gay hating you. There are gays who believe bis are too scared to admit their gay.
I wonder what the timescale to seriously reduce the demand for heating/cooling energy is? I would imagine it takes a whole new generation of buildings to seriously reduce the cost of heating and cooling them.
Buildings don't need to be rebuilt just remodeled. Now depending on the building that may cost as much as take as long but not every building will be that way. Currently I rent an apartment, however my sister owns the building and when I qualify for a mortgage she'll sell it to me for the balance of the mortgage, if I stay here. The building has central heating, using a boiler and bulky radiators, and no air conditioning. My plan is to save my money then gut out the shell of the building and rebuild the interior. When I do I'll increase the R value of the insulation, install radiant floor heating in which heating will be programmable and done in zones. The bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, livingroom, and such will each have it's own zone so that only the zones being used are heated. Now I'm not sure whether the heating system itself will be electrical, geothermal, gas, or another. I'll hire an expert to evaluate and determine which would be better, but I'm leaning towards geothermal. For cooling, other than ceiling fans I'm not sure what I'll do.
The efficiency of appliances, while significant isn't the answer.
Agreed, heating (including water heating) and cooling and therefore insulation can cut down energy used more than new appliances. Not that other things won't help but the payback period would be longer.
some clearly self-identify as gay but don't actually have same-sex intercourse.
To muddy the waters, there aren't just 2 sexs as witnessed by the controversy over the gender or sex of that South African athlete in the news. Fact is is there are people who are neither male nor female and those who are both. As an intro "MS magazine" has the article "Making The Cut: It's a Girl!...Or is It? When there's doubt, why are Surgeons Calling the Shots?" emedicine and WebMD have the science behind Ambiguous Genitalia and Intersexuality. I didn't find it but one athlete was barred from compeating in the 2000 Olympics because she had an X chromosome and therefore the Olympics Committee ruled she was a male, that despite the fact that she gave birth to a baby before their ruling.
I know this is slashdot and people don't RTFAs but the article does say bisexuals were considered. The links of "1,544 men who said they were straight, 21 who said they were bisexual, and 33 who said they were gay" were analyzed. I haven't seen anyone mention it yet but the "analysis seemed to work in identifying gay men, but the same technique was not as successful with bisexual men or women, or lesbians."
this could be useful as a dating tool; if you don't know if the object of your affections is gay or not, run them through MIT Gaydar, and then possibly feel more secure about asking them out.
Only if you're insecure, homophobic, or heterophobic. As I've told others I don't mind being asked, and I'll say I'm not gay or bisexual. I have no problem with those who are and have had a male bisexual and a female lesbian as roommates.
In no small part because a Coal fired plant can spew a tremendous amount of general gunk into the air for "free" if they paid the "true cost" of the pollution they generate, perhaps the equation would be different?
I agree, and that's without including the subsidies coal gets. However in a market where businesses have to carry their own weight and don't pass external costs to others geothermal, solar, wind and other power sources would be more competitive. According to this, "Cost Comparison for Nuclear vs. Coal", nuclear compares favorably with coal. The $/Mw-hr cost for coal is 29.1 vs nuclear's 30.0. But as Benjamin Sovacool says they are both Faustian bargains. He says "By far the cheapest, cleanest, and quickest strategy to meet America's growing demand for electricity is energy efficiency and demand-side management."
It's even more fuzzy... But my point remains..
As does my point, nuclear power is expensive and more isn't needed.
Well I've downloaded a few movies at most, the longest one was 20 minutes I think. However soon I plan on downloading an ISO of Ubuntu then install software for it. I also hope to be uploading files, mostly photographs, as I want to start a photography business. If I do and I make money at it I'll go ahead and upgrade my service, get a business account. Luckily while I have cable access now, through ComCast which hasn't given me much problems, I can also get DSL. So when it comes tyme to upgrade I can compare plans from ComCast and Qwest.
Actually I want to try Ubuntu in part for my business. Although I want to start a business as a photographer, I also would like to some programming and development and take the business online. Then once I have it online I'd like to work with other photographers who want to take theirs online too. I also want to try KDE's graphics editor Krita to edit my photos, so after I install Ubuntu I'll also install KDE then switch between Gnome and KDE. I only hope Krita can do what I want otherwise I'll have to buy Photoshop. GIMP just does not cut it.
the thread started with the point that WiMax has an opportunity in the mobile access network,
The problems with WiMax are that it does not have much of a range and requires more base stations than LTE as well as does not penetrate thick or dense matter as much as LTE. I used to support WiMax but I don't see what it offers over LTE except for home or office networking, maybe a media center, where broadband is wanted.
Perhaps I should have included more, here it is: "And no study has ever found that microwave radiation causes mutations in double-helix DNA. If you feel that's an incorrect statement, point to an actual study, rather than links to google searches that don't show what you claim they show." Notice where you say I need to point to a actual study not a Google search. I included the Google search because it would of been easy for you to produce another study saying there was no effect. It should be pretty obvious from reading the links that there is even disagreement in the science community of whether microwaves damage DNA. Also if I had included just a link to a show you could every well have posted a study saying there was none. By posting the Google search I tried to preclude you from saying I was cherry picking.
And my use of fud, your FUD, it was meant as your spread of fear, uncertainty, and doubt about my inclusion of links to studies that show microwaves do cause damage to DNA. No where did I say it causes damage to double-helix DNA, simply DNA, and DNA does not spend all of it's tyme as double-helix DNA. From what I recall of biology DNA actually spends little tyme, for mitosis or cell division, in that form. Using wiki I found this: "In living organisms, DNA does not usually exist as a single molecule, but instead as a pair of molecules that are held tightly together.[7][8] These two long strands entwine like vines, in the shape of a double helix."
Oh, and note, as it is an acronym, it should be in all caps. But then, it's obvious that accuracy in what you say or how you say it was never a goal of yours.
Spreading more FUD by casting doubt on what I say again?
For bidirectional voice or video communication, you need relatively low bandwidth
Video is low bandwidth? Isn't video downloads one of the things broadband providers say uses up a lot of bandwidth? Perhaps you meant low resolution video. I thought about getting a webcam for video chats but I don't like their low resolutions.
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There are essentially two because there are an overwhelming number of XX or XY and the others are all medically classified as one or the other for gender. If you count them as "other" (whether a single other or a spectra), they are such a tiny percent of the population that it is essentially irrelevant.
It doesn't matter how many there are they still exist.
That should be "Y" rather than "X" right?
You're right, it was a Y, Thing is is only men have Y Chromosomes, which she had, yet she also was pregnant and delivered a baby, which only women can do.
So I would think the Olympic ruling is sane. A Y-chromosome defines male. The organs the chromosome are supposed to trigger to be made do not.
So, someone who has a penis but has 2 X Chromosomes is not a male, and someone who has a vagina even if they have a Y Chromosome is male? I bet you that most people would disagree with you. They'd say if the person has a penis he is a male and if she has a vagina she is a female. Even dictionary definitions of males they a male "belongs to the sex that cannot have babies", " an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)", "for or composed of men or boys". Female>/a> on the other hand is defined as "an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)", "a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies", and "being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop".
Falcon
Well sure, but "credit" can mean some pretty plain-vanilla transactions these days, like having an account with the local electric company or telco.
Sure, even employers use credit reports now.
Falcon
Actually you can buy prepaid VISA cards with cash.
Actually, even people checking your credit report is in your credit report.
Yeap, and the more credit report requests there are the worse it is. The more requests the lower the FICA score.
Falcon
Bull. Just use a debit card instead and gain some control over your personal economy. Don't buy things you can't afford. Save first, then buy.
If you fill out a form to get that debit card, the info goes into a report. The only way info does not go into a report is if you pay cash and there is no paperwork.
As for living, how do you live? If you own a house, you have a credit report. If you rent the landlord probably requested a report and will notify the agency as well. Employers use credit reports as well as utilities such as phone companies, landline and cellphones, power companies, and gas. The only way to avoid having a credit report is by avoiding living in the modern world. Heck some people steal IDs just to avoid having a credit report in their own name.
As someone else already said about the only way to avoid having a credit report yet still live in the modern world is by living in your parent's basement.
Falcon
if you own your home, you are everywhere, tax rolls, and such. If you rent, most landlords run checks now, and even running a check generates an entry on a report. Jobs check it. Utilities check it, and often report to it.
Yea, more and more are using credit reports, even when it's not necessary. This was years ago but I went into a video rental store and asked about what it takes to rent. The person handed me an application and on it it asked for credit info, asked about that and the person said they run a credit check. So I handed it back and walked out.
Of course, living in your mother's basement with no job and no credit will keep you off the grid, but only until she throws your lazy ass out.
I knew people who lived underground, that is they were paid in cash and paid with cash as well. While I hate it as high as taxes are, I don't know if I could make a living underground.
And even then, you may have a credit report from an error. Last I looked, I had an alias name, SSN, and DOB. So, anyone looking up my credit report will also get my sister's full name, SSN and DOB. I'm not sure how or why those got on my report. I'd guess because we shared an address at various times. But her information will forever be on my credit report...
How long ago did you share an address? That is only supposed to be in credit reports 7 years. If it's been there longer you should write to the credit report agencies, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion and try to get them to correct it. While Experian and TransUnion may Equifax probably won't, it is the hardest agency to get to correct mistakes. Unfortunately I dealt with all three, years ago. Whatever you do I'd advise you not to use some of those so called credit repair businesses, all some do is send letters to the agencies and dispute bad entries, the agencies just toss them out when they get bombarded.
Falcon
Yes. Exactly !
You should have left it there.
Falcon
She didn't think of me as a man?
She may of very well thought of you as a man, just not one she would be romantically interested in. As a full time college student I had a number of girl friends, though female may of been more appropriate, that or lady or women friends. Perhaps just "friend". I had more female friends than I had male friends and while we'd hang out and do things together, there wasn't much if any romantic interest either way. There were 4 of us real close, two females and two males. For a while one lady was dating a man she worked with but then she started seeing another one. Eventually she married that one, who was in the Navy, and it was practically mandatory we all went to the wedding. The three of us almost felt like we were giving her away.
Thankfully I'm married now and don't have to go through that sort of thing anymore.
I thought I'd be married by now, but while I'm not I don't date either. I had an accident that left me with a disability and I eventually had to move across the country to continue with therapy. While I had a number of friends where I previously lived, and was pretty active, I haven't made friends where I live now. Hopefully that will be changing, several weeks ago I met an aide who will be working with me as part of therapy. Both he and a health care coordinator at my doctor's office are working to get me socially active. I'm hoping they can also help me get financial aid so I can get back into college. Between the three, people I'm working with, social activities, and college I'm hoping to start dating again as well as make friends irl.
Rejection on the other hand is still rejection, it hurts even if done politely.
I know all about that. As noted above I have found it hard to make friends never mind date where I moved to. If you look at my posting history I post almost all day long, well almost all after noon and night long. I have an apartment, live alone, and other than to work in my garden about the only reason I get out is to go shopping.
Falcon
There is the issue of what makes a person gay, straight, or bi.
It goes beyond that. Unlike what most people think not everyone is either male or female. Some people are born with body parts that are "male" and "female". Genetically females are said to have two X Chromosomes, XX, while males have an X and a Y, XY. However some people are born with XXY, XXXY, and XXXXY karotypes. These people are said to have ambiguous genitalia and are called Intersexuals. The more commonly known name for them is hermaphrodites. I don't know but the South African female athlete who's been in the news because of the question of her sex, with some saying she's not female, may be one.
Falcon
A computer fed with a few hundred megabytes of personal data can now determine in minutes what most of us in the life know as soon as we see the person.
That must be a nifty trick, to be able to tell what someone's sexual orientation is just by looking at them. How do you do that?
Falcon
I think there is no way to make rejection more palatable.
You included a palatable way, "no, I'm not gay" I've said "no, I'm not gay or bi" myself, and yes I was asked out for a date a few tymes by other men.
Falcon
I am really curious if it thinks I'm gay (does it consider bisexuality?).
I'm sorry if this seems assholish, but does it really matter if your bisexual or gay? The people who would hate you for being one would hate you for being the other.
The difference is that if you're bi not only would you have straights hating you, you'd also have some gay hating you. There are gays who believe bis are too scared to admit their gay.
Falcon
I wonder what the timescale to seriously reduce the demand for heating/cooling energy is? I would imagine it takes a whole new generation of buildings to seriously reduce the cost of heating and cooling them.
Buildings don't need to be rebuilt just remodeled. Now depending on the building that may cost as much as take as long but not every building will be that way. Currently I rent an apartment, however my sister owns the building and when I qualify for a mortgage she'll sell it to me for the balance of the mortgage, if I stay here. The building has central heating, using a boiler and bulky radiators, and no air conditioning. My plan is to save my money then gut out the shell of the building and rebuild the interior. When I do I'll increase the R value of the insulation, install radiant floor heating in which heating will be programmable and done in zones. The bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, livingroom, and such will each have it's own zone so that only the zones being used are heated. Now I'm not sure whether the heating system itself will be electrical, geothermal, gas, or another. I'll hire an expert to evaluate and determine which would be better, but I'm leaning towards geothermal. For cooling, other than ceiling fans I'm not sure what I'll do.
The efficiency of appliances, while significant isn't the answer.
Agreed, heating (including water heating) and cooling and therefore insulation can cut down energy used more than new appliances. Not that other things won't help but the payback period would be longer.
Falcon
some clearly self-identify as gay but don't actually have same-sex intercourse.
To muddy the waters, there aren't just 2 sexs as witnessed by the controversy over the gender or sex of that South African athlete in the news. Fact is is there are people who are neither male nor female and those who are both. As an intro "MS magazine" has the article "Making The Cut: It's a Girl! ...Or is It? When there's doubt, why are Surgeons Calling the Shots?" emedicine and WebMD have the science behind Ambiguous Genitalia and Intersexuality. I didn't find it but one athlete was barred from compeating in the 2000 Olympics because she had an X chromosome and therefore the Olympics Committee ruled she was a male, that despite the fact that she gave birth to a baby before their ruling.
Falcon
Don't you ask somebody out in order to get the opportunity to get to know them?
No, you can start off any of a number of ways.
Falcon
If someone listens to country music and is a member of the facebook group "petition for Obama to show his birth certificate"
And what if you like country music and voted for Obama?
Falcon
does it consider bisexuality?
I know this is slashdot and people don't RTFAs but the article does say bisexuals were considered. The links of "1,544 men who said they were straight, 21 who said they were bisexual, and 33 who said they were gay" were analyzed. I haven't seen anyone mention it yet but the "analysis seemed to work in identifying gay men, but the same technique was not as successful with bisexual men or women, or lesbians."
this could be useful as a dating tool; if you don't know if the object of your affections is gay or not, run them through MIT Gaydar, and then possibly feel more secure about asking them out.
Only if you're insecure, homophobic, or heterophobic. As I've told others I don't mind being asked, and I'll say I'm not gay or bisexual. I have no problem with those who are and have had a male bisexual and a female lesbian as roommates.
Falcon
I have control over my information.
No, no you don't. Ever heard of a credit report? We've never had control over our information.
No credit, no credit report. But then again it difficult, but not impossible, to live in the modern world without credit.
Falcon
In no small part because a Coal fired plant can spew a tremendous amount of general gunk into the air for "free" if they paid the "true cost" of the pollution they generate, perhaps the equation would be different?
I agree, and that's without including the subsidies coal gets. However in a market where businesses have to carry their own weight and don't pass external costs to others geothermal, solar, wind and other power sources would be more competitive. According to this, "Cost Comparison for Nuclear vs. Coal", nuclear compares favorably with coal. The $/Mw-hr cost for coal is 29.1 vs nuclear's 30.0. But as Benjamin Sovacool says they are both Faustian bargains. He says "By far the cheapest, cleanest, and quickest strategy to meet America's growing demand for electricity is energy efficiency and demand-side management."
It's even more fuzzy... But my point remains..
As does my point, nuclear power is expensive and more isn't needed.
Falcon
Well I've downloaded a few movies at most, the longest one was 20 minutes I think. However soon I plan on downloading an ISO of Ubuntu then install software for it. I also hope to be uploading files, mostly photographs, as I want to start a photography business. If I do and I make money at it I'll go ahead and upgrade my service, get a business account. Luckily while I have cable access now, through ComCast which hasn't given me much problems, I can also get DSL. So when it comes tyme to upgrade I can compare plans from ComCast and Qwest.
Actually I want to try Ubuntu in part for my business. Although I want to start a business as a photographer, I also would like to some programming and development and take the business online. Then once I have it online I'd like to work with other photographers who want to take theirs online too. I also want to try KDE's graphics editor Krita to edit my photos, so after I install Ubuntu I'll also install KDE then switch between Gnome and KDE. I only hope Krita can do what I want otherwise I'll have to buy Photoshop. GIMP just does not cut it.
Falcon
the thread started with the point that WiMax has an opportunity in the mobile access network,
The problems with WiMax are that it does not have much of a range and requires more base stations than LTE as well as does not penetrate thick or dense matter as much as LTE. I used to support WiMax but I don't see what it offers over LTE except for home or office networking, maybe a media center, where broadband is wanted.
So, you are admitting that a healthy cell that isn't in the process of dividing will suffer no genetic damage from microwave radiation.
So you can't point to where I said microwaves damage double-helix DNA and spreading more FUD by casting doubt on what I said?
Falcon
Perhaps I should have included more, here it is: "And no study has ever found that microwave radiation causes mutations in double-helix DNA. If you feel that's an incorrect statement, point to an actual study, rather than links to google searches that don't show what you claim they show." Notice where you say I need to point to a actual study not a Google search. I included the Google search because it would of been easy for you to produce another study saying there was no effect. It should be pretty obvious from reading the links that there is even disagreement in the science community of whether microwaves damage DNA. Also if I had included just a link to a show you could every well have posted a study saying there was none. By posting the Google search I tried to preclude you from saying I was cherry picking.
And my use of fud, your FUD, it was meant as your spread of fear, uncertainty, and doubt about my inclusion of links to studies that show microwaves do cause damage to DNA. No where did I say it causes damage to double-helix DNA, simply DNA, and DNA does not spend all of it's tyme as double-helix DNA. From what I recall of biology DNA actually spends little tyme, for mitosis or cell division, in that form. Using wiki I found this: "In living organisms, DNA does not usually exist as a single molecule, but instead as a pair of molecules that are held tightly together.[7][8] These two long strands entwine like vines, in the shape of a double helix."
Oh, and note, as it is an acronym, it should be in all caps. But then, it's obvious that accuracy in what you say or how you say it was never a goal of yours.
Spreading more FUD by casting doubt on what I say again?
Falcon
An interesting note that the OP is talking about what LTE WILL do compared to what WiMax is DOING!
How many providers offer WiMax? In Minneapolis, St Paul we have 4 broadband wireless providers. Of them 3 use EV-DO and the other uses EDGE.
Falcon
he's clearly never heard of latency or the reliability issues of wireless.
And perhaps others haven't heard that some people want mobile broadband and are willing to pay more for it, even if it has problems.
Falcon
For bidirectional voice or video communication, you need relatively low bandwidth
Video is low bandwidth? Isn't video downloads one of the things broadband providers say uses up a lot of bandwidth? Perhaps you meant low resolution video. I thought about getting a webcam for video chats but I don't like their low resolutions.
Falcon