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Damn it, if we’re going to brag about how free we’re all supposed to be, we should have the right to the pursuit of happiness, no matter how temporary, whether it comes from a couple of cocktails, a puff on a cigarette that isn’t supplied by Big Tobacco, or the popping of a pill. If you overdo it and become a nuisance, well, that’s what public intoxication laws are for.
Roseanne Barr: The War on Drugs Is Just Plain Crazy
Roseanne Barr: Presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party

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SURFING AT A BILLION BITS PER SECOND — From the street in the town of Sebastopol, Calif., only one thing hints that a house has among the fastest residential broadband sold in America: an extra wire off the telephone pole, notably thinner than the adjacent electric, telephone and cable-TV wires. That fiber-optic cable provides one block in Sonoma County with downloads at up to one billion bits per second, or 1 Gbps. It only costs $69.95 a month. Also it’s slower 100-million-bits-per-second service (still over six times quicker than my Verizon Fios connection) costs a mere $39.95 a month.

SURFING AT A BILLION BITS PER SECOND — From the street in the town of Sebastopol, Calif., only one thing hints that a house has among the fastest residential broadband sold in America: an extra wire off the telephone pole, notably thinner than the adjacent electric, telephone and cable-TV wires.

That fiber-optic cable provides one block in Sonoma County with downloads at up to one billion bits per second, or 1 Gbps. It only costs $69.95 a month. Also it’s slower 100-million-bits-per-second service (still over six times quicker than my Verizon Fios connection) costs a mere $39.95 a month.

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