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thetoughestbean posted:Maybe the Fantastic Four made his plan “Reed, I know you think ‘Unstable Wireless’ is cute but I’m having some real trouble with disconnecting when I FaceTime from the Negative Zone”
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Thaddius the Large posted:“Reed, I know you think ‘Unstable Wireless’ is cute but I’m having some real trouble with disconnecting when I FaceTime from the Negative Zone” Reed would design a phone that can work everywhere but Earth.
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Regarding interplanetary communication, Stark enterprises did develop technology that allowed you to access the internet even in Mars orbit, as Squirrel Girl found out when she borrowed an Iron Man suit to go to the Moon. From The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (2015) Issue 4
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The_Other posted:Regarding interplanetary communication, Stark enterprises did develop technology that allowed you to access the internet even in Mars orbit, as Squirrel Girl found out when she borrowed an Iron Man suit to go to the Moon. So this is something that I have wondered about. Years and years ago, I read this news story about a man who Torrented an episode of Lost on his mobile while on holiday in France. So he got stung for a bill of something like €30,000 (or higher.) And the telecomunication company agreed to waive the fee on the basis it was an accident. (Not him torrenting the show, more at the idea of how much it would cost to do so.) But what I've always wondered is how they justify those figures? I mean  I know.But like, tens of thousands. It's not like they actually incure a huge effort to make that request. Massive amounts of oil or gold aren't burned to do it. And I assume that crazy amounts of power strain are put on the system. So where does the massive figure come from when it comes to putting a monetary value on abroad communications? Or again is it just times ten?
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The_Other posted:Regarding interplanetary communication, Stark enterprises did develop technology that allowed you to access the internet even in Mars orbit, as Squirrel Girl found out when she borrowed an Iron Man suit to go to the Moon.  (don't know the issue)
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Alhazred posted:
GOTG #4 from the Bendis run, 2013.
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The Question IRL posted:So this is something that I have wondered about. Answered your own question like three times!
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mercenarynuker posted:Puck is now, forever, just a smaller Stone Cold Steve Austin. Gimme a hell yeah! Curling Stone Steve Austin
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The Question IRL posted:So this is something that I have wondered about. There are two usual reasons for it (beyond just being greedy assholes). 1. There really is a limited amount of bandwidth, and the high fee is to discourage people from using it. It doesn't cost them 30k to download one episode of Lost, but if everyone was doing it at the same time it could bring the network down so threatening people with crazy fees will reduce the likelihood of it. 2. The crazy fees are to encourage people to pay for an unlimited type plan. "For a mere $20 a month you can download all the Lost episodes you want, otherwise it will cost you a MEEEELLION DOLLARS"
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Overseas data is a scam, basically.
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SimonChris posted:
The soap company wasn't a front for Cobra, they evolved into Cobra.
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Every telco is also permanently in a Mexican stand-off with each other where they charge each other a lot to route traffic through their network because they have to pay a lot to route traffic through anyone else's network, which is why overseas data is usually really expensive because you'll be outside their infrastructure and probably having to come back in through multiple telcos each of whom are clipping the ticket.
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Tangent to the overseas fee talk, I've discovered through extensive testing that at&t does not give a single poo poo about torrenting over their cell service (I'm on an unlimited plan). I've gone through multiple hundreds of gigs a month at least a few times and have never heard a peep from them about it
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site posted:Tangent to the overseas fee talk, I've discovered through extensive testing that at&t does not give a single poo poo about torrenting over their cell service (I'm on an unlimited plan). I've gone through multiple hundreds of gigs a month at least a few times and have never heard a peep from them about it do you run it through a VPN?
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Unless there's one built into the phone I don't know about, no
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Yeah, that's the kinda thing that's perfectly fine... until it's suddenly not.
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Batman: Urban Legends #1: Grifter is working as a bodyguard for Lucius Fox. but he still manages to have fun adventures when he's off the clock  SimonChris posted:My biggest issue with this comic is that we never get to see any Cobra brand household cleaning products. If it's not Sssssoap they failed 
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Elfface posted:The soap company wasn't a front for Cobra, they evolved into Cobra. all companies evolve into Cobra over a long enough time period. it's called Cobranization.
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Elfface posted:The soap company wasn't a front for Cobra, they evolved into Cobra. They still kept running the soap MLM long after they had evolved into their final form. 
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cuts in defense spending. it's just so quaint!
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The whole "somewhere in America there is a town that is also a terrorist rogue state" thing in GI Joe is just such a perfect idea, I love it.
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robziel posted:This is all I can see in the first panel Of course, Cobra Commander is three small children standing on each other's shoulders.
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SimonChris posted:They still kept running the soap MLM long after they had evolved into their final form. What exactly was Cobras longer term plan at this point? I mean Cobraville seemed like a nice enough place to live and upwardly mobile crimson guard seems like a pretty good gig. Why was Cobra Commander a villian again?
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Bucnasti posted:What exactly was Cobras longer term plan at this point? I mean Cobraville seemed like a nice enough place to live and upwardly mobile crimson guard seems like a pretty good gig. Why was Cobra Commander a villian again? He just wants to make America great again!
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SimonChris posted:They still kept running the soap MLM long after they had evolved into their final form. The only thing unrealistic there is the idea that rich people cheating on their taxes causes cuts in defense spending
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Not like Cobra doesn't have a history of their plans being foiled. Didn't someone do a Lets Read of the old GI Joe comics a number of years back?
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Darthemed posted:
"Kneel." "No. I can't. Have you even seen these chains and how you wrapped them around me?"
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Bucnasti posted:What exactly was Cobras longer term plan at this point? I mean Cobraville seemed like a nice enough place to live and upwardly mobile crimson guard seems like a pretty good gig. Why was Cobra Commander a villian again? He seems like a great guy to work for, in general:   Later:  G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #9 (1982) I love how everyone expects Cobra Commander to be the kind of villain who takes things out on his henchmen, but he just sees every defeat as a delightful opportunity. Also, the implication that all of the G.I. Joe victories are just minor annoyances to Cobra, who have bigger things going on behind the scenes. Taerkar posted:Didn't someone do a Lets Read of the old GI Joe comics a number of years back? There were several attempts, but they all died pretty early in the run.
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Bucnasti posted:What exactly was Cobras longer term plan at this point? I mean Cobraville seemed like a nice enough place to live and upwardly mobile crimson guard seems like a pretty good gig. Why was Cobra Commander a villian again?
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Bucnasti posted:What exactly was Cobras longer term plan at this point? I mean Cobraville seemed like a nice enough place to live and upwardly mobile crimson guard seems like a pretty good gig. Why was Cobra Commander a villian again? I don't know that they really had a long-term plan. Eventually, though, they did become their own sovereign nation when a land mass formed (from a volcanic eruption) in international waters and they were first there so they got to claim it. Cobra Commander was a villain because he was a megalomaniac, but unlike so many of them he was smart.
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I read all the Cobra Troopers dialog in 21 and 24's voices
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SimonChris posted:They still kept running the soap MLM long after they had evolved into their final form. When were these published? Was it before or after Reagan? I'm trying to figure if its a satire of contemporary politics or from a period when the whole 'greed' thing would have been unironically villainous. SimonChris posted:
I love that Cobra Commander is a dodgy MLM salesperson first, and a meglomaniacal leader of a heavily armed secret militia second. "What? Joe is attacking in the middle of my sales seminar? Okay everyone, impromptu team building exercise! Form fireteams with people who you haven't introduced yourself to yet."
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Elissimpark posted:When were these published? Was it before or after Reagan? I'm trying to figure if its a satire of contemporary politics or from a period when the whole 'greed' thing would have been unironically villainous. That issue was November of '84, so during Regan.
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