...That and the fact that VDSL is available only in Phoenix (SDAI;-), Colorado (NORAD) and Omaha (INSURANCE FOLKS)....and not Los Angeles or New York.

Ah...Yes...54mbs transfer rates...

Seriously...I am going into CA withdrawal!

I miss being pulled over by CHP for going 68 in the fast lane and hearing refreshingly honest lines like,

"My job is based on revenue - give me one good reason why I should not give you a ticket?"

I miss the thick and hazy smog layer which makes every morning look like rain...

...I miss walking along the closed beaches and smelling the unique salty odor of mexican sewage...

...I miss the psychos weaving between cars on the congested freeway at 90mph on 13" tires and deciding to pass traffic on the center divider when they get boxed in....

...and the tanks being taken by delusional folks for city spins...

...I miss that weird architecture which is based on putting Wal-marts and fastfood anchored mini-malls in any spare land near freeways....

...But most of all I miss that Bastion of Bast---- who put out that worthless copy of sixties vintage TASS, called the Los Angeles Times. When the Herald Examiner gasped its last, only the Long Beach Press-Telegram could equal its left-gantuan viewpoints.

I have also discovered that SONIC kicks the c--p out of IN-n-OUT.

SDAI-Tech1

Illegals in CA? Tom, what the heck are you talking about? And aren't those cute signs showing families running across a freeway, the new historic landmark signs showing the paths taken by the old spanish conquistadors? That's the only reason I could figure the signs are in Spanish? ;-)