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you're confusing the entire Discovery channel with the tiny corner of said channel called "Mythbusters"

I'll do you one better! Why is Sam from?!

Year of Hell was supposed to be season 4 when they wrote it. The way I heard it Rick Berman kiboshed it because he didn't think anyone would ever want to watch show where you had to tune in every week or miss out on part of the story (note: this is also shortly after he gave up most control over DS9 to focus on Voyager).

My company's got a fun solution for "just send a tech". If we do send a tech and they prove it was something the customer could have fixed themselves, they get a $100 charge on their bill for an unnecessary dispatch. It's amazing how many people suddenly want to try that troubleshooting they say they've already done "again" when you ask them to agree to that charge.

Of course, here in Canada the phone company (I'm DSL) isn't required to fix anything past the demarcation point where he house's wiring takes over, so we have a legal out to be able to do that.

Canada actually has laws on the books since the last referendum to define exactly what's required for a province to leave the Confederation, and as fa as I know what would happen between said province and the rest of the country in such a circumstance. I remember with the '95 Referendum there being some very angry exchanges when the leadership of the separatist campaign were saying that if they voted yes they were laying claim to all Canadian Military hardware in the province, whether Canada liked it or not.