Gredival

One thing people forget is that communication networks are a public safety issue. Telecom companies are often granted monopolistic areas of domain because they must affirmatively provide "carrier of last resort" obligations to the people in the area.

Fiscal conservatives rail against lifeline (the subsidized telephone service dubbed the "Obamaphone" program by the GOP despite being started by Reagan and extended to cellphones by Bush 43) as a unnecessary wasteful spending, but those phones are necessary for communities to be able to contact the police and other emergency services. This was precisely why the program was extended to cover cellphones in the aftermath of Katrina when landlines were offline.

It's also why low income communities are hesitant about the copper to IP switch for phones. While the legacy technology has drawbacks, the benefit of copper phone lines is that they are powered so they can operate to call out of a black-out zone even if the power in an area is compromised.

A studio in LA w/o parking cost me $1700... my 2BR in Atlanta during law school was $1300 total.

Could you delve a little into the decision making process, whether it was yours or someone else's, to bring back the original Companions of the Hall?

It seemed to me that Drizzt was always trying to move on but he discovered that he couldn't. And it was only after he came to that realization that he was able to be reunited with them. Was it always planned this way?